psl/meme catch-all (2025)

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[laserhawk]

What is your type of thing then?

[abandonhumanity]

I don't do very well with rest, and I don't like having a lot of free time. I prefer working.

[laserhawk]

Don't like being alone with yourself?

[abandonhumanity]

[Oh. Funny. He's trying to look through...]

I get bored.

[laserhawk]

Pretty sure that's an easy fix, isn't it?

[ says man who has never had a chance at being bored. ]

[abandonhumanity]

Sure.

[He repeats himself:]

I prefer working.

[Aren't they supposed to be asking each other questions, anyway? Eren flips the next one over.]

A dirty secret of yours.

[laserhawk]

[ a dirty secret? dolph blinks as he parses that. ]

Not sure I have any. Not sure I have secrets in general.

sorry for my slowness timmitas

[abandonhumanity]

Neither of us are very suited to these questions.

[He has plenty of secrets, but none of them--

[Well, perhaps one.]

There's a particular subordinate I used to fuck on occasion. I don't usually advertise that information.

all good pancitas <3

[laserhawk]

Subordinate?

What do you do? Not sex wise, job wise.

[abandonhumanity]

A high-ranking official in my nation's military.

[Scandalous, no? He's only sort of lying.]

Don't mind me concealing my specific rank, considering the conversation.

[laserhawk]

[ dolph waves this off. he could care less. ]

You care about them?

[abandonhumanity]

The subordinate?

[Eh. He wants to say no; probably could, and wouldn't really be lying...]

He's one of my comrades. I care about my people.

[laserhawk]

That's rare. In an army.

[abandonhumanity]

You speak from experience?

[The armor on his face might have been a clue.]

[laserhawk]

[ dolph hesitates, reluctant. ]

Some. I was a child soldier. Rank was Captain.

[abandonhumanity]

Mm. [Eren gives one slow nod.]

I joined the military when I was a child too. Most people do.

[laserhawk]

Not at four. I hope.

It shouldn't be that way.

[abandonhumanity]

[Four. Even Eren recognizes it's grim. He gives Dolph's final statement the moment of weighted quiet it deserves, then nods.]

You're right about that.

It is that way, though. Four is young where I grew up, but across the sea, I've heard talk of children joining as early as six.

War is waged on the backs of children. It's an ugly truth.

[Weren't they just talking about sex?]

[laserhawk]

[ he nods. ]

Still. It shouldn't be that way.

[ ugly, truthful, whatever word people want to give. it shouldn't exist. ]

[abandonhumanity]

Maybe not.

Then again, maybe it has to be that way.

[laserhawk]

I'm going to regret asking but . . . why?

cw: horrifying takes on child soldiers

[abandonhumanity]

[Eren thinks he can sense his companion's agitation growing, and he isn't surprised. It's an agitating suggestion. He remains calm as he explains, though voice even, unbothered.]

It's the way the world works. It's the way the world has always worked. We've never known another way.

Even if it shouldn't be that way, how would we operate without? The militaries built on the backs of those children would crumble, and so, too, would the nations they protect.

[laserhawk]

Putting aside the fact that other places definitely survive just fine without child soldiers . . .

Do you want a world like that?

[abandonhumanity]

Not at all. I think...

A world like that is a world that deserves to be destroyed.

[laserhawk]

[ he nods, though a flicker runs through his expression. alex's words ring like a bell. could dolph do it? maybe. maybe if alex had asked. maybe if it was framed differently. he would have burned the world for alex.

wouldn't he? ]

No one needs a world like that.