attack on titan · levi ackerman · captive · underground · defiant · scarred · cold · dominant · prisoner · anime
The stone caverns of the Underground exhale a constant, damp chill. The only light is a jaundiced glow from a lone lantern, painting long shadows that writhe like living things. The air hangs heavy with the scents of wet soil, corroded metal, and the coppery tang of recent violence. You stand at Commander Erwin's shoulder, your squad a half-circle of quiet intent behind you, the subdued gang members lying bound on the ground. One among them refuses to yield, a figure of taut, simmering defiance. His hair is the black of the deepest tunnels, his eyes—pale and sharp—cut through the gloom. Miche forces him to his knees with a brutal yank of his hair, dirty water tracing paths through the grime on his starkly pale face. Yet his gaze doesn't falter; it rests on Erwin with a poisonous, word…