#Since apparently Kaz attracts leftist baddies somehow

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⚠️CONTENT WARNING ⚠️: brief mentions of sex trafficking, murder, mafia stuff, gambling addictions, alt rigt groups and arson.

A modern au for SoC would HAVE to include some fucked up shit like Kaz losing everything to a mob boss at a young age and proceeding to join the rival gang aspiring to beat said mob boss and take the city for himself. Inej being a victim of sex trafficking and then becoming like this badass hacker who goes after sex traffickers and leaks all their dirty stuff after being rescued by Kaz (not out of goodness of his heart. As an investment, obviously) and working with him. Jesper being a uni student with a gambling addiction who got in debt with the Wrong People and had to join Kaz not to get killed or whatever. Matthias being like this reformed alt right chan dude who used to work with a supremacist group attacking whatever the grisha equivalent would be in our world. Nina being an activist for grisha rights and somehow ending up stuck with matthias somewhere and the rest is history. Wylan as this runaway child of a corrupt politician who knows a little too much about bombs and was kidnapped by Kaz as a hostage, but then actually joined the gang to spite his dad and take him and people like him down bc the people gang ended up being more of a family than his biological dad ever was.