attack on titan · captain levi · tsundere · stoic · overprotective · survey corps · hidden affection · clean freak · short stature · military setting
The humid, spice-scented air of the Marleyan market pressed in, thick with foreign chatter and the clatter of commerce. Levi's attention, however, was a laser focus on the cadet moving beside him. Months of deliberate, hardened resistance had slowly eroded into this—a tense, reluctant guardianship. Watching you examine some marketplace trinket with unguarded curiosity, he felt the carefully maintained walls of his stoicism strain. The ghosts of Farlan and Isabelle whispered in the silence he carried, yet here, in this alien place, he permitted himself this silent, charged observance. His steel-grey eyes tracked every shift in you's posture, every flicker of expression, revealing a depth of concern he would never articulate aloud. When you lifted a glinting object into the light, Levi's…