#Inej loves spicy food

[dreamtigress]

Several Sentence Sunday...

I'm going to do something a little different today, since I am currently working on a story where Kaz takes Inej out for their first real date in public.

I've had a lot of fun researching various foods that I think would occur within a Suli and Ravkan restaurant. I've pulled from eastern European, Russian, Romani, and Middle Eastern foods, figuring the Suli have picked up a variety of cuisines in their travels, and perhaps each caravan has family recipes and specialties. So here's what I've worked up for Pelegrini's menu:

Suli & Ravkan cuisine as seen at Pelegrini: 

Skillet bread: A variety of unleavened bread is available, similar to naan, including plain, garlic stuffed, and almond and raisin.

Spiced tea: Somewhere along the lines of chai. (Inej’s favorite tea; Kaz declines, ordering Ravkan black tea instead.)

Djuveci: a curry-like fish stew. (Inej offers it up, but Kaz decides on the cabbage rolls instead.)

Sarma: stuffed cabbage leaves, filled with a mixture of ground meat and rice, mildly spiced. (Inej recommends these for Kaz as they will be milder.)

Tzatziki: thick yogurt sauce with garlic, chives, and dill. (Inej shows Kaz to dip the sarma and bread into it.)

Ajvar: red pepper sauce. (Also for dipping various foods into. Way too spicy for Kaz.)

Paprikas Csirke: chicken, onions,and potatoes in a medium spicy paprika curry sauce. (Inej orders this for herself, but lets Kaz sample some.)

Pirogo: a sweet noodle casserole dessert, with eggs, raisins, walnuts, cream and cottage cheese. (They share this for dessert.)

Pomdrakon: dragonbowl, a Ravkan dish created by lighting raisins on fire. (Kaz opts out of this one, says he’ll try it next time!)

Here's a few sentences from the story. (I love that we all seem to agree Kaz has a Kerch palate when it comes to spicy food...)

They munched mostly in silence for a while, until Inej insisted he at least try a bite of the garlic stuffed skillet bread with ajvar. There was just enough challenge in her tone that he felt obligated to rise to the occasion. Besides, Inej had described it as milder than her father’s version of the sauce. She dipped the bread, and held it up for him with a grin. The moment the sauce hit his tongue, three thoughts occurred in quick succession.

Oh fuck, that’s spicy!

How hot does her father make this?

I’m going to need more tea.

He didn’t cough, sputter, or spit out the bite. He did note his eyes start to water. His glass of iced tea was in hand before he’d even swallowed. Inej tried valiantly to stifle her giggle, but failed. “Okay, no more ajvar for you. Sorry about that.”

“I think…” He cleared his throat. “I think I’d believe that apology if you weren’t still laughing.”

“Have some more tzatziki, it will help more than the tea.”

I've added the info about Pelegrini to my Wiki, sampled here:

And in full here:

[fridayverse]

interrupting your day to say that kaz learned suli just for inej.

at first he didn’t even realize why he did it, pouring over a book he would probably tell himself it’s so they could communicate more easily. but later (post ck) it becomes far more personal, notes and sentences whispered quietly between the two as inej reconnects with her culture.

[evellynssocbrainrot]

My modern-day Kaz x Inej head-canons

They have a cat

They read and annotate books together

They study and do puzzles together

They have matching sleep sweaters, Kaz's sweater says Inej's name and Inej's sweater says Kaz's name

They go out for ice creams and milkshakes in the summer and hot chocolate in the winter

Kaz spends a lot of money buying Inej gifts and necessary things even though she insists he shouldn't spend that much money (But she takes the gifts anyway)

Kaz tells her stories in the evening, Inej tells him stories as well

Whenever Inej gets into a silly argument with someone, Kaz always backs her up

Inej is a tom-boy (she only wears dresses and traditional Suli clothing sometimes) and studies law

Kaz studies business and economics

Inej bakes cookies for her friends, Kaz loves them but never admits it

When they go to a restaurant, Inej orders spicy food sometimes which Kaz has a miserable time eating (he can't handle spicy food), but, of course, he never admits it and ends up seething by the time he finishes, Inej laughs the whole time

Kaz loves, if not, is absolutely obsessed with Inej's hair, which is why he taught himself various hairstyles like braids, ponytails, buns, curling, and straightening so he could do it for her (as an excuse to touch it more)

For his birthday, Inej looks around with Jesper for the hardest escape rooms

For her birthday, Kaz organizes the biggest parties but lies and says Jesper and Nina were the ones who put it together to not draw attention (Inej doesn't fall for it)

Once they reach that stage of intimacy, they would love cuddling, hand kisses, cheek kisses, hugging, and holding hands, Inej loves to rest her head on his shoulder, they sleep in the same bed, and he lets Inej be the big spoon sometimes (But they do also love kiss-kisses and some private bedroom stuff every other day as well)

She steels Kaz's waffles in the morning, he gets a little grouchy at first but then doesn't mind

When she's cold, Kaz lets her borrow his Jacket

Hope you like'em :)

[anonniemousefics]

An idea for fic between Kaz x Inej has been running through my brain for month now . I don’t have any motivation to write it tho so I’m putting it here in case you or anyone else would like adopt the idea into a fic. Here’s the basic synopsis:

Inej has dragged a reluctant Kaz back to her home to attend a traditional Suli celebration that is dedicated to girls in her community becoming women and celebrating 1st love (kind similar but not similar to our worlds version of Valentines). However Kaz doesn’t know the significance of the holiday because Inej chose not to elaborate. (She already knows he feels uncomfortable being outside his environment away from Kerch) However she is overall excited about celebrating the holiday and basically drags Kaz around the entire encampment attending shows, dancing, torturing home with spicy food he can’t handle lol etc. and meanwhile Kaz is a nervous, confused, blushing mess because he can’t for life of him understand why Inej is putting so much effort into participating in every single event at the festival.

(I’m even envisioning for Inej to take him for a smutty tumble in a caravan that’s their staying in that’s right next to her parents caravan and Kaz is a nervous wreck because he’s worried about getting caught lol )

The real reason that Inej wants to do all these things with Kaz tho is because she wants to re write her stolen childhood with happy memories. I keep thinking how Inej’s room back in the menagerie was modeled to be a racist imagining of a Suli caravan, and by being intimate with Kaz in her authentic home with her family is important for her to rebuke her awful time as a sex slave and relive all of her stolen first’s with Kaz.

Kaz is still oblivious to why Inej is acting this way until a female family member (probably Inej’s cousin) explains to him the significance of celebration and helps him put 2 and 2 together. When the celebrations start to die down and Inej slips away from the celebration and becomes depressed that it’s over Kaz finds her and performs a magic trick similar to one the shows they went to during the festival and comforts her by telling her something sweet like

“ it might not matter much, but for what it’s worth, I’m glad that your my first with everything”

Inej the tears up, kisses hime, they have lovey dovey smut again, this time being slow and more intimate.

+

Inej’s parents being polite but still wary of him because they know of his reputation in Kerch. Eventually they warm up to him because they see how sweet and affectionate he is with their daughter. (I would imagine Inej’s father being more distrustful him at first)

Also one her parents (probably Inej’s mother) implying to Kaz that she heard him and Inej being intimate the night before, teases him about it, and assures him that she’s okay with it

And Kaz being a speechless red blushing MESS!

The end!

I’m with you, my friend, someone should write us this gem for the holidays. Any takers??? Please, we’ve been very good this year 🙏

[wesper-ao3feed]

Bevrediging

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/xpO8ul2 by DreamTigress, MDTiger11 (DreamTigress) Inej has another educational chat with Jes & Wy about kink. Kaz takes her out on a date in public to Pelegrini, for an amazing dinner. Upon return to the mansion, their evening gets very kinky. Inej takes control, tries out some new toys, and hilarity and hotness ensue. Kaz comes to grips with a new phrase from Inej. There are explicit, sexual and kinky scenes between consenting adult characters. See also: Jes & Wy are their kink gurus, Inej gets IDEAS, And new toys, Dinner Date, In Public Even, With PDA, Kaz is still a scheming security squirrel, Kaz’s Kerch palate versus spicy food, Inej loves spicy food, Sharing dessert, Forehead kisses, Kink time, Leather fetish, Inej’s Inner Sadist, Kaz is a masochist, But he does finally safeword, Kaz remembers why he loves subspace, Kaz has a praise kink, Inej breaks his brain in all the ways, Who’s a Good Boy, Her boy, Kink as therapy, Kaz & Inej deal with feels, Words are hard for Kaz sometimes, Battling with PTSD. Words: 24125, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English Series: Part 14 of Kanej Wensen Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/M, M/M, Other Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, The Crows Ensemble (Six of Crows), Jesper Fahey, Wylan Van Eck, Original Characters Relationships: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker & Inej Ghafa, Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Eck, Jesper Fahey & Wylan Van Eck, Original Character Relationships - Relationship Additional Tags: Kaz Brekker Loves Inej Ghafa, POV Kaz Brekker, POV Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker Needs a Hug, Soft Kaz Brekker, Protective Kaz Brekker, Kaz Brekker Has PTSD, BAMF Inej Ghafa, Captain Inej Ghafa, Inej Ghafa Needs a Hug, Soft Inej Ghafa, Inej Ghafa Has PTSD, Protective Inej Ghafa, Love, Sex, Praise Kink, Enthusiastic Consent, Consent is Sexy, Kink Negotiation, Erotica, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Rope Bondage, Leather, Kaz has a plan, Inej has a Plan, Kaz & Inej Deal with Feels, We Never Stop Fighting, Touching, Panic Attacks, Sexual exploration as therapy, Explicit Sexual Content, Implied Sexual Content, Humor, Jesper is a bad influence, Tactile, Kaz & Inej get Snuggles, hair fetish, kink as therapy, words are hard sometimes, Kanej - Freeform, Inej Ghafa Loves Kaz Brekker, Forehead Kisses, PDA, Dinner Date, Kink Conversations, Good Boy Kink, Safeword Use, Nipple Clamps, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Podfic Welcome read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/xpO8ul2

[milo-my-beloved]

things we don't say

A continuation of the some other life 'verse.

Playlist 🎵 Buy me a cup of tea ☕

Chapter Four: Kaz and Inej (Favourite Ship)

It takes them two hours to perfect their routine.

A clever combination of Kaz's close-up magic and her acrobatics tells the tale of Sankta Margaretha, Ketterdam's patron saint of thieves and lost children. It's a well-known story, and one the wealthy guests at Van Eck's party will love.

Once they've run through their performance a few times, they migrate into the kitchen. It's late — much later than when she usually cooks for herself — and Nina and Matthias can probably hear her stomach rumbling from the other side of the city.

Kaz opens the fridge, stares at it blankly, and then closes it again. "I don't have any food in."

She knew she should have eaten before coming. "It's fine."

"Pizza?"

"Sounds good," she smiles.

He places the order without having to ask what she wants. He knows all of the important things about her; her favourite kind of chocolate (salted caramel), her favourite flower (geraniums, like her mother), and her favourite pizza topping. It's deceptively easy to fall back into their old routines, even though the people they used to be are long gone now.

"It'll be twenty minutes," he says.

Not enough time to run through their routine again, but too long to stand here making awkward conversation. "Do you want to watch a film?"

Kaz tenses, his hand flexing on the head of his cane. "Do you have a particular one in mind?"

She racks a brain for a film that won't make the situation even more uncomfortable. Not a romance. Nothing serious. They need a comedy or something, but not a rom-com — nothing that will remind them of their failed relationship.

"Have you ever watched Now You See Me?" Inej asks.

Kaz shakes his head.

"You'll love it! It's about a group of magicians doing a heist."

He raises an eyebrow, clearly unconvinced. But he follows her into the living room and hands her the remote without arguing with her choice.

By the time the pizza delivery guy rings the doorbell, Kaz has already pointed out five different magic-related inconsistencies. He passes the spicy meat pizza to Inej without taking his eyes off the screen, and shucks off his gloves to eat his strange anchovy-covered concoction.

If he notices the way Inej's gaze lingers on his bare skin, he doesn't say anything.

She tries to refocus her attention on the TV. Her eyes drift over to Kaz whenever she stops paying attention, delighting in the incredulous expression on his pizza-stained face. Every time he yells at the screen she grins like a fool, only to shut it down a few seconds later.

Papa always says that the heart is like an arrow. On the trapeze, it was easy for her to decide on her trajectory, pinning her focus on the next handhold as she soared through the air.

Now, she just wishes her heart would latch on to someone other than Kaz Brekker.

Continue reading under the cut // Continue reading on AO3.

Inej walked to the nearest hotel, still wearing Kaz's oversized shirt and a pair of black sweatpants she found at the top of her bag. Checking in so late felt like a waste of money, but she didn't care. She needed somewhere to be alone for a while.

The first thing she did upon entering her room was to change out of her clothes. The shirt smelt like him — like burnt coffee and foxgloves — and even when she tossed it onto the patterned carpet floor of the Geldrenner hotel, she couldn't rip her eyes from it.

She fell asleep on top of the mattress with the taste of her salty tears on her lips, wearing a band t-shirt Jesper gave her years ago.

When she woke, she forced her head up from the damp pillow and she strode on shaky legs to the bathroom. She stopped in front of the mirror, staring at her reflection for a while. What could she say to console the broken girl gazing back at her?

There was one thing she knew for certain: Kaz was too stubborn to come running back to her on his own. They were over, and her perfect summer had come to its abrupt end.

"It's going to be alright," she whispered to her reflection. The girl in the mirror didn't believe her, so she repeated the sentiment. "We're going to be alright. We're going to shower and get dressed, we're going home to mama and papa, and you will not wallow in this pain."

The girl in the mirror held her head a little higher.

"You can't force him to open up to you, but you don't have to watch his past swallow him. It's his loss."

Inej nodded once, a jerky movement, and then did exactly as she said she would. She cleaned the salty residue from her cheeks, braided her hair, and dressed herself in her comfiest clothes. By the time she returned her key to the front desk, her posture was as confident as it always is, even if she didn't feel as brave as usual.

On the bus over to her parents' house, the reality of the situation hit her all over again, and she has yet to recover.

*****

As soon as the film ends, Kaz launches into the rant that he's been saving up for the hour and fifty-five minutes they've been sitting there.

"It makes no sense," he grumbles, carrying their empty pizza boxes into the kitchen. "Did they learn any magic before making this?"

"I thought you said all magic is a con," Inej points out. "So's acting."

He rolls his eyes. "You know what I mean."

She smiles, fetching herself a glass from the cupboard above the sink and filling it with cold water from the tap. "I take it you don't want to watch the sequel, then."

"They made a second one? Who on earth asked for that?"

Inej laughs. It's always hard to tell whether Kaz is playing up his reactions — yet another of his cons — or if he just lowers his guard around her. She takes a sip of water, leaning over the counter. Outside, she hears the first drops of early October rain tapping at the window.

Kaz turns his head to watch the heavens open, and Inej knows they're both thinking about the same thing.

"It's late," Kaz says. "Do you want to stay over?"

Inej puts her glass down before she can drop it. "Is that the best idea?"

His neck stays firmly angled towards the window. He's shutting her out again. Why did she expect anything different? They aren't a couple any more. She has no right to his secrets. If he wants to dig his own grave, she won't be there to watch it after Friday.

Still, she can't help but push her luck. "Where would you have me sleep, Kaz? In the bed you threw me out of?"

He faces her then, his dark eyes searching her face. It's the first time either of them has mentioned that night, and Inej nearly regrets the question.

"I didn't throw you out. You left."

"Because you told me to," she corrects. Anger rises up her throat, threatening to spill out all over Kaz's spotless kitchen tiles. "Past three in the morning."

He looks down at his cane, turning the crow's head away from her. At least he looks ashamed, she thinks, but it doesn't bring her any comfort.

"I told you on the first of those double dates Jesper dragged us to — I'm not the man you think I am."

"You're exactly the man I think you are." She sighs. "That's the problem, Kaz. You were perfect for me. But you can't believe that another person can love you back, so you push us all away because of some imagined future wrongdoing."

He swallows, shaking his head slightly.

"I realised that a long time ago, thanks to your regular warnings. And so has Jesper, and Wylan, and all our other friends. But I wanted to stay. I wanted to be the exception to your rule, because I loved you. But you asked me to leave, and I respected that even though it destroyed me in the process."

She dips her head, focusing her gaze on the cup in front of her as she blinks away traitorous tears. She shouldn't have come here. She didn't intend to pour her heart out in his kitchen, unprompted. But at least this finally might give them closure.

"You don't know what you're asking me to confess." Kaz pauses, choosing his words carefully. "All of what you've said is true. You've just laid out all the reasons why you deserve a better man than me."

Inej shakes her head. "You are that better man, Kaz. You just refuse to see it." She finishes her glass of water in three desperate gulps, placing the cup in the sink carefully before turning back to him. "If you're still offering, I'll sleep on the couch."

He nods. They set up the makeshift bed together, moving the furniture back to where it belongs and spreading out Kaz's spare blankets and pillows. The end result is comfier than her own bed.

He hovers in the doorway as she sits down to unbraid her hair.

"Goodnight, Inej."

"Sleep well, Kaz."

He closes the door softly behind him, and a few minutes later, she hears his cane tapping against the hard wood as he climbs upstairs to his bed.

Inej lies down on the sofa, tugging a blanket up to her chin, and she dreams of Margaretha and her demon. As she drifts off, the demon morphs into Kaz's face, and she wonders whether that is how he sees himself; twisted, crooked, wrong, but still the boy she loves.

[novinare]

Food had always been a love language for Nina. It was something she'd learned in the early days in the orphanage, when food had been scarce, and turning the leftovers and scraps into something delicious was an art that the matron had transformed out of a necessity. And it was a lesson that Nina had taken to heart.

Food nourished the body, good food nourished the soul. And whether that meant cooking for her friends (something she planned to do more of, once she'd whipped the Slat kitchen into functional shape!) or reminding them to eat, or just remembering what they liked... It was her way of showing she gave a damn about them.

But it was different with Inej, because so many of the tastes and smells that reminded them of home were the same. And sometimes Ravka felt very far away.

"It does." Nina confirmed, smiling as she handed Inej the bottle of small, hard black peppercorns. "Not too spicy, just enough to warm you up from the inside. It's in the filling for the pelmeni."

She set down the bottles and jars when the large pot on the stove finally began to boil; and with the broad bowl of raw dumplings tucked against her hip, Nina began to carefully drop them into the water one by one.

"You haven't? You're missing out, they're delicious!" The dumplings slowly bounced in the roiling water, floating closer to the surface as they cooked. "The eggs are supposed to symbolize the stones the villagers threw at him. Maybe that's why I've never seen them made outside of Ravka!"

Nina's smile faded a little at the mention of language, and her ability to speak them. "I was always good at it." She said thoughtfully, fishing out a slotted spoon to rescue the cooked pelmeni from the pot.

"By the time I went to the Little Palace, I could speak Ravkan, and Fjerdan and Suli. I learned Shu, and Kerch and Kaelish while I was there... My Zemeni is passable. I need more practice, but Jesper is allergic to sitting still."

@therooftopsofketterdam

Inej was laughing now. Nina's words made her happy. It was a rare treasure to have a friend like her and it meant the world to her. She watched the brunette woman stand and kept smiling.

Skirts and dresses had been hers once. She wore them the day the slavers took her and most others days when she wasn't training or performing with her family. Then the Menagerie had dressed her in soft, silken whisps of fabrics. In Ketterdam she prefered her briches, boots and tunics. Flowy and tight that made climbing easy and hiding knifes possible.

"Not the houses Kaz has me break into. A lot of people have things to hide here and spices are quite valuable. I didn't want someone selling them for profits when there is a better use for them." She winked. Another secret they shared. Inej wasn't a good cook and the things she was able to make were basic. Stuffed Skillet bread usually with cheese and carrots or whatever she was able to find when the Suli girl missed the grandness of her home and the closeness of her family. A simple stew that Kamilla, the cook at the menagerie, had prepared for them several times and Inej had watched her prepare whenever she was able to escape the gilded cage.

With a shudder she left these darker thoughts behind and forced her focus to Nina who was currently reading and describing the different spices. "I wish I had your gift for languages." She admitted, joining her friend at the hidden shelf, pulling cinnamon out or it's container and sniffing it. It smelled sweet and heavy, the way she remembered. Mixed with curry and crackling fires and old laquer paint it would make up the smell of home.

Sometimes Inej wondered if she'd been better off with the ability to speak or at least read Kerch when the slavers brought her here but Suli was all she'd ever known until her parents allowed her to go into the cities with them and they taught her to speak and read ravkan.

"I like black pepper. It has a good bite to it... I think?" Inej had never thought much about food other then it was a necessity to live. There was a time she was sure she enjoyed it but most of it had lost it's flavour when hastily eaten between jobs and danger or not eaten while she was at the Menagerie. Sometimes she felt like her body was still recovering from that self inflicted lack of nourishment. But watching Nina be so passionate about it made her own stomach rumble in anticipation.

"I don't think I've ever had a cheese omlette on Sankt Demyan's day..."

[love-anddeepression]

hey I’ve had a rough day of micro aggressions/straight up racist comments and I was wondering if you had smth with the crows? Like fluff or smth? Also ur awesome + accurate desi posts

Headcanons for being a desi and being part of the crows-Crows x reader!

Hello fellow desi love! aww thank you, ur really cool too! I was planning on writing this sometime and I figured I’d take the opportunity  to make you feel better. smh im so sorry you had to go through that :/. I hope you feel better<33(p.s, i’ve written some Kaz X desi readers if you want to check them out :P) This is a modern au where India exists and is near Ravka! also this short and im so sorry!

Taglist: @messers-moony-lupin @sirisuorionblack @scandalous-chaos @staytrueblue

-Okay so obviously the FOOD! The aloo, the chicken curry, the naan, the paratha, the subzi oml.

- Inej LOVES the food and always asks you to teach her to make panner ki subzi. Jesper loves the chicken curry and naan, and always, ALWAYS has atleast four naans everytime.

-Kaz and Matthias cannot handle spice.At all.

-Wylan loves aloo! Nina loves the SWEETS. God the rasmalai, she gobbles it up and asks for seconds and thirds.

-Gaali’s(swear words). XD 

-ABEY SAALA!

-when they hear that they know that you’ve stubbed your toe.

-You give Kaz Zandu Balm for his knee and he has never been more grateful

- You were invited for a wedding back home and immediately knew that you would take them along.

-Inej and you helping Nina get a good lehenga or saree.

-Inej wore a dark blue lehenga and Nina wore a maroon-ish saree, she was a bit sad when you told her she couldn’t wear red.

-THE BOYS WEARING SHERWANI’S

-”Kaz! You put in on backwards!”

-DANCING!

-Assuming bollywood music is played, Inej, Nina, Jesper and you, dancing to ‘Gallan Gooriyan’, ‘London Thumakda’ and a lot more.

- Going to different sights and eating street food.

-Matthias choking on a Pani-Puri, while Kaz is dying because it’s spicy and Jesper shaking his head. White ppl. Nina and Wylan enjoying Bhel Puri. Inej and you having one of each. 

-Going to different sights.(ur in hyderabad cuz im hyderabadi and I need representation). Qutb Shahi tombs, museums, CHARMINAR.

-THE CHAI!  THEY LOVE THE CHAI, THEY’D DIE FOR IT

-Every morning, it’s a ritual for Kaz to make a cup of chai(you taught him) for everyone and disappear into his office, taking a packet of Parle-G with him.

-Wylan loving the music, how people play the flute so beautifully.

At the end of the day, they couldn’t be more grateful for having their Desi girl and they love you appreciate everything you do for them.

[bee-a-lover]

I mean, you tagged Six of Crows, so I'll happily listen to whatever you have to say about our primary Crow characters and relationships! 😁

I've already forgotten if you implied/flat-out stated romantic relationships or not.... but if not, I'd love to hear about Inej/Wylan friendship, or Jesper/Matthias being friends, since Matthias is clearly secretly drawn to overtly energetic and flirty grishas. 😆

ABSOLUTELY. you’re speaking my language, i love underrated friendships.

Inej and Wylan:

you cannot tell me that these two aren’t the prank masters of the crows. kaz gets too into planning, jesper and nina have zero subtlety, and matthias just sighs and goes along with whatever, but inej’s stealthiness combined with wylan’s inventiveness? working together, their pranks are legendary and cannot be beat. none of the other crows are safe. no one is safe. + for the same reason, they work ridiculously well together on jobs

they are canonically the smallest (but mighty) crows and are both also canonically stubborn. they agree that why ask for help reaching something on the top shelf when you can just climb up on the counter and do some simple gymnastics to get it yourself? jesper leaves them baking cookies and nearly faints when he returns to see inej perched on top of the fridge and wylan climbing the shelves like a ladder. jesper just doesn’t understand that being short is a lifestyle.

during inej’s first stay at the mansion at the end of ck, wylan lends her clothes since they’re around the same size and that just never stops. mysteriously his sweaters start going missing and end up in her luggage and at sea with her. wylan definitely dresses super comfy so when inej isn’t rocking her pirate fit, she’s wearing his comfy sweaters around the ship. she trades them out for different ones of his when she visits ketterdam. he doesn’t mind, he loves sharing :)

they love their boyfriends very very much but kaz and jesper are dumbasses so they talk to each other about their dumbass boyfriends. nina also joins them to talk about her dumbass boyfriend (who she also loves very very much). + bonus: while they hang out kaz, jesper and matthias are out having dumbass shenanigans

they’re both cat people. inej has a cat on board the wraith and wylan has a cat and when they get together they bring their cats together too and jesper and kaz (dog people) do not understand the fascination with the cats

i almost didn’t add this because it’s basically canon but wylan helps inej take down slavers using his position on the council and sneaks her secret council info and dirt on other merchants

Matthias and Jesper:

at first they have no idea how to interact with each other because they’re so different. but when nina inej and wylan are having their own hangout sesh and kaz is being his stand-offish self the two of them are forced to hang out alone. it’s super awkward until jesper brings up a dog park in ketterdam since nina told him about trassel, and they go to the dog park together. they make friends with all the dogs and matthias judges the owners’ training techniques. against all odds, jesper and matthias get along and they have a good day together

their relationship gives super loving dude-bro vibes, you get me? they convince the others to play sports with them. meaning they convince inej and nina. inej and nina are on a team and absolutely destroy jesper and matthias who are on a team but jesper and matthias get super into it and plan it all out + bonus: kaz and wylan are referees (kaz is extremely biased even though he denies it)

they both really love cooking. jesper canonically grew up cooking with his mom and then his dad and matthias just gives off the vibe of someone who loves cooking, so they cook together. the only snag is that fjerdan and zemeni cooking styles are polar opposites and are at opposing ends of the spice spectrum, zemeni food being super spicy and fjerdan food rarely being spicy. this leads to some very interesting combined meals

matthias discovers that jesper is super good at knitting/crocheting and decides he wants to learn (partially because this is a man who loves knitwear, mostly because he wants to make gifts for nina). jesper is a horrible teacher though so this ends in utter chaos and downright brutal arguments over yarn

they go to each other for relationship advice. jesper is super protective of nina and i can see matthias really growing to care about wylan so this works quite well in their favor

jesper convinced matthias to go out for drinks once. things happen, they’re out all night and somehow by morning they’ve gotten themselves arrested and the others have to come bail them out. they both tell very different versions of the sequence of chaotic events that led them there and to this day, no one’s sure whose story is the more accurate one. a true bonding experience

[retvenkos]

⚡️- jesper fahey :)

1-3 random headcanons i have about them:

jesper has the enthusiasm and he has the right sense of rhythm, but he is absolutely terrible at dancing and no one quite knows why. is it because he's all limbs? is it because he was never properly taught? no one can solve this mystery, and it haunts kaz at every turn because jesper has the enthusiasm, and the crow club always has the music...

jesper has a rather impressive tolerance for spicy food. he can and will casually eat incredibly spicy foods just to flex on others.

an au or fanfiction trope i think the character would do well in:

college roommate au with jesper fahey! this could be a fun au wherein jesper still attends the university of ketterdam (perhaps colm pulls his dad card after CK and jesper has to live on campus in order to make up for the debt he put them in) and his roommate considers themself to be a very chill person, but also... trying to determine what jesper fahey does with his free time is a fun procrasinator! they just like figuring out the weird habits jesper has, and the really strange appearances of people in their dorm (inej comes in through the window for no reason. kaz just... shows up from the shadows, and you could have sworn you've seen these people at some point... what do you know them from? a painting? the news? wanted posters?) and there's also just a lot of weird jokes he has and jesper sure does keep odd hours and come back strangely injured or disheveled and ohmygod, are you a gang member????? jesper now has to find a way to keep you from telling his da and half of ketterdam that he's actually a wanted criminal, and if you get caught up in these dreg shennanigans... well, he did warn you he was a magnet for trouble...

where they should be taken on a date or relaxing day off:

honestly, jesper would be over the moon if he were taken quite literally anywhere. it's the fact that someone he loves wanted to spend time with him!!! and if it's a surprise where he’s going it's immediately 1,000x better, though he will be annoying as hell about it and will make increasingly wild suggestions just to get the other person to laugh. i think something high energy like a carnival or music festival would be particularly fun for him, though honestly just a walk through town would be fun, too. certainly something active, and certainly something where there's a lot to see.

a song, book, or poem that reminds me of them:

i blame @musicallisto for this because of her wonderful playlists for the dregs, but gun in my hand by dorothy has jesper vibes.

[jordiethepoolfloatie]

Nina Zenik headcanons because she’s everything

She’s huge on supporting the LGBTQIA+ community, and had an intense argument with kaz as to why he wouldn’t let her decorate the Crow Club with pride flags

Not that Kaz is against pride, but rainbows don’t quite match the Crow Club’s image…

Inej supported Nina, and at this point you already know it’s over for Kaz

So he agreed to hang one(1) singular pride flag from one of the windows. He was right, it really doesn’t match the red-black-crows-destroying-pekka-rollins-brick-by-brick-caw-caw-motherfuckers vibe, but everyone seems to be happy with it.

Nina loves spicy food (and, Matthias being the token straight white guy, tries really hard to keep up with her but he can’t handle it)

The’re eating some spicy zemeni soup together, and while Nina is calmly slurping hers, matthias is over there flapping his hands in front of his mouth, face red like a grisha heartrender’s kefta, squealing from the burn.

Nina seems amused but a little concerned, she’d told Matthias not to order the same as her, but he came again with the i’M a FjeRdAn SoLdIeR i cAN hAndDLe aNyThiNg bullshit so Nina just let the food prove him wrong

She and Inej regularly go on waffle dates. They have a favorite place in town, and to Inej’s request, they eat their waffles on a roof with a view at the entirety of Ketterdam.

They play a game of giving random people onthe streets below a story, and guessing where they’re going.

Sometimes they laugh so hard, they almost fall from the roof

She INSISTS that everyone must send a father’s day gift to Colm, because he basically adopted all of them. Everyone agrees with her.

Also she’s really good at giving gifts. She gets so creative and inspired every time. So she suggests a secret santa among the six of them. Kaz doesn’t even argue this time, he just seems mildly uncomfy.

[whynotcherries]

what do you think the crows' opinions about mint flavours are? like peppermint gum, mint plants, candy canes, anything like that

i'm going to do my absolute very best, i hope it's okay if i go MOSTLY based on a *specifically* peppermint basis because i haven't had enough of the other kinds of mint to really say lol.

kaz - likes mint. will pretend he only likes those altoids (like the burn-your-mouth minty kind of mint), but puts sweet mints in those containers and shows no one. overall likes mint more than he lets people think, and if there's a mint option for something, he will be getting it.

inej - LOVES mint. does, in fact, like those 'burn-your-mouth minty' kind of mint. also likes sweet mints!

jesper - i think that he has a low mint tolerance and literally even those puffy mints are too minty. likes the idea and will try to eat it. people will laugh as he tries to hide his pain. (but he can and will tolerate spicy food. it's just mint.)

wylan - LOVES the little sweet mints. won't typically eat something that's just plain mint if it doesn't have something sweet in it. so no candy canes, but like peppermint brownies/cocoa/sweet mints are all good.

nina - i think she'd get candy kinds of mints like tic-tacs or gum, but i don't think she'd have the patience for candy canes tbh. she'd eat them only to make the little pointy end to pretend to stab people with.

matthias - does not like mint. does not share this because it's basically a crime against the fjerdan people to not like mint. he cannot physically force himself to drink peppermint cocoa.

AND ALSO --

jordie - would kill for any kind of mint. eats sweet mints with wylan. will share spicy mints with inej so kaz can put the regular ones in his spicy mint containers after they're done.

thank you for asking!! <3<3<3

[capinejghafa]

Ask Game

Tagged by @oneofthewednesdays​​

Favorite time of year: Spring! Which is weird because my allergies/sinus act up so badly that it makes it near impossible to enjoy it and midwest living be like you will get a week maybe to enjoy it??? and i’m not even big on flowers lmfaooo like i’m describing a nightmare scenario for someone who is indoors 90-something% of my time! But it’s so pretty? Like it’s so green? my 2nd favorite color is green, so i get to really appreciate that forest-y vibes of my small town. and i grew up in large city, so we didn’t always get that. I make no sense as a person, however, there’s just something about spring that i get really excited about. also sweater weather.

(i live no where near here, but look how green it is! my goodness. gorgeous.)

Comfort Food: right now? sushi, spicy rolls salmon. i’ve only been eating sushi for like five months and it’s been a real game changer in terms of what i can eat. having RA sucks :( so it’s one of those foods that won’t cause even accidental inflammation :D

Do you collect anything? coffee mugs! my sisters and friends appreciate my efforts and they buy me mugs when they go out of town.

Favorite Song: I don’t have one! but i do have several songs that are just on constant repeat. one thing i realized i do is apologize for my taste in music and i shouldn’t do. I hate it a little that it took one person being negative for me to be I like my music tastes, thanks.

Favorite Fic: I’ll do top 3, from different fandoms :)

Retrograde by Pinkninja - Joe x Nicky (TOG), this is the ONLY time-traveler’s wife au I will accept, the original story has nothing on this fic. It actually is the best time I had crying... all the side characters just work. The story makes more sense this way... and no grooming lol

The Bastard Saint Of The Barrel by Spikey44 - Kanej (SOC), the more i think about this fic the more i love it. i made the set a while back, but I also don’t think anyone understand how much I love Jordie Lives ft. Kanej... but Jordie is an asshole? *chef’s kiss* Give me all the messy Jordie fics (which there aren’t enough of lol)... I also love that at the root of these fics is Kaz and Inej.

Commentarius by BeeDaily - James and Lily (HP), I do realized that I no longer read HP books/fics and I haven’t in a decade... but also, Comm is kind of just so beloved for a reason. I think there’s is a comfort in it and Bee writers these characters so well. She might never finish or update it, but it does have a very special place in my heart... Also, it’s been years, and she’s written other Jily fics :)

Tagging people I would love to get to know better: @olivias-rodrigo​ @dandilicn​ @skysofrey​ @totchipanda​ @silver-89​

[burninghoneyatdusk]

tag people that you want to know better!

tagged by @clarkesplaylist. Tysm, this was so fun! 💙💙

favorite color(s): blue (several shades), but I love green & soft yellow too

last song i listened too: I Don’t Need To Know (Maddie & Tae)

last film i watched: Selma

last tv show i watched: New Girl (for the 1000th time...)

favorite character(s): Bellamy Blake, Clarke Griffin, Inej Ghafa, Ziva David, Will Herondale, Tandy Bowen

pets: 2 cats 😊

sweet, savory, or spicy food?: depends on the mood these days, but I’ve had a crazy sweet tooth my whole life

sparkling water, tea, or coffee?: coffee all the way, I’m addicted. I want to like tea more than I do & will sometimes drink herbal before bed, but I hate sparkling water.

favorite book(s): all the shadowhunter series except the mortal instruments, six of crows, the catcher in the rye, all the light we cannot see, the divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood, the book of joe, this is where I leave you, the hunger games...whoops I went overboard

favorite ice cream flavor: anything with chocolate and peanut butter, or coffee

one thing on your bucket list: publish a book

favorite festival(s) you celebrate: I don’t really have any cultural festivals I celebrate, but I grew up in a small town that has like an agricultural fest every August - it’s like arts & craft stands & food & performances during the day and a cover band at night.

Tagging @bellamyblakru, @icantloseyou-too, @franklyineedcoffee, @aainiouu, @hellyeahbellarkee, @writetheniteaway, anyone else who wants to do this, consider yourself tagged! (no pressure either way 😊)

[love-anddeepression]

IT’S SPICY!-Kaz Brekker x Desi!Fem!reader 

Another desi blurb for my desi girls, anyone can read it cause I’m not describing the reader. Hope you like it! Translations at the end!

Requested-Nope

Warnings: hindi swears!!!

Taglist- @confuscita​ @staytrueblue @scandalous-chaos​ @mrs-brekker15​ @messers-moony-lupin @sirisuorionblack​​

Summary-You and Jesper argue over whose food is better, so you both prepare some food and feed them to none other than Kaz Brekker.(I’ve kept the dishes reader makes vegetarian okay? sorry to my non-veg peeps, dont worry tho, you’re going to get more in the next few days!)

Jesper! I’m telling you! Nothing beats an amazing paneer subzi! with pulao.”

“and I’m telling you that nothing beats an amazing pasta!” Jesper argued.

“ Oh really? Fine. Jesper Llewllyn Fahey, I challenge you to a cookoff, to see who’s food is better!” you get up and stand in front of him.

“ Challenge accepted! and who should we feed our food too? Nina would not like it since both the dishes are not sweet. Inej is out, Wylan is spending some time with his mother and you’re boyfriend is brooding as always.” Jesper looked around the Slat.

“We’ll feed it to Kaz, he secretly likes eating so he’ll eat anything we give him,” you say.

“ I don’t believe that” Jesper replies.

“ No one does, Jes, No one does.”

“AH saala chutiya thel!” you shriek as the oil splatters when you add the curry leaves.

“ Angel? Are you okay?” Kaz immediately comes over as you put your hand under water.

“ I’m fine Jaaneyman. Don’t worry”  you add the mustard seeds and start mixing everthing.

“ What are you making?” Kaz asks.

“ Jesper and I are having a cook-off to see whose food is better and you’re going to be the judge.”

It’s because you’re so close to him that you can just manage to hear the small ‘yes’ he lets out.

“So what are you making?” he sits on the counter and stretches his bad leg out.

“ I am making some Indian food because I want you to finally taste some actual food instead of the bland, boiled food you eat.” you add the dal and the water and cover the pot, moving to making the paneer ka subzi.

“Not exactly disagreeing with you about the bland food angel.” saying so, he pecks your head and leaves.

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“ Jesper, what are you making?” you ask the sharpshooter as he makes a sauce of some kind.

“ I am making my special pasta love, and let me tell you, you’re food doesn’t stand a chance!”

“ We’ll see Jes, we’ll see. Now to make the pulao!” 

~?~?~?~?~?~?~?~?~?~?~?

Finally after a few hours, Kaz is seated at the head of the table, fork and spoon in each hand as you and Jesper set the table up.

“ Okay Kaz, I’ve made my special two-sauce pasta, it’s a modification of my dad’s recipe and it’s a simple pasta with white sauce, mixed with red sauce and chicken.” Jesper announces as he serves Kaz his pasta.

Kaz takes a few bites while nodding and occasionally taking a sip of water.

“ This is good Jes.” he pushes the plate away.

Jesper whoops in delight, “ HA! Dirtyhands himself said my food was good, your’s doesn’t stand a chance!” he points at you and laughs.

You roll you’re eyes and give Kaz a plate of pulao, with a bowl of dal and some paneer.

He discreetly licks his lips and takes a spoonful of dal-chawal, And he instantly turns red.

“ Kaz? You okay?” you look at him.

He nods before taking a glass of water and chugging it down.

“ It’s spicy!” he breathes out.

“ It’s dal chawal! It’s literally the blandest indian dish ever!”

“ But why is it so spicy?”

“ It isn’t! Jes try some!” you tell the sharpshooter who is gawking at the sight of dirtyhands whining like a child for water.

Gingerly, Jes takes a bite.

“ This is amazing! Screw my pasta! and Kaz, this isn’t spicy what the hell?”

“ White people.” you scoff.

“ Honestly.”

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translations!!

jaaneyman-my life(nickname)

saala chutiya- (they’re basically swear words)

thel-oil

Dal- lentil soup ig?

chawal-rice

pulao-flavoured rice

paneer-cottage cheese

[ghafha]

    *   random   headcanon   time   !

                     inej loves spicy food.   the   spicier,   the   better.   there   hasn’t   been   a   spicy   food   too spicy   for   her   yet.   believe me,   the   other   crows   have   tried   to   find   something   she   can’t   handle,   and   they’ve   all   FAILED.   she   could   beat   them   all   in   a   spicy   food   competition,   easy.   it’s   a   different   story   for   sweets   though.   she’s   not   the   biggest   fan   and   rarely   indulges.   mostly   for   nina’s   sake,   when   nina   wants   to   go   out   for   waffles.   treat   inej   to   spicy   food   ! ! !