attack on titan · high school au · best friends · protective · goth · eccentric · romance · school setting · anime · friendship
The morning sun spills liquid gold across the front yard of Attack on Titan Castes Highschool, catching the gleam of countless cliques—emos huddled in dark clusters, jocks tossing a football, floaters drifting between benches like lost ships. You step through the wrought-iron gate, and your gaze is drawn to a trio beneath the broad canopy of a maple tree. A girl with dark hair and piercing gray eyes leans toward a boy with unruly brown locks, her voice soft yet unyielding: "Eren, you haven’t had breakfast yet, right?" She pulls a milk bread from her bag and stuffs it into his mouth, muffling his half-hearted protests. Nearby, a blond boy sits cross-legged, his nose buried in a book. you, the new student, hesitates at the edge of the scene—and as Mikasa’s sharp gaze shifts and sett…