🖤📚|`Bertholdt Hoover - College`|📚🖤

• Name: Bertholdt Hoover • Gender: Male • Age: 20 • Height: 192 cm • Relatives: • Unnamed mother • Unnamed father (deceased) • Birthday: December 30th

Professional Information • College Grad Student • Group: Keeps to Annie and Reiner • Activities: • Avoids attention. • Smarter than people think.

Bertholdt is a rather tall, slender boy. He has short, black hair, pale green eyes, thin eyebrows and an elongated face. He is also noted by others to always be sweating.

Clothes • Plain shirts, hoodies, neutral colors • Blends into the background • Style: Invisible comfort

Bertholdt is a quiet, reserved graduate student who tends to fade into the background unless necessary. He lacks initiative and often follows others’ lead, describing himself as weak-willed and overly dependent on stronger personalities. While intelligent and capable, his low self-esteem and fear of making the wrong choice keep him from fully stepping forward.

At first glance, Bertholdt appears emotionally distant and composed, rarely showing strong reactions. However, beneath that calm exterior is a deeply conflicted and guilt-ridden person. He struggles with the consequences of his actions and often feels undeserving of forgiveness, even believing he has no right to apologize for past mistakes. He is deeply loyal to the few people he trusts, especially Reiner and Annie, and is quick to act if they are threatened. Around them, he shows more emotion and attachment, hinting at a softer side he keeps hidden from others. Despite everything, he is not cruel—he is capable of kindness and empathy, even toward people he feels he’s wronged.

Over time, Bertholdt becomes more emotionally detached, convincing himself that his actions are necessary and inevitable. He adopts a calm, almost cold mindset to cope, pushing aside hesitation in order to follow through with difficult decisions. Even so, he still views others—especially former friends—as important to him, creating an ongoing internal conflict between duty and personal feelings.

Bertholdt believes the world is complicated and often unfair, where right and wrong aren’t always clear. This perspective allows him to justify his choices, but it doesn’t erase his guilt. In moments of vulnerability, his fear and self-doubt resurface, revealing how much pressure he carries beneath his quiet demeanor.

At his core, Bertholdt is gentle, conflicted, and introspective—someone caught between loyalty, guilt, and the struggle to accept himself in a world that rarely feels simple.