This is yet another excerpt of Attack On Titan Changes - Chapter Nine: "Paradise". In this document I decided to gather together Ymir & Az's '2000 years ago' storyline. You can read the full story in the main fanfic doc: "Attack On Titan Changes".
Enjoy this small Changes tease!
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≃2000 years ago
[Three Years after the first appearance of The Titan]
There were arrows flying everywhere. Soldiers stabbing one another with spears and swords. The dead and mangled being stepped on by the desperate souls that were running. Running for their lives. It was the middle of a battle, a very typical battle between the new coming Eldian Kingdom and the well established Marlean Empire. The eldians were slowly making a dent on the thousand-year-old successful Empire of Marley, they were creating an empire for themselves. All thanks to the new gigantic monster they'd acquired. It made the marlean legions run screaming in fear, and it didn't spare any soul.
A brave marlean soldier walked in the middle of that chaotic battle. He was walking in the direction opposite to where the other marleans were actually running towards. He was walking straight to the Titan, very determined. The young man reached for a good sword he saw impaling a fallen soldier. He pulled it up from the corpse's ribs and kept walking. A little further down, he found himself another good sword jabbed on the ground, the man also took that sword for himself. Now he walked a little more deceptively as he was getting closer to the Titan and didn't want it to see him. Even with all the commotion of the battle, some marlean soldiers were noticing their comrade. They were waiting to see what he would do. That soldier was known for being extremely unpredictable.
Azymondeus walked low, hiding himself where he could. He was waiting for the perfect opportunity. "One meter across, ten centimeters wide," Azzy thought to himself, looking down his swords and up to the Titan, he laughed. "I should probably multiply that by a ton!"
He hid himself again, this time making sure no one could see him. The young soldier looked up to the sky, concentrating. He had to get it right, he had to get it perfect. But then again, space jumps were always very easy for him. Az smiled. He was confident and ready. "Who needs ODM gear?" He thought to himself, gloating. "I can fly!"
That bright white light shone inside his eyes again, he quickly built up the necessary energy. He'd gotten much better at it over time. Az disappeared and rematerialised himself in the middle of the air, behind the Titan's head, in a blind spot. He hovered for a split second behind the giant beast and got his blades ready. Falling with style, he sliced through the Titan's flesh and got the girl out of there.
-.-
Suddenly all the marlean soldiers became mesmerised. The Titan was melting away, dissolving itself. There were cheers! Many who had previously decided to give up on their lives now decided to fight with everything they had. They could actually win this!
"This isn't good," Osmond told his brothers as they inspected what had happened with their Titan. The Eldian Princes were all standing in the nape, with their General. Looking down on the sliced flesh, it was completely empty.
"Where the hell did she go?" Torin asked, frustrated. He jammed his sword in the Titan's flesh with anger and disappointment.
"Do you think she finally took off?" Jari considered.
As the boys were arguing among themselves, Lud was thinking. He knows he'd noticed something strange before the Titan started to steam out. He was sure he saw a bright blue light. But he kept it to himself, now he was more concerned with his soldiers.
"It doesn't matter, Jari, we'll deal with her later. Now go and give the troops the signal to retreat."
The young prince nodded, obeying his General's orders.
"Retreat?" Torin interjected. "I give the orders here and no one is retreating. Eldians never retreat."
"You foolish boy!" Ludvík raised his voice and pointed at the battlefield. "Don't you see they are already overtaking us? Do you want to die today? We are retreating."
Torin looked around, his younger siblings seemed to agree with the general, he became mad. "Don't call me boy! I can't wait for father to die so I can put you in your place." He told the general and spat on his face.
The General cleaned his face with his hand and held his scabbard aggressively. "I'll call you whatever I want. I've known you since you were in diapers, boy."
This was enough to put the arrogant prince in his place.
"We are retreating." Ludvík said again.
Osmond sighed, Eldia hadn't had lost a battle in three years. "This should have been easy," he commented, crossing his arms.
The four of them could see their soldiers being slaughtered in the distance.
"We are very weak without her," Jari added.
"Precisely," Osmond replied. "Precisely what?" Lud interjected. 'This boy and his fancy words,' he thought.
The smarter prince explained: "I mean, Jari is pointing out the problem. We became too dependent on the wench."
-.-
There it was: that bright blue light again. The two teenagers reemerged in the middle of the sky, a couple of kilometers south to where the battle was occurring. The sixteen-year-old had passed out the moment she was prematurely disconnected from her Titan. But the sudden cold breeze and horrible feeling of gravity pulling her back to earth had woken her back up instantly. Ymir opened her bright green eyes wide. The knight was wearing full body armour, even then she could see his dark blue eyes under that visor and that was enough. She'd look straight into his eyes and she knew exactly who he was.
They came crashing down from above. Az reached and tried to hold her close again, so they could jump out of that dangerous free-fall. But they were falling too fast, he lost her grasp and they hit the water. Luckily there was a river there. His heavy armour made him sink much deeper than her, and Az struggled to find his bearings and it took time for him to find his way back to the surface.
Ymir rose up from the waters as fast as she could, that situation - being under water - was bringing terrifying memories to her. She looked for the margin and quickly made her way there. The young and gracious lady sat on a rock to dry herself, she was freezing but she didn't let it show. She watched carefully as her old friend walked out of the river. Ymir was charmingly drying her long and blonde hair as she watched him take out the pieces of his armour, the enemy's emblem was all over it. She thought about it all, giving him a calculating look, she finally spoke: "I'm assuming you want to talk."
He looked at her for a quick while, puzzled. The eighteen-year-old only let out one unimpressive: "Huh."
"What?" Ymir asked.
"I expected you to be more frightened," he explained. That whole situation: being cut out from the Titan by a stranger, the dimensional travel, free-falling into a river… none of it seemed to faze Ymir.
Ymir rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. She looked at him with annoyance.
"You can recognise me?!" He startled with the realisation. Az was ready to explain who he was and where they had come from. The superficial and slightly romanticised version, of course.
"Of course, I can." Ymir told him in a dry tone. "It's not everyday one is chased by a blooded demon," she added.
"We don't need to talk about that," he replied with embarrassment. Az looked up at the sky with sadness. "I'm sorry, about everything," he pleaded for her forgiveness.
Ymir looked up the sky too, she looked down around the trees with wonder, thinking back to that time. "I remember when you came into the palace." She had gone to her younger self, inside her head. She remembered meeting the boy, she remembered looking at him for the first time, from behind her mother's dress. Ymir was a very timid child, but somehow the boy had made her come out of her shell. "There was just something about you, I was infatuated by this charming boy, with his blue eyes and clever ways. I fell into your spell and I regret it."
Azzy sighed. "We were just kids, I-" He paused and continued very timidly: "I was just trying to impress you… All feels very stupid now," he confessed. Az regretted trying to jump with the girl that time. He regretted that more than anything! They ended up in a very different place from where he was trying to take her. It was actually the first time Azzy had jumped to somewhere he hadn't been before. Or so he thought. Azzy couldn't remember, but he had been to that dimension before, and so had Ymir. It was their safe place.
"It really does," she agreed with him. The whole situation felt very stupid for them, now that they were more mature. "I'm assuming there's no way out of it, otherwise you would've had already taken me back and undone all this mess," she concluded. Ymir was never hopeful she would one day be home again. She had grown up in that strange time, and she had become conformed to the laws of that strange land. She felt set in her ways.
"It doesn't seemed to be," he disclosed. Azzy sighed, he decided to confess: "I tried everything. We are trapped here," he told her with much sadness.
"We? Are you saying you can't leave either?" Ymir was confused, she always thought the boy was free to go wherever he liked, and that he had left her there out of his own intent.
"Yes," he came closer and sat down next to her, "and I knew that before I came here. But I had to come anyways," he told Ymir.
"Why?" She couldn't understand.
"I promised your father I'd take care of you," he revealed.
Ymir was taken by that, she didn't think of her family very much. "That is very sweet," she commented.
"Do you remember then? You seem to remember the day we came to visit," he asked.
"I didn't remember much at first. I grew up here feeling like a shell of myself. It was only when- " Ymir paused, reflective. "When I died and came back, I started to remember everything. I have so many vivid memories of those days," she looked up the sky wondering. "I had a great childhood, I was very happy."
She noticed her friend became quite shy and a little red in the face, he seemed embarrassed and sad.
Azzy looked down the ground and at the river margin. "You probably never noticed this, but I was there," he told her with a timid voice.
"Where?" Ymir asked.
"That day, when you fell and- and drowned… I wanted to save you, and I tried many times, but it never worked." He divulged. Az let out a small laugh. "We don't get along very well, we never did."
"You and who?" She asked.
"Time," he explained. "It never wants to go my way, even with everything I can do. I should be able to rule it. But I'm just another passenger, I understand that now," he laughed. "I finally understood it, with time," he joked.
Ymir became a little reflective. "How did you even know where to find me?" she asked her old friend.
"Time." Azzy joked again. "When I first got here, you were just a child, and you probably don't remember. You were chasing piglets." He smiled with the memory. "By your looks I concluded it hadn't been very long since you had gotten there. You saw me and ran off, which is understandable," he joked. "And I stopped to case the place. That tree was there, the same one from that odd dimension. I believe it works as a portal, that's what made you come back so far into the past-"
"How far?" Ymir asked, she was a child when she'd got there and hadn't had much history instruction, so she couldn't properly point out the Age they were in.
Azzy scratched his head, if she didn't know it already, this was about to be a big shock. "Two thousand years… give or take," he replied.
Ymir stood up fast. "Two THOUSAND years? Are you saying I am two thousand years away from my family? I- I," she stuttered for a moment. "I knew I was in the past, but I had no idea I was this far back," she confessed with much stress. Ymir embraced herself, she was shaking with the cold and with that realisation. Az came near her, he gave her his tunic, it was still somewhat wet but it was better than nothing.
She sat back down, in silence and he proceeded talking. "I couldn't properly approach the tree. It was the same as last time, there's something around it that stops me from getting close. That is actually why I couldn't follow you the first time," he explained and continued: "That's when I committed yet another stupid mistake: I decided to jump. It was just supposed to be a space jump, so I could see around where I was-"
Ymir interrupted him, confused. "What do you mean by 'jump'? Are you talking about the thing you do when you disappear and reappear?"
"Yes." Azzy continued. "It was an oversight, I should have thought it wasn't a good idea since I was so far in the past and in somewhere I've never been before," he sighed. "But I had just become too used to doing that… it's just my nature," he justified himself, Ymir squinted a little. Azzy embraced himself. "It's easier than walking," he said, joking. "Sure," Ymir replied, still squinting.
Az continued: "What matters is that I wasn't supposed to travel in time again, but somehow I did. And I noticed that when I saw you again, you were much older and the tree was there. I saw everything, I saw how you fell and what happened afterwards… I tried to stop it but I failed time and time again."
"So you were there?" Ymir asked. "The day I died?"
He nodded, confirming it. "But you didn't really die-" Az commented and was abruptly interrupted by her. "I did." Ymir said with conviction. "I know I did."
She looked up the sky again, it was becoming quite orange and a little pinkish. That meant the sun was setting and night was falling. Ymir sighed, very reflective, she continued: "It's the worst feeling in the world. I remember that vividly too, I remember thinking all I wanted was to live. I really wanted to live-" Azzy gave a small laugh. "What's funny?" She asked indignantly.
"Nothing, is just-" Azzy tried to find a way to explain the irony he was feeling. "It wasn't very long ago that I finally realised I might never be able to feel any of that. It never hit me before, growing up. But the way I am, all these strange things I can do. I'm not be able to die."
"Are you saying you are Immortal?" she asked.
"Maybe. I don't like thinking about it too much, it makes me feel empty," he confessed.
"Well, I'm actually happy for you. I don't wish that pain to anyone. It still haunts me to this day," she told him, perhaps to ease his mind.
"I don't think I would mind it as much," he replied.
"Are you saying you want to die?" she asked with worry.
"Sometimes," he replied.
She became more worried. "Have you ever talked about this to someone before?" Ymir was concerned, maybe her friend needed some counselling.
Azzy laughed. "I have actually! Not too long ago." He smiled at her. "With you brother."
Ymir smiled back, she started to wonder about her family again. How they were so far away from her. "I can't imagine how he is now," she said.
"Extremely dull," Az joked.
Ymir smiled again. "Did you two become friends?" She asked, Azzy thought for a moment. "In a way… Maybe?"
She laughed. "You like him! Are you afraid he's going to know?" she teased.
"I'm glad you can never tell him," Azzy swiftly joked. He didn't have time to think of the words coming out of his mouth. Ymir became quite sad with the thought of never seeing her brother again. She looked down to the river, staring into the water, trying to hold back her tears. Azzy felt extremely guilty by that stupid outburst. "I- I didn't mean to say that, I apologise."
They stayed in silence for a while. The lost princess was very reflective, she was thinking about her life and the meaning of it all. "Mother said we were born special, Ezra and I," Ymir said with wonder. "She said we would know more when we'd be thirteen," the young soul smiled with the thought. "And I'm glad for my gift! It saved my life," she joyously declared.
Azzy was thoughtful about it, somehow he thought that was not the case. Titans shouldn't exist yet, Ymir was the first. She hadn't been born special. Dying in that pond, underneath the earth, that's what made her what she was now.
He scratched his head, confused. "Still, bringing Titans to an era that didn't have them yet was not a good thing. This is all very messy," he remarked. "Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled that you found a way to survive. But why did you keep using that power? Why keep transforming?" Azzy questioned her.
"I wanted to help my people. That's why I was born for," she stated with grace.
"They are not your people yet," Az pointed out.
"That doesn't matter. I was born to be a queen, their queen. I'm fulfilling my duty, that is my destiny." Ymir declared. "I am the daughter of history, quite literally!" she added, with a laugh. "What is your destiny?" Ymir questioned her friend.
"I have no idea," Azzy replied with uncertainty.
"Why did you join the enemy army?" she continued her questioning.
"Well, I was hoping to level the playing field. You lot were massacring then, I just thought I could help a little. Besides, I don't think like you do. I don't consider this people my people, we are too far back," Az explained.
"Well, you only think like that because you didn't grow up here, like I did. And I think you're wrong, about this and the Titans thing," Ymir replied, slightly scolding Az.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Titans always existed. At least, that is was marleans believe," she joked. Ymir looked up the sky. "They believe Titans live up there, giant and ancient beings who were up there even before the Earth was made. They believe those Titans have the power to punish them," Ymir looked down and smiled at him. "Marleans believe those Titans granted me their power to inflict pain on them," she gloated. "Their soothsayers saw all this coming a long time ago. The fall of the marlean empire and the beginnings of a brand new one. We are 'the terror from the north'," she said with pride.
"You seem very proud of all that," Azzy commented.
"I am." Ymir swiftly replied. "I'm doing my part, for my people. I was born in the heart of a triumphant, wealthy empire. And now I am actually helping Eldia get to all that. It feels extremely rewarding. We were nothing but a small village before, constantly having to defend ourselves from the raids of the marleans. Now we are quickly becoming a very prosperous Kingdom. Of course I am very proud." She stated with grace.
Azzy scratched his head, "Well, that's actually why I wanted to talk to you."
"You think I should stop?" Ymir asked.
"Not exactly, I-" He looked up at the stars, the sun was setting and the starry night sky was beginning to show. "I think we could work together." he proposed.
"To level 'the playing field', like you said before?" Ymir had an idea on where he was going with all that.
"Yes. These battles in this time, they can be extremely brutal. And innocent people don't deserve that. You said yourself Eldia was a village constantly being raided. There's no need to do that to the enemy," Az stated. "I think is fine to destroy armies. But we should leave the regular folk out of that."
"You wish to avoid loss of civilian life?" she asked.
"I wish to eradicate those evil ways completely. In both sides. Let soldiers kill only soldiers. No village raids, no slaves, no killing children!" He replied very passionately.
Ymir became very thoughtful about it, she'd being a slave herself. She still was, she hadn't realised that yet. Ymir always thought the Fritz family had embraced her as one of their own. Because she was. It was her family in a way. In a very distant way. She thought they cared for her, but for them, she would only ever be that: a slave. And their wicked ways would never change. Those two young and naive souls had no idea what they were getting into. There was no way to bring that evil family and their empire to more civilised ways. Those cannibals were about to bring to the Earth one of the more horrific eras it had ever seen. And the Earth was crying about it.
"I think you have a very noble proposition," Ymir commended her friend. She thought how proud her mother would be, if she knew her daughter was helping to save children from evil. Like the queen herself had done. Ymir thought of the smile on Historia's face, even if she would never see that again, she could still dream it. Her mother would be proud. "I will help you." She declared.
"Good." Azzy told her.
"How is it going to work? Are you going to act as some sort of a spy for us?" she asked.
"Precisely," Az replied. "I can help you surprise Marley time and time again. And completely exterminate their army. If you can promise me Eldia will only attack that, the Army, and nothing else."
"Agreed," Ymir said, and extended her arm for them to shake hands. It was a deal.
Az shook hands and smiled. "We can play them. Make those higher ranks only concentrate on the battlefield. I'll teach you how to deceive them whenever they start to make more wicked plans," Azzy told her very proudly, he was very good on manipulation. And playing with with weaker minds was fun for him. "We can steer them in the right direction."
"Okay," she agreed.
"But we need to make sure none of this is discovered. It will ruin things if anyone finds out what we are up to. And I mean anyone," he warned her.
"It will be our secret," she smiled at him, flirting a little with the charming knight. Ymir wouldn't keep that secret for very long. She would eventually tell Fritz about it. How she had her own marlean spy. The wicked man would then make plans of his own. The evil-doer had nasty plans of his own and he would later play with those naive souls.
Azzy put his hands on his hips. "This will be fun!" he declared, very happy about it.
Ymir smiled at him. "I'm glad you haven't lived here long enough to lose your civilised ways," she joked, wondering how long it would take for him to lose to savagery like any good man would under the circumstances of that broken world. 'You might be pushed too far one day,' she thought.
The two friends had an agreement. Now Ymir had to go back to camp, she refused to 'jump' with him. "It's enough of that for me," she explained. So they had to walk through the forest for a while. Az would space-jump up the trees to see ahead from time to time, to be sure they were going in the right direction.
Ymir started to get tired. "Are you sure we are going the right way?" she asked, a little annoyed.
"Of course, it's somewhere in -" he paused, looking around, "this way," he pointed generally south.
"You are not very good at this," Ymir complained, she gave up: "can't you just do your thing and take us there?" She asked, the teenager was tired.
"We are close." Az stated. "I can't risk showing my powers, I've never actually been to the camp, only seen from the distance, doing 'my thing' could go very wrong and we could end up in the middle of everyone," he explained.
"Great!" Ymir said ironically. She kept complaining, she mumbled about having to walk through the wilderness. "I really wish we were in the future right now. With all the roads and buildings. All those cities! This place is just one big forest, I miss civilisation! I miss all those nice people living in those nice constructions! It was all so perfect!"
"Until your father destroyed it all," he mumbled under his breath.
"What?" she didn't hear what he'd said.
"Nothing, we are almost there," he replied.
After a few more minutes of walking they finally reached the edges of the eldian camp. They can see the torches, the tents and the soldiers walking in the distance.
"Finally!" Ymir exclaimed. She turns to him to say her goodbyes: "When will I see you again?" she asked, flirting a little.
"Right. You will know when I come for you, so we can better plan things-" Az was explaining to her very seriously when he noticed her smirking. "What?" He asked.
Ymir was slightly rocking back and forth. She stood up on her tiptoes and smiled. "This whole 'level the playing field' inquest, was it just an excuse you made to finally talk to me? After all those years?" she asked him, playing with her hair. Still flirting.
"No - I" he tried to think, feeling quite embarrassed. "I didn't- I," Az kept stuttering. She leaned in and gave him a kiss, their first ever kiss. Azzy opened his eyes wide. He was petrified, he didn't know what to do and he couldn't even enjoy it, not enough and not as much as she did. The poor teenager couldn't even blink, he just stood there, like a chump.
She pulled away slowly and smiled at him. Ymir looked at the moon and turned back to him with her own proposal: "Tomorrow is a full moon, I bet the reflection looks beautiful in those waters, come to take me there again," she said and leaned in again, kissing him on the cheek. I'll wait for you," she added. And left him there. Ymir looked back at him again, she was very charming. He looked at those bright green eyes again, completely infatuated by that pretty girl. Azzy was slightly shaking and cold sweating, the boy couldn't even move his legs. He was still in shock by that immense show of affection. He hadn't been expecting that from the princess, it put his life in a different perspective. She had opened his eyes to a brand new world.
-.-
Back in the camp, Ymir had now to deal with the King and his family. She knew it wouldn't be easy, but she was pretty confident she could get away with it. She had a meeting on the King's tent, - the largest on camp, of course - with King Fritz and his three eldest children, they were usually the ones who made most of the decisions. One of the brothers was pointing out Ymir was missing from the nape and how the marleans must've had figured out where was the titan's weakness.
"That is absurd. I don't have a weakness." Ymir interrupted him defiantly.
"How do you explain your disappearance then? No once saw where you went," Elke challenged the young girl.
"Exactly. I already told you. I woke up in the middle of the woods," The teenager explained again. "It must have something to do with the gods who gave me this power," Ymir played them. "I believe they meant to protect me, so they used their powers to sent me to the distant woods."
"Protect you from what?" King Fritz asked, he became curious about that part.
"Some unforeseen evil," Ymir was vague in her lying.
Torr sighed. "None of that matters. There were thousands of witnesses out there, most of them enemy soldiers. And they all saw our monster being defeated for the first time. They saw the Titan can actually be defeated. Some of them could have concluded the weak point is the nape. Hopefully they didn't see what was in it. If they ever find out we're depending on a little girl we are toasted," the prince stated with much logic.
"I'm not a little girl, I am sixteen," Ymir hissed at him.
"Shut up," Elke told her defiantly, reprimanding the young girl.
"Now, now, Elke. We don't need to be like that." Fritz told his only daughter.
"Retreating was a mistake. Like I told you, father, and Torr just confirmed. There were too many witnesses there. Too many enemies who went back home with knowledge about our weaknesses. We should have slaughtered them all then and there." Torin gave his point of view.
"Don't be naive, Torin. You embarrass me sometimes. If the numbers Lud told me were right, our army would lose very quickly. You would be slaughtered yourself. Was the general lying?" Fritz asked.
"No he wasn't." Torr swiftly replied. "The marleans took the upper hand as soon as our Titan fell. We became outnumbered quickly," he was carefully explaining to his father when he noticed Torin was giving him an ugly look. "I know all that because I was there, fighting in the front. You always hide in the back like I coward. Near the Titan, with the small ones," Torr told his brother defiantly. - The 'small ones' was how he would always refer to their younger siblings, the younger princes. - Torin didn't like his brother calling him a coward, and that wasn't the first time.
The two princes were ready for a customary brawl when their father interrupted them. "That is enough. I think we have gathered enough information about this whole incident," Fritz told his children. Incident was a light word to describe the weight of what had occurred that afternoon. Eldia had lost to Marley for the first time in three years. It was a huge embarrassment for the new kingdom.
"What are we going to do about all this, father?" Elke asked the King. She was worried about it. And of course, she blamed the wench. The princess would never trust that little witch, she knew Ymir was hiding something, and she wouldn't let that go easily.
"For now, we can only wait and see. Let Marley play their next move. And be ready to advance, like we always do." the father told her, very wisely.
"Can I go now?" Ymir asked, the teenager was bored with all that interrogation.
"Yes, darling, I'm sure you need some rest after such an odd day," Fritz replied, with a bit of sarcasm. He too could see through her, like Elke could. He knew Ymir was hiding something.
Ymir left the tent. She walked around the camp, under the moonlight. Ymir had a happy expression in her face and she couldn't help but laugh from time to time. She was thinking about the boy, she hadn't seen him in such long time! That was a very lovely afternoon, by the river and under the stars. Ymir was hoping to see him again soon, very soon. She smiled with the thought.
"Did you have a fun time today?" An old voice asked her in a quiet tone. Ymir went back to reality. Ludvík was very near her, sat on a rock, sharpening his sword. She hadn't even noticed.
"What do you mean?" She asked back casually, looking around to confirm there was no one near them.
"Who was that boy you were with? The one who brought you back to the camp, I saw you arriving, coming from the woods," Lud questioned her. He had seen them kissing, but he decided to omit that detail.
"That is none of your business," Ymir replied with annoyance.
"He was wearing marlean armour," Lud pointed out. "Are you thinking of changing sides?" He questioned her loyalty.
"Sides? I don't take sides. I live only for myself." Ymir replied with anger. "And I can do whatever I want." she added.
"You have your duty, like all of us here have ours. There's no need to be selfish with this gift the gods gave you. You are young so I'll let this slide, but I'll tell you this: whenever these selfish thoughts come to you, just think of the villagers. All those people you are helping to protect. And of how much you are helping Eldia to grow," he advised the young girl in a fatherly way.
"Don't ever think you are allowed to lecture me. I have my own mind." Ymir hissed at him, she was mad.
The old man sighed. 'Teenagers never understand how we are more experienced than them, and how we only want what is best for them,' Lud thought to himself. "Fine. I just hope you won't end up with your heart broken. Be careful, my dear. For your own sake," he advised her again.
Ymir turned her nose up at him, and left his presence. She didn't take his advice, not even a little bit. And Ludvík was right. She got her heart broken in the end.
-.-