Levi Ackerman mouse pads for the desk

Our Levi Ackerman mouse pads and desk mats carry art inspired by the Survey Corps captain of Attack on Titan, printed edge to edge on a 3 mm neoprene pad with a fabric top, a non-slip base and stitched edges. The eight sizes start small enough for a mouse alone, at 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm), and finish with a 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm) mat for an entire desk; whichever you pick is printed only after your order arrives.

This page belongs to Attack on Titan and keeps to designs about Levi himself. The walls, the Titans, Eren, Armin and the rest of the cast are on the Attack on Titan page, and Mikasa has a page of her own.

Humanity's strongest soldier

Inside the walls, Levi's reputation arrives before he does. He is the soldier who has brought down more Titans than anyone, and he looks nothing like a legend: short, quiet and permanently unimpressed, with an undercut of black hair and a white cravat at his throat. That contrast, a small, still figure in front of an enormous enemy, is what makes a Levi design work. Compositions that keep him small and the Titan huge let the scale tell the story without any text.

A spin, a blur and a lot of steam

Levi moves faster than anyone else in the series. He holds his blades in a reverse grip and often attacks in a spinning blur, cutting along a Titan from one end to the other before it can react. His rescue of Eren from the Female Titan in the Forest of Giant Trees is the clearest example: a few seconds of motion that end with Eren pulled free. In an illustration, that speed becomes a spiral of curved slashes and sprays of steam with Levi somewhere at the center.

A spiral composition suits the small 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad, where it fills the frame and no keyboard cuts through it. On a longer mat, choose a design where the spin sits at the end away from your mouse, so your hand never covers the middle of the motion.

A tidy desk for a tidy captain

Levi is obsessed with cleanliness. When his squad moves into an old castle as its headquarters, his first order is to scrub the place from top to bottom, and he does the work himself in a head scarf with a cloth tied over his mouth. It is one of the series' running jokes, and it gives Levi fans an easy way to describe their ideal setup: bare surfaces, no crumbs and one good mat.

A minimal Levi design suits that kind of desk. Think of a single figure on a plain background, or just his silhouette, with most of the mat left empty, a monochrome keyboard on top and nothing else competing for space.

Tea held by the rim

Levi is rarely far from a cup of tea, and he holds it in an odd way: from above, with his fingers wrapped around the rim instead of through the handle. It is a tiny habit, but it is unmistakable, and a teacup held like that makes one of the most understated Levi designs possible, with no uniform and no blades, just the cup and the hand.

A small motif like that belongs on the small pad or in one corner of a larger mat. If you keep a real mug on your desk, give it a coaster beside the pad rather than on it, and blot any spill off the fabric straight away.

Black, white and olive

Levi's palette is close to monochrome: black hair, a white cravat and white trousers, a brown leather harness and, over everything, the olive-green cloak of the Survey Corps. That narrow range fits almost any setup, but it looks sharpest next to black or white peripherals, where the green cloak becomes the only real color on the desk. For lighting, warm white is a better match than RGB; a Levi design rarely needs a glow behind it.

The Special Operations Squad

In the first season, Levi leads a hand-picked team assigned to protect Eren: Petra Ral, Oluo Bozado, Eld Jinn and Gunther Schultz. They ride with him into the Forest of Giant Trees, and what happens to them there is one of the hardest moments of the early story. A design of the squad together, five green cloaks side by side, is a quieter tribute to Levi than any battle scene.

A group like that is wide, so it belongs on XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm), or larger. Put Levi at one end next to the mouse, and let the rest of the squad line up along the top edge, above the keyboard, where they stay in view.

Up from the Underground

Levi grew up in the Underground, a city built in a vast cavern beneath the capital, where people live without sunlight. The spin-off A Choice with No Regrets, released as a manga and as two anime episodes by Wit Studio, tells how he survived there with his friends Isabel Magnolia and Farlan Church, and how Erwin Smith brought all three into the Survey Corps. In the third season, the main story returns to that past through Kenny Ackerman, the man who raised him.

Designs from the Underground are lit like the place itself: dim stone, lamplight and long shadows, in browns and deep amber. They suit a dark wooden desk lit by one warm lamp, and they feel very different from the open-sky battles above ground.

Levi and Erwin

Commander Erwin Smith is the one person Levi follows without argument, and their partnership carries the middle of the story. Erwin plans, Levi carries the plan out, and Levi promises to kill the Beast Titan for him. The battle for Shiganshina in the third season tests that promise and that partnership, and it ends with Levi facing a choice that is still debated years later.

A design of the two together, Erwin tall and blond, Levi small and dark, makes a strong pairing for a long mat. Place one at each end and the keyboard sits between them, which suits two soldiers who rarely get to stand side by side for long.

The Beast Titan

Levi's fight with Zeke Yeager, the Beast Titan, runs through the back half of the story. The Beast is a huge, ape-like Titan covered in fur, and it throws rocks with terrible accuracy. Levi cuts it apart on the battlefield at Shiganshina, then meets Zeke again in a forest in the final season, where their fight ends in a thunder spear blast. Designs from those moments set one small figure against a towering, hairy silhouette, and they look strongest in dark green and gray with the white steam picked out.

That contrast of sizes needs height to work, so the deep XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm), suits it: the Beast fills the upper half, and Levi flies toward it from beside the mouse.

Levi in the final season

By the final season, Levi has lost most of the people he served with, and it shows: a scarred face, an injured hand and the same flat stare. Final-season designs tend to be darker and quieter, often just Levi in the new black uniform under a gray sky. They suit a black desk and a mood rather than a fight, and they fit well on the TCG Mat size, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm), beside a laptop.

The other side of Levi

For all the grimness, Levi is also a comic figure: blunt to the point of rudeness, surrounded by louder people such as Hange, and fixated on dust. Chibi Levi designs, a small round figure holding a broom or a teacup, are much lighter than anything from the battlefield. They suit a pastel or white desk, a younger fan, or anyone who prefers the cleaning jokes to the casualty count.

In Japanese, Levi is voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya, and in the English dub by Matthew Mercer. Both play him flat and dry, and the humor in those chibi designs comes from the same place: a man who refuses to raise his voice.

For gaming and study

A Levi pad plays like the rest of our range. The fabric top lets the mouse glide evenly for quick, precise movements, the non-slip base keeps the mat where you put it during a flick, and the stitched edges stop the fabric from wearing where your wrist drags. A monochrome Levi design also stays calm enough for a study desk under a laptop and a notebook, where bright colors would compete with what you are reading.

Sizes for a Levi desk

The sizes a Levi design comes in are listed on its product page. These are the ones that suit him.

Setup	Size	Good for
Mouse alone	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	A spin attack or the teacup
Next to a laptop	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	The final-season captain
Small keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	Levi swinging toward a Titan
Keyboard plus mouse	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	Levi with his squad along the top
Deep desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	Levi against the Beast Titan
Whole desk	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	Levi and Erwin at opposite ends

If your desk is wide rather than deep, the L, 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), and the 3XL, 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm), are worth a look as well.

Gifts for a Levi fan

A Levi pad suits a friend who keeps their desk spotless, someone who has rewatched the Shiganshina episodes more than once or anyone who quotes his deadpan lines. His birthday in the series is December 25, which turns a Levi pad into an easy Christmas present. Allow 1–3 business days for printing and finishing, then 2–5 business days in transit from Turkey to most US addresses, and order by early December. If you have never seen their desk, XL is the size least likely to be wrong.

Cleaning, the Levi way

It would be strange to sell a Levi pad without a cleaning routine. Wipe the surface with a damp cloth each week, paying attention to the area under your wrist. For a thorough clean, hand wash the pad in lukewarm water with a mild soap, rinse until no suds remain, press it between towels to draw the water out and lay it flat until it is fully dry. Never put it in the washing machine or the dryer, and never iron it. The fade-resistant print keeps the olive and black from washing out.

A note on names

Levi Ackerman, Attack on Titan and the names of its characters are used here to describe what our designs are inspired by. Padrift is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Hajime Isayama, Kodansha, Wit Studio or MAPPA.