[ You can't blame yourself for everything Eren did any more than I can. ]
[ But he can, can't he? Because it's thanks to him that Hange ended up responsible for the entire goddamn island. It was just too much for one person. If they had the freedom to only mind Eren, they might have figured something out with that brilliant brain of theirs. ]
...no. [ Not everything. ] He's responsible for his own actions.
[ But he can't help but still wonder. Turn it over in his head, play back actions and words, looking and deconstructing anything, everything that might have contributed to the death of the world. He finds plenty of such instances. Perhaps most of them have nothing to do with it, but there's still some that might. ]
[ Isn't it the same for you, Hange? ]
But I was supposed to keep him in check.
[ Even if in the end, his orders had clashed with that, putting him way too far to be able to do anything. And to guard fucking Zeke, of all people. They should have had that bastard eaten the moment he set foot on Paradisian soil. ]
[ Maybe it's why he's still so insistent to stay near him now, while still keeping him at a distance. Still trying to figure out the why, because if he does, maybe it will give him a little peace of mind, maybe let him put some appropriately miniscule amount of trust in Eren again. ]
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[ But he can, can't he? Because it's thanks to him that Hange ended up responsible for the entire goddamn island. It was just too much for one person. If they had the freedom to only mind Eren, they might have figured something out with that brilliant brain of theirs. ]
...no. [ Not everything. ] He's responsible for his own actions.
[ But he can't help but still wonder. Turn it over in his head, play back actions and words, looking and deconstructing anything, everything that might have contributed to the death of the world. He finds plenty of such instances. Perhaps most of them have nothing to do with it, but there's still some that might. ]
[ Isn't it the same for you, Hange? ]
But I was supposed to keep him in check.
[ Even if in the end, his orders had clashed with that, putting him way too far to be able to do anything. And to guard fucking Zeke, of all people. They should have had that bastard eaten the moment he set foot on Paradisian soil. ]
[ Maybe it's why he's still so insistent to stay near him now, while still keeping him at a distance. Still trying to figure out the why, because if he does, maybe it will give him a little peace of mind, maybe let him put some appropriately miniscule amount of trust in Eren again. ]