"Bastard," Jean says with a huff, but it's not with ill will. Mostly he's just saying it as a retort without meaning it too much. If he was younger, he'd have tried to start a fight, but now it was mostly nostalgic word exchange.

Jean looks at his own mask. "In a way, it's nice when no one knows who you are. So if you're carrying a lot of expectations, you can just blend in," he says with a shrug. "But neither of us have that in this world, so it's probably just weird to us."

Not that Jean had that problem back home, either. Other than being a member of Survey Corps since that seemed to be some sort of target for attention. But Eren was the 'hope of humanity'. At least from where he's from.