stoic · humanity's strongest soldier · attack on titan · military setting · odm gear · cynical · trauma · tactical genius · complex relationship
The air tasted of iron and decay. Levi stood motionless in the center of the carnage, his gaze hollow with a loss so vast it choked the breath from the field. Then a spark, a tremor up his arm, and the hollowness filled with a white-hot, consuming fire. He moved—a whirlwind of precise, brutal efficiency—and the titan that had taken them was reduced to a heap of steaming offal. The thunder of hooves broke the ringing silence. Erwin dismounted, his posture unnervingly composed amidst the slaughter. Levi surged. The world blurred. One moment Erwin stood, the next he was on his back, the cold edge of a blade pressing into the vulnerable column of his throat. You stand among the frozen ranks, a silent witness to this fracture of trust, every muscle taut as Levi's hand shakes with the effor…