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[usurpers]

EREN JAEGER

TATAKAI INTENSIFIES

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[fiddlestick]

Aw, Eren...

Alright, sure. I'd love to. But not violin. I don't think it'd match your band's style.

[usurpers]

Our band.

2:07. Prove me otherwise.

[fiddlestick]

Our band.

Okay, I didn't say you couldn't use violin for heavy metal. It's cool to have in some songs, but it'd be a weird fit for every song.

Besides, I've been learning guitar the past year and...well, you have a bass and a drummer, but no regular guitarist. Now THAT'S much more crucial to a metal band than a violin.

[AND TO REALLY CONVINCE EREN:]

I'd even let you buy me one. I've been using school's.

[usurpers]

[ !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ]

Which one do you want

[fiddlestick]

Haha, not sure yet!

Let's go shopping for one together?

[usurpers]

Alright. I want to see you with that Sea Foam Green JEM.

[ a literal picture of eren jaeger at this very moment, at the idea of buying expensive shit, for his love, his stars, the moon of his life, because he asked him to ]

You’ll still do violin for some songs, right?

[fiddlestick]

Why am I not surprised you are already looking at the $1500 ones.

[He's just going to remind himself not to look at the price tag and focus on the sound of the guitar. ]

Yeah, I will. But I wanna challenge myself to master a new instrument, I don't want to play it safe and stick to violin and piano all the time. I can't advance as a musician if I do that.

Plus don't tell her I said this, but...with Anna still learning bass, I'd feel bad expecting her to keep up with my violin all the time. I have over a decade of practice on her, and that can be pretty discouraging for some newer players. So I'd rather play with her on more equal terms.

[usurpers]

That’s Steve Vai’s guitar.

[ THE BEST GUITAR!!!!! ]

I can never argue with that. Take on the challenge.

. . . And I get it, Elliot. If anything, she’s got a pro right next to her, what’s a better teacher than that?
Anna gets things quickly. With you giving her pointers she’ll be ripping it up faster than we think.

[fiddlestick]

Is it? I didn't know that- oh man, there's so much rock and metal stuff I'm gonna have to learn about now.

[HE IS EXCITED BY THIS!!!! MUSIC KNOWLEDGE!!]

Haha, maybe. I'll try to come off as a cool senpai rather than a pushy know-it-all.

[usurpers]

I can show you everything I have. Anna's a great ref, too.

Senpai?

[fiddlestick]

Oh, it's a Japanese term. It means someone that's your senior but not your boss? Like an upperclassmen in school, or a more experienced coworker. It came up while talking with Crow and Rean.

So you'd be my senpai with heavy metal!

[usurpers]

Like in Magical Alisa.

[ HE’S CONNECTING THE DOTS ]

Okay but you’re the senpai in music in general. And I bet you’re the senpai between you three, too.

[fiddlestick]

Yeah, like that. I heard you were watching that with Rean.

Hehe, yeah. But Crow and Rean started bickering about what they are, so we decided not to refer to any of us as senpai. [Because they are children]

[usurpers]

Google says they're "Kouhai", that's not hard.

[ and y'all call him a child ]

Elliot
You need to see it. It's probably the most underrated piece of animation I've ever seen, right next to Gundam Unicorn.
We binge watched the entire first season the day he came to help me out with a new mech.

[fiddlestick]

I know, but it is when they got crushes on each other.

[Group chat is just watching those two pull each other's pigtails]

Heheh, so I've heard. I was actually waiting for you to show it to me. Maybe it could be a date night or two?

[usurpers]

Did anything happen after the hickey

[ u bet ur ass they talked about this at eren’s place that night after he made dinner ]

Can it? You won’t be disappointed.
Not even after.

[ wink wonk ]

[fiddlestick]

Nothing I've heard about, so I don't think anything did.

[Because there's no way Crow wouldn't be messaging if they actually worked things out. What a let down]

Haha, oh I'm sure I won't be. I'm looking forward to it.

[usurpers]

👌

[ about that, though . . . ]

You said it wasn’t going to be easy, and it isn’t. They’re practically afraid of themselves.

[fiddlestick]

Yeah, I know.

Apparently neither had many friends before the app. So I think they're scared of messing things up. And convincing them not to be afraid is easier said than done.

[usurpers]

Might be worse than that.

I talked to Crow that day, and I talked to Rean a few days ago, too. I saw his file. Their sense of self worth is bad.

Like really bad, Elliot.

[fiddlestick]

...Yeah. I know.

It's never good when I'm the one with a stronger sense of self-worth.

I'm just not sure what to do about it other than keep being positive at them.

[usurpers]

Talking and honesty. But for someone who's apparently selfless to point of selfishness and/or self destruction, I don't know how much of a good idea it is to listen to me sometimes either.

[ working on it. that's the most important part, he supposes. ]

Helping from the bottom could probably change everything. Rean hasn't had a major for two years and counting. Or an idea of what he wants.

[fiddlestick]

I don't know. You often give really good advice...even if you're not the best at listening to your own advice.

Are you suggesting we help him find a major? Isn't that something deeply personal?

[usurpers]

I'm aiming to hear the opposite soon.

[ will!!! power!!! ]

Yes and no. I don't want to suggest something directly, like, hey, you'd make a good teacher, because it's like you said, it's personal. Suggestions like that are no better than obligations. But maybe something less direct.

I don't even know I just know I hate seeing him berate himself in his head and try to hide it with some half assed smile and pretend no one sees it. No one deserves that, much less Rean.

[fiddlestick]

You can do it!

Yeah, I hate it too. Rean's a great guy, but he doesn't see it at all.

I'll try to think of a way to go about it that isn't suggestions. There has to be some way...