#crooked kingdom

[anxious-alyssia]

RIP Matthias

wait i kind of understand why Kaz renamed the Emerald Palace into the Silver Six now (i saw @randomfandom-3's screenshot and)

SIX FOR GOLD. FIVE FOR SILVER. THERE ARE FIVE CROWS ALIVE. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT

[marvinthecrow]

Very rude when they send an assassin to take out your assassin!

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[evellynssocbrainrot]

Nina is so insane. Kaz and Inej are even more insane. Do they realize what they've done to me??

*Also, the paragraph was written on two pages, that's why they're not connected.

[lunarthecorvus]

Kaz buried so deep in denial while thinking he can get rid of his feelings for Inej that he's able to see the earth's core

[aquila-stardust]

#talk about haunting the narrative#kaz really said: my brother is haunting me and i'm going to make that everyones problem

#oh this is beautiful#partially unrelated but this why jordie is such a good example of someone that haunts the narrative#like we know next to nothing about him but without his death none of this would have happened#kaz loves and he loves HARD which makes the losses that much more devastating to him

I was just thinking about how Kaz built this heartless persona for himself and how everyone falls for it to varying degrees: He's widely regarded as a monster and as "not made right"; Inej thought he wouldn't come for her and that once she was useless to him that he would discard her; Jesper never knows where exactly he stands with him; Nina "doesn't want to know what dark hole he crawled out of"; Wylan calls him "the most vengeful creature he had ever met"; Matthias believes he's a demon. But in reality his true motives for most things are love and grief and loss of family.

Kaz only wanted money for revenge, he didn't want to try and build a meaningful connection with Imogen because she would distract him from pursuing his vengeance, he only mentions how Pekka conned them out of money to explain how they ended up on the streets, how it was never about the money but about Jordie.

Kaz says that he and Jordie were such easy marks because they missed their dad. Kaz's biggest gripe was not just the loss of Jordie but the illusion of a home and family that Pekka had snatched away before the plague snatched Jordie away too.

It all always leads back to Jordie and his loss and avenging him and about never wanting to be that vulnerable again. Kaz created Kaz Brekker to protect himself, to hide his vulnerabilities. His grief is hidden behind a fake name, his naivety is hidden behind violence, his touch aversion is hidden behind the gloves.

Kaz pushes people away because he fears what will happen if he lets them in. He gets mean when he's vulnerable to hide said vulnerability. He did it in the clocktower, he did it in the bathroom. After he accidently calls Jesper Jordie he lashes out verbally and physically, when Inej asks about Jordie and Pekka's involvement in what happened he recounts how he tortured someone. In both incidents it's again Jordie that he's hiding, that is causing him to be vulnerable. It always leads back to Jordie. Even with Van Eck! He's again angry that he fell for what he fell for before, the thing that made him lose Jordie making him temporarily lose Inej.

In both the Jesper and Inej examples he hides behind violence - by brawling with Jesper and recounting a time when he tortured a young boy. He does this because he loves Inej and Jesper, and it scares him, and he doesn't know what to do with it. Because everyone he's ever loved has died in horrible ways (his father was torn apart by a plough, his brother died from a horrible sickness) and he doesn't want to go through it again - especially since he still hasn't let go of Jordie, although it has been eight years.

Kaz is a person who loves so deeply. Who is mainly motivated by love. Who, when Pekka asks him what he wants, replies "Bring my brother back from the dead." because he never cared about money, nor power, nor anything else. He just wants his brother. All he wanted this whole time is his brother, and since he no longer has him he lashes out, all hurt and grieving. He's hurting so badly that he destroys everyone even mildly involved in what took Jordie away from him. But he only did that because he loved Jordie. It wasn't revenge for the sake of money it was for the sake of love. It was for the sake of Jordie.

Kaz loved Jordie so much that he became the most feared person in Ketterdam, that he took down the King of the Barrel and a merchant from one of the oldest families in Ketterdam (because even if his gripe with Van Eck was unrelated, it's because of Jordie's loss that life snowballed into their interactions and the consequent betrayal and destruction of everything Van Eck held dear). Kaz loved Jordie so much that it changed the entire course of the narrative.

If not for Jordie's loss the heist wouldn't of happened, all of the Crows lives would've been different, some of the Crows would even most likely be dead, and this extends even further to much more major things. The King of Ravka managed to steal the titanium because of his help which will aid Ravka in wars, the path to jurda parem is no longer in the hands of the Fjerdans and a cure is being safely developed in Ravka because Kaz rescued Kuwei, Wylan took over the Van Eck empire because Kaz tampered with Van Eck's will and papers, Inej is working on taking down the slave trade which is only possible because Kaz freed her from her indenture, Nina became the queen of Fjerda because of things that Kaz started (her joining the Dregs instead of being indebted to the Dime Lions, him freeing Matthias, him organising the heist, Matthias dying in the aftermath, her going to Fjerda to bury Matthias and the results which ended up being her and her new lover on the Fjerdan throne trying to fix prejudice against grisha, and women, in the most conservative country).

All of it leads back to Kaz. And he did all of it for Jordie. It all always leads back to Jordie. Jordie and Kaz's love for his big brother and his grief over having him snatched away from him.

[dasiesanddarkness]

forever thinking about Jesper Fahey, who had to realize the one thing he thought he was actually good at was just an extension of the thing he hated most about himself

[anxious-alyssia]

😭

MATTHIAS

My grandpa asked me what book I was reading and, vaguely knowing that I love six of crows and reread it all the time, said “are you reading five of crows?”

I could not speak for a solid 10 seconds

[tenaciousdragonmoon]

Inej: "You didn’t have to come for me." Kaz: "I made an investment." Inej: (smirks) "Is that what I am to you? An investment?" Kaz: (pauses, jaw tightens) "You're the only thing I’ve ever bet on without calculating the odds."

[grisha-brain]

Inej: Marry me

Kaz: *runs away and hides for the rest of his life*

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Kaz: Share a home with me to cut down on bills and get tax benefits with me. But all for the sake of money not love no never.

Inej:

Nina: Get away from the man

[oatm3al-c00kies]

has anyone made a "do i look like him" edit with jesper and jordie. because i just thought of that and am gonna collapse i need it actually

[clarissaweasley-10]

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing."- Kaz Brekker aka Dirtyhands

(this is NOT mine, l found this on Pinterest)

[mynxk]

Wylan rant

Kaz has always been my least favourite of the crows (controversial) because I’ve never really been interested in the traumatised morally gray character type. It’s not that he’s not a complex character I’ve just always preferred his counterpart.

Characters like Wylan who are good and curious have always been special to me. Characters that look at their own awful situation and chose to be better. Characters who see people who probably deserve to be hurt and chose to be kind anyway. When Wylan loses hope he springs for invention not violence and I wish we saw more of this in media.

[evellynssocbrainrot]

I'm pretty sure one of the reasons why Kaz fell in love with Inej was because she was the first person after his brother who he could trust completely without fear of her breaking it.

And truly, Inej was that one person who never ever betrayed Kaz's trust, no matter what the cost.

[deafeningdestinyaster]

naah.. he's a cold-blooded schemer..

also Kaz Brekker:

“I would come for you,” he said, and when he saw the wary look she shot him, he said it again. “I would come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together—knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting

[rosietrace]

Chat I've read soc and ck so many times that I lowkey wanna challenge myself by summarizing the entire ice court heist/get rich with sugar silos schemes ☠

[dasiesanddarkness]

guys what if the crows went to a boarding school for troubled children

Kaz Inej Jesper and Nina got sent there (court ordered) together after causing problems at their last school (all Kaz's fault of course)

Matty is a delinquent obvi

Wylan is sent there to be rid of and registered under ‘Hendriks’ to avoid bad press

Colm shows up on weekends and takes them all out to lunch

Kaz and Jesper are roommates at first but then they keep causing problems so they get separated and Kaz gets stuck with Matthias and Jesper ends up with Wylan