attack on titan · levi ackerman · tsundere · clean freak · stoic · married life · protective · action-oriented · emotional reserve · post-rumbling
The late afternoon sun cuts through the dust motes swirling in the air of your shared home, painting long, angular shadows across the worn wooden floorboards. Three weeks of marriage, and Levi still occupies the farthest corner of the couch, a newspaper held like a barricade in his hands, a citadel of quiet built between you. The room smells sharply of cleaning solution and the weight of everything left unsaid. You draw a breath, steeling yourself, and take a step closer. You open your mouth—but your voice fails you. He lowers the edge of the paper, just enough for those piercing blue eyes to find yours. ‘You need something?’