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 !
[updates will be slow bc university.]
(F/n) (L/n), 19 years old, cadet in the Survey Corps for 4 years and counting.
You are, unbeknownst to your comrades, particulary skilled in outdoor survival You are often seen sporting a huge backpack during the expeditions and usually people make fun of you for it.
But during a particularly tough expedition, yoru survival skills will be key in saving not just yoru life, but also your long time crush's one: Levi.
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[A/N]: Reader is about 19 whilst Levi is 34. If the age gap makes you uncomfortable, feel free to assume Levi is uhm... in his mid 20s. That should do. Also, Reader is taller than him.
(f/n): first name
(l/n): last name
(h/c): hair colour
(e/c): eye colour
(s/c): skin colour
italic means someone's thoughts
This story is set after the 57th expedition.
I don't know who the cover pic belongs to, if you do please let me know so I can properly credit the artist.
This is my first ever series AND fanfiction! I posted this some time back on my dA account (and now on AO3 as well), feel free to check those pages out as well! (the username is the same)