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[twinsanity]

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"State your business in fifteen words or less; if it's important, I'll call you back."

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

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[bertall]

I don't think she'll have that many friends if she keeps it up, but...

Yeah. For the most part.

[twinsanity]

[She won't have many fr-

...child...]

Really, if I didn't like you, I would have told you by now.

[bertall]

_{[It's complicated.]}

Can you really blame me for worrying? I can count the people I actually like here on one hand, and you're one of them. I don't want to lose that again.

1/2

[twinsanity]

[...Oh. Well, that.

...

...that...is hitting him kind of strangely, it...

ugh you know what]

I don't take backstabbing lightly. And I don't take leaving people lightly, either.

So I won't do it if you don't give me an excellent reason to, and if you're going to give me a reason that excellent then I'll probably kill you and be done with it instead of just abandoning you or something.

[...ALFRED...]

[twinsanity]

[...give him a moment.]

Somehow I don't think that came out right.

[YOU DON'T SAY.]

1/3

[bertall]

Like you said, I just wanted to ma|

[bertall]

_{[ALFRED........]}

[bertall]

I

I don't think that did...

[twinsanity]

[...Oh. Well. Um.

Shit.]

Well, did you know what I meant, at least?

[bertall]

Basically that I'm stuck with you until I do a colossal screw up? Yeah, I think I get it.

_{[AND IT DOESN'T... REALLY SURPRISE HIM.]}

But now I'm a little curious what would make you kill me. I'm not... bothered by it.

[twinsanity]

[oh, right, the whole threatening thing, that's...something people are bothered by, isn't it...

who cares, moving on]

Oh, how should I know? Knowing me, I probably won't because I actually like you. I mean, I didn't even kill my father after how badly he screwed up, and believe me, he screwed up.

[bertall]

_{[Alfred if only you knew.]}

I screwed up too and I've had people give me death threats since I was eleven, but they never realized it was my fault. Even my own comrades back in the military.

I'm sorry he hurt you though. Dads shouldn't do that to their kids.

[twinsanity]

[...wait, wait, you actually said something interesting just now. Let him ignore that last part (because there are entirely too many feelings wrapped up in it and feelings are difficult) and focus on the interesting thing.]

What did you do, accidentally give out state secrets or something?

[bertall]

I don't really want to go into detail about it, but I hurt a lot of people.

What's the worst thing you can imagine someone that age doing?

_{[Besides turning their father into a big mutated thing!]}

[twinsanity]

Age doesn't really matter. Not in my experience, anyway.

But very well. Human experimentation. Injecting people with viruses, just to see what will happen. Killing many of them in the process and not caring.

[bertall]

How many people?

[twinsanity]

[There's a good long pause before he answers.]

If you think that whatever you say is going to make me abandon you or try to kill you, you're underestimating me. I'll do nothing of the sort.

How many of them did you kill?

[bertall]

Okay.

<sub>[He needs to take a breather himself. This is the first time he's actually talked about that, but...

What's the worst that could happen? Death isn't permanent here, so even if he did die it wouldn't last.]</sub>

Over a quarter of a million.

[twinsanity]

[...Jesus shit, child, that is...somewhere between kind of intimidating and impressive.

Oddly enough, though, he doesn't think Bert is fucking with him; if he were fucking with him, he would have picked a far smaller number. So either he's genuine or he's the worst liar on the planet, and Alfred's not sure why he'd put himself in the running for the latter now.]

And dare I ask how you did that? You said there aren't any bombs where you came from, right?

[bertall]

<sub>[And suddenly human experimentation doesn't sound too bad!

He has his response typed up already, but he's not sure if he should send it or not. He told him this much already and he hasn't said anything against it, but Bertholt was still apprehensive about the whole thing.

Fuck it.]</sub>

Did I ever tell you about the Colossal Titan?

[twinsanity]

You mentioned the Titans as a whole, but no specific ones. And I'd remember if you'd mentioned it, the name on that one's a little redundant.

[what the fuck, boy, do you keep one as a pet or something]

[bertall]

I didn't pick the name, that's just what people called it.

_{[Watch out, here comes big big!]}

About five years ago a Titan that was sixty meters tall appeared out of nowhere outside of the walls that keep humanity safe. It kicked a hole in the wall and they started flooding into the city, but the Colossal one just vanished after it broke it down. Most of them don't have any intelligence and they just eat people for the sake of killing them, but that one didn't have any interest in humans.

_{[sort........ of.....]}

[twinsanity]

Sixty metres...??

[good fucking lord are you some sort of beastmaster or]

And why are you telling me this?

[bertall]

You wanted to know how I managed to kill that many people.

_[or.]

I'm taking a chance and trusting you with this.

[twinsanity]

[...Bert, he isn't some sort of clairvoyant, he's going to take a moment to catch up.]

So you caused this. Somehow.