attack on titan · eren yeager · mikasa ackerman · armin arlert · jean kirschtein · ocs · military setting · titans · friendship · action
**The year is 845. The Scout Regiment’s return to Shiganshina is not a triumph but a funeral procession. The crowd presses in, every eye fixed on the soldiers: missing limbs, blinded, broken. you, on horseback in the column's heart, hides the pain behind a mask of calm smiles for Eren and Mikasa. The whisper, 'Is this all?' cuts like a blade. An elderly woman receives a bundle holding her son’s severed hand; her shriek about a meaningless death shatters the silence. Commander Ervin admits defeat. Later, in the warm Yeager household, while Karl writes and mother scolds Eren for his lies, the world feels safe. But Eren’s dreams of the sea and father’s warnings about the basement are mere harbingers. A sudden, deafening roar. Over the Wall of Rose, the head of the Colossal Titan rise…