BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST!

[indigo_league]

Who: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
Where: ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
When: MAY 21ST TO MAY 23RD
Summary: GET IN HERE AND MINGLE
Rating: BUT PLEASE MARK YOUR THREAD CONTENT ACCORDINGLY
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[wrappedwarm]

You're not scary. [Just a mumble as she held up the shivering Espurr. The fuzzy cat was the one who was scared. But Mikasa didn't hold them up long, she pulled the pokemon back to her chest to cuddle. Shh, it okay. But Mikasa wasn't scared of him, not even the slightest.]

Mikasa.

[Riveting conversation here.]

[thugheichou]

[You can't expect anything more than monosyllabic answers out of two Ackermans.]

[Mikasa, though? Levi supposed he could see the resemblance. He never knew her as a small child, but there was something in her that was remarkably like himself when he was that age.]

I didn't think it would be important, but I think I should tell you my full name. I'm Levi Ackerman.

[wrappedwarm]

[They were doing better than expected.

Then he mentioned his last name and she tensed. Tiny eyebrows knotting together., a small noise of unease slipping out. Peering up at him like he'd suddenly look familiar... He didn't. She still didn't know him. So she looked down at the Espurr in her arms.]

...That's my last name. [Why did he have it?]

[thugheichou]

It's likely that we're related. I don't know how, though.

[His own memories of his mother were vague at best. She never mentioned family. Most of it was just her suffering and his starvation. Kenny wasn't a good parental figure at all, but at least he ate well then.]

I don't mean to pressure you. I just thought you should know.

[wrappedwarm]

I don't know... [She'd not been told of any relatives. Only that her parents had gone into hiding, they'd never mention any other family members or where they'd be. She wasn't sure what to think and remained quiet thinking. The Espurr in her arms reaching to poke her face. Prompting her to lift it and look up at Levi.]>

...Why?

[Why did he think that? What did he mean by pressure, he'd not asked anything had he?]

[thugheichou]

Just because I might be your uncle, or cousin, doesn't mean that you have to listen to me or do as I say. That's up to you.

[An older Mikasa may have been his subordinate at one point, but she wasn't anymore. This one never had been. He respected people's autonomy, even a child's.]

[wrappedwarm]

Oh... [A few seconds pause as her head remained level. Staring at him.]




I wasn't going to anyway. [She really hadn't been. He was not a trusted adult to listen to, even if nothing about him made her tense. He was just an old guy with a limp, had it not been for his last name, she wouldn't have thought anything of it.] ...Do you live here?

[thugheichou]

[He wasn't offended by her decision in the slightest. He always felt that Mikasa only "followed" his orders because they lined up with her priorities at the time. This wasn't any different.]

No. I just arrived. Rather abruptly.

[wrappedwarm]

[That got a slow nod. Lifting the Espurr slightly, showing him.] I woke up here, with this. ['This' promptly gave a small cry and wiggled, trying to get away.]

...Where are you from? My... [She mumbled, a foot kicking at the ground. Gaze lowering.] They said there wasn't anyone else? [But this guy had known her. Just by her first name.]

[thugheichou]

I was born in the Underground. I don't know who my father was. My mother was an Ackerman. She died when I was very young. My uncle-- her brother-- raised me.

They most likely told you that to protect you. There's something special about our clan that made people afraid of us. There have been times in history when we were hunted down, but not anymore.

[wrappedwarm]

[That was a whole lot of information. Possibly too much. The underground? She'd heard vague rumours of that place, that it was bad.

But she nodded.] They said that... [That her father's side had been hunted down for an unknown reason. And her mother had been because she was 'rare'.]

Why were people afraid?

[thugheichou]

[It was bad. But she didn't need to know about his criminal lifestyle when he was young.]

We're strong.

Have you felt it yet? A moment where you knew you had to protect something, and nothing else mattered. You just did it.

[wrappedwarm]

[Welppp, that just got more blank staring as Mikasa's face paled. Did she know of a moment like that? Maybe, but it wasn't something she could talk about. Her eyes narrowed at the man as her temple started to throb.

She shuffled, shying away from him.]

...No.

[thugheichou]

...You don't have to talk about it. [He stood again, in an attempt to take the pressure off of her. It turned into a bit of a clumsy stumble, but he stayed upright.] It's not very important.

[wrappedwarm]

[She wasn't going to talk about, ever. Even if she remained rooted to the spot, a hand coming up to rub at her head, her right eye. 'It's not important']

Why did you ask then?