#mikasa keeps visiting his cottage bc his garden is shit

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no.4 - story idea you havent written yet ☺️☺️

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I've discussed this idea elsewhere and I've been brainstorming it for a while.

But basically, the gist is that 5 years after the second timeskip (so roughly 872) Mikasa discovers that Jean has been living on Paradis for the last few years and didn't tell her. He's been hiding out in some coastal cottage where he spends his days living quietly, not drawing too much attention to himself, and painting like the art hoe he is. He even uses the alias "Jehan" when selling his works.

She's conflicted between being happy to see him and being mad that he's been on the Island the whole time without telling her. She's hurt to think that a friend has been so close to her this whole time and she didn't know it. In Jean's mind he kept things a secret because he thinks it's safer for Mikasa to not associate with someone who betrayed Paradis and even now he's concerned for her safety.

And why is Jean living on the Island? Because my man just needed a break from ambassador duties to spend a few years painting and hanging out with his dog. He just needs to live quietly for a while before figuring out the next step.

Meanwhile, Mikasa is still slowly healing from *gestures to her first 19 years of existence* by working in Historia's orphanage. I imagine the Queen ordering her to take a break because she's overworking herself it's scaring the children, and that's how Mikasa ends up in the coastal village where Jean is living.

And in between the saga of Mikasa and Jean reconnecting in their late 20s are flashbacks to 857 during the Ambassadors first visit back to Paradis for peace talks, which explains why exactly Jean and Mikasa act like awkward exes in the present. The tldr is that they hooked up during that time.

Funnily enough, the things that really motivated me to maybe write this is both because my sanity requires it and me stumbling across this S-Tier fanart of Jean being a bearded DILF on twitter because that's exactly how I imagine him in this scenario.

But unfortunately, him looking like that does make it implausible that the Jeankasa reunion doesn't involve her jumping his bones on the spot.