Characters: Annie Leonhart, Eren Yeager, Mikasa Ackerman
Pairing: EreMikaAni
Raiting: General Audiences
Other Tags: Alternate Univers - Modern Setting, Established Relationship, Relatonship Study, Character Study
Words: 7552
Summary:
Annie doesn’t like New Year’s parties — or fireworks — and yet she accompanied Eren and Mikasa to one.
Notes:
I wanted to write MikaAni waking up on New Year’s, but then things happened and suddenly I was writing the evening instead and Eren got involved.
Happy New Year!
Read also on AO3
The air is chilly, forcing its way through the thick layers of clothes and making her shiver. Annie is standing at the far end of the driveway between the front door and the half-full beer crate. Her arms are crossed before her chest to make up for where her winter coat is starting to fail her.
She’s by herself, unless you count Ymir and Historia a few metres over, past the most popular beverage of the evening. They’ve been busy making out with each other even before midnight though, so Annie wouldn’t consider them company. Not that she minds. She arrived at the place Jean and Armin share with little energy to socialise and it’s gone downhill since.
The rest of the party guests has formed small groups lingering on the sidewalk from where they’re watching Jean and Armin send up one firework after another. Each one howls as it soars into the sky and then breaks into multiple sparks that form patterns. Annie has given up on looking at them after a minute of being unable to concentrate on any of the shapes. She can see the different colours light up the scene playing out before her.
It’s too loud, though. Everything is too loud and bothersome and that doesn’t even take into account the firecrackers Reiner and Connie are blowing up on top of it all. They send out bangs that echo between the houses.
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Since some of my (old) EreAni stuff is getting attention while I recently moved blogs, I figured I’d list them all in one post with links to where you can find them.
Excuse my inconsistency in where I post my stuff. It’s either published under leviplease (or levipleasearchive if it’s on the old blog), Ponderess or arokitty, but yeah, it’s all mine.
An Unbearable Sight
35 chapters | ongoing
An alternative take on the developments after Annie’s capture by the Scouting Legion with a focus on the relationship between her and Eren.
Rated M for sexual themes and graphic violence.
Links: Fanfiction.net | AO3
Schatten von Träumen / Shadows of Dreams
4 chapters | complete | written in German and translated to English
A small AU where Eren isn’t a titan shifter and loses his leg at the battle of Trost. A few years later, Annie arrives at his doorstep with unexpected news.
Rated T
Links: Fanfiction.net
Fire
2 chapters | complete
Annie is encased in crystal and reflects on her feelings for Eren. On the outside, Eren is haunted by the thought of her.
Rated K+
Links: Fanfiction.net | AO3 | Part 1 on Tumblr | Part 2 on Tumblr
Songs to Pass the Time
2 chapters | ongoing
Modern day AU of Annie and Eren being classmates and bonding over music.
Rated K
Links: Fanfiction.net | AO3 | Part 1 on Tumblr
Nameless sci-fi AU
1 chapter | complete | written in German and translated into English
Eren and Annie deserted the military in space and escaped to an essentially deserted earth.
An Unbearable Sight [EreAni] - a (not so) small update post
An Unbearable Sight
by Ponderess aka leviplease
An alternative take on the developments after Annie’s capture by the Scouting Legion with a focus on the relationship between her and Eren.
Rated M for sexual themes and graphic violence.
Read the entire story up to chapter 35 on:
- AO3
- Fanfiction.net
If you’re one of my (long-term) readers then I want to say thank you for the support and all the patience. I know updates have become a rarity and the (often) uncertain wait can be frustrating as a reader.
If you’re new to this story and don’t feel discouraged by the load of already published words and the infrequent updates then welcome aboard. I hope you enjoy your stay.
This update post is for any and all of you.
I confess that chapter 36 has been sitting in my drafts about halfway done for months. So I don’t have a full chapter update for you, but I brought a little sneak peak which you can read below. (Somewhere beneath my rambling.)
This story has been a part of my life for over 5 years now. Maybe some of you remember how it started out as a one-shot, but I had more ideas for it so I kept going and now we’re here. Sometimes I still cannot believe it.
A lot has happened since I wrote and posted the first part and there are certainly things that I would do differently by now, but it is what it is. My goal is to work with what I have and take it to a satisfying conclusion, regardless of how long it’s going to take and how confusing the differences between my story and canon might be now that the manga has revealed so much more than what we knew back in 2013 — the year I laid the groundwork for the lore of this story.
Back then I honestly didn’t know where the journey would go and even now I’m not entirely sure. I hope we get to find out together.
PS: I recently remade leviplease for a couple of reasons. Feel free to (re)follow for more infrequent story updates and general SnK content.
I made a new account to follow people from the snk fandom and better interact with everyone. I’m still building things up, but if you’re still into snk and would like me on your dash why don’t you join me there?
This blog will remain as an archive.
I will reblog this post a couple of times to spread the word.
I made a new account to follow people from the snk fandom and better interact with everyone. I’m still building things up, but if you’re still into snk and would like me on your dash why don’t you join me there?
This blog will remain as an archive.
I will reblog this post a couple of times to spread the word.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
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I made a new account to follow people from the snk fandom and better interact with everyone. I’m still building things up, but if you’re still into snk and would like me on your dash why don’t you join me there?
This blog will remain as an archive.
I will reblog this post a couple of times to spread the word.
I made a new account to follow people from the snk fandom and better interact with everyone. I’m still building things up, but if you’re still into snk and would like me on your dash why don’t you join me there?
This blog will remain as an archive.
I will reblog this post a couple of times to spread the word.
First of all, nobody except my best friend asked for Digital Devil Saga/Quantum Devil Saga crossover, but I did it anyway. Second, I tried to write something short and make it about MikaAni, but it’s 3:30 am and I cannot say how it turned out.
Warning for mentions of blood and injuries, because this is set after a messy battle. Also, DDS is a vore game so there’s some talk about eating people and some blood drinking.
A trail of blood leads her to Annie. The woman is propped against the remains of a wall, one hand clutching her other arm which is hanging too low from her shoulder. Her chin is resting on her chest and there’s blood everywhere, soaking her clothes in its crimson colour and pooling on the ground. It’s hard to tell how much of it is her own and how much belonged to the enemies she fought.
For all Mikasa knows Annie could be dead. It would fall upon her to bring the news to Jean and he would let it affect him more than he should. Whenever the leader of the Embryon has gotten so concerned with the lives of his comrades — it’s troublesome. At least that’s what their bishop, Armin, would say. Mikasa, however, thinks she’s starting to understand as she stares at yet another fallen ally. She doesn’t want this, she never asked for this.
A cough shakes Annie’s body, weak and violent at the same time. Mikasa rushes to her side and wraps one arm around her shoulder. She winces as Mikasa pulls her close, the arm she’s holding slipping down her torso more than it should be possible. Considering all the blood and how torn her sleeve is it dawns on Mikasa that the arm is at least partially severed.
“Shit,” Mikasa mutters under her breath. Then, louder so that Annie can hear her: “Hang in there, I’ve got you.”
I made a new account to follow people from the snk fandom and better interact with everyone. I’m still building things up, but if you’re still into snk and would like me on your dash why don’t you join me there?
This blog will remain as an archive.
I will reblog this post a couple of times to spread the word.
I made a new account to follow people from the snk fandom and better interact with everyone. I’m still building things up, but if you’re still into snk and would like me on your dash why don’t you join me there?
This blog will remain as an archive.
I will reblog this post a couple of times to spread the word.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
I made a new account to follow people from the snk fandom and better interact with everyone. I'm still building things up, but if you're still into snk and would like me on your dash why don't you join me there? This blog will remain as an archive. I will reblog this post a couple of times to spread the word.
It wasn’t an easy decision, but I’m putting my SnK sideblog to rest and moving here for further fandom shenanigans. I hate to leave the posts that accumulated over 5 years behind, but I’ll keep the old blog around as an archive and I might reblog some posts from there as well. At least like this I can follow and send asks with this blog.
Come and join me (again) if you want.
Here are my plans for running things:
I’ll try to feature a variety of characters and ships, though of course it depends on what kind of content is available to me.
Spoilers will be tagged and anime spoilers, manga spoilers as well as new manga chapters will get their own spoiler tags. I also want to use character tags and content warnings mostly the way I used to on my old blog.
I’m most likely to follow blogs that post a lot of SnK content or people in the fandom that I’ve been interacting with more frequently.
Updates might be a bit irregular for now, since I don’t know how much time I have to reblog and I haven’t set up a queue yet. But all in due time.
I hope to see a few old faces from my activity feed around and also meet some new people.
I got a new account to try something and then decided to keep it and transfer this sideblog to it. I called it leviplease2 for now to make the association to this blog more obvious when I follow people. But now I’m wondering if I should just say fuck it and move over there with the snk content while keeping this blog around as an archive. It could make some things easier for sure, I’m just undecided about leaving the rich history of this blog behind and starting from scratch. What do you guys think?
You know what? Fuck it, I'm just gonna do it. It's not that I want a new start, it’s just don't want this to be a sideblog anymore. So I'm gonna set things up a bit and then make a proper announcement post.
I got a new account to try something and then decided to keep it and transfer this sideblog to it. I called it leviplease2 for now to make the association to this blog more obvious when I follow people. But now I'm wondering if I should just say fuck it and move over there with the snk content while keeping this blog around as an archive. It could make some things easier for sure, I'm just undecided about leaving the rich history of this blog behind and starting from scratch. What do you guys think?
Careful guys, don’t let anyone see you sneaking into an empty classroom together, they might start spreading rumors around high school about what you two could be doing in there…
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EDIT: I posted this pic a couple of hours ago, but deleted it because it wasn’t visible in the tag search. Seems that tumblr don’t let post with url links be finded or something like that, due to their attemps to remove the adult content. What a mess, I just wanted to share the original cover that inspired this pic :S
I was doing my version of the cover of Bessatsu Shonen’s January 2019 issue because I liked it so much, and after reading chapter 112 I think it was a good decision. We deserve to see the three of them happy and together.
Awesome chapter! Many feels and new information! The end was incredible! And it’s December, what means we are going to (probably) have next chapter sooner :D
On the question how Eren would/could forgive Annie for all the things she has done – a re-evaluation
Note:
I wrote this a couple of months back when this post was getting some notes again. Then I left it in my drafts to collect dust and now I'm bringing it out without updating it, because I just can't be bothered. The entire point of this was adding new information we got in the manga since I answered the original question, so I feel a little bad not taking the latest chapters into consideration (which I haven't even read yet). However I'm clearing out my drafts and I'd feel even worse just deleting it. So take it as is and feel free to add your own thoughts or any updated information to it.
I based this on my more in depth answer with manga spoilers by the way and my conclusion hasn't really changed: I still like to think that it's possible for Eren to forgive Annie. The main reason I wrote this at all was to address Annie's motivations which weren't known at the time I wrote the original post, but have been (at least partly?) revealed since.
Below is the unedited text from whenever I wrote this. Enjoy.
Spoiler warning for the manga up to chapter 103 under the cut.
Forgiveness is a process and the likelihood of it depends on a multitude of factors. In the case of Eren and Annie we don’t know some of the (very important) factors, so this is of course a bit of a speculation here. But I think it’s at least possible to determine a tendency of how likely Eren is to forgive Annie for what she has done.
This is what I wrote in my elaborate response to the question almost four years ago. Since then a lot has happened in the story and some important things we didn’t know back then have been shown. Before I address those in depth however, I want to go over the relevant points I brought up back then. I'm keeping this as brief as possible, but if you want my longer-winded argumentation on most points (including typos that I'm not going back to fix) you can follow the link above.
There are some things I'm leaving out or rephrasing due to the updated information we now have on the state of things. I'm also including a few things from later chapters which I want to touch upon without going into much elaboration.
1) What Annie has done:
Annie is part of the warrior group that is sent to attack the walls on Paradis Island and capture the founding titan for Marley
like Armin's speculated, Annie leads the mindless titans towards the walls for the attack
Eren doesn't witness Annie’s titan form during the attack on Shiganshina nor during the attack on Trost thus he may not directly associate her with these events the way he does Reiner and Bertholt
Eren witnesses the Female Titan killing multiple people (some of whom he knows personally) during the Scouting Legion's 57th excursion which leads to him fighting her full of rage and blaming her for the deaths she caused
Annie lies by omission, keeping her identity as a titan shifter, being from Marley, and her mission a secret from the people inside the walls, including Eren
on Reiner’s instructions, Annie strips Marco of his 3DMG during the battle in Trost which leaves him unable to escape or defend himself when a titan shows up and eats him (though Eren possibly doesn't know about that)
2) Eren’s relationship with Annie throughout the story:
after two years of training together, Eren switches from having nothing to do with Annie and being intimidated by her to training hand to hand combat with her and respecting her
when Annie is suspected of being the Female Titan, Eren refuses to believe it
even though he goes along with luring Annie into a trap in Stohess, Eren seems desperate for her to clear herself of the suspicion and tells her to stop making bad jokes and following them down underground
after Annie transforms and confirms the suspicion, Eren is reluctant to fight her and cannot transform himself at first
when finally engaging the Female Titan in combat in the middle of Stohess, Eren wonders about Annie’s reasons to fight
this is contrary to how he faces the Female Titan the first time before knowing her identity and also how he faces the Armored Titan the first time while knowing that it's Reiner where both times he is filled with rage
after Annie's capture and her encasing herself in crystal, the first thing Eren does upon coming out of his titan form is ask about her with concern
3) Other factors that may allow Eren to forgive Annie (eventually):
Eren has always been open towards broadening his horizon
despite having strong opinions, Eren re-evaluates them when he's given new information that seems reasonable to him
Eren shows high adaptability to new and unexpected situations
my impression is also that Eren is actually understanding of others and their situation/motivation as long as he can make sense of it
Eren himself has killed humans before and knows that different perspectives may lead to (violent) conflicts which cannot always be resolved by talking
Annie feels remorse about the death she has caused as is shown by her apologising to a dead soldier during the cleanup of Trost as well as her tears when she, Reiner and Bertholt leave Marco to be eaten by a titan
This was essentially my basis for believing four years ago that it would be possible for Eren to forgive Annie and I stand by it. The updates I implemented are for the sake of relevancy, but they don't change my general opinion on the matter.
There are two things that happened in the manga since then which I want to discuss more in detail. They are the reason I considered to make this post in the first place. While I wouldn't say that they're definite game-changers or anything, I consider them to be interesting and in part a confirmation to my speculations prior to the Scouting Legion making it to Eren's basement.
4) Annie's motivations:
We finally get an answer with proper context to a very essential question: What is Annie fighting for?
Annie's desire to return home to her father has been apparent since her capture. She also mentions to Eren during training that her father was high on a pipe dream — most likely the idea of becoming an honorary Marleyan. The flashback of her father's apology also makes a lot more sense in the context of the warrior program.
It can be assumed that Annie didn't have much of a choice. It was very likely her father who entered her into the warrior program and he only came to regret that decision by the time it was too late. In one of the flashbacks it becomes very clear that Annie has no loyalty towards Marley or anyone else and that she really just wants to go home. Reiner convinces her and Bertholt that they cannot return to Marley without the Founding Titan, thus Annie is driven to fulfill the mission so she can return.
It's still a matter of speculation whether Eren would be able to understand Annie's situation.
5) Eren's talk with Reiner in Marley:
This is a really interesting matter to me, because for the first time Eren comes face to face for a talk with one of the warriors that attacked and infiltrated the walls. Eren has come to see the bigger picture and shows understanding. He concludes that Reiner didn’t have a choice.
I don't want to go as far as to claim that Eren has forgiven Reiner, but he seems to understand where Reiner was coming from. It’s a necessary step towards forgiveness though.There are of course some differences between Annie and Reiner, but my impression is that if anything things are more in Annie's favour. After all Eren seems to have held her in higher regard than Reiner even after learning of her identity as the Female Titan.
In conclusion:
I still think it’s possible for Eren to forgive Annie eventually. He definitely used to care enough about her that I think he would have wanted to forgive her. The harder part to determine is if he still cares, but if he still does then I do think that he could and even would forgive her.
The most uncertain factors to me right now are whether Annie is ever going to come out of that crystal (I certainly hope so) and whether Eren still cares (again, I hope so but after a four year time skip I'm still trying to get a feel for the person he has become).
