"You act like we have a choice. Did you choose to come here?"
He hates admitting there isn't one, but with so many of them gone back to less than ideal fates, he accepts this reality. Any of them could just blink right back out the way they woke up here. He hates it.
"But I'll do everything I can to stay here. I never want to go home either."
He's never claimed that he'll change the future if he goes home. If they remember this place when they leave, it still won't matter. Eren will always do what he set out to do. There is no future where he changes his mind, or changes course. He can admit that, even if it makes him a worse person than some people think.
Some people, like Annie, like Levi, know exactly what he is. Levi has given him more second chances than anyone deserves. Annie…he can't be sure yet.
Reiner, of course, has always known what he is. Reiner knew that Eren was the worst person imaginable to have the power of the Founder. Somehow, here, Reiner can love him anyway. Eren always wonders what they could have been at home.
The answer is nothing good, but even Eren can dream. Sometimes.
He shrugs a shoulder. "I guess I'm surprised you said it like that, instead of telling me to fuck off or something."
Not that it would do any good. Eren will always do exactly as he pleases. He's been like that for most of his life. Really, he's a terrible soldier, no good at following orders unless he feels like it.
He frowns again. It's strange, this idea that she could come and go and not remember. This is the first time he's encountered that and he doesn't know what to do with it.
"I wonder why you don't remember," he says. He could ask Dawn or someone, but he doesn't really think any of the people running things here will answer. It's possible they don't even know.
"Where did you wake up here? What season?" he asks, curious. He can't really predict it. He's not good enough at aligning people with traits.
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"You act like we have a choice. Did you choose to come here?"
He hates admitting there isn't one, but with so many of them gone back to less than ideal fates, he accepts this reality. Any of them could just blink right back out the way they woke up here. He hates it.
"But I'll do everything I can to stay here. I never want to go home either."
He's never claimed that he'll change the future if he goes home. If they remember this place when they leave, it still won't matter. Eren will always do what he set out to do. There is no future where he changes his mind, or changes course. He can admit that, even if it makes him a worse person than some people think.
Some people, like Annie, like Levi, know exactly what he is. Levi has given him more second chances than anyone deserves. Annie…he can't be sure yet.
Reiner, of course, has always known what he is. Reiner knew that Eren was the worst person imaginable to have the power of the Founder. Somehow, here, Reiner can love him anyway. Eren always wonders what they could have been at home.
The answer is nothing good, but even Eren can dream. Sometimes.
He shrugs a shoulder. "I guess I'm surprised you said it like that, instead of telling me to fuck off or something."
Not that it would do any good. Eren will always do exactly as he pleases. He's been like that for most of his life. Really, he's a terrible soldier, no good at following orders unless he feels like it.
He frowns again. It's strange, this idea that she could come and go and not remember. This is the first time he's encountered that and he doesn't know what to do with it.
"I wonder why you don't remember," he says. He could ask Dawn or someone, but he doesn't really think any of the people running things here will answer. It's possible they don't even know.
"Where did you wake up here? What season?" he asks, curious. He can't really predict it. He's not good enough at aligning people with traits.