Y/n used to have a future. Once upon a time, there were dreams of stages, spotlights, and cheers - until a single injury shattered all of it. Now? She's barely hanging onto college, drowning in grades, and doing her best to push the world away before it leaves her first. Jean Kirstein wasn't supposed to stick around. Annoying, persistent, and impossible to shake, he shows up when Y/n least wants anyone to. But sometimes the wrong people slip through the cracks, and sometimes the heart can't tell the difference between a lifeline and a hook. This isn't just a love story. This is a story about a boy who let the light in a girl's dark world, flickering where she never thought it could glow again.

Descriptions are for cucks. DISCLAIMER: All attack on titan characters belong to Hajime Isayama, I only own the plotline of THIS story. The storyline does more or less go along with scenes from the anime/manga so it is canonical. I don't care if you replicate parts of this story I take it as a compliment to my fantastic writing. However, if you try to replicate the entire thing the creative system failed you. (Not that I'm expecting the 40 people who read this to do anything.) Credit would be appreciated if you do. Please note that the events happen a little later in the timeline, so the characters are older than in the original. STORY TIMELINE S1-S4 Long chapters so buckle up. (Reader is female)

You swore you'd never love again. Not after grief hollowed you out and left you carrying ghosts. Jean Kirstein swore he'd never surrender again. Not after being treated like a puppet in a life scripted by someone else's control. Neither of you asked to collide. Together-nothing but unraveling threads, but scars sure have a way of recognizing each other. And once the walls crack, it's only a matter of time before everything shatters. What happens when the grief you've buried finds its reflection in another broken soul? ⋆｡˚ ☁︎ ˚｡⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆ - 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧. 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 (𝟏𝟖+) 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲. 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 - ᐢ..ᐢ nice rankings ៸៸ ✦ ~ #1 erenjaeger ~ #1 snkfanfic ~ #7 jeanxreader ~ #10 aotfanfic

He's everything I shouldn't want. He's heartless, mean and older. Yet I can't stop wanting him. He makes me feel so many things and I can't be in his presence without making a total mess of myself. Still I find myself yearning for his presence. Even though I know I shouldn't. And as if it couldn't get any worse... he's my friend's older brother. ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ jean kirstein x female oc shingeki no kyojin, hajime isayama cover art credit - korin_archives on ig ⚠️ this is a modern college au, all characters are 18+, smut warning, 18+ content, dark themes, death warning, drug use warning, as well as strong language and violence discussions of drugs, sex and death reader discretion is advised! intented only for mature audiences! ꨄ ⋆˙⟡ good rankings ⋆˙⟡ #1 jeankirstein 11.18.25 #1 jean 11.26.25 #1 jeankirschtein 12.16.25 #1 shingeki 03.01.26 #1 attackontitanfanfiction 03.07.26 #1 attackontitanfanfic 03.07.26

You've transferred over to a new University for your sophomore year, meeting a whole new friend group along the way. Having been through a lot yourself, you're in dire need of a fresh start. Still in the process of healing, you've gained strength and resilience, but old habits die hard. Your new friends help you find yourself along the way, and you make fun new memories to erase the old, painful ones. They teach you that most people have been through hell and back, and not everyone is who they seem to be. Meeting Eren puts your head on a swivel and has you questioning everything you've known before. Hard-headed, stubborn, but a charming and tender boy, can you get through to each other? You said you'd focus on yourself, but, it's certainly tempting, with bickering comes banter, after all. Hate and love are far similar than you'd think. ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ♥ Eren x Reader university au ♥ Slow burn, explicit, eventual smut ♥ TW before each chapter (possible TW; drug and alcohol use, talk about death, familial issues, physical violence, mentions/descriptions of SA, depression, anxiety, etc) ♥ Focuses on Eren and Y/n but builds other characters and their relationship with the reader ♥ Not sure who the cover art is by so if you know please let me know so I can credit them! ♥ Thank you for reading! ♥ PSA: none of the characters are mine except the OCs, it is all fictional

Eren was never the type to be interested in frat parties. He thought it was a waste of time and "too much" for him. However, a single person would change his former beliefs. - - - Eren Yeager/female reader I wanted to try something slightly different from the average "Fuckboy player Eren" so I decided to make him a fucking loser. Content warning! (NSFW) This story contains: Praising/Degrading , Mommy kink , Spitting , Loss of virginity , Alcohol , Eren/Armin/Reader threesome at one point ig , Sasha/reader (f/f), etc. Eren Fanart credits : mujijionga STARTED : 04. 29. 21 ENDED : ???

After prison for manslaughter, Jean Kirstein disappears, leaving Canada, a shattered night, and whispers that follow him like warnings. Shingashina is quiet. A small house. A forgettable job. A second chance he doesn't think he deserves. He's not here for redemption. He's here to survive. Painting steadies his hands; college keeps him moving. Until history class threatens to unravel him, and you appear. A volunteer tutor, patient, gentle, and impossibly stubborn. You treat him like he's human, not a stranger haunted by shadows. He keeps his distance at first. Short answers. Guarded glances. Walls built from knowing exactly what happens when people get too close. But you don't push. And that's worse. Slowly, silence cracks. Words become warmth, warmth becomes something dangerous. You start to see him, the version the world left behind. And Jean knows how this ends. The truth about Marco Bodt isn't a story. It's a fracture that never healed. And some fractures leave marks no one else should find. The closer you get, the more he realizes he doesn't want you to leave. And maybe, that's the most dangerous thing of all. ˙⋆✮ This story contains mature and potentially distressing themes, including depictions of violence, references to past trauma, and explicit sexual content. It also addresses homophobia and its emotional impact. Reader discretion is advised. Please take care while reading. ˙⋆✮ Rankings 1 in #marcobodt 1 in #kirstein 2 in #excon

𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐱 𝐅𝐞𝐦!𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 - (𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐮) "𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙣, 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙤𝙣." ─── With your past following you like a dark cloud, a fresh start at a different university is exactly what you need. For the first time in your life, you've taken matters into your own hands and granted yourself some much-needed change. Not only does Marley State University offer a great program, but it also gives you people who feel like the functioning family you've always longed for. Of course, you can't get along with everyone-especially not those who don't even make an effort of getting to know you. But maybe there's more to that than just pure arrogance. And yet, old shadows seem to follow you everywhere. Your guilt-tainted heart, always torn and distant, will it finally be set free and find its home? © all rights met . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁. (og title: Of Ashes and Honey) This story includes dark and sensitive content, please check all the trigger warnings, which will also be stated at the beginning of the chapter if needed. 18+, minors, do not interact!! 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 #1 jeanxreader 09/01/25 #1 jeansnk 09/13/25 #1 shingeki 10/01/25 #1 jeankirstein 01/10/26 #1 jean 02/16/26 #1 aot 02/16/26 #1 attackontitan 02/19/26 #1 snkxreader 02/21/26 ₊˚⊹⋆ crossposting on ao3

Between life and death, there is hope. But every ending has the same outcome: the Rumbling razes the earth, taking the person you love with it. After you die, you reawake in the day you met your best friend, Eren Jaeger. In every life you relive, you change one part of the story that sets it in a different direction, hoping to find the one choice that will save him once and for all. But you only have thirteen chances, and time is running out. WARNING: canon spoilers, nsfw (smut), graphic descriptions of gore and violence, adult language, and mature content. © 2022 emefaerie

She sang to survive, never expecting her voice would change someone else's life. Performing at a local town bar was all Y/n knew, her only source of income and escape. But when a mysterious stranger appeared in the crowd hiding behind a hoodie, a black beanie, and a mask covering the bottom half of his face, he looked more like a thief than a man trying to enjoy his night at the bar. The only thing that seemed familiar were the eyes she had only seen through a screen. The forgotten rockstar, Connie Springer. And what better way to earn money than working for the fallen star desperate to reclaim the career his addictions had destroyed? What could possibly go wrong when you're writing songs for the known walking disaster.