𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐈𝐍 𝐗 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥; 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲; 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞. ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡ ⋆ You and your bestfriend hitch are transferring to Maria University for your second year of college. What happens when you meet an intelligent boy with seemingly a heart of gold. The same boy with a troubled past and a guarded heart. Except, No heart can be kept behind walls forever; sooner or later, something-or someone-finds its way in. friendships, romance, deception, and more importantly, an ex who is seemingly a binding shield between what your heart craves and your mind desires. TW: NSFW, ANGST, violence, trauma friends to lovers, (surfer armin) - all characters belong to Hajime Isayama - ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡ ⋆ ✩ rankings #1 arminxreader 08.31.25 / 11.05.25 #1 arlert 09.16.25 #2 attackontitan 10.07.25 #1 arminarlert 11.02.25

You wake up in a hospital bed with plenty of injuries and no memories, and the only person that seem more upset about it than you are is a short, angry man named Levi. Levi Ackerman x F!Reader ~ Rated mature for violence (duh), strong language, and eventual smut. Cover photo is from sadlovernovels. #1 in erwinsmith (Dec 2022) #2 in enemiestolovers (Dec 2022) #1 in attackontitan (June 2022, March 2023) #1 in aotfanfic (June 2022, Feb 2023) #1 in shingekinokyojin (May 2022, Jan 2023, April 2023) #1 in mikezacharius (May 2022) #1 in reader (Feb 2022) out of 78k!! holy shit y'all this is insane #1 in aot (Dec 2021, Jan 2022, Jan 2023, Dec 2024, Aug 2025) #1 in snkfanfiction (Nov 2021) #2 in leviackerman (Sept 2021, Feb 2023) #1 in leviackerman (March 2023) #1 in amnesia (Nov 2023) #1 in snk (May 2024, June 2024, April 2025) #1 in aotxreader (March 2025) #1 in fanfiction (June 2025)

"It started with comfort. It ended with him being the only thing that could break me." When Jean Kirstein and Eren Yeager move back to Shingashina from their studies in Amsterdam, you're a wreck. Freshly heartbroken, barely functioning, and definitely not ready to see the two men who've shaped your life: Eren, your brother, and Jean, his best friend, practically family. Jean's cocky, tattooed, too good with his hands, and the kind of person your brother always warned you about. And yet, when he's the only one who can help you navigate this mess, you can't ignore the way his presence unsettles you. Protective, attentive, and impossibly close, he reaches for you when you fall apart, and suddenly the line between care and something more blurs. He promised no feelings and he lied. {˙⋆✮rankings} 1 in #yearner 10/11/25 1 in #kirstein 10/11/25 12 in #shingekinokiojin 26/11/25 7 in #jeankirstein 5/12/25 1 in #jeankirschtein 10/12/25 17 in #attackontitan 4/03/26 (slight substacne abuse, smut, violence)

Starting over, you've discovered, is mostly a matter of place; put enough miles between yourself and everything that came before, find a roommate you like, make friends with people who know nothing about you, and eventually the person you used to be begins to feel like some distant cousin. Shiganshina is good for that. Eren Jaeger is not. He's your roommate's friend, then yours, then something considerably more inconvenient. He's infuriating in ways that become intimate, intimate in ways that become problematic, and somewhere along the line, disliking him becomes difficult to separate from want. The trouble with becoming close to someone is that you never notice it happening. There's no moment when the water reaches your throat. No warning that you've wandered too far from shore. By then, you're already submerged.

Y/n used to have a future. Once upon a time, there were dreams of stages, spotlights, and cheers - until a single injury shattered all of it. Now? She's barely hanging onto college, drowning in grades, and doing her best to push the world away before it leaves her first. Jean Kirstein wasn't supposed to stick around. Annoying, persistent, and impossible to shake, he shows up when Y/n least wants anyone to. But sometimes the wrong people slip through the cracks, and sometimes the heart can't tell the difference between a lifeline and a hook. This isn't just a love story. This is a story about a boy who let the light in a girl's dark world, flickering where she never thought it could glow again.