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• I was popular enough by PoftPuft

  Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan, 進撃の巨人 | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan (Movies)  

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  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  15 Sep 2025

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Levi Ackerman/Original Female Character(s)
  • Levi Ackerman & Kuchel Ackerman
  • Levi Ackerman
  • Pre-Canon
  • underground city
  • Teenage Levi Ackerman
  • First Love / First Relationship
  • Hurt/Comfort Without Comfort
  • I Was Popular Enough
  • Levi Ackerman’s Childhood
  • Levi Ackerman Backstory
  • Underground City (Attack on Titan)
  • Levi Ackerman Has Feelings (Unfortunately)
  • Levi Ackerman Needs a Hug (But Won’t Accept One)

  Summary

  The line “I was popular enough” always sounded like loss to me. After the Rumbling, Levi’s strength and certainty are gone — what’s left feels like numbness. This is him remembering the one time he let someone close, back when he was a teenager working security in a brothel as hired muscle. In my head, it makes sense that some of the people who knew his mother would’ve helped him find work there.

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  English

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