Jean Kirstein x Reader College AU ♡ slow burn, yearning, soul connection... Once your whirlwind of a life finally settles and you're ready for some well deserved peace and quiet. You can't help but take notice to something you never have in the past - Jean. The way your lives intertwine like they're one and the same. Whatever fate was decided for one was also decided for the other. A story of two lost souls intertwining and finding life in each other. The reluctant bond between two characters, when two powerful forces finally touch and they can breathe once again. "the sea looks more beautiful in the moonlight" cover credits - @Mary03m03 #1 on artstudentjean - 3/10/25 #1 on jeankirstein- 31/3/26

"I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!" "Good, I can live with hate. As long as I know you feel something for me." He was your unfinished forever. You thought you'd buried your love months ago, until he came back like no time had passed. When Art student Jean Kirstein returns to Paradis College after a year of silence, you aren't sure whether to slam the door or to pull him into your arms. But old feelings have a way of resurfacing. As Old truths and long-kept secrets rise, you'll have to face the pain you swore you'd never have to revisit. Because to love him again, you'll have to forgive the past. And maybe yourself. ♡︎༺☆༻♡︎ Aot college au, 18+, trigger warnings will be at the start of each chapter, intended for mature audiences. Cover art credit- KORINarchives

𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐭. 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝. 𝐈𝐧 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬. 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 - 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝. After a difficult first year at Central Sina University, Y/N transfers to the University of Paradis in search of something better. She moves in with Sasha a warm and endlessly friendly roommate who quickly pulls her into a tight knit group of friends living just across the hall. For what feels like the first time in a long while, things start to feel easy.... promising. Then Marco Bodt notices her. Golden boy. Soccer captain. Future doctor. Everything Jean isn't. Jean, meanwhile, has his life seemingly figured out. He's retaking the year, living in a frat house with his closest friends, winning games, and absolutely never short of attention. He tells himself he doesn't care - that Marco has always had it easier in every way. But everything shifts when Jean learns over the summer that his father intends to marry Marco's mother, binding them as step-brothers. However, this time Jean isn't willing to come second. Not when it comes to Y/N. The one thing he's willing to fight his best friend and soon to be step brother over.

You were supposed to leave him behind. The boy who challenged you, competed with you, annoyed you to your very core, until he didn't. Jean Kirstein, your academic rival, your almost-friend, your first love... and the person you left without saying goodbye. You thought distance would make it easier. That burying yourself in ambition, in grief, in survival, would make you forget. But nothing could quite erase the burn he left on your skin, or the look he gave you the night everything fell apart. Now you're back in Paradis. Just for a few months, just long enough to fulfill a promise, to see your friends again, to pretend that the past doesn't hurt anymore. But fate has other plans. Because the first time you see him again... he's not standing. He's broken, quiet, older...and yet everything you once loved still lingers in his eyes. From academic enemies to something impossibly tender and undone, this is a slow-burn story about growing up, losing everything, and finding your way back to the person who always felt like home. "Do you think I have forgotten about you?"

Stepping into a new part of your life, sorrows from your past that were drowning you - disappeared. A change to start over, what you needed. You fell straight into a tight knit friend group, who welcomed you. You promised yourself, and others, that you wouldn't let yourself get sucked into the depth and abyss of Eren. It was an easy mistake for many, but not for you. Yet, in times of tenderness & vulnerability, you collided close to him, and so did he to you. He was damaged, hurt. Wounds that felt like only you could heal him from. You and him mirrored one another, it was like destiny - set for you in the stars and the ground. But was it all worth it in the end? ─ What starts as a rivalry between the two of you, blossoms into two paths intertwining into one. ────── all characters owned by hajime isayama eren x !fem reader, modern au/college au, slow burn this story involves smut, eating disorders, anorexia, self harm, drug use and addiction, homophobia, domestic violence, suicidal ideation and action, alcoholism, sexual abuse/rape, depression, anxiety, ptsd, religious trauma ➵ check all trigger warnings at the start of each chapter : cover art by ni23ku on twitter

It all ties back to the last party two years ago. Will you be able to get over it together or will you keep drowning in the consequences? ** college setting, alternative universe, no titan powers. +18 content. talk about alcohol, sex, drugs, sa, death etc., reader discretion is advised.** **cover art credit: therapistlevi** :) some rankings :) #1 kirstein #1 jean #1 attackontitanfanfiction #1 shingeki #2 erenjaeger #2 snkfanfiction #3 aotau #4 jeankirstein #4 snk #4 snkxreader #8 jeanxreader #15 aotfanfic #18 aotxreader #32 attackontitan -cross posted on ao3

[𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 / 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐔] Crashing into a stranger on what feels like the worst day of your life so far? Pure, unlucky coincidence. Only to cross paths again one eventful night soon after? Fate, possibly. One college party. One broken heart. One hookup. When Jean proposes a deal so tempting, you agree without any further thought. It was supposed to be a distraction. You were supposed to forget. What starts as a seemingly innocent yet instant connection spirals into something neither you nor Jean sees coming. （（ＳＭＵＴ） ((did I mention smut? I just wanted to be crystal clear as a warning that this is a plot-heavy story with smut scenes, so don't say I didn't warn you.... SMUT)) Started: 01/27/2021 [Available on Wattpad/AO3/Tumblr] [[Cover made by me]] [[actively editing first few chapters]] Highest Ranking(s): #1- Kirstein #1- Jaeger #1- Fratboys #1- Titan #2- fratboyeren #2- jeankirschtein #3- AOT #3- Jean #3- Jeankirstein #5- plot #6- Eren #6- snk #6- Modernau #7- jeanxreader #11- surveycorps #15- Shingekinokyojin #51- attackontitan #151- University

Y/N has always strived to be her very best, In hope to make her parents proud. But starts to strive harder when her town, Shiganshina falls. She decides to join the training corps and later joins the Survey corps. But with her frequent insomnia and small anxiety, how is Y/N going to be able to survive? Don't forget about her problematic attitude and complex problems... She definitely needs someone to lean on. *** Strong Language Follow the anime till the end of season 2, then follows the manga.

You and Eren Jaeger went to the same high school but never really spoke. He was the guy everyone knew. Easy-going, loud, reckless and sometimes annoying. You were the girl he barely noticed, staying hidden in plain sight. It stayed that way until college finally came around and both of you ended up attending the same one by some crazy coincidence. Now, thanks to a reckless bet between friends, Eren suddenly has one goal: get you to kiss him. Of course he thinks it'll be simple enough. Except the closer he gets to you, the more complicated everything becomes. The problem? Bets mean that someone always loses. And this time, it might be both of you.

"𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑒... 𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒." ── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ── Eren Jaeger has always known who he's supposed to be. Whether it's on stage, for interviews, for everyone who is watching him, all with the perfect girlfriend by his side. It's easy to play the part when everything is controlled, when nothing slips. But then Jean Kirstein happens. A loud, reckless boy from a rival band he's supposed to hate shows up and suddenly nothing feels simple anymore - he begins questioning his sexuality and himself. What starts as something he can ignore turns into something he can't, something he has to hide, something that could possibly ruin everything if it gets out, he does what can... he plays it straight. For the cameras. For the fans. For the life he's built. But the more he tries to bury it, the louder it gets, and some things are never really meant to stay hidden.