[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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[diedforyoursins]

[...]

The war in my world was fought with the Evangelion units -- more or less enormous humanoid robots. I was crushed in Unit 01's hand, and decapitated by the resulting pressure.

[will just casually leave out shinji's part in all that given last time it got out takuto went on a punching spree.]

[everylastone]

[Neither 'robots' nor 'evangelion' tell him anything, but 'enormous humanoids' sure does.

Eren relaxes visibly as he grimaces with a slight apologetic note on his face.]

Oh. So that's it? That must have sucked. Sorry for you that that happened. [Despite his words he still has a healthy dose of wariness for the other one.]

[diedforyoursins]

[he can't quite puzzle that one out, wanting so badly to hear the details and only relaxing afterwards. but it's hardly the first time humans have perplexed him.]

It was over quickly. And I am here now, correct? There may be a war here as well, but this place is a paradise compared to where I came from. I am happy here.

[he pretty much exudes calm and contentedness, and from a normal person that might be all good stuff. but combined with his odd, almost sickly appearance and his often unsettling manner, it's not that strange at all that people are wary of him.]

[everylastone]

Yeah. [He frowns because as logical as that sounds it also sounds quite touched in the head. Dead people usually don't go around merrily talking about how things are better now.]

Is this really a different world..?

[diedforyoursins]

[most dead people aren't kaworu.]

I think it is. Though it would not be difficult to believe it really is an afterlife of some sort, given the general obsession with death.

[everylastone]

[It'd be pretty worrisome if most people were Kaworu. bad habits, man. you should lay off the dying]

I think I'd rather avoid experiencing the afterlife for another while, thanks. [He glances up at the sun which returns his look with a grin. This whole situation is giving him a headache like no other.]

Say, is there really no way to get back to where we were before? [It comes out as a whine.]

[diedforyoursins]

[hahaha no way man he's got an eternity of time loops and dying ahead of him]

Sometimes BREW sends people home, but there is no clear understanding of what causes it to happen. It seems entirely random, really. Beyond that, the only solution seems to be to win the war.

[everylastone]

BREW. That's the thing that 'brought us here', right? [Say yes and he might run off to plot how to get and destroy that thing.]

[diedforyoursins]

Mm. I cannot claim to understand how it works, but I suppose I owe it my life.

[good luck with that.]

[everylastone]

[That makes him pause for a moment.] Will you die if something happens to it?

[diedforyoursins]

There is no way of knowing. Perhaps if it is destroyed, everyone will be sent home automatically and I will cease to exist. Or perhaps destroying it will strand us all here forever and ensure that I am never sent home.

[it's probably a good thing if he inadvertently guilts you out of trying anything. you're more likely to break every bone in your hand than actually ever damage it if you punched the thing or something.]

[everylastone]

[That gets Eren's frown to deepen in thought for exactly 2,5 seconds before he shrugs is shoulders.]

Whatever. If we don't try to do anything about it we won't get away from here for sure. [Don't ask when 'I' turned into 'we' here.]

[diedforyoursins]

[the corner of his lips quirks upward slightly at that "we". even knowing they were most likely always going to be on opposite sides of the whole "staying or going" debate.]

The surest way to speed along one's return is to help the war end sooner.

[everylastone]

I can't do that.


No offense, but I really don't have the time to fight somebody else's fights. They are fighting just against other people, right? Why can't they just end it with one big strike or make some sort of compromise if both sides are too weak to do something like that? [Moderation. He's good at it.]

[diedforyoursins]

It is not against other people. The Witches are monsters who want only for destruction. There is no hope of compromise, and they are too strong to be defeated so easily.

If your concern is pressing matters in your own world, then at the very least, you can relax. Time does not pass for us in our own worlds while we are here. Whenever you are sent home, for whatever reason, it will be to the same moment you left from.

[everylastone]

[He grimaces. Wow, really? You expect him to believe this kind of BS placation?]

So I get to risk my neck for others like some last minute bought war dog? You can take that idea and ram that right up your ass. Either I get what I want as well, or I'm not moving a muscle for them!

[diedforyoursins]

[if he just looks perplexed for a moment, well...maybe it's still just a bit strange to him that humans are oftentimes so against helping others if they don't get anything in return.]

You do not have to fight. No one will force you to, and you may live as peacefully as is possible here in the meantime if that is what you would like, with all the necessities for living paid for by Shibusen. But there really is no way to be sent home any sooner besides bringing the war to an end. You could wait around and hope that BREW decides to return you, but the only active role one can play in returning is to fight.

adadsasd that wording out of all the things! |D

[everylastone]

[Eren bristles as if Kaworu had just physically wronged his mother.

As if he'd ever stay in some allotted little patch like some sheep!]

Then I'll fight, but not for them! We'll see how they like that!

sorry for late, otakon happened ._.

[diedforyoursins]

[that is...not the response he had been looking for.]

You do not mean for the Witches, I hope?

[everylastone]

[Eren growls under his breath, ready to march off.]

If it has to be!

[diedforyoursins]

[for a guy that came across as so serene and gentle, his expression turns dark pretty fast at that.]

That is a dangerous thing to be saying. I can forgive you for the moment because I do not think you fully understand what you are suggesting, but I can promise that I would put you down myself if you became a threat to humanity.

[everylastone]

[If Eren notices that sudden change of mood then it doesn't seem to even surprise him.]

You're welcome to try it. For someone claiming to care about the fate of humanity you guys sure do it a good lot well by stealing the people who are needed to fight for it elsewhere and then insisting keeping them here even if they won't help you out!

[diedforyoursins]

It was an accident, and I am no more involved with it than you are. If you must resent Shibusen for their mistakes, then fine. But do not put all the innocent people in this world at risk because of it. The Witches want only destruction and chaos, reaching far beyond the simple defeat of this city. They would destroy everything, and you are suggesting helping them out of a petty grudge against an extremely small part of this world's population.

[everylastone]

[The temptation to punch Kaworu for what matters more than anything else to him a 'petty grudge' is high, but somehow Eren manages to resist it, albeit barely.]

If this extremely small part is carelessly causing the extinction of the human race and not giving a damn about it then they can go to hell in a hand-basket for all I care, and everybody who sides with them as well!

People have died to give us this chance that's being so casually ruined here!

[diedforyoursins]

[good thing you didn't, last time someone tried he almost broke their arm.]

Have you been listening at all? They have not caused this. They are the one force with any chance of saving humanity here.