The Chair

every animal for the matter, but in particular, levi hates dogs. they’re dirty and loud yet he’s still nothing but a hypocrite knowing that the commander’s dog is the closest thing he’ll ever get to see him again

THEY ALL LOOK SO PEACEFUL 😭😭💖💖

i have many witty captions for this:

“noses are important”

“family portrait”

“not fit to scale”

YO ❤ a little SL with @Moonlight-shadxw led to this — around Christmas time, Erwin has the habit to start eating too much chocolate, and Levi reprimands him for that — but is secretly glad that he's so happy and eating well — 🤷🏻

And he's squishing his cheeks because Erwin's obviously a bit chubbier than usual - so he's pointing that out 😔🙌🏻

Around 2,000 years ago, Ymir Fritz obtained the power of the Titans and became the first Titan, the Founding.

Some say she was given her powers from “God”, others claim she made a deal with the “Devil”, and there are few who say she “touched the source of all living matter.” Thirteen years later, she died and her soul was split into the Nine Titans, who were inherited by nine of her subjects, those people are called “Subjects of Ymir”.

Humans who inherit the power of the Titans, enables them to transform into their inherited Titan at will, gaining its special abilities while retaining their human body and intelligence. They access the memories of previous Shifters that also held this power. If a Pure Titan gains this power, it will return to human being.

All inheritors of her power would be doomed to die after 13 years as she did, known as the “Curse of Ymir.” If one of the Nine Titans is not transferred before dying, the Titan will be sent to a random baby among the Subjects, with distance and blood relation playing no factor. This led to the discovery that all Subjects of Ymir are connected by “Paths”, and these Paths connect all Subjects to the Founding Titan.

He stalked through the noon-day crowd, cell phone pressed to his ear, unloading onto Isabel every gripe he had about the new intern at work. (The boy was clearly an idiot.). He wasn’t paying attention to bustle around him. He was in full bitch mode and a master of tuning out unwanted distractions. In fact, he had failed to notice how the crowd had begun to part and rush around him.

He hadn’t noticed anything...until he saw him.

Levi barely saw him coming, the tall blond man that sprinted toward him like some sort of tweaked-out psychopath coming down from bath salts. The man was clearly headed toward him with single-minded determination, and Levi immediately went on the defensive, dropping his phone and squaring his body as the man came closer, his green trench coat billowing behind him like a cape.

Levi held his hands up to put up a fight as the man hurdled over a bench and descended on Levi’s much smaller frame. The blond grabbed both his wrists, preventing any retaliatory attack, even as he pushed Levi into the alleyway between two nearby buildings. He didn’t stop until Levi’s back hit the wall hard enough to knock the breath from his lungs.

Levi struggled to shift his weight, to keep from being pinned, but found himself being forced to his knees instead. The dirty water from the alley immediately soaked through his wool trousers, making Levi hiss and cuss in disgust. But the blond also hit his knees and curled his body over Levi’s, like a shield.

The sound of tires squealing and a loud crash prevented Levi from pushing the other man off of him. From underneath the blond’s arm, he saw the delivery truck skidding wildly down the street and crashing just mere feet from where he was kneeling in the alley...the exact spot Levi had been standing just moments prior.

The whole ordeal had happened in just mere moments, but Levi seemed to have lived it in slow motion.

“I’m sorry,” the blond spoke, pulling back just enough to allow Levi to look up at him in shock. “I tried to get your attention.”

“You...what…I mean...you just saved my ass.” Levi gaped, as the situation began to sink in.

“I was worried I wouldn’t get to you in time.” The man looked down at Levi with the bluest eyes he had ever seen.

“You idiot! You could have been killed!” Levi spat.

“One would think you would be a little more grateful,” the man responded with a crooked grin on his too-handsome face. “I couldn’t just stand by and watch you get killed.”

“You just risked your life for a complete stranger,” Levi scolded as he stared at the carnage.

“It seems that way, yes.” The blond’s voice was calm, but Levi could feel the pounding of his heart beneath his hands. Not even taking the time to question just when his hands decided to curl against that broad chest.

“Have you lost your mind?” Levi asked as he looked back at the stranger that held him with trembling hands.

“I may have, but I was watching you walk down the street and knew you had no clue that you were walking right into a dangerous situation.”

“You were watching me?”

“Well, I, um, that is to say...you are very attractive, and well, I couldn’t help but notice you…”

“Oh,” Levi said softly.

“Sorry, that just made an already uncomfortable situation even more awkward.”

“No, no, it’s fine.”

“Are you two okay?” Levi looked up to see a police officer standing there. When had the authorities arrived?

“Yeah, I’m good,” Levi answered first.

“No worse for wear,” the blond responded, eyes never leaving Levi.

“Okay, well, you guys need to clear out. It’s not exactly safe here.”

The blond stood and held a hand out to Levi. He grasped it and allowed the larger man to pull him to his feet. A long arm wrapped around his shoulders and he was led away to a bench across the street.

“I’m sorry about your pants. They are probably a lost cause.” The statement was so innocuous in light of the previous events that Levi couldn’t help the bark of laughter that pushed past his lips.

“I have more.” The blond smiled back, shyly. “I’m Levi, by the way.”

“Erwin. Is it weird to say that it’s nice to meet you? I mean, I would rather it be under different circumstances-“

“I want to take you to dinner,” Levi interrupted.

“Please, don’t feel obligated. I’m just glad you’re okay.”

“No, not in thanks. I want to get your number, take you to dinner, and, maybe, get to know you.”

“Yeah, okay. There’s just one problem.” Erwin frowned.

“What?”

“I don’t think your phone made it.” Erwin pointed to the black cell phone shattered on the pavement.

“Damn it. I guess we'll just have to get lunch now instead.”

“But we’re filthy.”

“Doesn’t matter. I’m hungry and I don’t care if you don’t.” Levi’s stomach growled loudly as if to make his point.

“Not at all.”

“Great, you lead, and I’ll follow.”

Art by ミケコ

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Together

“Fuck fuck fuck fuck!” Hitch curses as she spaces back and forth in front of Annie’s crystal. She wasn’t all that sure of what was happening, but she knew that Eren was making a mess of things outside. Her superiors had sent her to the basement to guard Annie, which was her main job, sure that Eren would send someone after the female titan sooner or later. If that was true, then it’d be only a matter of time until Hitch’s life would be in danger for real. Should she just run? Abandon everything and save herself? With the huge mess the whole country was in, no one would put much effort in to finding one run away soldier, right?

“It’d be the smart thing to do” Hitch knows, but recently, in these kinds of situations, a certain face that is now long gone pops up to the top of her mind “Marlowe would never approve of something like that.”

But he’d been foolishly brave and Hitch wasn’t. There was a difference between putting your life in the line when you were convinced you might be able to make a difference, and putting your life in the line despite being doomed to fail.

“Yet there was someone who put her very limited life in the line despite having no idea of what she was getting in to” Hitch thought, stopping in front of Annie’s crystal as she looked at the sleeping girl “Fuck it… why did I end up in a squad of brave fools…”

Well, save for Boris of course. He could probably be called a fool too, but a very different kind of fool. But Hitch didn’t exactly want to be like him either, so…

“Fuck this shit!” she yelled, sitting down in front of Annie “They want my crystal girl? They gotta get past me first!”

She would not run. It was foolish not to do so, but a soldier had her duty. Military Police were known for their cowardice when things really counted, and while she definitely knew why, she’d sworn after losing Marlowe that she wouldn’t become like them. She’d fill her duty like a proper soldier.

Despite having made a decision, it doesn’t keep her from going pale as she hears the door creak open. Jumping to her feet, she aims her pistol towards the door, trying to ignore the fact that her aim has never been the best possible.

“Calm down girl, you graduated in the top ten and helped to take down the government… and you were roommates with a fucking titan that you’re now babysitting. You can handle whoever comes through that door- “

“Darn it Hitch, I know your aim is shit but put that down!” Boris curses as he steps in, closing the door behind him “You might actually be able to hit me by pure luck!”

Hitch blinks “Boris?”

“Yeah, so put that down” the man says, massaging his temple “Geez, I shouldn’t have volunteered for this…”

Hitch lowers her gun, so Boris walks down the stairs. She speaks again only after he reaches her “What are you doing here?”

“The big shots said that having more people to guard the female titan would be for the best” he said “I volunteered, as did a few others. They are guarding the door and the hallways.”

Hitch supposed that made sense. Until something happened, this job was easy, so getting volunteers shouldn’t be that hard, at least not from the younger groups. However, veterans understood Annie’s importance and how dangerous guarding her at a time like this could get. And so did Boris.

“I’m surprised you agreed to do something like this” she tells him bluntly “What’s in it for you?”

“Are you saying you won’t believe me if I say that I’m just fulfilling my duty?” Boris asks, but Hitch just raises an eyebrow, unimpressed “Alright, I suppose that was a stupid thing to say. You know me better than that.”

“Yeah, I do” Hitch confirms “Now spill.”

“With the way things are going, I don’t think there’s safe place left on the whole fucking island” Boris blurts out, making Hitch wince. She knows he’s right “It’s highly likely we all die, but if we don’t, those who didn’t abandon their positions are sure to climb ranks. It’s either run and possibly live, but live in fear, or stay and fight, most likely dying but having a chance at winning and getting a good life.”

“And you’re risking everything for that good life?” Hitch asks, but Boris just shrugs “If the military collapses, I’ll have a miserable life ahead of me even if I survive. No thanks, I’d rather take a gamble for good life. Besides…”

Boris trails off after that, not continuing. Hitch, however, isn’t satisfied “Besides?”

“…We were both once part of Marlowe’s squad. We can’t tarnish his name, can we?” this didn’t sound like Boris. Normally, if he said something like that, Hitch would write it off as him being sarcastic, but he looks and sounds sincere. He is sincere, Hitch realizes.

“Yeah, we can’t” she confirms, a smirk raising to her face as she points at Annie “And there’s another squad mate we can’t just go and abandon, either.”

“Eh, I don’t really care about her” Boris says with a shrug “She stabbed us in the back first after all.”

Hitch could get angry, but she doesn’t, and there’re two reasons for it. First is the fact that she knows Boris to be right, but the second is that she also knows him to be lying. Boris cares, she knows. As much of a mixed bunch as they were from the beginning, this squad that got shredded to pieces long time ago is still their squad. And that’s a fact a they don’t want to change, either of them.