#aotimagines

Wow, anon! I’m speechless, tbh. Mod Spookzz and I created this blog back in 2016. It was a time when a lot of snk blogs weren’t active with the exception of two or three. To know that you’ve stuck with us for this long really means a lot. Thank-you so much! I’ve...thought about this, a lot. Like, a lot. There may be some projecting in here based on my own OC, but this is genuinely what I think would happen. I hope you enjoy! Happy Valentine’s Day, btw! My gift to everyone is...angst. Again. I’m sorry, lmao. MANGA SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT. Also, fun fact, but this post is our 666th post, lmao.

CANON RELATIONSHIP HEADCANONS: 

✩ I know the recent fandom interpretation of Eren is that he’s some charming, charismatic fuckboi, but that is...not him. At all. Not that there’s anything wrong with fanon interpretation, ofc, but Eren is...lmao.

☾ Eren doesn’t know anything about romance, period. He canonically ignores Reiner, Jean, and Armin when they are praising girls and shows zero romantic interest in just about everyone. 

✩ He’s preoccupied with other things, you know? His mind doesn’t really wander to romance often, so his s/o probably started out as his friend. 

☾ Like, it’s hard not to fall for Eren’s idealism. He’s a super passionate speaker and has some really inspiring thoughts and ideas. He’s not stupid--not by a long shot--and this magnetism draws his s/o to him like a moth to a flame. 

✩ His s/o probably realizes that their friendship and admiration for Eren has shifted into something romantic with all the ensuing drama that happens during their first trial expedition in the Survey Corps. The fear of losing Eren again really hits home and they are at a complete loss. 

☾ They wouldn’t want to ruin their friendship, so they would keep the feelings locked away for a long time. 

✩ Truthfully speaking, I can’t see Eren and any s/o getting together until the events between the four-year time skip. 

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I hope this isn’t too late, anon. :c I’m sorry that you’re feeling stressed with school and I hope this helps you. Keep your chin up and remember that you are doing great! Things are difficult rn, but the fact that you’re still trying is a testament to your hardwork! This is a Modern! AU for the sake of ease. Enjoy! <3 

 Head clutched between your hands, you helplessly stare down at the multitude of papers scattered across your kitchen table, the faint, blue glow of your laptop illuminating your workspace. At the bottom right of your screen, you drank in the digital clock reading 1:30 A.M., a quiet groan emanating from the back of your throat. Even if you crammed for the next hour, there was no possible way for you to finish all of this work. It killed you to fall behind during finals week, but you had done your best, but it simply wasn’t good enough. Tears pricked the edges of your eyes as you felt yourself reach your breaking point. Before you could bury your face into your hands and let out the torrent of stress you had been holding back, the sound of rustling down your hall captured your attention.

Immediately, your head jerked up to catch your boyfriend staring at you, his face shrouded by the lack of light in the living room. Despite not being able to see his facial expression in the dark, however, you had to conclude that he was wondering why on earth you were still awake when you should have been asleep hours ago.

“Why are you awake?” he questioned, carefully navigating his way through the living room in the dark. “Don’t you have an exam early tomorrow? You said you were going to bed hours ago!”

“I tried!” you defended, your slumped shoulders and anguished voice a signal of how utterly defeated you felt. “I tried, but then I remembered some stuff that I didn’t feel sure about, so I came back to study and I—I still don’t understand it! I’m going to fail and then I’ll fail the class and I won’t graduate on time and—”

Eren’s fingers circled around your wrist, gently prying your hand away from your face to stop your meltdown before it got any worse. Even through the dark, you could see his eyes studying you—gauging your reaction and how to properly respond. “Listen,” he tried, shifting his weight between his feet, “I get wanting to be the best, but all you’re going to do is make yourself sick if you stress out about this. You’ve worked hard this semester and you’re one of the smartest people I know. You’ll do great and you know it.”

You could feel your bottom lip tremble, hot tears spilling down the sides of your cheeks. “But I don’t feel smart, Eren. I feel like I’m going to fail everything. I’m so overwhelmed and I don’t think I can handle this.”

Sighing, Eren rubbed the back of his head before moving in front of your laptop. Deft fingers quickly saved the document you were studying from before he shut the laptop, bathing the two of you in darkness. “You need to come to bed and get some sleep. If it makes you feel better, we can set an alarm for the morning and study before you leave for class.”

“But—”

“Hey!” The flashlight on Eren’s phone flicked on, allowing you to see his furrowed brow and pursed lips. “Seriously, you gotta stop. Just come to bed.”

Reluctantly, you pushed back the kitchen chair and followed him into your shared bedroom, the two of you crawling beneath the covers. Even though your heart was still beating inside your chest, you shifted closer into Eren’s chest, his arms coming to secure themselves around your waist. For a few minutes, you simply allowed yourself to inhale his scent, the familiar twinge of spice and sandalwood calming some of your frazzled nerves. His hand stroked the top of your head, lulling you into a state between sleep and consciousness until his voice broke through the silence.

“Better?”

“A bit,” you admitted sheepishly, your voice thick with your impending sleep. “Still nervous.”

“Everyone gets nervous. You’ll do great.”

“…Will you really wake up early and study with me?”

A chuckle reverberated through Eren’s chest before he answered truthfully, “Listen, I won’t be happy about it tomorrow morning, but I promised you. I’ll just be a demon for a few minutes.”

Combing these two! Hope that’s okay! It’s funny, but I don’t think I’ve ever answered an ask about Levi and a s/o from the Underground. Anyways, hope you enjoy!

♦ As someone living inside of the Underground, Levi’s s/o had to adapt fairly quick to the harsh realities of life down there. 

♦ It goes without saying that they would posses tenacity, wit, and strength in order to survive among the petty thieves and criminals that lurk in the darkness below.  

♦ They most likely met Levi during some kind of fight. The way he effortlessly dealt with the situation despite being out-numbered and several inches shorter than everyone else? 

♦ Safe to say that his s/o was immediately interested. 

♦ The relationship started off as mutually beneficial: Levi would provide the brute strength and sass and his s/o would use charm and manipulation to get whatever they wanted. 

♦ It wasn’t the best life, but they managed to survive together. When Farlan Church and Isabel Magnolia joined them, they all became a small, close-knit family unit. 

♦ At some point, Levi and his s/o developed a romantic relationship. It would be super understated because it’s LEVI and the UNDERGROUND, but Farlan and Isabel would be able to tell with easy what was happening.

♦ After Levi is coerced into joining the Survey Corps, his s/o follows after him. It just feels like a natural progression.

♦ His s/o becomes infuriated with Erwin after Isabel and Farlan’s death. In their eyes, the silver-tongued blond used Levi’s grieve to manipulate him into joining the Survey Corps. They are insistent that they should be doing something else, but Levi is quick to shut down these thought processes. 

♦ His s/o is unable to fully trust Erwin. Sacrificing people for the sake of some righteous greater good doesn’t bode well with them. Levi’s faith in the man doesn’t help, either.

♦ Their relationship becomes strained for a bit. When the wounds of grief pass with time, Levi and his s/o mend their relationship and come back stronger than ever before. 

I’M HERE. WITH A REQUEST. THANKS FOR BEING PATIENT, GUYS. And my first request is a Levi request. I’m not even surprised nor do I mind. I miss my poop-joke-making 30-something year old son. 

Okay, so, Levi is literally 5′3. 

5′3, Y’ALL. 

I know there’s some short people in this world, but there’s also a chance Levi’s S/O will be taller than him. 

And you know what? Valid. 

Anyways, Levi’s height is often speculated about since he was severely malnourished as a child, which probably stunted his growth. So, like, don’t make fun of his height unless you want to trigger this 5′3 shorty. Y’all’ve seen the newest chapter, right? That clown wanted to die.  

If Levi wanted to kiss his s/o, he’d just yank them down to his height and...do it. The height thing doesn’t bother him too much, but so expect him to grumble about his s/o being a giant or something like that. 

He’s just a grumpy old man at this point, please love him.

I don’t really think Levi would care about it too much and would only really be irritated when his s/o can reach something over his head or the whole kissing thing. 

No worries about sex, though. He’s strong enough to bench-press a man double his height, he’s totally game to hold his s/o up during sex. Honestly, having his s/o wrap their long legs around his waist is probably one of his favorite things so go ham. 

Why ya doing this to me, anon? In front of my SALAD? These all turned into monsters and I could h o n e s t l y make a full on scenario about the Eren portion because I got super inspired. Regardless, I hope you enjoy, anon! You fed my angst-loving soul a bit today. I also kinda cheated bc some of these (read: Eren and Mikasa) has plot twists but I HOPE IT’S STILL WHAT YOU WANTED, ANON.

Annie: 

Annie isn’t the type to open-up to anyone. She’s so reserved and guarded that the thought of falling in love with someone seems impossible.

She has so much blood on her hands. Who could possibly love someone like her? 

When she meets them, everything changes. For once, Annie finds herself wanting to be around them, vying for their attention with each and every exercise. 

Her feelings so unnoticed until, in a joking manner, Reiner points out her massive crush on them. If this was some kind of ploy to harden her into a warrior, it wasn’t appreciate. 

The thing that crushed her the most was their response: laughter. A joke. A jest. 

“That’s impossible! Annie and me? Could you imagine?” 

Annie’s heart fractures into thousands of shards, yet she remains calm and collected on the outside. The only person who notices her distress when she leaves for the evening is Mina. 

When the flowers start, everything changes. 

Annie couldn’t train–couldn’t breathe–without being reminded of the heartbreak she was enduring. 

Gerbera daisies–so fitting for someone who seemed to radiate the sun in her eyes. 

Ultimately, Annie decides to suffer with the pain despite how often she finds herself coughing up bits of petals and stems. The physical pain is nothing to the mental torture she’s going through, so she decides to leave it as is. After all, it wasn’t like she was going to live forever after inheriting the Female Titan. Living with this unrequited love sounded more appealing than losing it. 

Mikasa: 

Sadly, Mikasa is pretty used to bottling up her feelings. 

Her interest in them is subtle, at first. Going out of her way to talk to them, checking up on them after training. 

You know, the little things.

Before she realizes what’s happening, Mikasa finds herself confiding in them like she’s never done before. It becomes easy to talk about the Fall of Shiganshina and her hopes and aspirations for the future. 

In short, Mikasa has never felt like this outside of Eren and Armin. She trusts them. 

That’s why it’s such a hard blow to see them sneaking away at night, hand-in-hand with someone else; someone who isn’t her. 

Mikasa knows that it isn’t their fault for this situation. If she had been braver and confessed how she felt, would things have turned out any differently? 

The first night she coughs up petals, it’s a disaster. Majority of the evening had been spend with her hands clutching the rim of the toilet, slick pink petals clinging to the corners of her lips. 

Gladiolus flowers signaling faithfulness and honor; Mikasa could have laughed at the irony of it all. 

Armin is the first person to understand what’s happening and immediately tells Eren, who confronts Mikasa about how stupid she’s being. He demands to know who her affections are for, but she refuses to tell him.

After all, it isn’t their fault she never told them how she felt. How could she possibly blame them? 

Eren and Armin refuse to allow Mikasa to sit with her unrequited feelings. As much as the thought of losing her feelings towards them makes her feel, she understands that she has a duty to humanity and her family to fulfill. Reluctantly, Mikasa gets the surgery to remove the flower, thus sacrificing any and all feelings she ever had towards them. 

Several days later, in the middle of the night, they can only stare in disbelief at the soft, pink gladiolus petals that rupture from the back of their throat. 

Eren: 

Nothing is ever done half-way with Eren Jaeger. 

Love and romance were things he never felt like he deserved nor had time for. After inheriting his father’s memories and realizing the atrocities of the world, he becomes much more sullen and withdrawn from almost everyone. 

Even if majority of his friends and even Mikasa didn’t seem to take notice of his rapid change in demeanor, they did. 

Being around them made him feel normal again–whole again–even if just for a few minutes. Their smile became his most precious treasure and a thing he silently vowed to protect. 

It takes Eren some time to realize that he’s in love. When he does, he chooses to bury his feelings in the back of his subconscious. He has a mission to fulfill and a whole race of people to save. No matter how much he wants to be with them, he can’t. 

He brings the hanahaki disease upon himself, basically. 

It wasn’t surprising to him that he began to hack up beautiful lilies of the valley. He wasn’t an expert on botany, but one perusing in the library told him that not did the flower represent purity of heart, but they were also extremely poisonous if ingested. 

Eren almost wanted to laugh. It was almost as though fate loved to see him suffer. 

Despite how dire his situation was, Eren refused to have the flower surgically removed and opted to not speak a word to a single soul. Ironically, it was them who took notice of his peculiar behavior. 

After one particularly hard afternoon that he spent coughing up bloodied lilies, he heard their voice ask from behind, “You have it, too? Hanahaki?” 

Eren’s heart tore asunder for various reasons that day. After finding out that they were coughing up flowers too (he interrogating them enough to learn that they were coughing up protea king flowers), he did his best to convince them to have the surgery to remove the flower, to no avail. 

The two of them suffered silently, together. They would never tell him who their unrequited love was for and Eren never pressed the subject. 

A N O N, are you trying to aggravate this poor bean? 

Truthfully, I can’t see this being an activity Levi likes a bunch. 

He’s a busy man doing things and to feel his s/o just...scoop him up so easily is definitely more annoying than endearing. 

Low-key puts up with it because he cares about them, but also has a scowl on his face. 

Occasionally snaps at them to put him down because he’s busy and/or doing something at the moment. 

If it’s not a common occurrence and only happens every once in a while...it isn’t so bad. 

YOU ASKED FOR JEAN AND I WROTE ERWIN, doh. That’s what I get for doing this on my phone. SORRY ANON. 😬 ADDED JEAN NOW!

Levi:

Doesn’t really “do” birthdays—he’d be totally content forgetting about his entirely if it were up to him, but alas, his s/o thinks it’s an important day so he can’t really do anything about it. Despite his nonchalant attitude toward his unimportant day of birth, he’d nonetheless still be a bit touched by the effort his s/o would go to for him. His s/o knows him well enough to not plan any kind of big party or celebration (Levi deals with enough people daily in his opinion), but they do make him a rather beautifully decorated cake that compliments the tea he loves to drink so much, and for that he can only be impressed. A gentle kiss to the cheek or temple and a squeeze of their waist is how Levi gives his thanks, but it’s also quite the compliment in itself that the cake is completely gone in only a few days.

Erwin:

Erwin loves grandiose gestures and his s/o knows that—but unfortunately there’s no time to prepare or have a large party, so his s/o settles with making him a large, elaborately decorated cake with more than one flavor inside to make up for the lack of actual celebrating. The letters distinctly read, “Happy Birthday, Erwin” with a swirled heart next to them, and it appears on his desk one late night after he stepped away to get more tea to help keep him awake. His smile is soft but so genuine as his s/o beams, leaning over to light the candles and sing him a small, quiet happy birthday. Erwin wraps his arms around his s/o tightly and pulls them to his chest, pressing a kiss against the shell of their ear as he towers above them. He knows he will treasure this thoughtful moment for the rest of his life.

Jean: