"I mean what I said," Eren answers, deadpan. "A friend died here. He came back, but we had no way of knowing that would happen. It still sucked for him but if it happens again…"

He doesn't need to finish that threat. He punched Jean for dying once, he'll punch harder if it happens again.

"It's not a risk I'm willing to let anyone take," he says, as if he can do anything about it. He has no delusions here that he can control what other people do. He doesn't want to, never has. The very idea of forcing other people to do or not do something makes him sick. There are a million other terrible things he would do without question, but people should be free to make their own decisions.

Manipulating people, on the other hand…that's different, obviously.

"I do want to save it," he answers, eyebrows drawing together. His motives are just not about the world itself. He does not and cannot give a shit about the world. He will always place his people above everything else, even if it puts those same people in danger. This is a lesson he refuses to learn.

"I'm not ignoring anything," he says. "I've never hurt anyone here on accident."

It's arguable whether he hurt anyone at home on accident, either, but still.