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[recollecters]

Happy New Years, users. I'll cut to the chase; the barrier we instilled a few months ago is decaying quickly and we're sorting through the new data as fast as we can. This barrier was originally designed to contain a rogue error. There are several of you who have taken care of this issue and from here we will handle the rest...thank you. The influx of data will help us decode our next steps. As mentioned, we've spent December tracing several magical sources that are coming up in our readings. We're doing the best we can to trace Clarence--Mr. Vanderweele, and corral the effects he's altering in the city. I believe we're ready to tear down the firewall and begin exploring further. If our information is correct, we're really breaking the boundaries of the layers we've discovered lately! It's exciting, don't you think? The only information I can offer is that we will need you to be strong no matter what happens. We believe things have changed outside of security measures we've set in place, though we will need more data to understand the best way to stabilize the city from his control. We understand if you cannot and do not wish to help, but please know we're doing everything we can. Please take care. Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated Characters' display names are the same as whatever has been previously chosen and are permanently locked in! Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. As a friendly reminder, you may also claim one of this month's freebie by submitting a thread from this mod post. This thread must be 10 comments from you and submitted before AC closes.

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[fiddlestick]

Aha...alright, alright. I'll show you one.

[He'll take that staff violin properly now, and with a deep breath, start playing a happy little melody.

Sure enough, the music rings out and as it does so, flowers start appearing around their feet. First white, then a multitude of colored flowers. And are those bluebirds fluttering above them? It sure is.]

[usurpers]

[ !!!!!!!!!!! eren’s the type to turn to the closest person and yell that’s going to be my husband.

this is amazing. he follows the bluebirds with his eyes, turns his head in every way to see the colors, and best of all— watching elliot’s music harmonizing with it. askdhdg he’s taking a picture right the fuck now except he’s too excited to look at the screen to see what he’s actually snapping. ]

[fiddlestick]

[!!!

He looks up when he hears that photo shutter sound]

-- W-Wait are you taking pictures?!

[usurpers]

Yeah, I—

[ I had to!! eren’s about to say as he comes over with a grin and shining eyes all over elliot, but when he opens the camera to show him—

it’s fucking blurred because eren couldn’t stop moving and he has never felt so disappointed in himself in his life. ]

Thought I did, [ aw man— ] You were so amazing . . .

[fiddlestick]

[Well he sure felt a little embarrassed until Eren shows him the photo and boy...that sure is blurred. He can't help it, he laughs softly.]

Got a little to excited huh?

[Shifting his violin and bow into one hand, he'll lift up a hand to touch Eren's cheek.]

Thank you.

[Not just for the compliment. All this]

(1/2)

[usurpers]

[ oh . . . oh /// eren’s phone hand drops to his side, and with it still in his fingers he weighs it over elliot’s while his hand is on his cheek. eren’s head dips sideways only enough for him to lightly kiss his fiance’s palm and squeeze his arm back. ]

I knew you could. [ in fact— he’d really like to see more if he could, like, all flavors of elliot. ]

(2/2)

[usurpers]

[ but from a smile, eren’s lips go agape; he begins to see a light. his head tilts up and his eyes, wide now, unfocus— he feels something. positively odd. like, tingling, like waves, like— connection?

he doesn’t know and only rides it out, until the waves get smaller and he . . . looks back at elliot. ]

Did you . . . See that? [ pause. ] Was that you?

[fiddlestick]

[it was a sweet moment, one that Elliot was about to further with a kiss of his own when Eren starts behaving oddly. Elliot himself isn't seeing anything, or feeling anything- so he's rather confused]

Huh? See what?

[usurpers]

[ eren has to look up again just to make sure the light is gone, and . . . yeah, only the sun coming from between the leaves in the trees. ]

A light? And this feeling like, [ eren’s hand comes up to his chest, and his fingers flex, but— he can’t quite find the words for it. he’ll still try. ] a shock? A vibration, or . . . A connection.

[fiddlestick]

A...connection?

[Huh, that is strange]

No, I haven't noticed anything. Are you feeling okay?

[usurpers]

I’m . . . Fine, now?

[ time to . . . check??? limbs, movement, body, memories of anything familiar—

oh, dear. ]

I’ve only felt this once. [ eren’s eyes go wide, but out of realization (and maybe a bit of no fucking way i got thor titan) ] When Dad ate Freida.

[fiddlestick]

[ . . . . . . . . ]

P-Please tell me that doesn't mean you're gonna be suddenly hungry.

[He'd REALLY like to go the evening without any cannibalizing.]

[usurpers]

[ wide. owlish blink. ]

. . . No?

[ he’s not hungry at all, but while they’re here— he should try what his gut is telling him to. ]

—Give me something to build. Anything you can think of. [ . . . ] I’m going to try something.

[fiddlestick]

[Elliot looks equally confused. Relieved there's no munching time today, but still!]

Er...what?

Um...a stack of rocks?

[WE'RE IN THE WOODS NOT HOME DEPOT]

[usurpers]

[ elliot

eren is home depot now ]

No— something more elaborate. Like a weapon, or a structure.

[ he slips his knife out and grips the blade part tightly, pulling it down in one swift motion to cut his palm as he’s talking. this has become such a routine thing he doesn’t even. like. wince anymore. ]

[fiddlestick]

Uh...

[This sure is getting weird. And oh great, he's triggering the titan. Elliot's gotten so used to it he won't react strongly, other than a strong sense of why]

A bell...?

[of course he'll pick an instrument]

[usurpers]

[ isn’t why always related to eren

but, right, a bell! that’s not was he was expecting, but a surprise and challenge just the way he likes them. you know the drill by now: steps back, static, a loud crack, and tissue forming around eren until there stands a titan.

it shouldn’t be as hard as it was when he was trying to harden, right?

first come his knuckles; they shine until they’re a brilliant blue crystal, and he flexes them to get an idea. then step two: there’s another light in his hands, not unlike magic. think bell— and what he drops onto the forest floor is a crystallized, titan sized barbell. he

tried????? ]

[fiddlestick]

[Okay so it doesn't matter if that's not a bell, because Eren sure just conjured a fricking thing out of midair like it was magic. Magic!!!]

Whaaaat?!

[usurpers]

[ he’s sorry!!! he’s so sorry. eren quickly signs not bell but becoming painfully excited to the point that he tries to say that. blar blargh. yes, blar blargh.

the next attempt gives birth to, not a bell, but two dumbbells for each titan hand, and eren screams. still not a bell but???? he has to drop them (they all clatter against each other) and he signs with a lot of emphasis:



. . . he forgot how to sign hammer so, pretending to hit a tree with a— never mind.

he god damn crystallizes a hammer and just sort of. stares at it. not quite naruto levels of what the fuck kind of power can I get now but we’re close. ]

[fiddlestick]

[There is just....so much weird with this new power. So much. Elliot is still staring at all this strangeness, trying to comprehend it while Eren keeps signing stuff and making stuff and hitting a tree and-]

Uh...s-so you can make stuff like hammers and exercise equipment?

[usurpers]

[ eren pauses for a minute and remembers something he’s seen in his memories, and wonders if he could replicate it . . . only one way to find out.

albeit much more simple than today’s, the light that shines and constructs the crystal around his grip becomes a crossbow, one that’s fully functional when he shoots a crystallized, armed arrow into one of the trees.

that should expand the horizons and possibilities. ]

[fiddlestick]

[And...now he's making a fully functional crossbow. Sure that's really impressive but...]

Uh, Eren? That's cool, but we really don't have anywhere to store all these giant weapons.

(1/2)

[usurpers]

[ eren looks between the giant crossbow in his hands, and the pile of equipment, then slowly back to the crossbow and back to elliot like



that’s it, that’s the tag ]

[usurpers]

[ the titan, finally, just gives his head a great big smack as he drops the crossbow with the rest of the equipment. lmao, great, how do you break titan crystal!! mildly known fact: you don’t (unless you have the right instruments for it). god he’s so

i’m a dumbass, he signs, and drops to the ground on his bottom enough to make the entire earth jump. . ]

[fiddlestick]

[Elliot jumps out of the way from the falling crossbow so he doesn't get crushed by accident. In fact he gets back a little just in case Eren decides to get out of titan form. No need to get caught up in that steam bath.]

Eheh...it's okay, you just got over excited...