#crooked kingdom

[dasiesanddarkness]

sorry but absolutely NO ONE does heart eyes like Jack Wolfe

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Silas Bell/Daphne Luckenbill- The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Eck- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

[dasiesanddarkness]

i always liked to imagine that they had no idea it existed for a good while until one day they were just out on a walk and Kaz Brekker popped up from the ground.

Wylan in Crooked Kingdom: Until this moment, Wylan hadn't quite understood how much they meant to him. His father would have sneered at these thugs and thieves, a disgraced soldier, a gambler who couldn't keep out of the red. But they were his first friends, his only friends, and Wylan knew that even if he'd had his pick of a thousand companions, these would've been the people he chose. Wylan in Rule of Wolves: Brekker get the FUCK off my porch, no you may not borrow my boyfriend to commit crimes, get a fucking job and also get a haircut while you're at it.

[artbymyth]

No mourners. No funerals.

[lunarthecorvus]

Nina and Inej on a night out in Ketterdam

[evellynssocbrainrot]

I'd like to remind y'all of this. This is something I think of daily because Inej is basically saying that she doesn't want to find another person to fall in love with and have a future with. She only wants Kaz as he is the only one who will understand her and accept her for everything that she is. The good parts and the ugly.

Tbh, I'm pretty sure the minute Inej saw Kaz's hand for the first time she was like, "Get your shit together and fix yourself, honey, I wanna have your babies."

In my heart, it's always Kaz for Inej and Inej for Kaz. Nobody else is perfect enough for them.

[spooked-starzz]

i have a silly hc that kaz carries around like sixteen decoy wallets while walking around ketterdam and on his first date with inej they go to dinner and by the end he's too lovestruck and can't remember where he put the real one so they escape out the restaurant's bathroom window

[moonboundbooks]

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. - Rebound in 2023

I really need to get to working on Crooked Kingdom one day.

[ethanscrocs]

i understand the criticism of it feeling off that inej's boat is named the wraith after inej rejected the name but think about it like this... her identity as the wraith and her relationship with kaz (he's the one who named the ship) were the vessel that allowed her to sail toward freedom and personhood again, so she could become a person again and Inej Ghafa

[evellynssocbrainrot]

This is beautiful!!!

Honestly, the talent in this fandom is insane!!!

2021's gingerbread build was the Crow Club from Six of Crows. 😁

By my standard this is a pretty simple build. It's just two houses (see my page for this year's big tree with houses in it for a comparison lol). Next to the sugarpaste Crows it's also populated by some DnD figurines from a build from a previous year. Let's just pretend they're masked revellers. 😉

[mediocrgatsby]

Six of Crows as memes on my phone (part 8)

Jesper:

Nina after parem:

Kaz after vs. before the events of the books:

Wylan:

Kaz in the prison wagon:

Jesper:

Inej:

Wylan:

Nina:

Part 7

[Check out my Heartstopper as memes series here]

[expendabledreamer]

This made me giggle XD

[flowers-in-my-eye]

something something something Kaz and Inej both have trauma where a grown up takes advantage of them and happens to also have an animal symbol something something something something

[boopyx2]

It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.

"of course, of course, of course"

[reyreadersblog]

*Matthias literally dying in CK*

Kaz to Nina: sorrows, sorrows, prayers.

[jkriordanverse]

soc characters as six queens

Wylan Van Eck - Anna of Cleves. She got rejected for being too ugly. He got banished because he couldn't read. Do i even need to elaborate? Her song (esp her verse in six) could literally be rewritten to suit Wylan like

What a shame yeah my face, it cost me the crown (his dyslexia costing him the Van Eck fortune) So I moved to the Haus Of Holbein! In my hometown (Ketterdam) His mates were super arty, but I showed them how to party (the crows) Now on my tour of Prussia, everybody GETS DOWN (basically a statement to Van eck and all the people who has ever disrepected him for not being able to read. the equivalent of Haters back off)

Jesper Fahey - Jane Seymour. Jane knows Henry might not love her if it weren't for her son. Jesper knows his father might love him more if he wasn't Grisha, if he didn't have the one thing that took the love of Colm's life away. Jane loving Henry anyways despite. Jesper doing the same with his father. *SOBS*

Matthias Helvar - Catherine of Aragon. OH. GODS LIKE. "you must agree that baby in all the times i've been by your side (Fjerda). "I've never lost control (never questioned), no matter how many times i knew you lied (no matter how many times he saw the faults and barbaric teachings of Fjerdan ideologies). "If you can just explain A single thing I've done to cause you pain, I'll go" *silence* (Fjerda pulling a King Henry and banishing Matthias) . NOooooo. WAY.

Nina Zenik - Anne Boleyn. PURE VIBES. . LIKE I CAN easily imagine nina going "LIKE WAHT WAS I MEANT TO DO?" When Matthias confronted her about Hellgate. Then going "LIKE OMG GUYS HE ACTUALLY WANTS TO CHOP (//choke) MY HEAD OFF" when matthias tried to kill her. Plus, "grew up in the French court" (nina grew up in the Royal Palace), "life was a chore so she set sail" (went to the borders)

Inej Ghafa - Katherine Howard. Kaz and Inej's could easily switch. I mean, although Katherine suits Inej more, with the "all you wanna do" motifs going on, it could also be reinterpreted for Kaz as all they (Pekka) wanted to do was milk him of his money. Either way they get sold/manipulated for something and ended up suffering for it. For Inej it was years of abuse and sa. For Kaz it was loosing his brother and learning how to survive Ketterdam alone.

Kaz Brekker - Catherine Parr. Again, could easily be switched with Inej with the "I'm much more than my trauma, I fought for (in Catherine Parr's case, women's education,..etc)". Inej going on to becoming more than the Menagerie girl she was forced to be (a slaver hunter, the Wraith..etc). Kaz going onto be much more than the scared naive little boy he once was.Although this also could easily go for all the crows, I feel like it suits Kaz and Inej more, since their trauma and backstory is more or less prominent and relates to hers more.