As the Commander of the Survey Corps, I bid you welcome. Conduct yourselves accordingly, and if you have any questions or concerns you would like to discuss, then by all means. Ask me. I will answer to the utmost of my ability.
Erwin was sitting at the kitchen table with his grandmother when his phone blew up with notifications. He eyed the device from afar as he listened to the irritating, constant beeping and buzzing. It was a relief his grandmother’s ears didn’t work as they used to, or she’d surely yell at him the way she did when he was six years old and stared at the TV instead of his food.
“Aren’t you going to get that?” The woman’s eyebrows rose at him from across the table. Seemed like he’d been wrong. Erwin couldn’t decide if she meant the question, or was challenging him.
He decided for the second, and continued to eat his food in silence. It didn’t matter how old he was, he would never fail to be a child in that woman’s eyes.
The beeping continued, and grandma let out a sigh in frustration as she rose on her feet.
“If you are not getting the damn thing, then I am, and I’ll throw it in the toilet.” She grunted, and not another second passed before Erwin rushed to grab his phone.
“What’s so important that it can’t wait until after dinner?” The woman scoffed from her seat, shaking her head as she continued to eat, waiting for Erwin to return. But Erwin didn’t move from his place.
Multiple notifications continued to blow up the screen of his phone from all his social media accounts. Nothing too new; he would normally just ignore them. But it was when he saw a missed call from Nile that Erwin began to worry.
The phone vibrated again in his hand; Nile’s name flashing on the screen. Erwin picked up right away.
“Check your Instagram... now-“
Before Nile could say anything else, Erwin hung up to open the app.
Three thousand…
There were over three thousand likes and hundreds of comments on the footage posted just a moment ago, and still counting. A rush of blood crawled up to his cheeks as he saw himself in the video, only a few inches apart from Levi as they joked around.
“I thought it was an action show you were filmning,” de felt his grandmother’s voice behind him as she took the phone away from him. “Isn’t this the nice boy from the other day?”
“Yes,” he snatched the phone away from her. “But it’s not what you think.”
“You mean what three thousand people think.”
Erwin’s eyes now followed the comments as he scrolled down the endless wall of texts. Some of them were compliments, others, hate comments. Most of them, however, were just questions and speculation.
“OMG! What is this?! Who’s that hottie flirting with Erwin?”
“They gay?”
“Erwin was married, how can he be gay? you people always trying to make everything gay.”
“Bisexual people exist”
“ERURI CANON”
“Erwin and Levi canon!”
“Wtf man, you changed Marie for this scrawny twink?”
“Noooo Marie and Erwin were perfect together! What is this?! My heart is broken 😭”
Erwin’s jaw dropped, his screen flashing again with Nile’s name. His finger hit “decline call”, over and over again. It was too much to process.
Did these people know that he would be reading the comments? Did they just not care? Erwin’s brows furrowed, unable to wrap his head around the fact that people felt so entitled over his private life. Who had leaked the video in the first place?
He scrolled up again to find the user name.
Of course. Of course it had been Zeke.
Even with his hands shaking and heart racing, Erwin couldn’t look away, couldn’t stop reading the comments and watching the numbers blow up. Most of the comments were positive, anyway; some of them even stole a smile from him. All until he read the last comment.
Nice...
That was it. That was the comment. But it was enough to make Erwin’s heart jump in his chest; He’d recognise that profile picture anywhere, it still caused a spike of adrenaline to skitter down his spine.
Marie.
He shut his eyes against a sudden wave of panic. Marie’s username beside it lingering in his mind as he closed the screen to put his phone away in his pocket. ‘Nice’? What was that even supposed to mean?
“Well, you’re gonna eat or what?” His grandma demanded. “Food’s gone cold now.”
As Erwin sat at the table again, his grandma took the plate away to heat it up in the microwave. While he waited, Erwin’s phone vibrated again in his pocket. He tried to resist the urge to look at it, but gave in to curiosity.
Levi Ackerman has sent you a “follow” request.
Shit.
His heart skipped a beat. His finger hit “accept” and “Follow back” before he could even think; the inbox opened the next second.
“What’s going on?” Erwin began to type, but as soon as he saw Levi typing as well, he deleted his text. A second later, the three dots on his screen had disappeared, no text coming from Levi either. He stared at the blank space in the chat for a long while.
A plate with warmed up lasagna was suddenly shoved in front of him, and Erwin put his phone down to take his fork with a soft “thanks”, only to pick up his phone a minute later when it buzzed with Levi’s message.
“Hey. Did you see the leak?”
Erwin replied instantly. “Yes, what the hell?”
“I have like 3000 new followers, wtf”
“I know. Did you see the comments?”
…typing...
That god damn, never ending typing. Just how much was Levi typing to take that long? Of course he had seen the comments, what a stupid question. Erwin took a bite of his lasagna to keep his anxiety away, until his phone buzzed again.
“Yes”.
That was all Levi had typed. Erwin now wasn’t sure what to reply.
Levi was typing again.
“I’m ‘trending’ on Twitter now, whatever that means…” Levi continued.
Erwin chuckled at his cluelessness. Even he knew what that meant. “Yeah, get used to it.”
“Lol. Anyway, fun stuff. See you tomorrow at the studio.”
“See you tomorrow.”
With a shy smile on his face, Erwin muted his phone and put it away in his pocket. At least he wasn’t alone in this mess. His stomach growled, now begging for food, and Erwin took his fork again, only to find his plate was gone.
“Where did my plate go?” He searched around the table with a puzzled look.
After a while, he heard the smacking of wet chewing behind his ear; Juanito the llama licking the traces of tomato sauce on the plate, grandma holding it for him.
“Did you just feed my lasagna to the llama?” Erwin’s eyebrows raised in awe.
“You looked busy, so I assumed you were done eating,” she said casually, as if it were the most obvious thing to do. With the same calmness, she took both their plates to wash them in the sink.
Erwin sighed, too mentally tired to argue. He had enough to deal with now with thousands of strangers meddling in his private life. Tomorrow would be an interesting day.
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Extract from @xiankar and my Eruri Actor's AU, which can be found here
Both songs are GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Levi’s monologue drama is 70% talking about human kinds, freedom, choice, his ackerman power and all kinds of blah blah blah
Remaining 30% is all about Erwin (he only talks about Erwin in the whole CD). About how he trusts Erwin from his heart, how he believes him, how he chooses to follow Erwin, how he never regret his choice, “not even a bit”. He also mentioned even Erwin led him to hell, he will never regret
Erwin’ s monologue drama is all about his father and his dream. To be honest the content is quite dark? or you can say sad. But I like it.
Erwin Smith || Shingeki no Kyojin || Season Two
↳ I know this is full of pixels and looks shitty, but I can’t stare at it anymore so here!
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