[ It's not exactly Levi's scene, but he finds himself out in town during the festival anyways. Maybe he's finally listening to Hange insisting that he should get out more. He finds himself near one of the pancake tour places, and it's perhaps something like nostalgia that leads him in. To think there's such an abundance of food here when they'd been borderline starving back home -- and then, the military rations were a goddamn feast compared to the shit they'd had to eat in the Underground. ]
[ He's still reluctant to actually buy any pancakes -- Erwin makes the best ones, anyway, as he's discovered -- when he spots someone familiar in the crowd, and for a few long moments, he's frozen on the spot. ]
[ Sasha's dead. One more in the long line of sacrifices, one that stings extra because Levi had been supposed to be responsible for her. She was in his squad. He saw her dead body on that airship. He saw Eren's there, too, even if he had still been talking and breathing at the time, but his eyes were dead. The kids shouldn't have had to die. Hell, nobody should have, but-- ]
[ She looks younger. Not yet weighed down by the truth of the world. Perhaps right before they find out, he thinks, as he watches her stuff her face with pancakes, and his expression shifts into something fond. Of course she'd find her way here, too. He can only hope she gets to stay and have the life that's been stolen from her. ]
[ He considers just leaving her be. The kids, especially the ones that look younger than he remembers, still tended to be tense around him, and he doesn't want to ruin her pancakes celebration. ]
[ But that's when he spots the sign PANCAKE EATING CONTEST further ahead, and that's an opportunity they clearly shouldn't miss. ]
Oi. Potato girl.
[ Levi's making his way to her side. He... looks a bit worse for wear than she probably remembers. Scars on his face, clouded eye, some sort of a contraption on his left leg. But his vibes have definitely not changed much, nor have his flat expression. ]
B+C
[ He's still reluctant to actually buy any pancakes -- Erwin makes the best ones, anyway, as he's discovered -- when he spots someone familiar in the crowd, and for a few long moments, he's frozen on the spot. ]
[ Sasha's dead. One more in the long line of sacrifices, one that stings extra because Levi had been supposed to be responsible for her. She was in his squad. He saw her dead body on that airship. He saw Eren's there, too, even if he had still been talking and breathing at the time, but his eyes were dead. The kids shouldn't have had to die. Hell, nobody should have, but-- ]
[ She looks younger. Not yet weighed down by the truth of the world. Perhaps right before they find out, he thinks, as he watches her stuff her face with pancakes, and his expression shifts into something fond. Of course she'd find her way here, too. He can only hope she gets to stay and have the life that's been stolen from her. ]
[ He considers just leaving her be. The kids, especially the ones that look younger than he remembers, still tended to be tense around him, and he doesn't want to ruin her pancakes celebration. ]
[ But that's when he spots the sign PANCAKE EATING CONTEST further ahead, and that's an opportunity they clearly shouldn't miss. ]
Oi. Potato girl.
[ Levi's making his way to her side. He... looks a bit worse for wear than she probably remembers. Scars on his face, clouded eye, some sort of a contraption on his left leg. But his vibes have definitely not changed much, nor have his flat expression. ]