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Date: 2023-09-09 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
[ He's not looking at them, lining up mugs for tea and pouring carefully measured leaves in, then taking the kettle off the fire to cool off a little. ]

It's for you.

[ He's letting Hange have all of them! ]

Date: 2023-09-09 09:34 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
[ Now he's getting a little irritated. Don't make it look like he cares about your birthday more than you do, Hange! ]

[ He huffs, looks at the clock and starts putting the oven mitts on. ]


What day is it?

[ Said with an undertone of you should know this. ]

Date: 2023-09-10 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
I wanted to.

[ He gets not wanting to celebrate. He never really mentioned his own birthday -- it was always Hange or Erwin or Petra who would remember and whip the rest of their squad and/or friends into congratulating him. ]

[ But this is a day that he was never going to have again. And now he does. ]

[ He pulls the form out and rests it on the oventop to cool off. It looks nice; seems it was a success -- not all that different from what he'd made previously in the end. Still, he thinks "brownies" is a shitty name (literally), so he considers what would be a more fitting alternative -- ]


...Chocolate bread.

[ nailed it. ]

[ He turns to pick up the tea kettle and pour water into their mugs. ]

Date: 2023-09-11 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
[ He swats their hand away. ]

Oi, let it cool off, four-eyes.

[ But he'll be merciful and get plates and the palette knife already, because smaller pieces are obviously going to cool off faster. ]

Date: 2023-09-17 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
Tough shit.

[ He lets them steal the knife from him and do the slicing themself - after all, it's Hange's birthday and their cake. Chocolate bread. Whatever. ]

[ Instead he'll be clearing off the rest of the small kitchen table and setting the tea mugs on it, then taking a seat across from them with his. ]


...

[ The question is unexpected. Perhaps he's thinking it's more loaded than it actually is, but... sometimes Hange makes it easy to forget that they're not just having the time of their life and not thinking about the more painful parts of it. And then sometimes it rears its ugly head anyway, like that time he yelled at them outside of the hospital, or that time they got upset with him at the lake, or -- ]

Of course it does. [ He sounds certain. After all, otherwise it would be the same as implying that this place somehow doesn't count, doesn't matter, and it does. More than anything right now. ] Everything you experienced, everything you learned. It still counts, doesn't it?

[ They have both still grown, haven't they?.. ]

Date: 2023-09-20 12:19 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
[ They're not wrong. Levi often thought of it that way himself, that or just claimed not to see any particular significance in the day he was born to begin with. But that's him, and this is Hange, and he's not going to let them feel like they're somehow less important just because they gave up their life for the Survey Corps' last mission. For the world. ]

What about, "congratulations on spending another year with us"?

[ With him. Does that not count? He thinks it fucking does. ]

[ He sighs quietly and pinches his portion in half with the fork, then leans over to shove one of the halves onto Hange's plate. He doesn't mind having some for company, but he doesn't have much of a sweet tooth and it's way too much. ]

[ He makes a half-annoyed, half-amused noise when they finally declare him right. Well. Whatever works, right? ]


It's settled, then.
Edited Date: 2023-09-20 12:20 pm (UTC)

Date: 2023-10-01 02:34 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
[ That alone would be enough to fight for this world, wouldn't it? Even if it only afforded a better life to a few of the kids, it's more than they could have ever had at home. Levi would be happy to protect such a safe haven for them with his own life, if he had to. ]

[ But it's more than that. He gets to have something too. He even gets to have someone he lost. They're probably spending more time together than apart at this point even with all of Hange's work at the research center, and it's just not enough. Another year sounds better. Then another. Then another, and another, and another. He doesn't expect it, he never does, but he maybe lets himself be wistful for a moment. ]

[ And hell, if they can adapt to this strange new world, then maybe the Survey Corps can, too. It doesn't have to be about responsibility, the weight of humanity, or endless death here. It could simply be about exploring, about discovering new things, about riding out to see the world for themselves. It doesn't have to be antithetical to freedom, not here, not when it's just them left in it. ]

[ Levi drinks up that little smile like sunlight itself and thinks that he's done good. ]


Yeah.

[ Of course they will be. He promised and he takes his promises seriously. Moreover, he wants to be here. He wants to get to do silly little things like birthdays and housekeeping and the kids' weddings and whatever else everyone gets up to, because they're alive and they found a place here. ]

So stay out of trouble. If you piss me off, you're getting kale juice instead.

[ Oops, guess what time it is? Time to lighten the mood because the feelings are getting Too Real! ]

Date: 2023-10-08 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
[ Don't threaten him with a good time, Hange! ]

Fine by me. I heard it's really good for the bowels.

[ Let's be real, if one of the shingekis was going to start making kale and spinach smoothies, it's probably Levi, and he'd probably like the taste too... ]

[ Hange does have a point about him not staying out of trouble as much as he probably should, though. But is he going to acknowledge it? Nah. ]

Date: 2023-10-14 11:47 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
So much that you wouldn't eat something you hate? I'm impressed.

[ Delivered in a complete deadpan, of course, because he is in fact not impressed at all. That's not how being a good friend works! Hange is one, though, just not for that reason. But it's petty bitching hours o'clock, so it is what it is. ]

[ HE'LL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE KALE JUICE AND HIS SWEET RELEASE, THANKS. ]

[ He waves a hand dismissively, generously letting them have the rest. ]


I'm good.

Date: 2023-10-18 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
[ Levi is definitely grimacing slightly and judging them but it is their birthday so he doesn't admonish them and instead leans over to dab at Hange's mouth with a napkin where the thinks some of that tea and chocolate mix may have leaked out due to lack of space. Don't mind him. ]

Ha. Maybe if I get too old for action. [ Or too injured. Though honestly it's super weird to think about it, and he quiets abruptly after that. Never in his life has he been in any situation to consider "when I get old", but now... he kind of is? And he doesn't know what to do with it. It feels alien. Unreal. Terrifying and calming at the same time. ]

[ Being able to retire? Could it actually happen?.. ]

[ He clears his throat, looks away. ]
...actually, I was thinking of trying to make a new tea blend. Not for a job, just...

[ For fun. Shit. Now that's a new one for them. ]

Date: 2023-10-19 12:05 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
[ Levi does notice that smile, of course. It seems that Hange is excited about the idea of tea cultivation? Makes sense, he supposes. They did always enjoy studying plants especially, and this is basically that, if with a bit more artistic freedom than pure science. Well then. Guess he'll just have to keep them in the loop about all of his new tea discoveries so they can keep smiling like that. ]

[ (And so, the mirror of "roomba face" is born...) ]


Yeah. A hobby.

[ Has he even had a hobby before now, aside from cleaning? He's not sure. But, well, this place was supposed to be all about a new life, so he supposes it's par for course. Still surreal, though, just like the idea of an achievable retirement. ]

Naturally. That's the point, isn't it? Starting from scratch. [ He could probably just buy the leaves and herbs and spices and experiment with that, but it didn't seem as fun as knowing exactly where everything came from. Okay, and maybe he didn't entirely trust the novelty stores. ]

[ He seems to perk up when Hange mentions sharing their little garden. ]
...I'd like that.

[ With how often he's in their apartment anyway, it probably wouldn't be any trouble for him to water it himself, but this would let Hange feel involved and they were clearly eager to take part in it, judging from that serene, warm expression on their face. ] Just let me know which ones are empty so I don't uproot one of your projects.

Date: 2023-10-28 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] wingbound
[ Cultivating life without sending it off to die in water later, at that. Yeah, having their own garden really sounds nice, doesn't it? There's not a lot of space for plants here, but maybe if they lived in the outskirts of the city, with a plot of their own land, maybe-- ]

[ He shakes it off, focusing on the present, and the present is that they're just fine where they are, aren't they? ]


Tomorrow is fine. We should do what you want today.

[ He surely went a long way from "Who cares about the day you were born", huh... ]

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