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.]
Years of hard work landed you the crème de la crème lifestyle a doctor within the Walls could ever dream of - a career in Wall Sina. Unfortunately, the snotty ways of the elites left you feeling unfulfilled, prompting you to seek something more meaningful.
You signed up as Military Doctor in the Survey Corps, fighting Titans and healing soldiers. Along the way you made new friends, enemies, and caught the the eye of a particular aloof man in the Corps - Captain Levi himself. Assigned as his personal 'sleep therapist' by Erwin, the Captain seems to be quite taken by your intelligence and witty charms. An unexpected relationship and tension grows, and you found yourself falling for him.
Over time, you question your identity and wonder, are you a doctor first and a soldier second? Or are you willing to go against your values as a doctor and take lives instead of saving them? How far are you willing to bend your moral compass to do things for the 'greater good'?
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Contains mature content, 18+ smut. Canon-compliant but loosely follow plot. Graphic depictions of death, medical scenes.
Original story by me (greymaiden) on Archive Of Our Own (AO3) with 65k+ views and top 1-2% on Levi Ackerman x Reader tag. First published on AO3 on 11 August 2020.
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