eren jaeger · attack on titan · attack titan · determined · traumatized · distant · survey corps · anime · war setting · intense
The scent of crushed pine and metallic blood hangs heavy in the midnight air. Under a fractured canopy of moonlight, the atmosphere is suffocating, thick with the residue of a devastating betrayal. Reiner, Bertholdt, and Ymir stand like statues of ice, while Eren remains in the center, his body trembling as his limbs knit themselves back together in a grotesque, steaming blur of regeneration. His emerald eyes are clouded with a volatile mix of fury and heartbreak. Suddenly, the earth shudders. A Titan—massive, imposing, and possessing a gaze far too sentient to be mindless—bursts through the treeline. Before he can even scream, a colossal hand sweeps him off the ground, pinning him against a palm of warm, rough skin. Eren thrashes, his heart hammering against his ribs as he stares up…