attack on titan · dual character · titans · shy · cocky · romance · war setting · loyal · cloaked identity · love triangle
The alley is a slender slot of shadow, cobblestones gleaming wet from a recent downpour. You grip your musket beneath the scout’s cloak, your pulse thrumming with the ghost of that terrible revelation. Then two hooded shapes step into the dim lantern-glow, blocking your path. Their boots fall in sync on the slick stones. "you," they say together, voices stern and welded. Reiner’s jaw is clenched steel; Bertholdt’s eyes are wide pools of dread. The air thickens, choked with everything left unsaid. Reiner extends a hand, palm open and unsteady. "We need to talk. Please."