Floch Forster

Floch had confidence and conviction as a Yeagerist leader. As a Survey Corps recruit, however, Floch was, by his own admission, a coward. Part of Floch's cowardice seemed to stem from a belief that his death should not be "meaningless," as he expressed during the Battle of Shiganshina District. Despite this, Floch had proved himself to be capable of acting courageously. He was willing to participate in Erwin Smith's suicide charge against the Beast Titan, despite his fear, and was willing to stand up to his fellow soldiers when they suggested allowing Erwin to die in favor of saving the life of Armin Arlert, even going so far as to risk being attacked by Mikasa Ackerman to keep her from taking the Titan injection from Levi. One of Floch's most evident personality trait was his respect for Erwin Smith. He argued passionately for Erwin to receive the life-saving Titan serum, believing that only Erwin was capable of making the choices necessary to guarantee victory for humanity. He openly criticized the choice to save Armin over Erwin, and claimed that the choice was a result of those involved allowing their emotions to cloud their judgment. Floch was also very honest with others, to the point of being insensitive. He admitted to Hitch that Marlowe must have regretted entering the Survey Corps in his final moments, and informed Armin that most Military personnel who had read the Corps' report from the Shiganshina battle agreed that Armin's survival was a mistake. It was possible that Floch's value of the truth stems from his experiences in Shiganshina, as he insisted that any future recruits be informed of what they will be signing up for, so that "cowards" like him will know not to join. He believed that those who cannot give up something important to them for the greater good and refuse to listen to reason are childish. By that virtue, he thought of those who knew when to back off and restrain themselves from acting on their emotions as "adults." This is evident when he criticized Eren and Levi on their decision to save Armin instead of Erwin, while praising Mikasa, who though acted on impulse at the start, reigned herself in eventually and made the logical choice. Four years after reclaiming Wall Maria, Floch adopted a more vindictive attitude towards humans outside the Wall; he was open to conducting scorched earth tactics and was not concerned with collateral damage; he did not hesitate in burning entire city blocks in Liberio to the ground, simply to deny resources to the enemy with no thought of the casualties that would result from it. He also pointed out Eren's willingness to act as a demon by killing civilians and children as an example of their comrades' willingness to take on the enemy ruthlessly. Once joining the Yeagerists, Floch became even more open to using violence against anyone who was not an Eldian or resisted the efforts made by Eren, whether they were Marleyans or even his allies in the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers. As his views had grown more radical he displayed an overall lack of empathy or remorse for his following actions, going so far as to view all outsiders as enemies to the Eldian Empire. This would be seen with his growing nationalistic behavior towards the Volunteers, namely Onyankopon, and the Hizuru engineers. Floch has shown that he has no qualms of harming and killing former allies without hesitation, evident by his attempted shooting and successful beating of Shadis and his willingness to kill Levi while he was mortally injured along with the other Yeagerists. He was also willing to kill his former Survey Corps comrades, although this had more to do with the fact that he perceived them as traitors to Eldia, since he was not hostile towards Jean and Mikasa initially. Floch appeared to fully revel in Eren's destruction of the world, gleefully telling Kiyomi Azumabito of Hizuru's eventual destruction through the Rumbling. While he seemingly acknowledges Kiyomi's words of the prospect of the Rumbling leading to eventual infighting within Paradis and displays unease of this, he quickly shrugs it off and further threatens Kiyomi and the Hizuru engineers with death. Floch harbored a great fear of retaliation from the outside world, believing that Eren's death would lead to the eventual slaughter of everyone on Paradis Island and urged his fellow Yeagerists to dedicate their hearts to protect their country. While injured in the following battle, Floch showed great determination to stop his enemies from reaching Eren, clinging onto their boat for two days and shooting the flying boat before he was mortally wounded by Mikasa. Until his dying breath, Floch still fully believed that a full-scale Rumbling was the only way to save Paradis, going so far as to beg a nearby Jean and Hange not to board the flying boat to reach Eren. Showing that despite his immoral actions, he still fully believed in protecting the Eldian Empire to the end.

Floch appeared to be of medium height with short, tousled blond hair. During the return to Shiganshina mission, he wore the standard Survey Corps uniform and cloak. For casual clothes he wore a white button down shirt with dark pants. Four years after the recovery mission, Floch's hair appeared with thick bangs which were swept to the right side, while keeping it shorter at the bottom. He had not grown much in height but still stood in a similar structure to his peers. During the night raid in Marley, he wore a new black Survey Corps uniform with anti-personnel vertical maneuvering equipment.