Name: Jacob Rommel
Birthday: November 21st - Age 17
Gender: Male
Appearance: Jacob is a young man of thin build but is fairly muscular but only due to the normal training that cadets are put through. He has silver colored hair that is well combed and kept well cut just below his eye brows. He has no piercings on his body and has round brown eyes. He has a thin chin, He has a thin nose to match his build. His lips are rather small but not abnormally so. He has tanned white skin. He wears stainless steel glasses with oval shaped lens.
The closest picture I can get to Jacob is the following with the description above replacing the coloring of the character (Ribbons Almark) in the picture
https://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...y_KirikaFD.jpg
He stands at 5'9 with a weight of 135 lbs
Personality: Jacob is a very self confident man whom is not very easily shaken or bothered by other peoples comments. He is the first person expected to be arrogant about what he is capable of and often is vocal about his doubts about other people. While he shows the qualities of a fine officer he lacks any sort of charisma that could rally a person around him. He has a introverted aura about him that makes him seem eerie and scary to some people others see it as arrogance and simply don't like him based off it. He is extremely blunt and to the point and doesn't enjoy toying around with people and is not the first one to laugh at a joke. He has an great hatred for titans and humans with no sense of virtue or self restraint.
He is extremely calm and it takes something profound to intimidate him. However while he is good at hiding it he can be extremely emotional and his attitude does show shades of it by the types of words he uses and how blunt he is. He is not shy by any means and has a great respect for a superior who's abilities are unquestionable but has a deep hidden distaste for incompetent commanders and at his worse he can flat out disobey orders when he believes he can do something better. Jacob can be extremely smug at times especially when he is proven right about one situation or another. He can handle frustration very well but when it starts to pile onto him he tends to snap. He can be extremely casual under almost any situation even when he is about to murder a titan, or another person, in cold blood. He is not especially fond of causing pain but he has no problems with it and is not vocal when he is uncomfortable. He has no problems with doing unethical things in order to get things done but will not be bribed by others.
Biography:
Though much is known about his origins exactly, due to his blunt statement that he is not interested in sharing it to anyone who did bother to ask him, he tells anyone who asks that he comes from a fairly well off family with a couple uncles, aunts, and cousins. He also is said to have a couple brothers whom were also in the military but he doesn't tell anyone who they are exactly merely that they served in the Military Police, and the Survey Corps. When he arrived at the cadet camp he was carrying very little aside from some well made and written books about military tactics, some journals that were passed down from his family, and his clothes which were rather modest and casual. He immediately disregarded anyone who tried to talk to him and had next to no friends in the camp and even those were more of acquaintances than friends. Regardless of how unfriendly he was towards his fellow cadets he quickly gained a reputation as his intelligence and ability to improvise tactics on the spot while under pressure impressed the teacher of the unit. Those who were still skeptical due to his rather small frame where quickly outmatched when he showed to be capable of playing dirty in hand to hand combat sessions despite his small weight class and when not allowed to play dirty he still was capable of holding his own using his quick reflexes.
He was known for staying up late to practice and hone his skills be it by books or by staying in the practice field to handle his titan gear better which at first caused a smudge on his reputation due to his small frame forcing him backwards more than actual lack of control of it. Eventually he managed to figure out how to handle it but his lack of physical strength gave him problems actually hitting kill shots. But after a couple of months he started to get the hang of it and eventually was one of the most precise hitters in his class though how deep he actually cut varied and more than often were not kill shots. Instead when given the role of a group exercise he managed to coordinate those who listened to him into a solid cohesive unit that proved to be extremely effective in it's own right.
When it came time to graduate from class he was expected to be in the top of the class but was ranked just below it due to his arrogant attitude, and his lack of physical abilities which hindered him greatly. When given the choice he chose to join the Garrison claiming he wouldn't do as well in the survey corps. However his commanding officer has decided to lend his abilities to the Survey Corps when asked for as the boy was asked to join the corps by a lieutenant and declined before he joined the garrison. Despite the general dislike of Jacob he was still held in high regard to due his abilities. In fact he was one of the people most people wanted in a squad which surprised him and gave him a smug disposition for awhile afterward. Jacob impressed his teachers and his fellow students greatly but it was known by all his attitude needed work and that genetics held him back from being a true prodigy.
Proficiency:
Extremely precise
Talented combatant (he's good in a fight be it with or without his titan fighting gear)
Talented with gunpowder and fire arms (including cannons and explosives related to gunpowder)
Extremely talented tactician and commander
Calm under pressure
High pain tolerance
Extremely knowledgeable/well read, not easily intimidated.
Inefficiency:
Lacks any above average strength, and speed.
Lacks any sort of real charisma to unite people who don't listen to what he says.
His ability to kill titans singularly is questionable at best.
He has a hard time recovering from nausea, and or dizziness.
Small weight class leads to him being outmatched by heavier people or objects
Though he known for his ability to keep calm when his calm is broken he tends to get very emotional and is not easily reasoned.
His introverted aura makes him a very unlikable person even without him talking
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