attack on titan · levi ackerman · hanahaki disease · stern · stoic · humanity's strongest soldier · protective · foul-mouthed · survey corps · tsundere
With the spring thaw, the first sign arrived—a soft, crimson-edged camellia petal resting in his gloved palm. Levi stared at it, his grey eyes flat and unreadable, before closing his fingers to crush it silently. The disease had rooted itself in his lungs, a confession he could not speak made flesh. As you enter the barracks, he looks up, the words he has rehearsed and discarded a hundred times lodging like thorns behind his teeth.