[Watch as he deftly avoids the spotlight through means of being willfully obtuse!]
A "rom-com"?
[Just kidding. As if that would actually work. He wants to get this conversation over with as soon as possible, and if the best way to do that is to bite the bullet, then that's just what he'll have to do.
[While giving as little information as possible, of course.
[Holding out his arms.] You already know Armin. [And we'll just ignore that everyone involved here is aware that the names given hold romantic significance.
[He swipes a finger across his collarbone next, casual.]
Mikasa. We grew up together.
[He's really giving her nothing to go on. And he just might be stupid enough to think he'll get away with it.]
As for Reiner. [He can never quite say it unlike an animal tearing at a bone.] You're aware.
[If only by virtue of the memory he knows they both saw. She'll be hard pressed to get him to explain any more than that; should count herself lucky, in fact, the so much as speaking the name didn't warp him into something more terrifying.]
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A "rom-com"?
[Just kidding. As if that would actually work. He wants to get this conversation over with as soon as possible, and if the best way to do that is to bite the bullet, then that's just what he'll have to do.
[While giving as little information as possible, of course.
[Holding out his arms.] You already know Armin. [And we'll just ignore that everyone involved here is aware that the names given hold romantic significance.
[He swipes a finger across his collarbone next, casual.]
Mikasa. We grew up together.
[He's really giving her nothing to go on. And he just might be stupid enough to think he'll get away with it.]
As for Reiner. [He can never quite say it unlike an animal tearing at a bone.] You're aware.
[If only by virtue of the memory he knows they both saw. She'll be hard pressed to get him to explain any more than that; should count herself lucky, in fact, the so much as speaking the name didn't warp him into something more terrifying.]