#inej Ghafa

[jccatstudios]

The Crows (All Six of Them)

[marcysmaltedcrayon]

Me when people make silly little jokes about how a character has never done anything wrong ever: 😍🕺😁🫦✨🥳

Me when ppl start to genuinely inerpret the character that way and their entire personality and complexity is erased:😭😡💔😨😢🔫😩

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Wylan standing there like: 👁️👄👁️??

I firmly believe that if Kaz and Inej have a kid they will have a miniature war over their first word. They will both claim it’s a joke, nothing serious. But it is.

Inej wants something sweet, something normal, like ‘Mama’ or ‘Papa.’ She doesn’t care if the kid says Kaz’s name first. It’s better than the other option. The other option is Kaz’s. He is actively trying to get the child to say ‘Kruge.’

In the end, it is neither. It is ‘Wylan.’ Wylan has met the child once, maybe twice.

Kaz and Inej are flabbergasted.

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Matthias: You cannot just go around stabbing people

Inej: Saints forbid a woman has a hobby…

[felixbobelix]

Kaz snd Inej my beloved ♥️ ✨️

[7975348473]

I stared at this for longer than I would like to admit. I love you Matthias.

I'm not really part of the Six of Crows fandom anymore, but I saw this and it made me really sad for some reason. Credits not found.

Okay, well somebody's been pretty rude, i was literally just waiting to see if the argument in the comments had died down yet.

Art by the amazing @echo-bleu

[jkriordanverse]

being a Fjerdan must be so tiring bc imagine showing up to the battle looking like shit and your opponents are beautiful gods and goddesses who can fight without weapons, only with their hands and on top of that everytime they use their powers they look prettier and prettier and prettier

[faelunez]

saint in the rafters 🐦‍⬛🗡️✨

[dasiesanddarkness]

hot take maybe but if you swoon over the investment line you dont deserve to ship kanej

[jccatstudios]

Six of Crows Character Design Notes

Character design notes for my most recent character lineup for The Crows! I did this last time for the super old ones I did right after I read the series, so these new ones are much closer to how I imagine them. There probably will be a good amount of rehashing from the old notes, but I hope you enjoy these nonetheless!

Kaz and Inej

Closest in color scheme due to how close they are at the start of the series, though there is a difference between the purples. Kaz's purple accents are light and muted (similar to the color of Kruge). Inej's tunic is more indigo, shifting away from the warmer purple she wore at the Menagerie. After she realizes her dream in the incinerator shaft, I imagine her theme color changing to dark blue, then dark teal by the end of the series.

I often see Kaz in a red tie, but he had to wear something different for my design since him and Van Eck would basically be in the same outfit. His black shirt is also meant to distinguish him from the real merchant class.

Coin added to Kaz's pose to refer to his magician and thief personas (and a callback to his backstory)

Their vests symbolize their morality. Kaz's is asymmetrical ("crooked and wrong...") while Inej's evenly goes down the center (more balanced and true to herself).

Jesper and Wylan

They're meant to contrast each other, since they don't exactly see eye-to-eye at the start, but their similarities are important. Both have patterned elements, brown leather boots, and freckles. My favorite differences: vibrant vs muted, gold vs silver, open vs closed poses

Jesper has freckles just because I feel like they suit him but also as a visual connection to Jordie. :)

Wylan is holding a Victorian fire grenade! They were actually used for extinguishing fires back then, but I can imagine Wylan replacing the ingredients to do the exact opposite.

I used to draw Jesper in a longcoat just because that look from the show is so iconic, but I changed it to something more cropped. The shorter coat makes him look taller and differentiates his silhouette from Kaz's.

Wylan's black vest is meant to hint at his merch family ties.

Nina and Matthias

Another couple who clashes through color palette! Nina's Heartrender red vs Matthias's northern blue. They also differ in leather color (black vs brown).

Matthias was a bit harder to design since he's not wearing clothes that he'd pick out himself. These are whatever Kerch dockworker clothes the gang could find for him, but I feel like they suit him enough to convey his personality.

Nina's necklace pendant is teardrop shaped (The Queen of Mourning).

Nina is wearing makeup and nail polish. From my limited research on Victorian culture, this was seen as improper, but I think that fits Nina's boldness all the better. I don't try to make any of my designs authentically Dutch Victorian (It's a fantasy series after all! Why not make semi-anachronistic designs that value personality over accuracy?), but it is fun to think about how these characters would be interpreted with that lens.

[stromuprisahat]

Inej joined her at the rail and handed over Nina’s coat. The Grisha put it on, though the cold didn’t seem to be bothering her. ... Nina buried her face in her coat’s woolen collar and said, “I wish you could see what I do. I can hear everybody on this ship, the blood rushing through their veins. I can hear the change in Kaz’s breathing when he looks at you.” “You … you can?” “It catches every time, like he’s never seen you before.”

Six of Crows- Chapter 42 (Leigh Bardugo)

[spraypaintstainonawhitewall]

rip inej ghafa you would've loved the ides of march

[the-angry-acrobat]

kaz and inej on suffering

[ilivebyshipping]

Rip Inej you would've loved Ides of March

[angry-oil-slick11]

kaz and inej are one of the few straight couples i actually ship bc leigh bardugo never glorified kaz's treatment of inej and never explained it away by saying oh, he's just an alpha male