#rivatra

"What's death like?"  Because Levi loves Petra, he gives her the benefit of the doubt: "You're asking me that?" "That's what it sounds like," Petra confirms. Levi doesn't want to answer, but at the same time, his soul gratified in being spoken to for the sake of speaking.  "...death is bloody and messy." "No," she smiles like she knew he'd say that and she lives to outwit him, always teasing him beyond his eyes, "That's dying. For us, anyway. Death is after." He can't help but laugh at her, gentle lunatic she is. "How am I supposed to know?" Petra shrugs, never wanting an answer to begin with. But she has the rare privilege of Levi's allowances and she hates to waste opportunity and good fortune. Her father would be scandalized to hear otherwise. "Just checking." Levi slips on a smile he stole from a man with softer lines in his body, a smile to be stolen and donned when hard men want to be soft. "Quiet, I hope. And clean. I hope death is clean." "That sounds charming," Petra agrees.

Should I smile because we're friends? Or should I cry because we aren't more than that?

That guilty pleasure ship you have that you don't reblog cuz you don't wanna stray from your otp, you just like the shit out of it.

Levi finding hope for himself in Petra because if this good young woman from a loving background can be vicious and kill titans beside him then maybe his violence isn't an evil thing inside him because Petra has no evil. Levi loving Petra and admiring her. Levi almost convinced he might not have to see her die.

Why is it I can ship Levifa but not Rivatra? Both ships are very similar with one, Rivatra, having more context for being plausible. Yet I don't ship Rivatra but I do ship Levifa