( This seems to be working, so she holds her position, tips of her fingers pressing just slightly harder against his skin. By and large, it's just what she figures might help be anchoring — small points of contact and the press of palms combined.
He can return to making her head spin in a moment. It's currently her turn to break down the bizarre truths she's just walked out of. )
Because we succeeded in doing what Eren hoped we could do. We stopped him. And in doing that, Ymir was freed. We separated from the Path. There are no Titans on our world anymore.
( They're no longer fated to die accelerated deaths. They're no longer fated to do jack-all but what they decide on doing, which at this point, is probably helping stabilizing and integrating survivors.
She won't bring up numbers. She won't bring up the details from right before Mikasa had done what needed to be done; when Armin kept Eren in a standstill, and Annie and Reiner and everyone else with the capacity fought to keep that shitty centipede-like thing from reconnecting. That's too much, even for her brain to still wrap around. She just knows bone deep that there's no Titan to shift into anymore, regardless of what this world might be doing to her. She felt that certainty back home just as every Eldian present that the fucking centipede-Ymir-whatever turned into a Titan reverted to human, and the whole line of Colossal marching Titans condensed down to the humans they'd always been beneath. )
All of us are just... human.
( ... factually incorrect in present company, but she is part of that future everyone in his perspective. (So please, wonderful timing with that peace negotiation being in place; it's much easier to not worry about getting a limb cut off because someone brilliantly thought it was a way to control a Titan Shifter, and not just leave someone permanently maimed.)
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He can return to making her head spin in a moment. It's currently her turn to break down the bizarre truths she's just walked out of. )
Because we succeeded in doing what Eren hoped we could do. We stopped him. And in doing that, Ymir was freed. We separated from the Path. There are no Titans on our world anymore.
( They're no longer fated to die accelerated deaths. They're no longer fated to do jack-all but what they decide on doing, which at this point, is probably helping stabilizing and integrating survivors.
She won't bring up numbers. She won't bring up the details from right before Mikasa had done what needed to be done; when Armin kept Eren in a standstill, and Annie and Reiner and everyone else with the capacity fought to keep that shitty centipede-like thing from reconnecting. That's too much, even for her brain to still wrap around. She just knows bone deep that there's no Titan to shift into anymore, regardless of what this world might be doing to her. She felt that certainty back home just as every Eldian present that the fucking centipede-Ymir-whatever turned into a Titan reverted to human, and the whole line of Colossal marching Titans condensed down to the humans they'd always been beneath. )
All of us are just... human.
( ... factually incorrect in present company, but she is part of that future everyone in his perspective. (So please, wonderful timing with that peace negotiation being in place; it's much easier to not worry about getting a limb cut off because someone brilliantly thought it was a way to control a Titan Shifter, and not just leave someone permanently maimed.)