[ oh, how it is most definitely cruel. children without mothers, childhoods, liberty to be children. eren was one. one of many who were forcibly stripped of those mother included. he knows where elliot means to go now, on a personal level.
yet, his eyes don’t falter. not completely frigid, but the gaze was firm. If he couldn’t say no to this— how would he be able to say no to everything else to come? only now is he learning how dangerous it was to let emotion influence choice, after so many countless falls and holes blown into him.
he pauses, he inhales, the pauses again. ]
They were big enough to run, Elliot. [ it was less cruel as it was being . . . rational, was all. it took years to figure that out, and let it be known he thought he was rational, when he was fifteen.
now he knows what levi meant when he said “don’t let your feelings get in the way”. ] . . . You’d really trade certainty for doubt?
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yet, his eyes don’t falter. not completely frigid, but the gaze was firm. If he couldn’t say no to this— how would he be able to say no to everything else to come? only now is he learning how dangerous it was to let emotion influence choice, after so many countless falls and holes blown into him.
he pauses, he inhales, the pauses again. ]
They were big enough to run, Elliot. [ it was less cruel as it was being . . . rational, was all. it took years to figure that out, and let it be known he thought he was rational, when he was fifteen.
now he knows what levi meant when he said “don’t let your feelings get in the way”. ] . . . You’d really trade certainty for doubt?