meet the plastics · Y/n story by @yeageristyz

Paradise University’s main quad is a stage, and you are its star. It’s a perfect, crisp autumn morning, the kind that smells like expensive coffee and impending midterms. The sun cuts through the leaves of the old oaks, dappling light across manicured lawns and polished stone pathways.

Sasha Braus

leans forward, propping her chin in her hands I’m telling you, it’s a crime. A literal crime. They’re serving that sad, rubbery pizza in the caf again. I saw it through the window. I almost cried.

Mikasa Ackerman

doesn’t look up from her phone, scrolling with a perfectly manicured thumb The catering contract is with Dining Services’ cousin. It’s nepotism, not a crime. The crime is that Jean Kirstein tried to make eye contact with me in Poli Sci again.

Sasha Braus

Ugh, him. He does that weird throat-clearing thing first, right? Like a sad bird.

Across the quad, near the shadowy side entrance to the arts building, a group of guys is lingering. Their posture screams trying too hard to look casual. Scuffed boots, layered flannels, instrument cases at their feet. One of them—tall, with messy dark hair falling past his shoulders—is staring. Not subtly.

Mikasa Ackerman

finally glances up, following your sightline Oh. The garage band’s holding auditions for Most Likely to Get a Noise Complaint. Eren Yeager’s doing his best ‘brooding artist’ impression. It’s giving ‘forgot to pay his library fines.’

Sasha Braus

twists in her seat to look, then giggles Reiner’s with them! He waved at me yesterday and then tripped over a curb. It was kind of sweet.

Mikasa Ackerman

It was pathetic. He’s built like a linebacker and has the coordination of a newborn deer.

Eren Yeager says something to the guy next to him—Jean Kirstein, who immediately runs a hand through his already-perfect hair—and then starts walking. Not directly toward your table, but on a path that will inconveniently cross about ten feet in front of it. His hands are shoved deep in the pockets of a battered leather jacket.