[He'd saved the city during the invasion of Trost, but it wasn't all his doing. It was Armin's plan, there were dozens of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in order for him to pull it off. (He'd nearly killed Mikasa in the process.) For every person who might consider him a hero or a savior there's another who considers him a liability, a threat, a monster.
It takes him a little while to figure a way to answer. Not because it's something he's overly conflicted about, but because typing it all out is still, y'know, sort of weird. But he's been here long enough to know that the situation back home is not a typical one. And that's not a bad thing by any means, but it does mean he's getting used to needing to (and mostly failing to) explain it. At least he's one of the few Shingekis who has little problem running his mouth about titans.]
back home humanity has been hunted almost to extinction by monsters
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
they're called titans. people say they're our natural predators. for a hundred years we've been hiding like cattle behind walls to survive.
[And that's unacceptable. Tone is hard for him to convey through text, but if she tries maybe she can imagine the right amount of angry scorn in his voice.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I'm going to wipe them all out
[And it's not that he's the Only One who can do anything about it. But there's no denying he's sort of a special case. The tides turned after Trost, he has to be a symbol of hope for humanity, regardless. He's got a heavy sense of responsibility, even putting aside his biases and his vendettas.]
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It takes him a little while to figure a way to answer. Not because it's something he's overly conflicted about, but because typing it all out is still, y'know, sort of weird. But he's been here long enough to know that the situation back home is not a typical one. And that's not a bad thing by any means, but it does mean he's getting used to needing to (and mostly failing to) explain it. At least he's one of the few Shingekis who has little problem running his mouth about titans.]
back home humanity has been hunted almost to extinction by monsters
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
they're called titans. people say they're our natural predators. for a hundred years we've been hiding like cattle behind walls to survive.
[And that's unacceptable. Tone is hard for him to convey through text, but if she tries maybe she can imagine the right amount of angry scorn in his voice.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I'm going to wipe them all out
[And it's not that he's the Only One who can do anything about it. But there's no denying he's sort of a special case. The tides turned after Trost, he has to be a symbol of hope for humanity, regardless. He's got a heavy sense of responsibility, even putting aside his biases and his vendettas.]