#he'll turn your apartment chrome with all the scrubbing he's going to do alright PLEASE give that boy a hug

[miekasa]

MIEEE do you think aot boys have vices? like do eren or jean smoke??

Hiiiii. You sent this ask a while ago, sorry for just now getting around to it, but in short, yeah I think most of them do! I also think that they have, like... coping mechanisms? So as to not resort to their vices when they’re angry or stressed, but they usually end up overdoing it anyway lmfaoo. I guess this is kind of angsty :(( they all need a hug every once in a while okay :(( 

Eren’s is drinking and being generally reckless. He was never a heavy drinker, but it was easier to get drunk and not have consequences for a few hours, than to deal with his own shit. Now, instead of drinking, he cleans... like... deep cleans. On his knees with a toothbrush and dish soap scrubbing at the grout between the bathroom tiles by hand kind of clean. It’s a better alternative, and productive, but he’s snappy. He’s so in his own head, so upset with himself and taking it out on this one stain on the ground that he doesn’t even noticed that you’ve walked in, so when he feels a tap on his shoulder, he’s about to snap, “Piss off Jean, now’s not the—oh... uh, hi.” 

Armin doesn’t really have a vice, but when he’s upset, he has a tendency to shut down. He doesn’t answer texts, he doesn’t do his homework, he doesn’t leave his apartment. He stays holed up in his room, with a blanket over his head, and his favorite show running on autoplay on his TV. It’s a stark difference from the guy who usually wakes up at 9:30 every morning, and sticks to his schedule like clockwork. Honestly, he just kind of needs to be held after that, and probably should eat something with some sustenance, too. 

Jean’s vice is working out, or rather, over-working out. Stems from insecurities in high school, he tended to overdo it with the pre-workout and calorie counting and meal prepping. He’s gotten better and talked himself down from that, and has found replacement in cooking. But, like Eren, he tends to uh... do it very snappily, and to the extreme. He knows he has to stay out of the gym lest he strain a muscle angrily lifting too many weights, so cooking seven course meals is his alternative. You know something’s bothering him when you come home and there’s a whole Michelin star level meal in the kitchen. It tastes good, and only after you’ve eaten all of it is Jean ready to explain what’s going on. He just needs to talk it out; things don’t get to him that often, so he needs a lot of support when it does. 

Levi’s is cigarettes, and he’s pretty good at hiding it. He only keeps a single pack tucked away in a deep drawer of his apartment, always opens all the windows, and showers immediately after so the smell doesn’t have a chance to linger. He doesn’t feel good about it though, he knows it’s not good for him, and it’s not something he makes habit of; only allows himself that one pack for the entire year, but even so he doesn’t like to reach for them. His alternative is to stress bake; so if you come home and your apartment smells profusely lemon and flour instead of ash, then yeah, it’s more pleasant, but something is still wrong. You have to prompt him to speak about what’s on his mind, and it takes some prying. Be gentle with him; ironically, taking it slow is the quickest way to earn his trust and break down his walls. 

Porco’s vice is also smoking, but in the form of vaping/juuling. Like everything else, it started in high-school. His habits were waning in college anyway, as he’d gotten better at handling his own anger/stress, but Marcel broke them for him; smashed all his vape pens and ran over the pods with his car for good measure. Porco was pissed in the moment, but he can realize it’s the best thing anyone’s ever done for him. His replacement has been eating candy when he’s stressed and gets the urge to smoke; but few things truly upset him to that point anymore, and the only thing proven to piss him off the point of clearing three packs of Twizzlers is fighting with you. And even then, Marcel isn’t happy; he’ll smack the candy right out of his brother’s mouth, forgoing Porco’s screaming of, “Look, it’s better than smoking, alright?” to smack some sense into him because, “I’m not paying for your root canal. So go talk to your girlfriend like an adult instead of ruining your teeth.”