erejean hc: jeans a makeup artist when eren volunteers to be his model they both don't expect his face to be so ticklish with the sweeps of brushes & hands & jeans just so amused about it & slightly pissed because he just fixed that wing r u srs eren

eren is jeans fav model to practice makeup and contours and new things on because eren’s face shape and general bone structure is amaZING???? but erens also tHE BIGGEST PAIN TO WORK ON because the swells of his cheeks are so sensitive and his neCK so when jean has to use a fluffy brush to blend makeup down his jaw line onto his neck eren can’t stop giggling and jean wants to be exasperated but erens so fuckin cute??? 

also holy shit yes jean literally has to hold eren by the jaw with an iron grip when he does cat eye makeup because he has to use a tiny detail brush for the wing and eren dies because jean’s touch with the brush is so genTLE AND EREN ALWAYS MESSES UP JEAN’S PERFECT SHARP WINGS WITH HIS SQUIRMING

Headcanon: erejean 👀 please 🖤

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Okay.

My take on their relationship is that Jean and Eren, despite their differences, respect each other a lot. Jean thought Eren was a reckless moron but he admired his courage. Eren thought Jean was a lazy coward willing to just sit back and do nothing but he respected Jean enough to let his words get to him. Of course both of them would sooner drop dead than ever admit they respected the other one.  Or that they *gasp* actually deeply care about one another. Like… can we please talk about that sweet little smile Jean made when he was thinking about how Marlowe reminded him of Eren, the person he ““hated.”“ Or that moment in Trost when Eren’s death more or less inspires Jean to lead everyone behind Mikasa to HQ. Eren and Jean no doubt have a occasionally tremulous relationship.. but I also think it just works for them. It’s their norm and they both wouldn’t have it any other way. I mean in Uprising, Jean’s way of trying to drag Eren out of his depression hole was attempting to provoke him into one of their usual fights. He literally looks relieved when Eren finally takes the bait. Like.. GOD I FUCKING CAN NOT WITH THESE TWO.

Anyway.. headcanons:

- Jean is way more in-tune with his own emotions than Eren is. Like, he’s perfectly aware of what he’s feeling and can probably identify why he’s feeling it.. unlike Eren. Additionally, he’s pretty damn good at reading Eren (not like Eren is a difficult person to read). Jean’s trouble lies in expressing himself and.. well.. in the social transaction lol. Eren on the other hand can express himself just fine. He’s not as sharp tongued as Jean and overall has less of a tendency to offend people, lol. I see the two as a sort of ying and yang- Jean is well versed in areas Eren is not and vise-versa. 

- Jean is 110% out here worrying about Eren way more than Eren is worrying about Eren. Mind you, beneath the jealousy and all the balking at just how ridiculous Eren and his grandiose ideas were, he’s always cared about Eren’s well being- it’s one small part of why he gave him so much shit for wanting to join the SC in the first place. But his worry wart tendencies only increased after Trost and into Uprising. And of course Eren just.. wouldn’t see what was happening. I could see Jean chastising Eren for not getting enough sleep or pushing himself harder than what Hange was already doing and Eren just.. taking offense lol. Like fuck you Jean don’t tell me what to do, who do you think you are? etc. etc. And Jean would be like, aware that Eren was reacting with volatility because Eren’s a little dense when it comes to understanding others. But at the same time his pride would be like, nope, don’t care: yeah well fuck you too Eren.

- There’d be moments between the two of them on new Squad Levi where they would behave pretty harmoniously when they thought noone was around. Like Sasha, Connie, Armin, and Mikasa would watch in fascination from the kitchen doorway as Eren and Jean pealed potatoes in an actual comfortable silence.

- If anything ever happened to Jean, Eren would be completely crushed. No question about it. Including now, post time skip. Post time skip Eren’s reaction to a Jean death I imagine would be like a more amplified version of what we saw with Sasha. 15 year old Eren though.. hooooo boy. I could see 15 year old Eren going ape-shit over a Jean death. In a lot of ways I almost think Eren would take Jean’s death harder than Jean would take Eren’s. If not only because in the face of loss Jean tries to keep a level head whereas Eren lets his emotions sweep him away.

- During a fight, the second they thought one of them actually got hurt, they would stop immediately. There’s no foul play with those two. They’d never go for a punch when the other wasn’t looking. They’d never want to actually hurt one another. The way I see Eren and Jean is that they fight each other because they know the other can take it. Like… it’s endlessly humorous to me that during the Training Arc Jean literally responds to Eren laying him out with “What the fuck???? Ouch?? That actually hurt?? Why’d you do that??” Like, he got in Eren’s face, fighting was their MO at this point. And yet when Eren whipped out this move Jean wasn’t expecting he was just.. taken aback lmfaoo. Meanwhile Eren was watching him try during training with fondness like, “yeah he’s doing all of this so he can kick my ass but look how much he’s improving!” Like.. jfc lol.

- My take on that moment in chapter 105: I think that Jean was doing what Jean has always done with Eren, which is to remind him of the losses, of what the human life it cost to get him to where he was (whether it be Marco, the 100 or so soldiers in CoT, or Sasha). What I think was heartbreaking about it was that it was so different from the ways Jean addressed Eren on this matter before. After Trost and after CoT, Jean stated the numbers with no bullshit and no sugar coating. He was firm, but the trust and faith he had in Eren was clear. When he addressed Eren after Sasha had died, he just looked horrified and terribly sad. The tone was different. The distance between them could be felt. It was really upsetting. I don’t think Jean was mad at Eren exactly. But I do think he was very.. disappointed in him.