#Mr Leonhart

[anonnnimaaa]

I don't know if it's a controversial opinion, but I'm very sure that Annie in the post-canon moved away from her father forever. It was a slow, painful process and she made many false steps because that's how it is to set limits in family relationships, but my girl finally got it.

And I don't mean that she did it just because of Armin's presence, it was much more, being with the ambassadors gave her a family, Pieck, Reiner, Jean and Connie also became very important people for her, people with she felt safe.

Because of that family she found, people who understood her, loved her and supported her in difficult times, she was able to realize many things that were wrong with her relationship with her father. So yes, for me Annie ended up moving away from him, flourishing with her new family.

[distortedclouds]

Mr Leonhart wasn't redeemed and I refuse to accept him as such

If you’ve been anywhere near my blog, you’ll know that I don’t tolerate that guy in any way, shape, or form, nor accept his apology to Annie

I have multiple reasons to believe his apology wasn’t sincere/well-intentioned.

He had the worst motivation out of all warrior parents

I think the reason I'm angry with Mr Leonhart the most compared to other Warrior Parents, even though they're all shit (I guess with the exception of Pieck’s father) is that the rest of them believed Marley's propaganda

They believed in the whole Eldian sin and Island Devil thing. Most parents of warriors, even kids training to become warriors, believed their kids were giving away their lives for a good and honorable cause. This is still abuse and it’s gross, but really, it’s not out of the “ordinary”

Parents place ridiculously harsh and harmful expectations on their kids all the time. Plus, I don’t think they would’ve straight up abandoned their kids if they didn’t make it as warriors

Mr Leonhart, however, never fell for Marley’s shit version of history nor did he care. He came from abroad and Annie once said he was in the same situation as her (mixed parents), when he took her in as a baby for a purely selfish reasoning

While it’s easy to put some distance since the situation of the warriors is nothing like in the real world, I’ll give you an example:

Someone adopts a puppy and then trains it for underground dog fighting to make money and better their financial situation. If the dog loses/isn’t good enough, he’s gonna throw it out. This also puts the dog at risk of injury, shortened lifespan, and overall reduced quality of life

I don’t feel hesitant using an animal in this example, because Annie was merely a tool, and like all tools, if it’s not doing its job, it gets thrown out

His apology wasn’t for Annie

Annie only miraculously became his daughter that he loves and cares about only after he’d gotten what he wanted: an irrevocable(?) Honorary Marleyan title. Doubt he would’ve had the same “revelation” had Annie failed her candidacy

Two aspects of his apology, in particular, piss me off: the timing and the rootcause/motivation

Timing

If Annie’s 13 years of titan shifting end when she’s 22, that means she got her titan powers when she was 9 years old. But the attack on Wall Maria happened in 845, when Annie was 11

Why the two year gap??

It’s not like military work as a titan shifter is a part-time job or a 9-to-5. She probably went away for days if not weeks at a time during Marley’s countless expansion and invasion efforts. She could’ve died or been captured during all of those and yet that still wasn’t enough for Mr Leonhart to realize his fatherly feelings towards her

I think it’s control

In the Lost Girls manga, Annie says her relationship with her father was “one of absolute obedience.”

And Annie was never a rebellious kid. She only went against him once (when she broke his leg) and never again

While in the military, Annie was being constantly monitored by her commanding officers. She had rules to follow and consequences for disobeying

But leaving for Paradis on a longer mission? She’s free

She’s free from him and from Marley and he knows she won’t care for her mission the same way Reiner, Bert, and Marcel cared, because she doesn’t believe in the Island Devils propaganda in the first place

I highly doubt the Paradis mission was announced to them the morning of their departure. They’ve known for a while, and yet he waited until the morning of her departure to say something

To be fair, it wouldn’t surprise me if he’d gotten somewhat attached to her over the course of 11 years. The other warriors still had families to return to, but once Annie is let go, she’s gone. So that might’ve played a part

Motivation

Another part that pisses me off is that his regret never seemed like he was sorry for Annie, but for himself, for the type of person he'd become

After all, no one likes to believe that they’re evil/the bad guy

Considering that he still lives in the same rundown house as before, I don’t think(?) he’d taken advantage of any/many of the perks and privileges awarded to the parents of warriors during the 10 years Annie’s gone

But this all strikes me as self-flagellation, that he’s more concerned with feeling better about himself and his own past deeds, and not really the entire life he’d ruined and the child he’d mentally, emotionally, verbally, and physically abused since day one

It was always about him, and it's still just him

There’s this shot during the rumbling that MAPPA added, in which we see Annie’s old house right before it’s stomped:

Those are the same padded polls Annie used to train with. He hadn’t removed them

At first glance, this looks like a way for him to not sweep his past/guilt under the rug. To face what he’d done to Annie every time he’d step out of the house or even look out the window.

Shows his remorse, right?

Sure, but what about Annie? What if she had returned with Reiner 4 years ago?

She finally manages to get home to her father, her family, the only reason she kept going, only to find her open-air torture chamber still up, like it’s been waiting for her return all along

I’m not saying he was planning on getting back to his old ways as soon as she got back not at all!

But even with his bad leg, over the course of 10 WHOLE YEARS, he could’ve dug them out. He could’ve asked it as a favor of Reiner and I know Reiner would’ve absolutely done it had they the smallest doubt Annie might come back and see them

But he didn’t because it’s about him feeling like he’s not escaping from his past mistakes, facing them head on like an honorable man

Annie? she doesn’t matter

Her return as his daughter is also another way for him to feel better about himself and that he’s actually making it up for his actions; atoning for his sins

Also, note the difference between how Annie remembers the apology:

vs how Mr Leonhart remembers the apology:

(those two shots are from the same chapter)

It really feels like his perception of that day is completely different from Annie's. She looks at him directly and smiles, while Annie mostly remembers herself still being in shock even as she promises him to come back

Final thoughts

I’m not saying his apology was entirely a manipulation technique. But Annie was and still is a tool to him, this time with the fancy title of “daughter”

If her previous purpose in life was to become a warrior and complete her mission, then her current purpose is to become a good daughter so he could feel like a good father

Post-canon, this would likely take most (if not all) of the verbal and physical abuse out of their relationship, but I can’t say the same for more covert types of mistreatment: mental and emotional

I think it’s important to respect/try to understand Annie’s point of view as well, for still loving him, since he was the reason she survived and come to think of her life as one worth living, even if only to return to him and be his daughter

Still, I wouldn’t really say that Annie has forgiven him. Not really

I doubt she even realizes she was hurt in a way that matters. Simply disassociating from that whole aspect of her life—blocking it out. Especially considering how she was able to tell her story to Hitch

The chance of simply “having a father” and be something more than a tool, was enough for young Annie to not even think about all the harm he’d done to her

It was always about him, and it's still just him

[mimiwrites2000]

Red Eyes See Grey World

CHAPTER ONE / Two

AO3 ~~

Pairings: Armin x Annie

Words count: 3048

*contains Manga spoilers

Summary:

He realized that he knew the ocean long ago. 

When he first looked into her eyes. She held the ocean and the sky in them, colliding and harmonizing to the waves.

If only he knew, he would’ve held the ocean in his hands, never letting it go.

But she was slipping away from him, away she drifted, far from him. 

Wars never held happy endings.

Grey Sky and Black Earth

The sky was grey.

Not the kind of grey before it rained, not the grey that was followed by a colorful charade.

It was a different kind of grey.

A grey dusted with an angry red, an ominous orange smoothing the dusty clouds above. Sparks crackling between their folds, adding a mesmerizing feat into the cauldron.

But Armin didn’t see it.

His eyes were fixated on the vast, stretching, horizon; an endless, far off stripe, where the sky met a flat earth, obliterated of life.

He dragged one foot in front of the other, his knees trembling with every step, and his hands slumped, useless against his body.

The world was dizzy around him, his vision askew, swaying with every step he took. Lines and shapes were crashing and blurring before focusing again, and it incited a queasy ball in his stomach, and suddenly he tasted bile in his mouth, mixed with an iron-flavored taste.

He wished it would rain.

Maybe the rain would sooth the burning fire lit in his legs, a fire that rose to his abdomen, and then abruptly faded from his waist and up, a stinging pain taking over, reaching his lungs, a needle poking right over his heart with every failed attempt to inhale, leaving him with shallow breaths and an aching throat.

It exacerbated with every passing moment.

But he didn’t stop moving.

He couldn’t stop himself.

The stinging in his throat aggravated, he could hear his own respiratory breathing, pathetic, wheezing whistles.

His body protested, screamed and begged him to stop, that it was over, all was gone and all was lost. His body pleaded with him to lay down, and count his last breaths until life departed his body.

But a nagging, baffling motivation gnawed at him, pushing him forward, giving a million unrealistic reasons why he shouldn’t stop, making him choke each time air penetrated his lungs, keeping his legs on the move.

He feared that if he stopped for a second, he would never get up again.

I want to see her one more time, please, just one more time…

Armin didn’t know where he was going, and he couldn’t figure out where he was. Time collided with place in an intangible lump of confusion, his sight muddled and the sky blended with the earth, and he was walking through a grey world.

 A world with no features.

An ancient world that was new to him.

Drip drip

Red dots emerged in his sight, spreading across his vision, and something warm trickled down his face. He wished it was rain, but rain wasn’t supposed to be warm, rain wasn’t supposed to be red.

But it was, in fact, a red rain, maybe the sky cried bloody tears and the thunder raged with roaring, blinding orange spears, maybe the world outraged and stomped its feet as it embraced the end of itself. 

Falling

Piece by piece

Armin staggered, his body swayed.

It was quiet, unfairly quiet.

Nngh

Counterintuitive tranquility for a world that was on the verge of collapsing.

Nnngghh

Silence.

Armin fell on his knees.

aaahhh

Was that his own voice?

Or was he imagining sounds?

Ngh…

Armin tried to clear the fog away from his mind, to concentrate on these small sounds that he was almost certain wasn’t his own; his lips were sealed.

Someone else is here.

Armin smeared away the thick, rose-red moisture from his eyes, he raised both of his hands behind his ears, shaping them like a plate to collect all the sound he could. He attempted to calm down his heart, but he was scared and shivering but maybe he won’t die alone.

He fell on his knees, closed his eyes, directing all the stamina he had left to his hearing, trying to spot whoever made these noises.

That someone who breached the serenity with pathetic, hopeful moans, and for a fleeting moment, Armin wondered if these moans were of pain or sorrow.

Then he found them.

In the distance, a hump on the desaturated ground, twisting and rolling on itself.

Stamina rushed through Armin’s veins, and for a second, he was hopeful.

He was hopeful that someone else survived, that even through disastrous human-made earthquakes, fire rain, and steamy wind, someone still had life circulating in their blood.

Or at least, he won’t die alone.

He tried to get on his feet, but his knees betrayed him, and he plummeted on his chest. The air was knocked out of his lungs, and his vision went dark for a second. His chest inflatable painfully with air, before he rolled on the ground, pushed himself up on his elbows, his lungs ignited fire and he exhaled flames.

He looked at the horizon, just to make sure that someone was still there, that his mind didn’t feel so pathetic for him that it created this illusion.

The comforting illusion of another human being.

He took a deep breath, and after steading himself, he stood on his feet. The world swayed and he almost fell again, but he stabilized his footing, and limped again, dragging each step with all the power he had.

He was getting closer and closer, and the moaning got louder.

Then he saw a petite figure, and a mat of blonde hair fanned on the black-dusted dirt.

 Annie…?

The figure turned around, and he couldn’t diverge a foot from a hand because the figure was agonizingly curled on itself, quivering. 

Annie Annie Annie…

He found himself mouthing Annie’s name, no sound came out, he tried to swallow, but the dryness of his mouth only scratched his throat.

“A…nnie…” He tried to say, he barely recognized his own voice, “Ann…ie…” he kept on walking, until he was a foot away from her, then he dropped to his knees.

“Annie…” he called, bending down. All of her face was scrunched, scratches covered every inch of it, a spot on her hair was matted with red, dimming the golden spark from her hair. Armin looked down at her body, then immediately averted his eyes back to her face.

He didn’t want to look any more at her wounds, he didn’t want to know what limbs she lost, he didn’t want to evaluate her wounds.

He didn't want to know how much time she had left.

He whispered her name one more time and brushed the hair off her face, cupping her cheeks.

Annie’s eyelids fluttered open and shut multiple times, before she looked at him through half lidded lashes.

She saw the sun.

A blonde boy with shiny ocean eyes, and he was grinning, that kind of grin when someone is so happy, and she could swear golden sparkles danced around him.

She blinked.

And he was gone.

In his place was a man… a man she never saw before, or maybe he was familiar…

“Ar…min…?” she asked.

“Annie,” he nodded his head, and she liked the way he said her name.

“Armin…” She called his name one more time, and he sat beside her, hovering over her, and she wanted to touch him, to feel him, to make sure he really was there, that her mind wasn’t making her last moments more agonizing with feigning delusions.

“My wounds are too deep,” Annie said, lifting her head up.

“It’s fine, you’ll make it,” Armin retorted, his voice cracked.

He was lying.

“I’m not gonna make it.”

“You will, we will.”

“I’m not regenerating,” She pivoted, his hope made her queasy.

“Nor am I…” he admitted, his head tilted down until it rested on his chest. That was when she was sure that he lost hope long ago, that this man in front of her was already one foot into the afterlife, and that she was following him too.

What happened? She had no idea. What will happen? She tried to shake her head; she doesn’t want to think about that.

“Eren…” Armin muttered, “the rumbling… Mikasa…” He shook his head.

“All I wanted… was to go back to my father…”

“I’m sorry I failed you…”

He failed me? Annie wondered, what is he talking about?

“Do you think… he made it?” she knew the answer already.

“Yes,” Armin answered promptly, and for some reason, she believed him.

Yeah, her father was alive, he surely was alive, and he will keep on living, he must.

“Can you… take a message for my father?”

“No, you will tell it to him yourself.”

“Armin…"

“No,” he scooted closer to her, looking her in the eyes, his eyebrows hugging in the middle, and his breath was ragged.

His eyes fluttered around her face, and Annie thought he was going to say something to her, that he changed his mind and would take her message to her father.

But Armin didn’t.

Instead, he leaned forward until his forehead touched hers.

Annie was met with blue, blue so vibrant it made her shiver, as if she walked into the ocean, but it was comforting, and she could live with that feeling forever.

But he closed his eyes and said, “We’re gonna make it out of here, me and you, and we’ll find your father.”

Annie meekly nodded, her bangs brushing against his, and she wished she could run her finger through his hair, she had always wanted to do that.

She felt his breath on her face. Something about being under him made her warm, not because his body was on fire, but because of the incomprehensible warmth that ran through her veins, making her safe, cared for, and loved.

He leaned more onto her.

Annie was cold, so cold, her whole body trembled, but her forehead was on fire. He caressed her cheeks, touched her hair, and kissed her.

She didn’t kiss back until later, when she met his kisses with her own mild ones, and Armin tasted iron and salt. His idling fingers caressed her wet cheeks and he didn’t know if these were her tears or his own, but then he sobbed into her mouth, and she pressed her lips harder into his.

Soon, weeps were leaving both of them, and they couldn’t hold it in any longer, they were crying into each other, Armin leaving trails of kisses on Annie’s face.

On her eyebrows, on her eyelids, on the side of her mouth, on her cheeks, and she did the same, she wished she could wrap her arms around him, she wished she could feel him closer, and then he claimed her lips once again.

He was soft, his lips like a feather and his hands light like a cloud, Annie thought, and for a second, the pain seemed to depart her body, and a foreign, light sensation swathed over her.

She could no longer feel the ragged ground underneath her, the small pebbles no longer poked at her back, and everything was so soft and warm. For a fleeting second, Annie thought she was in her bed, she wished she was in her bed.

Armin pulled back, and Annie smiled.

That smile suited her so much, her eyes were so soft, and her hair scattered around her face, and if it wasn’t for the smeared red on her face, he would’ve thought she was on a balcony by the beach.

A place where he always wanted to take her to.

He kissed that smile one more time, before his arms gave out and he flopped on the ground next to her.

“I’ve always wanted to take you to the ocean,” he said, dropping beside her, barely propping himself up on one elbow. She looked up at him. “I’ve always wanted to do that,” he repeated, caressing her cheek. 

The skin on his fingers calloused, and he barely sensed anything at all, leaving a trace of scratches in their path on her cheeks. But she didn’t mind it. She could no longer feel her face anyway.

A shuddery sigh escaped her lips, she closed her eyes, took a deep breath in, opened them. Armin noticed Annie trying to lift up her hand, he got closer to her, held her hand, and put it on his cheek.

“I heard you,” she muttered. Her eyelids fluttered, fighting to stay open, “I heard you,” she muttered again, her voice a whisper lost in the wind. 

Armin closed his eyes, focused on the hand on his cheek. His throat tightened, and his eyes scorched behind his eyelids. His chest tightened.

He tried to say something, but if he opened his mouth, he knew words wouldn’t be easy to fathom. 

But really, why would he even care? He was living his last breaths, and only moments ago he was grateful that he wouldn't die alone. Why would he care?

And so he parted his lips, only for an airy sob to leave him, shaking his whole body, and another, and another. 

Annie witnessed him crumbling by her side, her own sobs suffocated her lungs, but she couldn’t let them out. She merely watched, trying to speak, but instead crying more and more. His tears ran down her hands, she saw them, but couldn’t feel them. Her body numb.

He calmed down his breathing, and tried to talk once again, “We could’ve talked,” but Annie started shaking her head, ”we could’ve talked Annie,” he muttered again, "if only you broke out of your crystal..." 

He would've talked his squad into taking her in, making her one with them. He would've apologized, kissed her cheek and asked her to start anew. He would've taken her in, in his arms, told her that all was fine, that they'd go through it all together.

“No, no, no, no…” she repeated, over and over again, shaking her head, “I heard you talking,” she repeated, and Armin didn’t understand, he couldn’t decipher her words. Until he looked into her eyes, and she muttered again, “I heard you talking.”

It dawned him, everything she meant, the code deciphering in front of his eyes, letters clearer, simpler.

She tried to cover up her guilt, that she listened to him while she was in the crystal, that she didn’t let all these four years of her life go to waste. He didn’t talk to a heap of see-through rocks, he talked to a lively caged girl.

She heard him begging her to talk, to say anything.

But he didn’t mean to make her guilty, if anything, the reason why she crystallized herself was because of him.

And so he kissed the inside of her palm, apologizing in another kiss on her knuckles. 

Her eyelids drooped lower on her eyes, and a stone dropped in his stomach. 

There was no escape. 

He leaned closer to her, resting his forehead against her own.

He smiled, he realized that he saw the ocean long ago, when he first looked into her eyes. She held the ocean and the sky in them, colliding and harmonizing to the waves.

If only he knew, he would’ve held the ocean in his hands, never letting it go.

“In another life,” he whispers, but she didn’t smile, and he knew it was close.

He closed his eyes, and he decided that the last thing he wanted to think of were her eyes.

“In another life,” he said again, more to himself. He still held her hand against his cheek, “in another life, Annie, in another life.”

The hand against his cheek softened, getting heavier, and he held onto it. Tears escaped his closed eyelids, and he called her name, once, twice, but no response.

She got there faster than him. 

“In another life,” he said again, and he knew he was only talking to himself.

He slumped next to her, intertwining their fingers, making sure their grip was as solid as steel.

He kept his eyes closed, as he slowly lost senses of his body,

In another life, Annie, in another life.

Was the last thing on his mind.

~~~

“He’s lost his mind,” he heard them say.

“He’s mad,”

“What does he think he’s doing?”

But he threw all of it behind his back as he took a step after a step on the black-sand ground. A gas mask with intangible tubes hugged his face, he barely breathed in it, but one huff of the intoxicated air might be the end of him. So, Mr. Leonhart took small inhales as he limped forward, fighting against the fire in his thighs. 

“There’s no way his daughter is alive,” he heard one of the party with him say. He gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and walked forward. 

The horizon flattened in a mere line, a grey sky meeting with a black earth. Not a simple form of life made itself present, nor a human. 

One of the men with him stroded to him, putting a hand on his shoulder, “Mr. Leonhart, she’s most likely dead-”

“Annie!” He called, shaking off the man’s hand, his feet almost tripping on itself as he leapt forward, shaking his head, calling her name again and again. 

His own voice echoed back to his ears. Others with him fell into a deafening silence, listening to a father crying out for his only daughter. 

Until he saw a figure on the ground. 

He walked, his injured leg barely keeping up with him, inching closer and closer. 

His feet froze when he recognized blonde hair. 

It was her.

The black dust covered her pale skin, her head crowned with a brown smears, as well as her clothes. 

He fell to his knees beside her, and even though it was written on her face that life departed her body, he still checked for a pulse. 

All he got was silence. 

He didn’t cry. Maybe he was too stoned to react, or he simply didn’t believe it. 

He watched. 

In silence.

The party with him stepped away, leaving him alone. No words or hugs would comfort him. 

He noticed her hand holding another. Tracing it with his eyes, until they landed on another figure beside her, a man with an almost identical blond hair. 

He looked back at their hands, intertwined.

She didn’t die alone. 

He told himself, trying to ease the guilt of his chest. 

She didn’t die alone. 

He took off the gas mask, looked up to the sky, warm tears cascading down his cheeks. .

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author note

if you made it this far, sorry lmao 

[aquietjune]

Little Bird: Chapter 15 is out on AO3

and it's been for a day or so but... you know >.>

The next day they left for Fort Salta. The train was scheduled so early in the morning that Annie spent the first hour of the trip dozing lightly against Armin’s shoulder, the kids’ loud voices barely reaching her. She could not fall asleep, however. Her mind went back again to the conversations of the day before. (continue)

[thatrando13]

Me when my favourite character gets even more traumatised

-> Atlas

[sailorspica]

to Me mr leonhart is some kind of SEAsian and everything we learn from eldians in marley about the rest of the world and notions of race and purity is infinitely more interesting than mikasa being related to the shogun (ew); the split second at eren's hearing after trost where they point to mikasa and say "is she even human" is the realest her identity ever gets imo, i do not give a fuck about the azumabitos

mr leonhart and udo's family are damned by eldian blood, but also too distant from the fritz family (mixed) to have had any chance of hiding on paradis a century ago. karina braun has the right idea about selection and abandonment, but her blond ass does Not have it worse than the conditions udo alludes to. if eldia and marley were "white" empires, probably more like rome and britain or tbh britain and spain in terms of rivalry, udo and mr leonhart are doubly Other wherever they are

i imagine RBA being surprised when they met mikasa, idk how known her mother's family/the walldian noble families would be to marley or if that would be relevant to their mission, but i wonder if mikasa reminds annie of her dad sometimes

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Mr. Leonhart fans.

[mommypieck]

Parents: Yes, my daughter is completely normal☺️

Daughter: I would love to be the AOT girls’ stripper😤✊

✿ mikasa ackerman, annie leonhart, sasha braus

mikasa

she's flustered and you take a seat on her lap. you were watching her for the whole night, being curious that a young lady decided to visit the club instead of some old creepy men

"what are you doing here?" you ask her, brushing her hair behind her ear. she blushes deeply, "im here with my friends for the bachelor's party." she says. your eyes deepen at her voice, it's so sweet and creamy. you remember that some guys booked you up for the whole night but you didn't expect them to bring a pretty girl with them.

"do you like it here?" you slowly grind your ass against her thighs, making her breath hitch.

she nods her head, setting her hands on your hips. you arch your back, letting out a low hum. a group of boys coming your way ruins your mood but you guess that they are her friends.

"i see your friends are here. come and meet mr by the back door at 11."

annie

she didn't want to go but she knew that hitch wouldn't come back in one piece if she didn't go. but she didn't expect that hitch's place of interest would be a strip club.

annie eyes follow your body on the stage as your hips swing into the music. you know that she's watching because you've been watching her ever since she came into the door. nobody else in this building has more pissed off expression than her. you roll her body closer to her, enjoying how money being thrown at her but she doesn't seem to be enjoying the show. your dance ends and you decide to say a little hi to her.

"hi, you're enjoying yourself?" you ask her with a seductive smile but she just shrugs. you sit down next to her in a booth, trying to start a conversation but she doesn't seem wanting to talk. although you can feel her eyes shifting from your face to your bra and your panties that show more than cover.

"you're not so good at concealing where you're looking." you chuckle, making her blush deeply.

"it's okay, meet me in the back after the next show."

spoiler: she came (both ways)

sasha

you feel free as you dance tonight's shift. friday nights are always your favorite because mainly young students come to the club. your head turns when you see someone waiving at you from their booth. you don't usually do private things but this one is different. this one is a girl and you never got a girl calling you over.

"you're the best here?" the girl asks when you come to her booth. you find her interesting, from her brown hair to the crumbs around her mouth from the chips she's eating.

"my name is sasha," she introduces herself, "and i really need a lapdance."

your give her a raised eyebrow, not really knowing what to say but you gently place yourself on her lap.

"my friend is here with me and he said that im never going to get a lapdance from the best dancer here." she explains herself and you chuckle. you move your hips around her lap, squeaking when she places her hands on your ass.

"i like you," you say with a smirk, "how about we got out out here?"

[annawayne]

Mr and Mrs Arlert-Leonhart

[anonnnimaaa]

Why does the main couple of Alice in Borderland have so many similarities with Aruani? LET'S ANALYZE WITH ANÓNIMA

Similarities between Armin and Arisu:

1. They are both extremely intelligent and at first are not able to see their potential, they always depended on their friends to believe in themselves. Examples: When Armin convinced the troops that Eren was not an enemy thanks to Eren and Mikasa's motivation and when Arisu won his first game thanks to Karube telling him that he would get them out of there.

2. Both had survivor syndrome, as a result of these events, in the case of Armin when he received the serum on Erwin and in Arisu's case after overcoming the game of tag. They both have low self-esteem and, in the case of Arisu in that game, he also blames himself for not thinking of a better solution, since logic and strategy was always his strong suit and he desperately wanted to protect his friends, do you think? remember someone?

3. Both go through a period of wanting to die and hating life, they are constantly thinking about sacrifice for the good of others, we see this facet of Arisu more developed in the second season (the game of the king of clubs) while with Armin remains persistent throughout the anime.

4. They have been seen planning strategies with their respective teams, being the ones who organize what will be done next and give the respective orders, they influence others thanks to their great intellect, ability to speak that they develop thanks to the fact that they acquire more confidence in themselves. People listen to them and admire them, they also expect them to be the ones with the answers and they put responsibilities on them that they feel unworthy of most of the time.

Similarities between Usagi and Annie:

1. They are very reserved girls, they hardly open up to anyone easily, although if you break their shell you can see that they are a teddy bear. This shell is born because they have Daddy issues, Usagi because her negligent father preferred to climb the mountain rather than stay with his daughter, and Annie because Mr. Leonhart's son of a bitch treated her as if she were a weapon.

2. Because of these, the two women believe that the only one they can trust is their father. However, due to the trauma, they both begin to feel more alive when they are away from home, Usagi in Borderland, because she does not have to feel that her father abandoned her, and Annie in Paradise, away from her father's abuse. For both of them, their father in almost the entire series is their reason for being and acting.

3. They are both athletic, again due to the influence of their dads. However, they never leave behind their intelligence or their human senses despite wanting to be lone wolves. Usagi shows great empathy for those around them and despite her traumas and believing that at first she had to be alone to survive, she manages to open up and give life another chance. Annie is shown to be kind in Paradise, saving several comrades she had to betray and in the end, returning to save the world, because atoning for her sins and having a new beginning becomes more important than her father.

4. Both Usagi and Annie are the only ones who manage to motivate Arisu and Armin. Not only do they look for answers in them, but they challenge them and make them rethink things, making their romantic interests grow thanks to that.

[distortedclouds]

All this "Armin really hates Annie's father" talk got me thinking... what if he didn't?

Canonically speaking, his inherited memories likely included some bits of Annie being mistreated. A bit more bruising than the other candidates, secluded, never speaks of her family, etc

But I want to look at an alternative scenario where he didn't, and since Annie only told Hitch outright of her mistreatment, Armin would have no idea and would go in thinking he wasn't as bad of a person, just someone fooled by Marley's hateful propaganda, and that he's genuinely trying to be a better person, and a better parent to Annie

So Armin tries to encourage their relationship. Talking about the man as fondly as he could in front of Annie and vice versa. Trying to get them some time together during their busy schedule post-canon, and because no one around her really knows of what she's been through, she's left isolated and unable to trust her down-spirals with anyone, barely Armin

Listen to me as I ramp up the angst! I want Annie to start doubting and gaslighting herself, that it was never really that bad, she was just a kid and she can't remember it up to scale, plus, he hasn't hurt her recently, he's a nice man that a lot of people now like and go to for advice and solutions, a man that Armin seems to like and think good of and even respects for his role in getting the Eldians out of Liberio during the rumbling

So now, the panic that wells in her chest whenever he raises his voice (even for benign reasons) is ignored by her, his large hands terrify her, but she freezes. She never talks of her nightmares even when she wakes up crying and screaming and it takes her a whole hour in Armin's arms to finally calm down. Aches from particularly bad beatings resurface and she has no way of explaining them other than: "it's all in my head"

Of course, Armin would notice all of this, and bit by bit starts connecting her condition to the time she spends with her father, but it's too late, because Annie would have to reach the lowest-low she'd ever experienced before she finally breaks

.... yeah, sorry

[moonspirit]

Okay, I don't pull my hair. But Mr. Leonhart is manipulating my girl to keep her away from Armin because he already confirmed that they are SOMETHING, specifically boyfriend and girlfriend

Hello again xD!

There's nothing that Mr.Leonhardt actually has to "confirm", in the technical sense of the word. In chapter 2 of the prequel Time Falls Like Moonlight, there is a scene where Armin talks with Mr.Leonhardt. This takes place on Fort Salta, and it is quite evident from the direction of Mr.Leonhardt's questions alone that he's already aware of Aruani's mutual feelings. But after that short conversation, there is no more dialogue between the two. Once they arrive at Kald, Armin doesn't really go visit him or vice versa; so there has still been no interaction on that front.

So it's quite obvious to anyone who gives it some thought: two people in love with each other, living under the same roof. What's bound to happen? Sex, of course. So when Mr.Leonhardt asks Annie that (rhetorical) question, it's simply him pointing out the fact, aloud.

It's certainly not a wrong interpretation that while he knew all along, perhaps now he feels a bit threatened by the fact that maybe Annie won't ever come live with him, as would've been the situation he expected, back on Fort Salta.

Thank you so much for reading :3! I appreciate it T_T

[g-l-o-b-e-w-h-o-r-e]

｡⁠☆Aot characters as song☆｡

｡⁠☆Levi Ackerman☆｡

Gilded lily - Cults

Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens

I'm tired - Labyrinth, Zendaya

Cry - cigarettes after sex

Wicked game - Chris Isaak

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｡⁠☆Hange Zoe☆｡

Captain save a hoe - E-40

Why didn't you stop me - mitski

Wicked games - Chris Isaak

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｡⁠☆Erwin Smith☆｡

Untrust us - Crystal castles

PRIDE. - Kendrick Lamar

Smells Blood - Kensuke Ushio

O Children - Nick cave & Bad seeds

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｡⁠☆Eren Yaeger☆｡

Dark red - Steve Lacey

Watching him fade away - Mac Demarco

Exit music(for a film) - Radiohead

ARE WE STILL FRIENDS - Tyler, the creator

Wicked game - Chris Isaak

O Children - Nick cave & Bad seeds

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｡⁠☆Mikasa Ackerman☆｡

Kerosene - Crystal castles

Liquid smooth - Mitski

He needs me - Shelley duvall

Using you - Mars argo

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｡⁠☆Armin Arlert☆｡

Step on me - The Cardigans

My Alcoholic Friends - The Dresden Dolls

Beauty is empty - Mars argo

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｡⁠☆Annie Leonhart☆｡

Daddy issues - The Neighborhood

Child Psychology - Black Box Recorder

Girl Anachronism - The Dresden Dolls

Softcore - The Neighborhood

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｡⁠☆Bertholdt Hoover☆｡

Romantic homicide - d4ad

Softcore - The Neighborhood

Lights are on - Tom Rosenthal

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｡⁠☆Reiner Braun☆｡

Crack baby - Mitski

Better than me - The Brobecks

Softcore - The Neighborhood

Daddy issues - The Neighborhood

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｡⁠☆Zeke Yaeger☆｡

You can be the boss - Lana Del Rey

Daddy issues - The Neighborhood

Cigarettes out the window - TV Girl

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｡☆Porco Galliard☆｡

Dead but pretty - IC3SPEAK

Spit in my face - ThxSoMch

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｡⁠☆Ymir☆｡

Mary - Alex g

Good looking - Suki Waterhouse

Child Psychology - Black Box Recorder

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｡⁠☆Historia Reiss☆｡

Who is she - I monster

Class of 2013 - Mitski

Step on me - The Cardigans

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｡⁠☆Jean Kistein☆｡

Spit in my face - ThxSoMch

Better than me - The Brobecks

You can be the boss - Lana Del Rey

No Surprises - Radiohead

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｡⁠☆Connie Springer☆｡

Class of 2013 - Mitski

Francis Forever - Mitski

Watching him fade away - Mac Demarco

WASTE - kxllswxtch

Malmo - Mook

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｡⁠☆Sasha Braus☆｡

7 weeks & 3 days - yungatita

For the first time - Mac Demarco

Lights are on - Tom Rosenthal

Wicked game - Chris Isaak

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｡⁠☆Marco Bodt☆｡

I Bet on losing dogs - Mitski

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｡⁠☆Gabi braun☆｡

Punk tactics - Joey Valence & Brae

Softcore - The Neighborhood

Girl Anachronism - The Dresden Dolls

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｡⁠☆Falco Grice☆｡

For the first time - Mac Demarco

Mrs Magic - Strawberry Guy

What would I do? - Strawberry Guy

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｡⁠☆Pieck Finger☆｡

Softcore - The Neighborhood

Mary - Alex g

He needs me - Shelley duvall

Beauty is empty - Mars argo

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｡⁠☆Yelena☆｡

Mary on a cross - Ghost

Swimming pool - Marie Madeleine

Child Psychology - Black Box Recorder

Liquid smooth - Mitski

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｡⁠☆Dina Fritz☆｡

The other woman - Lana Del Rey

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Reiner - Bertholdt - Annie - teen titans go

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Erwin x levi - butch 4 butch

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Mikasa x Eren - Dangerously yours x cigarettes out the window

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Ymir x historia - lovers rock

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[ansatsu-sha]

Mr Leonhart + Annie / Shingeki no Kyojin S4E30

[keischreiber]

I'm always wondering about what happens to Kristina after the attack on Liberio. Because I'm thinking that she does go to prison for being an accessory to Zeke's betrayal. I feel like she'd have been court-martialed if there wasn't so much chaos at the moment. And with the majority of the brass dying from the attack, there just wouldn't be enough time.

Reiner does talk to her, which makes her admit and divulge parts of the plan that she knows about. She knows Zeke enough not to tell her everything despite being quite close as friends.

So like... when they do plan to attack immediately, my initial thought was for her to go with them. But thinking about it now... she would feel guilty and responsible for the people who died in Liberio. So, I think that she would rather stay behind than go with Reiner and the rest during the assault.

I'd like to think that Magath's punishment for her is to take accountability for the injured in Liberio until he can actually do something more about her. And she accepts that.

That also gives her the chance to do what she can in order to help the Eldians out when the Rumbling happens. Going with Mr. Leonhart and the rest to ensure their safety, and maybe looking out/making sure that Reiner's family remains safe.

And then when the Rumbling is over and everyone returns to just being normal humans, I think that in the midst of people simply being there with each other, affirming each other's existence, etc... I think that Kristina, no matter how much she wants to go over and hug Reiner, wouldn't do that. Instead, she'd be just content with seeing Reiner safe and in the arms of his mother; the person she knows Reiner values the most. Because for her, while she does love Reiner, it was never about being loved back. IN FACT, she had entered the military in hopes to one day meet Reiner in hopes of having the chance to support him in whatever way she can. It was always about being there for him, regardless of whether her affections were returned or not. At the end of the day, she wants him to be happy, regardless of whether she's there by his side or not.

In the case that he does spot her, I feel like she's just going to smile, withholding tears, maybe bowing her head before waving her goodbyes... in which she turns around to hide the start of her sobbing. I feel like she still hasn't forgiven herself about how she had betrayed everyone, and of course... betrayed Reiner's trust by having kept silent about things prior.

But I also think that Reiner is the type to, finally, talk things out. Learning from Marco, from Jean... this entire experience, that sometimes, that's all that one needs to do in order to understand each other, talk.

I can even see Karina going, "You have your entire life ahead of you." As if to tell him to go do what he needs to do, because from now on, regardless of what he decides, Karina will be there to support whatever it is that he decides.

[sailorspica]

reijean hitchannie college band AU headcanons that may not lead to fic form but i feel strongly about because i did undergrad at a huge university with a prestigious music school where everyone was depressed + i've been giffing kids on the slope (2012) w reiner's seiyuu + the given akihiko/haruki reijean agenda:

all the warriors grew up playing classical music w/ varying degrees of parental pressure, for example mr leonhart is a violinist and annie's first and forever teacher so maybe she maims him here too (he's like jk simmons in whiplash); karina is into classical music as a status symbol

by contrast hitch and jean know how to have fun. hitch learned everything from youtube, jean's mom let him quit piano lessons as a kid so he came back to it on his own when he realized it was cool/thought it could get him girls (it doesn't) (inspo: nick cave)

annie (lead/rhythm guitar), hitch (vocals/rhythm guitar/octave pedal "bass"), jean (vocals/keys/bass), reiner (drums). reiner would do bass if he had sukuna arms

reijean meet in intro to audio engineering which counts as a science class for some reason, form the band after roping annie into their final recording project; annie's an undeclared part-time student who mostly works

first they try marco as rhythm guitarist but he is too jazzy and cannot wrap his mind around rock tone, annie is furious (low stakes version of trost; sounds derogatory but marco just looks like a jazz guy)

hitch is a business major who thinks music is a hobby, kinda yasu from nana energy. annie recruits her after overhearing her teaching/berating marlowe before he absolutely bombs an open mic night

hitch is an acoustic girlie (dark ukulele past) but annie and jean take her shopping and she picks a danelectro stock '59

annie plays a jaguar bc of her short fingers, she's some combo of lindsey jordan / luna li but also j mascis

reiner's favorite drummer is karen carpenter, deadass

hitch is the least disciplined which equal turns teaches them to relax but incites rage, annie and jean lock her in a room w reiner bc this bitch cannot count

everyone sings but especially hitch and jean, the vibe is michelle zauner and craig hendrix; i think they hype up the other two who are very self conscious

main songwriters are annie and jean, jean finds jazzy chords that hitch hates

annie was concertmaster of her arts magnet high school orchestra until mikasa showed up and the worst part is violin is mikasa's like, tertiary instrument; now they are ex-gf roommates

opera singer mikasa ruins lives, she is kissing kissing mezzo historia in boy drag (inverse girl armin) in uhhh idk la clemenza di tito

ymir is probably a drummer in a nu riot grrrl band, root of her frenemyship with reiner, also i think she's trying to steal annie and/or hitch

reiner is a cello performance major who became interested in rock percussion after hooking up w eren; eren's taste is incredibly lame, he likes like, dave grohl

eren and mikasa both did piano lessons as kids and she forces him to be her accompanist most of the time, but he and jean tag in and out ever since eren gave himself gamer's carpal tunnel before mikasa's first jury freshman year

jean is Not a music major but he makes money as music majors' accompanist; he could be studio art? or something "reasonable" (a la the MPs, business school hitch), like cybersecurity

annie and marcel = violin, pieck and bertie = viola, reiner and porco = cello

bertolt is living studio ghibli whisper of the heart in italy

for the first half of undergrad reiner lived with marcel in place of porco bc that little shit felt smothered by the galliards bUyINg a whole apartment for their boys, but when marcel graduated pocco moved in and uhhhhh evicted reiner, who thought he had saved enough to make it on his own by living rent free but uhhhhh karina stole it

uhhh pieck looks like my first gay crush (a violist opera singer) so let's say she's studying abroad

point is, reiner is isolated through no one's direct fault, really, besides pock; annie is his closest friend in town and she's such a tsundere about it. he lived on her and mikasa's couch for a week but will never return because it was too awkward even for his broke ass