okay but levi being a softie for hanji???? he's so intimidating despite of his height (the cadets learned to not make fun of his height. ever again.) and nobody tries to piss him off because they're scared of him but when he's with hanji he's so sweet???? like he braids their hair, makes them tea, holds hanji's hands and it's so sweet yk? i imagine the new cadets accidentally finding levi sitting under a tree and he has his head resting on their shoulder while hanji's reading their research and he's just staring at them, counting hanji's little freckles and he has the softest look on his face 🥺
and the cadets are like ???? because they thought "Captain Levi was mean???" some of them would even go gossip with the 104th kids and they would just look at and start laughing and the cadets would just be confused 😆
Ugh! Sorry this took so long bb! Embarrassingly, it was because I was trying to find and edit this meme and I got distracted doing it!
I’m living for this? On the surface it’s kinda hard to tell when Levi is ACTUALLY being affectionate, because resident emotionally inept bb whom we all love and cherish. So it’s like-
Every time he calls Hanji four eyes/idiot/tells them to shut up/pulls them closer by the collar, everyone just holds their breath because oh god! Levi is going to kill them this time! He’s going to kill them and we don’t even know what Hanji san wants on their headstone? But Hanji always responds with laughter and they’re so at ease and comfortable around Levi and they just put their arm around his shoulder? What’s going on?
So everyone (because everyone gossips during down time, there’s nothing else to do goddamn it!) starts observing them a little closer. Levi sitting with Hanji when they’re reading a book, Hanji always looking for Levi to talk to him about their new discoveries, Levi making tea for Hanji while nagging at them, the two of them just sitting and chilling on a bench under a tree in fall like an old couple. They’re not touching but they’re sitting so close and Levi’s got his arm where Hanji is leaning against the bench. Levi is also looking at them with said /soft look/, which is worlds apart from the scowl he usually sports on his face? (/Reiner’s voice/ You stare too much...) Gross? Another time Levi has his head on their shoulder and Hanji’s looking at him like ☺️ (lil blushy baby)? Extra gross? And when Hanji finally decides to get up from where they’re reading her book in the mess and head to bed, Levi gets up soon after and goes in the same direction? This is the era of relatively carefree buntaicho Hanjo so maybe they rocked up to work in a braid! But after an intense day at work their braid comes loose by the afternoon and they spot Levi in the mess for lunch and they skip over and yell out an unabashed “Levi! It came loose!” They point to their head and beam. Levi mutters something under his breath that vaguely sounds like “the screws up there have always been loose...” but he’s redoing their braid with so much care that the kids just gawk. And Hanji is so casual about it. Adorable.
But when the new cadets come in of course they wouldn’t notice! They see harsh Levi, Levi who is cold to everyone, Hanji who NEVER stops talking, and Levi just tolerating it. Wait! Levi? Tolerating? What’s up with that?
And by this time, the 104 are veterans when it comes to observing Levi/Hanji. So I imagine Jean to be a complete smartass about it- “oh? You didn’t know? Silly young things! Isn’t it obvious? They’re lovers. /eyebrow wriggles/“
And the new kids would be so confused and just wtf? We need more information?
And the 104 kids will milk this power. Connie puts a hand on the shoulder of one of the new kids and says, “one day you’ll get it... Maybe when you’re a little older...”