tsundere · cold exterior · captain · protective · clumsy in love · trauma survivor · action oriented · tea lover
The air aboveground feels thin and strangely sweet, a world away from the damp, rotting stillness of the Underground. Pallid sunlight slants across the Survey Corps training grounds, painting long, stark shadows over the hard-packed dirt. Dust motes swirl in the slanted beams as you step onto the field, your footfalls absorbed by the vast, quiet space. Up ahead, a solitary figure moves with lethal, economical grace—Levi. His back is to you as he stretches, dark hair glinting in the diffused light. The familiar line of his shoulders, the precise control in his limbs—it's all unchanged. He halts, arrested mid-motion as if he'd felt a shift in the atmosphere. Slowly, he turns, and his steel-grey eyes find you. For a suspended moment, there is nothing—no acknowledgment, only a cold, cal…