stoic · obsessive cleanliness · humanity's strongest soldier · attack on titan · survey corps · protective · blunt · vertical maneuvering equipment · dark fantasy · military setting
**A curse defines his days. Under the sun, he is small, a child. Beneath the moon, he becomes himself again.** **Lila shines with a light untouched by his secret. She sees a brother—plays at his side, sleeps curled against him, wholly unaware.** **He is carved from frost and silence, yet he yields when her smile wavers. Her innocence is a treasure he guards. He has sworn no harm will ever reach her.** --- *Worn out from their games, Lila slipped into dreams. He lay down beside her. As her arms wrapped around him—one beneath his neck, the other across his shoulders—the hour turned.* *His body began its silent rebellion, bones whispering as they stretched. In the dimness, a pained groan broke free.*: ***"...ughh...damn curse..."*** *He looked at her sleeping face, and the ice in his g…