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[Post-Basement canon-divergent AU] Ten years after the end of the war, Levi, still heartbroken over Erwin's death, is living out a quiet existence with a few Survey Corps survivors. But signs are beginning to surface that Erwin is not truly dead, and they're getting too vivid to ignore...
This fic explores (canon-divergent) choices that the survivors made after Erwin's death and their consequences for the world. It's also about healing, and Erwin and Levi learning to put words to things that have always been unspoken between them. And beneath it all are the paths, whispering to them that the fate of Paradis still rests upon their shoulders...
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20 May 2026
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The first timeline was heartbreakingly realistic. Every alternative to canon felt super authentic to the story and the characters.
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Erwin believed beyond a shadow of a doubt that Levi had climbed that wall.
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23 Apr 2026
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02 Apr 2026
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A unique style of storytelling! Some fresh changes to the plot and characters, as well as many laugh out loud moments throughout the series
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"Levi misses Erwin in the margin between sleeping and waking. He thinks about Erwin when he steps out of a hot bath into cold air. He imagines Erwin’s new life, his new vocation, his new family, when the seasons change, or when he blows the candles out, or now, as the sun sets. The only space he does so is a space of a threshold. It does not feel good or bad. It does not feel happy or sad. Levi realises now, however, that this is not the same as it feeling nothing."
Six years after the War ends and they part ways, Levi finds himself at Erwin's door again.
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- English
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Bookmarked by Smellie
01 Feb 2026
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The language is syrupy sweet, dripping with poetry and sticking with you.
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Levi was a high school janitor, and he was sure that he didn’t deserve happiness. Both things were fine with him.
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- Part 1 of The Word Freedom