[ Eren has dragged Mikasa into all sorts of trouble, hasn't he? She joined the military to keep him safe. He doesn't like admitting how often he needed that. Would he be alive without her? Even he isn't sure, though he knows now that he absolutely could not die until he did what he set out to do.
Ironic that she has kept him alive at great cost, considering how this all ends in some other world, in Eren's terrible future. ]
They still hated the Scouts after Wall Maria. We could never do enough for them. Nothing was ever good enough because they just wanted their blind little lives in the walls.
[ His hands tighten a little on the cloak he's holding. He shuts his mouth before he lets it run away further than that. Levi knows Eren's views on the people in the walls. He used to shout about saving humanity, but it was never really about that. It was always a selfish desire, revenge for his mother, a need to never lose anyone like that ever again.
The other people on the island, sure, he'll save (many of) them. He's vaguely aware that he will crush them, too, though. When the walls come down, there isn't time to clear out. Marley and their own military didn't give them time, and the price is the same as it always is in Eren's war: innocent lives that he barely registers. ]
[ ...she's not the only one who has done that, either. ]
[ Eren's life has been paid for with many others. And to think that he'll be the one demanding an even steeper price. Even if it lands them in a world without titans... ]
[ Well, perhaps it makes sense he apparently couldn't bear to see it himself. It's not fair to Mikasa, to Armin, to Jean or Reiner or any of them. But it is what it is. ]
The part where we'd bring them pieces of their loved ones back probably didn't help.
[ It was the King's design, ultimately, an attempt to keep people complacent while allowing the bare minimum of freedom. It was convenient for Survey Corps to exist, so they could poke at them and say, see what happens when you venture out? A cautionary tale was the purpose always intended for them, until Erwin turned it on its head. No wonder the aristocracy wanted him dead before he even got the Commander's spot. ]
[ But even if it frustrates him that others couldn't see what they in the Corps did, he can't fault the common people for focusing on their own every day problems. Most of them just wanted simple, peaceful lives. Both the titans and the truth seekers were a danger to that. ]
[ He exhales a little louder, almost like a soft snort. There's something almost like a shadow of a smile on his face as he looks Eren over; despite the monster, the stubborn, fierce boy he'd met back then still has his fondness. ]
Letting you? I don't think we could have kept you away if we tried.
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Ironic that she has kept him alive at great cost, considering how this all ends in some other world, in Eren's terrible future. ]
They still hated the Scouts after Wall Maria. We could never do enough for them. Nothing was ever good enough because they just wanted their blind little lives in the walls.
[ His hands tighten a little on the cloak he's holding. He shuts his mouth before he lets it run away further than that. Levi knows Eren's views on the people in the walls. He used to shout about saving humanity, but it was never really about that. It was always a selfish desire, revenge for his mother, a need to never lose anyone like that ever again.
The other people on the island, sure, he'll save (many of) them. He's vaguely aware that he will crush them, too, though. When the walls come down, there isn't time to clear out. Marley and their own military didn't give them time, and the price is the same as it always is in Eren's war: innocent lives that he barely registers. ]
Thank you. For letting me be one of you.
[ Then. Now. Whenever. ]
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[ Eren's life has been paid for with many others. And to think that he'll be the one demanding an even steeper price. Even if it lands them in a world without titans... ]
[ Well, perhaps it makes sense he apparently couldn't bear to see it himself. It's not fair to Mikasa, to Armin, to Jean or Reiner or any of them. But it is what it is. ]
The part where we'd bring them pieces of their loved ones back probably didn't help.
[ It was the King's design, ultimately, an attempt to keep people complacent while allowing the bare minimum of freedom. It was convenient for Survey Corps to exist, so they could poke at them and say, see what happens when you venture out? A cautionary tale was the purpose always intended for them, until Erwin turned it on its head. No wonder the aristocracy wanted him dead before he even got the Commander's spot. ]
[ But even if it frustrates him that others couldn't see what they in the Corps did, he can't fault the common people for focusing on their own every day problems. Most of them just wanted simple, peaceful lives. Both the titans and the truth seekers were a danger to that. ]
[ He exhales a little louder, almost like a soft snort. There's something almost like a shadow of a smile on his face as he looks Eren over; despite the monster, the stubborn, fierce boy he'd met back then still has his fondness. ]
Letting you? I don't think we could have kept you away if we tried.
[ You're welcome. ]