[Open] What do you mean, it's the 21st century?

[everylastone]

Characters: Eren Jaeger and OPEN
Location: A nameless street in the city, Shibusen and the training area
Rating: PG-13
Time: June 9th
Description: After finally being permitted out of the hospital’s quarantine Eren has nothing better to do than


a) Run in front of a car

b) Look like a suicidal idiot on a wall

c) Stare at everybody who’s not Caucasian white or has a non-standard hair-color during training time.

d) Do all of the above with predictable consequences.


((OOC: Hi, I'm trying a little different setup this time~ This is an open log with multiple scenarios set up in its comments. As always, comment wherever you want in whatever style you prefer and I'll go along with it!))

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b) Look like a suicidal idiot on a wall / Outside Shibusen

[everylastone]

“There really are no walls-!!” Eren didn’t even notice that he had spoken (read: shouted) those words out loud as he leaned as far over the protective balustrade as was possible without keeling over and plunging to his dead. The teen had made a beeline for the topmost layer of Shibusen as soon as he had set his eyes on it, climbing the stairs that led up to it with only minor (ok, maybe some not so minor) grumbling in his head and sparkling eyes.

His feet still felt like they were shaking under him, but by now he had no way of telling whether it was because of exhaustion from climbing all those stairs or because there was no wall surrounding the city anywhere to be seen!!

Unable to resist the impulse Eren edged even more forward, leaning far over the edge. “Impossible.. I can see all the way to the horizon!”

Re: b) Look like a suicidal idiot on a wall / Outside Shibusen

[dwightandclean]

Dwight had been sent to fix a few parts of the wall. Mostly he figured that his co-workers just didn't want him around too much but he'd grown used to it. He'd been about to patch up a crack when he heard the shout. Squinting up into the sun he spots the kid.

"Hey! Watch it!" He stands up just to make it easier for Eren to spot him, "There's not wall but there's also nothing to catch you if you tumble off."

I hope it's ok to assume Dwight is somewhere beneath him using a scaffold?

[everylastone]

Eren stopped with his antics long enough to look down at the shout, looking utterly unperturbed by it. Having trained to master the 3D maneuver gear for years had left the teen conceivably immune to great heights and the fear of falling down from them. You couldn't hope to stand a chance fighting a titan if you were already scared just by the thought of jumping and leaping extreme heights very quickly and Eren wanted to eradicate them all, after all!

"Hello!" Waving down after a moment of hesitation Eren promptly made matters worse by swinging one of his feet over the balustrade to straddle it in favor of both getting a better look at the man who had called out to him and keeping his balance secure. "Are you a part of the Stationary Guards here?"

Against his will a childlike excitement kept pulsing through him, making him feel giddy and lacing his words. He just couldn't help it because this was a world where there were no walls!

but of course :D

[dwightandclean]

Dwight watched the young man for a moment, smiling slightly at the look of sheer glee that seemed stuck on his face. The Cleaner just chuckled, wiping his hands and leaning against the wall. Obviously the kid had a handle on balance...but still...Dwight was allowed to worry about people. It was sort his thing to do. Had always been.

"Ah...haven't really been in a Guard in years, but I am part of the guest Shibusen's brought over." He squinted a little as he changed his gaze to look over the city, "If that counts for anything." Looking back up now he chuckled, "And where did you come from, kiddo?"

Yay! <3

[everylastone]

"Ah." That was all Eren said as his mouth shut closed with enough force that it felt as if the click of his teeth hitting teeth would have to be audible till down to the street.

His gleeful expression vanished as if it had been wiped off as a dark, serious look replaced it that was accompanied with a visible tension taking over Eren's whole body. Closing his eyes, Eren tried not to think of humans who had to live like cattle behind giant walls that still couldn't protect them and of the titans coming down on them, eating his comrades, his family, his friends- How foolish... Just a little horizon and I'm already acting like a stupid excitable kid! They still somewhere out there! He clenched his fist tightly as he silently berated himself for his carelessness for a long moment.

When Eren opened his eyes and looked back down to answer Dwight's question belatedly a notable change had gone through the teen. His eyes were furrowed in an angry frown and burned with an unholy fire of barely repressed emotions; most of them dark and violent. His way of holding himself was brisk and soldier-like, no trace of the exuberance he had just displayed left in it.

Within seconds he had turned from an excited kid into an adult who had seen and done too much.

His voice was carefully guarded as he finally replied. "...from Shiganshina." For a moment he had debated the wisdom of revealing even this much, but it wasn't as if the information could still be used for anything and not saying anything at all would have been even more suspicious than giving at least part of an information.

[atleast80]

Hyoubu didn't actually have any business at Shibusen. He just liked high places and he was bored today.

He stopped walking at the shout and turned to look at the kid leaning precariously over the balustrade.

Hou...

Without taking his hands out of his pockets he walked over until he was close enough to put a foot on the kid's backside as if he was going to kick him over. He didn't apply any pressure though and if he wanted to get away it wouldn't be hard.

"You know," he started conversationally, "if it's walls you're looking for, you might find one if you change your perspective a little. I could help with that."

Not that Hyoubu planned to make good on that offer. This was the sort of prank a psychokinetic or a teleporter could pull. At the moment he was neither and he didn't particularly want to be arrested so he'll refrain from actually kicking anyone off.

[everylastone]

Eren froze when he felt something press suspiciously against his butt but didn't jerk or make any other sudden movements that would have endangered his precarious balance.

Turning to give the culprit a look over his shoulder, his brows furrowed lightly. "Sorry, but I think I'd rather not argue with some perverted old man." Noting this guy's strange outfit to be apparently some sort of uniform, he added a reluctant "...Sir."

[atleast80]

Now Hyoubu really was tempted to kick him off, screw not having powers.

"Oi. What part of me looks like a pervert? I'll have you know I'm nothing of the sort." Old he wasn't going to deny. That part was true.

So he may have been a bit more touchy about this than he should have, but, damn it. Why do people always label him as a pervert?

[everylastone]

"The one that found it necessary to touch my butt, Sir." Eren didn't miss a beat.

It would have been something else if this stranger had tried to test his skill by attempting to topple him over the wall (or a good reason to break his nose, depending on it), but as things were it was just shady. Perverted, although Eren barely considered himself a viable goal for such advances.

"How about taking your foot away from it now that you've got my attention?"

[pregames]

Classic or modern. Large or small. There was something about cities that were all the same. The tightly packed arrangement of honey comb edifices jigsawed together in some kind of organized chaos, glutted with noise and overwhelming distractions in many different forms.

Sometimes, one simply had to escape. It was a matter of survival in some regards, something Atem had learned early on in his sovereign rule. Given the relative isolation of the highest tiers of Shibusen -- it seemed there was little reasons to venture up this way -- he had begun to seek shelter here from the suffocation of the streets, and life below. There was something calming about the free flow of wind and the way muffled sounds of life ascended leisurely from below. His thoughts were clearer.

That is until a wayward companion interjected loudly, with his own thoughts. And the pharaoh, leaning against a post in the barrier, found that the source presented quite a sight.

"I am willing to bet that you just arrived here?" He questioned, concern lacking. "Keep that up and you will be on your way back out."

[everylastone]

Eren stiffened at the sound of the unfamiliar voice, returning into a somewhat safer stance as he let himself slide back towards the safe ground on this side of the balustrade.

It figured that somebody always had to mouth off when he found something that actually got him excited. At least it wasn't Jean this time.

"I'd rather be outside and live my life no matter how short it is freely than to stay forever cooped up in some fake safety like a coward." There was a certain quality to his voice that said that this was an argument that he had led many times before and which wasn't going to influence his way of thinking at all.

[pregames]

Considering this was a place where Atem liked to relax, he was hardly looking for an argument so the reaction is unexpected. It warranted giving Eren a second look. Small. And rather young. But with the look of a captured tempest within his eyes that made it hard to say whether he was slightly younger or slightly older than the pharaoh but undoubtedly in the same range.

Atem narrowed his gaze, guarded and expectant. It hardly mattered to him if some stranger had a death wish but the circumstances were misplaced.

"No one is forcing you to stay here, kid." His words were sagacious, spoken with an authority befitting the crown. "Not in the city anyway, although I doubt you'll find anywhere else so hospitable to our situation."

[everylastone]

Had Eren been able to know what Atem thought of him he'd have pointed out that the 'small' boy was still notable taller than him with his current 170 centimeters.

As things were he fully abandoned his vintage point on the wall in order to face the Pharaoh, standing straight with a proud edge that was both in his poise and his voice. "I don't want any hospitality. I am only staying until I find out what is going on and if there really aren't any titans around." And until he found out what had happened to his friends and comrades, he added in his head.

[morecowbell]

This guy just just looked like an accident waiting to happen. Nanami stopped and crossed her arms a few paces behind him.

"If you are planning to commit suicide, could you at least do it somewhere where people won't have to watch you fall several stories to your death?"

[everylastone]

"Suicide?" He echoed, still feeling high on the dazzling view and not really bothering to look back at who was speaking to him just yet. In fact, Eren was barely resisting to try and balance on top of the balustrade (but that would have been like asking for an accident to happen and unlike what most of his former squad thought he wasn't suicidal, thankyouverymuch!) "There's no way I'm going to die anytime soon! I haven't seen the world behind the walls yet!"

[morecowbell]

The blond didn't budge from her position as she watched the overzealous guest take in the scenery. "I can assure you it's not that interesting unless you like long stretches of desert," why anyone would find sand and dirt interesting was beyond her but she continued, "if you want to see the world it's easiest to travel via mirror from here. Anyway, you're awfully chipper for someone who was brought here against their will... You are a guest here, right?" She was 95% sure he was but better safe than sorry.

[everylastone]

Eren just gave a weird grin in return at the idea that the desert couldn't one of the best things to ever see. Because, come on! It were the plains of sand that Armin's books had spoken of! If they really existed then the sea of salt and the burning ice had to be true and somewhere out there too!

"I'm Eren. I'm from Shiganshina, which was at the southern edge of Wall Maria."

[itsfondue]

Steve was just about to go back down the stairs when he noticed Eren hovering dangerously close the edge. What? What was that kid doing? Surely there were no walls here, but they were going to need some in place if he falls off the platform.

"Son, don't stand so close there." Steve had already taken a few steps towards Eren, looking concerned and a little stern at the same time. He didn't blame Eren for being amazed by the sights, but a little exercise in caution could do wonders around here.

[everylastone]

"Huh?" Eren gave Steve a brief glance before he quickly dismissed his as a civilian. "Don't worry, I'm part of the corps. I know how to handle heights."

And even if he fell there was no telling that he wouldn't survive it and recover from it in no time thanks to his 'special condition'. Eren wasn't keen on pointlessly testing his chances on that out, though, so he lifted one of his feet a little off the ground and behind him to give himself a proper balance that would slowly let him sway backwards until he hit the save ground again.

[itsfondue]

"The corps? Don't think I'm familiar with your group." Even if he could handle heights, Steve walked closer until there were a few yards of distance between them. Not close enough to be suffocating hopefully, but enough to help in case something went wrong. He preferred to be cautious for something like this, that's all.

Although, it looked like Eren was slowly coming back to safer ground.

[everylastone]

As soon as he was back on the ground Eren took a step away from the wall - and promptly narrowed his eyes at Steve for a brief moment, taking him and the diminished distance between them in under furrowed brows with a professional air.

It wasn't much, but it was the reaction of somebody who expected to be attacked at any moment's notice.

After an awkward moment Eren titled his head and attempted a smile (that didn't turn out that well. It made it rather obvious that he usually didn't smile much.)

"It's not really all that important besides that we work with heights a lot."

b) Look like a suicidal idiot on a wall / Outside Shibusen

[gallant_guardian]

Agrias, too, had been busy walking around the city. After having been here for a few days and with no sign of returning home, the lady knight has decided to get acquainted with the streets and sights.

Were she to express it vocally, she'd be no more at ease than Eren. Having come from a time period not unlike his own, Agrias was alarmed by most of what she was seeing. Unlike him, however, she had spent the days she had been in the city getting acclimated.

Now, wandering the edge of the city, she was a bit curious as she came across a man that seemed to be restraining a yell. Curious to know what has him so astonished, the former guard captain stood a few feet to Eren's side and stared out... into the desert.

Sorry for the late!

[everylastone]

Eren spend a good couple of minutes longer staring at the horizon with nothing but unbelieving marvel in his eyes before he finally settled down back onto the save ground. His situation was still dire from what he understood, but seeing a landscape of lore be true here with his own eyes filled him nevertheless with a buzz that felt like a pleasant kind of fever.

Giving the desert a last longing look he shook his head, mumbling a last "I can't believe that I'm really seeing this!" under his breath.

s'alright!

[gallant_guardian]

"Seeing what?" The knight asked, glancing over at the young man. Though she wasn't much for eavesdropping, perhaps she could be of some assistance to what could be distress.

[everylastone]

He hesitated for an awkward moment but then replied with a shy ghost of a smile playing over his lips as he glanced back at the wide open horizon once more. "The desert."