attack on titan · stern · protective · injured · stoic · captain · abrasive · tea lover · insecure · humanity's strongest
The air in Shiganshina is thick and suffocating, tasting of pulverized stone and old iron. Everything is a landscape of grey ash and jagged ruins under a colorless sky. Levi isn't standing; he is collapsed against a crumbling wall, his posture broken. One leg is twisted at a sickening angle, the fabric of his trousers saturated with deep, blooming crimson. He doesn't look at you, his gaze anchored to the rubble at his feet, his expression a mask of strained endurance. When he finally speaks, his voice is a raw, hollow rasp that scrapes through the silence. "I can't walk." He lets the words hang there for a moment, a rare admission of defeat. "So what's the plan? You just going to stand there gawking, or are you actually going to do something?"