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  1. Summary

    A series of various kisses and various kinds of love from Hange Zoë for cherished comrades.

    Valentine’s Day ficlet collection. Not in chronological order. Each ficlet is posted separately for reader discretion/comfort as far as ships go.

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  2. Summary

    Basically a series of shameless Levihan smut that takes place prior to my main Levihan series: "To Have and To Hold". Not in chronological order.

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  3. Summary

    A series that focuses on Hange Zoe's childhood and early years in the scouts before Levi joins up. Set as preceding my main Levihan series: "To Have and To Hold". Not in chronological order.

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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    "If I could, I'd wanna experience a million springs."

    "You can, right?" Levi was slow to realize how easily he had fallen on hastily made presumptions. In fact he probably wouldn't have realized what he had just thought if Hange hadn't turned to him, her eyebrows pinched together, a half smile heavy on her lips.

    She hummed in thought. "In a person's life... If they live long enough, they'll only get eighty to ninety good springs. And how many of those springs will we remember and how many of them can we actually fully experience?"

    Hange's favorite season is spring and Levi proposes a little game.

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    17 Mar 2026

  2. Rec 12

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    841 is a very low point for the Survey Corps, and Squad Leader Erwin Smith is struggling to remain optimistic after he has given so much to the cause. He finds an unexpected ally in Hange Zoë, one of the Corps's newest recruits, but as he's growing closer to her, there comes a question: can he really trust someone like her to become a loyal partner he's been looking for? Can he trust anyone at all with his dream and his vision?

    This is not a love story.

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    01 Feb 2026

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    “Birds of feather?” Erwin raised his eyebrows, now interested in spite of himself.

    “Yeah.” Mike wiped his mustache and leaned back in his chair. “If only you could see the two of you from the side—how you were hunched over that plan like a pair of birds of prey—a pair of hawks over carrion. You’d peck at it and gobble it up if you could. Now I thought you were the only one who gets all fired up by the talk of strategy and formations like a cadet on a first date, but Hange is just like that too. Only she’s more into Titans, which, when you think about it, is even worse. Even your noses are the same,” he suddenly added.

    “Oh yeah?” Erwin feigned skepticism while barely holding back laughter. His melancholy began to dissipate.

    “Yes, they are. Just like those of two hawks—real beaks, I’m telling you.”

    “Leave my nose alone and go look at yours in the mirror.”

    “My nose,” Mike raised a finger instructively, “is at least an asset for everyone. And the ones you two have are just a waste of space on your faces.”

  3. Rec 94

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    In the past few years, Goro Akechi has grown beyond the avenging angel he set out to be as a teenager. He's made real and genuine friendships; solidified his relationship with Ren Amamiya; started therapy; and figured out, more or less, how to cope with his most painful memories. How to look forward toward a future that seems brighter every day.

    Trust Masayoshi Shido to threaten all that progress by dropping dead.

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    01 Aug 2023

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    But pity did not feel kind or thoughtful. All his life, Akechi had abhorred the thought of being pitied, and now he knew he had good reason. You didn’t pity someone because you cared about them or ached for them or wished things had been different. That was sympathy; that was love. You pitied them because you could see the bars on the cage of their own making, and knew there was no way out, and knew they deserved to be there.

    Shido had scorched the earth behind him, and eventually the flames had caught up.

  4. Rec *

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    Anders stumbles across Hawke and Fenris in a private moment and confronts some unwelcome truths. Justice is no help at all.

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    23 May 2023

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    When I am with you, Anders works out, I am safe. He has no response to that, no acerbic condemnation to offer; he himself feels the same way, as if Hawke's presence alone is enough to keep his ghosts at bay, the light of her smile warmer and more welcoming than any hearth could ever be. To have this in common with Fenris of all people—it both surprises and unsettles him, and for the first time this evening he feels as though there is something he might be missing between the two of them.

    Hawke kisses him and says, "Another."

    "Avara," Fenris grumbles; he pauses, thinking, and then says more haltingly than the first, "Non vivebam priusquam…"

    "Hmm?"

    "Non vivebam priusquam te sciui," he finishes, and buries his face in her hair. I did not live before I met you. Anders blinks, silenced again.

  5. Rec 42

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    One minute they're lounging and reading, the next his wife is asking if she can peg him. He's not so sure, and then he's entertaining the idea, and then he's maybe -- just MAYBE-- going to let her do it. If they can get their hands on the tool of the trade first, that is.

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    17 Feb 2023