[This reality is built on a unique, terrible strain of grief. The dead walk amongst the living, everyone's future a prophecy just waiting to be revealed. Maruki has been placed in the position of having to grieve the people he's surrounded by each and every day - people he loves, people he doesn't want to die...
[Of course, he'd want Eren more than any of them. He realizes - perhaps, for the first time - how painful it must have been for Maruki to have to hear him talk that way...
[His palm tenderly cups his Other's cheek. He almost wishes Maruki would cry. It seems like the sort of thing that ought to make someone cry.]
When I say I'd do anything for you, you must realize what that means, right?
I would live...only because I know you'd want me to.
[It may not be what Maruki wants to hear - it isn't pretty, like saying he wants to live because he sees the purpose now, feels the joy. Those things still aren't true, but the fact that he'd go as far as to preserve his own life for the sake of someone else is...completely antithetical to anything he's ever done. Even he doesn't quite realize the gravity of what he's just said.]
ohhhhhhhh universe of three links in my taggggggggs
[Of course, he'd want Eren more than any of them. He realizes - perhaps, for the first time - how painful it must have been for Maruki to have to hear him talk that way...
[His palm tenderly cups his Other's cheek. He almost wishes Maruki would cry. It seems like the sort of thing that ought to make someone cry.]
When I say I'd do anything for you, you must realize what that means, right?
I would live...only because I know you'd want me to.
[It may not be what Maruki wants to hear - it isn't pretty, like saying he wants to live because he sees the purpose now, feels the joy. Those things still aren't true, but the fact that he'd go as far as to preserve his own life for the sake of someone else is...completely antithetical to anything he's ever done. Even he doesn't quite realize the gravity of what he's just said.]