**EDITING** The longer you live like animals, the easier you turn into them. Being from the underground you knew what it was like to be desperate and caged, to know there was a line, invisible or not, that you couldn't cross. Your entire life, you strove to be free of the underground, to live among those on the surface, to feel normal again. But with your scarred past and obscure future, that dream slipped further away with each passing day. By some turn of fate, you clawed your way through the underground streets, learned how to fight-and in turn, how to win. But fighting your way to the top came with a price, and one the scouts would soon come to collect. Now, fighting for a new team in a new world, you're given a fresh start, a way to move forward from the horrible labs and abandonment of the forgotten city. Again you're forced to start from the bottom, slowly chipping your way back to the top, fighting between confronting your past and looking towards the future. In the process, you find yourself coming face to face with a stoic figure who comes with a mysterious yet familiar past. As you learn to trust each other, you find your own impenetrable façade crumbling like the walls, all at the fault of one man. {Book One} ***Quick Disclaimer-I own only my own characters and plot line in this story, and have no ownership over AOT or its characters***

{Levi x Reader} {Trilogy: Pt 1} I lived within so many barricades; the physical wall that barred me from the unknown, outside world...the social wall tiered by wealth and superiority... and my own mental barricade, taller than them all, built from unspeakable horrors, excruciating pain, and consistently broken promises. I had always fought so desperately to stay alive, with the hope that one day, I could break out of my own prison and truly live again. So naturally, unphased by the monsters that lurked beyond the sky-scraping wall, I joined the military for a chance to finally fly free. ... but never in my life did I ever expect that it would be you, Humanity's Strongest Soldier, who would break through. 🌟TOP RANKING🌟 #1 - #AttackonTitan #1 - #LevixReader #1 - #LeviHeichou #1 - #SNKFanFiction 🏆AWARDS🏆 🥇1ST PLACE (Anime Category) - The Fanfic Awards 2019 🔎 READER'S GUIDE: (F/N) =First Name (L/N) = Last Name ⚠️WARNING: Story contains strong language, sex, violence, abuse, sexual assault & murder 🎵🎶THEME SONG: "Barricades" - Hiroyuki Sawano (Attack on Titan OST) ❗DISCLAIMER: I do not own Attack on Titan or characters from anime/manga. This story is based on such and contains spoilers. Credit to all the amazing artists! ♡ ✍️ STARTED: February 2019 🏁 FINISHED: May 2019 (🛠️ Edited: April 2023)

*** Story Completed!!! *** Living in the deep depths of the underground, you have no one to rely on for most of your youth after your parents' sudden disappearance. Unsure whether they are dead or alive, you resort to surviving on your own by learning to fight and steal. Survival is key and your main goal is to escape poverty of the place that rests beneath Paradis. As streets are littered with thugs and criminals, you look to escape this place and see the land above like your father once told stories of. A life of quiet and peace...That is... until you meet a group of friends that take you in, changing your life completely. Contains spoilers! Hey everyone! This is my very first AoT fanfic between the reader and Levi. I'm not much a a writer so there may be mistakes here and there, but I'll do my best to catch them. I really hope you all enjoy this, I find it to be a very fun thing to do on my pass time so your support will be greatly appreciated. Also feel free to leave me any suggestions or comments throughout the story! This story will give you your true main character moments. It will follow a lot of the actual Aot story with some changes on my end which may include new characters and new scenarios. You grew up in the underground around the same age as Levi and his friends. Follow along and experience the relationship between you and Humanity's strongest soldier! *I do not own anything pertaining Attack on Titan.

"𝙻𝚎𝚟𝚒," 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚍---𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚏 𝚒𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎. "𝚈/𝚗," 𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔, 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚢𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍. "𝙸𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖?" "𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚠," 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎. ~✵~ You joined the Survey Corps long before humanity had hope. He joined with nothing left to lose. Known as the Angel of Death, you've always fought like you were born for the battlefield. And you lived like you didn't want to make it to tomorrow. Humanities Strongest on the other hand was a sharp edge with killer instincts and a bad attitude usually aimed in your direction. Put in the same squad, Titans fall before you. Put in the same room and you can barely go five minutes without biting the other's head off. But war has a way of forcing people together. Even when your opposing bloodlines want to yank you apart.