I. Hanji treats her subjects humanely, and her attempts in terms of experimentation were solely intended for the purpose of conducting research civilly and respectfully. That is to say: Hanji got carried away sometimes. Optimally, she wanted to reduce as much pain and discomfort as possible when, say, collecting skin samples or timing the regenerative process in relation to how many limbs were cut off, how long it took to grow back, etc. … She broke down several times just trying to draw blood through a syringe. She apologized profusely, even when idle, and turned distraught at the barest hints of a negative reaction. Oppositely, she was thoroughly delighted whenever one of her subjects was particularly active and involved in the experiments themselves. She claimed that she wanted to view the nature of the Titans “from a different perspective” — which she did, conducted in her own unorthodox fashion, albeit with slow ( but deeply informative ) results.
“Sawney” and “Beane” were her first two subjects ( 4m and 7m class Titans, respectively ), captured on the 54th Expedition to reclaim Wall Maria. After the discovery of Ilse’s notebook, the Scouting Legion was granted permission to obtain subjects — a process made possible by the special Target Restraining Cannons, modeled after Hanji’s design. Thirty individual experiments were conducted on them over the course of two months before they were put down, following an incident that occurred with the injury of a soldier under Hanji’s supervision …
When the infamous Rogue Titan, a 15m class “Deviant” Titan, was finally captured after the efforts at the Reclamation of Trost District, 116 experiments were conducted on “Jäger” within the first week.
II. Hanji definitely has a tendency to ramble. She rambles on incessantly about her research and her findings, while her work space is usually left in shambles because of her constant shuffling through papers. Jäger’s “file” ( if it can even be called that, since it’s more or less just a lopsided stack of paper sprawled out across Hanji’s desk ) contains even the most minute, irrelevant details. It wouldn’t be a long stretch of the imagination to even say that she cataloged every blink, every breath, every strand of hair that was there to be observed. While she worked, Hanji talked to Jäger in the manner of idle bantering: “How’re you today ? How are you feeling ? Are you uncomfortable ? I’m not harming you, am I ? What do you think of this, or that, or this or this or that—” Jäger wouldn’t be able to answer even if he conceivably could, for she talked at such a pace that it was impossible even for her assistants to scribble down every word in a timely manner. In fact, Jäger refrains from participating in the experiments, because they would only drag on longer if he did …
He’d only made that mistake once, and that was enough. He must’ve made a sort of inquisitive noise about Hanji’s spectacles ( goggles, more specifically: he hadn’t seen any such headwear since his time with The Doctor ) — Hanji then took the next three hours explaining all the materials, sciences, productions, and mathematics composed in making them, even going so far as to disassemble her own pair and show each strap and lens separately. The Doctor explained things in layman’s terms, easy to understand and absorb … Hanji, er … not that he didn’t appreciate her efforts, but alas … Even some of the other soldiers nearby were lost within five minutes.
III. Hanji makes a point to not overexert herself. However, she has yet to grasp her own limit, but moreso her own mental endurance over physical means … Once she starts, she cannot stop, not until the work is complete — she will push further and further until, by some intervention or another, she is reminded of the needs of her comrades, or those under her supervision. Following the Sawney and Beane incident, she approached her research more delicately, in terms of safety before science. She engages Jäger personally on almost every level, foregoing the need for any of her assistants to risk harm unless it were necessary, say, by issuing or removing restraints. Moblit is perhaps the only person out of the Special Operations Squad, Captain Levi, Commander Erwin, Squad Leader Hanji, and a few other of the superior officers, that could certainly say he’d gotten close enough to touch Jäger ( though there have been occasions where a soldier would try and defend himself if he thought they were in danger, understandably so ). On some level, Hanji is aware that, ultimately, she would sacrifice anything if it were in her power to do so, in the pursuit of knowledge. She would give her own life for such a cause … and perhaps the lives of her comrades as well … That is what she hopes to avoid in the long-term, if anything.
This, of course, leads to a few occasions where she has fallen asleep, mid-ramble, in Jäger’s pen. It is a very rare thing, though her long hours of experiments have run their toll on her exertions, inevitably. She usually has the mind to recognize her exhaustion and collect herself before she goes to the barracks — but, ah … She does not make it, some nights. She’s fallen asleep hunched over a sample, draped over Jäger’s arm, once dozed off while lying on his back, and even slouched over her work-bench unceremoniously, scattering papers everywhere. Not that Jäger very much minded it, for he was well off into his own restless slumber by the time Hanji was eventually roused and taken back to her quarters. He does, however, dislike one aspect of her impromptu naps … She drools, sometimes, and snores, though quietly. He’d never known a human to do either of those things, and the first time it definitely unnerved him. He’d surely thought that she was dying, or something of the like.
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