[Eren's always been prone to tears, but tears like these feel different; how badly he needs relief. People fret that Eren never stops moving - wake up, train, train more, work, work more, train, fail to rest, train more - on and on and on and on...
[But he's always had something to move toward - and never any choice but to move toward it! He's still here; trapped, caged. Occasional bouts of enemies allow him to vent some of that range, but there's still no escape from the void leftover.
[Eren keenly recalls what it felt like to be empty, but how he longs for it when he feels so much well up inside of it that he knows he'll drown, choking on saltwater until his lungs are filled with that terrible sea.
[It has to come out somehow. The wretched, wrenching grief lasts and lasts, Levi's shirt a mess, Eren's face a worse one. Even once the sobbing shifts into quiet, jerking whimpers, Eren doesn't let go; once those subside into soft, silent nothing, Eren doesn't let go.
[If he could stay here, like this, forever, in this exhausted safety, he would, wouldn't he? But that's never been the case...
[Eren leans away from Levi, hands still balling up the fabric of his Captain's shirt. He has trouble releasing.]
Captain...
[Does Levi ever cry like this? He's held, isn't he?]
THREE TAGS IN A ROW - TEARS - jail.
[But he's always had something to move toward - and never any choice but to move toward it! He's still here; trapped, caged. Occasional bouts of enemies allow him to vent some of that range, but there's still no escape from the void leftover.
[Eren keenly recalls what it felt like to be empty, but how he longs for it when he feels so much well up inside of it that he knows he'll drown, choking on saltwater until his lungs are filled with that terrible sea.
[It has to come out somehow. The wretched, wrenching grief lasts and lasts, Levi's shirt a mess, Eren's face a worse one. Even once the sobbing shifts into quiet, jerking whimpers, Eren doesn't let go; once those subside into soft, silent nothing, Eren doesn't let go.
[If he could stay here, like this, forever, in this exhausted safety, he would, wouldn't he? But that's never been the case...
[Eren leans away from Levi, hands still balling up the fabric of his Captain's shirt. He has trouble releasing.]
Captain...
[Does Levi ever cry like this? He's held, isn't he?]
You feel it too...don't you?