Writing Prompts Explanations

1. Write in a universe you don't normally write in.

"Attack on Titans"

2. Use a trope you've never written before.

Omegaverse

3. Avoiding overuse of any language that would give your trope away while still helping the audience to understand what the trope is.

Words that were avoided or downplayed: "Alpha", "Omega", "Dominate", "Submissive", "Pheromone", "Hormones", "Bitch", "Heat", "Breeding", "Pregnant", "Nesting", "Courships", "Bonding", "Bondmate", "Territorial", and a lot of others I can't remember because it's been so long.

4. Write a type of story you've never written before.

Military

5. Add a second element you've never written before.

Courtship/Romance

6. Write about something you've never written about.

Pregnancy, parenting, fathers

7. Write from the point of view of the most challenging character while staying in-character.

Levi. To make this even more challenging I made him an Alpha, since I firmly disagree that "Humanity's Strongest" can be godmode while being an Omega. Even on suppressants. Artistic license goes a long way towards figuring out how an omega (Erwin) would break in an alpha into a submissive roll.

8. Write a part of the cannon story not originally show to the audience.

The writer of "Attack on Titan" shows you Levi's backstory, and Levi's current story, but skips the in between. This was my take on how it could have gone down in an omegaverse version of the story where Levi and Erwin are possible love interests, but their positions contradict their biology. I.E. The commander is omega, the subordinate is alpha.

9. Put a spin on the trope you chose to write.

My spin was to make the Underground were Levi came from have omegas as the dominant caste insomuch as the quality of an alpha is judged by their ability to care for and cater to omegas. When Levi hits the surface omegas and alphas are equals and socially capable of functioning independently of each other. Mind. Blown.

This is a spin in that 99.9% of omegaverse have alphas being abusive dickheads and rapists, with omegas being subhuman victims overrun by biological slavery. I ditched that old hat and put on something new and fresh.

Outline

What's left, at least

4th month – Communication and tea making. Levi learns how to talk to others. At least... how not to talk to others. Erwin takes time to learn how to make tea to Levi's liking.

5th month – Blade trust and territoriality – Erwin and Levi demonstrate a live blade exercise in which Levi shows that he doesn't just know how to use the blades and gear properly, but he knows how to use them beautifully. I honestly forgot what the territoriality was, sorry :)

6th month – Clothes making and reading skills – Erwin has outgrown most of his uniform tops. One day a hand-made shirt appears out of no where, which fits perfectly. While lamenting to Levi about how oranges are going extinct, he notices Levi's shirts are also hand-made. When Erwin gets grounded by the Commander Levi keeps him busy by letting Erwin help him hone his read and writing skills.

7th month – Oranges and friends – After Erwin and Levi go round 7 about food hoarding, sharing, and aggressiveness Levi buys out all of the remaining oranges in the lower ring and gives them all a way. Levi is confused when people think this is him being nice.

8th month – Indury and community – Levi is injured saving a recruit from a nasty fall and hides it. Hanji blabs, but it gets both them and Levi in trouble. Erwin impresses investors with his ability to problem solve. Levi is grounded due to his injury, but Hanji's punishment may be even worse. The base comes together to keep Levi sane till he can get back on the wires again.

9th month – Erwin's increased hormone level have him being very naughty with Levi when no one is looking. Levi plans along at first till he realizes it's very much not a game. Erwin goes into a very difficult labor. Commander Shadis is the first to hold the baby. Levi gives it a name. Things change forever.

...And Two Weeks – Levi refuses to leave his child to the care of strangers and fights the promotion Erwin is pushing on him. The death of a close friend pushes the issue into the lime light and Levi is forced to choose duty and Erwin, or his baby.

Part II

The Story I Didn't Even Begin

5 Years Latter

There's half a storyline here, mostly for the sake of fluff and family, so bear with it:

Erwin's got his promotion to Commander and Levi's settled into his roll as Captain. The kid's being raised in the interior. Levi visits quiet often, but not as often as the kid can run away to come see "Ermy' (Erwin-mommy) at whatever base he's at.

Levi has finally found his grove with the others in the Corpse and even though his alpha instincts still disagree with it all, he has to admit it works in beautiful symmetry. Even if he secretly still thinks omegas are to be cared for and any alpha not doing that is a bad alpha. Being a 'bad alpha' means something where he's from.

On trips to the interior Erwin has made a habit of stopping by the alpha brothels that cater to omegas. Being around Levi affects him, whether he'll let onto it or not. What a lot of people don't know about omegas though is that outside heats they like to top as often as bottom. Erwin makes it his duty to teach some very pleasantly surprised alphas that receiving can sometimes be more pleasurable than giving.

A week before having to leave for another expedition an unexpected financial situation sends Erwin back to the interior for a fundraiser event. Of course he visits his beloved brothels and puts the alphas to work as stress management.

It's two days into the expedition before Levi realizes the reason he's so distracted by Erwin is that their Commander is in the beginning stages of heat. Once he informs Erwin of this fact, the commander (after a bit of panicking wondering if his officer would jump him) tries to put distance between himself and the alphas of the survey corpse.

[A bit of back story here is that while suppressants are available, omegas in the survey corpse don't tend to have heats as the stress of their job, senses of insecurity and instability, and inability to practice routine nesting habits works as a natural suppressant.]

The only unbonded alphas that have reason to be near Erwin are Mike, Nanaba, and Levi. Mike and Nanaba are in a committed relationship, which suppresses their desire to bond with an omega (even one in heat), but Levi grows more and more irritated over being forced into small quarters with an unbonded omega in full heat. Let along one who's fertility he's only too familiar with.

For his part Erwin is having the same troubles keeping his head when Levi is around. It's only through stubbornness to see the expedition through to the end and not waste the lives already lost to Titans that prevents him turning tale and running back to the Wall. Levi, equally hating to waste the opportunities before them, keeps himself in check enough to avoid more than one or two risky one-on-one heavy petting encounters.

It's three more days before they get back to the Wall and another full day of debriefing before Levi finds himself splayed on Erwin's bed with the Commander buried to the hilt inside him. But if Erwin thinks he can avoid being penetrated for the duration of his heat he's kidding himself. Eventually Levi gives up control of the situation and even though he was in full rut, allow Erwin to use him as he saw fit. Seeing this capitulation in an alpha [i.e. that an alpha could give up control if that's what is best for the omega] causes something in Erwin to pry itself loose, and he goes under as his need to be knotted by this alpha in particular takes over.

It's another two months before Levi tells Erwin his scent has changed, which means he's probably pregnant again. Erwin, who'd been too busy with work to pay attention, tunes in and realizes it's true.

This time the pregnancy progresses with much more smoothness than the last. Levi is over being food aggressive, and Erwin is over trying to get Levi not to "alpha" him in his pregnant state. He's seen how much Levi cares for their current child and knows it's a place of deep concern and will to protect those he cherishes. The whole base knows about the pregnancy in advance this time, and seeing how Levi and Erwin both vanished after they got back, it's not a surprise who the dad is.

[The survey corpse has a high turnover rate, obviously, and since the officers don't make it a habit of getting very close to the newcomers still they survive a few expeditions, most of said newcomers don't even know that Levi has a kid, let alone with the Commander. Kid doesn't live on base and as a kindness the officers don't bring it up.]

While not food aggressive Levi does go into food hoarding mode. A result of his time in the Underground where food is scares and starvation contributed to his small size. His pay goes into a stockpile of high-quality food, fresh fruits and vegetables, and other items that are rare since wall Maria fell. All to feed a ravenous Erwin and his growing waistline.

At the four month mark Erwin is just about outgrowing the shirts Levi had made for him during his first pregnancy. Levi takes it upon himself to make more, expending the wardrobe to include things like sleeping clothes, pants, a basic winter jacket, and even simple, fur lined, lace-up boots. Erwin, being a large man to begin with, is almost scary large when pregnant and it's obvious he's going to get significantly bigger than last time. To say the least, even the largest to male omega clothing doesn't fit him by the end of the 5th month. The doctor hears more than one heartbeat.

At 8 months Erwin is put on bed rest and leaves the running of the Corpse to Hanji and Mike. Nanaba is given the temporary status as Captain and part of Levi's duties are shifted to accommodate his self-involvement in Erwin's care. While Erwin himself would rather see Levi being an officer, Levi himself threatens to quite the job altogether if Erwin can't let him be an alpha taking care of the omega he knocked up. Erwin capitulates, secretly delighted that Levi's alpha instincts would choose sense of duty to him over duty to the military.

When Erwin goes into labor it's messy and quick. Levi, overcome with territoriality, growls everyone out of the room and delivers the babies himself. The first two come out easily, the third is a struggle. The doctor came in for the fourth. It's the only one with blonde hair and is stillborn. Levi crawls into Erwin's lap, bawling like a baby, shocked and betrayed that the only one who looks like it's mother died. He couldn't even bare to see what gender it was, afraid of how he'd absolutely loose it if he got too close. Erwin holds him, letting the alpha grieve the loss of their child. Eventually he breaks down himself. That day, Erwin remembered how to cry for those who die too early.

Part III

This is all over the place and random.

Unknown amount of time has passed.

On one of the trips to the capital Erwin is ambushed at drugged by some thugs from the Underground. A long time ago omegas used to be trafficked. In some parts they still are. Erwin escapes but has to flee into the Underground to do so. The drug is meant to bring on a heat which would make bonding with whichever alpha buys them easier.

He's found by some alphas (the 'good' ones) to hear his story and take him to a house of omegas. The omegas give him a safe place in which he can pass the coming heat and not be disturbed. Erwin is perplexed by the way things are done in the underground as alphas usually don't hand over heat-wracked omegas to other omegas. He doesn't tell anyone who he is for fear of some kind of anti-military retaliation.

Eventually Mike sniffs him out, following the trail from the streets he was originally attacked in. Erwin's heat is bad, a negative reaction to the drug, and he'll either need to be drugged with a second substance to knock him out, or take alpha intervention to ease the symptoms. Mike leaves and brings back Levi.

Levi gives zero shits if anyone knows where he works or who he is, and flies in on the wires (my phrase for using the 3DMG, because it takes less finger coordination to hit those keys). At first the omegas are hesitant to let some 'brute from the survey corpse' into the house, especially since the Underground thinks all surface alphas are pigs and assholes, but once Levi lets them know he was raised Underground they relent.

Erwin is eager to take advantage of Levi once he's in the house, but Levi's idea is to avoid getting Erwin pregnant a third time. Specifically because the child that looked like Erwin died last time and it gave Levi a fear-of-god that Erwin would die next time. Levi even uses the wires to move himself into the rafters after Erwin refuses to stop trying to pin him to any surface available and induce a rut.

Some stuff happens with the survey corpse base. Mike has to take over for a bit. Erwin's heat is being persistent and they can't move him, of course. Levi does is beast to keep level headed.

The Underground omegas hit the freaking roof when they find out Erwin has children already and that they don't live with him. Not knowing the context of any of it they assume that Levi left the Underground, took advantage of some poor surface omega, then took their children away to induce more heats, and now they're calling him a 'bad alpha' for not relieving the omega's heat. [Remember, that still means something to Levi.]

At first Levi would stay in the rafters and only come down when Erwin was asleep to make sure he was ok. He'd leave to get food and water, clothes, bedding, etc. Despite obviously looking out and providing for the omega, the Underground citizens wear Levi down with their taunts and comments. Livi can't stand the idea of being a bad alpha to the omega of his children.

Levi makes a deal with Erwin that if Erwin doesn't try to get Levi to knot him he'd come down and allow Erwin to mount him. Hopefully a few rounds of vigorous copulation would break the heat. The matron of the house walks in to find Levi and Erwin going at it. When she comes back latter to see how things are progressing she finds Erwin latched onto one of Levi's scent glands and the alpha out of it in shock. Though the alpha is clearly willing to bond, the omega's unwillingness to bite down and go through with it is appalling.

[A lot of alpah-omaga dynamics, social behaviors, expectations are discussed here. None of which I'll go into in the outline.]

Now it's become apparent to her that things are not nearly as they seem. She takes Levi away from Erwin and accuses him of abducting and using a 'good alpha' for the purpose of his 'damned surface politics' and of taking Levi's children away from him as hostages.

Eventually Erwin's heat does break, though he has to go through the rest of it alone as he's now been labeled as a 'bad omega' by the Underground. They are only too happy to see him leave, and though they try to get a dazed and shut down Levi to stay, he refuses. His children are on the surface, and so are the freedom-barring Titans, so he leaves the Underground shortly after Erwin.

After they get back to the base Levi confronts Erwin and makes him tell the truth. The omega matron from the Underground is exactly right: Erwin did take Levi from his home under threats, and now forces him to remain in the military by threatening to jail him and not see his children. Erwin denies that he'd not allow Levi to see his children, but he does admit that if Levi ever tried to choose between being Humanity's Strongest and a father, that Erwin would do whatever it took to make sure he chose humanity. In Erwin's opinion, defeating the Titans is the only way to ensure his children are safe and will never have to deal with what the citizens of Wall Maria went through when it was destroyed. If he has to force Levi to help him do this then he's willing to. What's one more person's loathing going to do to him anyway? Levi asks Erwin point-blank if there will ever come a day when the two of them can just be a normal set of parents, having kids, being domestic. Erwin says that ever since he was pregnant with their first that it's been the whole focus of his mission. Destroy the Titans means getting not only his children back, but it means he's free to bond as well. Levi now understands exactly where Erwin is coming from.

Part IV

The Ending

Specifically not all over the place.

In one very specific place, in fact.

Unknown time has past.

The Titans have been defeated.

As Erwin and Levi oversee the destruction of the walls only one thing is on their minds.

Erwin and Levi step down from their military positions and turn it over to the survivors. Yes, both of them would dearly love to see things like oceans and deserts and jungles, but they want more than that is to retire as the old men they've become and raise their children.

The new Queen gives Levi his choice of houses from those abandoned with Maria's fell and he chooses the original survey corps base, which was an old castle to begin with.

Erwin and the children move in a week latter and a while lot of angst ensues as the family who'd previously never lived together got to figure out how to live together. While the children did see Erwin and Levi regularly, and they were "Ermy and Dad", they were used to taking orders from the oldest of the lot, who was in every sense their father's spawn.

A month latter Erwin goes into heat again, finally coming down from the nightmares and unwinding from the overload of stress. A slower paced life helps. A newly discovered love of dogs and fishing helps, as does his newly created sanctuary for injured and retired Survey Corpse horses.

This time there is no hesitation when Levi comes to Erwin's room. There's no hesitation in allowing the smaller man to position him, or bite him, or knot him. There's nothing stopping them from bonding now. Nothing standing between their biological imperative to breed. It's the first time that Erwin calls Levi 'alpha', his voice betraying a deep and long-held desire to have done so all along. The result is Levi, in his own way of awkward poetry, letting Erwin know just how beautiful he is and how long he's waiting to tell him so.

Levi hopes the next round of babies will have at least one which looks like Erwin. All their surviving children have Levi's dark hair, with their oldest being an almost carbon replica of her father. Levi gets what he wants when the twins which are born are big, healthy and one is blonde.

That's the last set of children that they have. Afterwords Erwin has complications winch cause him to have to be careful not to get pregnant again. Instead they open the castles other rooms up to war survivors. Levi goes back to being a legitimate version of what he was in the Underground – a jackbooted thug who adopts stray people and only lets them stay if they can keep house to his standard. For his part Erwin finds that despite spending his entire military career fighting the outdated idea that omega are all desperately seeking a home to make, finds he likes the hectic pace of keeping such a large house. It's a nice medium.

A year latter, he and Levi exchange rings in private which were made from melting down pieces of the last blades they used in the last battle against the Titan threat. No one who saw the rings say anything, and if it started a trend amongst military veterans to begin wearing similar rings, well good for them.

The Queen will announce one day that Freedom Day will be celebrated every year to mark the day that not only did humanity become free from the Titan threat, but that alphas and omegas proved they were not slaves to biology either. The survey corpse become the official spearhead into the wild world and a sort of manifest destiny takes hold as humanity rushes out to see what their world has to offer.