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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Jade
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⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Zoe Hange
Age: Mid 30s
Canon: Attack on Titan
Canon Point: CHapter 57

Background: Wiki link get

Personality:
To explain Zoe's personality, it must first be noted that she appeared very early on in the series as a nameless character who has appeared serious and determined in her Titan-hunting debut. That is episode one. Cut quite a number of episodes and chapters later in the series, and she is now portrayed as character not as serious with how she goes about her hunts. In fact, she's casual and carefree, blunt at times, and shows a nice dose of military vulgarity when appropriate. The in-series time span between these two episodes is five years, and the reason for this supposed discrepancy is quite simple. At a certain point in time, she has stopped fearing the Titans.

Instead of typically fearing and hating the Titans as so many in the series do, she has opted to take a different, if not very radical view point concerning them. Most see them as the embodiment of the ever-pressing fear upon what remains of the human race or an obstruction of freedom; Zoe challenges this common view and argues to change the standard hate and fear for them and turn them into something else. She sees the Titans as points of interest, as something that is much more than the absolute terror they instill in humans. To her they are something at which to devote a good portion of her time, energy, and effort into studying and solving. She has realized that fear and hate can only bring humanity so far. To win against them, their enemies must be understood. More importantly, they are absolutely fascinating to her.

And how!

She is quite passionate about her research and exploring theories, enough to spend an entire night simply explaining the fruits of her labor to someone willing to listen. Even off the battlefield, Hange is a cheery, quirky intellectual character who is not above having fun or playing off a small tease or two. As a scientist, she is very particular with what she studies and how she goes about it; it has been shown that she does value proving replication in results and logging each and every detail. She favors new information and different, abnormal information that can be gained. In fact, her investment in Titans and what new information they can provide may absolutely qualify as obsessive. Her thirst for knowledge that the truth does not stop at Titans, however. In reality, she is grounded in hunting for key information that aides the plight of humanity in her world.

Along the lines of being passionate, Zoe is also very spontaneous with many of her antics. She does not hesitate to be up close and personal with someone or something that fascinates her. In fact, she will be drawn toward the strange and amazing, danger be damned. She laughs in the face of danger. But here lies her key weakness: there is not much concern for her own safety on her part, which often portrays her as foolish, flippant, or trivial in being presented with an immediate threat. And, well, she is dismissing of danger and passes it off as something not to be taken seriously at times. She has cast away most, if not all her fears in favor of pursuing knowledge and accomplishing what she likes. One reason she can be so very casual with life-threatening situations is that she is confident. Fortunately that confidence is well-grounded in her skills.

Along that same line, what does she find a greater reason to be wary of? What the author recently presents for Zoe's fear or caution follows her deviant perspective. For it is not Titans that she fears, but it is the humans that she's much more cautious around themselves, or rather their evil potential and what they are hiding. See here: "I have just remembered something that I've long since forgot./ The feeling that I stopped experiencing after my first expedition to the lands beyond the wall.../ Fear... "

This line comes off after Hange confronts Pastor Nick atop of the Wall; she questions about what they know of the Walls and of the Titans, and after a threatening exchange on her part, she relents to Pastor Nick's silence on the subject.

Presuming before her first expedition, she, too, had been a Titan-fearing individual of everything unknown about them. However, that fear has largely since subsided (and in her own words just above, it appears she claims to not fear them any more), most likely in part because she has since gathered much information about the Titans since then. In the manga in chapter 30 and within the very same chapter 34 those not of the Scouting Legion question the usefulness of their excursions, going so far in chapter 30 to describe their excursions as futile. By extension this includes Zoe and her work on Titans. In chapter 34, Hange demands to know why her comrades have died due to Titans, when "in all of this time we've never managed to find any information as important as what we saw here", implying that their deaths were been made in vain due to lack of information that humans withheld. To her, while still mysterious, a part of the Titans' nature is known and in the light to her. Meanwhile in chapter 34, via Hange's statements, the manga draws a parallel: just as the Titans themselves pose a threat to the military and all of humanity, the humans within the Wall who know the truth but do not tell are just as threatening to the survival of humanity. That is, if they do not speak out. It is with them that knowledge remains in the dark and the unknown is back in play within Hange's mind. These reasons that the mysteries remain unknown and the humans that keep it as such is the fear to which she refers atop the wall.

This is to say Hange cannot be serious. When the time and situation comes for it, she will demonstrate bother her leadership and commanding skills. She is quick to act, assessing any current predicament with a glance to determine the risks and opportunities. She is both rigorous enough to command a head-on attack and graceful enough to know when to pull back. In fact, as of chapter 57, Hange has been made the new Commander of the Scouting Legion. Granted this is a little political play by Erwin as he defects to allow more maneuverability for himself within the Wall, she is not made a Commander for no good reason.

Hange has demonstrated leadership qualities throughout the series. She's a Squad Leader/Major of the Scouting Legion and head of the research branch, which is quite possibly the only one in all of the military. Following this, she oversees all of her experiments with subordinates that are not only of the Scouting Legion, but of also the Garrison. She personally elected to lead her own squad to salvage a group of unarmed cadets from Titans at Castle Utgard. Against the Colossal Titan and Armored Titan, she divided up her men in to three strategic squads to combat them and was simultaneously in charge of all three. Against the Armored Titan she personally directed Eren and Mikasa where to attack for them to attempt to gain the upper hand against the Titan. Even while suffering from a concussion and burns from her fight with the Colossal Titan, she managed to accurately pin point and direct the main forces of the Scouting Legion, including her Commander, to where the Armored Titan and Colossal Titan escaped to. The commander and those that followed her instructions successfully discovered where the two Titans were hiding. More recently, she organized and orchestrated members of the public and press to witness the treachery and corrupted behavior of the Military Police.


Abilities:
+ Part of the "Elite" squad of soldiers. Must count for something. But yes, she's had military training.
+ An accomplished scientist, even given the canon's limited technology
+ Hand-to-hand combat and able to use a two sword at once. She did dodge a gunshot in the most recent chapter and punched a guy hard in the face.
+ Excellent use of 3DMG and easily capable of slaying Titans
+ Official character stats include 10/10 in Speed and an 11/10 in Wisdom
+ Extraordinary memory and the ability to obtain, sort through, and analyze information quickly
- She tends to become overly excited and distracted by things, even in the presence of danger. While this has been shown to put in her danger, she usually has others to keep her in check; it can be said that without others around to pull her back, she'll do something reckless for her experiments and get hurt.
- She's passionate, which while good in some ways, it can lead to clouded judgement in being overly excited.
- She doesn't tend to follow a strict hygiene code. For example, she doesn't regularly wash her hair. It's gross and dirty.
- She has a difficult time associating with others on a sound level, perhaps not well-adjusted on her own. The fact that she's so happily infatuated with the mysteries of Titans, showing glee at the prospect of performing questionable experiments upon them, attests to this fact. She'll tend to stick to her own thoughts and curiosities.
- Despite knowing how to fight and what the anime/manga presents of her, she is only human. No super powers here.

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⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
First Person Sample:
I often go by a rule of threes before confirming a suspicion. [ She holds up three fingers to the camera. ] One is just a curiosity. [ One finger down. ] Two is a coincidence. [ Two fingers down. ] And three--? [ Her smile becomes wider as she puts the last finger down. The light briefly catches upon the lenses of her glasses. ] Well, that's the beginning of a pattern.

So, what can this be used for? [ She suddenly stands firmly in front of the camera, her face intensely serious. ] Everything, but especially results, especially when presenting information, especially when writing a report, especially when thinking anything is relevant, especially when... [ There are a lot of 'especially's there, aren't there? And she will continue with this sentence, noting each and every thing she believes must be 'especially' considered. Of course there are tangents throughout her rant, but eventually she will finish with a, ] ...and especially when discussing Titans.

[ Then her smile becomes casual, and she interlaces her fingers together to rest her chin upon them. ] And everything else, of course. So! Who wants to capture some ogres?

Third Person Sample:
The good thing about, no, the beauty about having a career in which your life was as stake every moment during an operation was that nothing else matters but survival. To do that, to make sure that it was even possible, the entire squad's movements and trust must be in sync, at least relatively speaking. Thankfully she and her team complimented each other easily to that extent.

And Zoe? She felt as if she was flying about the trees this night, finishing off any of the rare one or two Titans that seem to still be active during the late hours. There were not many of them, but there were one more that seems extra persistent and abnormal in tailing her. An abnormal, chasing her...! How lucky, how grand; the idea gave her a rush, the flight and fight itself makes her heart skip two beats. She laughed, encouraging the Titan to follow her despite its stubby legs that were so clearly not made for climbing. Repelling branch upon branch, she swung up to the upper canopy, flipping backwards to begin the fall for her finishing move.

It was at the zenith of the arc before she would spot her turn, where something caught her eye. Or rather, multiple things, brilliant things. A stream of stars that she had never seen before, or perhaps the very same stars she had come to know but had never appreciated as much until this moment. Because--

Unfortunately it was distracting, and the Titan had just made its move to leap up at her. What came next is the instant vrrr of the metal cords as their trajectory was changed, and Zoe relocated herself upon the side of a tree. "Ha-ha--! You almost got me there."

Too bad for the Titan, that leap to attempt to bite Zoe was something it had pinned everything upon. Unable to catch itself back upon the branches of the trees, it began falling to the ground in a large crash. It was Nanaba's problem now. She shouted down anyway, "Oooi, Nanaba! Come up here! You have to see this!"

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