Jean Grabbing Jeremy's Chin: A Saga of Character Development
This is Jean setting a boundary, someone who's never been allowed to set a boundary before. He's unsure if this boundary will be listened to, thinking he needs to become physically threatening to ensure it. At the same time, he's trusting Jeremey to be a person he can even attempt to set a boundary with at all.
This is more of a causal touch, Jean comfortable in doing so, but it serves a purpose, or more so a correction. A touch to shift Jeremy's attention away from Jean's pain, to ask him to look away, a dismissal of his own pain. Again, he thinks he needs to ensure Jeremy's attention to get his point to come across. But when Jeremy responds with obvious care, Jean loses track of his dismissal, releasing Jeremy.
Again, a causal touch that serves a purpose, but Jean has more focus on what that is. This isn't the practiced dismissal of his pain from his time in the Ravens, but something Jean has thought out. This is a showage of Jean's trust to Jeremy rather than an attempt to distract Jeremy away, allowing Jeremy in.
They've already long since established this causal touch of the chin, it's something familiar to them. Jean knows it gets Jeremy's attention, and so he uses it to ground Jeremy in this moment, an anchor in his panic, as well as an assessment of how Jeremy is feeling. Because if Bryson is a threat to Jeremy in any way, Jean wants to know so he can get rid of the problem, and he knows that Jeremy isn't going to vocalize Bryson as a problem so he has to judge based on his face.
Jeremy is the kind of person that refuses to show anyone his face if it shows any kind of distress; he never wants to address that he's anything less than okay, feeling he doesn't deserve comfort. And again, Jean knows this by now, using chin grabs to see in full Jeremy's distress, to get Jeremy to let him in; a shift from Jeremy trying to get Jean to let him in.
Again, Jean knows the meaning of Jeremy turning his face away; he wants to hide, and Jean isn't going to let him, he wants Jeremy to allow himself vulnerability just as Jeremy created a space that allowed Jean the same. He isn't allowing Jeremy to invert into himself. Because Jeremy promised Jean something, and Jean has such faith in Jeremy and his promises, knowing that if he brought it up Jeremy would immediately concede. Overall, he just completely trusts Jeremy, trusting this is just Jeremy having a moment and not him breaking his promises, just needing a quick, grounding reminder. Because that's what Jean touching Jeremy's chin so often means; it's grounding both Jean and Jeremy, a reassurance of vulnerability on both ends.
Really though, this is a shift in Jean's normal chin grabbing. Yes, it's to ensure Jeremy's attention, but the normal intentions of that are now different. Every single time Jean touches Jeremy's chin there's a clear purpose, an intent, what Jean would consider a necessity. But Jean himself after this realizes how it accidently came across, how unplanned this move was. It was a thoughtless grab for Jeremy, to hold onto him, likely brought on by the memories of what he remembers Faser did to Jeremy, another time Jean's control slipped.
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