You agreed to come here, Jaeger. You made an exchange, for something you valued more than your feelings regarding the lives you would be instructed to take and the planets you would be required to destroy.
And if what you have asked for is not worth that exchange, then you have been handed a lesson in choosing that which you value far more carefully.
[He wants to argue. He hadn't agreed to this. To becoming the very thing he'd worked his whole life to eliminate. (Then again, that's happened already, hasn't it? In a far more literal way. The difference is at least he could use his titan shifting to fight back.) He couldn't want anything less than to help the CDC with some kind of industrial conquest, senseless genocide.
But the woman who'd recruited him asked if he'd wanted to fight for humanity.
There's really only one answer he can give to that. No matter what a monster it makes of him.
It's a long time coming. It leaves a bitter and biting taste in his mouth. But eventually—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
sir.
[Humanity is too close to his heart, too overwhelming a priority. He's become what he hates to protect them before. But can he really accept this lying down?]
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no subject
The problem is not me.
The problem is that you care.
FROM: warriorhead@cdc.org
You agreed to come here, Jaeger. You made an exchange, for something you valued more than your feelings regarding the lives you would be instructed to take and the planets you would be required to destroy.
And if what you have asked for is not worth that exchange, then you have been handed a lesson in choosing that which you value far more carefully.
no subject
But the woman who'd recruited him asked if he'd wanted to fight for humanity.
There's really only one answer he can give to that. No matter what a monster it makes of him.
It's a long time coming. It leaves a bitter and biting taste in his mouth. But eventually—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
sir.
[Humanity is too close to his heart, too overwhelming a priority. He's become what he hates to protect them before. But can he really accept this lying down?]