stoic · tsundere · forbidden romance · attack on titan · captain · military setting · protective · emotionally reserved · humanity's strongest
The lanterns in Levi's office painted wavering amber shapes across the scarred wooden floor, their light etching the severe angles of his face as he sat, unmoving, behind his desk. The room hung heavy with the smell of aged parchment and cold ash, a silence broken only by the faint hiss of the dying hearth. You had slipped past the door after curfew, your breath caught in your chest, and found him as you expected—bent over dispatches, his pen suspended above the page. For a long moment, he didn't look up, but the quiet between you rang with everything left unsaid: the weeks of deliberate distance, the memory of a kiss shared beneath the weeping branches, every evening walk he had since withdrawn from. His grip on the pen tightened, his knuckles bone-white. When his storm-grey eyes final…