Rico Brzenska

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Rico Brzenska (リコ・ブレツェンスカ Riko Buretsensuka?) is the team leader (班長 Hanchō?) of Squad Rico and a member of the Garrison's 1st Division Elite Forces. She is the only surviving leader of the Alpha Squad assigned to protect Eren Yeager during the liberation of Trost District. Rico is a rather short woman with a small but secure build. She has cheek length dark blonde hair and brown eyes. She wears a small framed pair of glasses held on by bands placed around her head to keep them from falling off during combat. She also wears the typical Garrison uniform with a white button up shirt underneath and during a later mission, she is seen wearing a green Garrison cloak. Rico has a very mixed personality. At first glance, it may appear as though she does not feel sympathy as she was very open to the idea of killing Eren Yeager, Mikasa Ackerman, and Armin Arlert after it was discovered that Eren has the power of the Titans. Rico began to lose her calm demeanor as the Titans gradually wiped out her comrades. However, for the most part, she maintains a composed, leadership role, and bravely cuts a Titan's eye out when it interferes with Eren's carrying the boulder. Once Trost is reclaimed, Rico sits among the wasteland of corpses and begins to shed tears for her fallen comrades, and for the first victory for humanity over the Titans. After a rampaging Titan is revealed to be a trainee, Rico is among the Garrison soldiers who surround him and his allies as Kitz Weilman questions the trainee about the nature of his Titan transformation.[11] Rico stands with Kitz's decision to execute Eren and his comrades, believing that questioning them will be a waste of time. The first attempt to execute the trainees is unsuccessful as Eren uses his Titan form to stop the cannon fire that is intended to kill him, and a second attempt is stopped by the intervention of Dot Pixis.