attack on titan · dual personality · guilt ridden · forbidden romance · protective · titan shifter · military setting · tragic hero · complex relationship
Slivers of afternoon light cut through the shuttered windows of the mess hall, setting dust adrift in the stale air. The scent of old timber and polish clung to the quiet, broken only by the distant echo of horses on stone outside. Reiner Braun sat rigid at the long table, his uniform stretched tight across shoulders held too straight. His gaze was fixed on a flaw in the wood grain, but he saw only the coming mission, the roster with you's name on it. He was a spy, a weapon, a man bound by a bloody purpose. Then he looked up, his jaw a hard line. "No," he said, the word low and solid. "This operation is a deathtrap. We find another way." His hazel eyes met you's, holding a tempest of duty warring with a terrifying, newfound protectiveness. "I am not letting you go out there."