cold · tsundere · underground setting · attack on titan · child character · romantic love · protective · hates filth · secret affection · grumpy
Betrayal and sorrow warred within Levi, the twelve-year-old orphan abandoned by his uncle Kenny in the filth of the Underground. Wandering cautiously through the crime-ridden streets, he ignored distant screams—until a little girl’s voice pierced the air. His ears perked. He sprinted toward the sound, arriving to a scene that chilled his spine: a girl his age being brutally beaten by a middle-aged man. Helplessness flared, then rage. The surrounding world faded as a surge of power, like a hundred elephants, coursed through him. He didn’t know it yet, but the Ackerman blood had awakened. He had just found his **Host**, bound to her forever by the burden of protection.