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☆ Welcome to Eren Week 2021 ☆

Introducing a celebration week of content creating in honor of Eren Yeager!  It is his final birthday week during the run of the manga series, so this event was made to illustrate, write, edit, etc. work that revolves around the series’ main protagonist, however the story concludes!  This was a fan appreciation idea by the mod who came up with a series of Eren-focused prompts for each day of the week- with great enthusiasm, we’re sharing this send-off project for any and all fans of Eren to participate as we show our love for our beloved character!

This will be cross-run on Twitter as well!

Dates: March 28th to April 3rd

Tags: #erenweek2021, #erentribute

Prompts:

Day 1 (3/28): Beginning / Childhood

Eren’s childhood, the beginning of the series, anything that symbolizes the start of something, etc.

Day 2 (3/29): Relationships / Love

Eren has a variety of relationships with other characters, many who he cares about deeply, what is/are your fave relationship(s), interactions, or something you wished to see more, etc. Keep it platonic!!!

Day 3 (3/30): Birthday / Life

Happy Birthday, Eren!! Celebrate his birthday with some tribute work, what’s your favorite thing about Eren, how to illustrate his life or view of living, etc.  This will be used as a FREE PROMPT- so literally anything!

Day 4 (3/31): Monster / Fight

Eren has shown he is a monster both physically and mentally, and it’s what makes his character very intense, fiery, and passionate, very willing to fight, be it on the battlefield or challenging himself and others.

Day 5 (4/1): Alternative Universe / Paths

Paths are timeless, spaceless, and infinite- do they even transcend universes?  Eren has quite a few version of himself via the high school Caste AU, fake previews, Junior High series, advertisement collabs- maybe there are even more realities that you have in mind!

Day 6 (4/2): [Wings of] Freedom / Vision

Eren’s primary goal, he wears it as a symbol, uses it as his driving force, the focus of his mantra- he has a sight that he wishes to see, or maybe it’s something that he should see…

Day 7 (4/3): Ending / Complete

The series has been a revolutionary one and it finally comes to a close- what is an ending you expect, or even just want, for Eren, what does he deserve, what should happen, etc. Anything that symbolizes the conclusion of something.

Rules:

Detailed rule descriptions here

All media and artforms are accepted

Collabs with other users are accepted

Use the #ErenWeek2021 tag within the first 5 tags in your post.

No expIicit content* (see detailed rules)

No romantic ships* (see detailed rules)

Keep it Eren-Focused

Late entries are accepted!

ZERO tolerance for harassment!

You do NOT have to follow the prompt list itself, if you want to make one Eren-focused work and put it in the tag, that is fine, you may combine prompts, do a few prompts, one prompt, etc!

Any questions, please see the detailed rules above. More rules or clarification may be added in a new post and updated on the FAQ!  Feel free to send a message on here or the Twitter account!

Remember to have fun!  Get creative!

Ereri Week 2020: Dark and Light

Very simple thing for the last day.  Eren goes through a lot of darkness in his life, but Levi still wants to have faith in his intentions even if it begins tearing him away.

Maybe…too inspired by canon happenings, huh? ;~;

Day 6 of ereriweek

Warning: Major character death

Eren’s time left lingered in his mind like a ticking clock.

It was scary how quickly those thirteen years had dwindled. By the time he realized, he was left with seven. Seven years was all he had left, and he had no time to pause or slow down and enjoy it. Their battle wasn’t over. As long as the titans still roamed, Eren was going to keep going.

When they finally cleared the island and settled down, seven years had become five. Eren had thought about moving back to Shiganshina, rebuilding his old house, but it was too much. It was too much to be there, even when the rubble was cleared and the city was rebuilt. His friends had followed him, and Levi had promised to stay by his side, but it was too much to be there without his family. He felt like he could see the ghosts of his parents wherever he turned.

By the time he and Levi found a place to settle down, five years was down to four. They built a little cabin by the sea, just big enough for the two of them. Eren had asked Levi if there was any place he wanted to go, if Levi wanted to return to his own hometown. But Levi just said he had no place to go back to. The day he announced his retirement as a soldier, he had vowed to go with Eren, wherever that led him.

He’s lost count of what reset he’s on. It was easy up until maybe the twentieth one or so, but now they all blend into one another. Dying is no longer a relief, no longer a chance to begin anew, but rather a reminder that he can never truly be free from this cycle of infernal rebirth.

All he can do is try to enjoy the small things - Mikasa’s comforting arms wrapped around him, Armin’s reassurance that they’ll figure this all out together. His favorite moment is when he gets Levi to kiss him in the brig, just a light press of his lips against Eren’s, but it’s the first time Eren’s smiled in a dozen resets or so. Being thrown back to the start feels all the more painful after that. 

At some point, he goes insane. That’s the only explanation he can come up with, because when he wakes up at night around the time when he’s usually killed, there’s an orange cat sitting on the floor in front of him. There’s never been a cat before, and the thing has seemingly materialized out of nowhere, which leads him to the conclusion that it’s a hallucination.

“Psspsspss,” he says to the cat. 

Day 7 of ereriweek

The night is their time.

They meet when the halls are dark and the rooms are quiet. The distance between Eren’s cell in the basement and Levi’s room upstairs feels like it grows larger every day. It doesn’t help that the other soldiers are restless, waking up at odd hours, roaming the HQ aimlessly until they can finally convince themselves to get some sleep. It’s hard to sneak all the way to see Levi without being seen, but somehow Eren manages every night.

The night is their time together, and it is their time to be honest.

Levi is always waiting at his desk when Eren arrives. When he hears the door open, he comes to greet Eren. When they are alone, Levi is gentle and kind. He reaches up to card his fingers through Eren’s hair. He leans close and mumbles an apology for something he said earlier in the day as he presses a kiss against the underside of Eren’s jaw. Eren’s whole body relaxes when Levi presses a kiss lower, against his collarbone. Eren leans down so that they can kiss properly, and when their lips meet, Levi breathes a sigh of contentment. They coil their arms around each other so that they can pull each other close, and in those moments, it feels like nothing can pull them apart.

The night is their time to be alone, and to be in love.

The day is less forgiving.

Some days it’s more than the soft kisses in the middle of the night, more than the lingering touches in between training and promises of “I love you’s” that they know won’t last. Nothing in their world ever does and it would be naive to think that this…whatever this is, in the midst of war, will. Some days it’s more than the feelings that they think will beat straight out of their chest.

Some days, all they have is desperation.

Desperate. Terrified. Timed love.

And on those days, Levi Ackerman will push Eren Yeager up against a wall of a cleaning closet he knows no one else will open, his eyes wild and touches incessant.

@ererievents ereri week 2020 day 5: fate

This is how it ends:

Eren watches the world burn down to ashes, the ground drenched in blood and tattered corpses lining the streets. Wherever he goes, he leaves destruction in his wake, righteous fury burning in his veins.

The entire nation of Marley is no more. The Survey Corps try to stop him, because of course they do, but he swats them aside like flies. It’s only later when he’s human again and lays eyes on the lifeless bodies of his friends that he realizes - this is real. This is all him. 

What remains of humanity is huddled safely on Paradis Island, the Yeagerists greeting him with cheers and applause upon his return. Even so, there are those who cast wary glances at him, seeing him for what he truly is - a monster. 

Day 5 of ereriweek

(modern AU/reincarnation AU)

Eren hadn’t planned on ducking into the little barber shop on his way back home. The forecast had said nothing about rain, and he was totally caught off guard when it suddenly started pouring on his walk back to his apartment. He hadn’t planned on getting a haircut; he liked his hair long and didn’t mind the effort it took to wash it and style it. 

So, Eren couldn’t really fathom how he ended up in a barber chair, with the sour-faced hairdresser running a comb through his hair. 

Maybe it was because he wanted to wait out the rain. Maybe he was too embarrassed to admit he hadn’t been looking where he was going when he dashed in for safety from the storm. Or maybe it was the fact that the black haired man cleaning a pair of scissors looked eerily familiar, in a way that tugged at Eren’s chest, even though he was sure they’d never met before. 

So when the man asked what he wanted done, Eren quickly spluttered out, “J-just a trim,” so that he would have an excuse to stay a bit longer. 

Day 4 of ereriweek

(mild/vague spoilers if you only watch the anime)

Levi can’t help but wonder if there was a way to be crueler than the devil.

He thinks of things like this often after Erwin is gone. His own words snap back at him whenever he dares to take a break, whenever he dares to indulge in silence. Give up on your dream and die. He’s tried not to overthink his decisions, to just accept and move on because that’s what it took to allow himself to keep going.

But he doesn’t know if deserves to keep going. 

He’s “Humanity’s Strongest,” but what does that matter if he accomplishes nothing in the end? What does it matter when his friends are still dying, when he still can’t keep his promises? What does that mean if the monsters he’s been fighting all along are people just like him? What makes him different from them?

When he thinks of those last moments, those last words, of the syringe in his hand, something boils in the pit of his stomach, heavy, bitter, nauseating. He’s not sure if it’s regret. He’s not even sure if the feeling is guilt. 

That makes it worse, somehow. He’s lost so many friends, so many fellow soldiers, that he can’t quite feel what he used to feel, what he should be feeling. 

It weighs on him. He wants to regret it. He wants to be sad. He wants to feel what the younger soldiers clearly still feel—raw, powerful emotion. 

But he doesn’t. 

Ereri Week 2020: Special Occasion

Belated whoops!  Took a break from angst because I wanted to draw husbands being soft! ✿

He’s missing a sheep again.

Every morning just a few moments after sunrise, Levi and Elsa head out to the pasture to check on the herd, and going on for nearly a month now, their numbers have been dwindling. At this rate he’ll have no sheep left soon, and even though his humble field of fall crops has done well this year, produce is not nearly as profitable as wool. 

The first thing he does is reinforce the barbed wire fence around the pasture. There have been some sightings of wolves in the area lately, and he supposes a particularly crafty one could’ve gotten through without injuring itself. He doubts it, though - Elsa doesn’t sniff out anything unusual during her sweep of the perimeter. There are no tracks, no signs of a struggle, no blood stains. 

That very same evening, he stays up a little later than usual, watching the crescent moon shining its pale light over his fields. The night is dark and silent and still, and though he remembers how his old colleagues in the military spoke of the world beyond Wall Maria in such frightened tones, he’s never felt more at peace than here, miles away from the nearest village. Life in Sina is but a distant memory as he curls up under the thick duvet to sleep, Elsa soon joining him at the foot of his bed.

The next morning Levi discovers that there is one sheep less out on the pasture. 

Day 3 of ereriweek

When Levi saw the red ribbon carelessly tossed on the floor in the middle of the hall, he knew that something was wrong. Either someone had ignorantly made a mess on the floor without fear of punishment, or he was being baited by someone. Levi sighed, bending down to start collecting the ribbon, looping the smooth fabric over his arm as he followed it. He really didn’t have time for whatever silly mind games someone was trying to play on him. He hadn’t finished his work yet, and he had a meeting with Erwin later. Plus, Hanji wanted him for some sort of titan experiment. 

Levi continued following the ribbon. He tried to yank on it and save himself the trouble of walking all over the HQ, but he only succeeded in pulling it taut. He sighed again. So, somebody had tied it to something. Whoever it was really was trying to lead him somewhere. 

…He’d been hoping to spend his break with Eren, but clearly he wasn’t so lucky. Of course, the one day Eren had a full day off from training and cleaning duty was the day that Levi was swamped with work. 

words: 2k

prompt: special occasion (day 3)

rating: sfw

content: polyamory, eren/levi/hanji, levi proposes to eren, domestic, established relationships, napping, cuddling, trans girl eren 💘

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Coming into the house and being met with silence is always strange. Both Eren and Hanji are home at this time of day, and usually at least one of them is making some kind of noise, even if they're not causing chaos as a duo. Not even Magnolia comes to greet him in the hallway, her furry ginger self hidden away somewhere.

Removing his shoes at the door and shedding his outer clothing, he makes his way into the house, searching for his missing partners and cat. Every room that makes sense for them to inhabit is empty - the living room, the kitchen, Hanji's office.

Anxiety has been chewing at Levi's chest all day, anticipating his return home today. He's been planning his proposal for a while, being secure only in the fact that Eren wouldn't want it public.

The plans running through his mind on repeat during his workday definitely did not involve coming home to an empty house..

Finally, he hears the tell tale purr of Maggie and follows the sound into the bedroom only to find a bundle of colourful blankets almost completely obscuring the two figures curled up in the bed.

Eren's feet, clad in fluffy socks, poke out the bottom of the blanket; a mess of brown hair and Hanji's arms sprawl out the top. Somewhere under the cover, the rest of their bodies could be in any state of entanglement. A soft purring doughnut of orange fur rests on top of the blanket, her green eyes blinking up at Levi as he enters the room.

“Come over here and let me wash your hair,” Levi tells him, more of an order than a request. 

“What, you don’t think I can’t wash it well enough myself?” Eren quips, clutching on to his towel. The damn thing keeps slipping lower with every movement which is why he’s stayed on the benches for so long in the first place. 

It’s always a special occasion when their squad gets the chance to relax a little, and while the others have gone off to enjoy the ample dinner laid out for them, him and Levi are still here in the sauna. Thankfully they’ve been seated a respectable distance from one another so far. Things are still new and unfamiliar between them, and now they’re here, naked, just the two of them. 

“It’s getting longer,” Levi states as he reaches for the bottles of shampoo. “Scoot over, please.”

He does, clumsily, all the while holding on to his towel as if his life depends on it. Settling by Levi’s feet, he tries to relax as he feels skilled fingers combing through his hair. It’s hard, but thankfully nothing else is at the moment. 

“You’re tense.” Levi presses his thumbs to the back of his neck and Eren all but moans out loud. “Relax a little.”

Through gritted teeth, he replies, “I’m trying.” Levi’s touched him before, of course, has braided his hair a couple of times and woven daisies into it. They’ve shared countless kisses, he’s even snuck out to sleep with Levi in his bed once on a particularly cold night, but this is different from any of that. 

From where he’s seated, he’s very aware that Levi’s crotch is right behind him. It’s right there. He could just turn and plant his face into it.

Eren draws in a long breath, willing the tightness in his shoulders to unfurl. It does feel nice, having Levi lather up his hair and gently work through the knots along his lengths. “Do you think I should cut it?” he asks when the silence becomes too much to bear. 

After considering it for a moment, Levi replies, “Don’t. It looks good on you.” He leans over to place a featherlight kiss against the skin of Eren’s shoulder, ticklish and tender and tempting all at the same time. 

That’s another thing, too - whenever Levi pays him a compliment, whether it’s something light and casual or whispered into his ear in a reverent voice, he can’t help but to squirm in delight. It’s especially bad now, the heat of the sauna and Levi’s solid presence behind him making it even harder to keep his composure. He digs his nails into his thigh, only inches below from where the towel is covering him and tries to think of clean thoughts. 

"You’re still tense,” Levi says as he moves to rinse off the suds. “Stop it." 

The warm water cascading down on him relaxes Eren only a little. "Yeah, well. It’s kind of awkward,” he blurts out. 

“How so?” His hands return to carding through Eren’s hair just for the sake of it. 

“We’re naked,” he states, heat blooming across his face. 

“We’ve been naked before, though,” Levi points out. They have, but it’s always been in the communal showers and often surrounded by other people, which is nowhere near as stressful as this. 

Eren shrugs. “It feels different now.”

Levi’s hands come to rest on his shoulders, warm and steadying. “It doesn’t have to. I don’t expect anything from you that you’re not comfortable with.”

He can’t quite bring himself to give a name to the dizzying sensation that blooms in his chest at that. Maybe this is what love feels like, relaxed and warm and easy. Some of the tension coiled in his shoulders melts away as he lets himself lean further into Levi’s touch. 

“I’m not uncomfortable,” he says. “Just a little nervous, I guess.”

“That’s fine.” With one last kiss placed on the top of Eren’s head, Levi shuffles over and moves to get up. “Let’s go and see if there’s any dinner left for us.”

Thankfully enough, there is, and as Eren grabs himself a second slice of bread, he casually tangles his legs with Levi’s under the table. No-one notices, not even when Levi raises a brow at him from across the table. There’s the barest hint of a smile on his lips, lingering there whenever Eren glances his way.

It’s a good look on Levi. He should smile more, Eren decides just then. Silently he vows to himself to make Levi smile as often as possible.