[ Eren does have reasons for breaking promises. Other people might not like or agree with those reasons, but Eren has them in his own mind. He won't just break a promise to break it. Probably.

Some things are still important, even in the tangle of Eren's violence and horror. The Scouts had been everything he wanted; he implied that once, early on, outside at the restaurant gazing at the stars with Levi. He said he got what he wanted, and he had. He'd been one of them.

He still is, Levi says. As much as Eren can cherish anything, he will cherish that.

His mouth twitches, thinking back — maybe experiencing it, tapping into that. He can live in a memory all at once. Just Eren things! ]

Sometimes.

[ It's not a lie, if you count attacked adults with sticks for talking shit as winning. ]

They were all scared, of titans, of the outside world.

[ They were right to be scared of both of those things, but that was never the point for Eren. ]

But what you were doing mattered. They wouldn't see that. I couldn't stand to hear their bullshit.