Ellen Hasheki

**Ellen Hasheki is a former civilian of Shiganshina District, and currently a refugee based in Karanes District.**

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### Name

Ellen Hasheki
ジョナサン・ハシェキ
*Jonasan Hasheki*

### Alias

"Ellen" (エレン *Eren*?)
"Ellen Hasheki" (エレン・ハシェキ *Eren Hasheki*?)
"Hasheki" (ハシェキ *Hasheki*?)
"Chicken" (鶏 *Niwatori*?)
"Johnny" (ジョニー *Jonī*?)

## Biological Information

### Age

10 (846)
9 (845)

### Height

122 cm (845)
124 cm (846)

### Weight

24 kg (845)
23 kg (846)

### Relatives

* Hasheki family
	+ Allen Hasheki *(father, deceased)*
	+ Amelia Hasheki *(mother, deceased)*

## Debut

### Episode

To You, 2,000 Years From Now

**Jonathan Hasheki** (ジョナサン・ハシェキ *Jonasan Hasheki*?), very commonly referred to as **Ellen** (エレン *Eren*?) or **Ellen Hasheki** (エレン・ハシェキ *Eren Hasheki*?) and very rarely as **Johnny** (ジョニー *Jonī*?), is the main protagonist of *Attack on Titan: New Age* and a refugee currently living in the Karanes District of Wall Rose. He is a former civilian of the Shiganshina District before it was abandoned during the Fall of Wall Maria. It was during this event that Jonathan lost his mother. He later lost his father about two months later. Both of these events left a profound mark on the young boy and traumatized him.

Jonathan has a fascination with birds, and specifically their ability to fly beyond the Walls. He one day wishes to venture outside of the Walls and see the outside world, but recognizes that the Titans prevent him from doing this. He also holds a burning desire to learn the truth of the Titans themselves, and solve their never ending mysteries.

## Appearance

Jonathan is a very short and rather skinny boy, even for his age. He has sizeable, deep hazel eyes and a small yet defined nose. His hair is a black-brown color, and relatively straight. It does have some curls here and there, but very few. It is long enough that it reaches the boy's shoulders, and is typically seen in a very messy style since he rarely brushes it. Before the Fall of Wall Maria, Jonathan wore very plain and typical clothes - his favorite color to wear being purple. He typically wore a white, button-up shirt with a hazy purple undershirt. He preferred not to wear any pants, and stuck to black or cargo shorts. He was mostly seen wearing purple socks and simple brown shoes.

Later, after the Fall of Wall Maria, Jonathan has grown about an inch in height. Despite this, he has lost a few pounds due to the malnourishment he has been subjected to over the past couple months. His hair is not as healthy and very ragged, and his clothes have become even simpler. He wears a grey shirt with long, baggy black pants and very roughly put-together shoes.

## Personality

Jonathan is a very polite and well put together boy, which often serves in handy as he saves his best friend Ethan Ackermann from trouble. He shows a very clear love for his mother and father, and a high level of respect and friendliness toward Ethan. He also shows a desire to make new friends, as shown whenever he approached Armin Arlert whenever Armin was crouched behind his house and shielding Potato from the sun and wind. Despite the fact that most people in Armin's life had treated him like trash and called him weird, Jonathan immediately showcased a friendly attitude toward the boy and even considers him a friend after such a small interaction. Jonathan has an aptitude toward drawing, and uses the drawings that he produces as a medium to vent his feelings. He often draws his dreams and friends, as well as visions for the future. He had an entire desk dedicated solely to drawing, and a wall of his bedroom had multiple of his past drawings hanging up on it. Jonathan also showcases a high level of curiosity about topics concerning the world outside of the Walls - often watching (and drawing) the birds that flew over it and wishing that he could be one of them and see what they see as well. That curiosity extends toward the Titans, something which is relatively rare within the confines of the Walls. He desires desperately to learn of the reasons for their behavior, and what he can do to help protect people from their endless hunger.

After the Fall of Wall Maria and the loss of his mother, Jonathan becomes a much more hardened and anti-social boy. He begins to think about his own survival more after he realizes that the world is an oftentimes cruel place to live in. He becomes very pessimistic and begins to lose focus on life itself. Despite this, he still shows a high level of care for somebody like Ethan or his father, as he went out of his way to help clean and dress their wounds. It is likely that Jonathan is afraid of losing the final few things he thinks he has. After his father's death, Jonathan shows an extremely distaste and rough malice toward the man's corpse - calling him a "coward" and chastising his father for leaving him alone in this world.

## History

Jonathan was born in Shiganshina District on November 21, Year 835 to Amelia Hasheki and Allen Hasheki. Despite his family's relatively low wealth, Jonathan appears to have had a decently bright and cheerful childhood, and would spend a lot of time with his parents. At an unknown point, he met Ethan Ackermann as well as his parents, and the young boys quickly became best friends. They would quickly become relatively known in the town as pranksters, which a title that Jonathan did not like, and their meeting spot became the meadow resting not too far outside of town. Jonathan would often be dragged into pranks by Ethan, and due to his calmer demeanor, would be the one that would smooth talk their way out of problems with the adults afterwards. Most of the other children in Shiganshina regarded Jonathan as quiet and strange, and thus did not speak to him, leaving Ethan as Jonathan's only friend. Despite this fact, Jonathan did not particularly care.

At an unknown point, he picked up an interest in drawing, as well as Titans and the outside world after overhearing a few conversations between his parents, and witnessing a few Survey Corps expedition returns.

A couple of years before the Fall of Wall Maria, Jonathan overheard the story of news story revealing Ellen Lehmann's death to the public. Due to Ellen Lehmann's relatively decent celebrity status and title as "Humanity's Strongest Soldier", this news deeply shocked Jonathan to his core and deepened his desire to learn about the Titans even more. After this, he would draw a grown-up version of himself as a Survey Corps soldier and begin to call himself Ellen Hasheki, thus beginning the use of his nickname.

## Story

### Introduction arc

On November 16, Year 845, Ellen is once again resting under the tree in the meadow where him and Ethan typically meet. Dozing off, Ellen begins to think of a lot of the things in his life - namely, the Walls, the Garrison Regiment, Titans, and his parents. As Ellen begins to ponder, once again, on the mystery of the Titans, he is interrupted by his energetic friend Ethan. Ethan proposes a new idea to Ellen - throwing a tomato at the pastor in town who is currently preaching his word, in order to save the townsfolk from having to listen to him. Ellen is very standoffish about this idea, considering it very mean and pointlessly cruel. Ellen proposes tricking him instead, which Ethan then immediately counters with tricking him into an outhouse. As Ellen begins to argue, Ethan begins taking off toward town already. Following him, they eventually meet with the pastor, who is the Minister of the Church of the Walls, and attempt to trick him into following them by claiming that Ethan's father wishes to donate to his cause. The pastor, Nick, immediately catches this as he recognizes Ethan and knows who his father is. Ethan corrects himself and changes the story to that of his cousin Dillan wishing to donate. Nick begrudgingly accepts this, and follows the children to Old Man Sye's backyard. Ellen and Ethan place a coin worth 20 Zor into Sye's outhouse, and attempt to lead the pastor into it unsuccessfully. Sye suddenly emerges from the house, catching the boys in the act and revealing that he watched them place the coin into the outhouse. With this information, Nick realizes the boys are lying and yells at them loudly. This attracts the attention of nearby Garrison soldiers Hannes and Fugo, who are caught up on the situation and refuse to believe it despite knowing of Ellen and Ethan's trickster reputation, due to the simple ridiculous nature of it all. Ethan's father shows up - the Captain of the Garrison in Shiganshina - and scolds the two boys for their role in the prank as well as Hannes and Fugo for their laziness and drinking on the job. Lucas walks them home, but the bells of Shiganshina begin to ring - signaling the return of the Survey Corps from an expedition. Ethan runs off excitedly, and Ellen follows. Lucas gets a bad feeling in his stomach.

Arriving at the town square, Ellen and Ethan are boosted onto Lucas's shoulder and watch as the Survey Corps return from their expedition - most of them bloodied and broken. The site horrifies Ellen, who is once again reminded of the brutality and horrific nature of the Titans. They bare witness to an old woman learn of the death of her son, and the Commander of the Survey Corps admit to her and the surrounding civilians that they, once again, have learned nothing about the Titans and only sustained losses this expedition. The woman is horrified and the crowd is quick to become angry, talking amonst themselves about the potential closure of the Survey Corps. Ellen attemps to ask Lucas what he knows about the Titans, which he reveals to be nothing. Finally parting ways with Ethan and heading home, Ellen meets with a young boy with long, blonde hair crouched behind his house and helping a pregnant cat give birth to her litter of kittens. Ellen and the boy, who's name is Armin, introduce themselves to each other and quickly learn that they share many of the same interests with each other. They promise to meet up and talk again the next day. Back inside, Ellen meets up with his mother and father, who are worried about whether he saw the soldiers in a broken state. He lies and tells them that he didn't. Ellen enters his room and falls asleep, but is woken up by Ethan a few hours later. Saying goodbye to his parents and taking a drawing of the Wall and some birds, Ellen meets with Ethan who has decided to return to the meadow with Ellen and relax. As they talk about the day and the soldiers, as well as the Titans, Ethan finds a four-leaf clover symbolizing good luck. Ellen feels a strange electric feeling as yellow lightning descends from the sky outside of the Wall, striking the ground and causing a huge earthquake and a mysterious geyser of steam. Ethan and Ellen quickly head back into town, and bare witness to a massive Colossal Titan which kicks a hole in the Inner Gate. Debris lands around Ellen, separating him from his friend and surrounding him in darkness.

### Fall of Shiganshina arc

Flashing back to the time he learned of Ellen Lehmann's death, Ellen suddenly awakens to the sound of screaming and crying. Crawling through the darkness, he spots the corpse of Sye and the struggling, bisected body of Sye's young attendant. He is pulled out of the smoke by Hannes and reunited with Ethan, spotting the destruction around him as well as the hole in Wall Maria's exterior. Hannes passes the boys off to Fugo and Vars, who are tasked with evacuating the children out of the town. As they fly off with the children, Ellen takes the time to examine the town and spots a vast well of Titans beginning to pour in. He also makes note of a fire which has started halfway across the town, and many houses with have been crushed by debris. As Ethan realizes his house was one of those, he struggles out of Vars's arms and enters his house. Fugo is caught off guard as a Titan approaches. Initially terrified by the mere appearance of the creature, he is motivated by Ellen and attempts to fight the creature while Ellen waits. Vars emerges from the house with a knocked out Ethan, who has observed the corpse of his mother. Fugo lands nearby, confident that he killed the Titan - but is crushed along with a house by the Titan's arm. Vars is impaled with a large wooden beam, but gathers enough strength to fight the Titan and distract it long enough for Ellen to grab Ethan and carry him away. Lucas shows up, killing the Titan and shortly afterward, performing a mercy kill on Vars. He attends to his son as Ellen slips away, terrified over the death of Ethan's mother and afraid for his own. Ellen runs toward his house, but spots a Titan on the way. He manages to hide from it, learning they rely mostly on sight and hearing. He makes it home, but is mortified to learn his house has been consumed by flames and his mother burned to death inside, along with all of his belongings. Ellen manages to save a stray drawing of himself as an adult Survey Corps soldier, inspired by Ellen Lehmann. As Ellen flashes back to the night his parents got married and came home, showing him the ring which his mother now carries on her charred finger, he breaks down - screaming and crying into the dirt. He is rescued by Lucas, and flown over the Outer Wall. Lucas parts ways with the boy, instructing him to get on a boat and leave - and tell Ethan that his father loves him. Ellen is aided by a Garrison member into the boat, learning of his father Allen's survival. Lucas attempts to close the Outer Gate and save Wall Maria, and almost succeeds until the gate is destroyed by a mysterious Armored Titan. Lucas, defeated, attempts to fight it but is caught and killed violently as Ellen watches. The boats begin to sail, taking Ellen further and further from home as he comes to terms with the cruelty of life.

### Humanity's Comeback arc

Arrving at the port of Trost District, Ellen is loaded off of the boat by the on-duty Garrison soldiers along with his father and Ethan. Gathering nearby, they are given blankets and hot chocolate by a young and pretty Garrison soldier named Layla. She attempts to ask them questions about the Fall of Wall Maria, but they are largely unable to answer due to the recent shock of the event. Allen asks his son how Amelia died, but Ellen cannot bring himself to tell his father - only telling him that "she didn't suffer". Ellen asks Layla about the Garrison soldier who helped him onto the boat, but Layla is unable to answer - promising she'll do some digging. Upon request, she gives Ellen a pen and piece of paper and he draws a picture of his mother. A couple of days later, Ellen turns 10 and attends a funeral in December for the people that passed in the line of duty during the breach, which included Ethan's father. A month later, in January 846, Ellen settles down in a refugee camp along with his father - who has resorted to alcoholism to cope with his depression - and Ethan in Karanes District. Shunned by the local population due to the dwindling food supply, Ellen has to rely on trades made by his father for food and has largely hardened and lost faith in living. He prepares for the upcoming Refugee Expedition taking place that night, organized by the Royal Government. As he prepares, Ellen hands the drawing of his mother to Allen, which causes his father to break down yet again. They grab their best weapons and supplies and are released along with the rest of the refugees on the expedition into the now Titan-infested lands of Wall Maria. They manage to walk about 30 minutes before they are attacked by a stray Titan, causing all panic and hell to break loose. Ellen is pushed into the forest, and grabbed by his father to a nearby town. There, they rest in a log cabin and reflect on what just happened. Ellen is lucky enough to not sustain many injuries minus scratches, and they are soon met by Ethan, who was hit by a stray bullet. With one bullet left in his gun, Allen falls asleep as Ethan and Ellen find a stray kitten, whom Allen recognizes and names Cinnamon. The next morning, Ellen cleans Ethan's gunshot wound by the nearby river and tells him the message Lucas left him. Ethan tells Ellen his desire to join the Survey Corps, something Ellen is not sure whether or not he wants to follow. Allen comes outside, revealing the town they are in as the town where him and his wife got married. Despite all seeming well, Allen suddenly and quickly commits suicide with the final bullet, spraying blood all over the boys and the drawing of Amelia.

## Abilities

Due to being a child, Ellen lacks a fair bit of abilities, especially in the physical strength department. Despite this, he has the ability to draw very well. He has decently high intelligence, allowing him to approach many life-threatening situations with a fresh and clear perspective, and judge decisions based on their potential outcome. He also is a rather calm boy, and has sometimes used this knowledge to manipulate other people into seeing his point of view - or talk his way out of getting into trouble.