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Character designs done for my Six of Crows adaptation last semester.

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no mourners, no funerals

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am i the only one who doesn't really agree with the criticism that the crows are too young?? i understand where people are coming from but at the same time, i feel like that perspective is almost entirely based on a modern understanding of age. six of crows is meant to be set vaguely in the 17th century, and back then, the concept of a teenager did not really exist. pair that with the extensive trauma that the crows went through in a ruthless environment such as the barrel, and you get a character that was forced to become just as ruthless as their environment in order to survive, therefore making them seem older than they really are.

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skin to skin💫💕

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crows🖤

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Kaz Brekker is such an anomaly. Is he a well-written, well-rounded character? Yes. Did he learn his lesson in the end? No. Did he become either better or worse? No. Did he grow as a person? You could say that. Do we have even a remote understanding what he will do next? Absolutely not.

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The fact that a lot of the crow's main appreciation for Kaz is "I can tell him anything bc he'll still have done way worse :)" is so... lmaoo. Going to Father 'Double Digits Kill Count' Brekker for confession and he's just behind the screen playing solitaire and saying 'yeah whatever I've done worse' every few minutes. At the end he tells you it's shame that eats men whole and steals your wallet, and then you see him like two days later in a gang brawl

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You know, I kind of find it interesting when the narrative of fanfics is always like Kaz is in a bad mood because Inej isn't there... rather than Kaz is bored because Inej isn't there. I guess two things can be true at the same time... but also, in the following years, Kaz built the following: an underground tunnel in Ketterdam, the Silver Six, expanded the Crow Club, expanded the Dregs territory (presumably). That's two years... of pure restless energy.

We are also told that he really only talks to Jesper and Wylan when there's a job he needs help with presumably because he's so busy. Kaz also finds time to correspond with a king of a whole other nation... and has been known to roleplay as a beggar (yes, I will keep bringing this up bc it's funny). Imagine, if you will, an 18-19 year old Kaz coming into all this wealth and so much time to just build because he can. Maybe because he's a little lonely, or bored, or both.

I don't think Kaz is angry, I think Kaz is restless.

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One of the roughs for the Litjoy edition of Crooked Kingdom (Kaz and Inej: the bathroom scene!). I didn't know at the time that Kaz's cup-and-crow tattoo is supposed to be on the inside of his forearm. Oops. Didn't matter, since a different sketch got chosen, but I liked Kaz's face in this one :)

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I just saw this fanart of a roaring 20s kaz and I need you all to know that urge to write a gilded era, mafia, brandy smuggler, owners of the most sought after gambling club and speak easy in all of the city kazper fic is strong

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In time, he almost forgot what he had once been able to do. Water was his most ardent foe, not an ally. Water was the bodymen’s boats, Reaper’s Barge, and Jordie’s corpse. The water had given, and could give him, nothing that he wanted. It would make no bargain with him that could be worth it– so he would not try. He eked out his fortune and his revenge with every bloody punch and petty swindle and broken bone. He ignored the hiss and slap of the filthy water in the canals that wended through the city, the roar of the waves at the harbour that smashed boats to pieces, the sinuous curl of the mist on wet nights that got you jumped if you weren’t paying close enough attention. The Ketterdam water had a touch of the mocking about it– a determination to be as awful and monstrous and polluted as he was. But Kaz didn’t need a reminder of what he’d become. The water had his brother; it would not have him, too. --- Assuming Kaz was a Tidemaker; what, then?

possibly the worst timing EVER (or the best considering how you look at it) but er. I er. posted the first bit of my kaz tidemaker au fic today???? if you want it???

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Six of Crows: A Comic Adaptation

Part 1, Chapter 2

Pages 35–36

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kazzle dazzle

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The bastard of the Barrel 🐦‍⬛

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the fall was not graceful

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My stance on Kaz is not necessarily that his violence is just because it's all for the right reasons, but that he's a boy with nothing but bad decisions to choose from. The whole character thesis of Kaz, is that he puts on a show of being uniquely evil, when it's like. He's dealing with rigged and fucked up trolly problems daily. Also all the railroad workers there are going to try and beat him to death at moments notice