#crooked kingdom au

[honeii-puff]

Ive been thinking of a reverse crows au where its still angsty.

Kaz, who needs touch because the last stage of Firepox is numbness so he needs the feeling of human touch as a reminder that he is, in fact, still alive.

Inej, who is purposefully loud because she got taken due to how quiet she was and nobody noticed her absence until it was too late.

Jesper, who openly uses his grisha powers because as he gets older, he starts to forget more and more about his mother, and this is the last permanent tie he has to her.

Wylan, who is more upfront about his Dyslexia to remind himself that, if he didn't have it, he might have turned out just like his father, and he fears that more than any judgement he may recieve.

Matthias, who always admired grisha but couldn't say anything about it for fear of someone getting the wrong idea and him being the next body on the pyre

Nina, who hates the power she holds because of how much damage it does, and wishes that she had been taught to heal instead of taught to hurt.

@lilisouless @barrel-crow-n @randomfandom-3 @i-eat-so-much-grass

[nine-is-not-a-ten]

the crows as high school stereotypes

kaz: theater kid

inej: theater kid

nina: theater kid

matthias: theater kid

jesper: theater kid

wylan: theater kid

[lilyimmsim]

the crows would have absolutely loved monopoly

[olskuvallanpoe]

in another universe, colm fahey is sitting down for a lovely meal with his son and smiling as he listens to jesper talk about his friends.

the ghafas are grounding inej for sneaking off at night to spend time with her boyfriend

wylan has a flute recital on the weekend that kaz pretends he won’t go to (no one is fooled)

nina and matthias go on dates to the ice cream shop, and matthias always lets nina eat most of his ice cream

the crows are safe, and instead of being criminals, they are simply a group of trouble-making, angsty teenagers. they are children who were allowed to be children. they get the childhoods they deserve.

[19burstraat]

hmmm I know we can surmise that kaz & jordie were the iphigenia of the series, in that, whether it's fair or not, they had to be sacrificed for the benefit of everyone else. jordie had to die and kaz had to suffer it and live with it, because if kaz had lain down and died on the barge, it would have had a crazy knock-on effect. inej likely would never have escaped the menagerie, or matthias from hellgate, jesper would probably have fallen foul of debtors or gangs some way or another (he gets at least one beating from enforcers), nina would have been caught up w the dime lions trying to get matthias out of hellgate, and there's even some more tangential ones, like kuwei probably dying at the ice court and marya being stuck at saint hilde.... but I wonder what would have happened to wylan.

kaz had him under dregs protection, so he never suffered the way he did ("kaz is your luck, merchling."); no beatings, etc. without that... well, it's tempting to think that wylan would have just been killed some way or another. and yeah, maybe, but miggson and prior couldn't get him, could they? wylan has that scary glimmer of the biting-animal, kaz-style survivalist in him, and he had a goal; amass enough money to get the hell out of ketterdam and start anew. but how far would wylan have gone to get that money? van eck's letters pushed him into the arms of dregs munitions building. without the perpetual intervention of kaz-- protection, constant jobs even when there were better people for it, good pay-- how quickly would wylan have turned into someone more like kaz? he has a core of decency, but he gets the privilege of keeping that, because kaz helps him to. alone, would he have surrendered it, or been forced to surrender it, just for a chance to survive? I don't think he would have ever willingly given up. it's not an accident that kaz and wylan's first days in ketterdam are so closely paralleled, or that they have a set of similar skills/traits; it's explicitly said that wylan would also be able to count cards and control decks like kaz can, if he wanted to. and after he finds out about his mother, wylan's comforted by the idea of retribution for van eck, that kaz could destroy his father's life. they're a little bit too similar. but kaz is there to take the moral fall, for the most part; all wylan has to do is help him. but without kaz... well. that's another story, isn't it?

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Stupid six of crows au where instead of the ice court it’s a water park and instead of gauging their timing by the elder clock they time it by the sound of the wave machine.

[nikolailanstovswife]

I wanna know what would've happened if Jordie didn't die? Would Kaz still have met the crows- in different circumstances? Would Inej have of been freed from the menagerie?

What do u think would've happened ?

[variousfandomthoughts]

Six of Crows AU where everything is the same except instead of “what business?” They say “what’s Brekkin’?”

[thelovelyinejghafa]

"But what about the rest of us?

What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls?

We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns.

We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.

That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen,

when there was no royal blood in your veins.

When the world owed you nothing,

you demanded something of it anyway."

- Inej Ghafa

[marvinthecrow]

Van Eck should have been more specific when saying to Jesper to take out his son!

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[lilisouless]

"now say your last words,Mr Brekker"

Kaz: this won't be my last words, you are not allowed to kill me

"how adorable, if you-"

Kaz: no,really. I made a legal documented list about the only people allowed to kill me and you are surely not there, look, its in my pocket.

"lets see: Captain Ghafa,Lady of Mourning, Councilman Van eck (the one not on the jail), Colm Fahey, Genya Safin, Imogen..well this is a decent forgery of a legal document but-"

Jesper: Hold on! i am NOT on the list?

Kaz: don't be such a baby, Matthias isn't there either

Jesper: that is worse, i am on the same level of exclusion as Helvar. Why am i not there? i am not worthy of killing you?

Kaz: you haven't earned it

"well, too bad for you two, not lets get over with the ex-"

Jesper: hold on!

Jesper: Well, if i am not worthy for you then you will not be on my list: i´ll make it right now: Inej, my dad, Madeleine Michaud because i forgot to tell her i couldn't take her for waffles again and by this point it would be just awkward, Nina only can do it on a fight, Zoya Nazyalensky only in dragon form, Wylan can only kill me by accident on a very specific way-

Wylan: gheezen,Jesper!

Jesper: great, he already knows his lines

Nina: i won't make a list, i am so trusting in my charm that i convinced the universe will make me inmortal

Inej: the only one thats allowed to take me form this world is me, i will only perish on my own hand...

Inej: or a whale, i´ll allow that but only if its a female whale

Matthias: you know what? my list pretty much consist on anyone that will make me stop hearing all of you talking

[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

[gabbyshere]

Wylan: What is love?

Inej: An emotional minefield.

Kaz: A neurochemical reaction.

Jesper: BABY DON'T HURT ME-

[nine-is-not-a-ten]

I would like to think that in modern times Kaz would only drink black coffee around everyone, but alonE, he'd have like a pumpkin-spice-cinnamon-latte with extra whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles

[olskuvallanpoe]

i like au multishipping and stuff but in canon i think kaz/jesper romance ruins their dynamic. and a lot of the drive to make it romantic comes from wanting to explore the depths of it. but their platonic relationship has so much depth and complexity. like the way kaz sees jesper as a friend and companion isn’t talked about nearly enough. he called jesper the name of the brother he’d been trying to avenge for eight years. he brought jesper to the parlay with geels. he loves jesper deeply and platonically in canon, and i think so many people cheapen platonic relationships and treat them like they aren’t good enough, but jesper and kaz love each other. they’re best friends. they fight and insult each other, but at the end of the day, they trust and care for one another. they rely on each other, and that deep platonic love and respect is beautiful and should be cherished more.

[lonslibrary]

a reminder that we are lucky to have gotten a soc adaptation at all. the books are so perfect that nothing was going to live up to them anyways. if u think of them as separate entities, i promise you’ll enjoy yourself much more!