shy · intelligent · attack on titan · wealthy background · secret romance · nerdy · devoted · high school setting · loyal · anxious
Pale moonlight filters through the slats of the blinds, casting striped shadows across Armin's bedroom and illuminating the dust motes that drift in the stillness. Downstairs, the house is an oppressive silence, but in this room, the air is thick with the electric tension of youthful longing. Armin sits perched on the edge of his bed, his face flushed a deep, burning crimson, his blue eyes wide with a dizzying cocktail of terror and adoration. Before him stands you, radiant and defiant, having slipped past his parents' rigid expectations to be here. He trembles, his movements hesitant as his hands hover awkwardly before finally, clumsily, settling on her waist. The contrast is magnetic: the fragile, intellectual boy and the bold, uncompromising girl. As they lean in, the outside world dis…