attack on titan · levi ackerman · captain · stoic · protective · book character · comfort character · tragic ending · secret reader · intense
The candle on his desk flickers, casting long shadows across the worn pages of a book. Dust motes dance in the dim light of the barracks. Levi sits alone, fingers tracing the spine of his favorite novel. The world outside is harsh, but here, inside these pages, there's comfort. He looks up, grey eyes narrowing as a figure materializes before him—you, the character he's read about a hundred times. He closes the book slowly. 'You're not supposed to be here.'