#And honestly the way you’ve spun Eren’s little role in this is just *chefs kiss*

[saturnsorbits]

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you like my ideas! 🥰 When you said yesterday how they would react if we stopped replying to their messages, I needed to find an answer that would explain everyone's actions! This started as an Armin idea but since Eren got involved, I had to give him an ending as well!

Eren coming clean? That's very interesting! I don't know if he would 'confess' so easily without being certain that you have the same feelings for him because of his pride! But I can see it happening because he's getting more and more desperate! He tried everything and when nothing worked he had to be honest with himself and with you and admit his feelings! The rejection definitely breaks him! He convinced himself that the confession would surely make you come back, that you just wanted him to admit how he felt, that's why you left! And that's why he didn't play this card until the end! He had to try every trick he knew first, still trying to play a game he could never win! I believe he would eventually end up like you said, sleeping with people trying to fill that void inside of him! Or as a way to distract himself because he's never going to let anyone in his heart ever again!

Now Armin dropping the act and becoming our friend? I did not see that coming! Your ideas always surprise me, they're so unique! Going with the friendship idea, this whole game was to teach him (and Eren) a lesson but what if it was for revenge? They played one of your closest friends, especially Armin using his tricks to make them fall for him and then dumped them and you wanted to give him a taste of his own medicine! But, while you're executing your plan, maybe you see another side of him? Or he genuinely regrets how he manipulated your friend and decides to stop treating people that way?

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I bow down to your genius w/Eren. I’m not as well versed with his character as I could be so it’s brilliant watching you come up with things for him and build his little story here! 🥰

I don’t think it happens quickly. As you said, I think he tries to fill the void for a while first - going back to what he used to do; not really caring about anything, but getting his dick wet. Maybe he’s even worse for a few months? A little meaner? Only sleeping with someone once before moving on? It goes on like that for a time, but it’s unsustainable so, eventually, he’s forced to confront it? That that makes sense… And that’s how he ends up just purging himself of everything in front of you.

As for Armin, I think it’s only as fun for him for as long as it works… He’s no longer ‘good’ at what he’s doing because he’s failed so the chase entirely loses its appeal? Like he doesn’t get the point of playing a half-baked game that isn’t perfect, because if it isn’t perfect what’s the point?

Great minds think a like though, because originally I was thinking that this whole thing started bc you kind of manoeuvred Annie out of Armin’s way… You’ve been watching him circle her like a shark for a while, watched every subtle smile, the way he knocks her confidence only to force her to lean on him emotionally a little more and you just get sick of it? You don’t particularly want anything to do with him, but all it takes is for you to gently knock Annie towards another guy, point out how much nicer Bertolt or Marco or Jean is and push her away from Armin… He takes it personally. You got in the way of him and his game and that’s how it starts. A weird little vendetta where he’s determined to make you fall for him, to lull you into the same false sense of security that Annie had almost fallen victim to and to break your pretty little heart. Only it doesn’t go that way. Armin knows when he’s been beat. Game acknowledges game and he drops it, tail between his legs - I think he earns a sense of respect for you through it all and has to kind of acknowledge how shitty he’s been because of it.