[Gabi was never privy to Eren's conversations with the Scouts and the Warriors in the Paths Those conversations where he'd revealed everything and then wiped their memories, only for them to return after Eren had breathed his last. Reiner and Annie had spoken to him, but Gabi hadn't. It was something she and Pieck would wryly commiserate over. She'd never asked Reiner or Annie what they had talked to Eren about. His overwhelming desire, above all else, for his loved ones (and the fact that, yes, that included some of Gabi's loves ones too) to live long lives, had never really had a chance to be a part of Gabi's understanding of who Eren Jaeger was.
Which is a long way of saying she wrinkles her nose a bit, her expression dubious when Levi expresses that he wouldn't do that to Jean or Historia. She doesn't hide it on her face, but, she also doesn't say anything to contradict him. At the end of the day, there's one big, important missing ingredient for him to be able to fully control the Founder anyway -- maybe. The extent of Eren's capabilities with the Founder got really murky near the end of the fight, but she is fairly certain that whatever he is capable of now, he can't do anything resembling a Rumbling without one thing that doesn't exist in Nightwake right now.
But what that thing is starts with a Z. And this conversation is already complicated enough without bring up something-that-starts-with-a-Z. So Gabi doesn't wanna bring it up right now.
As for whether or not Reiner would tell anybody....]
Hffffffffff...
[Gabi puffs out her cheeks and releases a long breath.]
He might not say anything. And he might scream it from the rooftops for everyone in the city to hear. I dunno what he'd do, man. Like I said, they drilled the Rumbling into our heads constantly. If he heard that it actually happened....
[Reiner isn't the broken man from that basement just yet, but he's still the Warrior responsible for the failure of the Paradis Island operation. He already has so much on his shoulders. She can't imagine that extra weight would do anything good.]
I also dunno his relationship with Jean and Mikasa...
[She rubs her head. She knows what Jean and Reiner's relationship would become. The anger and resentment and grief that became an awful sense of understanding and eventually evened out to something Gabi thinks is friendship -- she's pretty sure Jean wouldn't tell Reiner it was a damn shame he was still alive so often if he actually meant it. But as far as she knows, the Jean and Reiner in this city right now are just an enemy combatant and the man that betrayed him, forced into a very awkward standstill.]
....I just dunno. But I can't imagine he'd just leave it alone.
[There's so much she doesn't know and doesn't know how to handle about this situation. It feels like she's walking around blindfolded trying to avoid a bunch of mousetraps on the floor. Which is why she wants to ask Hange-san for help, but one glance at Levi and she pretty much immediately understands why he feels anxious about it.
And despite everything, she lets out a laugh.]
Y'know, when we first got here, I thought the biggest problem me and Hange-san were gonna have was keeping you from overexerting yourself.
[She gives Levi a lopsided kind of half-smile.]
....I got a plan, but I think it kinda sucks. I was hoping they could turn it into like. A real plan. But if you don't wanna drag them into this...
D'you wanna try doin' it just the two of us?
[She can't think of anybody else they could ask for help. The bench of people that knows what happens in their future is a pretty short one.]
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Which is a long way of saying she wrinkles her nose a bit, her expression dubious when Levi expresses that he wouldn't do that to Jean or Historia. She doesn't hide it on her face, but, she also doesn't say anything to contradict him. At the end of the day, there's one big, important missing ingredient for him to be able to fully control the Founder anyway -- maybe. The extent of Eren's capabilities with the Founder got really murky near the end of the fight, but she is fairly certain that whatever he is capable of now, he can't do anything resembling a Rumbling without one thing that doesn't exist in Nightwake right now.
But what that thing is starts with a Z. And this conversation is already complicated enough without bring up something-that-starts-with-a-Z. So Gabi doesn't wanna bring it up right now.
As for whether or not Reiner would tell anybody....]
Hffffffffff...
[Gabi puffs out her cheeks and releases a long breath.]
He might not say anything. And he might scream it from the rooftops for everyone in the city to hear. I dunno what he'd do, man. Like I said, they drilled the Rumbling into our heads constantly. If he heard that it actually happened....
[Reiner isn't the broken man from that basement just yet, but he's still the Warrior responsible for the failure of the Paradis Island operation. He already has so much on his shoulders. She can't imagine that extra weight would do anything good.]
I also dunno his relationship with Jean and Mikasa...
[She rubs her head. She knows what Jean and Reiner's relationship would become. The anger and resentment and grief that became an awful sense of understanding and eventually evened out to something Gabi thinks is friendship -- she's pretty sure Jean wouldn't tell Reiner it was a damn shame he was still alive so often if he actually meant it. But as far as she knows, the Jean and Reiner in this city right now are just an enemy combatant and the man that betrayed him, forced into a very awkward standstill.]
....I just dunno. But I can't imagine he'd just leave it alone.
[There's so much she doesn't know and doesn't know how to handle about this situation. It feels like she's walking around blindfolded trying to avoid a bunch of mousetraps on the floor. Which is why she wants to ask Hange-san for help, but one glance at Levi and she pretty much immediately understands why he feels anxious about it.
And despite everything, she lets out a laugh.]
Y'know, when we first got here, I thought the biggest problem me and Hange-san were gonna have was keeping you from overexerting yourself.
[She gives Levi a lopsided kind of half-smile.]
....I got a plan, but I think it kinda sucks. I was hoping they could turn it into like. A real plan. But if you don't wanna drag them into this...
D'you wanna try doin' it just the two of us?
[She can't think of anybody else they could ask for help. The bench of people that knows what happens in their future is a pretty short one.]