Thank whatever gods that exist. She's safe in there. They'd never be able to break her out - or he hopes, anyway. She'd be safe there. They could still rescue her. Not-- Not himself, not anymore, but Reiner and the other warriors could.
Bertolt lets his shoulders slump in relief and he doesn't even seem to mind when Annie doesn't return the smile - it's who she is, after all.
Marco's name makes his smile falter and disappear, and there's a familiar sense of dread growing in the pit of his stomach. Marco... was never something they talked about. In a sense it's something he's immensely glad for, but it feels wrong trying to carry on as if it never happened.
As if he didn't stand there and watch.]
Not yet.
[It's almost bad enough that his own Aggron ended up being named after Reiner. A massive, hulking wall of iron armor with golden-red eyes named after the goddamned Armored Titan of all things.]
I don't think I could do it. It'd feel wrong.
[How could it feel more wrong than watching him die? He doesn't know, but the thought doesn't sit right with him.]
never be sorry ever she's great 👀
Thank whatever gods that exist. She's safe in there. They'd never be able to break her out - or he hopes, anyway. She'd be safe there. They could still rescue her. Not-- Not himself, not anymore, but Reiner and the other warriors could.
Bertolt lets his shoulders slump in relief and he doesn't even seem to mind when Annie doesn't return the smile - it's who she is, after all.
Marco's name makes his smile falter and disappear, and there's a familiar sense of dread growing in the pit of his stomach. Marco... was never something they talked about. In a sense it's something he's immensely glad for, but it feels wrong trying to carry on as if it never happened.
As if he didn't stand there and watch.]
Not yet.
[It's almost bad enough that his own Aggron ended up being named after Reiner. A massive, hulking wall of iron armor with golden-red eyes named after the goddamned Armored Titan of all things.]
I don't think I could do it. It'd feel wrong.
[How could it feel more wrong than watching him die? He doesn't know, but the thought doesn't sit right with him.]