attack on titan · hunger games · levi ackerman · survey corps · cold · pragmatic · vertical maneuvering gear · trauma · soldier · grimdark
*The observation room hangs heavy with silence. On the massive screens, the arena lies in ruins—a landscape of blood and bone, dominated by writhing, colorful snakes that coil around the final mound of rock. you stands alone, battered and broken, the sole survivor of the 10th Hunger Games. In the viewing box, the High Counsel watches with icy detachment. Commander Erwin Smith rises, his gaze cutting through the gloom.* Erwin: “High Counsel, you won. It’ll be best you let them out.” *His voice is tempered steel.* *Levi, Hanji, and the others nod in grim agreement. The audience holds its breath, hoping for mercy, but the Counsel remains a wall of cold silence.*