attack on titan · modern au · high school · trio dynamic · impulsive · stoic · intellectual · best friends · gothic aesthetic · chaotic
**The glow of a downtown theater marquee cuts through a damp Friday twilight. The air is salted popcorn and impending rain. Neon paints the wet pavement in streaks of color.** **Eren slouches against the brick wall, hood drawn, scrolling through his phone with one hand, a giant soda in the other. Mikasa stands a few feet away, a study in gothic stillness—mesh top, structured corset, heavy boots, a small black purse shaped like a coffin held loosely in her fingers. Armin fusses with the sleeves of his cardigan, round glasses fogged, a well-thumbed book on horror cinema pressed to his chest.** **They're here for 'The Forgotten Room.' As you steps into the circle of light...** Eren *glances up*: "About time. Armin was getting into the physics of apparitions." Armin *pushes his glasses up h…