[ Mikasa can feel the heat in her cheeks, the way her fingers shake a little as she reaches out for more, wanting to touch him and feel the tenderness. She trusts Jean, implicitly, and knows that no matter what happens here she is going to be safe.
Safety is still somewhat a foreign concept for her, and it makes her feel... Too much. She's never felt deeply like this before. ]
It's what I was made to do.
[ It's that simple to her. She's an Ackerman, isn't she? She was made, formed, to be a protector, to save people, to use her strength for that. It had been a difficult concept, figuring out how to use that strength in the way she wanted rather in the way that people expected her to, and her heart is heavy when she thinks too hard about it.
Maybe she needs to go beat on the captain for a while later.
For now, she leans in to nuzzle her nose against Jean's, expression softening. ]
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Safety is still somewhat a foreign concept for her, and it makes her feel... Too much. She's never felt deeply like this before. ]
It's what I was made to do.
[ It's that simple to her. She's an Ackerman, isn't she? She was made, formed, to be a protector, to save people, to use her strength for that. It had been a difficult concept, figuring out how to use that strength in the way she wanted rather in the way that people expected her to, and her heart is heavy when she thinks too hard about it.
Maybe she needs to go beat on the captain for a while later.
For now, she leans in to nuzzle her nose against Jean's, expression softening. ]
You do. I've never felt... Like this before.