wintolive: midhair (mh 25)

I did rng this just btw

[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-01 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[That's that, then. They agree, so...why does it feel as though they don't?

[Another question comes to Eren. He asks it before he realizes what he's saying.]

Could you ever forgive your worst enemy?
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OHH THE RNG (1/2)

[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-01 08:15 am (UTC)(link)

No.

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(2/2)

[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-01 08:15 am (UTC)(link)

[Pause, slight. Steady. School her face back into something less reactive, the straight-furrowed brow that’s become so typical these days. It’s almost instinctive as the snap.]

No. [Focus back on him. Tense fingers curl out just enough to rub her temple, a slight nick above the brow. In all, it only takes seconds.] I wouldn’t.

Your answer. [Hardly a question. On with it....]

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[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-01 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Caitlyn can't hide her reaction once it's happened, but Eren doesn't blame her for it. She hates, he hates. Their answers are the same - it's easier to say without growling, now that Caitlyn has done it for both of them.]

Of course not.

[It's a stupid fucking question.]

Next.
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random again....

[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-01 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)

[How many are there, she wonders. Doesn’t dare ask.]

Would you always be loyal to your loved ones, even if they wronged you?

[Some tightness to her expression, towards the end. It could be taken for disdain.]

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[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-06 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[A knife, plunged right through the space where his skull meets his spine. Eren feels his heart thud once, solid, in his throat. On his right wrist, his hand curls up, every knuckle popping.]

No. I'll betray them all.

[He doesn't mean to say it. He doesn't mean to--]

And they've done nothing wrong.
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[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-06 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)

[There’s a certainty to the statement that she wants to question. Almost doesn’t, as the hand writhes. But—]

What makes you so sure?

[It’s not “I don’t think you will.”]

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[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-09 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[A moment of quiet. Grief threatens to consume. There's no point in denying what he's said, right? He still struggles with when and when not to lie. He's not a natural at it.]

I've seen it. Our future.
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[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-10 03:51 am (UTC)(link)

[The idea isn’t familiar to her, certainty in events that have yet to unfold—but then, neither were Eldians. In whatever strange space this is, from sands to questions, Caitlyn can believe it.

[It sounds bleak.

[She’s not one for condolences. Instead, Caitlyn lets his answer hang heavy for another moment. More. Then shakes her head, and offers her own quiet admission:] I can’t promise my loyalties, either.

[And so, it’s his turn. If he’d like.]

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cw: suicide - bless u rng

[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-10 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a comfort, terrible as it is. Eren shouldn't be glad that there are more people in the world like him, but...he's always hated to be alone.

[He nods, quiet, and gives that admission the space it deserves too.

[Then, the next question.]

Is--

[The question chokes off in Eren's throat, his eyes going slightly wide. He clamps his jaw closed; a beat, two beats...

[He swallows a lump in his throat, right hand curling up at his side again.]

Is suicide ever the right choice?
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[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-10 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)

[As if the previous weren’t enough. The second his words cut off Caitlyn is on high alert, watching his jaw, his hand.

[But if this nightmare muzzled him, he swallows it back. Chokes it back out. It’s Caitlyn's turn to snap her mouth shut, as though the red ornament around her neck abruptly constricted.

[It hasn’t. The choice isn’t hers to make, either way.]

No. [Not quite. Staring past him, now.] What wrongs would it aim to right. [It would be senseless.]

wintolive: midhair (mh 25)

cw: lots of fucked up suicide talk HERE DOWN

[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-18 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
It could stop them before they even happen.

[They stare past each other.]

Really...

Some people probably should kill themselves. It would be better for everyone if they died, so...

What then? You can probably think of at least one person who fits that description, right?
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we love a blanket cw

[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-18 04:39 am (UTC)(link)

[She can. Does, immediately. Speaks low.]

And rob those they hurt?

[A snort. More a sneer, really.]

I don’t endorse cowards.

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[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-18 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a beat of quiet. Eren watches Caitlyn and feels an odd distance, one that's growing increasingly familiar as time goes on; he's not quite there, not quite yet, not quite anymore...]

If someone was about to take ten thousand lives, but they killed themselves instead...

You'd rather those ten thousand people die, just so you can look their murderer in the eye and ask him to pay for what he's done...?

If that's true, then...

You just love Hell.
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[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-18 05:08 am (UTC)(link)

[It doesn’t make sense. She knows it doesn’t make sense. Morally, she’s been taught it’s not right—but since when did Caitlyn ever listen?

[“You must love Hell.” A twist in her skull. Can’t deny it.

[Sickening, that the only thing to keep her going is that she’s still alive.]

I don’t [still low, exceedingly measured] waste my time [easy, easy] on useless hypotheticals.

[She’d rather end it.]

wintolive: midhair (mh 26)

[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-18 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Right now, you have no choice.

[Tch.]

You just don't want to answer.
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[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-23 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)

[She did, she thinks; they both did. And yet, no additional question magically spawns from the ether, so obviously this was the wrong approach.

[Fine. A mental rewind, shaking her head, and then she looks him in the eye again.]

I don’t believe suicide is the right choice. But in certain circumstances, yes. It’s better. Kill one to save the thousands.

[Yet she must love Hell.]

And your answer? [He said nothing of what’s “right.”]

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[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-23 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Something about her compliance seems to sate the beast. Eren has become egotistical, maybe. He doesn't look away yet, though; his voice comes out dumb, condescending.]

And rob the people they hurt?

[But he isn't mocking her, no. At last, a mercy, he rolls his eyes off to the side and rolls his hand on his wrist.]

Some people should die. It's like I said - if someone were about to kill ten thousand people, killing themself first would be the better thing to do. But...

[His eyes shift back to her; its almost as she said:]

If it's someone I'd really like to kill myself, then it doesn't matter to me how many people die in the meantime.

[Something he's trying to come to terms with.]
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[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-23 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)

[No offense taken, mockery or otherwise. It’s not his fault they’re being subjected to this ridiculous exercise.

[It is his decision to not-quite-echo the rest of his answer. Her eyes don’t leave him, regarding his words in silence for a time. Weighted, yes, acknowledging. Suspect.

[Monstrous. Maybe.]

Should all people be treated as equal, [abrupt,] and have the same rights? [What a joke.]

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[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-24 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[The silence that passes is two seconds too long, like it's owed to some delay instead of simply giving the question the consideration it deserves. Eren doesn't answer right.]

They aren't.

They don't.

[I don't waste my time on useless hypotheticals.]
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[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-25 12:56 am (UTC)(link)

[Just a half-blink, from Caitlyn. Surprised, but—eyes not shut.

[Animals. Monsters.
[His answer. It’s the same....

[An idea forms, about the nature of this game they’re trapped in. She doesn’t voice it. Truth seems the only way through, so:]

Equality isn’t inherent. It’s a right.

Easy to forfeit. That’s on everyone.

[They’re not good people. What does he think he is?]

wintolive: midhair (mm9)

cw: dehumanizing language, very wretched disgusting takes on inequality

[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-26 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Now, the silence is pointed. Gravity seems to increase. Eren feels his throat go dry, forehead humid. His right hand twitches at his side.]

You're right.

Anyone who allows themself to continue living under someone's thumb...

They're no better than cattle. Slaves.
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[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-26 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)

[So they’ve both answered.]

Then we’d best find that someone.

[Are they free?]

Before the slaughter.

wintolive: midhair (mh 65)

we can probably move toward a wrap here soon hehe

[personal profile] wintolive 2025-04-27 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
You say that like there's only one.

[She has someone specific in mind. He's known that for a while now.]

You think we'll find them here?
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o7

[personal profile] surveillingscion 2025-04-27 03:25 am (UTC)(link)

And neglect to search?

[However this nebulous space works. The charade is over.

[They’ll keep moving.]

hehe WRAPPED

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