Without You, I... (Levi Ackerman)
Episode 1
Entering the Simulation
A Choice With No Regrets
You let out a quiet huff in your sleep.
Face scrunching up, wondering why it was chilly in your apartment, especially because the entire building came with central heating, you reached out to draw the sheets around you more comfortably.
Only to touch warm, bare skin.
Alarmed, you blinked groggily.
There, sleeping right next to you, without a shirt on, is a man. Ignoring the niggling sense of familiarity, something at the back of your mind trying to tell you that you knew this person, you didn’t even consciously decide to do so before your hand drew back.
Mere seconds before your hand could make contact with his face, his hand clamped down tightly around your wrist. Grey eyes stared back at you evenly, ignoring how you futilely tugged, trying to wrestle the appendage free of his grip. “…What did you think you were doing?”
Before you could really go to town and drag his ass from A to Z, for being a garbage human being and threaten him with the authorities, the strangest thing happened.
For lack of better words or explanation, everything… paused.
Ghostly white words floated in front of your face.
/Attack on Titan is a story based game that features player choice. The consequence of all your in-game actions and decisions will impact the past, present, and future. Choose wisely./
You’re not ashamed at all to admit that you kinda maybe totally did have a mini freak out as you came to the belated realization that you weren’t in your apartment. Kymbrea’s gift, the VR headset, that strange AI…
So that meant that you’re currently experiencing an incredibly realistic simulated reality, and for your first playthrough, you’d been deposited in a man eating, Titan infested world, in bed with…with…with…
With Levi Ackerman…!?
As you dissolved into another mini freak out, the kind of freaking out that included screaming incoherently into the void, ugly laughter and general i-cant-believe-this-is-happening rants, you come to the belated, belated realization that while the game is paused, surprisingly enough, you could still move around.
It was weird because your body… Er, your simulated body, which totally looked exactly like you, lovely brown skin, lush curves, full lips and all, is still being held captive by Levi.
You felt like an honest to god voyeur as you took note of the intimate positioning. Levi clearly had taken up the big spoon position but somehow you’d turned around and were facing him, and you still weren’t clear just how naked…
‘Think good, clean thoughts. Good, clean wholesome thoughts.’
It wouldn’t do to jump to the wrong conclusions.
…Well, more than you already had.
‘Let’s let the game continue, so I can figure out what the hell is going on here.’
Focusing on the weird ghostly writing, you reach out and touch them, fighting the urge to panic as the words vanished. You breathed a sigh of relief as another set of words appeared, but they were different than that first block of text.
These looked like options.
[“…What did you think you were doing?” (Silence is always a valid option, too.)
a.) “I was going to gently swat that spider off the pillow by your head but it’s gone now.”
b.) “What am I doing? What are you doing? What is anyone doing at this lovely hour? Ease up on the pressure, Levi~”
c.) “I was waking up from a nightmare or something, I guess, and it…Let’s just forget about it, okay?”
d.) “….” ]
‘!!!!!!!!!!? What the hell is up with these options!!’ Two out of the four looked a little playful, maybe a bit airheaded, one sounded super tsundere-ish. Is this an action MMOPG or a romance otome game?
Brows furrowed, for a few seconds you agonized over what to choose. Regardless of anything, you thought silence was a no-go in this situation, there’d surely be other instances that you could go for that. So placed a hand over your eyes and pointed at will.
Peeking through your fingers, you realize that you’d picked the first choice.
Time unpaused and you found yourself actually saying the sentence aloud. Levi’s classic bored expression didn’t shift much, though it might have been your imagination, you think he might, MIGHT, have smiled, just a little. His switched his grip from your wrist, tapping you sharply on the forehead.
“You’re a shitty liar, I know I’ve told you this a dozen times, idiot.” He sat up in bed, the sheet slipping down to show off his sculpted chest and then Levi was getting out of bed, you saw his firm, toned, bare ass. You could actually see his…his… “If you keep staring, you’ll catch flies.”
“I wasn’t!” You protested halfheartedly.
Fleetingly, you looked off to the side for a minute or two, embarrassed to have been caught, only for Levi to catch your chin, making you look up at him and then his mouth slanted over yours and all coherent thought fled your brain. His tongue swiped over your bottom lip and when you didn’t open immediately, he nipped lightly.
The sting of it made you part your lips, and his tongue slipped inside, stroking against yours sensually. Hands going to his bare shoulders, you’re about to try and coax him to get back into bed with you. Levi let this continue for a few seconds or so, before slowly backing off despite your whining.
“You’re being a brat, again.” Much to your delight, his voice is deliciously husky. “We can continue this later, but right now, we need to meet up with Isabel and Farlan.”
This time, when time paused, although you’re still a little (i.e. really a lot) hot under the collar, you expected it.
Maybe even welcomed it a bit.
Because Isabel and Farlan?
Weren’t those two Levi’s friends before he joined the Survey Corps?
{Levi Affection increased by 5. Levi is amused by you.}
{Levi Affection increased by 5. Levi is aroused.}
{Gained the ‘Fool for You’ trophy}
/Congratulations! You’ve made your first significant choice. There are several hidden trophies to be collected and every choice can has the potential for greater impact and deeper conversation.
So it’s highly advised to try them all to get the full experience! If you’d like to check your progress in the storyline, check your inventory, view your trophies, check your stats, check your friendship(s) stats, turn on and off Tutorial Mode, or to save and exit the game, you can return to the Main Menu after a checkpoint has been reached or you’ve made a significant choice.
Would you like to try it out now?
a.) Yes
b.) No /
Going through the pros and cons quickly, you decided to bite the bullet and touched the wisp-like word ‘Yes’. A second later and a full body screenshot appeared. You’re dressed in a simple white cotton shirt and black pants, comfortable black boots on your feet, there’s a gun holster strapped across your shoulders and back, ODM gear attached to your hips and your hair is done up in braids.
Strength (65)
Health (58)
Agility (72)
Dexterity (70)
Concentration (82)
Leadership (90)
‘Not bad stats to start off with. I wonder how I can increase it. …I hope I can increase it.’ It’d be worrying to try taking on titans with stats at this level.
Figuring that you were just overthinking things, you reached out and touched the screenshot, holding your finger there, you ‘swiped’ right. Next popped up your inventory, which contained your guns and knives collection (it was a fuckton), a ratty old cowboy hat, a grungy teddy bear, a letter, and money.
Repeating your actions again, you swiped to the right and up popped the progress of the storyline, which was only 2%. You fiddled with the settings, making sure that the blood and gore box was checked, you kept the pain tolerance at it’s default level, the mature scenes were left at default settings and could be viewed repeatedly, swearing was left alone at it’s default setting as well.
Everything looked good.
Then you came across the Friendship Stats and thank fuck, things kind of, sort of, started making actual sense. You were even given a little bit of background information, and what a backstory it was.
You’d been born in the Underground to your mother [Your Mother’s Name] and an unknown father. Your mom had been the only thing closely resembling a doctor in these parts and besides helping those that could afford it, she was often contracted to make sure that the women in the brothel were taken care of; thus how she and Kuchel became friends, of a sort. Later, you and Levi were introduced to each other, and despite the attempted matchmaking, you and he didn’t immediately take to each other.
‘This really is like a frickin’ otome game…’
Skimming through the rest, you got the gist. It’s clear that your mom was more than just a doctor, and there’s a 75% probability that some noble is your sperm donor, because why else would MPs murder a random woman in the Underground? Even more suspicious is the fact that Kenny raised (and you use that term lightly) you and Levi together for awhile, he even left you his hat and told you to look after yourself and Levi.
‘Okay, I’m getting invested in this game now…’
You were level 7 with Farlan on the friendship stat level, the bar halfway completed and looking like it’d be seeing a level up soon; under his bio, you read that he saw you as sort of second in command.
Isabel was at level 9, and the two of you were kind of like siblings, she might be nursing a hero worship thing or somethin’. Her bar was completely empty, so it must have recently gotten to that point.
Levi… His friendship stat kind of irritated you. He was also level 7 and the bar was just a little under halfway filled. Underneath his bio, there was a couple small paragraphs that detailed some of the ‘important’ moments that’d happened between you and him; training together, Kenny telling him to treat girls with respect, getting accidentally heel kicked in the crotch by you, the first time that he lost a match against you, you giving him tea leaves. The most recent important thing being that you’d slept together recently.
‘So shouldn’t this be level eight???? What the fucking fuck, Levi?’
Feeling yourself getting unnecessarily wound up, you inhaled and exhaled. Clenching your fists together tightly, you made a vow to max all your current relationships out. Most importantly, you’d get Levi to fall head over heels for you to the point where his every thought would center around you.
Swiping right a final time, you came across the final screen.
/Save and Continue or Save and Exit?/
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And thus concludes the first chapter! What do YOU want to do? Do you want to continue wearing Levi down or do you want to come back to him later?