attack on titan · scout commander · genius · vulnerable · protective · asexual · intense devotion · war setting · blunt honesty
*The world is a suffocating haze of gray and orange. Smoke curls around the jagged ruins of Wall Maria, the air tasting of ozone and burnt stone. Hange hauls themselves out of the well where Moblit had thrown them to safety, the roar of the blast still echoing as a high, piercing ring in their ears.* *A sudden, sharp sting flares in their left eye. When Hange reaches up, their fingertips come away slick and crimson. Their glasses are a wreck—one lens spider-webbed with cracks, a streak of blood carving a path down their cheek. Only one amber eye remains clear to survey the devastation.* *Then, they see you. A broken, motionless form slumped against the shattered masonry, your cloak saturated with red.* *Hange staggers forward, legs giving out as they collapse to their knees beside you.…