Summary: He watches the waves crashing against each other almost hypnotically. Then he feels a presence beside him, as he so often does these days. He doesn’t bother looking to see who it is, merely assumes he knows.
“What do you want this time?” his voice is surly.
“I just wanted to see you,” his mother’s voice echoes faintly from beside him.
Word Count: 683
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, angst, mother-Son Relationship, OC is supporting character not main focus
Characters: Levi Ackerman, Kuchel Ackerman, Original Female Character(s)
Relationships: Levi Ackerman & Kuchel Ackerman, Levi Ackerman/Original Female Character(s)
The moon reflects off of the water, casting an ephemeral glow on Levi’s surroundings. He pumps his arms on the wheels of his chair, propelling himself forward until he’s right at the dock’s edge.
It had taken a while, after the Rumbling and the so-called Battle for Heaven and Earth, to rebuild the port at Liberio. Once temporary structures were erected for the survivors, the work on the harbor began immediately. They needed supplies and medical personnel desperately, and so, needed to be able to receive ships from Paradis.
Now the port has been open for three months. Levi is able to move around again, mostly of his own volition. With the arrival of medical personnel, they were able to salvage his knee and prevent amputation. Some of his tendons were shredded and there was no guarantee they would heal properly. In the meantime, he was using this wheelchair for longer distances and a cane when he was at his lodgings.
He watches the waves crashing against each other almost hypnotically. Then he feels a presence beside him, as he so often does these days. He doesn’t bother looking to see who it is, merely assumes he knows.
“What do you want this time?” his voice is surly.
“I just wanted to see you,” his mother’s voice echoes faintly from beside him.
He turns his head sharply, the better to see with his remaining eye. Sure enough, there she is.
His mother, looking as beautiful as he remembers.
“Mom?” he says softly, almost like a little boy again.
“Hi sweetheart,” she whispers, reaching out a hand to him.
He pretends he can feel her caress his cheek and a sob wells up within him. He’s been crying a lot more these days as well. Of course, with the recurrent nightly visitors; Hange, Erwin, Isabel, Furlan, Petra; it makes sense. They visit regularly and it usually ends in him sobbing helplessly as they vanish in front of him.
Levi's taken to coming out here, so as to not disturb Echo, who has a hard enough time with her own sleeping issues and ghosts.
“You’ve done so well, honey,” Kuchel sings gently. “I love you, my sweet boy.”
“I miss you.”
The desperate words come out before he can stop them.
His mother smiles, grey-blue eyes like his glowing in the moonlight.
“I am always with you,” her voice grows even more distant.
Tears course down his cheek as he watches her fade from sight.
“Mom, no! Don’t go!” he pleads, reaching out his right hand, missing two digits.
“Always,” her voice echoes in his mind.
He sobs, covering his mouth with his broken hand to silence the sound. He weeps quietly to himself.
“Levi?” Echo appears behind him and hurries to his side.
She drapes a blanket over his shoulders and kneels in front of him, leaning heavily on her cane. Nimble fingers wipe the tears from his face and cradle his cheek. He begins crying anew as the feeling makes him miss his mother that much more. The aching hole in his chest radiates until it feels like it’s going to consume him.
Echo rises up and places herself gently in his lap, putting her weight on his good leg. She cradles his head against her chest and runs her fingers through his hair. She hums quietly to soothe him.
After a little while, his tears abate, but they remain in the same position.
“I saw her, you know,” Echo eventually says. “When I was a titan. I was in this weird place…I can’t describe it. But your mother was there.”
Levi raises his head to look at her in awe.
“You never told me.”
“I was waiting for the right time,” she continues softly. “She said to tell you she’s proud of you.”
Tears well once more at her words.
“You look so much like her,” she whispers, tenderly kissing his forehead.
He closes his eye at the sensation and a tear falls.
“You go ahead and let it out,” she whispers, cradling his head once more. “I’ve got you. Always.”
i was tidepooling today and overheard someone say 'chatgpt it so we can figure out what it is' about some sort of creature. loser behavior. you're not in it for the love of the game. i have to do everything around here. let me see the creature. i'll tell you the real answer about what it is and i won't kill the environment. AND i'm literally nice.
it's funny because 5 minutes before that i was IDing something by using the search string "SEA SLUG GREEN STRIPED SMALL SEATTLE" which took me to a very badly designed, hauntingly non mobile optimized website that immediately gave me way more information about my creature than i needed or thought was possible. get good. bitch
I was doodling a bit this weekend to take a break from the "work" I make for myself.
Kinda dumb, but if you're following A Soldier's Requiem, then you know I made an OC named Diana who is with Levi, but their relationship isn't even a focus of the plot or anything. It's there, but there's no smut, even though it's obvious they be bangin'.
So, I've been thinking about the next fic I already started writing which focuses on Mikasa x Jean that continues off the end of A Soldier's Requiem. And I’m thinking Levi and Diana might make an appearance or two, but again, nothing major. Anyway, my brain started going off on tangents, and I started thinking about what their kid would look like, and I know you don't know exactly what my vision for Diana's design is because I've never drawn her and I probably never will, but this doodle is basically what I imagine their kid looking like. I named her Audrey. She's basically just Levi because I figure, if Levi just looks like a clone of his mom, it must mean the Ackermans have strong genes, looks-wise, on top of the whole super strength thing (even though they lose their strength and coordination when the Titans disappear).
And then I was practicing eyes because even though the way I draw them is okay, they can be better, stylistically.
Levi, Gabi, Onyankopon, and Falco break into the mysterious building to save Mikasa.
Read it from the beginning
Keeping it simple tonight, as I'm behind on things I wanted to get done this past weekend. (This being one of those things.) I am going to TRY my hardest to get a chapter of this done next weekend, but I'm not going to make any promises. I am going to be busy for the next couple weekends, so I will get the next chapter out when I get it out.
There are only three more chapters and an epilogue after this, so we're getting there! It looks pretty grim for both Levi and Mikasa but stick with it, it will pay off.
Now... I'm going to go get something to eat before I start chewing off my own hand.
my tumblr mutuals will take characters from media that is not very good & construct such rich & intricate inner worlds for them in their posts that i will go wow that sounds so compelling let me go check this out….& then the canon character will be like. relatively boring with very little interiority. but that’s okay because sometimes the real character is the one my tumblr mutuals hallucinated along the way….
