headcanon + his squad . 💕🐥

send  me  ‘ headcanon ‘  +  a  word: still accepting.

Levi's squad. Levi's feelings surrounding his unit are very similar to his feelings surrounding family — and that is, they are his family. Deeply, he will always care for them. He may come across as unapproachable, even emotionally stagnated, but the way they've toppled his walls is something oh so plainly undeniable. They have his utmost respect, have won his unfledging need to keep them safe, and he'll risk fire and hell if they can come back alive — though survival, he understands, is no guarantee. Still, Levi, humanity's strongest soldier, does his god damn best. They work in Special Operations, have experienced the very worst together, and every body they've buried, they've buried side by side. They've had the highest of highs and the bitterest of lows. They are a unit, a family, have bonds that'll never suffer, and when Levi's retired, no longer dressed in uniform, they'll still look right at him like he still leads.

And, you know what? In a way, he still sort of does. He might have never been overly warm or flattering, sure, but during hard times, his presence was always infallible. In his retirement, Levi still offers up pragmatic advice (and Mikasa, I imagine, visits most of all). He's always had a weight, has shouldered the dreams of the hundreds of fallen, and in that way, I think Levi has an undeniable wisdom, a sort of sense and rationality his unit values. Being older than them as well, he'll find them confiding in him every now and again, and he'll grumble lamely saying he's no longer Captain, but they know that isn't true — and he does, too.