{completed} one-shots 》anime x reader

Armin Arlert ~ Nobody

anime: attack on titan
sam, i hate you, why would you do this to my baby?

requested by: plisetskytrash

note: angst...blame sam, not me, and written from armin's pov.
trigger warnings; angst, suicide

~*~

I'd always taken notice of her, but I'd just never spoken to her.

I was always doing something to distract myself from her, since Mikasa always noticed me staring, and I didn't want to seem like I was staring for a bad reason, because I wasn't.

She was beautiful, and I couldn't understand why she didn't have any friends.

I would've talked to her, but I was always busy with studying for theory tests and also the physical ones.

My aspirations to talk to her just seemed to become more dry as the days went on; and besides, she looked like she didn't want any friends anyway, and I didn't want to intrude.

~*~

Her name was Y/N.

And she was much like Annie in the way she didn't speak much or interact with others, but she was a genius at working the omni-directional mobility gear, and that's what attracted me to her.

I'd heard her speak on rare occasions, when she was discussing her answers with the person next to her, and her voice wasn't what I'd expected it to sound like.

It was lighter than I'd expected, fluffier - sort of like a soft cloud. It could lull me to sleep.

Eren caught onto my feelings for Y/N pretty quickly, and he was always encouraging me to go talk to her, but I didn't want to feel like I was walking into her life uninvited.

She seemed - not happy - but content with the way her life was going, and I didn't want to change that for her, as it was her silent and mysterious personality that I fell in love with in the first place.

~*~ 

Blood was all I saw.

My heart froze and I could feel what I had had for lunch that day rising up my throat like fireworks, eager to explode.

I swallowed down what dignity I had and stared into the abyss, the abyss being Eren's bloody arm laying on the ground and the dust that lingered after the Titan had wandered off elsewhere.

My best friend...gone...and now I was here all alone.

What would Mikasa say?

She would be so disappointed that I couldn't even fight to protect my best friend until the very end. She would be angry that I didn't do anything. But, moreover, she would be distraught.

And I wouldn't blame her.

Looking up to the musky sky, my tears clouded nearly all of my vision, but a flash of white light hit my eye, and I turned to see someone on the wall.

I couldn't tell who they were from this far away, but they were standing awfully close to the edge, maybe unintentionally...

But, whatever the case may be, it was at that moment I had decided that I would never let anybody die without me doing something to protect them, no matter who they may be.

Standing up, I ran across the roof I was currently seated on until I was close enough to the wall to project my grappling hooks and reel myself up onto the top of the wall.

Clicking my hooks back to where they belonged, I looked to my left to get a better look at that person standing so close to the edge.

"Hey, you shouldn't stand so close, you might fa...ll..." My voice fizzled out when the person turned around and the hood of their cape flapped back in the wind, exposing their true self.

My heart stopped in the moment when that person made eye contact with me, tears glistening in her beautiful (eye colour) eyes as she leaned back, and that was when my feet decided to move.

"Y/N!" I screamed, dashing towards her as fast as I could, but I couldn't make it.

The moment my hand went out to take hers, I felt her fingers brush against mine as her body fell from the wall, and everything seemed to happen in slow motion.

She wasn't screaming or crying, and her eyes were closed peacefully like she had already passed on in another life.

I never really did know what was up with her until now.

The reason why she was always so silent in class and never talked to anyone was because:

Everybody saw her as a nobody.

~*~

sam specifically asked for this, don't even look at me.