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Jean stubbornly keeps his lips sealed together, and Armin sighs in exasperation.
This is getting very tiring very quickly, and he's really close to losing his patience.
He looks down at the baby bottle that's in his hand and then back up at Jean. There really was no other option.
After a pretty rough expedition, Jean can't sit up at the moment due to the severity of his injuries, but he still needs to get something into his stomach. So Hange had found a random baby bottle in her office, prepared him a nice soup, and filled it into the thing.
So, really, there was no other option.
But Jean has a lot of pride, and from the look in his eyes, he'd rather die than to be humiliated like this.
And Armin gets it, but he still finds Jean's resistance ridiculous at this point because no one else is even around to be a witness.
It's literally just them, and they've seen each other in plenty of embarrassing situations before.
Besides, Jean really needs this soup.
So, with renewed determination, Armin grabs Jean's jaw, being careful to not touch his neck brace or be too rough, and tries to force his mouth open with some pressure.
'Mmph!' Jean whines, trying to wrestle his head out of Armin's grasp.
"Stop moving!"
"Mmmh!!"
"You'll hurt yourself!"
Jean immediately stops the squirming.
"And you need to have your soup!" Armin goes on. "So, please, stop this!"
"No!"
Armin tries to take advantage of the newly presented opportunity, but Jean is faster and shuts his mouth again before the blonde can even get the bottle closer to his lips.
He sighs for what feels like the millionth time and applies more pressure to the sharp jaw.
"Mmph! Mmmpph!"
"Oh, stop your whining! You're going to drink this soup whether you like it or not!"
Jean purses his lips tightly, and Armin, done with his antics, just rolls his eyes and pinches the other's nose to stop his breathing.
Jean lasts exactly five seconds before he opens his mouth to suck in air, and Armin quickly shoves the nipple of the bottle in.
Thin lips automatically clamp around it, and an unwitting sip of the soup is taken before there's a shocked pause and a look of pure dread on Jean's face.
Armin can't help but smile in satisfaction.
"You might as well continue," he says. "You already lost, and it's not like I'll go around telling this to anyone, anyway."
It takes a little more prodding, but Jean eventually resigns himself to his situation, and the sight of him suckling away on a baby bottle is absolutely hilarious, but Armin doesn't laugh.
Jean is already angry with him. He doesn't need to make things worse.
Unfortunately, that's when Eren of all people walks in.
"Hey, Armin. Captain Levi asked if-"
Eren stops in his tracks and blinks, stunned.
He takes in the scene in front of him—a horrified Jean being bottled-fed by a surprised Armin—and his expression flips from one to the other before settling on amusement.
Snorting obnoxiously, he bounds over to the pair with a wicked grin.
"Look at what we have here!" he chirps, voice louder than necessary. "Say 'goo goo ga ga'! Come on, Jean, don't be shy!"
Jean gives Eren the nastiest stink-eye Armin has ever seen before ignoring him completely and going back to looking resigned.
Armin assumes that he's probably thinking that his life is over now.
But at least Hange's soup tastes delicious, right?