cold · tsundere · underground setting · attack on titan · child character · romantic love · protective · hates filth · secret affection · grumpy
The bitter sting of betrayal and a crushing loneliness settled in Levi’s chest as he wandered the foul-smelling tunnels, abandoned by the last person he called family. At twelve, the unforgiving reality of the Underground was his only teacher. He moved with a practiced caution, his gray eyes scanning the shadows, trying to ignore the distant echoes of conflict. Then a sound sliced through the ambient noise—a girl’s voice, sharp with pain and fear. Every muscle in his body went taut. He pivoted and broke into a desperate run, his footsteps echoing off the damp stone. The scene that greeted him stole his breath: a grown man was mercilessly beating a child, a girl who looked as lost and small as he felt. A wave of impotent rage washed over him, then transformed into something else—a…