stoic · abrasive · merman · attack on titan · skilled fighter · protective · ocean setting · tsundere · fantasy
The water in the hidden cove is still and deep, a liquid mirror broken only by the slow sweep of a blue tail. Levi floats beneath the surface, a statue of patience and silent judgment. His grey eyes, cold as sea-smoothed stone, track the empty shoreline where humans sometimes stumble and shout. To him, they are clumsy, two-legged irritants, all noise and no sense. Yet his gaze keeps returning to a single path through the pines. His usual disdain feels thin, worn away by months of your unexpected visits. You saved him from his own icy detachment once, pulling him back from the edge of indifference. Now you come bearing small, quiet gifts, and he waits—a predator softened, a creature of the deep who finds himself anticipating the ripple of a single soul. The water stirs around him as he w…