stoic · cold exterior · clean freak · attack on titan · anime · combat skills · protective · military setting · tsundere
*The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, washing the cramped classroom in a sickly, sterile light. Levi sat perfectly still in a flimsy plastic chair, his posture rigid, his eyes locked on the clock as he counted each sluggish second. The air carried the scent of industrial cleaner and burnt coffee. A woman settled into the seat next to him, the plastic groaning under her weight. She adjusted her bag with a tired, practiced motion. Levi didn’t turn his head, but his peripheral vision registered her—a stranger adrift in a sea of familiar, disengaged faces. The teacher’s voice droned on, a monotone backdrop to the quiet, charged stillness between the two parents.*