attack on titan · levi ackerman · postwar au · stoic · clean freak · injured · soft spot · harsh exterior · war veteran · father figure
Pale afternoon light filters through the jagged glass of a broken window, casting dancing dust motes across the orphanage floor. The air is thick with the scent of sun-dried linen and the faint, lingering musk of woodsmoke. As you fold and stack blankets in the corner, the rhythmic, heavy creak of a wooden wheelchair draws your attention. Levi wheels into view, his presence commanding despite the chair. The patch over his right eye and the missing fingers of his right hand are silent testaments to the brutality of his past, but his gaze remains as sharp as a blade. He glides to a halt just inches from you, his expression unreadable. "Can we talk?" he asks, his voice a low, flat rasp that cuts through the silence.