[IC] Death From Above-An Attack On Titan Roleplay

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The instructor looked at the top ten of the 121 recruits standing before him. They were a strange bunch, but a brilliant one. They had all overcome struggles to get here, and he was proud of them. Of course, he would never admit that to them. You need to try them, see if they break with no praise.

These ten would never break. Some just wanted to live a safe life in the interior as the Military Police. Some he knew would never take that opportunity, and were brave enough to try and reclaim land from the Titans. Either way, they would wear their regiment's insignia proudly. "All right maggots! These are the top of your class, so pay attention and wither in the knowledge that you were not good enough to stand up here with them! I hope you feel miserable knowing that you couldn't handle the pressure!"

"I won't either bother to read who they are, because you don't need that information to know that you can't hold a candle up to them!" He turned to the selected ten. "You all will be happy to hear that you secured a title as top ten graduates! However, do not be fooled! Whatever regiment you decide on, it will be a difficult road ahead of you. The three choices ahead of you are these!

The Scout Regiment, those who travel beyond the walls to reclaim what is rightfully ours! The Military Police, the king's personal force. You will fight in the King's name, and for the people! Or the Garrison, the main force for defending the walls!"

Archer Roman grinned at the acknowledgement from his instructor, excited to fight for humanity. He looked at his comrades and reflected on what they had all gone through.We won't be looked down on any more. We've proved how useful we are. They have to give us the respect we deserve. I swear to all those people that died on that day that I'll make sure we can take back what we lost due to the Titans. And one day, maybe we could live a life without fear of the Titans. He turned to his nearest comrade, Hana.

"Isn't this great? Did you see the looks on the other recruits' faces? They were so disappointed! They should have worked harder!" He whispered, laughing quietly, then waited for her reaction.

"Archer Roman! Do you have something to say?" The instructor shouted at him, furious at being interrupted. "I'm sure you could share with all of the recruits!" He lifted Archer up and faced him towards the crowd. "Now what is it you had to say?!"

Archer remained calm and looked at the other recruits. "I swear that I will fight hard for humanity!" He slid out of his instructor's grasp and faced forward, waiting for Hana's reaction.

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Hana sighed, rolling her eyes a little. She didn't know Roman very well because she never made friends with the guy, never got close to anyone really. Due to her difficult past she had a hard time making friends at all. She decided to choose being a Scout, had decided on that from the beginning.

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@Nikki Moonlight After the instructor finished, Archer dragged Hana over to the mess hall for one last meal. "Three years we waited for this, Hana. We're officially soldiers. I don't plan to make my life go to waste, but we should enjoy tonight." He smiled at her and walked away for a moment, bringing back two bowls of soup and two sparkly drinks. "A toast." He raised his wooden mug. "To taking back what is rightfully ours. Think of the happiness we'll give all those kids who live in fear!"

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Hana kept her face emotionless but she raised her glass and drank a bit. She then began eating her soup. She remembered how extravagantly Archer imagined things. Growing up with him made her tired a lot. She had definitely grown from a scrawny little girl into a pretty young woman, but she was closed off, distant.

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@Nikki Moonlight Archer sighed. "Come on, be a little happy, for my sake, please?" He looked at the floor. "You're never the same anymore. It's like you hate me. We grew up together, yet you shut me out whenever I try to reach you. Hana, we can just talk later, okay?" He started to get up, defeated.

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Hana sighed as he left, and she finished her soup. She didn't hate him, she just thought he was an idiot. She got up after she finished, going toward the barracks to go to bed when several of the girls surrounded her. She looked around at all of them. They looked PISSED. "Fangirls..." she muttered. "Why does Archer pay so much attention to YOU? YOU'RE not worthy of a guy like him." The Archer fangirl leader said disgustedly. Hana put on a look of contempt. "And you are?" The girls took a swing at her, which she dodged expertly, and within five minutes all twenty of them were down. "Pathetic...How any of you graduated is beyond me..." She went into the barracks as if nothing had happened.

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Archer went to bed, dreaming about Hana, and what he had done wrong. He woke up with a start, and got into his recruit uniform, walking outside in the cold breeze. He couldn't protect her when she was taken by them. But he would change that. "I'll always protect you, Hana. I promise you that. Even if you hate me, I'll protect you."

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Hana was asleep a few bunks down from him on the bottom. Her eyes were gently closed, her lips very slightly parted, perfectly white teeth glinting softly in the pale moonlight. Her expression, however, was one of pain as she slept, dreaming about the night she had been kidnapped. She had been terrified. She had been kidnapped by a man she knew well, had thought she could trust him. He had come to her window, knocked, and lured her into the bad part of the neighborhood. There she had been kidnapped by him and some other men, put into a cart in a bag, and wheeled off. It was only when she and Archer were thirteen that she managed to escape and come back to town.

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@Nikki Moonlight Archer walked back inside and sat next to Hana's bunk. Watched her face, and eventually fell asleep to the lullaby of fatigue. "Sorry Hana." He whispered. "Sorry I couldn't be strong then. But I've been training hard. I won't let you get hurt. If they get close to you, they'll have to get through me first." He then fell silent, snoring softly. His lean body resting against the post of her bunkbed.

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Hana woke the next morning seeing Archer at the edge of her bed and she frowned slightly. She wondered what he could have possibly been doing to fall asleep by her. She had grown up with him, yes, but in all her eight years of having him stay by her side she knew he was unpredictable. She got up to go shower, coming out in her uniform. She tied her hair up in its usual ponytail and she saw some of the young men staring at her. She ignored them.

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Enya hadnt turned up to the mess hall after the instructor did his presentation. She was in the room with both Hana and Archer and she was kind of just watching them quietly from a bunk across the room. She wasnt really doing anything. She was quiet like usual and didnt want to say anything. She didnt know anyone as she hadnt close to anyone, so her staring at people who dont realize was all the more creepier than she wants it to be.

She was still staring at them in the morning when they wake up

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Archer woke up, and stood up, remembering what today was. He took a shower and cut his hair short with a razor his father had found for him, and got dressed in his uniform. "Our first assignment is today. I have to maintain a good image." He spotted a group of boys snickering at him. "All right, anyone want to tell me what happened?" He said, hands balled into fists. "You went to sleep near Hana." One blurted out. The others glared at him, and turned to Archer, fearful. "I was tired after my walk outside, and fell asleep before I could get to my bunk." He lied, and the boys breathed sighs of relief. "So you're not dating Hana?" Another asked. Archer blushed. "Now where did you get that idea?!" He shouted. A girl butted in. "It's obvious you like each other." Archer sighed, and walked outside, suprised at how well he had cut his white hair. He kept the bangs long of course, but the rest was short. He grinned, and approached Hana. "This is the day!"

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Hana overheard the boys talking and she was walking outside for a while before Archer came up. "Yeah." she said, looking away at the rising sun.

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"All right maggots!" The instructor shouted as soon as everyone came outside. "These are your groups and assignments!" The instructor rattled off names, but eventually he got to cannon cleaning on the wall. "Archer, Hana, Enya!" The instructor continued rattling off words, but Archer wasn't listening. "Sweet!" He whispered to Hana, and put his arm around her. "We got assigned together!" He followed the instructor when he told them to, and ended up on the wall by the cannons.

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Hana gently took his arm off her shoulder and walked with her group to the cannons and she professionally said once they got there, "Reporting for duty, sir!" She saluted.

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@Nikki Moonlight The instructor told them what to do. "Clean the cannons. I'll be back in a while." He walked away. Archer walked to the cannon next to her. "Remember when we promised as kids that we'd marry each other?" He whispered, smirking.

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Hana bent down and started cleaning the cannons. "That was a long time ago." she pointed out. "We didn't know any better."

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Enya kind of just nods as she walks up with the other two members of the group for cleaning cannons. She didnt seem too happy, but she also didnt seem to want to upset the instructor. She salutes and stays quiet... Some might think she was mute or had some kind of voice problem.
She looks to her feet as she reaches for a sponge

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"Come on, lighten up. I want to see that pretty smile of yours." He joked, but Archer is obviously scared of rejection. "Pretty please?" He made a puppy dog face, still cleaning the cannon, purposefully making his hand brush Hana's. He noticed the new girl and blushed. Crap. She saw me flirting. She'll probably tell the boys. Crap. Crap.

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Hana had a small blush on her cheeks. She kept cleaning. She didn't want to reject him. But she was afraid of trusting anyone after what had happened.