Memories that Armin and Bertholdt shared throughout the years, from their fleeting highs to their devastating lows. [ Berumin short stories and drabbles. Requests are open, feel free to send them to my curiouscat @ LivianLynx ]
Annie philosophises about life and love.
When Armin's next gambit takes the shape of a handsome stranger who's willing to show him the ropes of romance and intimacy, he does not hesitate to stare the devil in the eyes while he tightly grasps the hand that will guide him through hell. [Canon divergent AU where the world has achieved global peace and Armin is bored of it. Berumin-centric]
The Survey Corps suffered heavy losses in Shiganshina, but they took home an enemy who can shed light on the three journals they found. As the new Commander, the task of obtaining said information falls on Hange's shoulders, and they're not sure how well they can balance the fate of the island with the desire for vengeance.
Minutes after his death, he was too preoccupied with his survival to question why he was still breathing. Hours, he tried to find a way out. Weeks, he looked inward in search of who he was. It was only when the months piled on with neither answers nor relief that Bertholdt grew to understand that no one stood the test of time in the face of eternity. [Pathstolt character study]
Armin finds out that the training grounds have a library, and that Bertholdt has a keen interest in it just as much as he does. Based on one of the guidebooks saying that Bertholdt and Armin were friends before everything went down and me thinking their training days friendship deserves to be explored in-depth. (Platonic canon compliant berumin)
A year after returning from Paradis, Annie encounters Bertholdt gazing out at the moonlit ocean. [Canon divergent AU oneshot, mostly platonic onesided beruani finding comfort in difficult times]
Now that he has long adjusted, Armin only craves to be warmer, to burn brighter, to blaze his body even farther into ranges that no ordinary human could survive, and to survive anyway to spite the sheets of frigid air that always condense against his hot skin uninvited. He has long lost the right to call himself an ordinary human. [Armin takes a bath and faces some old demons]
The battle for Shiganshina was won and the Survey Corps secured custody of the Colossal Titan. No one believed that they'd achieve peace with Marley's war machine by talking to the one enemy who could answer them but refused. No one but a single scout who'd believed in negotiation since the very beginning. (Canon divergent rewrite of SnK, Bertholdt survives RtS)