Historia Reiss

Historia Reiss (originally introduced as Krista Lenz) is a major character in the Attack on Titan franchise. Initially introduced as a kind girl who likes helping others, she is eventually revealed to be the illegitimate daughter of the nobleman Rod Reiss and the last remaining member of the Reiss royal family.
She is voiced by Shiori Mikami (who also voiced Lady Guan from the Dynasty Warriors series.) in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Bryn Apprill in the English version of the anime.
==Personality==
After Kenny kills her mother and attempted to kill her when she was still a child due to her noble status, Rod Reiss (her father) prevented their efforts by offering an alternative arrangement: that being, Historia would disappear from the Reiss household, and assume a new name and identity before enlisting as a soldier, thus meaning they would not need to kill her. The soldiers agreed to this, and Rod Reiss then gave her the new name and identity of "Krista Lenz".
As Krista Lenz, She is a very useful and kind girl, who enjoys helping other people. She is highly charismatic, often making people see her as a goddess. She also seems to be somewhat shy and doesn't know how to react in certain situations. However, as noted in later chapters, her desire to perform good acts partly stems from a desire to gain honor through them. She seems to want this honor and glory because of her dark past. Ymir notes that Historia's urge to show kindness to others stems not only from a desire to gain their esteem, but also that of the people around her: to be seen as a good person.
After being abandoned by Ymir, who went back to Marley along with Reiner and Bertolt, Historia become very pessimistic, revealing her true name and her true personality, claiming to no longer be the "Krista Lenz" that people always knew to be so kind and shy, viewing herself as a vacant person. Although Eren Yeager tells her that she seems more genuine and "less creepy" now, she continues to regard herself as lacking any true nature or identity. During the Royal Government arc, Historia slowly begins to gain her own strength and her own identity. When her father tries to manipulate her into becoming the next "Founding Titan" and eat Eren Yeager, she decides to go against his will and frees Eren and bravely kills him.
After she becomes queen, she gains a more calm, mature, and charismatic nature. Like her Krista persona, she still has a kind side, especially towards orphans inside the walls.
She shows a self-preserving and pragmatic side. In order to delay/avoid having the Beast Titan passed on her, Historia seduced a man and had him impregnate her.
==History==
After the arrival of the Colossal Titan and the breaching of Wall Maria, Historia began her training in the military. Upon graduation she had placed 10th, a rank under Sasha Braus (this was due to Ymir giving her the spot).
After the breaching of Wall Rose, Historia wasn't seen going into battle until attempting to help Armin overcome the dread of supposedly losing his friend. She helped Mikasa and the other trainees retake the supply room while the rogue titan kept the other Titans distracted. In her next appearance, she is seen showing her Three Dimensional Maneuver Gear to the Military Police, who were looking for the perpetrators of the killing of two captured titans, Sawney and Bean. 
Despite Historia's fears of facing the titans again, she became a member of the Scouting Legion. There, she helped save Reiner, Armin, and Jean by supplying them a a horse after they were stranded from an encounter with the Female Titan.
She was seen up on the trees baiting the titans and preventing them from entering the forest as the Scouting Legion attempted to capture the Female Titan. After this she wasn't seen again until the attack of the Beast Titan.
Later, Pastor Nick revealed to the members of the Scouting Legion that Historia may know about the titans inside the walls because of her family, and that she's going under an assumed name after being caught in the middle of her relatives' dispute. Eren and the others also began to realize how often she was around Ymir.
While at the tower, Historia remembers being with Ymir when they were helping Daz in her hometown, when she was confronted for living under an assumed name. Before transforming into a titan to fight the titans attacking them, Ymir made Historia promise her to go back into living under her real name.
After Historia and the rest of the trainees watch Ymir fighting against the group of titans, nearly falling off the tower when Ymir transformed, Reiner questions Historia if she knew Ymir was a titan shifter, but she tells him she didn't know despite them being so close, and she refuses to believe it at first. When the Trainees question whose side Ymir is on, Krista remembers past events with her and Ymir, and comes to the conclusion that she is fighting to protect everyone. She begins to cheer for Ymir telling her not to die and to break down the tower and celebrates when Ymir does so. She, along with the others, ride on her back and land on the ground safely, except for Ymir, who is eaten by the Titans. As Historia tries to make her way to Ymir to fulfill her promise she is nearly grabbed by a Titan but is saved by Mikasa. As everyone watches in disbelief at Ymir's wounds and the truth, Historia reveals her true name.
She reveals her true name as Historia Reiss to Hange and pleads with her to go easy on Ymir. While she knew what her friend did was wrong, in hiding information that could've been useful to the Scouting Legion, she understood why she did it to protect her comrades. Hange tells Historia she understands Ymir may be a titan like Eren and an ally of humanity, but the rules are not as simple as she thinks. She watches with horror as Reiner in his Armored Titan form grabs Eren and Bertholdt snatches Ymir in his Colossal Titan form.
==Other appearances==
Historia appears in the multiplayer game Dead by Daylight as an alternate skin for Kate Denson.
==Trivia==
*Despite Ymir clearly being in love with her, Historia’s feelings towards Ymir are not as explicit, although she is cleary deeply bound to Ymir and cares a lot about her. At the Animagic 2014 series panel, producer George Wada confirmed that Ymir and Historia are "indeed a couple", which confirms that Historia in fact has romantic feelings for Ymir. However, this was never confirmed by the manga's author and creator, Hajime Isayama. In both the manga and anime, Historia never openly displays more than platonic affection toward Ymir, making it unclear if she returned Ymir's romantic feelings. Nevertheless, it was one of Historia's most important relationships). Amusingly and/or grotesquely, their "first kiss" was when Titan-form Ymir carried Historia in her mouth..
*When she was still acting as Krista, Eren secretly disliked her and she envied him for having clear goals. Eren saw her as a phony with blatant fake smiles. Later, Eren admits how he felt and reveals that he prefers her as Historia, a normal human who isn't playing "goddess".
*She shares some similarities with Reiner Braun:
**Both Reiner and Historia are born from forbidden (legally for Reiner and only socially for Historia) and shameful relationships and never met their fathers during their childhoods. In Reiner's case, due to having a Marleyan father and an Eldian mother, as a relationship between Marlyean and Eldian is strictly forbidden, he was never allowed to see his father, while Historia, because of her mother, Alma, being fired and forced to abandon the Reiss household after Rod Reiss's wife learnt she was pregnant with Rod's child, another daughter which caused Alma to greatly hate her own daughter and fear Rod Reiss and the Military Police. In similar ways, both Alma and Reiner's father were terrified to suffer the consequences of the birth of their children: Alma to be killed because of the real position of the Reiss family (royals and Titan Shifters who erase memories from their subjects) and Reiner's father to be killed, along with his entire family, for having a relationship and a child with an Eldian. Both Reiner and Historia tried to approach their parents only to end up rejected out of fear and despised them for existing. Despite this, Historia remembers her mother in a somewhat forgiving light. Reiner instead decided that he doesn't need a parental figure and to live as a Warrior (and soldier).
**Both Reiner and Historia were the most popular cadets during their training days within Wall Rose (Their parody Junior High counterparts also nicknamed Reiner's "social grade" as "The Jock" and Christa's "The Queen Bee").
***Ironically, both of their personalities in the training days were nothing but fake roles to hide their true identities: "Soldier Reiner", a carbon copy of Marcel Galliard that ended up with Reiner often genuinely believing his role was reality, and Krista Lenz, a forced name with a forced personality that had Historia lying to herself in her delusions that she had to help everyone and become a good heroic person, just like she promised to her half-sister Frieda Reiss.
**They both had sidekicks who understood their true nature and genuinely cared about them, Ymir and Bertolt Hoover. Both Historia and Reiner lost them during the war against their respective enemy factions.
*Season 3 part 1's ending song, "Requiem der Morgenröte (Requiem of Dawn)", is a song dedicated to Historia and the harsh life she had been subjected to live.
*Historia’s theme, “Zero Eclipse” was inspired by the relationship between Historia and Ymir.
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