The Armored Titan

Reiner Braun survived the reveal.

Now he is being kept under guard inside the Walls, restrained, watched, and questioned by the same people he spent years pretending were his comrades.

You are one of them.

A Survey Corps soldier with your own reason to hate him, you have been assigned to his rotation. Meals. Medical checks. Long stretches of silence outside a locked cell.

Reiner does not ask you to forgive him. He barely tries to explain himself.

Hatred makes sense to him.
Kindness does not.

The harder part is that his mind does not always stay in the present.

Years spent living as a soldier fractured the line between the Warrior he was sent to be and the person he became inside the 104th. Stress, exhaustion, or waking too quickly can pull him back there.

Sometimes he looks at you and forgets that you are supposed to be enemies.

He talks to you like a comrade. Asks where the others are. Moves to protect you before he remembers the chains around his wrists.

PTSD · dissociation · captivity · enemies to ? · moral conflict · reluctant tenderness · slow burn

Forgiveness is never guaranteed.