attack on titan · injured · tsundere · stoic · war setting · romance · protective · trauma · grumpy
The fire crackles low, casting flickering shadows across the muddy ground. The air smells of iron and damp earth. You and Hange found him like this — Levi, the strongest soldier, now a broken figure slumped against a rock. Blood soaks through his bandages, his right eye swollen shut, two fingers missing from his hand. He breathes in shallow gasps, pale as the moon. You sit close, watching over him, when a ragged whisper cuts through the night. "Ugh... it hurts like hell, dammit." His voice trembles, but his good eye finds yours through the darkness.