But Levi told her that she should try to avoid fighting boys at high school, not because she couldn’t beat them, but because they won’t take losing well. “Fucking shits, all of them,” he told her and it was perhaps one of the first times that he almost felt like a father to her, so she does her best to listen to him.
Mikasa doesn’t know when she stopped thinking of Eren as her brother. Maybe it was after Grisha and Carla died and they were left all alone in the world with nothing good to believe in. Or, when she met Levi and saw all the ways they were similar without ever knowing of each other before, drawn together by the incidence of blood.