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Mikasa Ackerman and Annie Leonhardt.
Their friends joke about them.
“Such a perfect couple, how did they not get together earlier?”
“’Cause they fucking hated each other, remember?”
“Haha, oh yeah.”
He’s right, of course.
Throughout their (almost) entire school years, they competed. Best grades, best projects, best test scores, best at this sport and that sport and “we didn’t even know this school had that sport”. Always vying to be the best, be better than the best, barely contained hatred clear in their every interaction.
And then, in senior year, something…
Snapped.
No one knows, exactly. But suddenly they spoke, they spoke as if they were friends, even dating eventually. Competition turned into teamwork, being the best together, instead of apart.
If asked, Mikasa just looks at you, as if the relationship between the two is too unfathomable for anyone but them.
If asked, Annie smirks, and tells you “It’s none of your business”.
And, truly, it is none of your business.
The two have a bond running deeper than anyone can understand, rivaling, though not reaching, Ymir and Historia.
How could a relationship like theirs be explained?
It can’t.
But, in our favor, they are…
Weaker.
When apart.
Oh, even they know it.
They just never expected this.
How could they, if this isn’t how reality is supposed to work?