[Eren’s trembling lip, the childlike tears… it threatens to melt her and makes her all the more incensed. That’s loving Eren Jaeger, isn’t it? Ever the contradiction…

[Yet with that thought share, Aubrey’s damn certain how she feels about his dad.]

Eren… [She holds his face now; grabs it, more like, still too intense to be soft. But she doesn’t want him to be afraid. He shouldn’t have had to be.] You carried the weight of the world and you still tried. You resisted. You fought yourself. But you tried.

[“And he didn’t.”]