. . . I know the feeling. [ it's like they're afraid to say it's better than home. ] Even if it's all over back home . . . I don't think it'll all really be over.
[ here, it's different. nobody knows what an eldian is. there aren't years of history carved against anyone here. it's just pokemon. ]
[She opened her mouth, the frown deepening as she closed it. She wasn't hesitating this time, just thinking. Being careful about what words she used for once.]
I don't think so either. Even when Armin was speaking to them, those soldiers were aiming their guns. [They'd put the guns down after a bit. But it would be very easy for them to take aim again. It was tense. Even after the world had been saved.]
...I wish they could be as well. But from when they knew us. [Imagine if Peick turned up but she was ten years younger and didn't know them. It'd be awkward. ]
Yeah, auntie Karina got one taken when he became a warrior. [Gabi had spent too much time admiring that photo, it was goals. It had been her goal for a long time. It'd kinda lost it's luster now, you know titan shifters didn't exist. And she'd seen Reiner at his worst...
Yeah. Thinking back on it, she could only think one thing.]
[Heh. She snorted, smiling for the first time since this whole conversation. And probably for the last few days.]
Yeah, he had chubby cheeks. Like a baby. [Because she'd seen so many babies in her life. And because she's Gabi, she puffs herself up.] That's how I know I'm going to be strong.
[Because she's short, and Reiner was short but now he's big and stronk.]
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... I like it better than home.
[Was that wrong of her?]
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. . . I know the feeling. [ it's like they're afraid to say it's better than home. ] Even if it's all over back home . . . I don't think it'll all really be over.
[ here, it's different. nobody knows what an eldian is. there aren't years of history carved against anyone here. it's just pokemon. ]
—I wish everyone else could be here.
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I don't think so either. Even when Armin was speaking to them, those soldiers were aiming their guns. [They'd put the guns down after a bit. But it would be very easy for them to take aim again. It was tense. Even after the world had been saved.]
...I wish they could be as well. But from when they knew us. [Imagine if Peick turned up but she was ten years younger and didn't know them. It'd be awkward. ]
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Have you ever seen Reiner younger?
[ like. in pictures and stuff. this is a dumb kid-level question obviously. ]
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Yeah, auntie Karina got one taken when he became a warrior. [Gabi had spent too much time admiring that photo, it was goals. It had been her goal for a long time. It'd kinda lost it's luster now, you know titan shifters didn't exist. And she'd seen Reiner at his worst...
Yeah. Thinking back on it, she could only think one thing.]
...He was kinda short and chubby. [No filter.]
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Really? [ short? look how big he is! and, well, as for . . . le chonk, ] I think he'd get embarrassed with you saying that.
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Yeah, he had chubby cheeks. Like a baby. [Because she'd seen so many babies in her life. And because she's Gabi, she puffs herself up.] That's how I know I'm going to be strong.
[Because she's short, and Reiner was short but now he's big and stronk.]
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Because you have chubby cheeks? Or because Reiner's huge?
[ now he's just messing with her— ]
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Then she yells.]
My cheeks aren't chubby! Your's are!
[NEHHH-!]
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I— I don't have chubby cheeks!
[ that'd make him squishable, like a teddy bear. if anything, he'd like to start being handsome! ]
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[She's going red for a different reason. But at least the frown was going, it was morphing into something more smug as she bullied him.]
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[ he this his cheeks down enough to purse his lips at the camera. let's be honest: gabullying is attention and he might as well like it. ]
Colt didn't have chubby cheeks— And I'm gonna be as tall and strong as he was.
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I'll be taller too!
[No...No she won't.]
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I'll definitely be taller! I'm already taller now, and—! I'll even measure to prove it!
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Even if she just kept frowning at him and his tallness.]
That just means I'll be taller when I start growing.
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This isn't over.]