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It's Hange, Hange, Hange! Were you looking for me? I'll get back to you posthaste. Or when it's convenient.

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Complicated situation, huh?

[Of course Hange is curious, but 1) she's not Demona's warden 2) there's time 3) she can easily picture the other woman storming off in a snit if pressed improperly.]

Anyway. That thirteen-year-old is still with me, I hope... and I accomplished what she wanted to do, if not in the way she pictured. She'd probably think I'd lost it if I described my approach, but it worked, Demona.

You don't know the half of it.

[Hange rightly guesses Demona isn't in a sharing mood.]

But how did it work?

Well, I started observing titans really closely. They're what I spent most of my time studying... I tried to talk to them and be kind to them... so many people hated them over the years and it didn't lead them to any solutions. I thought, well, people will think I'm insane, but this is how I want to do it and how I prefer it! And when I softened, I could watch them more closely. I could still kill them, don't mistake me, but I moved towards designing weaponry and strategy to counter how they actually behaved, not how I thought they'd behave when I just looked at them and hated them and didn't think any deeper about it...

[Talk to them? She balks at the idea, at first, but as Hange continues, she starts to see the wisdom behind it.]

Of course! Know thy enemy. I'm can't believe you were the first to have come up with that idea.

They never spoke back to me. As a rule they don't... speak. They are insentient. I'll show you sometime if you really want.

Most people never came close to them. Most people stayed as far away as possible. I think there was a population-wide effort not to think of it, and them, and how entrapped we were, how fragile our existence.

Oh. I see.

[Typical weak humans, not willing to face the horrors before them. But then that makes Hange the exception to the rule...]

Show me how?

In the Enclosure. You can see them... out in the wild, as it were.

[Probably it would be a lot to show Demona her experimental grounds with captive titans.]

It could be interesting. When might you be free?

[Demona wouldn't be particularly disturbed by that.]

[It's most of all that titans can't be treated kindly and restrained at the same time. They're bound in frames, or nailed to the ground, or both. Hange would not want Demona to see that; she'd rather prevent even the whisper of a thought from entering the woman's head, Hange would do this to me.]

Uh. I don't have a schedule. We can pick a day and time!

[Since this is before the Admiral demands everyone take a job, lol.]

Edited (i forgot i wanted to add that internal monologue >: () 2020-04-06 06:30 (UTC)