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"That awkward yet kind man...
A man like that must have come
from absolutely
nothing."
ABOUT
Levi Ackerman
NAME
Attack on Titan
CANON
Late 30's? (no canon age)
AGE
Human
SPECIES
Black
HAIR
Blue-grey
EYES
Bloodwright
VESSEL TYPE (SOMNIA)
Levi is a grouchy but well-meaning (usually) hardass clean freak weirdo who despite standing a towering 5'3" and sleeping two hours a night in a chair is allegedly humanity's strongest soldier, though he doesn't really care about this and wishes people would just shut up and leave him alone. He likes tea and very little else. He cracks a smile about once every eight months.First Impressions
Do you need your room sanitized to surgical standards? Do you want to feel tall? I have great news. Instant negative CR if your character does not bathe enough (read: his definition of 'enough') or tends to leave a mess behind in general. Giga-instant negative CR if your character says or does anything even remotely unsavory to Erwin, though the opposite is also true!
Chances are high the first thing you're gonna notice about this guy is that he is small. As noted above, Levi stands at a towering 160 cm, which translates to just a hair under 5'3". Yikes!
(forgive me i'm still working on this lmao)
PERSONALITY
There's probably nothing more baked into the premise of this character overall than loyalty. In canon, the Ackerman bloodline predisposes one to forming a strong bond with one (and only one) other person, sometimes referred to as a 'liege'. Though largely unbeknownst to the characters themselves, the pattern shows an intensely protective instinct and an unrivaled sense of loyalty towards this one person, who in Levi's case is Erwin Smith. Levi always functions under the assumption that Erwin knows best, no matter the situation; he trusts Erwin implicitly, and it's a mutual faith.NEUROTIC
Owing to the filth of the slums he was born in and the death of his mother to an infectious disease, Levi is extremely fastidious—that's the nice way of putting it, anyway. Levi is the definition of a clean freak: it's something he's notorious for in canon, and any soldier who's worked under him for more than an hour knows they're going to be doing a lot of cleaning, even if that's not really a part of the mission at hand. He has basically zero tolerance for a dirty environment and an aversion to blood—even titan blood, which evaporates on its own after a short time. That said, it's worth noting that he is able to set this neurosis aside when the situation is dire enough to call for it.WARMHEARTED
This one's a little bit harder to see. It's often hidden under layers and layers of blunt language, an unapproachable demeanor, and a tendency to solve ("solve") most of his problems with violence (see below). It's true that Levi comes off as cold and standoffish, but believe it or not, there's a heart of gold down in there somewhere. In canon, according to Erwin, no one cares as much about their comrades' lives as Levi does. Every loss hits him hard, even if he rarely lets it show. He may not be the best leader (a series guidebook gave him a teamwork score of 2/10), but his squad never has to second-guess whether their captain has their best interests at heart, and more than once he's been shown giving them an order to simply stay alive. Even if it's less about sweeping displays of good will and more about small gestures of warmth, anyone who thinks he's just an asshole is deeply mistaken.VIOLENT
This might seem contradictory to the previous trait, but 'cruel' would not be applicable here—not really. The thing is, in canon, Levi was raised (for some definition of 'raised') by his serial killer uncle Kenny, and Kenny taught him to survive; unfortunately, in their dangerous underground world, that meant he taught Levi how to fight. By this point, his mother was long dead, and it's not like he was able to go to school like a normal kid, so rather than learning to read and write and be one of those normal kids, he learned how to use a knife. His lessons were on how to beat someone within an inch of their life. The problem-solving method he learned was literally just "do violence until it's not a problem anymore". As he leaves the underground, joins the military, and grows (figuratively, of course) as a person, this evens out a little, but to a certain extent it seems to be pretty ingrained. At one point he has a member of the Military Police captured, and when the MP taunts him with the alleged possibility that Erwin could be executed, Levi just casually breaks the guy's arm. It's fine, though. He totally deserved it.CRASS
Looking for someone who has a way with words? Better look elsewhere. Truly, the only dirty thing about Levi is his mouth. He has a fairly rude way of speaking and no qualms about cursing whatsoever. Worst of all, his idea of humor is rooted primarily in... well, the toilet. Poop jokes are his go-to, unfortunately for everyone around him. And it's no coincidence that Kenny, the sociopath (and uncle, it turns out) who took Levi in after his mother died, spoke the very same way. Levi's potty mouth is the result of being partially raised by someone who really, really isn't good with kids.STRONG
Levi's strength goes far beyond being humanity's strongest soldier. While that kind of strength is obvious to anyone who's ever seen him in action, there's a more hidden kind as well—an inner strength that has kept him going through tragedy after tragedy, from one heartbreak to the next. It would take far more than the word limit allows to list them all, but he's spent his entire life watching every person he's ever cared about die, and yet he somehow finds the strength to keep going every time without losing sight of who he really is and what he believes in. This strength has kept him alive just as much as the physical kind.
ABILITIES
Levi’s stats are a bit ridiculous. The combat rating is based primarily on proficiency with the vertical maneuvering equipment, which is the somewhat complicated contraption used to fight titans. (Here's a detailed explanation on what it is and how it works.) The main thing to report here is that Levi is pretty much universally considered to be the best at using this equipment, and thus the best at killing titans. He's very quick, and his small stature lends itself well to this particular kind of combat. Beyond being exceptionally skilled with the vertical maneuvering gear (and quite proficient at using knives and hand-to-hand combat as well), Levi does not have any extra-human abilities - the only explanation we're given is that as an Ackerman he has somewhat extraordinary combat capabilities because the bloodline is "a byproduct of titan science". He’s just really good at killing stuff. It runs in the family.
OOC/MISC.
CURRENT: Somnia
PREVIOUS (NON-EXHAUSTIVE): Aefenglom, Cerealia, CFUD, Deer Country, Folkmore, Kyriakos, Noctium, Pixie Led, Recolle, Save the Earth, Snowblind
(some other dumb shit no one asked for will go here)
