#Kaz is trying

[phantasymistart]

[THE BASTARD OF THE BARREL]

[restinslices]

*Gets on the highest cliff*

Ahem…

JESPER FAHEY IS NOT JUST A COMIC RELIEF CHARACTER. YES HE MAKES JOKES AND FLIRTS BUT HE IS ALSO A COMPLEX CHARACTER THAT HAS BOTH AN INFLATED SENSE OF SELF AND POOR SELF ESTEEM AND HAS NO IDEA WHAT HIS PURPOSE IS IN LIFE

[aerequets]

trying to erase the trace of...

[kanejbr3kker]

my theory for soc 3 is that it's gonna open with a zoyalai wedding, and the crows are just there cause nikolai likes them, and then someone fucks up and then the plot actually starts.

[undercover-grisha]

I like to believe that the Grishaverse doesn’t have homophobia (even tho that’s bs bc homophobia stems entirely from sexism and there’s CLEARLY that in the Grishaverse but WHATVEVER) however I like to believe that the Grishaverse doesn’t have homophobia… except Fjerda.

Because Matthias doesn’t know what to do when he sees Jesper kissing Wylan goodbye before leaving a room. Hmm. Maybe it’s a Zemeni thing. Well, alright, Matthias is all for trying new cultures.

so he kisses Wylan goodbye before leaving the room.

at the end of a very long week, Nina has to ask Jesper and Wylan if they are dating her boyfriend— because she can work around that if they are, and honestly she wouldn’t mind poly— and they just stare at her blankly.

“We just assumed that was a Fjerdan thing.”

[barrel-crow-n]

Young Kaz hcs that are real because I am correct

(Edit: Kaz Rietveld edition)

He bit stadwatch officers

He subtly sassed Haskell all the time, but Haskell never picked up on it

He snarled at people like a dog

When in prison he would be really violent at the beginning to show inmates that they shouldn't mess with him (because he was 10 the first few times and suffering from malnutrition)

He smashed people over the heads with bottles

He put on disguises to try and sneak back into gambling dens he had been banned from

He would try make people feel sorry for him and then robbed them blind

He didn't talk a lot and just stared creepily

[insignificant457]

There is a nebulous jordie lives au which lives entirely in my head in which jordie recovers from the plague while Kaz is still sick. He gets up to find them food and water only to return and discover Kaz is nowhere to be found. Still recovering from the fever, he searches the barrel for days before he finally sees Kaz wandering down the staves in a sort of fugue state, soaked to the bone with a haunted look in his eyes.

Kaz won’t tell him what happened, but jordie knows it’s bad because his baby brother flinches every time he touches him, and soon enough he’s started wearing gloves, even in the height of summer.

Soon, they discover kazs gift for cards, and it keeps them fed and clothed, if not much else. Kaz is angry at jordie for losing the money, refuses to let him make any decisions. Jordie is beholden to his angry traumatized little brother because he can’t deny that he failed them the first time around.

Kaz is offered a place in his pick of the gangs, but the only one willing to take both him and his tag along older brother is the dregs. Jordie dies a little bit inside when they join up, when they take the tattoo side by side, but he’s not sure they’ll survive another winter on the streets.

And the plot of SoC generally goes on from there. Jordie tags along on the ice court, he and Jesper test kazs patience at every turn, he’s constantly offering unsolicited annoying older brother advice about Inej.

This lends itself to a really interesting exploration of Kaz and jordies relationship, what holds brothers together in the face of incredible trauma, the skewed power dynamic of Kaz becoming the breadwinner for them both at the age of nine, etc etc. But mostly, this au is a vessel for the sailing of the ultimate crack ship, which is of course, jordie/alys Van Eck.

[sheiylv]

apple!! \(≧▽≦)/ ・✧

[neptune-scythe]

Breaking my slience (again ... I've ranted about this at least twice already but I keep thinking of fun new ways to word it whoopsie)

When Inej says she'll have Kaz without armour, she's not saying she wants a physical relationship from him

She is asking him to trust her enough to know that he doesn't need to protect himself around her, that she'll never cross his boundaries, that if he took off his armour he would be safe with her.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

[airinn]

vawentines day 💌💕

[evellynssocbrainrot]

Coming from someone who has younger siblings and an older sibling, I can confirm that the relationship between Kaz and Wylan is very much a big brother to little brother dynamic, not father to son, and definitely not romance. Wylan is typically the only one who has the balls to stand up to Kaz when he's at his most insane. He also uses Kaz's crush (Inej) to bargain and reason with him, but despite telling himself that he's different, he still end up mimicking some (not all) but some of Kaz's behavior's. This is pure little brother energy.

And Kaz? He looks down his nose at Wylan, clearly expressing distaste at his inexperience and softness. He once let Wylan believe that he had successfully lied to him, but he knew the truth all along. When he's frustrated, he ends up telling Wylan to shut up, and ultimately, also dismisses Wylan's ideas and thoughts. But at the end of the day, he still looks out for Wylan. He still does his best to keep him safe, help him, advise him, and guide him. He had done so much to ensure that Wylan wouldn't suffer for long in the Barrel like he did. This is nothing but big brother energy.

Kaz and Wylan, but also Kaz and Jesper, and Kaz and Nina, and Inej and Jesper are alternate carbon copies of me and my siblings.

[paintsandquests]

✨🌊An evening at sea🌊✨(Missing him, of course.

[puckpatties]

[pessimisticgh0st]

Sirius: Fine. But if Minnie kills us all, I'm going to get James' ghost to teach my ghost how to play the drums just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost

Remus: I'll just hire Regulus' ghost to kick your ghost's ass

Regulus: My ghost won't associate with your ghost

[dasiesanddarkness]

kaz: so. who broke it?

kaz: i'm not mad, i just wanna know

inej: i did. i broke it-

kaz: no, no you didnt. Jesper?

Jesper: don't look at me. look at Wylan.

Wylan: what? I didn't break it.

Jesper: Huh, that's weird. How'd you even know it was broken?

Wylan: cause it's sitting right in front of us, and it's broken.

Jesper: suspicious.

Wylan: no, it's not.

Matthias: if it matters- probably not, but Nina was the last one to use it.

Nina: liar, I don't even drink that crap!

Matthias: really? then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Nina: i use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles, everyone knows that, Matty.

Inej: okay, okay, let's not fight, I broke it, let me pay for it, Kaz.

Kaz: no! Who broke it?

Wylan: Kaz... Kuwei's been awfully quiet-

Kuwei: really?

Wylan: yeah, really!

*indistinct arguing*

...

Kaz: I broke it. It burned my hand, so I smashed it with my cane.

Kaz: I predict ten minutes from now they'll be at each other's throats with war paint on their faces and a pig head on a stick.

Kaz: good. It was getting a little chummy around here.

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

I never fail to find it funny when Matthias tells the Crows not to eat snow (Soc chapter 19) because it’s just so completely unprompted and I know it’s because he’s trying to just keep talking and not think about Nina but it just comes out of nowhere and every time I just imagine all of them glancing at each other to try and figure out who was eating the goddamn snow when they’re all freezing and if you’re thirsty then a) that’s not gonna help and b) you have a perfectly good water flask (they were probably all ready to suspect Jesper, except Jesper who was probably prepared to suspect either Nina or Wylan) but then it’s also such a stark horrifying juxtaposition that they find the pyre within the next two seconds and now that I’m writing this maybe that’s partially the point because that is exactly how it feels for them and the distinct horror of one moment thinking about eating snow and the next seeing that and Jesper having to shoot one of the victims and oh now I’m sad