#I listened to “Distractible” while drawing this

[bumblebeeonthistle]

You're having nightmares. Levi comforts you.

Tags: Levi/Reader, hurt/comfort, fluff, canon-verse.

Warning for panic attack.

“Oi! Hey, wake up. Dammit.”

You lunge at the shadow looming over you, but strong fingers grab your wrists, stopping you from hitting your target.

Gasping for breath, you open your eyes wide and are met with Levi’s face hovering above you, a small crease on his forehead and mouth taut.

You sit up with a start, almost headbutting Levi in the process. You try to take a deep breath, but it feels like your throat is constricting and oh gosh, you can’t breathe--

“Hey, it’s alright.”

Levi takes a seat at the edge of your bed and pulls you towards him, unceremoniously forcing your head against his chest as he strokes your hair.

“It’s alright. It’s alright. It was just a dream. A nightmare. You’re safe. You’re safe.”

“It was-- there was-- oh my god--” you gasp, continuing to hyperventilate despite the safety of Levi’s arms wrapped around you.

“Okay okay, listen to me. Listen to me. Five things you can see.”

You dry-heave, feeling sick.

“Five things you can see!” Levi repeats, fingers digging into your back.

“Floorboards,” you gasp, eyes darting frantically around the room, trying to look past the black spots beginning to form at the edge of your vision. “Curtains. ODM gear. Bedpost. You.”

“Good, good. Four things you can touch.”

“Sheets. Covers. Pillow. You.”

“Three things you can hear.”

“Eren sleep talking. Jean snoring. You.”

You can feel your breathing ease up and your heartrate slow down.

“Good. Two things you can smell.”

“Rain. You.”

“Okay, last thing, one thing you can taste.”

You lick your cracked lips. Levi’s gaze flickers towards your mouth for a split second before again raising his eyes to meet yours.

“Blood.”

“Good, good,” he mumbles, proceeding to stroke your hair.

You’re both silent for a while, waiting for your breathing to finally become normal again. You let out a hoarse chuckle. “You’re really just a softie, aren’t you?”

He doesn’t answer, and you bury your face in his chest, inhaling his scent.

The hand stroking your hair stills.

“Joking, I was joking,” you reassure him. “You’re a cold-hearted Scout. Very stoic. And menacing.”

He resumes stroking your hair. You can almost hear his lips stretch into that small, crooked smile that never fails to make your breath hitch in your throat.

“What time is it?” you ask, savouring the feeling of his fingers running through your hair.

“Middle of the night. I’ve been listening to you tossing and turning like crazy until you finally woke up, screaming like a banshee.”

“Hey, that’s not nice,” you scold, fist weakly hitting his chest.

He ignores it. “How long has this been going on?” he asks, grey eyes boring into yours from above.

You know what he means. Gulping, you avert your gaze. “Since…since the rescue mission.”

“I see.” Levi pauses, as if contemplating whether to continue. But then, he speaks again, voice quiet. “If you wanna talk about it, I can listen.”

“It’s stupid,” you mumble, again hiding your face against his chest.

“Nothing about you is stupid,” he says, without missing a beat.

You sneak a glance at him, raising an eyebrow. Softie, you mouth, making Levi click his tongue and roll his eyes. Then, he turns serious again. “I mean it.”

You sigh, your breath forming a damp spot on his shirt. Levi doesn’t comment on it. “It’s just…I keep thinking. And dreaming. About…about Reiner.”

Clenching his jaw, Levi nods slowly. “I guess it’s only natural. You were…friends, after all.” He says the word friends as if it burns his throat on the way out.

“I just keep wondering,” you continue, drawing patterns on his chest with a finger to distract yourself, “if he ever really cared about me. I know it’s selfish and totally unimportant compared to all the other things to worry about, but still…” You trail off.

Levi is silent for so long that you think he doesn’t have anything to say to that – and besides, it isn’t like you thought he would console you. What he has already done is more than you’d expected, to be honest.

But then…

“He did.”

“Huh?”

“He did care for you,” Levi clarifies, albeit reluctantly.

“You can’t know that,” you point out, lips pursing.

“Trust me, I would.”

You frown, but don’t object.

Levi’s next words catch you by surprise. “You know I also have trouble sleeping. I never told you why, though.”

You stay silent, letting him talk. He so rarely tells you about himself that you’re afraid to interrupt him.

“I also have nightmares,” he admits. “Always have. It just got worse after joining the Scouts…I wasn’t alone, that time. Two others joined with me, also from the Underground. They…they were called Isabel and Furlan.”

Were.

The use of past tense makes your heart clench and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what happened to them.

“How were they?” you ask after some time, voice soft. You don’t want to ask how they died – if Levi wants to tell you, he will. Still, you’d like to know what kind of people had been so lucky as to call Levi their friend.

Levi’s eyes glaze over as he dwells on memories of the past. Then, he raises his head, gaze seeking the moon visible through your window. “Isabel was always so…optimistic. Always looking on the bright side of things. Always pointing out the good in a pile of shit, always seeing the good in others. She used to annoy the hell out of me, calling me ‘big bro’ and always being so damn clingy. And I wouldn’t have wanted it any differently.” He gulps before continuing. “Furlan was calm. And funny. An easy-going guy – easy to like, easy to talk to, easy to be with.”

His eyes sharpen as he returns his gaze to you. “Long story short, they were everything I’m not.”

You reach up a hand to cup his jaw. “That doesn’t mean they were any better than you,” you tell him quietly.

He looks away again. “We were recruited by some noble scum called Lohof to kill Erwin in exchange for permits to live aboveground and a clean slate for all the criminal activity we’d engaged in in the Underground. And during our first expedition outside the Walls…” Levi trails off, jaw clenching. “I left for one fucking moment. And when I came back, all there was left of them were scattered body parts. I remember there being a thunderstorm.” He glances down at you again. “That’s why I always have the hardest time sleeping whenever it’s storming.”

You feel your heart break just a little more for him.

You never knew.

You never knew, but now, you do. And it makes you want to tear down the world for having hurt Levi so badly that he still has trouble sleeping.

You want to tell him that you’re sorry, even though you know none of it is your fault. To tell him that everything will be alright, even though you knew it’s a lie.

But you say none of those things.

Instead, you just wrap your arms around him and hold onto him, like he’d held you during your panic attack. Levi doesn’t protest, and you just sit like that for a bit.

After some time, you untangle yourself from him again. It’s not like it’s the first time the two of you are this close, but for some reason, you’ve suddenly become very much aware of how intimate you’re being.

“Well, I’d better get back to sleep,” you say as you lean back against the bedpost.

“You sure?” Levi eyes you critically. “Maybe, you shouldn’t be alone tonight.”

“Oh, and who do you suggest will keep me company? Jean?” you tease.

“Not funny.”

“You just have an abysmal taste in humour,” you shrug, sending him a lopsided grin.

Without warning, Levi pounces on you. In one swoop, he lifts you off the bed, stifling your scream with a finger to your lips before he begins carrying you out of your room.

“What are you doing?!” you hiss as he princess carries you through the dark hallway of the cabin. You keep glancing around, terrified that one of your friends will suddenly come bursting out of their room, catching the two of you red-handed in...whatever it is that you’re doing right now.

But Levi just ignores you, using his elbow to open the door to his room before carrying you inside and closing the door behind you.

His room is significantly larger than yours and serves as both his office and bedroom in the cabin. It even has a private bathroom connected. He beelines for the bed and only lets go of you once he has carefully placed you on his pristine sheets, corners tugged so tightly that the sight of the fabric creasing around your form is almost criminal.

Fully clothed, he joins you on the bed, pulling the covers around you both before he rolls onto his back at a respectful distance, his hands folded over his chest.

You turn to lie on your side, propped up on your elbow, hand supporting your head. “So, you meant it when you said there’d be a next time.”

“I always mean what I say,” he scoffs, turning his head to look at you.

Moonlight spills in through the window behind him, bathing his face in a silver glow. He looks so handsome and beautiful that it sends a jolt through your chest.

“Are you alright?” he asks, again with that tone of worry that makes your heart melt into a little puddle.

“Yeah,” you breathe, making that single word sound so lewd and needy that it makes your face burn with embarrassment.

Levi’s pupils dilate, fingers curling into fists.

Subconsciously, you lean closer, your breath fanning across his face.

And then, as if a thread snaps inside Levi, he moves, closing the final distance between you.

Excerpt from the newest chapter posted of call my name on ao3!

[toastdragon01]

yeah maybe don’t listen to the Perry the Platypus theme on repeat while trying to make reference sheets. I got a little distracted

and I also wasted like 20 minutes making a taco parody of the song but I don’t have the guts to post it lmao

At least I was able to draw taco and pickle successfully for once

[amidoobles]

Reunited

First page of my new sketchbook! I like to make the first and last page a series or game that I am currently into, so I chose Link and Zelda to start off this one. I am quite happy with the colors :D.

[orgyofthedamned]

replaced the battery on the ipod i’ve had since high school (20 years!!) and now im ready to listen to music distraction-free again

[likesdoodling]

I have finished The Angst Version™~ (of chapter 50 of The Harrowing by @chthonion >:D) The bonus chapter added some stuff/re-inspired me, which is all to the good imo~ gotta get that Maximum Angst Factor AMMIRIGHT?? >:D (also. Mostly paraphrasing stuff just so you're aware~)

Then we got some of the conversation~ (without dialogue, 'cause a picture tells a thousand words~ >:D)

Then a sketch that was completely inspired by the bonus chapter-

It's not as 'polished' as the other ones, I just had thoughts about that tidbit and decided I absolutely had to mention it- so it got a drawing to match. :D

And finally, because I don't want to end this on too depressing a note-

:')

I'm not crying, you are.

My personal favourites include Extra Angry Maedhros + hands over the face Annatar, - then- actually. y'know what? I can't pick favourites. I like them all too much to do that. But that was the 'segment' that I experimented on - to try and convey the emotions through how chaotic/forceful the lines were, and it worked exactly how I wanted it to. Which is very satisfying.

>:D

(also, I don't think Maedhros was quite that visibly angry in the actual chapter, but it's supposed to be a mix of that plus Annatar's perception of him/what made Annatar panic. Make of that what you will. Eheh. Eheh. Eheh. >:D)

[mx-ishikawa]

YuMay day 3: picnic

probably the ONLY time Light isn't clinging to Gothi like a attention-seeking puppy is when there's food in front of them LMAO, leaving Gothi to enjoy a nice juice box with silly straw (to easily slip under her mask) in peace

[freckledfenrir]

did a few rough sketches today (the anatomy is really off ignore that)

[gothic-mothic-topic]

I had an idea.

A wonderful, horrible idea.

I like to think I'm funny.

[kastillia]

Gott ist tot.

[petorahs]

what is it about avenday that makes me snap and go crazy with my art i wonder

[amidoobles]

Happy Mar10 Day! To celebrate, I drew my favorite character, Rosalina. It feels like it's been a while since I did a digital piece.

I don't know why, but I struggle with drawing skies during anytime of day, I probably should do some more studies on them. Also, almost messed up her arms by forgeting their thickness due to the over the shoulders part.

Anyhoo, I'm trying to get better at drawing hair, so I made sure to take care in making it look hair-like and adding some detail. Not sure if you can tell now from the shading layer on top of it, though. Does anyone read this much on an art post? If you did, thank you! If you didn't, thank you for at least looking at my art. :)

[shapechanging-apparition]

i started listening to tma to get my mind off of life agonies and it was going well until ep 101 then i had to make a blog to sob here he trusted her what the fuck

[day-mark]

need to finally finish tma :p

[spotaus]

*It seems you managed to stumble across a unique trio...

Decided to do a silly lil doodle of my favorite Dopple-trio! :D on the surface I feel like this'd be a daily occurrence. Kale is the most normal of the 3 of them, but I wanted to draw her and Paps having a cute lil conversation. (More ideas below the cut!!!)

Pretender regularly interacts with humans (his disguise slowly recovers, and he continues to mostly abstain from his old habits) and usually appears as "human" as long as he's out. Sometimes in public I feel like ppl would be willing to talk to him, and he's always quick to make it clear that to get to his family people would have to get past him. (Also I think in their neighborhood/town everyone gets increasingly confused because he regularly goes, "Yeah, that's my Kid" some days abd other days he's like, "That's my little sibling" and it's just that he's her guardian and the terms are kinda interchangeable because it's easier to use them than explain the whole situation lol)

Pretender also has no sense of fashion. He's always so close to a neat outfit then takes the wrong turn before he exits his closet lol.

Paps stays in skeleton form (at least for the first few years) even tho it's dangerous, because his human disguise is awful and makes K uncomfortable. Instead he trains genuinely with Undyne and Tender to properly figure out a human shape over about 4 years. Eventually he does have a human disguise, but he's contented in his monster form too.

K I can't say a lot for (beloved @oodlesndoodles is who designed/owns her!) But I'm pretty certain that she'd probably still wear her one monster-style outfit sometimes if only to show her solidarity with her family, or just to mess with people on the streets 🙏

Also:

I love the idea that someone talking to them would take in this info and be like ???????

Last Notes: Human!Pretender is one of my favorite blorbos ever to doodle! His hair texture is probably the most satisfying thing ever! Paps keeps miraculously looking good for this AU??? I've never been able to draw Papyrus before??? Idk what changed, but I love him! And KALE! K my beloved I have struggled so hard to doodle her well and usually fail but I think I did it!!! I love her sm...

[artsy-cryptixx]

im on passage of rime (ep 24) of icebound and its 4 hours long guys im not used to this

[teardropwolf]

I love how he just looks like this whenever I'm planning ideas