[Unfortunately for Niko, the only part of Gliese's announcement he afforded any real consideration to was the list of casualties and reassignments. With Commander Erwin suddenly far out of the picture after being away for months, he's hardly interested in playing games for money. Or indulging stupid shit from strangers. Thus, he's extra charming today, oops.]
[Sorry, man. He can tell that there's something fishy and stupid about this, even if it's not an actual fruit he has to dress Eren as. He doesn't even really want to do it. But these guys seem a little crazy.]
FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
The letter I am given. It is a duty I must do in 24 hours.
"Make Eren a Princess Peach costume using found materials" is what it says.
I have no clue how to sew. So all I can do is cloth and duct tape. I don't even know why they want this, unless it is just to make us look stupid. But if it is money, it is money, and maybe spares us a hard time later.
[Isn't hazing just supposed to be humiliating for the newbies...the skellies are doing this wrong.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
sounds like a waste of time.
[He doesn't get it. Sorry, Niko, you got saddled with the most unfun partner. He's been putting up with most of the CDC's shit so far. So soon in the wake of an attack that's taken the lives of several of their comrades, it's sort of pissing him off this time.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
we were under attack for days. we've got better things to be doing than screwing around.
[It's okay, Eren. He actually doesn't want to do it. But he doesn't want to get punished with something serious for not doing something stupid and he doesn't have any clue how these people operate.]
FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
That's what I think. Personally I don't really care unless they throw me under a truck for not doing it.
[He feels you Niko. There's a pause. Being a grim sort of guy in the first place, he thinks about this stuff a lot. He doesn't really want to get this guy in hot water, even if he doesn't know him.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
depends on what they want you to do. and who's asking. we don't usually take orders from the service crew.
[Some instructors are a little less forgiving than others. (See: Dagger.) Gliese had said the skellies were heading up the game, which was part of why he'd dismissed it.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
skipping out on real missions can net you punishment detail. cleanup or something. sometimes they don't care.
[On the other hand—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
they've hurt people for insubordination.
[And getting across the right amount of frustrated anger about that is hard in text. But it's still there.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
they're holding our homes hostage in case we try to fight back. we saw another crew get blown to hell for trying it.
[Considering he's spent a good chunk of his life getting his ass kicked, that's a sentiment he can get behind. He doesn't comment on it, but if something does come down on them for this somehow, he doesn't intend on letting Niko take the fall. He's not too concerned. His interactions with some of the instructors have lead him to believe at least some of them would actually rather keep their recruits breathing.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
with the other crew?
[Another pause, a little longer.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
it was called the Almina. some of the people there tried to fight back.
[Something involving "hacking," which is still mostly a mystery to him when it doesn't involve like. Actual sharp objects and brute force. But he got the gist. They were actively working against the CDC. They got caught.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
when the CDC found out, they slaughtered all of them. they tied them up like animals and turned their cannons on them. even the ones they weren't sure were involved.
[Because they would rather lose some innocent soldiers ridding themselves of all possible threats than risk letting a traitor live. It was weeks and weeks ago. It still pisses him off.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
they used another ship to do it. but they showed it to us while it happened.
[Indeed it is. Though it just reminds him of a lot of shit he already has been through. Psychotic bosses shooting people that look at them funny. Him being chased out of Europe, away from his family, because one man imagined he was guilty for something. And even some of the things that he came across during the war.]
FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
Just like home.
[But, that doesn't mean he's fine with it happening. It has all sorts of bad vibes attached to it.]
FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
Now I know what it is I am to expect. Thank you. Not good news, but good to know.
[It's bad. It's low. He can't stand it. He won't stand for it a second longer than it takes for him to find a way to stop them. Which makes it all the worse that Niko finds it so familiar.]
My home. There are not very many good people there, and either they are dead, or you must become something you don't like to protect them.
FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
I would not consider putting a young man of adequate height (as the woman put it) in an idiot fruit costume if I did not take these people very seriously, even if they do not do the same for us.
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TO: jaegar.eren@cdc.org
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TO: jaegar.eren@cdc.org
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
what the hell are you talking about
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FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
sounds like a waste of time.
[He doesn't get it. Sorry, Niko, you got saddled with the most unfun partner. He's been putting up with most of the CDC's shit so far. So soon in the wake of an attack that's taken the lives of several of their comrades, it's sort of pissing him off this time.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
we were under attack for days. we've got better things to be doing than screwing around.
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FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
depends on what they want you to do. and who's asking. we don't usually take orders from the service crew.
[Some instructors are a little less forgiving than others. (See: Dagger.) Gliese had said the skellies were heading up the game, which was part of why he'd dismissed it.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
skipping out on real missions can net you punishment detail. cleanup or something. sometimes they don't care.
[On the other hand—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
they've hurt people for insubordination.
[And getting across the right amount of frustrated anger about that is hard in text. But it's still there.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
they're holding our homes hostage in case we try to fight back. we saw another crew get blown to hell for trying it.
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[He could be wrong but he's clean out of shits to give at this point. He can't sew.]
FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
with the other crew?
[Another pause, a little longer.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
it was called the Almina. some of the people there tried to fight back.
[Something involving "hacking," which is still mostly a mystery to him when it doesn't involve like. Actual sharp objects and brute force. But he got the gist. They were actively working against the CDC. They got caught.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
when the CDC found out, they slaughtered all of them. they tied them up like animals and turned their cannons on them. even the ones they weren't sure were involved.
[Because they would rather lose some innocent soldiers ridding themselves of all possible threats than risk letting a traitor live. It was weeks and weeks ago. It still pisses him off.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
they used another ship to do it. but they showed it to us while it happened.
[Mass murder live feed. Isn't technology great.]
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FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
[But, that doesn't mean he's fine with it happening. It has all sorts of bad vibes attached to it.]
FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
your home?
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FROM: bellic.niko@cdc.org
[Obviously they don't.]