#104th trainee corps

Shelter from the Rain Vol. 12 Eren Yeager & The 104th Training Corps

They had no choice but to cancel the training march once the rain began to fall that afternoon.

The endless downpour robbed them of any visibility, the cold air hastened their horses’ fatigue, and the softened ground limited their Vertical Maneuvering. The recruits had no choice but to pitch tents on high ground and set up camp.

Eren stood under the tent and sighed as he lifted the hood of his rain gear.

Damn… We could’ve gone farther if only it was clear out.

The sky should have been dyed crimson by the setting sun, but it was now covered by thick rain clouds, allowing dusk to sneak up on them faster than expected.

“Eren… You’re going to get cold like that.”

Mikasa walked up to the boy’s side and looked at him. At about the same time, Reiner called the two over.

“Hey, you guys help build the fire, too!”

When Eren looked around, he saw everyone going about their own business.

******

“Sheesh. Whose fault is it that it’s raining like this, Bertolt?”

“Is… Is it my fault?”

“Hunh? It’s your fault?!”

Jean, Bertolt, and Connie were busy chatting and cracking jokes as they threw logs onto the bonfire.

“Come on, now. No one’s to blame for the weather,” Marco said with a forced smile, stirring a pot full of food. As soon as Jean noticed Eren walking over, he began to badmouth him.

“Ugh, we would’ve been able to set up a better campsite if only that suicide bastard hadn’t charged forward all on his own.”

“We might have even been able to hunt some meat!”

“Do you really think we’d be able to hunt in this rain?”

“…Ugh.”

Ymir shot down Sasha’s off-the-mark joke with a serious reply as Annie let out a bored sigh. Next to them, Krista was briskly preparing bread for everyone in the camp.

“Here you go, Armin. This is for you guys.”

“Thanks. Here you go, Eren,” Armin said. After being handed the bread from Armin, Eren looked around once more.

…It was so lively.

All these people around… I don’t think I was ever in a situation like this…until I signed up to be a soldier.

******

The rain incessantly pounded against the tent.

When I was little… I think I was only ever with Mikasa and Armin.

Eren never got along well with other children. It wasn’t until he became a recruit that he was together with others his age the way he now found himself.

While Eren had a strong competitive spirit, he never isolated himself in these situations. Even if he got in an argument and began to fight with another recruit, there was always someone there to step in and mediate.

“Food’s ready. All of you better eat up.”

Reiner poured everyone soup as Marco and Krista passed it out.

I used to think all that mattered was getting strong and defeating Titans… But it was here that I learned I can’t do it alone.

******

“What’s the matter? It’s going to get cold.”

“Oh! …It’s nothing.”

Mikasa tapped Eren’s shoulder as he was lost in thought. He noticed Jean gritting his teeth, as well as Connie and Sasha watching on and grinning.

In the rain, Eren saw them as reliable friends, people he could trust in.

I wonder if…I’m going to fight alongside them someday. We might be assigned to different branches, but…we’re fighting against the Titans no matter where we go in this world.

Even so, he halt he would be able to manage if he was fighting together with them.

While Eren couldn’t quite recognize his emotions as trust, the boy continued to quietly think about his future.

SOURCE:Attack on Titan: Short Stories

Shelter from the Rain Vol. 10 Ymir & Annie Leonhart

As if hand-to-hand combat training wasn’t draining enough, a troublesome drizzle began to come from the sky. Ymir sighed.

She showed up for long enough to be counted at roll call, then sneaked away toward a nearby storehouse when her instructor wasn’t looking. The rain drizzled on her the whole way there, and she was completely wet by the time she made it under the roof.

“Ugh… Do they really expect me to put up with this?”

“You said it.”

Ymir turned to face this surprising reply as she wiped the water off her body. There stood a small girl looking at Ymir with her arms crossed.

“…So you were here, Annie?”

******

“Heh… You sure about this?”

“About what?”

Annie’s cool expression didn’t change, despite Ymir’s teasing.

“I’m asking if little Miss Honor Student, who’s definitely on track to be in the top ten, should really be skipping training in a place like this.”

“Hand-to-hand combat doesn’t factor into our marks. There’s no way I can act stupid enough to want to put work into training in the rain,” Annie casually said, looking at the recruits as they trained. “People take the path of least resistance.”

The majority of the others weren’t putting themselves into this Training that wouldn’t reflect on them later. While none of them were skipping outright like Ymir and Annie, there were mentally doing something similar.

“Sure you don’t need to go up against that hot-blooded goof? He was really interested in your martial arts, wasn’t he?” Ymir said, pointing to Eren. He was one of the few other recruits putting everything he had into even this training, and he was trying to tackle Mikasa.

“He’s busy right now focusing on trying to do something about the one recruit he can’t beat. I don’t have a clue what’s so fun about that, though.”

“Heh… Weren’t you the one who taught him that move?”

“I trained with him because he wouldn’t leave me alone, that’s all.”

The recruits continued to train in hand-to-hand combat as their body grew colder in the drizzling rain.

“…Like I said. You won’t be able to put any power into it like that.” Eren’s flexible partner sent him flying straight into the ground with one of her throws, and Annie couldn’t help but say the words, dismayed.

“What’s that? Worried about your disciple?”

“…Not really. Just a little annoyed.”

“You don’t sound annoyed to me.”

“…”

But Annie’s silent intimidation didn’t work on Ymir.

“See, look. He’s not giving up.”

“You don’t need to comment on every little thing that happens.”

Ymir began to grin when she saw Annie turn to look the other way.

“You know… You’re bad at acting cold.”

“Hunh?!”

“I can tell by your eyes.”

Ymir smirked in Annie’s face.

******

“It’s not just Eren. There’s kindness in your eyes no matter who you’re looking at, whether they’re slacking or taking it seriously.”

“What's…that suppose to mean? You’re not even making sense.”

“That’s fine, you don’t need to understand,” Ymir said, patting Annie’s shoulders as she put away the secret sealed inside her. “Whether they’re stupidly overbearing…or so weak they’ll let anyone push them around…you must see every single one of them as human, don’t you?”

“Human, huh…”

Annie looked at the ceiling, paying no mind to the rain that blew down onto her face. It was as if there was something more for her to think about in those words.

“Whoa, crap. The instructor’s about to come around.”

“…Yeah, all right.”

The two girls silently left the storehouse and slipped back into the group with the rest of their peers. The gentle rain showed no signs of stopping as it poured on all of the recruits alike, whether strong or weak.

SOURCE: Attack on Titan: Short Stories

Shelter from the Rain Vol. 08 Reiner Braun & Marco Bott

Reiner had expected the day’s practice march to be a mess. The day had come for the training exercise where they were to split into squads and travel a predetermined distance down various kinds of terrain, and it had been pouring rain all morning.

“Well… Just like I thought, then.”

Reiner pushed through the sloshing mud to invite his squad’s members into an abandoned house where they could take shelter from the rain.

“Wait, Reiner?!”

“…Oh, Marco!”

******

“This exercise is supposed to be squad against squad. It’s not much of a competition if we’re resting in the same place.”

“You just chose the shortest and least difficult route, too, right? So we can’t help it if we end up taking break at the same spot, Reiner.”

The two leaders let their squads rest as they built a fire.

“If you made the decision to come here first, then that must make you the one more cut out to be a commanding officer,” Reiner said.

“No, we just got here, too. You’re doing just as well as me. And…” Marco continued as he tossed in more firewood, “It’s not like you’re resting in order to earn points either, are you?”

“Hm?”

“Our squadmates have to be getting tired after travelling through this rain. You decided to take a break out of consideration for them. Am I wrong?”

“No… That is true, but…”

Reiner could feel his vision wavering the slightest bit as he stared into the shimmering flames.

I'm…being considerate to people?

Reiner grew silent as he cast his eyes downward. The feeling that he was forgetting something refused to leave his mind.

******

“Reiner?” Marco said, looking concerned. Reiner fired back in order to keep up appearances.

“But not anyone would say that kind of thing, Marco. I think that shows you’re a leader who really knows how to think of his team.”

“But… I’m not strong like you, Reiner. That’s why I always tend to sacrifice myself whenever I lead… I don’t think that’s a good trait.” Marco opened up his rain gear to show Reiner his white pants, soaked up to the thigh with muddy water. “I didn’t want to have to use any of my squad members as sacrifices when we crossed the river. I decided it would be best for me to get in first and figure out how deep it was, and that’s when I slipped.”

“C'mon… What’re you doing? You know that you’re going to end up as prime Titan food if you’re too kind.”

“Yeah…” Marco slumped his shoulders. “I think I’d be able to pull everyone forward if I was strong like you, Reiner. I admire you.”

He…admires me…?

Reiner was gripped by the strange sensation once more.

For whatever reason, something about these pure feelings of respect and trust made him feel a deep sense of guilt.

******

“Come over here by the fire, everyone! Reiner’s squad, too!”

Reiner snapped back to his senses when he heard Marco calling out to the others.

“That’s right, you guys! Don’t let yourselves get cold! We’re gonna push once we get back out there so that we don’t let them beat us!”

“Oh yeah? Well, we don’t have any intention of losing, either!”

Marco’s unaffected smile sent another prick into Reiner’s chest.

“Hah! I’ll show you who the better soldier is!” Reiner wiped away his feelings by saying the words, causing his mind to change gears.

That’s right. I’m a soldier. Being trusted is part of that.

As the team’s trusting eyes all rested on Reiner, the odd fraying in his heart grew indistinct, like the mud and leaves in the rain dissolving as they were washed away.

SOURCE: Attack on Titan: Short Stories

v-day ; levi squad + hange

warnings just cute stuff with my babies

genre fluff, modern au

word count0.7k

inspo honestly, i’m going through an armin brainrot phase so

synopsisstill sad and mourning so here’s how i cope with aot ( again )

a/n i miss sasha so i needed to make one of these for valentines day activities ( isayama, if you ever see this. i’m under your bed )

eren yeager;

• literally gone when you wake up
• and you know exactly why ‘cause he does it every year
• to say eren goes all out for valentines day would be an understatement
• even though it happens every year, you never get tired of his planned out scavenger hunts
• he has you run around the city for clues and it brings you to places the both of you have been before and of course, it ends with you meeting him at some restaurant or even back at home
• ( you prefer the restaurant because i headcanon that eren cannot cook for shit )
• but still it’s really romantic and he will not hesitate to do it again ( or something even better ) the following year

armin arlert;

• plain and simple, you’re not allowed to lift a finger
• he brings you breakfast in bed, he’s giving you presents, he’s running you a bath, literally anything you want he’ll do it for you
• ( it’s like this on a regular basis but he denies that )
• and he’ll make you both a dinner ( which is actually good )
• and you guys would probably spend the rest of the night in this extravagant fort ( that armin built without a word ), watching romcoms

levi ackerman;

• you never expect much every year but you never expect nothing
• levi doesn’t really favor valentines day, he thinks it’s stupid and just a money grabber but ask that man to buy you a bouquet and he’s out the door
• he’ll give it to you with a grimace while muttering something but you still find it romantic
• but of course, grumpy still believes in the money grabbing part so he insists you guys stay in every year and he’ll cook instead
• which you don’t mind ( again, ‘cause it’s actually good compared to w.e eren would’ve made )
• every valentines day to date with levi has ended with some cheesy chick flick and he acts like he hates them but he’s definitely invested

hange zoë;

• y’all are on vacation
• every single year hange refuses to stay home for valentines day because they think it’s boring and generic
• so, ( even though you think it’s too expensive), hange flies you guys out somewhere to spend the occasion
• “we don’t need to fly out to the bahamas, hange. it’s just valentines day.”
• “but i already booked the flight.”
• you can’t complain though because spending your valentines day with hange on a beach is something you don’t mind doing every time february comes around

sasha braus;

• no matter what the circumstances are, y’all are gonna eat out on valentines day
• snow, rain, hail, y’all are going somewhere with food and sasha is determined
• and always after your dinners, you guys go home and try to make a valentines day themed treat
• which is typically unsuccessful because you have sasha as your own personal human trash disposal but it’s still romantic in the moment

jean kirstein;

• just like levi, he’ll say valentines day is pointless but he’ll still have a table booked at some fancy restaurant “just because”
• trust me, in the same breath he denies the fact he cares about the occasion he’ll be bending over backwards to get you a good gift
• and he manages outdoes himself every year somehow and will still claim the day is stupid
• definitely that one mfer that puts roses on the bed for “atmosphere purposes” when you open said gift

connie springer;

• seriously, valentines day with connie is fun
• he never sticks to anything annually
• one year you’ll celebrate at the amusement park, or at a fancy restaurant, one year even landed you two at mcdonald’s but with connie it was all the same
• i definitely see you guys just staying in one year and making personal cards for each other
• it’s a complete mess of glitter, glue, markers, and stickers but with the amount of laughter it doesn’t matter
• his card definitely had a corny dirty joke as the punchline but at this point you consider it romance

mikasa ackerman;

• mikasa and valentines day simply don’t mix
• kind of like jean and levi, she doesn’t understand it. but like genuinely, she doesn’t
• “why do i need a special day to be sweet to you? i do that every day already.”
• so, every year you have to turn the tables and do things for her that honestly come as a surprise
• she genuinely never expects the presents you get her but she always shows her gratitude and thankfulness
• and she keeps every one of them very close to her, literally still sleeps with the bear you won her on your first v—day date at a carnival

winter things ; eren, armin, levi, hange, sasha, jean, connie, and mikasa

warnings this is just some pure fluff hcs

genre fluff, modern au

word count 0.6k

inspirationn/a

synopsis winter things with some of the aot characters

author’s note i recently caught up on the aot manga and it ripped me apart. so, for my own self indulgence, here’s winter things i’d want to do with them individually ( or could see them doing )

eren yeager;

• please ask him if he wants to build gingerbread houses
• i can see it getting competitive, so competitive that eren wants armin to step in as judge
• just to see his reaction, you play dirty ( eat steal some of his materials, even go as far as breaking his gingerbread, etc. )
• doesn’t notice for a while but thanks to your snickering and armin trying to hold back his laughter, it clicks
• and boy, was eren not having it
• after his rant you give the competition to him even though he won technically because of your cheating

armin arlert;

• i don’t know why but i can see gift wrapping with armin being therapeutic
• there’s the faint sound of christmas songs while you two are having small talk about who’s present you’re wrapping
• softly asking each other for materials
• and if there’s bigger gifts, asking for help from one another
• and for myself: he’d be there to calm you down when you accidentally pull too hard on paper and rip it

levi ackerman;

• just one look at levi and you can tell he’s not one for christmas spirit
• but pester him a enough times to help you decorate and you’ll get what you want
• he claims it’s because he doesn’t want you to make the house ugly but truly he likes it
• you know for a fact when you see him focusing hard on which bulb to put on the tree
• to make it more fun, you guys decorate different parts of the house
• and at the end of it all, you two sit down and enjoy tea ( while levi comments on the parts of the house you did )

hange zoë;

• obnoxiously singing christmas songs
• i just know it’s the best feeling to scream your lungs out with hange
• your guys’ voice cracking and everything
• not a single key is being hit but it’s fun
• it’s usually done on christmas day when everyone else is over
• and yes, levi hates it

sasha braus;

• you and sasha annually decorate christmas cookies
• of course with sasha, it’s not smooth sailing
• by time you guys are done half of the materials have been digested by her
• but she still lets you have your fun and you guys end up with a handful of nice cookies
• which by the end of the night are eaten by sasha but it’s still fun

jean kirstein;

• all i want is to watch christmas lights with jean
• he’ll probably think it’s stupid at first but since you want to do it, he will no doubt
• he’s glad he goes along with you because seeing your reaction every time you guys see a breathtaking display makes his heart warm
• lets be honest, connie and sasha tag along and they don’t hold back every time they see him smile at you

connie springer;

• speaking of connie, snowball fights are necessary every winter season with him
• it’s all fun and games until connie nails you in the face and then you’re out for blood
• you both have forts with stacks of snowballs and you guys could go all day
• usually it ends sooner than later since it’s freezing
• ends with you two cuddled up inside

mikasa ackerman;

• build a snowman with her NOW
• she’ll be hesitant at first because just like levi, winter fun doesn’t seem like her thing either
• but after seeing how much you’re enjoying it she’ll embrace it
• liked dressing it the most, even went as far as wrapping her scarf around it
• was, surprisingly, sad when it melted

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