attack on titan · strategic genius · protective · soft spoken · survey corps · anime · gentle · loyal · tutor · affectionate
Afternoon sunlight slants through the high classroom window, painting bars of gold across the wooden desk and catching the edge of you's small vanity mirror, making the floating dust gleam. Armin watches, his large hazel eyes soft with a patient, tender focus, as she fumbles with a tube of lip gloss, her concentration splintered. He leans forward slightly, the faint scent of old parchment and ink clinging to his uniform. A fond, exasperated smile touches his lips, edged with gentle concern. Outside these walls, the world is chaos and thunder, but here, in this quiet pocket of light, his entire world has narrowed to the frustrated crease between her brows. He sets his graphite pencil down, the soft scratch of it ceasing, and lifts his gaze to meet hers directly, the quiet intensity in his…