I saw you reblog some post about sending you a fic title and you have to make up the story. "The Chicken Nugget Surprise"
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Why.
…SIGH FINE. I WILL WRITE IT. Here have some domestic fluffy nonsense. I AM TIRED AND THIS IS ALL YOU'RE GETTING.
“Levi,” Eren started.
“No.”
“You’re not even looking.”
“I don’t even have to look, I know what you’re doing.”
“What am I—“ Eren couldn’t make it through the sentence before breaking out into laughter. “What am I doing?”
“You took the chicken nugget box and you cut a hole in it. I get it. It’s unsanitary.”
“Just open the box, Levi,” Eren said, nudging it towards Levi.
Levi adjusted his glasses and kept his eyes focused on his laptop.
“Leviii,” Eren cajoled.
“Eren, I don’t want to see your dick in a box.”
Eren had both hands on the box of chicken nuggets and jerked his hips forward, tapping Levi’s shoulder. Levi sighed and looked down at it.
“If I open the box, can I go back to work?” Levi asked, hooking his head to look up at Eren.
“Baby—“
“Gross—“
“You can do whatever you want.”
“Fine. Wow, look it’s a dick in a box—“ Levi said before he had it fully open and then paused.
Inside were the words, “Will you marry me?” written in sharpie on the lid and a ring box.
Levi hesitantly pulled out the ring box. He tapped one impatient finger on it before setting it down.
“No. Do over.”
“What?” Eren asked.
“You don’t get to propose to me like this? Do it again!”
“You didn’t even open the box!”
Levi opened the box and pulled out the ring that was clearly from a gumball machine and threw it at him.
“Levi—“
“I have so much work to do, oh my god, what?”
“Is it not your size?”
“You’re such an asshat.”
Eren was still tittering as he picked up the fake ring from the ground.
“Next time it’ll be a real one!” he shouted from the bathroom before unzipping his fly.
“I’ll believe it when I see it!” Levi shouted back, crooking one finger under the chin of their lazy ragdoll cat.
***
“No,” Levi said a week later when Eren tied yet another fake ring onto his teabag. “How could you even think this is appropriate? No. Try again.”
“You didn’t even let me say it!” Eren protested. “Levi, will you—“
“Stop. I don’t want to hear it.”
“Will you keep letting me teabag you for the rest of our li—“
Levi threw his pillow at him.
Eren pulled it off and rolled over next to him. “You know why I keep doing this, don’t you?”
“I have an idea,” Levi said out of the corner of his mouth.
“Do you now?” Eren teased, kissing him behind the ear.
“To torture me,” Levi guessed.
“It’s because you said you don’t like surprises. And you don’t like surprise proposals. So when I do propose, for real, you will know. And it won’t be a surprise. It won’t be a shock. It’ll be soft and sweet. Like coming home. Like a comfy pair of shoes.”
“When you propose it’ll be athletes’ foot, got it,” Levi said, but his ears were burning.
“I love you. I want to be with you. And I want you to get used to the idea of ‘Levi Ackerman will you marry me?’ Because I do and I want to marry you, but only when you’re ready.”
“My tea is getting cold,” Levi said, shoving his face away.
***
“Leviiii,” Eren whispered hot against his neck.
“Jesus fucking Christ what time is it?” Levi asked, rolling over and checking his phone.
“It’s now officially my birthday,” Eren said in what he must have thought was a seductive voice.
“It is three in the fucking morning.”
“Remember how last year for my birthday you were broke?”
“I’m still broke. Why do you think I’m putting in all this overtime?”
“And you gave me that coupon for a free blowie?”
Levi groaned.
“Redeemable at any time Levi!”
Levi rubbed his eyes.
“It’s my birthday,” Eren tried, biting his lip in the dim light.
“Fine. Fine. I’m up already so, fine.”
His lips met Eren’s and their legs tangled. They slipped into that rhythm that frequent lovers do. Levi’s arms wrapped around Eren’s waist and then he dipped his fingers down into Eren’s pajamas, tangling in the dark hairs there. When he reached for Eren’s cock, however, he found…
“No!” Levi said, getting out of bed and walking towards the bathroom.
“Levi! You didn’t—“ Eren broke out into laughter again as he chased after him. “You didn’t even see it!”
“Fuck off!” Levi said, shutting the bathroom door to piss.
“What if it’s a real one this time, Levi?” Eren asked, pressing his cheek against the bathroom door.
“Then you would owe me a new proposal!”
“It’s a—“
“Don’t you dare—“
“It’s a cock ring—“
“Stop it.”
“Levi—“
Levi ripped open the door. “C’mon take off your pants.”
Eren paused.
“Birthday blowie, let’s go. Get naked. I need to be at work in…wow. Four hours.”
When Eren stood there, still with a gumball ring tied around his cock, Levi grew impatient and pulled his pants down. Soon all of Eren’s laughter subsided and soft groans took its place.
“Where do you keep finding all of these stupid rings anyway?” Levi asked, tossing it in the trash.
“A master never reveals his…” Eren trailed off.
Levi waited for the punchline…but Eren was asleep.
***
“Oh my,” Eren said, rushing ahead of Levi. “A fancy dinner at my favorite place? How interesting.”
“Okay, settle down.”
“And on the rooftop usually reserved for special occasions—how intriguing.”
“This is why you’re the worst to shop for. You always know what I’m getting you ahead of time. I have no hiding places left in the apartment because you keep finding your presents and ripping them open. Hi, Ackerman, party of two—“
“Is it? Is it a party…of two?” Eren asked the hostess, who looked at Levi for help.
“Don’t snoop around on my Facebook if you don’t want to be spoiled!”
“You’re never on Facebook, then suddenly a month ago, you “Liked” a picture of Sasha’s breakfast. Highly suspicious. So you were either cheating on me with the sexy personal trainer next door—“
“Yes, I was cheating on you,” Levi deadpanned.
“Or, you were organizing me a—“
“SURPRISE!” everyone called out.
Eren’s smug face made Levi roll his eyes.
“A birthday party? For me?” Eren said, putting his hands to his face in pretend shock.
“Oh,” said Mikasa in disappointment.
“He knows, you guys,” Armin called to the group. “He figured it out.”
“I tried,” Levi said with a shrug.
“You can’t surprise me, I’m the master of surprises!” Eren said, waving his hands in front of his face.
“You’re right,” Levi agreed.
“Wait, you invited my parents?” Eren said as Carla ran towards him to plant a kiss on his cheek. “And my stepbrother?”
“I just went through your friends on Facebook,” Levi admitted.
“My big boy is twenty-eight!” Carla cooed, kissing his cheek. “I’m so proud of you sweetie!”
“Uhhh, hi mom,” Eren said.
Then he realized Levi’s mother was there too. And Erwin. And Hanji. And Isabel and Farlan.
“Wait,” Eren said, about a second too late.
He saw his mother had tears of joy in her eyes and turned around.
Levi got down on one knee and held out a ring.
“…Is it real?” Eren asked after several long seconds of him opening and closing his mouth like a fish on land.
“Honey, what kind of a question is that?” his mother chastised him.
Eren tapped the box like he was expecting it to bite him. Levi opened it and he flinched.
“Oh my god, it is real,” Eren said, absolutely dumbfounded.
There was a beat as he simply stared at the box in shock.
“What did he say?” Hanji broke the silence loudly from the back.
“Yes. Yeah, yes, yes of course yes,” Eren answered, tears already welling up in his eyes.
Levi slipped it on his finger and they kissed to the cheer of the small crowd.
“That’s how you do a surprise proposal!” Levi said spiking the empty box on the ground. “Beat that! HA!”
“Oh you asshole—“
“Don’t be mad because I won, be mad because I beat you so good, oh I beat your ass Jaeger.”
“Okay, alright—“
“You thought it would be cute to mess around with Chicken McDickNuggets—“
“Should I just throw this away then?” Eren asked, pulling out his own box.
Levi paused his showboating and he eyed the box. He took it and opened it quickly, then threw the chicken nugget that was inside at Eren’s head.
“He has faked me out so many times,” Levi explained to Isabel as she raced forward to congratulate them on their engagement. “I’m done.”
“He loves me,” Eren said, wrapping his arms around Levi’s waist.
“Apparently. I did ask you to marry me after all.”
“Mm,” Eren said.
And as Levi turned to his mother to thank her for making the drive, he felt Eren slip something cool and heavy onto his finger. He didn’t have to look down to know what it was. He ran his finger over the smooth design and smiled to himself.
“I knew you had it,” Levi said in a soft voice.
“Of course I did,” Eren said, lacing his fingers in Levi’s own. “Surprise.”
For my beautiful @omglevixeren. Aer, I hope you know how precious you are to me. Words aren’t really enough, but thank you so much for all your faith, kindness, and support this last year. And also just your simple friendship, and for being my favourite person to talk to. Love you sweetie <333
These fan arts are for one of my favourite fics of yours, The Monster at the End of the Story. Please everyone go read, I love this fic! Art by the talented @nanamiart, thank you for doing such a great job! xxx
Congrats, lovely!!! You worked so hard, and I am so happy for you and impressed by how much love you have put into this. WELL DONE!!! *THROWS THE CONFETTI ALL OVER AGAIN*
*keeps shoving the confetti back into your direction too
Thank you so much Ariel, you are so kind to me! It makes me happy to read it shows how much love I have put into this story, and am so proud of what it has become. Thank you so much for reading and for being such a lovely cheerleader. <3
Firstly, I am so grateful we have you in this fandom. Thank you for creating so many beautiful works of art for us to enjoy. I would venture a guess that you have far more ideas than time to work on each and every one, so my question is how do you decide what to work on next? What inspires you the most?
Thank you so much for all the nice things you’ve said about my art, now and in the past!!! *hugs* <3 Your guess is absolutely correct, my ideas for my reincarnation AU alone would probably take me years of fulltime drawing. How do I decide… I never really thought about it, I guess I just draw whatever I’m in the mood for at the time. I have the comic at the back of my mind pretty much every day but I can’t always muster the motivation for it because after opening and closing the current wip pages about a dozen times they become more of a chore than a fun activity, lol.
I get most inspiration from other artists, fanfiction, music or new manga chapters. If I’m deliberately seeking inspiration I will often rewatch snk, browse (ereri) playlists on 8tracks or fashion photography on pinterest because sticking snk characters in nice clothes is something I’m always up to :’)
Ahhhh happy birthday, lovely!!!! Thanks for blessing us with fabulous writes and funny stories and kindness
thanks angelaer! thank you for working so hard for the fandom and for being a good friendo. also plz send me all the bunbun photos. they look so sof i want pet.
ooh boy. idk if i’ve told this one before... okay SO! one time i was at the fancy cat boutique store and saw a cute little jaybird that when you tapped it, chirped. seemed harmless enough!
Merlin LOVED that fucker. he swatted at it for HOURS listening to it go cheep cheep! so cute! then, at night fall, when all the house was sleeping, he would walk around with it in his mouth SCREAMING. now merlin always screams, this is no surprise, but we’re talking midnight until 4am just BRRRAOOOWWW!!! KRRRROAWWW!!! then all of a sudden we heard CHEEPCHEEPCHEEPCHEEP!!! then CHEEEEEEEEEEEP then CHorp chooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrp chrrrrrr and nothing.
we were so worried Merlin had hurt himself but as we raced out of bed we found him marching into the bedroom, tail held high.
he’d drowned it. he’d drowned his favorite bird toy for safe keeping and it short circuited. he silenced it’s beautiful voice even though that was the part he loved most about it.
you might have thought we learned our lesson. we did not, we set the toy aside in a little cup to dry out. one day, many weeks later, i picked it up to throw away but...it worked!!! it chirped! so i foolishly gave it back to him.
he was overjoyed. he chased the bird around everywhere, carried it proudly in his mouth, swatted freyja if she got too curious. adorable. until 4am. when he started his yowling again.
husbando: goddamnit cat. what is he doing?
me: i think it’s his death song for the bird.
husbando: you don’t think he’s going to try to drown it again, do you?
Pairings that I have really, really shipped I will always remain fond of, but I have a tendency to drop off being interested in a ship if it actually becomes canon or is getting to the point of “it will likely become canon soon” - at that point, I am happy to sit back and watch it develop on screen, and my desire to do shippy fandom stuff evaporates.
For me, most of the fun in shipping is taking two characters that are *not* in a relationship, may never be in a relationship, and finding interesting character connections to make that work.
With that in mind, my answer to this is probably going to be Reylo? Not SNK, I know, but I was really into Reylo for the last couple of years, but as soon as I watched The Last Jedi, my feels went away. I think the film was everything a Reylo shipper could have hoped for and more, I loved it, and I have no doubt we’ll get to watch them develop more in the last film, whatever direction it goes. But now it is a really obvious key dynamic of the sequel trilogy, and I think it’s looking likely it may be romantic in the end, my strong shippy feels have died down. Thanks Aer!
