[And he's under no illusions. They're big dreams. That's not going to stop him from pursuing them. He's got titans to kill, walls to escape, a world to see. And, after a moment.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I've got people counting on me. I need to make it worth it.
[The whole of humanity. Or at least, what's left of it. Personal dreams and vendettas aside. He can't die, because there are people who have died for him, and he needs to make sure that it wasn't in vain. Because humanity is pinning their last hopes on him, and he intends on living up to that responsibility. He takes it all pretty damn seriously.]
01 Spoken like a true hero. Not that I'd expect much else at this point.
02 8efore you say anything, it's a compliment.
03 Tell me a8out it, Eren. What it is you need to do.
[ To Vriska, Eren is a fascinating person. He's someone who gets pissed on her behalf when she's wronged or hurt, even when she brought it on herself - and he's someone who will unflinchingly tell her to counter poison the one who poisoned her first. He's ruthless, but in a baldly practical way she's just not used to. Especially because he isn't in any way a cruel or selfish person. Capable of viciousness? Sure. But fundamentally malicious?
It strikes her that he's probably the exact opposite. He reads to her very much like a genuinely good person. And that's what surprises her the most. That someone "good" can have no qualms with telling her to get potentially lethal revenge.
But then again, he's a survivor. Of course he'd tell her that.
So she's very curious to know just what it is - what kind of world, what kind of life - that builds a person like Eren Jaeger. ]
[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.]
[Everyone back home knows what it means to be a Shiganshina survivor. Anyone who knew Eren in training knew just how seriously he takes it. Explaining why it might be that way is strange. It's survival. Why wouldn't it be personal?
He can remember talking to her about titans briefly, way back at the rendezvous. But he'd never gotten into it much, back then. It's sort of frustrating, because he never really seems to be able to convey just how big a deal they are. How important it is that they fight back. People here don't understand what it's like. And that's not a bad thing. But there's no amount of text that can get across the right amount of burning hate for the subject at hand.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
They're vermin. They need to be exterminated from the world. I'll kill every last one of them for what they've done.
[To humanity. (To him.) Vriska, you have no idea how personal it is. Eren's always been incredibly determined to free humanity from the walls. But watching your mother get eaten alive and your hometown get overrun and your comrades get slaughtered has a way of turning a grudge into a vendetta.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
If we don't fight back we won't stand a chance. Humanity will be wiped out instead. I'm not letting that happen.
[They're under attack. They can't hide forever. You fight to survive. If you don't fight, you don't stand a chance. And if things are similar for her back home, she can understand that, can't she? Vriska doesn't strike him as the type to go belly up.]
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[And he's under no illusions. They're big dreams. That's not going to stop him from pursuing them. He's got titans to kill, walls to escape, a world to see. And, after a moment.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I've got people counting on me. I need to make it worth it.
[The whole of humanity. Or at least, what's left of it. Personal dreams and vendettas aside. He can't die, because there are people who have died for him, and he needs to make sure that it wasn't in vain. Because humanity is pinning their last hopes on him, and he intends on living up to that responsibility. He takes it all pretty damn seriously.]
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Spoken like a true hero. Not that I'd expect much else at this point.
02
8efore you say anything, it's a compliment.
03
Tell me a8out it, Eren. What it is you need to do.
[ To Vriska, Eren is a fascinating person. He's someone who gets pissed on her behalf when she's wronged or hurt, even when she brought it on herself - and he's someone who will unflinchingly tell her to counter poison the one who poisoned her first. He's ruthless, but in a baldly practical way she's just not used to. Especially because he isn't in any way a cruel or selfish person. Capable of viciousness? Sure. But fundamentally malicious?
It strikes her that he's probably the exact opposite. He reads to her very much like a genuinely good person. And that's what surprises her the most. That someone "good" can have no qualms with telling her to get potentially lethal revenge.
But then again, he's a survivor. Of course he'd tell her that.
So she's very curious to know just what it is - what kind of world, what kind of life - that builds a person like Eren Jaeger. ]
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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.]
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Wow. So humanity is almost extinct where you come from? That is not too different from my situation 8ack home.
02
You make that sound personal, Eren! Killing them all.
[ This is fascinating. What sort of creatures can humans really be? ]
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He can remember talking to her about titans briefly, way back at the rendezvous. But he'd never gotten into it much, back then. It's sort of frustrating, because he never really seems to be able to convey just how big a deal they are. How important it is that they fight back. People here don't understand what it's like. And that's not a bad thing. But there's no amount of text that can get across the right amount of burning hate for the subject at hand.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
They're vermin. They need to be exterminated from the world. I'll kill every last one of them for what they've done.
[To humanity. (To him.) Vriska, you have no idea how personal it is. Eren's always been incredibly determined to free humanity from the walls. But watching your mother get eaten alive and your hometown get overrun and your comrades get slaughtered has a way of turning a grudge into a vendetta.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
If we don't fight back we won't stand a chance. Humanity will be wiped out instead. I'm not letting that happen.
[They're under attack. They can't hide forever. You fight to survive. If you don't fight, you don't stand a chance. And if things are similar for her back home, she can understand that, can't she? Vriska doesn't strike him as the type to go belly up.]