Grisha Yeager in Attack on Titan

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1. Profile

   Physician and resident of the Shiganshina District within Wall Maria; father to Eren Yeager and husband to Carla Yeager. Recorded in local files under the heading A Doctor in the Walls for his work treating townsfolk.

2. Revealed by S3·E20

   Faye and the Airship

   At eleven, Grisha takes his little sister Faye beyond the fence of Liberio's internment zone to see an airship. Public Security officers catch them without permits: Kruger beats Grisha and Gross takes Faye away. Her body is found beside the river the next day, and Grisha's father apologizes to the men who killed her rather than risk the family that remains.

3. Revealed by S3·E20

   Joins the Eldian Restorationists

   Seven years after Faye's death, Grice brings Grisha into the Eldian Restorationists on the secret orders of the Owl. Grisha accepts their forbidden account of Eldian history and becomes the movement's driving voice, turning the rage he has carried since childhood into a plan to overthrow Marley and restore Eldia.

4. Revealed by S3·E20

   Dina and the Royal Bloodline

   The Owl sends Dina Fritz, the last royal descendant living in Marley, to the Restorationists. She and Grisha marry, and their son Zeke carries the bloodline that once commanded the Founding Titan. To the movement, their family becomes proof that restoring Eldia may be possible.

5. Revealed by S3·E20

   Raises Zeke for the Cause

   Grisha and Dina raise Zeke as the Restorationists' instrument, drilling their history into him and pushing him toward Marley's Warrior programme so he can inherit one of the Nine Titans. They speak to him as an heir before seeing him as a child. At seven, overwhelmed and afraid, Zeke reports his parents to Public Security and exposes the movement.

6. Revealed by S3·E20

   The Sentence on Paradis

   Marley ships Grisha, Dina and the captured Restorationists to the seawall on Paradis. One by one, the prisoners are injected and thrown down as Pure Titans; Grisha watches Dina lose her human form and walk away as the Smiling Titan. Kept until last, he survives only because the officer beside him reveals himself as the Owl.

7. Revealed by S3·E21

   Inherits the Attack Titan

   With his thirteen years nearly spent, Kruger gives Grisha the mission that shapes his remaining years: enter the Walls, recover the Founding Titan and pass the struggle forward. Grisha accepts a Titan serum, transforms and devours Kruger, inheriting the Attack Titan before beginning the journey across Paradis alone.

8. Revealed by S3·E11

   Found Outside the Walls

   Twenty years before the fall, a Survey Corps expedition under Keith Shadis found a man collapsed on open ground beyond the Walls. He had lost everything but his name and his trade as a physician, and the first thing he asked for was not shelter or food but an account of the world he had woken into — and of the soldiers who rode out past the Walls.

9. Revealed by S3·E11

   The Doctor Who Stopped the Plague

   When an epidemic swept the district and Carla fell ill among the others, Grisha treated everyone he could reach and brought the outbreak to a halt. The stranger from beyond the Walls became the doctor Shiganshina trusted, married Carla, and built the ordinary life Keith would later remember as the beginning of everything.

10. Revealed by S3·E19

    The Record beneath the Basement

    Behind a false bottom in his basement desk, Grisha leaves three books, a photograph of Dina and Zeke, and a written account beginning with the declaration that humanity has not perished. The record preserves the world beyond the Walls, his first family and the history Marley tried to erase so that Eren can inherit the truth even if Grisha never returns.

11. Revealed by S1·E1

    The Basement Promise

    Physician Grisha Yeager left the Shiganshina District for the inner town to attend a meeting. Before departing he told his son Eren that, upon his return, he would show him something he had long kept in the basement.

12. Revealed by S3·E6

    Grisha Seizes the Founding Titan

    On the night Wall Maria falls, Grisha enters the Reiss Chapel and confronts Frieda Reiss, the royal holder of the Founding Titan. He transforms, defeats and devours her, kills the Reiss family gathered in the cavern except for Rod, and leaves carrying the power he came to take before finding Eren.

13. Revealed by S3·E6

    Injects Eren with the Serum

    In the woods outside Shiganshina, with the district already falling, Grisha takes his son to the end of the road: he injects Eren with a Titan serum and, once the boy has turned, lets Eren devour him. The Founding Titan he tore from Frieda and his own Attack Titan both pass to a son who will remember none of it — only a basement key and a duty he cannot explain.

14. Revealed by S4·E20

    The Hand That Was Not His

    The night in the chapel is replayed from inside his head and there is somebody else in it. His son is standing behind him in the Paths, pushing him through the door and showing him a future that has already happened. The man who slaughtered a family of children to steal the Founder was being steered by the boy he was about to give it to.

15. Revealed by S4·E20

    He Thanked the Son Who Turned Him In

    Shown what his own certainty cost, he breaks in front of Zeke — the child he raised as a weapon and blamed for a betrayal — and thanks him for stopping him, apologising for having been a father who only ever had a cause. It is the reconciliation Zeke waited his whole life for, and it arrives after both of them are dead.

16. Titan identity

    Attack Titan, and the Founding Titan he took from Frieda Reiss

17. Final fate

All linked characters

• Eren Yeager — Father and son; heir to his Titan power
• Carla Yeager — Married; parents of Eren
• Founding Titan — Grisha tore the Founding Titan from Frieda in the Reiss chapel
• Attack Titan — The Titan Grisha became, inherited by Eren with the Founding
• Frieda Reiss — Attacked her in the chapel and took the Founding Titan by force
• Keith Shadis — Found him outside the Walls with no memory and brought him in
• Zeke — The father whose cause he handed to Marley's Public Security
• Eren Kruger — Pulled him out of the line on the wall and kept him alive
• Dina Fritz — His first wife, and the royal blood the cause was built on
• Grice — Recruited him into the Restorationists and named what happened to Faye
• Faye Yeager — His little sister, killed for leaving the district with him
• Mr. Yeager — His father, who beat him for it and apologised to the officer
• Gross — Kept him alive and watching, to carry the fear back
• Tom Xaver — Never met him; told his son to hand him over to Public Security