Ackerman
The Ackerman clan (アッカーマン一族 Akkāman ichizoku?),also known as Ackerman family (アッカーマン家 Akkāman-ke?),is an Eldian family living within the Walls. Traditionally, they were a bloodline of warriors that protected Eldia's king,but were persecuted to the brink of extinction after refusing to follow Karl Fritz's ideology.Only two known members are left.
The Ackermans lived in Eldia prior to the erection of the Walls.They were the accidental result of the Eldian Empire's experiments with the Subjects of Ymir and Titan science.They were designed to protect Eldia's king,and acted as the monarchy's right hand, entrusted with the survival of their people.After the Eldian Empire collapsed during the Great Titan War a century ago, the family moved inside the Walls that King Fritz created for the Eldians to live in.
When the King erased the memories of the people inside using the power of the Founding Titan, the Ackermans were among those immune to it; the others included the Oriental clan and those who would later become the noble families inside the Walls.However, along with the Asian clan, they rejected the King's idea of peace,and turned their backs on the monarchy.Fearing his inability to control them,the King persecuted them, bringing both races to the brink of extinction. In the end, the head of the Ackerman clan offered his own life to ensure the survival of the bloodline and was executed. The rest of the generation avoided telling their children about the world before the Walls in order to protect them from the monarchy's purge.As a result, the following generations grew up without that knowledge.
Nevertheless, not even this stopped the oppression on them: Several generations later, the Ackermans were still being pursued and some of them sought refuge in the Underground City.Others fled to the mountains at the edge of the Wall,but someone got in the way of their business which made them stay poor.The purge only truly stopped after Uri Reiss, the king at the time, met Kenny Ackerman when the latter tried to kill him during an assassination attempt. The former apologized for the actions of prior monarchs against the latter's family, stopped the persecution, and accepted Kenny as his right-hand man