Okay so I’m working on I new piano piece (much to my teacher’s dismay because I’ve finished a total of 1 (one) piece in the two years I’ve been her student) and it’s Shinzou Wo Sasageyo (but dark and depressive) and it’s making me think about Levi head canons I have so
Levi Ackerman Headcanons (That No One Asked For)
Levi can play the piano. The brothel where his mother worked had one and he started trying to play when a woman started to teach him. Eventually, when Kenny took him in, a woman down the road offered to continue teaching him. He originally earned money by playing in bars and he became a regular at one. Thieves burned it down and no other bar had an opening. So, he turned to crime.
Speaking of crime: We know he was a thug. He stole things and didn’t hurt people when he could. BUT - he has NEVER killed someone. People have approached him with contracts of the sort and although they paid nicely, he refused to take them. Erwin’s contract was the first and even then he would kill him as a very last resort.
If he laughs hard enough, he snorts. And it’s adorable. Not the deep snorts. They’re higher pitched and happen when he breathes in. He didn’t even know that happened until Hanji made a really bad joke and he couldn’t stop himself from laughing.
TW: Sexual Assault/Harassment - Levi absolutely refuses to let anyone feel unsafe in their barracks. With every new wave of cadets, he tells them: “If something happens or you unsafe, come to me. I’ll deal with it. No one deserves to feel unsafe here.” It’s only happened once and it was to a man - who thought Levi wouldn’t believe him but he rolled up his sleeves and was out the door the second he said the guy’s name.
Levi sometimes bumps into cadets who can’t sleep when he’s still up. If they’re distressed, he gestures for them to follow and he makes them some tea and sits with them. If they want to talk, he’s willing to listen.
Eren and Levi actually have a good relationship. After the 57th, they bonded and talked a lot when they had time. Especially when Eren found Levi in a hallway, sitting on the floor, waiting for his ankle to stop hurting enough to walk. He sat down next to his captain and they talked. Eren helped him back to his room.
Levi is easily flustered, surprisingly enough. You just have to know the right way to do it. Call him beautiful/pretty and he’s blushing like a fool.
He reads and keeps every letter other cadets and citizens send him. He responds to each of them individually. He sits down twice a month and writes a batch in return. There’s a few he regularly corresponds with. Eren still has his returned letter from Levi.
Yan - the friend from the underground who Lobov brought above ground to treat his legs - lives in Wall Rose now and has a wife and kids. One is named after Levi. Levi visits occasionally when he can and checks in.
Levi. Cares. For. His. People. Erwin realized that their budget was badly managed and he gave Levi the opportunity to look at it. He managed everything perfectly and has been the budget manager for years. He listens to what people need. Someone needs a specific medicine because of a condition? He shifts things around to get that for them. Everyone has an iron deficiency from lack of meat? Shifts things to get food that can help.
If there’s no enough money in the budget to shift and reorganize, then he uses part of his own salary to substitute. At one point, he was only collecting $100 (roughly) of his $900 monthly salary. No one knows about it except Erwin.
Levi is bisexual. Fight me.
He’s also a switch. He’s submissive with men and dominant with women. Usually. Sometimes things shift depending on the partner.
He has his mother’s ring and is saving it for the right person. He hopes to marry eventually, but no promises.
I have a lot more but these are just a few :P most of my others relate to my OC - Kailani Wilde.