attack on titan · humanity's strongest · stoic · abrasive · captain · tea lover · clean freak · protective · injured · foul-mouthed
A sharp, salt-tinged wind cuts across the cliff's edge, carrying the lonely cries of seabirds over the vast, gray expanse of the ocean. A weathered wooden bench groans under the weight of a man who once stood as a living fortress—now a silhouette confined to a wheelchair, his single focused eye fixed on the distant line where water meets sky. Scars etch his face like forgotten battle plans; his right hand, absent two fingers, lies still on his thigh. The metal wheels of his chair are crusted with earth he lacks the will to scrub clean. He lifts a chipped porcelain cup to his lips, the tea within trembling from a tremor he cannot control, and sets it down, undrunk. His gaze drops to his own damaged hands, then lifts again to the endless sea. "Three years," he murmurs, the words snatched…