Squad Levi

Squad Levi is the friendship between Petra Ral, Oluo Bozado, Gunther Schultz and Eld Jinn from the Attack on Titan fandom.

Canon
Squad Levi, also known as the Special Operations Squad, is a group of Survey Corps members who were handpicked by Levi himself. They're known to have the highest Titan kills; making them the strongest squad in the regiment. Despite the amount of trust Erwin has in them, Eld has mentioned that they're quite new to the Scouts, therefore the true plan of the Female Titan remains unknown to them, and is trusted by the higher ups including Hange, Levi, Mike, and Nanaba. After Levi takes in Eren, and stops his excecution, Squad Levi are asked to take care of him, and keep him in check. If Eren goes out of control, they are commanded to kill him. Then, Levi commands his squad to clean the place that they're going to be staying at. They seem to get used to it, and they are noted to be the best at cleaning inside their Regiment. At night, everybody sits around a table and listens to Levi, who tells them that they'll stay on standby.

Hange then barges in, and offers to talk about their Titan experiments. When Eren asks about them, Oluo tells him not to get them started, although as they start talking about their experiments, the whole squad leaves, leaving Eren to listen to Hange. The next day, Sawney and Beane are killed by Annie and Reiner, and Squad Levi goes to see the commotion. Then, they separatley meet up with Eren, and go to see Erwin at night for the recruit solitication ceremony. There, they listen to his speech, and stay quiet. A month later, the 57th Expedition is launched, and Levi's Squad is positioned at the centre, where they're safest. Before the expedition starts, Gunther explains the plan, before asking Eren what Erwin meant back then. He then asks the rest if they understood, to which they all claim that they didn't.

At some point, Hange proposes to experiment on Eren's Titan, with the supervision of Squad Levi. Eren is given a signal to transform. although it doesn't work. After, Levi is greatly disapointed in him, and Eren then rests with Oluo, Gunther and Eld while Petra tries to comfort Levi. When Eren picks his spoon up and accidentally transforms into a Titan, they all draw their swords at him, suprised that he's turned into one. They all start yelling at him, and ask why he did it, willing to kill him if he was an enemy to humanity. When learning that it was an accident, they all bite their hands in apology, leaving scars.

During the expedition, a Scout member reports that the right flank is blind to enemy movement, leaving them to move out. Upon entering the forest, the squad is extremely nervous, and has no idea what's going on. This greatly shocks Eren, who has high expectations for them, and expected them to have faced similar situations. As the Female Titan enters the forest as well, and is catching up to them, Petra commands Levi to switch to vertical maneurving, although reinforcments come first, who eventually get killed. While everyone is stressed, apart from Levi, Oluo begs for his orders, although Levi uses a sound grenade, which emits and extremely high-pitched and loud noise. Levi then tells what the squad's mission is, which makes them regain their calmness. Levi then says that they'll instead depend on the horses, to which they all agree to do. After this, other Survey Corps members decide to risk their life and die, which shocks Eren. He yells at them, and says that they could've helped them, but Oluo and Petra say that they need to listen to Levi's orders, showing how devoted they are to him. When Annie accelerates, they are forced to speed up, due to Eren's choice of not turning into a Titan. Eren then thinks about how they believe in Levi and trust him with their lives, making their devotion and trust clear.

After continuing, they reach a point where the Female Titan is finally captured. Then, Levi leaves, and puts Eld in command while he's gone, leaving Oluo to say that no one should underestimate the Survey Corps. Later, they all escape and stay to the trees, where Eren implies that Erwin and Levi doesn't trust them, angering Oluo and Petra.

Levi then fires a signal, commanding everybody to withdraw and go back home. Squad Levi sees the signal and goes to meet up with Mike, Erwin, Hange, Levi and the others, to check who the Female Titan is. On their way, Petra says that they won due to Eren trusting them, but Oluo says the opposite and asks what he did except groan and serve as bait. Eld then mentions how Oluo and Petra both pissed their pants and cried like babies on the first day, shocking the two, which causes Oluo to ask who has more kills. After that, Gunther yells at them and asks if they're on a picnic, forcing them to concentrate, before telling Eren that he's never pissed his pants before either. On their way, Annie uses her gear to kill Gunther, slicing the back of his neck. Despite this, they attempted to remain as calm as possible, protecting Eren. Oluo asks Eld what they do, and he says that they have to head to command as fast as possible. After this, she transforms and goes for Eren. Eren says that he should transform, until Petra asks him if he really trusts them, causing Eren to leave and believe that they'll be victorious. Then, Oluo and Petra both cut out her eyes, causing the Female Titan to lose balance. Still protecting her nape, the three cut it's shoulder muscles to that they can reach the nape. After they manage, Eren says that they must have so much trust in eachother, and that's why they're so strong, even after Gunther is killed. As Eld goes for the nape, Annie heals one of her eyes, and eats him, cutting him in half. Petra is left distressed, and is then killed during an attempt to get higher up the ground. Oluo attempts to cut the nape, but she crystalizes it before he can cut it, and is kicked, killing him.

They're often seen in Levi's memories together, showing that they're some of the people he cared about the most.

Fanon
Squad Levi's friendship is often showed in fanart, Levi alongside them and sometimes even Eren. Due to the squad not having made it through season one, fans don't pay much attention to it. Although the first lineup is seen as somewhat unpopular, the lineups throughout two and three are much more popular, due to having more fan-loved characters who have lived much longer. In fanfictions, it is usually set before Squad Levi's death, and before any of the characters joined the Scouts. This friendship has gained popularity mainly due to Levi and how much they are willing to risk for him, due to Levi being an extremely favoured character.

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Trivia

 * In AOT: Final Battle, Territory Recovery Mode, everyone in Levi's squad ranks A in cleaning.

Variations

 * AurEtra refers to the ship between Oluo Bozado and Petra Ral.