Artur Blouse

A striped hat and a fur vest over a plain white shirt give Artur the unmistakable look of a woodsman. His build is big without running to fat, brown eyes sit beneath shaggy brown hair, and a thin goatee edges his jaw. A loose tie, white trousers, and tall black boots complete the outfit, with a quiver of arrows slung across his back and a small supply pouch at his right hip. By the year 854 he has grown thinner, the goatee and mustache lighter than before.

Responsibility anchors everything Artur does. He runs a disciplined household, wrestling the winter meat store out of a snacking Sasha's hands, and he weighs his clan's traditions against the needs of strangers. Hunting is the life he loves, yet he would trade it for raising horses or selling crops if that fed more people, and he lets refugees from Wall Maria hunt his territory even though it costs his own family game. That generosity only widens with age: he and his wife Lisa open their home to orphans and speak of them as family. His deepest conviction shows when he learns who shot his daughter. Blaming himself for sending Sasha out into the world's larger "forest," he spares the girl responsible so that the hatred which killed Sasha might end in some small way. Like his daughter, he speaks in Dauper's mountain dialect, which Gabi mistakes for a southern Marleyan accent.

Artur first appears scolding Sasha for eating into the winter stockpile, explaining that Wall Maria's fall has crowded Wall Rose with refugees and thinned Dauper's game. He admits he is considering handing the forest over for farmland and moving the clan into horse breeding; when Sasha protests that newcomers should not upend their way of life, he replies that caring for people matters more than living apart. Furious, she enlists in the military. Three years on, he finds his village ravaged by Titans and rides up just after Sasha has rescued a girl named Kaya. He supplies the pair a horse, marvels that the rescuer is his own child, and tells Sasha she has become someone splendid, words that finally let her make peace with her home.

In 854 the family visits Sasha's grave, where the Marleyan prisoner Niccolo introduces himself as the cook whose meals Sasha devoured and offers to feed them someday. Soon after, Kaya brings home two children found in the woods, and Artur welcomes "Ben and Mia" into the Blouse stables. The truth detonates at Niccolo's restaurant: the cook reveals that Mia is Gabi Braun, the one who shot Sasha, and forces a knife on Artur, vowing to execute her himself if the father refuses. Artur takes the blade and instead insists that adults must shoulder the hatred and the sins of earlier generations, then moments later restrains a vengeful Kaya alongside his wife to keep Gabi alive. He is present when Niccolo warns that Zeke's spinal fluid has likely tainted the restaurant's wine, and he frets over Ben, who may have drunk it.

Yeagerists storm the restaurant and take the Blouses captive, holding them with the Survey Corps officers at Shiganshina headquarters, where Artur passes the time brewing tea with Niccolo. When Marley launches its surprise attack, Onyankopon frees the prisoners and Niccolo escorts the family to a house in a quieter part of the district. A Pure Titan flushes them from their refuge; Niccolo pulls Artur out of a Titan's jaws, and Gabi arrives in time to save Kaya. Artur urges Gabi to break away and rescue Falco at her first chance, and later brings Armin and Mikasa to her at the military headquarters. Three years after the Rumbling, he is seen walking past a Yeagerist ceremony with his family and Niccolo.