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1) don't be dumb. my name isn't a pun on wendigo. i'm not a wendigo. i'm a humanoid from aht.
2) i can probably kill you more efficiently than a wendigo anyway? what the fuck do they even do?
3) i don't care about the other inane bullshit enough to comment.

ok, the number list thing is boring as fuck. moving on. the kids talked about grabbing souls and them being knocked out of alignment last time. i'm allowed to pick one damn thing to clarify here within a bullshit rulebook, so let's clear up this: it's not like anyone is picking and choosing which to grab. one soul looks pretty much like another, you know? i've been waiting a pretty long time to see if any will be from my homeworld.

none of you are.

not like they're trying to grab anyone in particular. but if you were wondering about "why" it's "because you were fucking there". think of it like a band of traveling hoarders. they see remnants of a world in a mess of shards and pick them up before the shards disappear. i was a shard, but i still had my body. i also happened to not be on aht when it met its end.

they don't stay put. pieces and bits of whatever. they travel, and some of them are already here, because you are. so i stick around because maybe eventually someone they pull out of the dark might be someone i knew.

but yeah, no one gives a single fuck about worth. that's the mystical how do you choose me or this other person i remember who deserves it more answer: you happened to be there, and they weren't. or they haven't been yet. you're welcome.

Wendy Guo
Security/Archivist
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Hi! Just so you know, we've re-stabilized green! Although I see some alerts on my screen so that's not great, something else got knocked out? I have to go figure out what.

But as a tip, unreality functions on a lot of loopholes. Try carrying some words around or thinking outside of the box if you get into a pinch, okay?

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Yeah, guess so.

And hey, even if we were completely chosen by chance, at least we got lucky enough to be both be chosen, right?

as bad as some things are, that’s something i’ll never be ungrateful for

[ even if nothing terrible has actually happened, beyond the fog in october, but— eren’s had a few restless nights hopped up on memories already. ]

i just hope that the guys in my memories are ok somehow.

[Sorry Eren the people in your memories have a 90% chance of being dead just from your canon]

yeah, me too.
ive found one from my memories.
but i dont know anything about the rest.

you found someone?

Didn't I mention it?

[No. He definitely didn't]

Yeah. His name's Rean.
He went to that same school too that I told you about.

[The military one]

Edited 2017-12-03 21:17 (UTC)

[ you certainly did not but eren is— curious. very curious. he wonders if that could happen with him, if he could be walking around and suddenly see annie, or reiner across the street. he doesn’t know how he’d react, now that he thought about it. ]

what’s it like?

[There's a pause as he hesitates. He doesn't really have an answer that will make Eren happy - not with how attached he gets to the memories he's gotten.

He'll switch it to private text. ]

It's like meeting a stranger, mostly.

Edited 2017-12-03 22:52 (UTC)

[ that hardly made sense the first time he read it and he squints the second time, but. ]

what do you mean
they didn’t remember anything?

No, he has a memory of me.
And I have several of him.
I think we were good friends in that other life.

[....]

But we're not good friends in this life.
We barely know each other.
A few memories don't really make up for that.

[ well— that’s certainly another pov he never considered, or really knew existed. there’s a part of him that’s a little . . . what’s the word, disappointed? maybe so, and he can imagine elliot at the time. obviously because these memories come with feeling, and emotion, and when those just don’t correspond here, well. it’s probably like a new level of letdown.

it’s another necessary reminder, that silently plants itself into eren’s head without him realizing it. it’s something to remember when or if he gets too carried away. ]

you gonna be ok with that?
i don’t know about you but
that probably sucked

Well, it sucked a little.
But I'll be okay.
We're trying to get to know each other
There's no saying we CAN'T be friends.
It'll just be different.

Besides I have you.
I shouldn't go chasing after someone
just because I have some memories of them.

[Oh wait. That's the other reason he neglected to mention anything about Rean]

[ there’s only on thing that happens after reading that last part:

record screech ]

what

[ Oh. That's a very short response.

Well. Frick. ]

I mean, like as a best friend
Not a boyfriend!
I just remember spending a lot of time with him!
That's all!

[I DON'T REMEMBER SERENADING HIM WITH MY VIOLIN OR ANYTHING NO SIREE]

[ usually, eren doesn’t ignore his hunches. he’s not particularly ignoring them now, but— that certainly is a pang of insecurity that he most definitely did not want to have!

but text is hardly the place to come to conclusions. ]

haha
i know that feeling
sorry i just read it wrong

but hey it shouldn’t even matter anyway
go after being friends if you guys want to be friends

Edited 2017-12-06 10:20 (UTC)

[ meanwhile ]

[Eren you trying to sound okay makes you sound definitely not okay to someone who knows you as well as Elliot does.

So, it's time to do what Eren always does to him.]

I'm coming over.

[ haha, ah, fuck, he knows what that means. but, you know, he’s eren jaeger! he’ll try and break a bully’s face against a toilet! he’ll promote inspiration and freedom! he is also a little uptight and massively self critical to the point that he won’t readily admit to weakness, and when those expectations hit a wall, it comes out as bravado and sturdiness. as any good soldier, as any strong person, as long as he wasn’t at his limit. too bad (or good) that elliot’s one of those people that see right through it.

saying “no” would mean “yes, there is something up in my noggin”, so: ]

then i’ll go
car’s fixed

[ collect yourself!! smack yourself in the face! yes! you are a strong jaeger! ]

[ Wow there's strangely...no response!! He's probably busy ordering a Lyft right now, since you better believe he knows Eren's address.

What you gonna do Eren. Gonna wait for him or make a break for it. ]

elliot

[ a few moments later: ]

i said i’ll go
elliot
??

[ ............. . . .

god damn it. well, the apartment security will let him in no problems when he gets there. eren’s sitting in the front lounge waiting for him, flipping through his phone in comfy stay-at-home-evening attire. air force sweatpants and a hoodie from nike.

the show of attitude on elliot’s part has eren a little speechless. he feels like a dick. ten dicks. ]

[ Still no response from him over text. But about 20 minutes later...]

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