Maybe. Maybe Jean and Mikasa have it right, never wanting to know. I'd rather protect them from it. I would have rather protected you too. Knowing about the world didn't do anyone any good.
On the other hand, everyone on the island deserved to know the truth. We were lied to. Brainwashed for 100 years. We weren't the last people alive at all.
[ What a disappointment, he thinks. It's probably better this conversation isn't out loud. Eren is still not quite sorry for the world, not when the other choice was the eradication of everyone on the island, the eradication of people Eren loves.
His black and white outlook is still going strong, unfortunately. He recognises that people don’t deserve to die but he still can't (won't?) change the future. He told Armin he tried and nothing he did changed it, which is a lie, but who's to say how much of that was always his own bias anyway. ]
I don’t know the answer to that. I don’t know if people can really find an end to war. Only people who live through war get to know, get to see if it was ever worth it. But war is just hell. Our whole world was just hell.
I wanted everyone to get to live long lives. Even if I never get to or can't be there to see it happen. I still want that for them.
But I don’t want to go back either. With all of us here, I don’t want any of us to go back.
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On the other hand, everyone on the island deserved to know the truth. We were lied to. Brainwashed for 100 years. We weren't the last people alive at all.
[ What a disappointment, he thinks. It's probably better this conversation isn't out loud. Eren is still not quite sorry for the world, not when the other choice was the eradication of everyone on the island, the eradication of people Eren loves.
His black and white outlook is still going strong, unfortunately. He recognises that people don’t deserve to die but he still can't (won't?) change the future. He told Armin he tried and nothing he did changed it, which is a lie, but who's to say how much of that was always his own bias anyway. ]
I don’t know the answer to that. I don’t know if people can really find an end to war. Only people who live through war get to know, get to see if it was ever worth it. But war is just hell. Our whole world was just hell.
I wanted everyone to get to live long lives. Even if I never get to or can't be there to see it happen. I still want that for them.
But I don’t want to go back either. With all of us here, I don’t want any of us to go back.