Uri Reiss

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Uri Reiss (ウーリ・レイス Ūri Reisu?) was the younger brother of Rod Reiss and the paternal uncle of Frieda Reiss and Historia Reiss. He was the true king of the Walls for some time until the year 842 and was Kenny Ackermann's best friend. He inherited the Founding Titan from his father, and passed it along with the crown to his niece, Frieda Reiss. Uri was a frail man who usually wore a short white cape and brown robe. He had chin-length gray hair, weary light gray-blue eyes, and a calm, wise beyond his years type of expression. After inheriting the Founding Titan, Uri's eyes would tend to change between their normal color to bright purple which meant he was bound by the will of the First King. Like most of the Reiss family, he was also rather short. Despite his upbringing and his responsibilities, he disagreed with his father's policy to keep humanity in bondage to the Titans, believing that their family should use their power to eliminate the Titans and return the world to mankind. He was brave enough, and held his ideals strongly enough, to volunteer to be the one to inherit the Founding Titan from his father, despite the risk of becoming possessed by his ancestor's ideology. He refused to hold a grudge against Kenny, despite the latter's rudeness and repeated attempts to attack him; believing that because of the Reiss family, the Ackermann's hate was justified. He even went so far as to bow down to Kenny and formally apologize. He was also a very calm man. He did not show any signal of pain when Kenny hurt him with a knife and he did not hesitate when Kenny aimed him with a pistol. Even though he could not rid the world of Titans as he originally wanted, he truly cared about everyone. He wanted to make a paradise for the remaining members of humanity, believing not far in the future that their world would fall.