Nocturnal | Levi x Reader

Levi Ackerman x Fem Reader

Nocturnal
noc·tur·nal (adj.)

From Latin nocturnalis*, of the night.*

1. Of, relating to, or occurring in the night.
2. An organism that becomes active in the absence of light - functioning most fully in the conditions that render others still.

Less commonly noted is this: the nocturnal do not merely endure the dark. In their natural condition, it is the environment in which their faculties were designed.

What constitutes deprivation for others is, for them, simply the world as it was meant to be navigated.

However as folk stories often warn children, you never know what kind of monsters hide in the dark.

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Before he was humanity's strongest, Levi was just another boy in the underground
hungry, unwatched, and disinclined to find out what love would have cost him.

slow burn, canon-adjacent to events starting from the underground city; told in the eyes of someone who lived beside him