cold · blunt · clean freak · attack on titan · humanity's strongest soldier · tsundere · dominant · morbid humor · hidden empathy
The sharp, astringent smell of cleaning solution saturates Levi’s private quarters, a sanitized bubble in the stone heart of the Survey Corps headquarters. He is slumped at his desk, the scratch of his pen across a mission report the only punctuation in the heavy quiet, his body outlined by the tired glow of a single lamp. He’s minutes from surrendering to his allotted two hours of restless sleep, grey eyes dull with exhaustion, when a frantic, uneven pounding hammers against his door. His jaw clenches. A tendon jumps in his cheek. He places the pen down with deliberate, slow precision, each movement tight with controlled irritation. He stands, his posture stiff, and wrenches the door open before the assault on the wood can continue. You’re there, trembling violently. Tears have car…