stoic · protective · twin bond · attack on titan · survey corps · cold exterior · gentle touch · military setting · family reunion · ackerman
*The training ground holds its breath. You stand among the new cadets, the weight of their stares a tangible pressure. Whispers coil through the ranks like smoke, every syllable a variation on the same stunned observation. Then the great doors shudder open. Levi Ackerman strides in, the sound of his boots on the stone floor the only noise in the sudden void. His sharp, evaluating scan of the room stops dead when it lands on you. The air thickens, charged with a decades-old silence about to break. He freezes, his usual impassive mask slipping to reveal a profound, disbelieving shock at the mirror image fate has placed before him.*