OG Levi Squad Traveling Together headcanon list (if Attack on Titan wasn’t so fucked up 😭😭😭 I also miss them so...)
Offering up a new headcanon list to the fandom because I’m currently catching up on the manga and it’s getting harder to breathe with each chapter :’)
Also: to those who sent HC requests, I haven’t forgotten them! I’ll get back to them soon! I just need to daydream something happy right now lol thank you so much for sending them!!
Slight Rivetra btw (are u even surprised??)
10/10 THEY’D TRAVEL TOGETHER. Like “road trip level complete with country music” type of travel (no this isn’t modern au)
They “force” Levi to travel with them but let’s be real, he also wants to join deep down
Their travel “assignments”:
Gunther - Budgeting. He seems like the most sensible one
Eld - Map and navigation (and music... much to Levi’s disappointment)
Levi - Packing (but the truth is the team just doesn’t want to accidentally forget cleaning supplies that he might “need”)
Petra - Schedule and itinerary!
Oluo - Nothing bec. he’d fuck up everything Food and groceries. Highly supervised by Gunther.
You think Levi ordered them these assignments? NO IT’S MAMA PETRA. SHE’S TAKING OVER NOW SO SIT YOUR ASS DOWN CAPTAIN
Eld would be the type to bring an instrument during their travels and play while they’re on horseback and just lazily traveling around
Of course, Levi will be the one to tell them all to shut the fuck up
“You’re not our commanding officer anymore, captain.”
Then the four of them would continue with their singing
At one point, they’d probably get involved in a bar fight
Lol, again you think it’s the captain? Maybe Oluo?
NO IT’S DRUNK PETRA. Someone probably grabbed her ass while in a bar and she didn’t learn all that Survey Corps moves for nothing!!!!
Eld, Gunther and Oluo would try holding her back
Levi would just be in the corner sipping on his beer as he watches the scene unfold
But he later on kicks the man in the balls
They’d all leech off from captain’s savings bec. he had the highest salary out of them all
Sugar Baby Levi Squad no no please ignore this point this one’s 100% shitpost
But no really, I think Levi would treat them to a few meals or entrance fees because he’s the one who doesn’t have any family left so what’s his savings for? He’d rather let his team use the money they can save for their respective families
Oluo would probably shop for something that they don’t need and Levi would throw it out since it takes up wayyy too much space in their luggage
Gunther would meet someone during the trip and they’ll have this whirlwind summer romance while they stay in that place for 2 weeks 💖 💖 💖 💖
Speaking of romance, Eld and Gunther are using this opportunity to push the Captain and Petra together
Oluo would be against it and say “it’s not proper” (No one believes him that that’s the real reason btw)
They’d go and have their portraits taken because Petra wanted a team picture but they just won’t sit still and the only one that comes out right in the photo is Levi
Eld writes to his fiance about their adventures
Same with Petra. She’d write to her father about their travels but 80% of it would be Levi’s name.
When they’re lost, Levi and Eld would insist that yes, of course we know where we’re going
Oluo needed some medical treatment once in awhile. There was this one time he sliced his left foot open while he was swimming in the ocean. (At least it’s not his tongue again so he’s improving)
....they tried gambling once with a group of strangers. Levi won it all for their team. More travel fund for Gunther to budget.
CARNIVALSSSSSSSS
They buy ice cream and try to figure out each others’ favorite flavours.
Oluo once won Petra a big-ass teddy bear
Levi tries to tell himself that it doesn’t bother him
He threw the teddy bear away, telling Oluo that it’s taking up space in the luggage (Poor Oluo)
There was a time they tried camping and for someone who was in the Survey Corps, Levi hated every moment of it.
He’d constantly check for bugs and would clean his tent twice before sleeping (his cleaning time is longer than his actual sleeping time)
Eld, Oluo, Gunther and Petra would get tired of him raging around that they just cleared their cart and used it at his sleeping place
One time, Oluo couldn’t sleep and he and Levi chat together. Levi gives him some combat advice and even a few things about taking care of teenage girls (since Levi took care of Isabel) and u can bet Oluo’s really fanboying throughout that night.
Rivetra: Okay so there was this one time when there were only two rooms left in their hotel. One has three beds on it while the other one is a honeymoon suite. Eld and Gunther ganged up and blackmailed Oluo to join them so Petra and Levi would be in the same room together (the honeymoon suite)
Levi tried pointing out that maybe Petra should have the room to herself and the four men can be in the same room together since she’s the only woman in their group... but the three men already checked in and ignored the captain.
Petra would go shopping for dresses and when they all need to pack up again to move to their next destination, Levi allows her to bring ALL of it. Eld, Oluo and Gunther would argue because the captain threw away 70% of what they bought/won/collected but Petra gets to keep it all???
Levi would just say: “So you’re saying clothing isn’t essential?”
Which is a bullshit reason. He’s just soft for Petra as usual.
Gunther IS a genius at budgeting!! They still have some left after they wrapped up the trip.
What they’d usually shop for:
Gunther - books and vitamins for his aging parents
Petra - clothing, some jewellery and a few snacks for her dad and the rest of the Survey Corps (how she packs that, i don’t know)
Eld - Dresses and jewellery for his girlfriend
Oluo - Toys for his little sisters and brothers
Levi - the rarest tea in that place. Probably books for the nerds back home Erwin and Hange
erd and petra talking about sex with absolutely zero context
“What would you do if you got pregnant?” he asks in a low voice.
Petra glances up sharply. “What do you think of me, Erd? Is that what you think of me?”
“I think you’re in love,” Erd says without looking up. “No matter how much you try to deny it. I don’t mean to talk about you in any kind of way, but if you love him, then I don’t see why not-”
“I’m not pregnant,” she says.
“I didn’t say you are.”
“And I’m not stupid.” Her face burns, and she turns away, suddenly embarrassed by the topic at hand. She’s a grown woman and she can’t talk about sex with a comrade without blushing? “I wouldn’t let that happen.”
Erd is silent for a moment. Petra can’t see him- she’s watching the grass blow in the breeze- but she gets the feeling that he’s watching her. Finally, he says:
“I just want to make sure you’re safe.”
“I can take care of myself,” Petra exclaims, glancing back around at him. His steady gaze meets hers over the rim of his mug as he takes a drink. “I don’t need you to give me the safe sex talk.”
“I’m just trying to be a friend,” he says through the foam of his beer. After he swallows, he pauses for a moment, wiping his mouth, then asks, “You think anyone else in this squad is going to look out for you like that?”
Her objection stands: she can take care of herself. But Petra knows he’s just being a good person, because he is, so she sighs and picks a blade of grass out of the ground to tear apart in her hands mindlessly. They sit in silence for a moment, the breeze blowing softly through the air. She reaches for her beer, but there’s an ant crawling on the rim of the mug, so she watches it instead of taking a drink. A thought pops into her head, and she snorts.
Erd glances over. “What?” he asks.
“You asked if anyone else in the squad would look out for me like that,” Petra says. “Can you imagine Levi trying to give someone the sex talk?”
Erd barks with laughter, and Petra grins. She’s never seen him laugh like that.
Headcanon: Levi visits Petra’s grave at least once a month to clean or tidy it up.
He’d bring her orange flowers, along with a rag and a solution you use to clean the gravestone (I’m not entirely sure how these things go) or maybe trim the overgrown grass around it.
When he’s satisfied of how clean it is, he’d just sit down in front and not say anything.
Petra’s father once came over to visit Petra and was surprised when he found Captain Levi cleaning his daughter’s gravestone. He knows that the captain wasn’t much a talker from Petra’s letters so he just watches him. Sometimes he’d help and they both clean Petra’s grave in silence.
And since her grave is next to Eld, Oluo and Gunther’s, he also cleans up the guys’ gravestones as well and lights a candle for each one of them.
To the Survey Corps soldiers who knows about this (which is few bec. Levi is a private guy), it just looks like his obsessive clean freakness taking over. He might also be doing it because it’s his former subordinates.
But the truth is that it brings Levi back to the times when he orders his team to clean up their surroundings from the ground up (one of the closest things he’d associate to a “bonding moment” with the OG Spec Ops Squad).
