[Eren watches her shift and flinch. Something about it irritates him. 'It's going to start bleeding again...'
[He's about to say something when she makes her last statement. He falls silent in a new and unsettling way. Of all the things Eren can control - himself, others, the future, the world - when and when not to remember isn't one of them. Trauma robs one of control.
[His eyes don't just go distant - they stare off into nothing as if they're searching a horizon one hundred miles away. A storm of memories erupts in his mind. Face after bloody face; his fallen comrades. Countless faces, ceaseless screams - showers of blood, guts, and brain matter. The deafening sounds of titans chewing and tearing - a body's worth of bones, crushed all at once, not so much crunching as crackling. Limbs falling from the sky. Men and women - soldiers - begging for their lives, crying for their mothers--
TW: heavy gore
[He's about to say something when she makes her last statement. He falls silent in a new and unsettling way. Of all the things Eren can control - himself, others, the future, the world - when and when not to remember isn't one of them. Trauma robs one of control.
[His eyes don't just go distant - they stare off into nothing as if they're searching a horizon one hundred miles away. A storm of memories erupts in his mind. Face after bloody face; his fallen comrades. Countless faces, ceaseless screams - showers of blood, guts, and brain matter. The deafening sounds of titans chewing and tearing - a body's worth of bones, crushed all at once, not so much crunching as crackling. Limbs falling from the sky. Men and women - soldiers - begging for their lives, crying for their mothers--
[His entire body is shaking.]