[If only that were something he could do. This place - whatever place this is - it isn't that place, that cruel world.
[It's not that Eren wants to abandon them - his friends, his comrades, Paradis. But here, where there's no war, or titans, or memories of the future...Could anyone really blame him for wishing he could stay?
[It still isn't freedom, but, at least it's something closer.
[If, in the future, he has to crush the world flat in order to find freedom - God, that feels like a blow right to the gut. Eren sinks in on himself until he's crouching on the ground, heel to ass.]
Whatever I'm planning...it's already been set in motion. But I didn't...I didn't think I'd have to--
I just...[He squeezes his eyes shut tight, tight, tight, like he could disappear if he made the world dark enough.]
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[If only that were something he could do. This place - whatever place this is - it isn't that place, that cruel world.
[It's not that Eren wants to abandon them - his friends, his comrades, Paradis. But here, where there's no war, or titans, or memories of the future...Could anyone really blame him for wishing he could stay?
[It still isn't freedom, but, at least it's something closer.
[If, in the future, he has to crush the world flat in order to find freedom - God, that feels like a blow right to the gut. Eren sinks in on himself until he's crouching on the ground, heel to ass.]
Whatever I'm planning...it's already been set in motion. But I didn't...I didn't think I'd have to--
I just...[He squeezes his eyes shut tight, tight, tight, like he could disappear if he made the world dark enough.]
I just...want...freedom...