| “ | Useless…! It's useless! No matter what you try to do… the only option the Survey Corps has left… is to stay on the run inside the Walls! You’re nothing more than a pack of filthy rats now! You’ll be lucky just to survive!! You’ve even abandoned your comrades! If you don’t surrender, the captured soldiers are going to hang!! Why shouldn't they?! Considering what you’ve done, who’s going to object?! And the one on the gallows first will be the most responsible for all this… your leader, Erwin Smith. Of course… if you admit to acting to acting on your own… and give yourselves up… the lives of your innocent comrades… could be spared, at least. (…) That’s the only option… you have left. Understand, Levi…? Use your lives… to save theirs… that’s it. | „ |
| ~ The Commander regarding the Survey Corps’ current reputation and potential outcome. |
The Commander of the First Interior Squad Headquarters, is a minor character in the manga anime, Attack on Titan. He was a leading figure within the Military Police Brigade’s First Interior Squad. He was caught sometime after the Coup d'Etat against the Royal Government was committed. Being used by Levi and his squad as a means to find where Eren Yeager and Historia Reiss were located.
Appearance[]
He is an older man with long, black hair that he keeps in a short ponytail, while also having a mustache, thin eyebrows, and hazel eyes. He has tanned skin with clear wrinkles across his mouth and forehead.
He was dressed in the high-ranking Military Police uniform, consisting of a long coat and bolotie.
Personality[]
While he portrayed himself as being a rather stern and arrogant man during his torture, he was insufficient to withstand it for a prolonged time, causing him to show a more vulnerable side.
Story[]
Background[]
This man was born somewhere inside of the Walls, on March the 15th. At some point in his past, he would join the Military Police, eventually making his way to the Interior Police, where he became involved with the Royal Government's deepest secrets. He would later on go as far as to obtain the title of Commander. Being responsible for the deaths of many people in order to keep the peace inside the Walls.
Royal Government arc[]
When Eren Yeager and Historia Reiss were captured by the Anti-Personal Control Squad led by Kenny Ackerman, the Survey Corps’ Special Operations squad led by Levi Ackerman decided to go to the First Interior Headquarters. The Commander can be see writing in his tent when suddenly, the Survey Corps come storming into their outpost (which was a huge building that looked more like a mansion in the manga). They incapacitate all the soldiers there, with Levi forcefully bringing the Commander with them. Levi throws the man against a tree and tries to extract information from him about the whereabouts of Eren and Historia. Instead of giving an answer, he tries to shame them by telling them that they had injured harmless people, some of whom were probably not even soldiers, but servants of the place, (replaced with recruits in the anime). Levi, irritated at hearing it, crushed the Commander’s jaw with his foot against the trunk of the tree, which broke several of his teeth. He again tried to resist by advising them to go to the Royal Government and confess their crimes if they wanted to avoid the rest of their comrades being executed. Totally indifferent, Levi breaks his arm for all his talking instead of answering his questions. The officer then breaks down, saying that he knows absolutely nothing about where Eren and Historia might be and blurts out Kenny's last name, Ackerman. Levi having known Kenny intends to continue torturing the Commander to get him to spill some more information on the matter, with the unfortunate Commander asking in tears if he was dealing with a bound madman. Suddenly a noise is heard, the man thinking that it was reinforcement brigades having surrounded them regained his confidence, jubilant at the tragic future to which his torturers were promised.
However, the people approaching them were, Hange Zoe, Marlowe Freudenberg, and Hitch Dreyse, (the last two were changed to Moblit Berner in the anime). Hange informs them all of the Coup d'Etat against the Royal Government which had taken place beforehand, causing everyone to be overjoyed, except for the Commander who is incredibly shocked and distraught by the news.
The Commander would be put in prison together with all the Interior Police soldiers, together with the remaining remnants of the Royal Government.
It can be assumed that the Commander remained in prison for the rest of his life.
