#character: nina

[bthump]

I fucking hate Nina. Why does no one ever acknowledge that she tried to make Joachim eat a soup full of human body parts, and tried to have him killed when he refused???

Like Luca reprimands her after this happens, but she seems mostly upset that Nina snuck out and did something dangerous and doesn't actually acknowledge the incredibly fucked up things she just did.

And then when she finally reunites with Joachim, HE apologizes to HER?? Like he was in the wrong for retaliating against the people who tried to kill him for not being a cannibal??

I was waiting for her to die the whole time but of course of all the random people in this manga she gets to live and actually get a seemingly happy ending.

I searched Nina on the berserk reddit and found a lot of posts defending her. A ton of people saying "That's what any average person would do in her situation!" to excuse her actions. I agree with this point when it comes to things like throwing Casca under the bus to avoid getting tortured which is why I don't mention those moments. I don't think the average person would do what ive criticised her about, and I'm mainly annoyed that the story doesn't really acknowledge it as bad after it happens.

Idk if I'm the best sympathetic ear for this complaint, because I also like Nina, she's one of my favourite tertiary characters, and frankly the baby eating is a point in her favour for me lol

Like I think the reason no one really brings up the whole cannibal cult thing is because it's very silly, and the story itself doesn't take it seriously. Practically everyone in the Conviction Arc is part of a fucked up cult of some kind, and that whole drugged up cannibal orgy scene was basically camp comedy. I found it very fun to watch Nina drag some normie there and then freak out when he wasn't into it and try to have him killed. And then get spanked by Luca for it lmao. For me it's less about defending her actions as it is about shrugging and rolling with the campy tone rather than taking it seriously as a horrifying and monstrous thing to do.

(Though to be fair about the attempted murder thing, she was high and paranoid about being found out by the other murderous and more powerful cult, so I do think that was reasonable from her pov. The baby eating? Maybe less reasonable.)

I think you can definitely argue that the Conviction Arc doesn't work tonally because of how heightened and campy it is, and yeah I can see why people might find it or aspects of it offputting. It's very dumb and the fact that Nina eating babies and nearly killing her boyfriend isn't even addressed and they go off and live happily ever after with a vague thematic mention of both of them being flawed and average is inherently ridiculous so yeah it makes sense that it would bother you and make you hate her. Fair reaction to an awkward writing choice, can't fault you for it, and can't really defend Nina or the story there.

But I think it's funny so I like her for it.

[dyllpiccle]

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

[sol-niczka]

Nina and Inej!! I really hope i did them justice

[iamthehamburglar]

[neontea77]

[dangerbizz]

Ghost and Nina ‼️

Also putting this here, btw Nina was never a Jeff the Killer fangirl lol, her creator doesn’t approve of the ship — in her og reference sheet her and Jeff had a sidekick/sibling dynamic and she was always shipped with Eyeless Jack. The reason why I say this is also because people keep asking me if Nina would be jealous of Ghost, she would not lol

[hauntingyourself]

My favourite underrated kaz moments from the books pt 2

[kald-dal-art]

Nina Zenik character designs done for a school project :^) One day I hope we'll get an animated SOC adaptation 😔

[thechaoticrow]

for people who haven’t read the shadow and bone/ six of crows books, but have seen the show:

- inej ghafa is a survivor of childhood sex trafficking. she has ptsd and reacts in a panic attack at even walking past the menagerie

- kaz’s trauma isn’t just pekka rollins being responsible for jordie’s death, and waking up on the barge. he had to swim to shore, age nine and barely alive, using jordie’s body as a float

- the darkling has done far worse things than are shown on screen. he is not a ‘lost man’ and alina is not his ‘balance’

- alina was seventeen upon the darkling being nsfw/ romantic with her

- matthias helvar did not lead drüskelle, that was jarl brum- matthias is only just barely an adult himself

- the crows are not their own separate gang, they are part of the dregs, who per haskell leads and kaz takes over from haskell after haskell sold out his lieutenant (kaz) to pekka rollins

- zoya, genya, and alina have personalities outside of either being traumatised or hating each other

- alina never wanted any of the power and fame and idolatry, and in the end of the books is stripped of it all. she is very happy about this

- jesper is a gambling addict and somebody who watched the death of his mother

[quitebashfulexe]

Enjoy my character sheet of our girlies ☆⌒(*＾-゜)v

[bamimilyt6]

neil gaiman: good omens is a love story!

the fandom: omg a love story 🥰

neil gaiman: *writes a plot line about miscommunication and how that leads to the main pair temporarily "breaking up", which is very much linked to the romance genre*

the fandom:

[v-is-for-vore]

🩸Jeff the Killer🩸

- wanted to redesign Jeff. Always saw him as a child (13 years old) that was failed by his family due to his mental health, then snapped and became what he is now.

[sol-niczka]

"My crows"

I love them your honor

Figured I'd share this older art here hehe enjoy <3

[itsjustanan]

matthias going from “Nina, has it ever occurred to you that maybe … you weren’t meant to exist?” to “perhaps Djel extinguished one light and lit another” after seeing nina’s powers change to something absolutely terrifying will never not make me emotional, helnik are so dear to me <3

[your-average-multifandom-mess]

Wylan Van Eck at the sight of rare butterflies: Wow. look at these incredible and unique rare creatures. I’m going to spout copious amounts of facts about them whilst I think about how lucky I am to be witnessing this right now.

Wylan Van Eck about five minutes later: eat the pissing butterflies you fuckers or die

[neontea77]

Height chart for the girls in the story

I swear I need to finish these origin comics but I also want to make a small dating sim yet I am always busy with college stuff. 😭😭