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Name: kou
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Name: Christa Renz/Historia Reiss, reincarnated as Chloe Weiss.
Canon and medium: Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan -- manga-flavored, now an equally traumatizing anime.
Age: 15, reincarnated as 21.
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: DO YOU HAVE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT OUR LORD AND SAVIORJESUS CHRISTA RENZ?
Any differences: None to speak of. She's absurdly petite, clocking in at 4'9" with all of 93lbs of pure concentrated sunshine and kitten whiskers and angel hiccups to her name. She doesn't bear the insane muscle mass that even teacup-sized soldiers need to sail around using 3D Manuever Gear, but she's still decently fit thanks to taking up horseback riding. She's being reincarnated as 21, but she looks eternally 16 and gets carded pretty much everywhere she goes, including the movies. Or, more embarrassingly, placed next to those 'You Must Be This Tall To Ride' rulers at theme parks.
Preincarnated History:
In the world of Shingeki no Kyojin, nothing is beautiful and everything hurts. From what we know, the year 740 is the year everything went to Shit™ for humanity. Giant humanoid creatures crawled out of precisely no where (presumably out of the fiery, brimstone spewing entrance to Hell) and decided humans looked mighty tasty. Naturally, they decided to gobble them up by the hundreds of thousands, driving mankind to the brink of extinction. Conventional methods of trying to defeat the Titans, as they were dubbed, tanked horribly, leaving humanity to seek out other methods of preservation. What ensued was the construction of three colossal walls -- Maria, Rose, and Sina. Each wall sported a sequence of teeny nub cities meant to concentrate the amount of Titans attracted to the number of humans gathered inside the wall and cut down on the cost of military defense around its perimeter. Everything went great for a while, about 100 years.
Then, in 840, an equally Colossal Titan showed up and kicked down the wall. Soon after, an Armored Titan showed up to further Jack Torrence the heck out of that gate. Titans flooded the district of Shiganshina, and in an instant, humanity lost a third of its territory. Wall Maria fell, leaving thousands of refugees to converge on Wall Rose. Things continued to roll right on downhill from there; Wall Rose couldn't support the influx, and as a result, those who sought refuge were sent back out to 'reclaim' Wall Maria from the Titans.
Predictably, this went terribly, and was just a ploy to cull the number of mouths to feed.
Fast forward five years to 845 in the district of Trost, where a group of plucky young teenagers known as the 104th Trainees Squad are graduating from military training in preparation to either fight the Titans (bad idea) or get as far away from them as possible (good idea). Here we meet Christa Renz, a girl who looks like she couldn't cut her way out of a wet paper bag, graduating 10th in her class, which is kind of a big deal. There are three options when you're fresh out of training: the Garrison, protecting the walls, the Military Police, guarding the king inside the walls of Sina, or the Scouting Legion/Survey Corps, where you toss yourself on a silver platter and go marching out to meet the titans head-on in the name of academic pursuit and how to beat the gross, fleshy stuffing out of them. Only the top 10 trainees are granted the ability to joint the Military Police, creating the conundrum of the best and brightest having the choice to never actually face the Titans. Anyway, the day before the cadets were supposed to make their decision, the Colossal Titan waltzed back in and with a punt worthy of the NFL, took down the gate to Trost. An exact repeat of the fall of Wall Maria.
Lots of horrific things go down in this skirmish, tons of people die, civilian and soldier alike, our ragey boy protagonist Eren Jaeger goes nuclear and reveals himself to be a Titanshifter capable of curbstomping like 20 Titans at a time, and after an extremely tense stand-off between said protagonist and the military, a plan goes into effect to retake Trost and prevent Wall Rose from being overrun. Using Eren's shiny new Titan form to seal off the wall with a boulder and picking off the remaining Titans with cannon fire, humanity achieved its first victory against its virtually immortal adversary.
Following this, the cadets, who had now seen the horror of the Titans up close and personal, had to make their choice. A grand total of 21, Christa among them, chose to go for the Survey Corps.
Christa's history up until that point is largely a mystery, and what we do know about her is ambiguous at best, and told from the perspective of other characters. Before the state of affairs ended up this way, Christa was, in fact, an entirely different person. She was born Historia Reiss, an illegitimate child of a noble house. Because she was born out of wedlock, her relatives entered a vicious dispute over her. There were many who argued that it would have been better for her to never have been born, and in light of this sentiment, she left her name and heritage behind. Assuming the name of Christa Renz, Historia escaped her family and enrolled in the military after the fall of Wall Maria.
Through Ymir, we learn that despite taking on a new life (which was arguably a shitty one that would end up in a literal dead end) she was never truly free of her shackles. During her time in basic training, she was constantly monitored by members of a religious cult who consider the three Walls holy. They relentlessly and aggressively protect the "sanctity" of the Walls, even going so far as to call repairs or sealing off the gates, which had thusfar proven weak against the Colossal and Armored Titans, acts of heresy. The reason Historia/Christa was monitored specifically was because her family is privvy to the secrets of the Walls because of her bloodline -- namely, the fact that they're filled with 15m Titans. No, we still don't know why, but Historia/Christa does, and if she felt like it, she could spill the beans at any time and blow that can of worms to kingdom come.
But she hasn't. Presumably it's because she tried to leave that life behind, and more immediately, the fact that currently in the manga, she's smack in the middle of this Titan-circus clown car situation that's exactly as complicated as it looks.
CHRISTA/HISTORIA AT THE SNK WIKIA
Reincarnated History:
Because nothing will ever out-trauma what this canon can cook up on its own, Christa, reincarnated Chloe, has lead a rather quiet and mundane life. She's the youngest of two girls born to an average suburbanite couple who later relocated to a modest ranch property on the outskirts of Locke. There she grew up going to small classes in a local elementary school and romping about on a few acres of land everyday. This meant that she ended up a little bit of a bumpkin, but it suited her just fine.
When she was nine, her mother, who had grown up in a rural area herself, expressed interest in adopting a few rescue horses from the local ASPCA. Not two months later, after some screenings to make sure their property was adequate, Chloe was introduced to a set of bay mares (Clover and Brook), and that's when her love of horses began. She devoted nearly all of her time not spent in school to them, from getting up at the crack of dawn to muck stalls to taking up all the grooming and feeding responsibilities. Eventually she landed herself a third for her hard work, a palomino filly named Mariposa, who quickly became her favorite. After a year or two, her family began volunteering to foster animals in need of extra care. She grew up learning about horses throughout her middle and high school years, weathering through the few spills and accidents with determination and love for the creatures who'd always taken a shining to her and never once turning back.
Now at 21, she's enrolled in a few courses at the community college (which is quite the commute for her, but she doesn't mind) while working on her certification to become an Equine Therapist. Her sister has since moved out, but Chloe has remained and taken it upon herself to maintain the upkeep of the property, which is now home to five horses, a pair of collared doves, two dogs, and some barn cats.
First Echo:
Obtained when Chloe was thirteen and on a slightly more advanced horse trail in the forest with her parents. Her foster horse was on the skittish side, but it had never done her wrong, and she begged for the chance to be able to take it out that day. While on a decline on the way back to their ranch, the party accidentally disturbed a thicket of wild birds, which spooked her horse. Though Chloe was proficient in riding, she had never had a horse spook under her before and lost composure, panicking herself. Unable to immediately control the horse, it opted for a flee response, running until it hit a shallow ravine with a creek at the bottom that ran alongside the Weiss property.
When it came to a screeching halt, it threw Chloe off, and though she was only in the air for a few short seconds, it triggered a memory Echo. She remembers the sensation of soaring through the air (using her 3DMG, unbeknownst to her), and when she glimpsed the lip of the ravine, it gave her the impression that she was suddenly being snatched up by something big, with teeth to match.
Chloe hit the creek at the bottom and only suffered a few bruises and a good winding, but she was stunned at the fact that she'd suddenly remembered the very real feeling of being eaten by something. Drool and all.
Preincarnation Personality:
First thing's first: Christa Renz is a girl who has given up on nearly everything having to do with herself. Color her personality in with this, and she ends up as someone deeply cut by her own facets, which may or may not be readily apparent, depending on whose eyes we're seeing her through. Earning the nickname of the 'Goddess' of the 104th, Christa is a person who will do absolutely anything to be seen as someone who is good. Or dependable. Or selfless. Her appearances don't number very many, initially, but when she does show up, it's to come to the aide of others. She's the girl who's sneaking food for the punished (who were punished for sneaking food, ironically SASHA), the one who's patting the backs of the sick, soothing the tempers of the scared, and riding into the heart of danger to rescue the abandoned. Even in the face of terrible, horrific things, and promises of death (ERWIN) she mysteriously stands tall, even when driven to tears. On the whole, her demeanor is outright saintly. Especially in a place that is so riddled with the dog-eat-dog mentality that facilitated girls like her entering the military in the first place.
To that end, she is extremely gentle and kind-hearted, a smidge naive, all wrapped up in a precious little ribbon of modesty. However, Christa has proven herself surprisingly precocious on numerous occasions when it's something she feels strongly about. Or something she wants others to think she feels strongly about. Normally relatively soft-spoken a bit meek, she will not hesitate to speak out on behalf of others if she feels that they could benefit from it. When push comes to shove about her ideas of how people ought to treat one another, she'll bark right back on par with the big dogs, including Ymir and Mikasa. However, she's naturally hesitant to legitimately bite, and backs down quickly when personally bitten.
This isn't necessarily because she's knowingly putting on an elaborate facade of any kind. When she expresses gratitude that someone is alive, it's real. When her face lights up with the realization that someone would like to be friends with her, it's also real. But she can't help but think the way she does because Christa has spent her short time alive convinced of the fact that it would have been better if she was never born. So her strike back on that mentality is to tailor her life around the notion of being seen as a virtuous person, no matter what. Or whatever it is she's convinced a virtuous person actually is. Christa will purposefully take the long, painful road out of a terrible situation and face down the hardships rather than ask for help herself or seek better alternatives, because from her perspective, that's what a strong, brave person would do.
It's most blatantly seen in a flashback to her trainee days, where she was hellbent on seeing Dazz, a fellow trainee, through dangerous, snowy terrain to bring him to safety after he fell unconscious. Accompanied by Ymir, Christa would have rather dragged a man twice her size all the way to safety by herself than ask for help. When doing the latter means that all three of them would make it to safety rather than just the one, her unwillingness to do so can be seen as a rather stunning sense of selfishness in the name of her own personal ideals.
Or rather, it can also be seen as a lack of self-awareness for what it is that she's doing. Because Christa gets so little exposition of her own, and virtually no internal monologues or views, we're left with the impressions other characters state for us. Namely, Ymir, who shares an unexplained kinship with Christa that allows her to know the girl better than the girl seems to know herself.
And the hard-hitter is her line to Christa when they're facing down death's door atop Castle Utgard. When the only two of their group with 3DMG who had taken refuge there are killed by the Titans swarming the walls, Christa angrily expresses her wish for a weapon of her own to go down fighting with her comrades. Ymir then challenges her with the fact that it's not that she wants to make the most of whatever time she has left, and in fact, that it's not even that she doesn't want to not die. It's just that if she's going to die, she wants her death to have meaning, and weight, and Christa is absolutely willing to get herself killed in a courageous way to spite the family who convinced her that her life was meaningless. It's every bit a smack in the face as Ymir intends: Christa was looking at the deaths of her superiors as a convenient means of seeking an 'honorable' death herself.
The most Christa can muster in the face of such an accusation is weak denials and bitten back tears, which points to a level of truth that even she may not be quite aware of. The one thing that seems to finally puncture her appearance is Ymir gaining enough of her trust and devotion for her to share her real name with her: Historia Reiss.
Her turning point has barely begun in the manga, but it's already readily apparent -- the one unequivocal truth to Christa is that she is absolutely loyal to Ymir. It's possibly the brightest and most honest aspect of her to date, the fact that despite Ymir's awful personality, blatant selfishness, possible turncoating, and the revelation that she's a Titanshifter, Christa would do anything for her. Up to and including telling her to break a tower she was currently standing on if it meant winning a Titan dogpile fight, trying to keep Ymir out of trouble with Hange for keeping her Titanshifting a secret, going after the Armored Titan in pursuit of her after Ymir and Eren are kidnapped by it, not holding it against her when Ymir actually swallows her in Titan form, threatening Reiner and Bertholdt even knowing what they are for said kidnapping, and standing up to Mikasa in full on fury mode when she comes knocking for Eren.
It's yet to be seen whether or not this will effect how she acts in situations that are slightly less chaotic, but her shift from someone entirely self-characterized by a single ideal to someone with a legitimate stake in what's happening around her is very real.
Any differences:
For the most part, Chloe differs from Christa in one major way: she won't be desperate for others to see her as a good person. Because she's grown up in a normal home with completely normal parents, the traumatic circumstances of her life and the way it shaped her in canon will be completely null and void. So instead of spinning her personality around what she views as virtuous, and going to any length to achieve it, she will actually just be a genuinely nice person with a decent set of morals indicative of a good upbringing.
Because she's being reincarnated as older, she will also be a little wiser when it comes to the people and world around her, and much more mature. She still won't be the loudest in a group, but she certainly won't be the meekest, either. Well-rounded would be a better fit to describe her reincarnation as.
Her self-esteem also has a better footing in this life than the last, and as such she'll be much more likely to think things through rather than rushing into situations blindly just to prove that she can be depended on to. She'd much rather build her relationships up with people than just be blindly viewed as 'saintly' like she was in her preincarnation, which was a good enough crutch to manufacture the source of her bravery and usefulness back then. Here, that will be almost entirely absentuntil she starts to Echo them back oops.
Abilities:
As previously mentioned, she's undergone all the military training expected of a soldier in her world. The lynch pin of this training is the 3D Maneuver Gear, which requires proficiency in physical strength, spatial awareness, and mental fortitude. The 3DMG is the most important facet of facing down the Titans, but the training also included swordplay and hand-to-hand combat. She graduated in the top ten of her class (though it's implied that she was more likely to have placed lower) -- Ymir gave up her spot in the top ten for Christa.
Name: kou
Are you over 15? yep! (03‧87)
Contact: opacitiesATgmailDOTcom | pm
IC Information:
Name: Christa Renz/Historia Reiss, reincarnated as Chloe Weiss.
Canon and medium: Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan -- manga-flavored, now an equally traumatizing anime.
Age: 15, reincarnated as 21.
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: DO YOU HAVE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT OUR LORD AND SAVIOR
Any differences: None to speak of. She's absurdly petite, clocking in at 4'9" with all of 93lbs of pure concentrated sunshine and kitten whiskers and angel hiccups to her name. She doesn't bear the insane muscle mass that even teacup-sized soldiers need to sail around using 3D Manuever Gear, but she's still decently fit thanks to taking up horseback riding. She's being reincarnated as 21, but she looks eternally 16 and gets carded pretty much everywhere she goes, including the movies. Or, more embarrassingly, placed next to those 'You Must Be This Tall To Ride' rulers at theme parks.
Preincarnated History:
In the world of Shingeki no Kyojin, nothing is beautiful and everything hurts. From what we know, the year 740 is the year everything went to Shit™ for humanity. Giant humanoid creatures crawled out of precisely no where (presumably out of the fiery, brimstone spewing entrance to Hell) and decided humans looked mighty tasty. Naturally, they decided to gobble them up by the hundreds of thousands, driving mankind to the brink of extinction. Conventional methods of trying to defeat the Titans, as they were dubbed, tanked horribly, leaving humanity to seek out other methods of preservation. What ensued was the construction of three colossal walls -- Maria, Rose, and Sina. Each wall sported a sequence of teeny nub cities meant to concentrate the amount of Titans attracted to the number of humans gathered inside the wall and cut down on the cost of military defense around its perimeter. Everything went great for a while, about 100 years.
Then, in 840, an equally Colossal Titan showed up and kicked down the wall. Soon after, an Armored Titan showed up to further Jack Torrence the heck out of that gate. Titans flooded the district of Shiganshina, and in an instant, humanity lost a third of its territory. Wall Maria fell, leaving thousands of refugees to converge on Wall Rose. Things continued to roll right on downhill from there; Wall Rose couldn't support the influx, and as a result, those who sought refuge were sent back out to 'reclaim' Wall Maria from the Titans.
Predictably, this went terribly, and was just a ploy to cull the number of mouths to feed.
Fast forward five years to 845 in the district of Trost, where a group of plucky young teenagers known as the 104th Trainees Squad are graduating from military training in preparation to either fight the Titans (bad idea) or get as far away from them as possible (good idea). Here we meet Christa Renz, a girl who looks like she couldn't cut her way out of a wet paper bag, graduating 10th in her class, which is kind of a big deal. There are three options when you're fresh out of training: the Garrison, protecting the walls, the Military Police, guarding the king inside the walls of Sina, or the Scouting Legion/Survey Corps, where you toss yourself on a silver platter and go marching out to meet the titans head-on in the name of academic pursuit and how to beat the gross, fleshy stuffing out of them. Only the top 10 trainees are granted the ability to joint the Military Police, creating the conundrum of the best and brightest having the choice to never actually face the Titans. Anyway, the day before the cadets were supposed to make their decision, the Colossal Titan waltzed back in and with a punt worthy of the NFL, took down the gate to Trost. An exact repeat of the fall of Wall Maria.
Lots of horrific things go down in this skirmish, tons of people die, civilian and soldier alike, our ragey boy protagonist Eren Jaeger goes nuclear and reveals himself to be a Titanshifter capable of curbstomping like 20 Titans at a time, and after an extremely tense stand-off between said protagonist and the military, a plan goes into effect to retake Trost and prevent Wall Rose from being overrun. Using Eren's shiny new Titan form to seal off the wall with a boulder and picking off the remaining Titans with cannon fire, humanity achieved its first victory against its virtually immortal adversary.
Following this, the cadets, who had now seen the horror of the Titans up close and personal, had to make their choice. A grand total of 21, Christa among them, chose to go for the Survey Corps.
Christa's history up until that point is largely a mystery, and what we do know about her is ambiguous at best, and told from the perspective of other characters. Before the state of affairs ended up this way, Christa was, in fact, an entirely different person. She was born Historia Reiss, an illegitimate child of a noble house. Because she was born out of wedlock, her relatives entered a vicious dispute over her. There were many who argued that it would have been better for her to never have been born, and in light of this sentiment, she left her name and heritage behind. Assuming the name of Christa Renz, Historia escaped her family and enrolled in the military after the fall of Wall Maria.
Through Ymir, we learn that despite taking on a new life (which was arguably a shitty one that would end up in a literal dead end) she was never truly free of her shackles. During her time in basic training, she was constantly monitored by members of a religious cult who consider the three Walls holy. They relentlessly and aggressively protect the "sanctity" of the Walls, even going so far as to call repairs or sealing off the gates, which had thusfar proven weak against the Colossal and Armored Titans, acts of heresy. The reason Historia/Christa was monitored specifically was because her family is privvy to the secrets of the Walls because of her bloodline -- namely, the fact that they're filled with 15m Titans. No, we still don't know why, but Historia/Christa does, and if she felt like it, she could spill the beans at any time and blow that can of worms to kingdom come.
But she hasn't. Presumably it's because she tried to leave that life behind, and more immediately, the fact that currently in the manga, she's smack in the middle of this Titan-circus clown car situation that's exactly as complicated as it looks.
CHRISTA/HISTORIA AT THE SNK WIKIA
Reincarnated History:
Because nothing will ever out-trauma what this canon can cook up on its own, Christa, reincarnated Chloe, has lead a rather quiet and mundane life. She's the youngest of two girls born to an average suburbanite couple who later relocated to a modest ranch property on the outskirts of Locke. There she grew up going to small classes in a local elementary school and romping about on a few acres of land everyday. This meant that she ended up a little bit of a bumpkin, but it suited her just fine.
When she was nine, her mother, who had grown up in a rural area herself, expressed interest in adopting a few rescue horses from the local ASPCA. Not two months later, after some screenings to make sure their property was adequate, Chloe was introduced to a set of bay mares (Clover and Brook), and that's when her love of horses began. She devoted nearly all of her time not spent in school to them, from getting up at the crack of dawn to muck stalls to taking up all the grooming and feeding responsibilities. Eventually she landed herself a third for her hard work, a palomino filly named Mariposa, who quickly became her favorite. After a year or two, her family began volunteering to foster animals in need of extra care. She grew up learning about horses throughout her middle and high school years, weathering through the few spills and accidents with determination and love for the creatures who'd always taken a shining to her and never once turning back.
Now at 21, she's enrolled in a few courses at the community college (which is quite the commute for her, but she doesn't mind) while working on her certification to become an Equine Therapist. Her sister has since moved out, but Chloe has remained and taken it upon herself to maintain the upkeep of the property, which is now home to five horses, a pair of collared doves, two dogs, and some barn cats.
First Echo:
Obtained when Chloe was thirteen and on a slightly more advanced horse trail in the forest with her parents. Her foster horse was on the skittish side, but it had never done her wrong, and she begged for the chance to be able to take it out that day. While on a decline on the way back to their ranch, the party accidentally disturbed a thicket of wild birds, which spooked her horse. Though Chloe was proficient in riding, she had never had a horse spook under her before and lost composure, panicking herself. Unable to immediately control the horse, it opted for a flee response, running until it hit a shallow ravine with a creek at the bottom that ran alongside the Weiss property.
When it came to a screeching halt, it threw Chloe off, and though she was only in the air for a few short seconds, it triggered a memory Echo. She remembers the sensation of soaring through the air (using her 3DMG, unbeknownst to her), and when she glimpsed the lip of the ravine, it gave her the impression that she was suddenly being snatched up by something big, with teeth to match.
Chloe hit the creek at the bottom and only suffered a few bruises and a good winding, but she was stunned at the fact that she'd suddenly remembered the very real feeling of being eaten by something. Drool and all.
Preincarnation Personality:
First thing's first: Christa Renz is a girl who has given up on nearly everything having to do with herself. Color her personality in with this, and she ends up as someone deeply cut by her own facets, which may or may not be readily apparent, depending on whose eyes we're seeing her through. Earning the nickname of the 'Goddess' of the 104th, Christa is a person who will do absolutely anything to be seen as someone who is good. Or dependable. Or selfless. Her appearances don't number very many, initially, but when she does show up, it's to come to the aide of others. She's the girl who's sneaking food for the punished (who were punished for sneaking food, ironically SASHA), the one who's patting the backs of the sick, soothing the tempers of the scared, and riding into the heart of danger to rescue the abandoned. Even in the face of terrible, horrific things, and promises of death (ERWIN) she mysteriously stands tall, even when driven to tears. On the whole, her demeanor is outright saintly. Especially in a place that is so riddled with the dog-eat-dog mentality that facilitated girls like her entering the military in the first place.
To that end, she is extremely gentle and kind-hearted, a smidge naive, all wrapped up in a precious little ribbon of modesty. However, Christa has proven herself surprisingly precocious on numerous occasions when it's something she feels strongly about. Or something she wants others to think she feels strongly about. Normally relatively soft-spoken a bit meek, she will not hesitate to speak out on behalf of others if she feels that they could benefit from it. When push comes to shove about her ideas of how people ought to treat one another, she'll bark right back on par with the big dogs, including Ymir and Mikasa. However, she's naturally hesitant to legitimately bite, and backs down quickly when personally bitten.
This isn't necessarily because she's knowingly putting on an elaborate facade of any kind. When she expresses gratitude that someone is alive, it's real. When her face lights up with the realization that someone would like to be friends with her, it's also real. But she can't help but think the way she does because Christa has spent her short time alive convinced of the fact that it would have been better if she was never born. So her strike back on that mentality is to tailor her life around the notion of being seen as a virtuous person, no matter what. Or whatever it is she's convinced a virtuous person actually is. Christa will purposefully take the long, painful road out of a terrible situation and face down the hardships rather than ask for help herself or seek better alternatives, because from her perspective, that's what a strong, brave person would do.
It's most blatantly seen in a flashback to her trainee days, where she was hellbent on seeing Dazz, a fellow trainee, through dangerous, snowy terrain to bring him to safety after he fell unconscious. Accompanied by Ymir, Christa would have rather dragged a man twice her size all the way to safety by herself than ask for help. When doing the latter means that all three of them would make it to safety rather than just the one, her unwillingness to do so can be seen as a rather stunning sense of selfishness in the name of her own personal ideals.
Or rather, it can also be seen as a lack of self-awareness for what it is that she's doing. Because Christa gets so little exposition of her own, and virtually no internal monologues or views, we're left with the impressions other characters state for us. Namely, Ymir, who shares an unexplained kinship with Christa that allows her to know the girl better than the girl seems to know herself.
And the hard-hitter is her line to Christa when they're facing down death's door atop Castle Utgard. When the only two of their group with 3DMG who had taken refuge there are killed by the Titans swarming the walls, Christa angrily expresses her wish for a weapon of her own to go down fighting with her comrades. Ymir then challenges her with the fact that it's not that she wants to make the most of whatever time she has left, and in fact, that it's not even that she doesn't want to not die. It's just that if she's going to die, she wants her death to have meaning, and weight, and Christa is absolutely willing to get herself killed in a courageous way to spite the family who convinced her that her life was meaningless. It's every bit a smack in the face as Ymir intends: Christa was looking at the deaths of her superiors as a convenient means of seeking an 'honorable' death herself.
The most Christa can muster in the face of such an accusation is weak denials and bitten back tears, which points to a level of truth that even she may not be quite aware of. The one thing that seems to finally puncture her appearance is Ymir gaining enough of her trust and devotion for her to share her real name with her: Historia Reiss.
Her turning point has barely begun in the manga, but it's already readily apparent -- the one unequivocal truth to Christa is that she is absolutely loyal to Ymir. It's possibly the brightest and most honest aspect of her to date, the fact that despite Ymir's awful personality, blatant selfishness, possible turncoating, and the revelation that she's a Titanshifter, Christa would do anything for her. Up to and including telling her to break a tower she was currently standing on if it meant winning a Titan dogpile fight, trying to keep Ymir out of trouble with Hange for keeping her Titanshifting a secret, going after the Armored Titan in pursuit of her after Ymir and Eren are kidnapped by it, not holding it against her when Ymir actually swallows her in Titan form, threatening Reiner and Bertholdt even knowing what they are for said kidnapping, and standing up to Mikasa in full on fury mode when she comes knocking for Eren.
It's yet to be seen whether or not this will effect how she acts in situations that are slightly less chaotic, but her shift from someone entirely self-characterized by a single ideal to someone with a legitimate stake in what's happening around her is very real.
Any differences:
For the most part, Chloe differs from Christa in one major way: she won't be desperate for others to see her as a good person. Because she's grown up in a normal home with completely normal parents, the traumatic circumstances of her life and the way it shaped her in canon will be completely null and void. So instead of spinning her personality around what she views as virtuous, and going to any length to achieve it, she will actually just be a genuinely nice person with a decent set of morals indicative of a good upbringing.
Because she's being reincarnated as older, she will also be a little wiser when it comes to the people and world around her, and much more mature. She still won't be the loudest in a group, but she certainly won't be the meekest, either. Well-rounded would be a better fit to describe her reincarnation as.
Her self-esteem also has a better footing in this life than the last, and as such she'll be much more likely to think things through rather than rushing into situations blindly just to prove that she can be depended on to. She'd much rather build her relationships up with people than just be blindly viewed as 'saintly' like she was in her preincarnation, which was a good enough crutch to manufacture the source of her bravery and usefulness back then. Here, that will be almost entirely absent
Abilities:
As previously mentioned, she's undergone all the military training expected of a soldier in her world. The lynch pin of this training is the 3D Maneuver Gear, which requires proficiency in physical strength, spatial awareness, and mental fortitude. The 3DMG is the most important facet of facing down the Titans, but the training also included swordplay and hand-to-hand combat. She graduated in the top ten of her class (though it's implied that she was more likely to have placed lower) -- Ymir gave up her spot in the top ten for Christa.