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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Varazserdo
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
19 Feb 2026
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Summary
A historical AU set in 1990s Philadelphia during the HIV crisis.
It’s been ten months since Erwin died, and Levi is walking home from a party late one night when he comes upon a kid getting beaten half to death. In a spur-of-the-moment decision, he invites Eren, a homeless runaway, into his house and his life. The two develop a friendship and begin to confront their pasts.
He first saw the kid getting the shit kicked out of him outside the flophouse at 13th and Spruce. The two guys were angry. The taller one kept kicking, flailing wildly while the kid scrabbled in the rain, reaching for a broken beer bottle glinting in the gutter, wedged between the kerb and the wheel of a parked car.
He kept screaming, “I’ll kill you!”
Levi thought he probably would have, too.
It was pissing rain, cold little needles that got under your collar and left your hands and ears numb. Philadelphia rain, the damp and humidity sitting over the grey city and seeping into your bones. Levi stood for a moment in the darkness between the yellow spotlights of the street lamps, watching the two guys brutalise the kid before he cleared his throat.