Morgen [German]: Tomorrow
Levi and Reader learn to navigate their life after the events of the Rumbling and both take on a new adventure together: entrepreneurship. You are daisies and roses and tulips and lilies, and pretty flowers that spark life and love every day. But at night, you wilt and close up, reliving the horrors you experienced. He is worn-out, dull and dreary, and just needs a bit of a spark to keep him afloat in a new type of world that is moving too fast. But he finds it so unbearably hard when the woman he loves is living across the sea.
That is, until, you open up your cozy flower shop next door.
Navigating love and life is hard enough, but with their new hometown in the deep end of a recession following the calamity of the Rumbling, fueding sides test their patience to stay put, and even their relationship. On the cusp of an all-out civil war, will their relationship wilt, or flourish in spite of it all?
story content warnings: heavy story ahead. serious manga spoilers past chapter 139 ! talks and deals with dark content (eventually, and warnings will be put in place accordingly.) F!Reader in 2nd person narrative (i.e. use of female anatomy, but with 2nd person narrative) Mental health issues, self-hatred, Levi being a bit jealous, typical canon violence, gore, blood, men being mean (sexism, misogny) marriage for wrong reasons, death, eventual smut, tooth-rotting fluff in between, SA, themes of war and prejudice !
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Levi leans his forearms onto the counter. "I think they're useless."
"Boring and unoriginal. I was hoping for a bit more creativity."
You look completely unfazed. For some reason, that bothers him. "So this is your calling," he says. "Your passion. And you're going to let me come in here and insult the hell out of flowers."
Your eyes meet his. "I have the feeling I'll be getting your money either way," you say casually, turning the card machine towards him. "Will that be cash or card?"
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Or, Levi Ackerman thinks flowers do nothing but cost a shit ton of money, carry around bugs, and then die, thereby defining them as pointless. But then he meets you, and while they're still all of those things, maybe they have a different definition.
Modern AU. Inspired by purple hyacinths. Cover by @ AniMak926 on twitter!