They were Marley's best athletes and each other's worst distractions. Jean Kirstein, golden boy captain of the Titans hockey team, has everything riding on Nationals. Y/N L/N, Marley's top figure skater, is chasing her Nationals title with cold precision. The two have nothing in common except ice and ambition. And maybe the fact that they can't stop bickering every time their paths cross. But as winter deepens and the pressure builds, their rivalry starts to fracture into something deeper, softer. Y/N falls first. Jean falls harder. ⛧°. ⋆༺🏒✧ ❅ ✧⛸️༻⋆. °⛧ A rivals-to-lovers-to-strangers-to-lovers romance about competition, heartbreak, and what it really means to get back up again. ❕I have never read Icebreaker. Any similarities are purely coincidence ❕

"It started with comfort. It ended with him being the only thing that could break me." When Jean Kirstein and Eren Yeager move back to Shingashina from their studies in Amsterdam, you're a wreck. Freshly heartbroken, barely functioning, and definitely not ready to see the two men who've shaped your life: Eren, your brother, and Jean, his best friend, practically family. Jean's cocky, tattooed, too good with his hands, and the kind of person your brother always warned you about. And yet, when he's the only one who can help you navigate this mess, you can't ignore the way his presence unsettles you. Protective, attentive, and impossibly close, he reaches for you when you fall apart, and suddenly the line between care and something more blurs. He promised no feelings and he lied. {˙⋆✮rankings} 1 in #yearner 10/11/25 1 in #kirstein 10/11/25 12 in #shingekinokiojin 26/11/25 7 in #jeankirstein 5/12/25 1 in #jeankirschtein 10/12/25 (slight substacne abuse, smut, violence)

❝ 𝘪𝘧 𝘪 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘮, 𝘪 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺. 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦. ❞ ❝ 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘪?❞ ❝𝘯𝘰, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶. ❞ ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ When two opposite sides of a war slowly get involved with each other. Discovering new things together under a tight seal to keep their connection pure, and unharmed until they realize it was built off deception. jean kirstein / fem reader shingeki no kyojin , hajime isayama [originally written janurary of 2021] ఌ︎. cover art creds - @smackthedeviloutofit via instagram 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙨𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙧 ᯓ★ #1 in Jean | 6.1.25 #1 in JeanxReader | 4.1.25 #1 in Eldia | 4.27.25 #1 in PorcoGalliard | 5.19.25 #1 in AngstWithNoHappyEnding | 3.18.25 #1 in AttackOnTitan | 6.9.25 #1 in Marley | 8.1.25 #1 in Kirstein | 9.30.25 #1 in JeanKirstein | 11.5.25 #4 in AOTxReader | 8.30.25

In search of stillness, you leave Marley behind. Bruised feet, frayed dreams, and all. You land at Paradis University with a ballet scholarship and baggage you never unpacked. There, among paint-stained hands and late-night smoke breaks, you find yourself entangled in the lives of a tightly knit group of students, each carrying their own cracks. At the center of it all is Jean Kirstein: sharp-tongued, cigarette-breathed, and hiding more than he lets on. You're discipline. He's chaos. But the line between stage and studio starts to blur, and what begins as friction might just become a kind of art in itself.

𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙥 𝙟𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙠𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙞𝙣! Following the disappearance of Marco Bodt at the end of Y/N's freshman year, coming back to campus hasn't been the smoothest transition. Everything seems to run smoothly through the year until she is partnered up with Kappa Titan Phi social chair, Jean Kirstein. Now Y/N finds herself unraveling the past and also her heart.

previously titled k&cherry [Jean Kirstein x Reader ] 𝙠𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙞𝙣.𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚.𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩.𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 [2] 12/31/2022 @ 11:59 pm... 𝙆. 𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙮. 𝙞 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪. - You arrive at Trost State University on an exchange scholarship with one rule: this is temporary. You've spent your entire life proving you're worth keeping-training your body, sharpening your ambition, becoming whatever the world asked of you in order to survive in Marley as an Eldian. Paradis is supposed to be temporary. A pause. A place to breathe while the storm you created blows over back in Marley. Instead, it gives you everything you tried to leave behind. Old friends you've missed. Old truths you want to ignore. And of course; an attractive stranger who quickly becomes the bane of your existence here in Paradis. Jean Kirstein-sharp-tongued, stubborn, and infuriatingly familiar. A hockey player who calls you out for wanting more. For wanting out. For refusing to accept the identity you were born into. You clash over pride, survival, and the choices that shaped you both. But beneath the tension is something harder to ignore-an unfinished connection, a promise that never really stayed broken. Because some lives don't drift apart. They collide. cover art by xhealer_ on ig / tiktok!!

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.

After witnessing the fall of Shiganshina, you only had one goal; teach the Titans that brought you grief and misery a lesson. During the two years of boot camp, you made friends with the iconic, unbreakable duo, Marco and Jean. But once one of them sets their sights on you, things tend to get heated up. Reuniting with Jean, you become infatuated, and begin to have an affair with him. What the future holds is for you to discover. - some mature contents -side note: this is a much older work of mine (written almost 6 years ago), and does not reflect my current writing abilities. [highest ranking: #1 in jean kirstein]

Our story begins with Y/N who was born and raised in Marley and put into the warrior candidate program in hopes to inherit one of the seven. She's sent on a mission with Marcel, Annie, Reiner and Bertholdt to go to Paradis, home of the island devils, to take back the Founder. Follow Y/N as she goes forth with the mission to eventually grow up and join the 104th cadets and while there, meets no other than Jean Kirstein. The two fall in love, but how long can Y/N keep up with the lies of who she really is and what she came to Paradis to do? How long until she has to come clean? To Jean, to the other scouts and to herself? ~ reader will go through each arc in canon aot. ✹ ✹ ✹ IMPRESSIVE RANKINGS #1 in jean 1/25/22 + 4/5/22 #1 in jean x reader 7/26/22 #1 in aotimagine 7/31/22 #2 in eren 1/18/22 #2 in porco 3/17/22 DISCLAIMERS : -COVER ART BELONGS TO THE ARTIST I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING - none of these characters besides y/n are my own, the setting, story arcs, and characters all belong to hajime isayama. pls don't sue me i just wanted to write a self insert ab falling in love w jean and manga will be all throughout. however some adjustments to the original story were made to fit y/n into the story.

Jean Kirstein, a soldier of the royal guard of the kingdom Eldia is granted a promotion. Although he'd normally be thrilled, his new job requires watching over and protecting the princess who has a terrible habit of doing exactly what she's not supposed to. reader discretion advised. all characters 18+, no titan powers, set in fantasy world. smut. content for 18+. talk about death and killing. violent/graphic scenes. cover art creds: gundo_49 on twitter!!