We Rise and Fall

"Ahhh—- Stranger-san! You startled me! You’re lucky I wasn’t prepared, or I could have wiped a limb completely off!"

Henry stood, dangling the creature from its tail. The harsh nature he was using wouldn’t hurt the creature. Maybe the spirit’s pride, but it should be grateful it hasn’t gone to some alley cat’s belly! Henry then looked towards the male, lips now forming into his usual smile.

"Ahhh—- Stranger-san! You startled me! You’re lucky I wasn’t prepared, or I could have wiped a limb completely off!"

"I-I... What... I don't understand..... What are you....?"

Eren made a startled almost gurgle like noise in the back of his throat when the guy asked him if he wanted to hold it. Was he some kind lunatic!? Who would want to hold something like that!? Then he made a pun..... and it was terrible, and Eren actually understood it because it wasn't hard to figure out. He frowned at the pun and shook his head.

What kind of landlord didn’t tell his tenants when someone new was moving in with them? Rivaille was skeptical.

"By this scene, it seems that you’re doing absolutely amazing at completing your task, aren’t you?" Rivaille spat out acidicly. Rubbing his chin and cheek with exasperation, the Frenchman briefly closed his eyes before reopening them, fixing the youth with a more annoyed expression rather than hostile.

"I was doing just fine at the beginning!" He declared, and he had, until he forgot to undo the package before shoving it in the microwave then dropping the eggs on the floor, and..... Its best to stop there, the damage is pretty self-explanatory.

"I’m Rivaille. I live here. So who are you and why are you breaking my dinnerware?"

"Rivaille? You're.... shorter than I pictured you'd be."

Rivaille’s head swam.

Not only had the loud, abrupt noise irritated his banging headache, but a crash like that could only mean one thing. That one thing wasn’t good. Never good. Outstandingly horrible in every sense of the phrase.

Swinging the apartment door shut, leaving his bags behind, and unwittingly making a speedy bee-line for the kitchen, Rivaille could feel his blood pressure rise.

Gaze slowly moving from the shattered plate on the floor up to the apprehensive expression on the brown-haired youth’s face, Rivaille’s own steel-grey eyes narrowed dangerously.

It was the kind of look a dog had before it was about to bite, or like a cat with its ears back fur nearly standing on end hissing before it claws the ever loving crap out of you. That visualization was actually far more amusing than he had meant it to be, but he didn't dare laugh.

"Oi, what’s the meaning of this? Who the hell are you?”

Rivaille returns from vacation slightly hungover from St. Patrick’s Day festivities. ‘Why would a Frenchman celebrate such a holiday?’ you may ask. Yeah, that could be considered peculiar…

God, this was so embarrassing! What kind of landlord wouldn’t tell their tenants about getting a new roommate… It was common courtesy! Actually, maybe they hadn’t told her and only Rivaille, and seeing as he had been rather absent lately, it made sense that she was out of the loop.

"Ah, I’m Ava." she added after Eren asked her name, then casually took Kanra from her pocket. The kitten mewed and squealed to get a good look at the new person, and Ava cautiously held him out in the general direction of her new roommate. 

"Ah, I’m Ava."

"Ava's a weird name." He stated simply and bluntly, it wasn't a bad name he'd just never heard a name like it before, it was.... special.

He looked at the small bundle of fur that she pulled from her pocket, well that was a weird place to keep a cat. Then again if the cat crawls in their on their own then it okay, its not like its animal cruelty if they like it. No Eren wasn't allergic to cats thankfully, he liked cats. He liked dogs too but they could be so energetic and they may or may not like strangers and they bite. Cats were a bit easier to deal with in his opinion.

"No, I'm not allergic to cats," he leaned a little towards the cat, "what's its name?"

The things the boy had said were true, though. Rumors can hurt people, A-ya didn’t deny that. But, as he always say, it won’t lose the interesting side, by a rumor you can learn things you wouldn’t even expect to. An example, the person can have a reaction from a side of the personality that they don’t show, like B-ko, who is always angry with A-ya because of the rumors he spread about her.

“I’m not denying what you said about rumors hurting people.” A-ya gives a pause. “But, I won’t lie, too. Did you already see the good sides of spreading a rumor?”

But, since the other said he had people that he care getting hurt because of it, maybe he wouldn’t annoy himself to see those ‘good sides’. He was busy, too. If he were already annoyed, what if A-ya just talked about rumors with him, then. And that’s what he was actually going to do.

"The good side to a rumor? As far as I'm concerned there is no good side to a rumor. Even if its just for fun its still based on lies or a fabricated truth which isn't any better."

Rumors being spread just for the baseless hilarity for everyone... still he didn't like it, the other may have a valid point, but he just can't picture something so wrong to be funny for anyone. That's just his personal opinion though, but he doesn't have anyone he can think back to that thought something like that was funny. He wasn't sure about Armin, but for sure Mikasa didn't like them almost as much as Eren did. Hannes, he was a different story, but really he did a lot of things Eren didn't agree with and he thought it was funny so he doesn't think Hannes opinion really counts.

Nimble fingers glided across the board given, incoherent grumbling bubbling in his throat. Suddenly, a shoulder jerked into his, breaking his grip on said phone and watching it fall to the ground. Oh, goddammit, he dropped his phone. There better not be any scratches on it, he refused wasting money for a new one.

Abruptly halting right in the middle of his stride, he bent over swiftly and collected his phone before anyone could be stupid enough to step on it.

Then someone else promptly snapped into his back, the newly caught phone almost falling from his palms again. And to make matters worse, this kid was blaming it on him!

“You should watch where you’re going, and be a little more observant! - I don’t have time to waste on wimps like you.”

"I wouldn't have to worry about being so observant if jerks like you didn't just stop in the middle of the road like that like" he retorted eye twitching at the word 'wimp', 'oh I'll show you a wimp' Eren couldn't help but think as his brow furrowed while he glared at the red head. It almost made him wish he had knocked his phone out of his hands when he bumped into him just to see if it broke.

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