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Tarot: The World (Reversed)
WHO: Frieda Reiss
WHAT: Frieda is going through it (enormous struggle dump inside!)
WHEN: First half of April
WHERE: Abandoned Graveyard / Secret Getaway and other areas in the Seasonal Segments
WARNINGS: AoT-typical heavy topics - mention of genocide, murder, mental instability, violence, war, etc.
[Many things have been moving at a different pace for Frieda ever since she inherited the memories of her ancestors. This still holds true here in Ellipsa. On some days, she can live in the moment and enjoy spending time with her sister, the few friends she's made, and other people (neighbours, magic school classmates, vendors whose shops she's become a regular at), but on other days, everything she's learned about her homeworld's future since arriving here pulls her under and makes her ruminate for hours on end, lost between those new revelations and the painful history going back 2,000 years.
Lately, those days have become more and more common.]
1) Safe Zone: Mermaid Encounter
(OOC: Since a lot of Frieda's development is internal, I wanted to chronicle it, but as it's pure introspection, by all means skip ahead to the bottom of this humungous prompt if you'd like to!)
[Frieda's first month in Ellipsa was overshadowed by grief after she learned that in the not-too-far future, most of her family will be killed alongside herself. But eventually, her unbreakable inherited will helped her overcome that struggle. What of their deaths? All Eldians should die. It's only right if the royal family dies first. She accepted it, and with a calmer and clearer mind, she could finally focus on starting to unlock her magic and supporting the local ongoings, resolved to make the most of the time she had left.
However, her encounter with Eren, her unintended successor, made her question whether she wasn't too hasty to content herself with her fate.
Eren's resentment of how the truth was kept from the people of the Walls - doubtlessly shared by all of her subjects - made it clear that he doesn't want the Founding Titan to return into the royal family's hands, and Historia, Frieda's only surviving sibling, made it clear that she doesn't want to take it from her friend. In the future they experienced, the outside world failed to eradicate their people, "merely" breaking Wall Maria - which did cause thousands of deaths through its short- and mid-term consequences -, and everybody learned of the truths that the Reiss family hid for a century.
There will be no repeat of the 2 millennia of oppression by the Eldian Empire, given that Eren can't unlock the Founding Titan's full potential and the royal bloodline, should it regain possession of it, is prevented from doing so by the inherited vow, but the situation has nevertheless given Frieda many sleepless nights. In the face of the changed circumstances, her passive stance has started to shift.
I have to take the Founding Titan back from Eren. That's the first conclusion she arrives at. He told her that he'd never go home if he can help it, and she believes him - but what if he gets no say in the matter? What if he gets sent back to their homeworld against his will? It can happen. They both know that.
Much as the imperative to keep her people from becoming a threat to the world again dictates her decision, everything inside her recoils from it. She can't murder Eren! She couldn't murder anyone - not with her own hands, in any case. She knows all too well that all the blood her enforcers spilled within the Walls stains her hands nonetheless (and that of prior rulers' enforcers' victims, too, because she can't and won't exempt herself from bearing the sins of her ancestors). Eren is Historia's friend... What of it?, argues that reasonable voice inside of her, Historia is a disappointment for not acting in the best interest of humanity despite understanding our history. Who cares what she wants?
Frieda has to leave the apartment for longer and longer stretches of time, on occasion even hastily excusing herself to Historia to keep herself from angrily lashing out at her. Sometimes, she wants to grab and shake and even hit her for thinking that's it's acceptable for Eren to keep the Founding Titan. If you won't take it back for our family, I will! What are you even good for?! It takes all her strength to keep herself from attacking her own beloved sister like that, and when the urge eventually subsides, she's desolate each time.
However, after a while of agonising and trying to reason with different parts of herself, she manages to set aside the initial conclusion, for what is ultimately a very simple reason: If she took Eren's titan powers (most realistically by enlisting the services of an assassin, much as she does back home), he'd simply take them back from her once he'd be reborn into this world.
It's a given: Much as she doesn't want him to return home and resist the Eldian atonement plan, he doesn't want her to return and work towards its fulfillment either. For being ideological opponents, the two of them were reasonably cordial towards each other despite the palpable tension, but if she were to turn on him, he'd surely retaliate in kind. As it is, he holds the stronger position, having actual experience in using his titan's powers, and if he wanted to, he could already have taken hers. She mustn't disturb the current balance.
What can she do, then? Her silent internal struggle continues for days or weeks (she can't tell anymore, even though it's interspersed with uninterrupted stretches of normalcy and little joys - somehow!) until a realisation more bitter than anything prior dawns on her: There really is only one way to ensure that the Eldians of Paradis Island won't be a threat to the world anymore. If the outside world will fail to eradicate them, their ruler must do it.
He entire being refuses that solution. How could she possibly do that?! She can't even murder one person! All those innocent people..!! No! No!! But all Eldians must die. In her mind, she practically screams at the first king of the Walls. How dare you not finish what you started?! How dare you leave it to your successors? You couldn't do it because you loved your people? How do you think I feel?! But of course, there's only her own mind to answer her, and despite fighting against the resolution with all she has, she's drawn further down the path, exploring her practical options.
In that state, she can't bear the city. Even in quiet places, she may encounter people, and while they're not her subjects, she can't endure their innocent eyes on her, feeling beyond monstrous for what's going on in her head. As such, she takes to the safe zones in the Segments to find some solitude.
She avoids the cold Winter Segment - the watchtower is close to the city, and people pass by there with relative frequency. Likewise, the Temple of Life in the Summer Segment is intermittently frequented by people coming to gather fruits or tackle the video game simulator inside. The waters of Ellipsa have provided an embrace and escape for her ever since her arrival, and so, she can ultimately be encountered in mermaid form, resting at the bottom of the Secret Getaway's lake-pond or on the safe side of the iron fence separating the Autumn Segment's flooded graveyard from the monster-infested wilderness.
It's unlikely that anyone else would dive in either body of water, but who knows! If she doesn't encounter anyone in the depths, then at some point, when she finally feels like herself again, having battled the mental images of death and suffering away for the day, she has to exit the water, and perhaps it's then that she and the other person visiting the safe area startle each other through her sudden appearance on the water's surface. Whether underwater or above, she'll call out in the same way.]
Oh..! I'm sorry, you scared me!
[She says that as if she isn't the weird one for popping out of a place that's definitely not a designated swimming area!]
2) Unsafe Zone: Titan Encounter
(OOC: Feel free to choose the Segment, otherwise I'll use an RNG!)
[In the end, Frieda manages to stabilise herself to a degree by resolving to do what Eren decided: To never return home. It's painful to imagine that she'll never see her family - safe for Historia - and other dearly beloved people again, but she simply can't abide the thought of having to complete what her ancestor wasn't able to even begin. She'll rather follow her successor's example and remove the Founding Titan and its powers from their world forever. That way, at least any ever-so-remote chance of total titan domination will be gone.
Of course, the conflict between her inherited will - which had to adjust to an unforeseen change for the first time since its implementation - and her still persevering wishes as a human being remain almost impossible to reconcile. She has to make compromises with herself. Since she can't guarantee the length of her stay in Ellipsa, she needs to at least prepare for what must be done if she is sent back to her homeworld.
Unwilling to look at the horrible methods she'd need to employ in such a scenario, she instead puts her focus on something very basic that she nevertheless neglected: Her control over her titan manifestation. If she is forced to return home, it won't do if Eren's father kills her before she can do anything to prevent history from playing out as Eren and Historia experienced it.
She feels ashamed to have outright squandered a quarter of her remaining lifetime, idly waiting for her and her people's extermination... how could she have been so naive?! But she always was, wasn't she? She bitterly remembers her idealistic 15 year old self, volunteering to inherit the Founding Titan from her uncle with a smile, confident that she wouldn't give in to her ancestors' ghosts, without even knowing of the history of the world. Stupid. Ignorant. Selfish.
She closes her eyes to try and ground herself. She's on a mission and needs to focus. As a titan, it should be a lot easier to identify safe areas for new teleport- and barrier stone installations. Having tested out beforehand that she'll still be conscious of herself and her objective while in titan form, she deems it safest to transform a good distance away from the teleport stone she just used to travel here. After all, she wouldn't want to startle someone else arriving!
Little does she know that there are still reckless people venturing into the Segments on their own despite all the warnings - and not necessarily by ground, given the many airship license holders, winged mount owners, and people able to fly either naturally or by way of animal transformation! As such, should she really be surprised when someone approaches her 13 metre tall dark-haired titan? That is, if she'll even see them coming...]
WHAT: Frieda is going through it (enormous struggle dump inside!)
WHEN: First half of April
WHERE: Abandoned Graveyard / Secret Getaway and other areas in the Seasonal Segments
WARNINGS: AoT-typical heavy topics - mention of genocide, murder, mental instability, violence, war, etc.
[Many things have been moving at a different pace for Frieda ever since she inherited the memories of her ancestors. This still holds true here in Ellipsa. On some days, she can live in the moment and enjoy spending time with her sister, the few friends she's made, and other people (neighbours, magic school classmates, vendors whose shops she's become a regular at), but on other days, everything she's learned about her homeworld's future since arriving here pulls her under and makes her ruminate for hours on end, lost between those new revelations and the painful history going back 2,000 years.
Lately, those days have become more and more common.]
1) Safe Zone: Mermaid Encounter
(OOC: Since a lot of Frieda's development is internal, I wanted to chronicle it, but as it's pure introspection, by all means skip ahead to the bottom of this humungous prompt if you'd like to!)
[Frieda's first month in Ellipsa was overshadowed by grief after she learned that in the not-too-far future, most of her family will be killed alongside herself. But eventually, her unbreakable inherited will helped her overcome that struggle. What of their deaths? All Eldians should die. It's only right if the royal family dies first. She accepted it, and with a calmer and clearer mind, she could finally focus on starting to unlock her magic and supporting the local ongoings, resolved to make the most of the time she had left.
However, her encounter with Eren, her unintended successor, made her question whether she wasn't too hasty to content herself with her fate.
Eren's resentment of how the truth was kept from the people of the Walls - doubtlessly shared by all of her subjects - made it clear that he doesn't want the Founding Titan to return into the royal family's hands, and Historia, Frieda's only surviving sibling, made it clear that she doesn't want to take it from her friend. In the future they experienced, the outside world failed to eradicate their people, "merely" breaking Wall Maria - which did cause thousands of deaths through its short- and mid-term consequences -, and everybody learned of the truths that the Reiss family hid for a century.
There will be no repeat of the 2 millennia of oppression by the Eldian Empire, given that Eren can't unlock the Founding Titan's full potential and the royal bloodline, should it regain possession of it, is prevented from doing so by the inherited vow, but the situation has nevertheless given Frieda many sleepless nights. In the face of the changed circumstances, her passive stance has started to shift.
I have to take the Founding Titan back from Eren. That's the first conclusion she arrives at. He told her that he'd never go home if he can help it, and she believes him - but what if he gets no say in the matter? What if he gets sent back to their homeworld against his will? It can happen. They both know that.
Much as the imperative to keep her people from becoming a threat to the world again dictates her decision, everything inside her recoils from it. She can't murder Eren! She couldn't murder anyone - not with her own hands, in any case. She knows all too well that all the blood her enforcers spilled within the Walls stains her hands nonetheless (and that of prior rulers' enforcers' victims, too, because she can't and won't exempt herself from bearing the sins of her ancestors). Eren is Historia's friend... What of it?, argues that reasonable voice inside of her, Historia is a disappointment for not acting in the best interest of humanity despite understanding our history. Who cares what she wants?
Frieda has to leave the apartment for longer and longer stretches of time, on occasion even hastily excusing herself to Historia to keep herself from angrily lashing out at her. Sometimes, she wants to grab and shake and even hit her for thinking that's it's acceptable for Eren to keep the Founding Titan. If you won't take it back for our family, I will! What are you even good for?! It takes all her strength to keep herself from attacking her own beloved sister like that, and when the urge eventually subsides, she's desolate each time.
However, after a while of agonising and trying to reason with different parts of herself, she manages to set aside the initial conclusion, for what is ultimately a very simple reason: If she took Eren's titan powers (most realistically by enlisting the services of an assassin, much as she does back home), he'd simply take them back from her once he'd be reborn into this world.
It's a given: Much as she doesn't want him to return home and resist the Eldian atonement plan, he doesn't want her to return and work towards its fulfillment either. For being ideological opponents, the two of them were reasonably cordial towards each other despite the palpable tension, but if she were to turn on him, he'd surely retaliate in kind. As it is, he holds the stronger position, having actual experience in using his titan's powers, and if he wanted to, he could already have taken hers. She mustn't disturb the current balance.
What can she do, then? Her silent internal struggle continues for days or weeks (she can't tell anymore, even though it's interspersed with uninterrupted stretches of normalcy and little joys - somehow!) until a realisation more bitter than anything prior dawns on her: There really is only one way to ensure that the Eldians of Paradis Island won't be a threat to the world anymore. If the outside world will fail to eradicate them, their ruler must do it.
He entire being refuses that solution. How could she possibly do that?! She can't even murder one person! All those innocent people..!! No! No!! But all Eldians must die. In her mind, she practically screams at the first king of the Walls. How dare you not finish what you started?! How dare you leave it to your successors? You couldn't do it because you loved your people? How do you think I feel?! But of course, there's only her own mind to answer her, and despite fighting against the resolution with all she has, she's drawn further down the path, exploring her practical options.
In that state, she can't bear the city. Even in quiet places, she may encounter people, and while they're not her subjects, she can't endure their innocent eyes on her, feeling beyond monstrous for what's going on in her head. As such, she takes to the safe zones in the Segments to find some solitude.
She avoids the cold Winter Segment - the watchtower is close to the city, and people pass by there with relative frequency. Likewise, the Temple of Life in the Summer Segment is intermittently frequented by people coming to gather fruits or tackle the video game simulator inside. The waters of Ellipsa have provided an embrace and escape for her ever since her arrival, and so, she can ultimately be encountered in mermaid form, resting at the bottom of the Secret Getaway's lake-pond or on the safe side of the iron fence separating the Autumn Segment's flooded graveyard from the monster-infested wilderness.
It's unlikely that anyone else would dive in either body of water, but who knows! If she doesn't encounter anyone in the depths, then at some point, when she finally feels like herself again, having battled the mental images of death and suffering away for the day, she has to exit the water, and perhaps it's then that she and the other person visiting the safe area startle each other through her sudden appearance on the water's surface. Whether underwater or above, she'll call out in the same way.]
Oh..! I'm sorry, you scared me!
[She says that as if she isn't the weird one for popping out of a place that's definitely not a designated swimming area!]
2) Unsafe Zone: Titan Encounter
(OOC: Feel free to choose the Segment, otherwise I'll use an RNG!)
[In the end, Frieda manages to stabilise herself to a degree by resolving to do what Eren decided: To never return home. It's painful to imagine that she'll never see her family - safe for Historia - and other dearly beloved people again, but she simply can't abide the thought of having to complete what her ancestor wasn't able to even begin. She'll rather follow her successor's example and remove the Founding Titan and its powers from their world forever. That way, at least any ever-so-remote chance of total titan domination will be gone.
Of course, the conflict between her inherited will - which had to adjust to an unforeseen change for the first time since its implementation - and her still persevering wishes as a human being remain almost impossible to reconcile. She has to make compromises with herself. Since she can't guarantee the length of her stay in Ellipsa, she needs to at least prepare for what must be done if she is sent back to her homeworld.
Unwilling to look at the horrible methods she'd need to employ in such a scenario, she instead puts her focus on something very basic that she nevertheless neglected: Her control over her titan manifestation. If she is forced to return home, it won't do if Eren's father kills her before she can do anything to prevent history from playing out as Eren and Historia experienced it.
She feels ashamed to have outright squandered a quarter of her remaining lifetime, idly waiting for her and her people's extermination... how could she have been so naive?! But she always was, wasn't she? She bitterly remembers her idealistic 15 year old self, volunteering to inherit the Founding Titan from her uncle with a smile, confident that she wouldn't give in to her ancestors' ghosts, without even knowing of the history of the world. Stupid. Ignorant. Selfish.
She closes her eyes to try and ground herself. She's on a mission and needs to focus. As a titan, it should be a lot easier to identify safe areas for new teleport- and barrier stone installations. Having tested out beforehand that she'll still be conscious of herself and her objective while in titan form, she deems it safest to transform a good distance away from the teleport stone she just used to travel here. After all, she wouldn't want to startle someone else arriving!
Little does she know that there are still reckless people venturing into the Segments on their own despite all the warnings - and not necessarily by ground, given the many airship license holders, winged mount owners, and people able to fly either naturally or by way of animal transformation! As such, should she really be surprised when someone approaches her 13 metre tall dark-haired titan? That is, if she'll even see them coming...]
titan, natch
[Evangeline is here to do some quest - it's really not important which one, because she is immediately sidetracked by seeing a Titan out in the Segments.
Right, right, this is an awkward angle to have a conversation at, it's hard to flirt while shouting.]
Hold on, one moment.
[She fishes in her purse for an enlarging potion and takes a gulp, swiftly growing to match Frieda in height. Hopefully it doesn't spook Frieda seeing someone suddenly grow to Titan size.]
Okay, that's better! I'm not sure if you could hear me from down there. Hi!
[She knows Titans can't talk, but that doesn't mean she can't talk at them. And maybe this is an autumn with telepathy?]
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When Evangeline employs the potion, she feels unexpectedly awkward. She looks so positively excited..! Meanwhile, Frieda's titan, like all titans, can't change its expression, and its face is permanently stuck in an angry-looking snarl. Sadly, she has no telepathic abilities either! She inclines her head in what she hopes may pass for a welcoming nod. She can't even explain what she's out here for, what with the teleport stones encased in the titan's nape along with her - and she definitely doesn't want to emerge and reveal her identity!
Her titan looks fairly regular, as they come. Except for its throat, it doesn't have any areas of exposed muscle like the Colossal- and Female Titan, and it has no armour or other apparent special features either. It's distinctly feminine in shape, even having round lumps where a human's breasts would be, and the only notable physical distortion - expression aside - is its almost skeletal nose.]
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Titans can't talk, I remember that, and you're not an autumn with telepathy... And I don't have, like, a giant notepad or anything to write on. So this might be a little awkward, but I figure that you could at least nod or shake your head for yes or no questions. Is that okay? I don't want to bother you if you're busy or don't want to talk.
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Frieda nods at the suggestion - she can definitely do that! She spreads her arms out and turns her head to demonstratively look around: There are so many ways to go and explore! Then she nudges her head at Evangeline: What is she out here for (and alone, to boot - granted, at least she has the potion on her!)?
Being this big together with someone else is truly bizarre. Despite Evangeline not being a titan, it feels... nice, somehow. It makes Frieda feels like less of a monster, even though she has no illusions about not being one, even in human form.
Inside the titan, she tries to pull an arm down to her bag, straining against the tissue keeping her body in place. She should be able to make this titan form do her bidding in many ways she hasn't figured out yet... her ancestors - not to mention the titan shifters actually going into combat for the Eldian Empire - were able to pull off incredible feats, and while she balks at the thought of attacking people or structures, she still wants to - has to - figure her own titan's limits out. (The metaphysical control over the other titans, of course, will the most important thing to learn, but right now, she can hardly try to apply that to anyone!)]
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[She's not foolish enough to go alone when it comes to the high risk quests, but she's confident enough in her ability to protect herself in the Segments if she isn't intentionally going after something dangerous.]
It's nothing I can't put off to chat with a beautiful woman, though. Come here often?
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Consumed by anger, guilt and grief and running away from the kind, innocent gazes of others
Russell had been wandering along the Spring segment, in theory to fulfill a quest but in practice mainly to simply take his mind off of things. On some level, he was absolutely thrilled to be reunited with Kantera here, but on a more immediately pressing pne, it filled him with an absolute dread and put him in a very dark place. He had to escape somehow; find something, anything to take his mind off his own thoughts for a while.
He is walking along, idly swinging a long stick he found when he comes across Frieda exiting the water.]
… … … I don’t think you’re supposed to swim there.
[His voice is almost as flat as his expression.]
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When Frieda saw someone on the pier she was pulling herself up onto, she was startled, but registering that he's a young boy around her little brother's age, her expression softens into a smile. She's still wet, but as soon as she's completely out of the water, she has her legs and long skirt back (these Mermaid Necklaces are truly marvellous inventions). She wrings her hair out.]
It's not forbidden. You can fish here, too! There are many fish in this pond.
[She proceeds to pick up her bag from where she stowed it away, taking out a towel so somewhat dry herself. Could she have changed into swimwear before going into the water? Yes. But nothing screams 'depression' like letting yourself fall into a pond fully clothed.]
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Really?
[Whoa, he actually looks and sounds sort of excited about that! He glances at the pond.]
I like… to fish.
[It was one of the hobbies he picked up in the dream. He stares at the water for a moment before looking back to Frieda.]
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Your legs… just then… is that this world’s magic?
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[She shows the seashell-shaped pendant to him.]
I got mine from my friend, but Riki sells them in his shop. If you like to swim, you can get one too! Being a merperson lets you breathe underwater, and you can swim much faster with a tail than with legs.
[She sounds like an absolute shill for this item, but what can she say, escaping into the underwater world has given her a lot of solace and joy.]
Did you come out here to look for a place to fish? Or just to explore?
[Most people use the Secret Getaway as a slight short-cut into the Spring Segment, but hopefully, Russel didn't intend to venture out of the safe area! Being an older sister, Frieda can't help but look out for those younger than her.]
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CW I…Implied suicidal ideation? I guess? idk man
Let's sticky that CW with these two!
Good call :|b
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Not me literally forgetting this thread until months later like ‼️
No worries, the plot didn't hinge on their fish watching! ♡
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CW suicide mention
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He had known for sometime that she was hiding something from him, but had let it go, reasoning that he was hiding things from her too. They were each allowed their secrets. However, he couldn't ignore the subtle signs that something was bothering her that was only growing more obvious as weeks went by. So when he hears that she's stormed off somewhere he decided that the day's pastime would be hunting her down.
As usual she made for remarkably easy prey, and no sooner had he dipped beneath the water in the small lake did he see that familiar white tail. He silently glided towards her and laid beside her, waiting for her to open her eyes and notice. Didn't matter how long it would take, he was happy to be patient for the sake of her reaction.]
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Having felt the familiar movement of his long eel body in the water, she turns towards him and takes his hand when he's settled down by her side. The stream of energy brings her back to the here and now. Despite everything, despite the many lives that need to be weighed against each other, she's still only a human, existing in a defined time and place like every other living thing.]
...
I have to tell you what's going on, don't I? But I barely know where to begin.
[Of course, there's the fear that he'll be appalled and disturbed, be it by her nature as a titan shifter or by her people's bloody history - sure, every debate they've had so far about morality and nature has proven that he's able to stomach many gritty truths, but isn't her case in a whole other league? In the end, it doesn't matter. She has to accept the judgement of the world, and apparently, that doesn't include only her homeworld.]
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You do not have to if you do not want to. We all have our secrets... but if you tell me yours then I will tell you mine.
[He says as though she doesn't already know. Still, it does go back to their argument from before. To tell her what he was did not make for a fair exchange. Of course she figured it out because he had grown increasingly sloppy from being comfortable in her presence, but he kept up the "ruse" (or what was left of it) out of sheer stubborn will.
It had been an amusing game, but he was more than ready to finally put it to rest.]
If it makes it easier, you can hug my tail again.
[Since during some point in their adventures, she realized that his tail was, in fact, incredibly soft and squishy. To make to point even more he playfully plops his tail right on her like he had just dropped a blanket on her upper half. It was part in jest to try and lift her spirits and part... well, part something he suspected would actually work as some sort of comfort.]
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I found out from people further ahead in the timeline than me that there'll be a war in my country. I honestly see no way it can be averted at the point they're at.
[Other than by her genociding her own nation beforehand, but if nothing else, she at least wants to withhold that information that feels like a rot infestation in her brain. Besides, she still is looking for alternative options, feeble as her hopes are.]
What Historia told me already had me worried, but after speaking with a friend of hers, I'm all the more certain. But the worst part is that our nation committed terrible sins - deeds so gruesome they beggar belief - for many centuries until we entered our recent era of leading a peaceful existence. The thought of that era being revived... it makes me feel sick.
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CW fish cannibalism
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gagtag
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CW: War, Violence, Rape
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You know what, just presume war, cannibalism, and violence are going to remain a CW for a while
A wise move!
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Secret Getaway - a soft small tag for you too
Mary wanted to see if there were any fish, too, so she was leaning over the pond, peering in-...]
Ah!
[Something was coming up! She stumbled back, as all of a sudden Frieda popped out the water.
Give Mary a second to get her bearings and register Frieda's apology-]
...you're a mermaid??
[And then quickly put her hands over her mouth because that's probably supposed to be a secret!]
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No, no! I'm a human, see?
[She slightly kicks her legs up and down in her seated position, having gotten them back along with her skirt now that she's on the pier.]
My necklace turns me into a mermaid when I'm in the water.
[She lets Mary have a look at the seashell-shaped pendant she's wearing around her neck.]
I just wanted to spend some time with the fish.
[That's one way of putting it, right?]
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Or you could be a mermaid using the necklace to turn yourself human.
[Ha, you can't fool her that easily, Freida! Mary is looking very proud of herself for seeing this loophole- all the same, though, she's taking a curious look at the pendant.]
...I wonder what it's like underwater. I bet there's all sorts of sea creatures down there.
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[If it were a necklace she bought for herself, she'd gladly let Mary borrow it, but since it was a present, it has too much sentimental value for her to give out of her hands so easily. Besides, a child shouldn't be unsupervised underwated, painting or not - and, come to think...]
Is the water even safe for you to be in?
[What if she were to dissolve?!]
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Sorry Frieda you've got another tiny blonde sibling to dote on
A dream come true... she misses her other siblings!
Aw Frieda ;;
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Creepy pixel anglerfish in first link
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We can probably wind this one up soon I think?
Sounds good! ♡
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Titan Testing (for Jade)
Over the next days after he compelled the full truth from her, he was mindful of her wellbeing and left her room to rest her exhausted brain, but whenever he could tell that she was in a stable state (and God knows he developed a knack for that), he'd sweetly try to convince her of how useful and beneficial her titan could be to their current mission here in Ellipsa.
At first, Frieda tried to shut him down with the same dogma that's been milling in her mind ever since she inherited the Founding Titan: That it's not meant to be used, that it's dangerous, that there's no telling if she'll even be able to control it properly right away. However, bit by bit he wore her down with his persistent logical arguments... and so, she eventually gave in (much to his unconcealed delight).
It's for that reason that they now find themselves in the remote wilderness on the border between the Winter- and Spring Segments, having teleported to the Winter Segment's airship station and then walked for a couple of hours until they reached an area few adventurers would have cause to seek out. Jade is blatantly excited, but Frieda feels the need to warn him once more.]
Again, if I attack you, please use the teleport stone to get back to the airship station at least! If all goes well, I'll gain control over time, and we can meet each other halfway. I know how capable you are at taking monsters down, but if I harmed you in the process, you can imagine how much I'd beat myself up over that!
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[He says, y'know, like a liar.
He wasn't keen on the idea of fighting an unreasonable behemoth, but he'd rather not let her wander into the wilderness in such a state either. However if he said as much she'd have refused to show him her murder-giant form. So here he is, lying through his pointy teeth.]
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She casts one more look of fondness and concern at him, then walks a safe distance away. Having forewarned him that the titan transformation requires self-injury, she takes a deep breath before biting down on her hand with a force people's instincts usually prohibit them from using.]
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Rather than menacingly stomp towards him, it gets down on its elbows and knees to bring its perpetually snarling face on eye level with him. She's in control! It's safe for him to come over.]
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It was quite a showy transformation with the lightning. Put his own to shame.]
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[And it… certainly was quite large. Yep that was… a very big woman.
Goodness.]
3/4 I lied
Done for real
Looking more lovely than I could have imagined, Frieda.
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