Sadly I don't think so. What my people did is unforgivable. We enslaved other nations, not sparing the old or the young, forcibly assimilated them into our empire, and grew our power at their expense. The treatment of those we subjugated was barbaric; wanton cruelty became normalised over the centuries.
[She's seen truly terrible things in her ancestors' memories.]
My people are the only human race in my world with the ability to turn into flesh-eating monsters. We terrorised everybody with our titan armies, and if I don't make the first move, it will happen again.
[Granted, she can't be completely sure of that - after all, the means to turn Eldians into titans will be locked away from her successor Eren -, but she does know that he's determined to meet the outside world with violence. That alone is already a disaster, something that was never meant to happen again.]
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Date: 2024-07-11 01:30 pm (UTC)[She's seen truly terrible things in her ancestors' memories.]
My people are the only human race in my world with the ability to turn into flesh-eating monsters. We terrorised everybody with our titan armies, and if I don't make the first move, it will happen again.
[Granted, she can't be completely sure of that - after all, the means to turn Eldians into titans will be locked away from her successor Eren -, but she does know that he's determined to meet the outside world with violence. That alone is already a disaster, something that was never meant to happen again.]