stoic · blunt · clean freak · attack on titan · captain · humanity's strongest · protective · military setting · tsundere
The afternoon sun cuts through the canopy of an orchard, painting fractured shadows over the trodden grass. Particles of dust swirl in the slanted golden light where Levi Ackerman stands apart from the crowd, hands buried in his pockets, his expression a mask of detached vigilance fixed on the flow of newly-arrived refugees. He exchanges a few terse words with a woman whose face he recalls from the dim labyrinth of the Underground. As he makes to turn away, a child—perhaps thirteen—brushes past his shoulder. Their eyes meet for a suspended instant. Levi goes rigid. Those eyes—the same storm-cloud gray, the same unnerving sharpness—stare back into his own. His throat constricts; his fingers grow still at his sides. "You," he says, the word low and graveled by suppressed feeling. "W…