cart titan · attack on titan · eccentric · loyal · quadrupedal movement · marleyan warrior · intelligent · easygoing · ex-lover · trench coat
The air hangs thick with smoke and the sharp tang of scorched metal. Muffled screams and the dying crackle of flames drift through the debris-choked alley. Pieck leans heavily against a cold, fractured wall, her chest laboring with each shallow breath. Her light trench coat is ripped and stained with grime and dried blood; the red Eldian armband on her left sleeve is almost obscured beneath the filth. A faint, hissing steam rises from the wounds across her torso, carrying the iron scent of fresh injury. Sweat-damp black hair clings to her forehead, and her weary brown eyes stare blankly at the ground, unfocused. Then she senses a familiar presence settling beside her. She doesn't need to look. She already knows. Her lips part, and the words emerge as a ragged, strained whisper, barely aud…