I never wanted to be as blunt as I am but guess that some things just cause people to change. Life always has it's up's and down's and for me it was a definite down.
And I just so happened to be one of those people that fate turned against.
So I did the same.
She doesn't really remember what happened that day but what she does remember is realising how cruel the world became.
Ren Hayashi wasn't always as blunt as a pencil and as stubborn as a mule. You would never believe that she was one of the most warm hearted and open people in her tiny village of Shiganshina. She loved spending her days with her older brother running around in the fields and imaging what was on the other side of the walls. Both herself and her brother used to try and make up stories of what they would do if they ever got beyond the walls.
Her brother, Akiren was the kind of teenage brother who would never turn his back on his sister no matter what happened to her, He would always laugh at her jokes even if they were stupid and pointless. He would always go where ever Ren went. Akiren even made a vow never to let anything happen to his sweet, innocent sister.
Our story begins back in the walls of Maria when Ren was just 6 and Akiren was 14. It was just another day out in the fields hiding and chasing each other in the long, green grass.
"HA! Hmm I guess Ren isn't hiding behind here" Akiren said as he semi-looked behind the tree Ren was hiding behind.
Ren let out a quiet, small giggle before sneaking out from behind her hiding spot and rushing to find another tree to hide from her brother behind but something grabbed her from behind.
She playfully screamed as a pair of familiar hands wrapped around her waist and spun her round in a few circles before falling onto the grass.
"Akiren let me go" She laughed and pried her brothers hand from her waist before energetically jumping up off the floor.
"Come on let's play again" She yelled excitedly.
Akiren slowly pulled himself up, off the floor but as he went to say something a loud thumping was heard followed by a rumbling and screams from the villagers.
Ren ran and clung onto her big brother like a magnet before whimpering and starting to cry from fear. Akiren picked his frightened sister up in his arms before rushing back home to see what all the commotion was about.
They got to the middle of town and Akiren came to a halt in both shock and horror from what he saw in front of him.
Just above the wall of Maria stood a massive, muscle showing titan. Akiren then look on the ground and saw blood and bodies trapped under huge boulders.
"Ren no matter what happens in the next few minutes just either knee your eyes closed or look at me ok?" Akiren told his sister before running back towards home.
Akiren ran as fast as his legs could take him. The bodies and limbs of people hanging out from under the rocks horrified Akiren as he desperately ran to get his sister to safety.
They came to the Hayashi household only to find it on fire and crumbling right before their very eyes. Akiren put Ren down and stared at the sight in front of him in utter and complete shock.
Suddenly a flash of white and green light zoomed past them. They looked up and saw a figure descending towards them.
The figure landing and the person pulled of their hood only to reveal themself.
Captain Levi Ackerman.
"Mom and dad are still in their. I know it" Akiren said before deciding to do the hardest things he ever had to do.
"You do realise that if you go in there you won't come out don't you?" Levi bluntly said and Akiren nodded.
Akiren then handed Ren over into Levi's arms and told him something Levi hadn't even expected.
"No matter what happens to me you keep my sister safe do you understand?" Akiren said to Levi, who nodded before Akiren turned and ran into the inferno.
Levi, never loosening his grip of Ren used his ODM gear to get the both of them to the safety on a rooftop.
"No Levi we have to go back!" Ren screamed while squirming to get out of her cousins strong arms.
"Ren it's too late. We have to leave them" Levi said dully before watching the house suddenly come down from above her family.
Levi knew what he had to do. He used his ODM gear and left Ren's family in the fire.
"NO!" Ren screamed at the top of her lungs as both herself my Levi left the scene.
Levi led them both over the wall and into the Rose wall district. They landed on the ground and Levi knocked on one of the house doors.
A semi-tall, blonde hair woman opened the door and her face lit up into a smile when she saw Levi. She wore a black and white maid-like dress and had her hair so it was tied up in a high bun out of the way of her face.
"Levi what are you doing here?" The woman said then saw Ren and her smile faded. Ren hid behind her cousin's leg in fright.
"I need you to take my cousin Ren into your family. Her family are dead and I know she'll be safest here on wall Rose" Levi simply said before trying to pass Ren over to the woman.
Ren struggled against Levi, not wanting to leave his side.
"No Levi don't make me go with her please!" Ren cried trying to cling onto her cousin.
"Amaya just take her" Levi said and managed to pry Ren off his leg and handed her over to Amaya before using his ODM gear to get back over the walls.
Amaya shut the door and sat Ren down in one of the chairs. Ren didn't know what to do she had just lost the one and only family member she had left. With tears streaming down her face Ren black out for a second and went into a state of mind as cruel as night.
Ren the started to realise that the world was cruel and maybe it wasn't there wasn't a life beyond the walls that was like paradise. Maybe the outside world was just like it was inside the walls, cruel, horrifying and not worth living sometimes.
Ren came back into reality and felt an emotion that she had never felt before and for the first time ever she didn't care what people thought about her.
She knew who she really was now.