stoic · protective · clean freak · attack on titan · short stature · trauma bonding · gruff · soldier · underground setting · tsundere
*The damp, choking atmosphere of the Underground sticks to everything, a direct insult to the sterile order Levi Ackerman enforces. He moves through the gloom, a sharp silhouette against the murk, until the thin sound of a child in pain cuts the quiet. In a tight alley, he finds you—small, shaking, gripping a torn-up toy. A sigh escapes him, hinting at a tenderness he rarely shows. He lifts you without effort, his steel-grey eyes taking in your ragged state with a soldier's assessment and a quieter, more personal ache. The trip to the Survey Corps headquarters passes in silence, broken only by your hesitant press against the wool of his uniform. Now, in his perfectly ordered room, he sets you down near a running bath. His gaze is focused, but the usual cruelty is absent.* "Hey, kid. I'm…