[video]// backdated to right after malik's post, filtered from Malik and Rose

[neverfeltthatway]

[Armin's expression is hard and angry, but his words are clear and considered.]

I want to make something clear. It's true that Eren may not have acted well with respect to learning red magic. But those spells Malik keeps going on about - ripping someone's heart out, or giving them cursed wounds - those are things Malik can do, not things Eren can. Eren has not and would never attempt to learn such things.

His most powerful spell gives him the ability to fly. His most dangerous spell lights his blades on fire. Neither are things Malik considered or even bothered to learn before mentally violating Eren and Mikasa with a forcible interface after seeing Eren flying. He has said since - openly, on the network - that it was somehow his only option short of ripping Eren's heart out.

[Ripping Eren's heart out - because the boy learned how to fly. Armin falls silent for a moment, as he lets Malik's words speak for themselves.]

Even if I understand why Malik acted the way he did, it does not excuse his actions. And Eren is not careless or vicious with his power, as Malik is trying to make him out to be.

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Private (psychic protection ii) to infinity

[neverfeltthatway]

If you ever want to talk about what happened in your dungeon... you know I'm here, right? That I'm willing to hear it?

same

[canbebrave]

No one deserved to see that.

[neverfeltthatway]

[Armin's eyes are bright, but mostly they are sad and compassionate.]

Maybe. [Though he's seen worse before.] But you deserved to live it even less.

[canbebrave]

People would tell you otherwise.

[neverfeltthatway]

[Something hard surfaces in Armin's expression, but his voice is more gentle than before.]

Maybe. They would be wrong. And not people I'd be like to trust, anyway.

[canbebrave]

...No. No one you should trust. Ever.

[neverfeltthatway]

[He takes a breath, speaking calmly and deliberately.]

Then I don't care what they think.

[canbebrave]

...Thank you. There might be some truth to them- but it would still sting, to have you ever share--

Thank you.

[neverfeltthatway]

Always, Sansa. Always. I'm here.

[canbebrave]

You are too kind. Perhaps for your own good.

[neverfeltthatway]

[Armin gives her a small, self-depreciating smile.]

There are those who would say otherwise.