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Character Sheet
Name: Seffra Lyall
Age: estimated to be 23
Gender: Female
Birthday: unknown (Just uses January 1)
Height: 173cm
Weight: 68kg
Affiliation: Scout Regiment (for now)
Status: Alive
Voice Actor: Brina Palencia (English)
Maaya Sakamoto (Japanese)
Hair: Red (style is short and choppy)
Eyes: Green
Chapter 7: Difference in Culture
"Seffra, what are you doing?!"
Seffra glanced up from sharpening her blades, at the look on Petra's face. She was red faced and seemed to be having issues in deciding where she was supposed to look. Eld and Gunther had turned around while Oluo (or as Seffra knew him, grave-defiler or GD) was trying to wipe away the blood coming from both his mouth and nose.
Humans just keep getting stranger.
"You're a young woman, Petra. I believe that your eyesight works just fine. I'm keeping my blades in working order."
"But you're not dressed!"
Seffra ignored the finger pointing at, despite it being right in her face. She had more important things to worry about, like making sure that she didn't accidently shave off too much and make the blade too fragile. It wouldn't do her any good to have it snap while in a battle.
"There's probably about a few more battles." Yeah, until the blade will be too thin to be of useful. Though she could probably snap the main part off and sharpen the base as a dagger or arrows.
"A dagger would be more useful."
"Are you even listening to me?! You're a woman! You can't just walk around dressed like that!"
Just what is this human's problem? Glancing down at her apparel, Seffra couldn't find anything wrong with it. Shoes, pants, belts, jacket, upper undergarment (though this was merely some bandages wrapped around her chest and barely at that). She looked back up at Petra.
"I'm wearing clothes. I do not see the problem."
If the ginger haired woman's eyes widened any further, they might pop from her skull.
"Not see…..not see the problem?! You not only need proper undergarments, but also you can't just walk around without a shirt on!"
The red head frowned, confused by Petra's loud exclamation.
"Jonah said that humans need to wear shoes, pants, and a top to be considered decent. I'm wearing those very articles so by your society's rules, I'm dressed properly."
"You have no shirt!"
"You handed me two top articles to wear. I merely chose the one that was the least constricting."
"A jacket is not a replacement for a shirt!"
A door opened, halting the two females, as all eyes turned to see who had interrupted the awkward situation.
Levi stared back at everyone. "Who is making all this fucking noise? If you all have time to be lazing about causing a disturbance, than you should take that time and clean this shitty base spotless."
Silence filled the room, as if everyone was too stunned by the sudden change in atmosphere that their brains couldn't catch up with what was being said to them.
Grey eyes narrowed, appearing even sharper as his stare alone seemed to convey his thoughts, 'Do not make me repeat myself.'
Suddenly the soldiers in the room couldn't get to work fast enough, as if the image of their new (topless) comrade was erased from their mind as a greater power took over.
Seffra was the only one to remain in her seat, going back to sharpening her blades. Of course by sharpening, she was actually shaving off her blade, slowly thinning the blade but keeping it sharp.
As she was finishing the last blade and smoothing it of any possible defects, a shadow fell over her. Of course, she knew who it was, the fact that she could feel the stare that was actively trying to drill into her skull.
"You do realize, despite your abilities, even you are still incapable of piercing my body with your stare alone."
Finished with the blade's maintenance, Seffra stood, walking around the shorter male to reach the blade's respective sheath and secured it. Once the blades were both properly sheathed, Seffra secured them in their usual crisscross position on her back.
She didn't have any warning when a hand grabbed the back of her head and slammed it down on the table in front of her.
"So not only are your manners deplorable, but you can't even dress. Do I need to train you like a fucking puppy?"
Dazed, Seffra was only able to turn her head to see the man that she wanted to kill so bad right now, holding her head down with strength that seemed out of character for someone his size. How was he keeping her so vulnerable?
"Looks like I'll have to teach you everything from the beginning. Starting with how to fucking dress."
Seffra started to regain proper vision again, though she was startled when her jacket was torn off, only to be thrown to the ground, landing on her back. A shirt was thrown on her head, obscuring her view.
"Lesson one. You wear a shirt."
Sitting up, Seffra let the shirt fall to her lap, glaring up Levi.
"Men walk around without shirts on hot days. Jonah said that I need only make sure my breasts were covered as you men seem incapable of thinking with your top head whenever you see breasts. Don't see why, their just organs that permit the female species of providing milk to their young."
"I don't care if Jonah can shit gold, here and now, you follow my orders, Bitch."
"Don't you speak about Jonah like that!" No one disrespects Jonah.
"I don't speak dog."
If that is how he'll be, then she'll just have to speak in a way that even this idiot would be capable of speaking, violent as he is.
Seffra threw the shirt towards Levi, immediately jumping towards him, fist raised to strike while he was temporarily blinded by the shirt.
"Your form is pathetic."
What?
Before she realized it, Levi had ducked beneath her strike, grabbing her wrist while it was vulnerable. Time seemed to slow down though she knew that realistically, it was all done in a few seconds. Levi flipped the taller woman in the air, followed with an elbow to her stomach when her body was still in the air, parallel to the ground. Her collision with the hard floor knocked the breath from her lungs.
A hand pinned her arms above her head, only to shove them into the very shirt that had been the start of this scuffle.
"Don't think that just because you could survive among Titans, that you're even capable of standing against me."
Seffra tried to keep the shorter man from winning, now just to spite the man who just kept rubbing her fur the wrong way.
The door opened, though both parties ignored it as their scuffle drowned out the sound. That didn't mean they didn't hear the voice calling out.
"Hey, Seffra, are you ready for your medical exam…..i..nation…."
A voice neither party wanted to hear at quite that exact moment.
Hange Zoe had entered.
-AoT-
There are things you expect to see when you walk into a room where people gather during their free time. People playing cards, drinking, gossip being exchanged, Titan information being gushed over (alright that may have just been Hange and her current speech buddy *coughvictimcough*)
What you didn't expect was to see the woman you're looking for being held down by your best friend and fellow squad leader. Hange didn't even know if Levi was interested in women (not that she assumed he preferred men, but she had never seen Levi show any desire to have a relationship, one night or otherwise).
Now Seffra was beautiful in her own, wild way, Hange will admit that. Standing at 173cm, short, choppy red hair with hints of gold blonde strands in the sun, eyes green like the forests. Hange would have placed Seffra's age at early to mid-twenties based on appearance.
Still, Hange couldn't believe that Levi would commit such an act outside the bedroom though. Maybe sexual frustration finally getting out of control? Either way, she couldn't watch this happen, though it was strange they hadn't stopped struggling despite her entering.
"Levi, you shouldn't manhandle a woman. This is how rumors are started."
"Shut it, Shitty Four-Eyes and get your mind out of the fucking gutter."
"This shorty is trying to force me to put on a second top, Hange. Tell him how unreasonable he's being."
What? Hange could follow most things and accept the strange (the Titans weren't a normal thing so not much else could be considered strange) but the reactions she was getting wasn't normal. Well, Levi's was normal but Seffra's comment was still strange. Force a second top on?
-AoT-
She couldn't take this anymore. The shirt was suffocating her with its constant location over her head. Not to mention being so blinded was making her feel vulnerable.
"Fine, I give. Just get the hell off of me!" Seffra managed to shout through the shirt.
The result was instant. The weight vanished, signaling that Levi had stood and stepped away. Seffra slowly sat up, adjusting the shirt to fit properly, moving her sword straps when needed. Once it was on, she looked up to see Hange frowning at Levi.
"You can't just push a woman down, Levi. What if someone else had walked in? Think on how it would look?"
"You need to stop thinking so much. It obviously is just causing shit to come from your mouth."
"Levi, this isn't something that can just go away with a glare. What I walked in on looked seriously like a man-"
"Hange, what are you talking about?"
Seffra's voice had Hange pause, though both squad leaders turned to look at the woman, who honestly appeared confused as to why Hange was not pleased with.
"Seffra, Levi had you in a position that could be discriminating and-"
"He was only pinning me down. Like an alpha wolf pinning down an insubordinate pack member. That's all it was."
Hange's face turned from displeased to blank shock, while Levi merely raised an eyebrow.
A wolf analogy? What was with this wild woman and such strange comparisons with wolves?
"Did you think that the position was of a sexual nature?"
Cue dumbfounded expression for Hange.
"He had me pinned on my back. There isn't anything sexual about that."
Levi's brow raised even higher at that statement. Yeah this woman grew up away from humans but even she couldn't be that stupid.
"S-seffra, you do know how people have sex right?" Hange couldn't believe she was having this conversation at that moment. Had Moblit slipped something in her coffee this morning?
Seffra frowned, confused by Hange's question. Surely these humans weren't so ignorant. They had to have produced children to survive this long.
"Of course. The male species mounts the female from behind and the male reproductive organ enters a woman's-"
Hands covered her mouth. Seffra couldn't believe that Hange had been able to move so fast without a 3DMG.
"All right. I'm just going to forget this happened. We're going to go conduct your health examination and never mention this again."
Levi was already gone, having won the original argument. He had no time for Hange's meltdowns or the Bitch's strange behavior. Rather than deal with strange women issues, his time was better spent making sure those pigs were actually cleaning with his standards.
-AoT-
"You know, I don't see what the issue was. He was merely showing his position of power. Dominance in the pack, showing the newest member who their Alpha is, though in Shorty's case, it would be more the Beta showing dominance in this case."
Hange just shook her head as she finished handing Seffra her clothes back, now that the doctor had left, reassuring that the red head was at the peak of health.
"Seffra, just how do you view us?"
"What?" Where had this come from?
"You keep comparing us to animals, mainly wolves. Now, I am a Titan expert, or as close to one as anyone can be with all my precious data on those amazing creatures. The last one I faced had these amazing blue eyes that seemed to twinkle and-"
"Hange, your point that you want to ask me is?"
"Oh, right." Hange grinned foolishly before becoming serious again.
"With the way you compare us to animals, deferring to us as humans, as if you don't count yourself with us. Just how did you grow up out there, beyond the Walls?"
Seffra paused in pulling up her right boot. Once her thoughts were gathered, she resumed dressing.
"I don't know. I don't remember much from that time. At most, I remember roughly five years before Jonah came into my life. It was like, I just woke up by this stream, and I knew all these things, like Titans, though I didn't call them that till Jonah said the name, and the Walls. Survival, the creatures around me, all this information was in my head. Despite what you may have thought, I could speak, but I didn't speak your language."
That caught Hange's interest. "Our language? You can speak other languages than? The old languages?"
A small laugh escaped Seffra. "Jonah asked that same question when we could finally communicate. I could only speak one language, but I understand more. I observed the Survey Corps long before I met Jonah. I was usually close enough to touch some of you people, though whenever I saw Erwin, Levi, or Mike, I'd stay far away. When you spoke, I could understand your words, but I could never speak them. The words just wouldn't connect with anything I spoke. Jonah helped me with that. Taught me how to speak your words, though I can still speak the original language I knew."
The strange gleam in the goggle-wearing woman's eyes made Seffra a little nervous, like she was an experiment that had just yielded a strange and unknown result. Though that could be the case in some way.
"Could you say something? In that language?"
"You are a strange woman, Hange. When you have that look in your eyes, I picture an owl about to swoop down on an unsuspecting rodent."
The squeal that followed filled the whole room, echoing through the adjoining hallways. Some of the soldiers cleaning paused before recognizing the squeal as Hange's. They continued, assuming the eccentric woman had merely stumbled on something they wanted no part of.
"Amazing! I have no idea what you said, but I recognized my name in that language, meaning the names must pronounce the same in that language as ours. Though your language seems softer or fluid sounding to my ears. Maybe a dialect."
Seffra just backed away, letting the other woman gush on and on about strange things.
-AoT-
"What is this?"
Seffra stared at the bucket and cloth on the floor in front of her. Levi glared down the taller woman, who sitting down, staring at a letter in her hand.
"Are you blind too now? You are in my squad now, you are going to pull your weight here. I want your room to be spotless. If I see even a speck of dust in that room, you'll be starting over."
With that said, Levi left, leaving Seffra to stare after him in shock, then stare back at the bucket and cloth. Petra walked up and grabbed the bucket, smiling at the woman.
"Come on, I'll show you how to do it. Trust me when I say you don't want the Captain to see dust. He can be scary when it comes to cleaning."
Huh?
Three hours later had Seffra finishing scrubbing the floor, exhausted from all the dusting and wiping she'd been doing. Once that was done, the red head plopped down on her bed, arms sore.
"Even Titans are easier to deal with than this. Why does this place need to be so freaky clean? This level of clean is like asking the Titans to come out and eat us, smelling so different from their surroundings."
The door to her room slammed open, jolting the woman from her bed. Startled into unsheathing a blade, Seffra paused mid-swing. Levi just stood there, as if his glare alone was all he needed to block her attack, even if she hadn't paused.
"You must be confident in the job you did to be lazing around like a dog."
Was this human for real? She pulled a sword on him and he didn't even flinch. Instead, he just walked past her and started looking around the room, probably checking for dirt like Petra had warned her about.
When Levi paused at the bunk beds, Seffra rolled her eyes, re-sheathing her blades. That look in his eyes, you'd think he'd stepped in horse excrement.
"Start over."
….what?
Turning around, Seffra stared wide eyed at the shorter man who was just staring at his hand in disgust, whipping out a cloth and wiping the appendage.
"You missed the back. Who knows what else you missed with this shitty job. So do the whole room over."
And just as quickly as he appeared, the man exited the door, not even bothering to close it.
A little dust. She had to redo three hours of work because of a little dust on the underside of the bunk beds. This wasn't normal. No that wasn't right. This went beyond not normal.
She couldn't believe this. He couldn't be human. Was no one in this group human? This level of desire for something couldn't be normal.
Seffra could not believe what she was being made to do. This had nothing to do with Titans or humanity.
'Jonah, just what am I doing here?'
"Less brooding more cleaning, Mutt." Levi's voice came through the door, though the echo signified that he was still walking down the hallway.
Would removing his manhood be so bad? He didn't need to the ability to reproduce to fight Titans right?
Seffra made a note to ask Hange or Mike later.
-AoT-
Later that night, Hange almost faced death from choking, via her bread going down her airway.
TBC….
A.N: I'm actually going to be updating a chapter a week minimum because I'm going to be starting another story (maybe two if I feel brave) and want to devote even time to all of them. Now I will be going further into Seffra and her language issue in future chapters. I added the character sheet so you can get the basics of Seffra's stats, and added the voice actor section cause these are the voices I imagine her using when I write.
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Sneak peek: The trees here may not have the same feel as beyond the Wall, but it was peaceful. No loud cursing being directed at her, no squeals for information assaulting her ears, no glares from GD, and best of all, she could wear what she liked without the shouts of disbelief at her apparel.
"Seffra, here you are."
Or so she would have liked.
Green eyes glanced down to see Erwin Smith standing at the base of the tree.
"We were hoping to have a meeting, discuss your circumstances beyond the Wall. Hange shared some interesting information and I'd like to delve a bit further into detail if you don't mind."
So now she was to uphold her end of the bargain. Yippee.
