Connie Springer

About Connie Springer

Connie Springer is a cheerful, good-hearted cadet from the village of Ragako, not the sharpest soldier but one of the most loyal. He joined the military to make his family proud and found himself in the Survey Corps facing horrors he never imagined as a boy. Connie's humour and openness keep his friends human, even as the long war takes more and more from all of them.

Appearance

Connie is one of the shortest soldiers in his class at 158 cm, with a shaved head (later short dark hair), hazel eyes and a wide, expressive face made for grinning. His build is slight and quick rather than powerful. In uniform he looks younger than his fifteen years, and his body language is loose and animated, a contrast to the Corps' stiffness. When his village's fate darkens his story, the same face learns a haunted look that never fully leaves him.

Personality

Connie is cheerful, open and not the sharpest mind in the squad, and he knows it, joking about it before anyone else can. What he has in abundance is heart: he joined up to make his family proud, he celebrates friends' wins as his own, and his humour keeps the 104th human in the worst postings. He is brave in the uncomplicated way of someone who simply will not leave a friend behind. The war tests that simplicity cruelly, forcing Connie to keep his warmth while carrying losses that would justify bitterness.

Background & Story

Connie comes from Ragako, a tiny farming village inside Wall Rose, and enlisted dreaming of returning home a soldier his parents could brag about. He ranked eighth in the 104th Cadet Corps on physical ability despite his small size, and followed his friends into the Survey Corps after Trost. His early service is marked by rescues and narrow escapes alongside Sasha and the others. Then a mission takes him home, and finds Ragako destroyed and eerily empty, its people vanished and a strange Titan lying in his family's house. The mystery of his village becomes one of Connie's defining burdens as the war's true shape emerges.

Powers & Abilities

• Mobility Gear Agility: Small and quick, Connie handles vertical manoeuvring gear nimbly, ranking eighth in his cadet class on soldiering skills.
• Morale and Teamwork: Connie's openness makes him a glue player in any squad, keeping frightened soldiers working together under pressure.

Key Relationships

• Sasha Blouse: His best friend in the 104th; their shared humour and village roots make them inseparable.
• Jean Kirstein: A close comrade whose growing leadership Connie backs without hesitation.
• Reiner Braun: A senior Connie looked up to like an older brother, making Reiner's hidden truth especially painful for him.

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