Note: So, here's the first chapter! I'm still working on that character chart, but it'll be out soon. Remember, this cast came in a year after the canon cast and are in different trainee squads. The average age of these OCs is 16, so they'll be around Eren and most of the canon cast's age. A lot of the first chapters are of them in the first year of training camp and flashbacks.

And, one more thing in this long author's note, Klaus has been taken out of the story by request of his creator. That's all ^^


The morning bell sounded throughout the training camp, prompting all of the drowsy trainees out of their warm beds. Well, some of them.

"Hey."

Feeling something poking at her side, Helena Gunther grumbled irritably and turned over in her bed. It was such a comfy bed. A bit hard at first, but you settle into it–

"Get up."

Spouting a few unintelligible words at her unknown pester, the sleepy girl just covered her head with her pillow.

"You can stay here and get in trouble if you want, but I'm not. Some of us have to get ready." The voice got a little further away, but enough that the person talking was still a few feet away.

The body in the bed didn't move. Not even an inch.

A sigh was heard. "Alright, see you when you get in trouble." The person then promptly left as Helena heard footsteps walking away.

Waiting for a few seconds, the girl finally got up quickly and ran after her pester. "No, wait! I'm coming already, Ada!"

The pester, formally known as her cousin Ada Duval, turned back to look at her with a bored expression. "About time you got your ass up. You've already gotten in trouble for sleeping in."

Along with the other girls in their sleeping quarters, they went to wash up before getting dressed. Helena and Ada started to wash their faces, splashing a handful of water on themselves.

The guilty girl let out a chuckle and wiped the water away from her eyes before answering. "I need my beauty sleep." She nudged the stern girl. "You could've covered for me, you know. Like, say I was sick or something."

With a roll of her eyes, Ada wiped her face off with a towel. "I had told the instructors that you were sick when you wanted to take a day off from 3DMG practice. If I told him you were sick anymore, they'd send you away on sick leave. Do you want that?"

"I guess not..." Despite slacking off and sleeping in, Helena actually was - believe it or not - serious about being there. So, she didn't want to be sent away. She just slacked off just enough to get by.

It was only a few months into their training, so the girl still wasn't used to the military life. Or, that's the excuse she liked to use.

"Ah, I see someone's up on time!" A hand clamped on each other their shoulders. "Well, fairly on time."

Helen glanced behind herself at who spoke, seeing Rose Karalyn grinning at her and Ada. "Heh. Yep! You're not seeing things, that's for sure." She answered her, laughing.

Looking over at Ada, Rose noticed the older cousin was giving off a 'put out' aura and decided to take her off the girl's shoulder. She chuckled nervously before speaking. "H-Hey, Ada..."

The older girl gave a nod and walked away to finish washing up, leaving Rose and Helena to their own devices. The outgoing girl just gave Helena a weirded out look, which the raven haired trainee just returned with a shrug.

"Don't worry about it." Helena said simply. "She's like that sometimes, you just need to get to know her more." She knew that her cousin wasn't necessarily shy or quiet. Ada had no problem speaking more than her share, but it was only around Helena that she actually did it.


The mess hall was pretty quiet that day, maybe because everyone was too dazed from sleep to talk during breakfast. But then again, it was never loud. It was a grim time, so not a lot of trainees were particularly happy and talkative like Rose. If she was even truly happy herself. Many of the teens who had come from Wall Maria had lost family members – if not all of their family – and their homes. Even the trainees whose family members were serving in the military lost them to the Titans, mainly if they were in the Survey Corps. It was an atmosphere that Helena was uneasy with at first, but grew used to. If Ada was ever uncomfortable with it, she never said anything. But, her cousin never complained unless it was about her.

Spotting her brother in line for food already, Rose went ahead to join him while Helena and Ada looked around for a table to sit at first.

"Let's get in line before the food cools down. We can just sit at our usual table." Ada spoke after Rose was a good distance away, but her younger cousin grabbed at her jacket sleeve before she could move. The older cousin paused. Usually Helena was already gunning for the food line about now.

"We can't." Was all Helena said, sounding solid in her decision.

Ada raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

Pointing a finger at their usual table in the far back, Helena sent a glare to a lone girl sitting by herself at that table. "She's there."

"Eh?" Following the finger, the other girl saw that it was Maru Yuramora that Helena was pointing to. In all of their months of knowing the other trainees, Ada honestly didn't know much about that girl. All she knew was that Maru and Helena were like water and oil, they just didn't get along. They never openly fought, like that crazy Jeager boy and Jean, but they just couldn't stand to be around each other. "She's not going to bother you..."

"Psh..." Helena glanced away stubbornly, as if knowing that but denying it like a little child. "She's plotting my demise, I know it. One day, I'm practicing my 3DMG skills and..." Using her index and middle finger, she imitated a pair of scissors and did a 'snip' motion. "SNAP. Something is haywired and I fall."

Now the younger girl was just talking nonsense. Without answering, Ada went ahead to the waiting line for her food. It didn't take long for her cousin to follow.

"If I die, you know why!" Was what she finished with, whispering behind her cousin.

In front of them in line was Mathias Raurief, another trainee that joined back when they did. He was looking chipper that morning, probably due to the fact that he was actually a morning person. Although, that attitude pretty much died when he glanced over at Ada's perpetually grumpy demeanor. He quickly turned around and one could literally feel the awkwardness in the air, watching him look at anything else but behind him. The boy could've just left it at that, but they supposed he didn't like it being so quiet. "Uh..." The trainee started off, daring to look at Ada again. "How about those eggs?" He gestured to the eggs that were sitting in a large tray to be served, looking overcooked. "Let's hope they don't taste as bad as they look."

A painful silence followed behind, as Ada was the absolute worst person anyone could tell a joke to.

Someone let out a stiff laugh, seeming to want to break the tension that was happening in the line and the three of them glanced around until they saw a blonde that could be identified as Christa Reinz standing behind Helena. She appeared to have forced a laugh for Mathias' sake, looking quite sheepish after she stopped. "Um...Hi." The short girl greeted them all shyly.

At least Mathias and Helena would've said something back, but Ymir's intimidating form soon appeared after Christa. The look she gave them wasn't really welcoming, so the two trainees just nervously nodded.

Once they finally got to the front of the line, Helena noticed Mathias not asking for much food from the mess hall worker. His plate was a little barren, which confused her. If she were a morning person, she'd probably have a bigger appetite than she already did because she got up earlier. "The potatoes look extra good today." Not so subtly speaking to Mathias, Helena nodded towards the julienned potatoes that were laid out. "You should get a lot and be big and strong like that guy!"

He followed her eyes to Reiner Braun's imposing form, another trainee a year ahead of them like Christa and Ymir. Shaking his head in disbelief he turned back around, but seemed to have an internal debate with himself over to just go with her suggestion or not. "...Sure." He let the worker put a small portion on his plate before quickly finding a table to sit at.

"Ugh, finally. That took forever." Ada muttered under her breath, but still loud enough for her cousin to catch it. The worker put another small portion on her plate, then a little more when the older girl kept standing there expectantly. A slight smile was seen from Ada as she stood aside to wait for Helena.

Plate filled, Helena eyes traced back to their regular table and she pursed her lips. "Not going over there."

It seemed that they didn't even have to do that in the end, as Rose waved to them from her table. "Hey, over here!"

"Thank God!" Helena rushed over there like she had found some sort of salvation, plopping down next to Rose with Ada sitting next to her.

Sensing the girl's relief, Rose put two and two together and took a look at Maru herself before turning back with a laugh. "She might secretly be nice, you know."

Helena just picked up a piece of her overcooked scrambled eggs with her fork. "Does nice and Maru really go together?"

"I feel a little sorry for her..." Eli, Rose's twin brother, decided to defend the loner. "She's over there sitting by herself. It's lonely, don't you think?"

"Traitor." She sent him a quick glare, reminding the rest of them of her cousin. "Not talking to you."

The boy's mouth nearly gaped open. "Huh? You didn't call Rose a traitor!" His reaction made Rose hide another laugh by covering her mouth.

"I'm kidding, don't get your underwear in a knot." Smirking, Helena brought her eyes back down to her food. "But still, friends should complain with other friends."

Ada, who stayed quiet throughout the conversation, just glanced at her cousin from the corner of her eye and went back to focusing on her food.


"Wow, these walls are so tall..." Rudolf Derilek's sight trailed up the 8 meter tall training wall that they were ordered to climb with their maneuver gear, a nervous expression on his face. He started to fidget slightly, doubting his ability to complete the task.

Noticing this, the trainee beside him glanced at him with a raised eyebrow. "Calm down." The boy, known to the rest of the trainees as Vincent Falk, told him. "We've used our gear before, just pretend that this is no different. You listened to the instructions, right?"

Not expecting Vincent to talk to him, Rudolf jumped a bit. He wasn't used to many people actually speaking to him. "Uh, yeah..." They were in the same trainee squad, but they had never spoken until then really. At least, not much.

Vincent took that answer as acceptable and switched his glance to his other side. Standing there was Corina Becker, a quiet girl who he wasn't sure spoke to anyone at all in their whole time being there. Shaking his head, he didn't even try to speak to her and just looked at the wall again. The instructor finally gave the okay for them to start, but he decided for a few seconds to watch and see what the first person to climb did. The first people to climb were Helena Gunther and Avalyn Reinhardt, neither having footage on the walls.

The instructor was calling out orders from the ground. "Gunther! Reinhardt! Get it together!"

That gave Vincent a better idea of what to do and he finally tried it out for himself, faintly noticing that Ada Duval had done the same as he did. From the initial meeting, he'd guessed that the older cousin was probably smarter than the one. And, in time, he found out that he was right. Ada was more studious and dedicated, while Helena's attention span was too short to grasp onto much right away. He often wondered who was the first to suggest being in the military.

"Straighten up, Falk!"

With some struggle, he managed to finally get to the top of the wall and looked down below with slight amusement. Some of the trainees had fallen, Helena and Avalyn to name a few. First to start, first to fall. Vincent chuckled as he thought that before finally heading back down.

"Bach, watch what you're doing!"

A scuffling noise was heard and the boy was brought out of his moment of semi-smugness when he saw another boy nearly fall of the wall trying to come down as well. It was Alois Bach, they sat together during meal times. The boy let out a sigh of relief when he steadied himself and looked over at Vincent. "Close call, huh?" He laughed, making his way down again.

Vincent blinked before answering him. "Real close." He gave a small laugh as well and followed suit, but nearly lost his footing and scuffled like the boy had. "Wha–" Regaining his balance, he slowly looked around to see if anyone saw him. The coast was clear, no one saw his own blunder and he made his way all the way down. The rest of the trainees soon followed after.

Their instructor slowly clapped in a mocking sense. "Congratulations." He said. "Seems like the 116th training squad aren't total failures after all."


Note: So, how was the first chapter? I was kind of rushing to get the last part finished because it's 3am and I have school tomorrow. And, I named them 116th training squads because I figured a reasonable amount of squads came before them (I actually just added 12 to 104, get it?). My comedic side kind of got out, but I suppose a little comedy isn't bad. I'm just so used to writing comedies, I haven't written a totally dramatic piece since...I don't know (lol). Anyone who's character wasn't shown much will be shown a lot in the next chapter and I hope I got your characters right. But yeah, send me any suggestions or whatever you want.