SORRY FOR ALL THE OOC HERE BUT I’M JUST SO EXCITED ABOUT THE THING WITH AMY OK LIKE IT WAS MY FAVORITE THING FOR A LONG TIME AND THE ONLY THING I REALLY REALLY WANTED TO WRITE FOR anditstillapplieswoops
well generally, i want to write for all my threads and all my au’s but amy strives to make things as interesting as possible, and she’s pitched out multiple ideas i’ve never had the ability to do before without her creativity (i mean one of her opens was eren climbing a mountain for fuck’s sake like who thought of that before because i wouldn’t know) -- but anyway I JUST REALLY LIKE THIS AU
you have eren and he’s only 14 years old, literally just made it into high school. he’s so far from having his life figured out yet and everything and he literally just started one of the final chapters towards the rest of his life, he’s a pubescent piece of poo that’s had things handed to him and he’s lived his life in ignorance. ignorance is bliss, after all. then there’s levi -- 17 years old, been alone for most of his young life. an emancipated minor with ambitions to get into college to study biomechanics while serving in the army. he and eren have been really close for a long time, childhood friends (and their relationship grew when levi was initially hired to be his babysitter c:), but levi’s at a more mature level than eren is and he processes things that occur very differently.
when the unknown disease spreads and causes the number of contaminants to multiply, they (at that point in time) were separated from one another. over time levi was able to adapt fairly quickly, partly in fear of not wanting to die. eren was forced to do the same, however living a life of ignorance cost him capability at the developing stages of the breach. eren was separated from his friends and family and was forced to live on the run to preserve his welfare, as was levi -- but levi didn’t necessarily grieve. he moved on, he convinced himself that he had to.
when they both decide to break into the same house to find supplies, their reunion starts with a punch to the face and a bloody nose to follow suit. a surge of emotions can be responsible, and eren didn’t necessarily see the punch coming in the first place. levi wasn’t even expecting to see eren again. they both stick together because they find familiarity and peace in one another, in a world where all of that has otherwise been destroyed until they can find a cure. the cdc has been abandoned and other disease research centers may also be inoperable. the aces are keeping tabs on these two because of anonymous tips claiming that one of them (or both) may potentially hold the cure for the disease, and the organization is also under the impression that one of them may be a carrier. things start to slowly escalate and levi finds himself under a lot more strain than he would like. ultimately, he is forced to save eren’s life by (in his eyes) taking someone else’s, and he doesn’t fully return from this. i wouldn’t say that he becomes a void of ceaseless emotion necessarily, but he is definitely more cut-off until there are moments where he reaches a breaking point. eren’s the only one there in those instances, and vice versa. there will come times where eren may or may not have to trade someone’s life for his own or for levi’s, and neither of them find it easier the more often it occurs.
oh, but the best part of it all? it never ends — one of them may or may not potentially die at the end (^: so EVEN MORE severity is already added to the existing adversity and. man i just. uptown funk me up, this is the best and worst all in one