While Historia from Attack On Titan makes questionable decisions because of her traumatic origins, they have negatively affected her likability.

Attack On Titan's Historia is one of the anime's most complex and multilayered characters. Though her plot significance is a slow burn, she undergoes some of the most extensive developments. Historia's whirlwind arc is poignant and profound, which is underscored by numerous moments that leave audiences confused and unsatisfied with her choices.

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Historia — like so many well-rounded characters — is deeply flawed. She occasionally makes decisions that work against her own well-being. These questionable decisions are the result of Historia's traumatic origin story and ultimately give way to her overall arc and character development. Nevertheless, it can be grating on the way there, and these decisions negatively affect her likability among fans.

Historia routinely puts herself in danger in the name of protecting others — in some cases with selfish intentions. During snowstorm training in Season 2, Episode 5, Historia, Ymir, and Daz all fail to return to camp.

Historia is seen faithfully dragging an injured Daz down the mountain toward the camp while Ymir argues against it. Ymir accuses Historia of wishing to utilize the situation to die a heroic death. Historia stutters, unable to refute the accusation because it's true. Her selfless act is revealed as performative manipulation.

Historia wants to be characterized by her kindness, but the implementation of this initially cheapens her character. For the audience, Historia comes off as one-dimensional: a classic, sanctimonious ingénue type. To her peers, she comes off as forced. Ymir constantly calls her out for her performance, and when Historia loses Ymir in Season 2, Episode 12, Historia's well-crafted persona comes apart.

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Historia becomes solemn as she shoulders through a new lack of identity. Even so, in Season 3, Episode 1, Eren tells Historia he thinks she's better this way and calls her earlier facade unnatural. Audience members also prefer Historia much more once her character develops out of the good-girl act.

Historia is a trained Scout who undergoes months of aggressive tactile training. She should be keenly aware of her environment, and at the very least know when to physically be on the defensive.

During the Titan battle at Utgard Castle, audiences see that Historia is propped over the tower's ledge, watching as Ymir fights a mob of Titans. Historia leans nearly her entire body over the ledge. When the tower is compromised in the fight, Historia falls off. Reiner saves her, but as Historia is a capable combatant, this lack of self-preservation is baffling.

Historia is one-track-minded and will choose Ymir's safety over anyone else's, as evidenced in Season 2, Episode 5. At Utgard, Historia jumps onto the tower ledge and screams to Ymir to forget about protecting the tower and save herself. This tower happens to hold herself, Connie, Reiner, and Bertholdt.

Historia obviously says this for Ymir's sake, and completely bypasses the safety of the rest of her squad. Historia might care about the others, but not enough to consider them when she is willing to sacrifice them for Ymir's wellbeing.

Historia can be emotional to the point of irrationality. In Season 2, Episode 5, Historia is bewildered to see Ymir being ripped apart by Titans, so she runs directly through the destruction toward Ymir, completely unarmed.

Historia has no way to defend herself or Ymir — she just cries and runs into a kill zone without a plan. She is fueled by blind, raw emotion. Historia should die when a Titan appears in front of her, but Mikasa conveniently arrives and provides the plot armor Historia needs to survive the episode.

At Historia's core, she is innocent, and this gives way to a frustrating manifestation of naivete. When her father, Rod Reiss, appears in the episode "Pain," he kidnaps Historia and Eren with the help of the Military Police. Reiss asks Historia for her trust, convincing her that she has a family legacy to carry on — to which Historia presents virtually no skepticism and agrees.

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Reiss, up to this point, has been an absent father who reunites with his daughter by kidnapping her. Historia's decision to so easily go along with her father leaves the audience struck at her lack of discernment.

Given the promise of a new sense of purpose, Historia was willing to sacrifice Eren at the behest of her newfound father. She dutifully took on her new royal role after Rod Reiss told her it was her destiny to eat Eren and retake the Founding Titan.

In Season 3, Episode 8, Historia admitted to Eren she was willing to eat him not for the sake of humanity, but because she didn't want her father to hate her—a father Historia had no relationship with, who isolated her as a child, and then sent her off for Titan slaughter. Historia displayed a profound moral weakness with her willingness to sacrifice her friend and fellow soldier based on new, unverified information from a highly questionable source.

The ease with which Historia can be swayed from one opinion to another leaves her character with a lingering essence of immaturity. In another moment of emotional impulse, Historia decides to save Eren — not humanity.

Eren desperately echoes the same self-hating sentiments Historia feels about herself and is triggered into action to affirm his existence. This empathetic connection provokes Historia's first independent decision, but the fate of the entire world is potentially lost in the exchange. She acknowledges this, yelling out that the Titans can wipe out humanity, declaring she's "humanity's enemy" and "the worst girl who ever lived."

Historia is a highly sentimental character and can make a serious moment feel cringy. This happens when Ymir is taken down by a mob of Titans at Utgard. Historia runs toward the fray crying out that Ymir can't die because Historia hasn't yet told Ymir her real name (at this point being known as Krista), utilizing the intimacy between them as a device.

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It happens again when Historia frees Eren in the underground chapel in Season 3, crying out "when I see people...saying they're not needed...I wanna tell those people that's just not true!...I'll come to their rescue!" Historia is totally steeped in this moment of personal sentiment, and it ends up being pretty wince-worthy.

Historia is a trained Scout, so she's obviously a capable combatant — but audiences find it unbelievable that she could take out the gnarliest, biggest, ugliest Titan in Attack On Titan in one fell swoop in a plan that goes perfectly according to plan. Audiences can usually expect nothing to go according to plan in Attack on Titan. Except, apparently, this.

After slicing precisely the right chunk of Titan flesh that holds her father in midair, Historia also survives a fall of a few hundred meters, stands up unshaken, and announces herself the true Queen to the townsfolk — which they all quickly accept. The plot armor for Historia in this arc is a little too extreme for how little plot armor Attack On Titan tends to employ, and it cheats the audience out of a truly satisfying climactic moment for Historia.

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