#acwnr ova

[jayteacups]

The Absence of Warmth

“What about you, Levi?” Furlan asks. “What do you dream of doing, when we get up there?”

Dream? No, he hasn’t done such a thing in a long, long time. All this time, it’s been one foot in front of the other, never looking further ahead. He can’t afford to do much more than simply survive; doesn’t deserve to do much more.

“I’ve never given it much thought.”

Or; On a cold winter night, Levi, Furlan and Isabel dare to think of a life aboveground. 

Tags & warnings: Mostly pre-canon and in the pre-ACWNR era, ACWNR spoilers (obviously!), angst and manga spoilers towards the end (canon-era events are not the focus of the story so they’re not mentioned much, but there are some spoilers still ahead, beware), mostly gen fluff and platonic wholesomeness featuring some Levi x Furlan crumbs, grief and mourning towards the end, mentions of Kuchel. 

Word count: 3k

A/N: My moots (namely @happybird16​, @levmada​, @theferricfox​) had a phase of writing lots of kid/teen Levi angst, and some of that inspired me to write this little piece featuring the ACWNR trio!! It’s not reader-insert like I usually write, so hope you guys like it nonetheless. Anyways I hope you guys enjoy. I’ve also posted it on AO3. Reblogs and comments are much appreciated <3

Winters are harsh on those who live on the surface, but they are absolutely unforgiving to those with the misfortune to be born in the sewers.

Despite the precautions he, Furlan and Isabel have taken, the cold always finds a way in. The Underground is home to all sorts of thieves: pickpockets, robbers, muggers, con artists, but none are so effective as the cold.

See, here’s the thing: the cold creeps in without any effort on its part at all, making no more noise than a spectre. It comes and steals away precious warmth as it pleases. It does not matter how many thin blankets they have managed to salvage, or how many pieces of all-too-rare coal they set alight, or even how close they press up against one another in one last desperate attempt to stave the cold away. It does not matter; the cold will always make itself an integral part of your home.

And so this is where Levi finds himself, curled up underneath meagre scraps of fabric that barely count as blankets, pressed up against Isabel’s shivering form. Her nose is tucked into the crook of his neck—it’s ice-cold. Furlan spoons Isabel from behind; the two have an unspoken agreement that every winter, she sleeps in the middle. She’s always been the worst at dealing with the cold. Even now, she shivers the hardest, small groans and curses escaping from pale, chapped lips.

It’s some time past midnight. The fire is dying, but the golden light is just strong enough for Levi to make out the hands of the small clock resting near the make-shift hearth. Shadows dance as the flames dwindle to embers, which, one by one, begin to fizzle out and leave dull lumps of coal in its wake. He’ll have to feed the fire a few more lumps soon.

“I’ll do it,” Furlan offers before Levi can curl his half-frozen fingers around the edge of the blanket and leave their little cocoon. In the rays of dying light, he can see Furlan’s hands. Reddened knuckles that lead to drying, flaking skin. He doubts his own hands look any better, but there’s nothing to be done about it. To buy a tin of soothing salve for their skin would cost Levi a kidney and then some. “She’ll throw a fit if her favourite human furnace gets up and leaves.”

“You’re my second favourite human furnace, though, so don’t get up, please,” Izzy mumbles over her shoulder.

“Second favourite? Not exactly high praise when there’s only two to choose from.” Furlan quips, and doesn’t hesitate in lifting up a portion of the blankets so he can get up. Izzy’s reaction is almost instinctual; Levi’s sure he’s going to have bruises all over himself in the morning with how hard she’s clinging onto him, flinching away from the cold. The blankets aren’t much, but in winters like these, they make all the difference.

��Jeez,” Isabel gasps, though she dares not lift her face out of the blankets, “c’mon, give a warning before you do that. It’s cold!”

“Sorry!”

Levi reaches over and rearranges the blankets around her, as Furlan shuffles across the room and feeds the dying fire with a few fresh lumps of coal. There isn’t much left in the bag, Levi realises. He’ll have to go out and get some soon.

“Merchants should be back down here in two days,” Furlan says, evidently thinking of the same thing. “We can get more coal then.”

With a sigh, Levi beckons Furlan back with a wave of his hand. He’s already started to shiver, curling in on himself. Paired with a significantly thinner frame (for food has been scarce; the winters have been harsh on the harvests up above, or so the merchants say) and darker shadows underneath Furlan’s eyes, it’s difficult to reconcile the man in front of him with the ambitious gang leader that had reached out to him in the first place. Something twists in Levi’s chest at the sight of Furlan looking so worn.

He doubts he looks any better, though. He’s been sneaking as much of his rations as he could possibly afford onto either of their plates when neither one is looking, and taking on longer and longer watch shifts. Having something as simple as four walls and a roof around you makes all the difference. In a lawless place like this, a house could belong to you one day and a complete stranger could raid you and make themselves at home the next, and nobody would bat an eye.

“I’ll go buy the coal when they get here,” Levi grumbles, lifting the blankets for Furlan to get back onto the shitty mattress that hardly fits the three of them. Whenever the merchants come, there always comes the risk of a fight breaking out, starving, freezing people clamouring for even the slightest of necessities. The last thing he wants is to drag them into it, even if Furlan’s bartering skills come in handy. Though he lacks his partner’s talent with words, Levi can barter perfectly well on his own. (Well, Kenny’s old pocket knife does come in handy whenever the merchants fancy themselves shrewd businessmen.)

“No. It’s okay, you went last time.” Furlan settles in the same position from the last time, and loops a lanky arm around both Isabel and Levi’s small frames. His hand grazes Levi’s side, and Levi tries not to think about it too much. It’s unsuccessful. He’s always been hyperaware of Furlan’s touch in a way that he isn’t with Isabel, and he’s not sure why.

Throat dry, Levi swallows. His voice sounds hoarse when he speaks up again. “The last time you went, people tried to shank you when they saw you walking home with the bag of coal. I’ll go. You’re not doing it again, and hell will freeze over before the day I ask Izzy to do it.” The words come out stonier than he’d intended. He can’t help it—Levi remembers it vividly. He remembers the panic clawing at his chest and throat as he paced the room, growing more and more restless with every extra minute the front door remained closed. He remembers the overwhelming flood of relief the moment Furlan returned—only for it to turn into white hot anger upon seeing his bruised jaw and the the tears in his clothes that could only be produced by the blade of a knife.

He remembers sneaking out of their shelter later that night armed with rage and his trusted blade, thinking the others had been asleep, only to feel Furlan’s larger, smoother hand curl around his wrist. Oh, how he remembers the way he’d stopped in his tracks upon hearing the soundless plea in Furlan’s gentle touch. In the end, Furlan hadn’t managed to persuade him to let it pass, but he sure had gotten close.

Kenny would piss himself laughing, if he could see how weak Levi has grown.

Furlan sighs. Something familiar gleams in his eyes, something soft, sad. Levi’s chest, once again, aches just looking at him. “Stop sneaking your food onto my plate when you think I’m not looking, then.” Furlan looks away before he finishes speaking, directing his gaze towards the barely patched-up ceiling. Isabel gasps at the revelation. “I won’t even ask how long you’ve been doing that. I only figured it out the other day.”

Gritting his teeth, Levi internally curses, and refuses to address the food dilemma. “I wasn’t asking your permission to go.”

“If you were, I wouldn’t grant it. You need rest too, you know.”

“Furlan, I’m going, and that is final.”

Before Furlan can retort, Isabel cuts the disagreement short. “Guys. Please… Now isn’t the time to fight.” A finger pokes at Levi’s chest. “Furlan’s right, y’know. You’ve gotta eat too. And you…” Isabel lifts her head ever-so-slightly to fix Furlan with a watery glare. “He also has a point. Seeing you come home like that was terrifying.” She sniffs. “You can always both go, if you can’t decide. I can hold down the fort here. Just quit arguing about it now, please?”

Levi’s hands twitch at the idea of leaving Isabel alone, and one quick look at Furlan’s clenched fists tells him he feels the same. Even with her ability to defend herself, people are desperate for a roof and four walls, and he knows all too well how dangerous desperation can make a person. It’s why they’d set up the system in the first place of having two people at home whenever possible in the first place.

But Isabel’s quaking in his arms, and it isn’t entirely from the cold anymore. So he keeps his mouth shut, and nods.

“Okay,” Furlan says, reaching over to squeeze her hand. “Okay, we’ll stop. We’re really sorry. We can talk about something else, yeah?” His voice drops quieter as he adds, “I don’t think any of us can sleep right now.”

“Hm.” Levi feels Isabel nod against his neck as she hums. “Like what?”

The room lapses into comfortable silence for a moment as Furlan contemplates the question. “The Surface,” he gets out, eventually. “What we’d do when we get to the Surface.”

You mean ‘if’, Levi adds silently. It takes some restraint to not say it out loud. He’s always never been particularly optimistic in the way his two dearest friends are. Instead, he offers, “we’d get a house that stops the draught from coming in.”

“That goes without saying, though.” Furlan smiles sheepishly. “I meant what we’d do, or want to do, that we can’t do down here. Y’know?”

Her face lights up. “Perhaps… working with the wildlife as a vet. Or flowers! Florists are a thing up there, right?”

“Oh?”

“I hear that the gardens they have are beautiful,” Isabel whispers, awestruck. Flowers had always been fascinating to her. The merchants bring them down all the time, and it hadn’t taken much for both him and Furlan to notice her longing looks at the bright petals that positively glow in the dark, dreary shadows of the Underground. They’d had saved up and brought her a singular flower once; the merchant had called it a magnolia. She’d adopted the flower as a surname the very next day, and bore it proudly as if it had been the family name she had been born with. “Imagine an entire stretch of land filled with them!”

Levi tries. He comes up empty. All he can think of is the one and only time his mother ever bought flowers, the only gift she could afford for his sixth birthday, and even then, he only remembers having to throw the wilted forms out when the water pumps in the area stopped working. (Sometimes, he dreams of those flowers. He’d mournfully held onto the last flower, hesitant to part with the gift. They must’ve been a pure, glowing white once, because he remembers dulled white petals falling loose into his palm, remembers saving the final withering flower and pressing it between the pages of a diary Kuchel was growing too sick to write in.)

Furlan must be seeing something he can’t, because he’s quick to respond. “If we save up, we could buy a cottage. One with a little bit of land outside that you could turn into a garden for the flowers you sell.”

Beaming, Isabel nods, more enthusiastic than she’s been in days. It is as if she no longer feels the cold. “And you?”

“As a job, I’d probably go for something simple. Maybe the town we pick might need a mechanic of some sort, I could do that. Granted, it wouldn’t pay me much, but it’s about the most useful thing I could do. But really, I think I’d like to study the stars,” the blond boy responds quietly. “Wouldn’t that be something?” Furlan turns his head to stare at the ceiling again, and this time, he smiles wistfully. As if he’s done this before, replacing a mouldy wooden roof with a limitless sky that Levi couldn’t even begin to comprehend. “To live under a limitless, ever-changing sky, to watch the sun rise and fall every day… wouldn’t that be a sight?”

Across the room, the fire burns bright, bathing Furlan’s handsome profile in warm orange. Levi has to turn away from the sight to catch his breath.

A sight indeed.

He feels Furlan’s eyes settle on him. Isabel shuffles backwards a little so that she can look at his face, too, and he finds himself a little warm under their expectant gazes. “What about you, Levi?” Furlan asks. “What do you dream of doing, when we get up there?”

Dream? No, he hasn’t done such a thing in a long, long time. All this time, it’s been one foot in front of the other, never looking further ahead. He can’t afford to do much more than simply survive; doesn’t deserve to do much more.

“I’ve never given it much thought.”

Isabel’s breath hitches in her throat. “Not even once? Not even when you were a kid?”

“Did you enjoy the tea, Sunbeam?”

He nods, giggling. “It was really good, Mama! Nice ’n warm.”

Kuchel beams, and presses her lips to his forehead. “A little bit of warmth goes a long way, sweetheart.”

Levi swallows. It’s hard to breathe all of a sudden. If he puts it into words, it becomes more than just a silly childhood dream. He’s faced many a daunting task, but to bare himself like this might just be the scariest of them all. To truly desire something pure in a world like this seems futile, and yet, there’s a spark kindling in his chest that Furlan and Isabel have managed to revive from charred embers that his mother’s death had put out years before.

“Isabel,” he croaks, “d’you think there’d be room for some tea plants in your garden?”

The smiles both of them give him are brighter than the sun could ever be.

------

Every night after Furlan and Isabel’s deaths, Levi sits up on the rooftop the way they did before that expedition, and stares up at the night sky.

It’s beautiful. Dazzlingly so, in a way that evokes both awe and dread. It makes him feel so small, so useless, so insignificant in the face of it all.

The night sky leaves a bitter taste in his mouth at first, but it doesn’t stop him from sitting up and stargazing every night. He starts taking a notebook and pen up with him, starts sketching the constellations each night. He starts to write what the sky looks like, how the wind blows and the flowers bloom. Driven by a strange force, Levi tries day and night to see the world the way they would’ve.

He’ll be their eyes, he decides. He’ll see for them, live for them. He owes them that much at the very least, after everything they have done for him.  

After he’s officially discharged from both the military and the hospital, the first thing Levi does is write a letter to Historia.

Due the complications with Jaegerists heavily controlling communications between Paradis Island and the rest of the world, the Queen’s response arrives a month later. Levi finds a thick envelope on his doormat after getting lunch with Gabi and Falco, and for a moment, forgets of his own injuries in his haste to pick it up and open it.

Dear Captain,

The documents you have requested are in the envelope. The papers have undergone some damage, but the team I sent to the Underground recovered the majority of your friend’s designs. I hope it is enough to build your teahouse to your liking. The diary you requested could not be found, unfortunately. The establishment that you directed us to seems to have been abandoned and demolished.

I am pleased to hear that you and the others are doing well and that you are recovering from your injuries. Perhaps it is optimistic to say, but I do hope that one day, the situation will settle and we can communicate freely. You are the godfather of my daughter, after all, I hope she grows up with you in her life in whatever way possible.

Wishing you all the best,

HRM Queen Historia

The second thing he does when he moves into his new house, is ask Onyankopon to drive him out to the nearest garden centre. They come home with a magnolia tree sapling, and Levi plants it in his back garden alone, cheeks damp and hands shaking. A bed of snowdrops—the type of flower he’d pressed in his mother’s diary all those years ago—follows soon after. The clear memory of the flowers had come to him in a fever dream. Over the year, Levi fills his back garden with tea plants and almost every type of flower imaginable, painting the empty area with explosions of vibrant reds and purples and blues all around the tree in the centre.

It takes almost a year and much of his financial reimbursements to turn Furlan’s rough designs for his shop into a reality. His eyes burn when he looks upon the finished building; it is almost an exact copy of the sketches born from his friend’s hand.

The teashop takes off wonderfully. It’s a home away from home, but something still doesn’t feel right. All he’d ever wanted was to walk under the moonlight with them with no other worries in the world, and living out their dreams for them in a desperate attempt to keep their memories alive won’t ever come close. Kneeling in his garden and watering his plants only makes him wish he could hear Isabel’s laugh. Staring up at the night sky, sketching the constellations, he only wishes he could see Furlan’s smile one more time. Sometimes, when he drinks his tea alone at night, he thinks of wilting snowdrops and the chipped teacups that his mother couldn’t ever earn enough to replace.

Because the world, for all its natural beauty, is cold without them. 

Masterlist

© 2022 jayteacups | do not modify, repost or claim as your own work | I do not own the rights to Attack on Titan or it’s characters, only this piece of transformative work. 

#aot #attack on titan #aot fanfiction #aot fanfic #attack on titan fanfic #snk #snk fanfiction #snk fanfic #acwnr ova #acwnr #a choice with no regrets #levi ackerman #isabel magnolia #furlan church #farlan church #fuck knows how ur meant to spell it i just said fuck it and used the former #featuring some #levifar #(only crumbs tho SORRY)

[starlight-bread-blog]

Yeah it's late, and I should be sleeping, but can I just re-read A Choice With No Regrets-

#attack on titan ova #levi attack on titan #attack on titan manga #attackon titan #levi snk #levi ackerman #levi shingeki no kyojin #levi #erwin snk #erwin attack on titan #commander erwin #erwin #erwin smith #a choice with no regrets #acwnr ova #acwnr #hange zoë #hange zoe #hange

[lewajagejman]

Twitter is dying so I guess let's start posting here again :D I hope I can find a community here. Hope you don't mind if I post some of my older eruri works!

#attack on titan #eruri #erwin smith #levi ackerman #shingeki no kyoujin #acwnr #no regrets #aot #ova #rivaeru

[tatakaeeren]

That sexy hair flip 😍

#levi ackerman #snkgraphic #snkedit #aotedit #snk #shingeki no kyojin #aot #attack on titan #aot ova #acwnr #ddl #finally i'm back making gifs :') i missed it so much #i'm currently working on an interesting gifset idea #but i came across this beauty and i could not...not gif him *v* #my handsome man :') #i love him so so so much and i miss him every single day

[driiven]

[ 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑 ]

@cptlvi ↳ from. ― sender traces a scar on receiver’s body.

cool summer's night promises the approach of fall, casting through the dim, dark-wooden bedroom a cloudless moonlight that bathes discarded clothes covering the floor in a white shine. cracked window yields the night air and an ever present voice or sound of a soul who cannot or will not sleep, the inner walls now perpetually droning with tens of its normal population. he doesn't mind it. levi would curse them. shoo them from this home.

erwin considers a horizon uninhibited by the great walls, winding hills and land as far as they could see from behind the pane of a window like he was now, staring off into the night. he wonders if ever there will be that future for them : a shared home, freedom. no walls, no underground. no drunkards fighting in the street in the middle of the night over a feud they'd already forgotten.

beside him, leaned against his ribs and chest rest levi, cradling erwin's hand in his, dark eyes closed as thumb traces against the inside of a half - closed fist. his counterpart fights exhaustion as muscle memory guides fingers in straight lines, the indentation of levi's sword now long since recovered and barely more than pale white lines framing his palm. erwin watches in shared silence as fingers slow, body stills, breath hitches, and thumb slowly stutters back to life, tracing once more across his scars. a soft smile rises to the corner of erwin's lips. would it be selfish to want it ? to think of a world they could live in where no one came banging on their door in the middle of the night ? where no one asked them to turn in their humanity and held a knife to their throats when they handed it over ?

he never entertained the ideas aloud. left levi guessing, often chastised by his other half, yet he would trust him nonetheless. levi was the only person who ever came close to understanding, aside from hange. the only one who could predict his thoughts and words before he said them; but not always his actions. not always his reasons. erwin didn't fear levi's response-- in fact, he near expected if he so much as suggested they find a home beyond the wall he would be wrestling levi to lay back down. that was why. this dark world had no room for impossible, selfish hopes built on the backs of sacrifice, a dream for one lifetime, short-lived and useless to the rest of humanity.

as levi once again loses the battle to sleep, erwin's position shifts, pushing down from the pillows to lay down on his side. hand outstretched, levi follows, back pressed to erwin's chest, fingers chasing the scars of his upturned hand as cheek buries against his arm. just like that. yet levi would insist how impossible it would be for him to sleep. fingers enclose on his other half's, now laced, abandoning fingertips against scars as consciousness lulls. selfish hopes could be built in the small moments they could afford, when time deigns them a night to be human. maybe he can tell him, someday.

#i switched it to his left hand bc i chose manga ACWNR over the OVA #even though i loved the OVA although i'm realizing now it doesn't really matter bc i didn't specify #ic. #answered. #cptlvi #tbt. #i wave my little fingies

[cosmicjoke]

hi this is the same anon about the acwnr ask! im glad i decided to resend the ask because i loved your insight and it made a lot of sense to me! so, thank you for answering <3 i also have another question, which i think you may have answered before in the past, but im not entirely sure so i apologize if you've answered this already. i saw a few asks you answered recently about erwin's role in acwnr and it really opened my eyes more to erwin as a character and his mindset. i also reread the manga recently and i remembered how differently erwin's speech at the end was handle in the anime and i wanted to know which you prefer/seems more like erwin. im not sure if isayama wrote acwnr or not so im not entirely sure which accurately depicts erwin during that moment.

No worries! I'm glad to answer any questions you might have!

The general consensus seems to be that Erwin's speech in the manga is the one that hues closest to Erwin's actual character. A lot of people criticize the OVA for making Erwin colder than he is in the manga, either the main one or the "No Regrets" one. Isayama didn't write "No Regrets", but I suspect he had input on the graphic novel, because Levi's characterization in particular is much better than it was in the visual novel that the manga was initially based on. Isayama also conducted an interview with the artist on the manga, which is included in the back of the collected edition of it. I really like the OVA, despite some people bad-mouthing it, lol. I thought it was really well done, and I really liked some of the additional scenes, like the one of Levi telling Furlan and Isabel that they aren't going on the first mission outside the walls and he grows visibly upset and frustrated when they fight him on it. That's very in character for Levi, to try and protect them as best he can. Most of the criticism seems to come from it's characterization of Erwin and from them having to cut several scenes due to probably time and budget constraints. Otherwise I think it's very well done, but Erwin definitely comes across much meaner and cold hearted in the OVA than he normally would. In certain scenes, he's downright dismissive toward Levi and seemingly not very sympathetic to his pain. I think in the manga, at the beginning, Erwin came across that way, but as the story progressed, he slowly became less cold toward Levi. So when discussing "No Regrets" in relation to actual canon, I always refer to the manga and nothing else.

I wrote a super long chapter by chapter analysis of "No Regrets", if you're interested in a more in depth examination of it, which you can read here:

#Levi Ackerman #Erwin Smith #No Regrets #attack on titan #shingkei no kyojin

[lostcauses-noregrets]

were you in the fandom when the acwnr anime first released? what was the fandoms reaction to the adaptation being different from the manga i am curious.

I wasn't in the fandom when ACWNR first aired. I joined in fandom in late 2015 and the ACWNR OVA came out at the end of 2014. I asked some of the Veterans who were around at the time though and they were kind enough to share their reminiscences 🙏

@darlingpoppet: "I just remember we all had Thoughts™️ about Erwin’s ending speech… that’s never really changed has it 😂"

@he1chouarts: "We were all pissed about Erwin. Weak nose bump, weird dialogue."

@masksarehot2: "Part 1, everyone went nuts. Part 2, mixed reactions. After part 1 we were concerned they would cut a lot of content, and we were right 😭 Levi going feral was the repeated clip everyone sobbed over for weeks, it was the first time we saw him really emotional. There was a mostly negative reaction to Erwin's reaction to Farlan and Isabel's deaths. And the cut "your wings are the real thing after all" was also a hot topic of discussion. ERUVIN SMISSU. Levi saying that, clip circulated for a while.

Despite its obvious flaws the ACWNR anime will always hold a special place in my heart because it was my gateway drug for the SnK manga and Eruri shipping. So even though I'm still pissed about Erwin's characterisation, I can't be too mad at it!

#asks #acwnr #snk

[levmada]

Manga ACWNR is just so much better especially with Isabel's backstory. The OVA made her come across as kind of an annoying cling on at times. So it makes me sad that they did her dirty.

the OVA did THE WHOLE STORY dirty imo

1 We miss Erwin's entire speech at the end that got Levi to join the Survey Corps. He was NEVER mean like in the OVA. He admitted that the files were fake and how much he wanted Levi bc he was such a good fighter. he convinced Levi not to kill him after convincing him that it wasn't Levi's hubris that killed his friends but the Titans!! And to avenge them!!! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!! i hate the ova for cutting that out

2 The Short Stories.

3 Isabel's backstory is so much more interesting than. the bird. We get more scenes of them in the manga so Isabel and Furlan aren't just extensions of Levi. Like he has raised Isabel since she was a little kid, and Levi met Furlan when the gang Furlan was a part of tried to take Levi down. we understand why they're so bonded and the REASONS for the lengths Levi will go to to protect them.

4 MEETING HANGE!!!!!!! In the manga while on expedition Hange comes and makes friends with Isabel by giving her cookies and asking Levi about how he's so strong. Erwin also talks to him abt the way Levi gives everyone hope and praises him. LIKE!!!!!!

5 There is an extra scene where an agent of Lovof (the corrupt politician) first comes to them and Levi first scoffs at the idea of the plan to lure in the survey corps, but farlan convinces him. I feel like this context is important to those who don't understand that them getting caught by Erwin and Miche and the rest was fake. Levi is much stronger than everyone, he obviously wouldn't have been genuinely overpowered.

tldr i recommend reading the manga sm!!! if you're interested in a better more complete form of Levi's backstory lol

#acwnr spoilers #i forget how passionate i am about this topic LOL #kane has mail

[lausticzt]

prior / during / a bit after ova acwnr: she spent a good few years in the survey corp before getting engaged and mostly running off with her husband to live a peaceful life.

that day: she lived closed to shiganshina, inside of wall maria. after everything happened, she spent awhile in recovery before joining the MPs.

early post trost: very set in her ways / very much on the path she chose for herself after the fall of wall maria. but god does she have consistent eyes on the survey corp. and eren for so many reasons that she eludes to just not trusting them with a titan. but the trost incident has her true colours begin to break through slowly.

post female titan arc: though she's still so sour from the incident in stohess, she's a lot more inclined to meet with survey corp members because something is happening and she can feel the shift. it's self interest in the fact her alignments and views are reverting, but she'd rather investigate the capital, slowly detouring from her own status as an MP to find answers of her own.

government arc: very much aligning more with the survey corp and what they are doing, because the anti-personnel squad was the tipping point to really set in motion her own feelings on the survey corp. despite her views on erwin especially, she also doesn't want him executed. she has her own moral code. the betrayal to the government is a high cost - and her family name is all but discarded from her by her father, because they know what she's doing. they have eyes everywhere. she's not as subtle and sneaky as she thinks she is. she brings too much of a presence wherever she goes.

shiganshina arc: her father is in custody at this point, given his allegiance to the nobles. she would rejoin the survey corps after recovering from events in the government arc (which I keep vague and mostly non-existent in chiller plotting and writing) but I will separate timelines for her remaining as an MP (I need to really go over my verses again)

marley arc: very much the same as the above. she'd also defy the rumbling completely, because it doesn't align with what she thinks is right. which is funny coming from the girl who has also fought to take down any enemy and obstacle in her way; but innocent people aren't one of them. very much about protecting the next generation, including those on the outside.

post war: laura would have no reason to return to paradis. so she'd spend her time helping rebuild the world, and try find a new reason for living. she doesn't feel as empty as others about it either, or confused. she had a long time to reflect prior to many events, and is, in a twist of fate, one of the better people to lean on in times of that quiet after the long, long storm.

#ℒ ༺ ☾⋆* headcanon. ✧. ┊   ​​SUCH A RIFT BETWEEN THEM​ ◞ #( but laura prior to changes from events in the series is my favourite to write ) #( because she is a menace to my life )

[toruvi]

im biased but acwnr could’ve easily been a 3-5 episode ova if they kept it true to the original manga :(((( i know it probably wasnt in the budget at  the time but UGH it would’ve done all of those characters so much more justice...we miss out on so much of erwin’s motivations, farlan and isabels stories....wasted potential :(

[jayteacups]

it's kind of hard to fully tell, but in the acwnr anime, do you think levi is actually crying? or is it just the rain on his face?

I think he is! If you listen carefully you can hear him crying too, just after he finishes killing that abnormal. The rain on his face definitely adds to the effect too so I can see why it's a little hard to tell

#aot ask #levi ackerman #acwnr #acwnr ova

[starlight-bread-blog]

ACWNR Erwin (Manga): No Levi! It's not your fault that your friends died! It was the titans! We don't know anything about them, things need to change. And you can help changing them! Join me!

ACWNR Erwin (Anime): Your friends died? L. Do whatever you want (join me).

#erwin smith #commander erwin #erwin #erwin attack on titan #erwin shingeki no kyojin #acwnr #a choice with no regrets #aot ova #levi attack on titan #levi ackerman #attack on titan levi #aot #snk #attack on titan #levi shingeki no kyojin #shingeki no kyojin #aot memes #attack on titan memes #anime vs manga #attack on titan manga #snk mamga #aot manga

[prpfs]

looking for 20+ literate, advanced multi-paragraph/novella style, long term rp partners to do some angsty eruri (erwin/levi) from attack on titan

i’m looking for plots post ACWNR (OVA, pre-season 1). angst, fluff, nsfw preferred, things like that. if you’re interested hit the like 🫶🏼

Leave a like, and anon will get back to you!

#attack on titan roleplay #attack on titan rp #fandom roleplay #fandom rp #cc x cc #dead dove #20+ rp

[warm-starlight]

Hey, Eve. Do you like Levi’s OVA ACWNR? What are your thoughts on it?

I didn't like it.

Farlan and Isabel were quite boring, nothing unique about them.

They dumbed down Hange and turned them into a comic relief.

Levi's screaming when he was cutting up that One titan was cringe af. I still can't watch that scene with the sound on. It just throws me off, because of how ooc it is.

Erwin... *sigh* well let's say if someone like that invited me into the SC using the words he did after the two of my best friends died because of him, i would have literally decapitated them and went on my way. 😅

I hate how they gave Him the speech about regrets to shove the idea that "Erwin taught Levi this philosophy" 🥺

While it was Levi's own actually and something he learned because of his life experiences.

Levi joined Erwin because he perceived incredible altruism in him, not because of how "cool" he was 🤦‍♀️

Anyway, nah, i didn't like it.

#snk #aot #acwnr #acwnr ova #levi ackerman #levi #rivai #anonymous

[ackersoul]

Random snk gifs: 40/?

#snkgraphic #snkedit #shingeki no kyojin #levi ackerman #isabel magnolia #farlan church #snk #attack on titan #mine #snkmine #snkgif #randomsnk #acwnr ova #levi you're so freaking hot stoooop #this trio

[levi-ackerman-rp]

"Morning, brats."

#levi ackerman #snk #shingeki no kyojin #attack on titan #levi #captain levi #aot #levi attack on titan #levi aot #levi heichou #rivaille heichou #rivialle heichou #rivaille #aot roleplay #aot rp #snk roleplay #snk rp #acwnr ova #acwnr #ask levi #levi rp #talk to levi #isabel magnolia