[ Later, Eren won't be able to pinpoint what exact thing it was that made him break. But here in the moment, it's just this:
Eren.
(He hears it in another tone, another place. Eren. Captain. The cold metal of the airship. A boot in his face.)
He hears it in this room, a conversation he didn't foresee, with a tone he thinks he might be imagining.
But he doesn't answer directly. He can't find the words yet.
He looks up again, though, eyebrows pulled together, troubled green eyes searching for an answer he's afraid to hear. ]
Captain. What are we? You and me?
[ But surely he knows this answer. There is no you and me here. Eren still doesn't say Levi's name; he has never said it to the man's face, and has never said it without a title attached.
He just basically admitted he would defect, but this exact moment, they are still what they've always been: a superior officer and a brat that doesn't follow orders. A man and a monster.
They have never just been Levi and Eren, no matter what Eren might have dreamed before the world expanded and ruined him. ]
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[ Later, Eren won't be able to pinpoint what exact thing it was that made him break. But here in the moment, it's just this:
Eren.
(He hears it in another tone, another place. Eren. Captain. The cold metal of the airship. A boot in his face.)
He hears it in this room, a conversation he didn't foresee, with a tone he thinks he might be imagining.
But he doesn't answer directly. He can't find the words yet.
He looks up again, though, eyebrows pulled together, troubled green eyes searching for an answer he's afraid to hear. ]
Captain. What are we? You and me?
[ But surely he knows this answer. There is no you and me here. Eren still doesn't say Levi's name; he has never said it to the man's face, and has never said it without a title attached.
He just basically admitted he would defect, but this exact moment, they are still what they've always been: a superior officer and a brat that doesn't follow orders. A man and a monster.
They have never just been Levi and Eren, no matter what Eren might have dreamed before the world expanded and ruined him. ]