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[fiddlestick]

Elliot Craig

[MUFFLED VIOLIN MUSIC IN THE DISTANCE]

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[fiddlestick]

...Yeah. [He lets out a sad sigh] Crow.

I don't remember anything directly pinpointing it as him, but in all my memories during the war? Crow is the only class member missing.

[usurpers]

[ alrighty, so this is a thing that’s happening.

throughout it, eren’s expression maintains neutrality. he doesnt want to cause alarm when it doesn’t have to be, or set fire to gasoline when there was no need to. ]

Does that change what you feel about him?

[ for eren, it doesn’t, but for more personally mutual memories. if anything, he hopes to guide that saddened face of elliot’s away. one hand washes the other. ]

[fiddlestick]

No.

[The answer comes easy. ]

The Crow that's here now isn't the same as the Crow in my memories. And even if he was... [He offers a little shrug] I remember how much the other Elliot missed him. He never hated him.

[So why should he now?]

I just...I don't know what'll happen when he finds out here.

[usurpers]

That’s what I thought.

[ oh, elliot. if there is something that eren knows now, it’s how layered betrayal can be. ]

We’ll talk to him. It’s the best thing we could do.

[fiddlestick]

[he considers, then gives a little shake of his head]

Thanks, but...I think that conversation should be something I should handle on my own. It's a Class VII matter...it'd look bad if I felt I had to bring back-up.

[Having Eren there when he breaks the news to him...it shows that he doesn't trust Crow. That he's fearful of him. Which couln't be further from the truth]

[usurpers]

That’s not what I meant.

[ but eren doesn’t seem deterred in the slightest, and still mildly smiling. ]

You’ll talk to him on your own time, or whenever he comes to you to talk about it. And I’ll do the same thing if he ever comes to me. Rean’ll probably do the same thing. [ . . . ] Betrayal’s universal. He just needs to know that his friends see past that when he starts doubting it.

[fiddlestick]

[He makes a little sigh of relief]

Yeah, you're right. He'll probably judge himself the hardest for his past, so we have to be there for him.