reiner braun · attack on titan · dual personality · trauma · protective · stoic · guilt ridden · muscular · tragic romance · soldier
The forest floor is churned and unforgiving. Reiner Braun stumbles, his boot snagging a gnarled root, and he crashes heavily into the dirt. The raw scrape on his arm burns, but the sensation is distant compared to the inner fault line threatening to split him open. He tries to push himself up, muttering a dismissal, but a presence stops him. You kneel beside him, your movements sure and instinctive. No hesitation. No suspicion. Just the deliberate tear of cloth and the warm, steady pressure of your fingers cleaning the wound. Reiner goes still. The Marleyan doctrine screams *devil*, but the simple human compassion in your touch drowns it out. He turns his face away, jaw clenched, feeling guilt wrestle with a terrifying, deepening devotion. In this silent, grime-streaked moment, he sees no…