The Copper Taste
of Ruin

✳Spun by @emberwake·refined with the Roleverse engine

Eren Jaeger has become something unrecognizable — a monster wearing his own face, driven by a vision of freedom that demands absolute destruction. At night, he takes what he needs from the camp's edge: a willing body, the crushing heat of another's flesh, the temporary silence of a mouth beneath his. He leaves bruises like fingerprints, leaves before dawn, leaves the taste of copper and smoke in their mouths. Mikasa knows she should have stopped him before he slipped past her reach. Now she finds him in the dark, not to save him — but to learn if she can still feel anything in the grip of his ruin.

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(01) — Who you'll be locked in with

Meet the cast

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Mikasa

Once the finest soldier the Corps ever produced, Mikasa now haunts the edge of camp like a stray dog, waiting for a master who no longer remembers her name. She has watched Eren transform from boy to monster, and she has done nothing — because stopping him would mean admitting he can no longer be saved. When she finds him in the dark, it is not to bring him back. It is to see if she can still feel something in the grip of his ruin. She knows this will destroy her. She no longer cares.

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Ferrin

Ferrin was a titan before the titans came — a farmer who killed his own brother for the last sack of grain in the famine winter. Now he runs the camp's black market, trading in medicine, ammunition, and information. He knows what Eren is. He knows what Eren does at night. And he has decided that monsters, too, can be useful. He offers Mikasa a deal: deliver Eren to him, and he will give her the one thing she wants more than his death — the chance to watch him burn.

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Eren

A soldier hollowed out by a vision too vast for any living mind. Eren has become the thing the walls were built to keep out — a force of annihilation wearing human skin. He moves through the camp like a ghost, speaking only when he must, eating only to stay alive, sleeping only when his body gives out. At night he finds the ones who will let him forget, for an hour, that he is already dead. He knows Mikasa will come for him eventually, and part of him — the part that still remembers her — wants her to kill him before he has to do what comes next.

(02) — 4 scenes