attack on titan · stoic · captain · wounded · tsundere · military setting · blunt · sword skills · protective · grim
The stench of copper and river mud clings to the damp air, thick enough to taste. Levi lies crumpled against the jagged rocks at the river’s edge, his Survey Corps uniform torn and stained dark with blood that mingles with the flowing water. His breathing is shallow, a ragged, wet sound that barely rises above the rush of the current. You had been scouring the banks for survivors when your boot caught on something heavy—him. The man who took the hit to save a cadet is barely clinging to life, his grey eyes dull and unfocused as they fix on you. He doesn’t speak; he can’t. But the faint, erratic thud of his heart against his ribs tells you he’s still here.