Pretty much. I think a few are still stumbling around, but most of them are dead now.
[ Marley could make more, too, but they have bigger things to worry about. Most of those things are Eren. ]
I don't think it was ever a siege. They were only there to get the Founder. I don't think they even knew we had the Attack Titan.
[ He's almost certain they didn't know; he's not sure when the last time Marley knew the whereabouts of the Attack Titan even was. ]
When they came to kill us, it would have been with ships and flying machines and guns.
[ He knows. He saw those things, tore those things to pieces, utilised them to his own ends. The Marley volunteers had taught the islanders to build their own such things, but he doesn't need to tell Frieda about all of that. ]
Do you know what it's like to be shot? Of course you don't. But I do. Anyway, people who die quickly in agony still get the agony part.
[ He knows that better than anyone could ever know. He can never push away the memory of all of those people crushed under the weight of countless colossal titans. ]
I don't give a shit what people 2,000 years ago did. I'm not paying for their crimes any more.
[ In a twisted way, that's not true. He's the last one to pay for the crimes of their ancestors, the last one to commit untold atrocity. Death isn't really justice, but it's the only answer. He has to die to keep the people he loves safe. If he doesn't die, the others from the island can never be trusted. He will die half a martyr and half a villain, younger than he is here and now, the future/past he has orchestrated. Maybe after that, no one else will die for the sins of Eldia. He can't stand this crap.
He wants them all to be free, but he's aware that Frieda can never understand that.
He wonders if she would get along with Zeke. Probably; he also thinks all Eldians should die. Eren can't abide it, not then, not now, not in his destructive future. He can never accept the oppression of people in the present for the crimes of the past.
Sure, he will punish the world for things many of them didn't do. He's aware of his own hypocrisy. Doesn't matter.
He looks down at her again, that self-righteous fury plain on his face. ]
You weren't always like this. Shame you can't remember what you were like before.
[ It's almost a nonsense thing to say, but he's not just spewing garbage. He knows. He has her memories as much as he has anyone's, though the memories of those that held the Founder before him are a lot more muddled and hazy. But Eren has seen basically all of time at once; that's what cracked him open and turned him into the thing he is now, whether or not he wants to admit or recognise it. ]
If you wanna die so bad, that's fine with me. But other people want to live.
[ Not that it matters what people want, in the end. ]
I've had enough of this.
[ He remembers enough of this place and how it works. He really doesn't want Frieda to get too familiar, just in case. (Eren knows he shouldn't get too familiar either.)
But it's enough that if he thinks hard enough about it, he can dropkick them right out of here and back to the real world.
It's only been the blink of an eye, two people who look eerily alike staring at each other, hands clasped. Eren still looks angry, but that might just be his face. ]
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[ Marley could make more, too, but they have bigger things to worry about. Most of those things are Eren. ]
I don't think it was ever a siege. They were only there to get the Founder. I don't think they even knew we had the Attack Titan.
[ He's almost certain they didn't know; he's not sure when the last time Marley knew the whereabouts of the Attack Titan even was. ]
When they came to kill us, it would have been with ships and flying machines and guns.
[ He knows. He saw those things, tore those things to pieces, utilised them to his own ends. The Marley volunteers had taught the islanders to build their own such things, but he doesn't need to tell Frieda about all of that. ]
Do you know what it's like to be shot? Of course you don't. But I do. Anyway, people who die quickly in agony still get the agony part.
[ He knows that better than anyone could ever know. He can never push away the memory of all of those people crushed under the weight of countless colossal titans. ]
I don't give a shit what people 2,000 years ago did. I'm not paying for their crimes any more.
[ In a twisted way, that's not true. He's the last one to pay for the crimes of their ancestors, the last one to commit untold atrocity. Death isn't really justice, but it's the only answer. He has to die to keep the people he loves safe. If he doesn't die, the others from the island can never be trusted. He will die half a martyr and half a villain, younger than he is here and now, the future/past he has orchestrated. Maybe after that, no one else will die for the sins of Eldia. He can't stand this crap.
He wants them all to be free, but he's aware that Frieda can never understand that.
He wonders if she would get along with Zeke. Probably; he also thinks all Eldians should die. Eren can't abide it, not then, not now, not in his destructive future. He can never accept the oppression of people in the present for the crimes of the past.
Sure, he will punish the world for things many of them didn't do. He's aware of his own hypocrisy. Doesn't matter.
He looks down at her again, that self-righteous fury plain on his face. ]
You weren't always like this. Shame you can't remember what you were like before.
[ It's almost a nonsense thing to say, but he's not just spewing garbage. He knows. He has her memories as much as he has anyone's, though the memories of those that held the Founder before him are a lot more muddled and hazy. But Eren has seen basically all of time at once; that's what cracked him open and turned him into the thing he is now, whether or not he wants to admit or recognise it. ]
If you wanna die so bad, that's fine with me. But other people want to live.
[ Not that it matters what people want, in the end. ]
I've had enough of this.
[ He remembers enough of this place and how it works. He really doesn't want Frieda to get too familiar, just in case. (Eren knows he shouldn't get too familiar either.)
But it's enough that if he thinks hard enough about it, he can dropkick them right out of here and back to the real world.
It's only been the blink of an eye, two people who look eerily alike staring at each other, hands clasped. Eren still looks angry, but that might just be his face. ]