sticks out the leggie

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WHO: eren jaeger and you 👊
WHERE: in and out of recollé!
WHEN: throughout the month of march!
WHAT: small catchall with some open + closed prompts that include travel, exploring a birthday and more! if you’d like a prompt or plotting just contact me at liberos or owlteer#3609 on discord!
WARNINGS: eren

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[ steam lifts from the sight of the stadium to reveal much more visible surroundings: the bull, a steaming ball of fury itself, angered from the water but pushed back enough to give them time to regroup.

eren can only hear his ears ring, his vision slowed and blurred until the imagery around him picks up speed. he blinks, blinks more, the gasps when he finds himself stuck to the outside of the literal meat shield, wedged between partial vertebrae and flesh. there’s more bone than muscle, keeping the shield at lot less hot than an entire titan would be.

he’s awake. he’s out of the water.

he tries to move, legs free, but where he bit his hand is firmly laced with live tissue. at least, when he hears elliot, it’s more than a good sign. ]

—I’m fine!

[ he’s about to anchor his weight with his knees before he stops, remembering something. not only has he done this before, but—

if he ripped it off now, it’d disintegrate. he’d build up a steam storm and could make it worse for the both of them. ]

If I rip myself off, it’s going to break!

[ they need a plan. ]

[fiddlestick]

[ He's relieved when he hears Eren respond, he was worried about him being out there with the bull. He was about to suggest Eren come inside the titan shell. But- oh. Yeah. That. ]

Th-That'd be bad. Are you safe where you are?

[He doesn't want Eren to become an even more literal metal shield than he already is. Elliot meanwhile is pacing around, looking through all the openings of the ribs and flesh to try to see the bull]

I don't think I can get close enough to cast a sleep spell without leaving the titan, and I don't think we have time for me to scan it. My elemental spells might work, but I don't know which ones would be effective. Got any ideas?

[Fire and lightning's out, for sure. Wind might just fan the flames. Earth might help, but with how fast the bull moves, there's a chance it'll miss. Water and Ice, well, it depends on how weak it was to water.

He did have other elements that Eren probably knows about. Light, time, moon power - but none of them have been tested in battle yet. Who knows how that'll turn out. CHOOSE WISELY EREN. ]

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[ maybe he’ll luck out. maybe he’ll kill them both. he looks above them again, and a full shift . . . was out of the question. they were underground, what if he got too big? what if he was too big for this place? most likely, he was.

maneuver gear would’ve been excellent here, an excellent distraction, but now more than ever does eren feel powerless, even when he’s provided protection. temporary protection. eren thinks on it, hard and fast, the hotness of titan flesh burning into his skin.

the bull seems less bright as it trots and swings its head. its fire seems to have dropped, slowing it down, and with a few forced sparks it flames back to life. he can see it from here.

elements . . . they had elements. eren, perhaps, wasn’t that good at these in the past life, but— eren has training. eren had study. eren had something even greater that made him reliable— he pulls responsibility to him. he’s crazy, and people would still hear him out. ]

—It’s gonna vaporize. [ he says it loud, and realizing. vapor is actually— ] Can you use that? As wind, or as actual water.

[fiddlestick]

The bull is going to vaporize?

[He asks, clarifying. BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THATS GOOD TO KNOW. He's got his staff ready, to throw a spell at]

I-I can only summon more water, I can't control what's here. But I could push the vapor with wind?

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The titan.

[ he is thinking on that again, yes. especially when the bull didn’t go rushing through the dust cloud when it was still there. he doesn’t know bulls, but it’s good to know this now. right. okay— ]

I’m going to tear myself off so you can move— it won’t come if it can’t see. [ he already positions himself to rip his hand out of the heated flesh, looking at elliot from between the crack between bone and muscle . ] I’ll tell you where to throw the water, and you can move the vapor wherever you need it.

[ he’s ready to act on that, too. but one last thing. ]

I’ll look out for you, I promise.

[ trust me. he’ll kick the bull flying before it got close enough to hurt elliot. ]

[fiddlestick]

[Oh. Oh boy so that was the plan? Elliot is unsure about this plan. Hiding himself in vapors instead of the titan shell seemed much more dangerous.

But so was leaving Eren exposed like this. They had to do something. And he did trust Eren. So he swallows and say with nerves clear on his voice]

A-Alright. Let's do it.

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[ if anything, he’ll get a new one. or an arm. once eren’s ready, he pulls himself off clean with a little effort, and immediately after: steam. it hisses and rises up, but at least it’s not so dense higher up. eren’s going to stay here for as long as he can. ]

He’s at 2 o’clock.

[fiddlestick]

2 o'clock-

[He guesses what direction is at 2'clock, since he can't see what way Eren's looking. He can only hope they are thinking the same way. But he'll channel his spell once more, and set off another large wall of water, flying out to crash into and hit whatevers in its path]