Original vs New

[not_good_not_wicked]

A simple meme. Post a comment describing a hypothetical meeting between the Save the Earth AU version of- hold on, this is a meme so we need a silly picture.




A simple meme. Post a comment describing a hypothetical meeting between the Save the Earth AU version of your character (IE the one in this game) and the original version (IE the one straight out of the TV show/book/game.) either with a description of their opinions or with an actually written out conversion.

Also, if you like, you can continue by way of tagging other people's posts, and threading out an encounter between your StE AU and their Original Flavor version. Or between your your Original Flavor and their StE AU.

Comments

[somesayinfire]

Oh. That seems inconvenient. I guess nobody's had a lot of luck capturing living ones and performing a bunch of tests that way?

[wirsinddiejager]

The Survey Corps has managed to capture titans on occasion, but there's only so much they've been able to learn. The last ones we had were killed before the testing was finished.

Why are you asking? There aren't any titans in your world.

[somesayinfire]

What can I say, I'm a woman of science. A mortician, specifically. I like learning about things, especially weird non-human things. I just wish I didn't have such an awful track record of these things disappearing before they can be studied.

Besides, with my additional track record, who's to say titans won't start showing up around here? Might as well be prepared. What tests were you running?

[wirsinddiejager]

Uh, I don't really know. Squad Leader Hange would be the one with the details, but she's obviously not here.

It's too bad, really. You sound like you'd have a lot to talk about with her.

[somesayinfire]

Well, that sucks. Maybe somebody's echoing back into Hange and we just don't know it yet. Hey, just curious, aber sprechen sie Deutsch?

[wirsinddiejager]

Huh? What was that?

[It sounds vaguely familiar, but doesn't exactly match whatever notGerman it is they presumably speak in titan land.]

[somesayinfire]

Guess not. I asked if you spoke German. I don't know much myself, but your squad leader and your last name kind of piqued my curiosity. Sorry, it wasn't really apropos of anything.

[wirsinddiejager]

What's German?

[somesayinfire]

It's the language they speak in Germany. Very loud and angry-sounding even if they're just wishing somebody a good day.

Kind of like you, actually.

[wirsinddiejager]

Hey, I'm not always loud and angry-sounding!

[Eren bb yes you are]

[somesayinfire]

I mean, not all the time. You're quieter when you don't have somebody goading you into it. It doesn't really seem to matter who, though. I have imagined so much bold italicized caps lock in the script that is your life.

Is it therapeutic? Do you feel better after a shouting match? I guess what I'm asking is if it helps you let off steam.

[wirsinddiejager]

...You know you're thinking of Alan, right? You don't know what my life is like.

[It actually involves less yelling at people and more death and despair.]

[somesayinfire]

I know, I know. I just kind of assume you guys are pretty similar. You're both cool. And you've both got eyebrows that could kill a man at 20 paces.

[wirsinddiejager]

[UNCONSCIOUSLY TOUCHING AN EYEBROW HOW COULD THAT KILL A MAN WHAT]

We're not all that similar, actually.

[somesayinfire]

That's actually surprising. Then again, my only other frame of reference is that person who Tavia's echoing back into, and, well, they might as well be the same person. Except with horns and grey skin and yellow eyes. You know, totally normal.

[wirsinddiejager]

[Horns and grey skin and what that doesn't make any sense. Eren's just going to casually ignore that bit.]

Alan's had it easy. He's never had to make any tough choices, and apparently he thinks I'm a terrible person because I have.

[somesayinfire]

Of course he hasn't, dude, he's 16. [but wait isn't this guy 16 too. hm.] What kind of choices are you talking about?

[wirsinddiejager]

Age doesn't have anything to do with it. I'm practically an adult where I'm from. And I'm talking about the kind of choices when you're fighting for humanity's survival.

[somesayinfire]

Humanity's survival? Wait, like, mass extinction, that kind of thing? How many titans are there? But wait, I guess if they're big enough that doesn't matter, huh.

[wirsinddiejager]

There are thousands of them at the very least. There's no way of knowing for sure, but they might well outnumber us by now.

[somesayinfire]

They—oh. It's way worse than it sounded.

In desperate times, you can't really be blamed for making decisions that might piss people off. Even if you have to bend your own morals a bit to do it. That's what I think, at least.

[wirsinddiejager]

Tell that to Alan. He seems to think we should all just lie down and let the titans eat us.

[somesayinfire]

Why, though? Like you said, you're not him and he's not you. If the time comes where he has to make a decision that heavy... maybe he'll figure it out on his own. And maybe the entirety of humanity won't be at stake. Maybe it'll just be him, or his girlfriend.

[wirsinddiejager]

From the sound of things, humanity is already in danger in your world too. You people should be fighting with everything you've got, all of you. Alan isn't me, but he remembers what it's like where I'm from. He should already know this.

[somesayinfire]

We don't know enough yet to do an all-out attack like yours. We don't even know their weaknesses. And for some of us, keeping ourselves safe is taking all we've got. Don't get me wrong, I don't think we should just sit around and let terrible things happen to us, but we need more information.