Regarding Reserve @ zodion

[tactitan]

I...really think you should reconsider this. You're being far too hasty and not thinking a decision like this entirely through. I can see where you're coming from, really, I can. Yes, there won't be any Titans and yes, Mikasa will be there but I think the cons far outweigh the pros here.

For starters, for all I know Eren won't be there which...may or may not be for the best, considering the nature of the place, and yes, I'll have the opportunity to see the ocean but...I can't even think of laying eyes on it without him there to see it too. It just wouldn't be right.

Then there's the "worship" aspect of it all. I don't think I'm cut out for it. I mean, I'll do so if I have to but really...I really would rather not. Yes, it's better than being nearly eaten alive on a regular basis but I think a lot of things are better than that.

Can't we just discuss this like civilized human beings? We can make a compromise, right?

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[stircrazy]

The ocean? You're going to the ocean?

[tactitan]

Well, I'm being sent to a place that has shorelines that boarder onto the ocean. So yes, kind of.

[stircrazy]

The edge of the ocean. And you'll see how big it is?

[tactitan]

Technically...but I don't want to see it without you, Eren. It wouldn't be right.

[hostclubshadowking]

They don't usually compromise, once they've made up their minds.

[tactitan]

Still, there has to be something that can be done, right?

[hostclubshadowking]

Not really, no. Except perhaps hope inspiration wanes, though that's generally bad news for us, too.

[tactitan]

You've dealt with them before then?

[hostclubshadowking]

Not very long, but I'm aware of what has happened to my predecessors.

[tactitan]

Talk about disconcerting...

[pronounced]

Maybe something will happen and they'll get distracted or forget.

[tactitan]

I..._{[Oh hey Annie what's up...you're looking a little less crystallized for the time being.]} I don't think they're the type to become distracted or forget.

[pronounced]

[ nm armin. you distinctly look really great yourself...you know, for dealing with the betrayal. ]

Then I'm sure you'll figure out the "worship" problem. It should be easier than dealing with titans.

[tactitan]

_{[Let's not talk about that...it still hurts. And freaks him out. And hurts and freaks him out. He's trying to play it cool rn...which may or may not be working.]}

...I think a lot of things, relatively speaking, are easier to deal with than titans, Annie.

[pronounced]

That's why I said "should be". It's people you have to watch out for.

[ There's so much irony here that it kind of hurts. She would apologize for what he's going through except....you know. ]

[tactitan]

Fortunately I seem to be pretty good at figuring people out, at least when it comes to labeling them as a threat or not. _{[Or a traitor. Irony. He can pretty much taste it at this point.]}

[bloodyrose]

At least you're forward about potentially having to bend to that place's ways, should you show up. Some deny it altogether, thinking they can will their way out of it by just letting the time pass, but it only puts them in an even more uncomfortable position.

[Don't listen to him, Armin. He is jaded far beyond a reasonable doubt.]

[tactitan]

I'd rather look at it like playing a game of chess by their rules. _{[Bending gives him...not the most pleasant of mental images right now.]} Just because I don't agree with their rules doesn't mean I'm going to quit or lose the game. Besides, I've managed to survive worse...it'd be a slap to the face of so many I know if I gave up just because of undesirable circumstances.

[bloodyrose]

The same as I've heard others take it as. Which isn't a bad way to see things at all.

[tactitan]

I have to look at it that way. If I don't...I don't think I would be able to deal with it.

[bloodyrose]

No one will ever enjoy absolutely one-hundred percent of what they face in life, especially not if it's unavoidable, but it takes courage to actually meet it head-on. [The total opposite how he saw his circumstances, but at least he means it.] Then again, considering what you initially spoke up about [and, well, what his mun already knows] I probably don't need to say much in those regards.

[cleanfreak]

[ Oh look another of the trainees going to the same place. Just what they all needed, a place to escape and be devious— not. :( More importantly, though: ]

The ocean?

[ It's hard to say whether that's truly uncommon knowledge or something he may have picked up in the underground, but he's mildly curious all the same. ]

I have a hard time believing there's anything you aren't cut out for, Arlert; but discussing things like civilized human beings doesn't seem to be in most players' best interests. It was apparently this or "another horror setting" for me.

[ Frankly he'd rather hedge his bets in the horror setting, himself. ]

[tactitan]

...Have you heard of it, Sir?

_{[He doesn't want to assume Levi knows or doesn't know what it is. This guy is still intimidating as all hell. He's not sure of the compliment either, but he'll take it.]}

Your confidence in my capability to survive is encouraging, but everyone has their strengths and weaknesses...I'll survive, certainly, but it's really not something I've wanted to think about.

_{[He's had more important things on his mind other than sex like, you know, the ocean, or how the Earth isn't flat, and how the moon controls the tides etc...]}

A horror setting... _{[It sounds just as unpleasant, but then again their daily lives were a horror story to begin with. It couldn't be that big of a change.]}

[cleanfreak]

I might have, but tell me about it anyway.

[ He's "heard of" plenty of things, but it may refresh his memory. Grey eyes trained on Armin drift off to the side, as if realizing he's intimidated but he isn't quite sociable himself, so he lingers about all the same. At least this way it doesn't look like he's glaring at you with that furrowed brow. ]

No, I imagine your mind was filled with more relevant [ the ocean, tides, the shape of the planet ] or worse things. It's not so bad, though.

[ It's about the closest he can get to offering the boy support. Levi had a completely different upbringing from the trainees, so the concept was both one near and somewhat dear to the thugs of the underground; sex was far from uncommon, and though information trading and smuggling was highly sought after, fantastical things like great salty bodies of water and planets and the moon's effect on them were far from his mind after years in the Recon Corps.

His brain to mouth filter may be faulty at best, but he has the decency to bite back "there's worse things than dying a virgin". ]

[tactitan]

Um...well the ocean is the largest body of water on the Earth. In fact, it covers most of it! And it's all salt water too. When you look at it apparently it seems to go on forever...

_{[And really, he'd give anything to see it...but he doesn't want to see it alone. Not without Eren, that is. His dream isn't just his dream any more - it's shared.]}

...Sex? Well Sir I'd imagine it isn't bad...or else people wouldn't engage in it so often.