( It's really just water she's sucking down next, feet tucked back under her chair to restrain any prodding impulses. The need for restraint fades when she listens, tugging some kind of lettuce wrap closer and feeling faintly like she's part rabbit when she bites into it.
Reiner can't know how much his words echo what she's said, in his future. Or how much the sentiment reflects in her heart, and has for more than long enough, even when she'd tried — and failed — to flee.
She doesn't want to fight them anymore. Not even Eren. Much as he both pisses her off and makes her heart ache, much as he was an even crazier jackass than they knew, he was still someone who'd once been a friend. Annie knows it's not as strong of a feeling for her as it is for so many of the rest of them, and if that's how she thinks, she can empathize, does empathize, with what they feel.
As far as understanding relationships... Hitch is her entire baseline for normal. And while it's a well stated one, being good for one another, what does that mean? Something like balance and contrast, probably the arguments Reiner's mentioning. Learning trust. Probably negotiation. Compromise?
It sounds good for them, which is... surely something, when they're two not terribly stable people stabilizing each other. She supposes that's... good. All she knows is Reiner doesn't have the same exact loyalty pitfalls that Mikasa does, that the push back will be greater when Eren is Eren, and she's not sure what Eren's strengths are in a relationship that's clearly romantic, other than he's... probably... loyal too. Yeah.
Yeah, that's about what she can think of.
She does perk up about the cat. Who knows what a pokeymon is, but cats? She likes cats. If the cat can stand both of those fools, then they can't have too disturbed a home. )
You won't bend where Mikasa would. Eren probably needs that. You'd call him out on his bullshit more too.
( .............................................. she slurps the water. She, again, has no actual measure to say what Eren would be good at in a relationship, so she doesn't bother trying. )
You both always wanted to be heroes. Up until the world broke how that even looked.
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Reiner can't know how much his words echo what she's said, in his future. Or how much the sentiment reflects in her heart, and has for more than long enough, even when she'd tried — and failed — to flee.
She doesn't want to fight them anymore. Not even Eren. Much as he both pisses her off and makes her heart ache, much as he was an even crazier jackass than they knew, he was still someone who'd once been a friend. Annie knows it's not as strong of a feeling for her as it is for so many of the rest of them, and if that's how she thinks, she can empathize, does empathize, with what they feel.
As far as understanding relationships... Hitch is her entire baseline for normal. And while it's a well stated one, being good for one another, what does that mean? Something like balance and contrast, probably the arguments Reiner's mentioning. Learning trust. Probably negotiation. Compromise?
It sounds good for them, which is... surely something, when they're two not terribly stable people stabilizing each other. She supposes that's... good. All she knows is Reiner doesn't have the same exact loyalty pitfalls that Mikasa does, that the push back will be greater when Eren is Eren, and she's not sure what Eren's strengths are in a relationship that's clearly romantic, other than he's... probably... loyal too. Yeah.
Yeah, that's about what she can think of.
She does perk up about the cat. Who knows what a pokeymon is, but cats? She likes cats. If the cat can stand both of those fools, then they can't have too disturbed a home. )
You won't bend where Mikasa would. Eren probably needs that. You'd call him out on his bullshit more too.
( .............................................. she slurps the water. She, again, has no actual measure to say what Eren would be good at in a relationship, so she doesn't bother trying. )
You both always wanted to be heroes. Up until the world broke how that even looked.