#inej ghafa acrobat

[the-angry-acrobat]

inej would just randomly do really cool and difficult acrobatics and contortion in casual settings without batting an eye and freak people tf out. kaz would just laugh bc he’s so used to it by now

[dragonqueenstormwitch]

my new year’s resolution is to be more like inej ghafa

[cynidae]

So I became obsessed with the most minor character in the book I’m writing (mentioned once before the obsession) so clearly I had to draw her and figure out how to loop her back in!

Anyways meet Celia Almonte, a 13-year old spy with extreme amounts of spite. Below is her timeline:

Somehow join a gang at like nine years old, and start working for the terrifying man who is definitely plotting to overthrow the gang

Learn how to spy and how to act and how to lie, but do it really really well

Become a well-known spy for four years

Actively admire an assassin who leaves strawberry taffy in his victim’s mouthes

Become your super scary boss man’s almost adopted daughter (he’s only six years older than you)

Get hired to steal some super valuable knives from a super tall office building

Nearly get caught during the escape

Fall off the building, landing on the knives and injuring yourself while breaking three leg bones

Get fired by your boss/adopted father because you aren’t useful anymore

Get hired by his rival gang that’s owned by rich people for no reason other than to spite him

Heal via magik

Get a job in the gang to intercept some thieves

it’s your ex-boss adopted father figure

they order you to kill him

you defect and join his little gang fighting the entire rich people group and other gangs

begin to panic because the other youngest of the group is three years older than you, what the heck are you doing here?

eh it’s probably fine, maybe you should be friends. He’s an assassin, which is super close to a spy!

he offers you a strawberry taffy

he offers you a strawberry taffy

Nearly faint from sheer excitement

anyways she’s chaotic and a theatre kid and I love her more than the other six main characters combined it’s a bit of a problrm

[lily91106]

ok but anne and phillip from the greatest showman are so kanej and zoyalai coded at the same time

[vilecemetery]

six of crows is meant to be set in like the 17th century and aerial silks were invented around 1959 and my sister and I were just talking about how weird and out of place it is that show inej had a silk performance?

[mynxk]

If the Six of Crows gang were in a modern-day setting, their rap sheets would be hilariously long and utterly chaotic. (Fun version)

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Kaz Brekker (AKA “Businessman”)

• Tax Fraud – Claims to be a “legitimate entrepreneur” while running an underground empire.

• Grand Theft (Everything) – Banks, casinos, entire buildings, if necessary.

• Bribery – Paid off half the city, but still walks around in a thrift store coat.

• Public Nuisance – Scares entire neighborhoods just by standing there.

• Illegal Cane Usage – Has technically “assaulted” more people with his cane than with his fists.

• Being Too Dramatic – Has definitely been arrested mid-monologue.

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Inej Ghafa (AKA “The Wraith”)

• Breaking & Entering – Into every building that claims to have “high security.”

• Illegal Acrobatics – Parkour off bridges, skyscrapers, moving trains.

• Loitering on Roofs – “Ma’am, you cannot sit up there like Batman.”

• Stealing Weapons from Law Enforcement – She swipes cop batons mid-arrest for fun.

• Disappearing from Custody – “Wait, where did—? SHE WAS JUST HERE???”

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Jesper Fahey (AKA “Needs Supervision”)

• Public Indecency – Lost his shirt in a poker game again.

• Illegal Gambling – Banned from casinos in 50 states, plays online under fake names.

• Unlicensed Firearm Use – “Jesper, you cannot use bullets as confetti.”

• Resisting Arrest – Runs from cops but trips over his own shoelaces.

• Property Damage – Shot the neon sign off a casino for fun.

• Jaywalking – Shoots the streetlights red so he never has to stop.

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Wylan Van Eck (AKA “Professional hostage”)

• Explosives Violations – “But it was science.”

• Vandalism – Accidentally blew up a Starbucks after they got his order wrong.

• Identity Theft – “Oh, I forged that birth certificate years ago.”

• Arson – “I do not have a problem. I have results.”

• Illegal Dumping – The “dump” was a corrupt politician’s car into a river.

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Nina Zenik (AKA “Officer, It’s Just a Joke”)

• Food Theft – Regularly sneaks into bakeries and leaves with more than she paid for.

• Disturbing the Peace – Convinced an entire restaurant to start a flash mob.

• Unauthorized Medical Practice – “He technically didn’t consent, but now his lungs work better.”

• Harassment – Calls Matthias “pretty” in court just to watch him suffer.

• Public Intoxication – Her arrest was just for dancing on a table—everything else was Kaz’s fault.

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Matthias Helvar (AKA “Regretting His Life Choices”)

• Aiding and Abetting Criminals – “They kidnapped me, but okay.”

• Assault on an Officer – Said “don’t touch her” once and suplexed a cop.

• Illegal Pet Ownership – Tries to “adopt” every wolf at the zoo.

• Disturbing the Peace – Gets dragged into fights just because he’s tall.

• Stockholm Syndrome – “Are you a victim or an accomplice?” “…Yes.”

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Bonus: Group Offenses

Conspiracy to Commit Shenanigans – The police know they’re up to something but can’t prove it.

Escaping Custody – “Kaz, I swear, if you bribe ONE MORE GUARD—”

Fraud – Kaz: “I own that building.” Cop: “No, you don’t.” Kaz: “Check again.”

Public Mischief – Jesper and Nina got arrested for making a cop car play WAP at full volume.

Trespassing – Inej has broken into the police station itself just to see if she could.

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Kaz bails them out every time. Except Jesper. Jesper has to learn.

[whosthatfunkyrat]

The fact that throughout Inej’s life a large part of her value and innate being was based on her body tears me to shreds every time I think about it.

She was first an acrobat, and she loved it. she loved her life. she loved what she did. She loved that she could use her body to reach for the heavens and look for her wings.

Then she was taken, and her body became someone else’s. She became an item someone owned, and her body was what kept her in her prison. She taught herself to view herself as two people, the girl who did those things with strangers and the girl who escaped her body when she had to.

Then when she was saved from that life, she still wasn’t really free. Her indenture still needed to be paid off, and she used her body to do the tasks The Dregs needed from her, saying that the FIRST time Kaz told her she didn’t Have to take a job was The Ice Court. She followed every command. She became a spy, a killer, a Wraith. She became something she never wanted to be, and she repented for it. Her body became someone else’s in a different kind of way. Kaz gave her the abilities to defend herself and fight, which freed her from her previous imprisonment, but she was STILL owned by Par Haskel.

And when she thinks that Van Eck will break her legs, she starts to wonder if she’s valued outside of what her body can do. She wonders if Kaz cares about her even if she’s not his Wraith. She’s his “investment”, his spider. And she thinks he can get a new one.

And when she screams “He won’t trade if you break me” it makes me want to DIE because she didn’t even know what she was gonna scream until it came out. She didn’t even know it until she put it into words.

He won’t trade if you break me.

And when he tells her he’d come for her even if she was broken, it means so much because it means he values her for who she is, rather than the tasks she can preform. And while that’s sorta obvious I think it’s easy to glaze over how touching that would be for her. Dirty Hands would have cut his loses and moved on. It was entirely illogical to value someone for anything other than what they can provide. But he does, despite his reputation for being one of the most cruel people in The Barrel. Because he’s not just Dirty Hands and she’s not just The Wraith. He loves her for HER. Not for her body and what it can do, or what it can provide him. But her WHOLE life that’s been her whole thing! Her body, what it can do, her skills, her talents. All the praise anyones given her was based on THAT. And not to mention how he already teases her Suli proverbs and religious beliefs, anyone would believe he’d leave her.

But even if he had to crawl to get to her, even if he had to tend to her broken body, he would.

She’s SO much more than The Wraith. She’s so much more than her relationship with Kaz. He see’s that- why doesn’t everyone???

SHE WAS INEJ GHAFA, AND HER FUTURE WAS WAITING ABOVE.

God I love these books😭.

[atinycelery]

Having my fourth reread and idk why I didn't notice it before. The parallel. Not that I'm saying Leigh is perusing old tropes in a boring way, I'm saying if you squint, you can see a pattern; and it's not a boring pattern, it's a cool one because they don't exactly look similar, they just have hints of similarities

Daniel Tabor Arlington the Third, Gentleman Demon / Gentleman of Lethe

Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands, Bastard of the Barrell

Both have their own dark personas and could possibly kill you where you stand, literally

Inej Ghafa, the Wraith, the girl who at the beginning of the story is lost because she was kidnapped from her family. Has her own talents in acrobatics and homicide

Galaxy Stern, Wheelwalker, the girl who at the beginning of the story is lost because of her powers. Has her own powers and has a penchant for homicide. Doing her best

Nina Zenik, Heartrender, redhead, loves to eat, loyal to her friends. Will kill for their safety

Pamela Dawes, phD student of the occult, Oculus, redhead, loves to cook when she's stressed, loyal to her friends. Will kill for their safety

It's very cool.

[ethanscrocs]

Six of Crows Playlists 🐦‍⬛

Edit: Check the notes for more!

I made some Six of Crows playlists, forgive me for the sheer amount of songs, I listen to a downright obnoxious amount of music. I was also legally obligated to include some very 2016-2018 "edgy" music that was typically associated with these books back in my fandom days. The middle school nostalgia aspect really got me.

General book playlist, some of it is songs that fit all of the characters as well as book events, some of it is songs that fit the atmosphere of the setting.

My Jesper and Wylan playlist. I'd be down to make playlists for other specific relationships, they just happen to be my favorite. If that's something you're actually interested in, let me know, because I do have some ideas!

Possibly a collection of all my favorite love songs. They meant so much to me when I was 13, I have such a soft spot.

I'm most embarrassed by this one. It has a lot of the nostalgia element that was mentioned above. It was difficult to find songs that contend with the persona Kaz has so carefully cultivated. Forgive me for the possibly shallow reading of his character that it may convey.

There's lots to work with in regard to Inej. Her past as an acrobat, her future as a pirate, all on top of her character throughout the duology. I had fun.

Possibly one of the most conflicting and chaotic playlists on this list. Creating it really had me pondering Nina's writing. She's a lot more complex/multi-faceted than I'd ever given her credit for, haha!

I struggled the most with Matthias' playlist, I'm actually surprised it's as long as it is. I didn't connect with him as much as the others, especially during my first reading of the duology, but I've definitely gained some respect for his character and what Bardugo was trying to convey when writing him. Normally I'm drawn to characters whose experience parallels mine as a "cult survivor", but there's a lot of notable distance between our experiences.

Similarly to the Kaz playlist, I hope the "just vibes" theme of this playlist doesn't come across as a shallow understanding of Jesper's character. It's the longest playlist, he's my absolute favorite and it shows. I have a lot of respect for him!

A contender for the discordic energy of Nina's playlist. I intentionally leaned into this aspect. Wylan holds a special place in my heart, he helped me come to terms with a lot of things. I fear some of the self projection is clearly evident.

A couple of extra notes:

Expect a follow-up post soon. I very much need a Kuwei playlist, as well as a Kanej/Helnik/Ninej playlist. Perhaps one highlighting the friendship between Jesper and Inej as well, who knows.

If you're uncomfortable with songs with sexual or suggestive lyrics being applied to them, I totally understand and respect that. Those songs were included either because I found that aspect of them ignorable, because I think it matches their "energy" or is the style of music they might enjoy, or quite rarely because I'm specifically keeping the Shadow and Bone continuity in mind.

Example: ...Baby One More Time is a fairly suggestive song. But I'll stand by the fact that Jesper Fahey would listen to 90s pop artists over my dead body.

[fairytalesofforever]

SOC fic masterlist

I can't believe I haven't done one yet, so:

Catch and Release (directly post CK, 2K words/one-shot, kanej)

The two deadliest people in Ketterdam struggle to sit together and learn some things in the process, including, but not limited to, that they will always come back to each other.

the ichor in their veins needs feeding (modern AU, 1K words/one-shot, kanej, helnik, wesper, platonic everyone/found family)

To be young is the nearest thing to being immortal. Or, a modern AU.

the willows' lullaby (verrry post CK [like several decades], 1.5K words/one-shot, kanej)

Her hair is white and her hands are lined, but she wakes up and asks for her knife. Kaz can refuse her nothing. Or, a series of reflections before the end.

The Best Worst Kept Secret in Ketterdam (post CK, 260K words and counting, kanej, wesper, mentions of past helnik, alby rollins/OC, platonic everyone who's still alive)

She’s really not their child, they promise. Unfortunately, she has other ideas: Cue the Parent Trap, but with trauma.

renegades in the ring (circus AU, 6K words/one-shot, kanej, helnik, pre-wesper, platonic everyone, jordie lives)

A magician with a mind as sharp as his tongue. An acrobat searching for her wings. A sharpshooter looking for freedom. A prodigal son with some tricks up his sleeve. A fortune teller looking to love in peace. A wolf trainer starting a new life. What happens in the Big Top, stays in the Big Top.

used to be mine (during and post-books, 4K words/one-shot, kanej, background implied wesper, platonic inej&jesper and inej&wylan)

"The lynx and the Wraith and the girl of the Ravkan fields are bidders in an auction for pieces of Inej Ghafa, whoever that is." A spy, a captain, a Saint; the treasure of a certain criminal king's heart; she has lost everything and more, but she has always been dangerous. songfic to "She Used to Be Mine" from Waitress

we're still in it, but in a minute (post-CK, 1.5K words/one-shot, kanej)

It’s a good night for them. For both of them, actually. “Can I try something?”

To Meet a Monster (pre-canon, 1.6K words/one-shot, outsider POV)

“Just now,” said the boy, “You were sizing me up, weren’t you? Thinking you could take me?” There was a dare in his eyes, a cruel black glitter that begged to be set loose. “I want everyone else to think that, too. And I want a weapon to prove them wrong.” It's hard enough to be a Fabrikator hiding in Ketterdam. It only gets worse when the boy called Dirtyhands wants something from him.

If I went to touch you now (during SOC, 7.5K words, WIP/eventual two-shot, kanej, background helnik, background pre-wesper, platonic Inej&Nina and Inej&Matthias)

"The marks were there, after all, clear as day—some black with destiny, others colored with a fate already found." It seems impossible. After all, the black marks that they bear are supposed to be the first place their soulmate will touch them someday. But Kaz and Inej both have to wonder—who would want to be the other half of a broken soul? Who would dare to touch the untouchable? Why would they obey the laws of fate, determined as they are to break all the others?

[pensandsneakers]

Incredibly long Inej Ghafa essay incoming:

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Y/N-ification of Inej in fandom, where some people treat her like she’s less of a main character on her own with her own goals and arc and more like a self-insert knife girl vehicle to experience the story (which is seen as you know, Kaz’s story.) This is mostly based on how she’s written in the show, but also before the show there have always been all the “knife wife” jokes and posts which are you know, Fine, but always felt to me like an oversimplification of her character.

The thing is that the idea of being that one dimensional, “knife wife,” powerful/dangerous girl is literally explored in the text as Inej openly wrestles with her identity as the Wraith.

It’s important to remember that the Wraith persona is not something Inej chose for herself, it’s something that Kaz gave her, and though he did it to give her protection, it still stands that the idea of the Wraith is exactly that stereotype, the powerful baddass stripped of emotions and vulnerability, unbelievable with all of the different powers she has, but is somehow always ending up using those powers in service of the men in the story.

Inej is given this role to play, but because she’s strong and unwilling to compromise on her faith she finds ways to make the Wraith persona her own, by bringing her religion into it for example and naming her knives after Saints.

But there reaches a point when Inej realizes that the Wraith persona is static and limiting her, which is literally represented by her being stuck/trapped in the incinerator.

She realizes that the way she’s been living as the Wraith has made it so that she doesn’t know what she wants, only what Kaz wanted. “Kaz Brekker was just a boy, and she’d let him lead her to this fate.” But she says “she couldn’t even blame him because she hadn’t known where she wanted to go.”

Once she names the fact that she’s been allowing herself to be guided by whatever Kaz’s goals are and hasn’t been living for herself, Inej becomes ambivalent to the idea of being a “dangerous girl,” which were at first the words she clung to to become the Wraith. “She thought of her knives… maybe they’d go to some other girl who dreamed of being dangerous.”

It is only when she realizes that she wants to hunt slavers that she is able to picture her future and who she can be. “She was not a lynx or a spider or even the Wraith. She was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above.” She affirms her own identity which is separate from all of the other labels that people have given her, and chooses her own direction and goal, separate from anything Kaz or anyone else wants from her.

I love that the stakes of this realization are literally presented as life and death. Because yes, without the sentence “she was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above,” Inej would not be the same. If Inej was only a cool acrobat called the Wraith who goes on a heist and has a relationship with the brooding lead, that would be the death of the great, full rounded character we know her to be now. (Not to mention it would be shit. …Anyway.)

After Inej figures out what she wants, her arc in Crooked Kingdom is to kill her previous self. Dunyasha is the physical representation of that YA girl stereotype. She’s constantly talking about her skills and the fact that she’s “chosen,” with her royal blood etc. Dunyasha is a powerful female character in the sense that she’s a female character with a lot of “powers.” She’s not someone who could exist in real life. When Inej interacts with her it’s like she’s talking to a cardboard cut out with lots of one liners. By defeating Dunyasha in the end Inej proves that the things that she might have had to lose to become a cold knife wielding baddass (like her hesitance to kill, her sentimentality, her faith) are actually her strengths. She has proven that Inej Ghafa is stronger than a trope.

However, the idea of being a dangerous girl is definitely still nuanced. I’m not saying that because Inej needed to become a person separate from the Wraith persona and her life in Ketterdam that the idea of being the Wraith is meaningless, or that Kaz is “problematic” for giving her that role or anything. Kaz understands the power of a legend, and Inej makes it clear that by gaining that identity as the Wraith, Kaz saved her. “He’d helped her build a legend to wear as armour, something bigger and more frightening than the girl she’d been.”

I’d go as far as to say it’s normal and good that Inej started out this way. She’s just a teenage girl who’s had to fight every single moment of her life, and wanting to escape into a role/character that makes you feel bigger than yourself is something that I think many others can understand.

When she’s in terrifying situations, Inej still uses the word dangerous to comfort herself. Like in Crooked Kingdom when Jan van eck has kidnapped her and she’s doubting everything she says to herself “I am a dangerous girl.”

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be a dangerous girl. The trope exists because it’s an attractive fantasy. We all want to be bigger, stronger, more powerful than we’re allowed to be in real life. But for most of us, it’s just not real. Dunyasha is not a real girl that could exist outside of fiction. Inej is though. That’s why this quote hits so hard “What about the ones who aren’t chosen, the invisible girls. We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns, we learn to wring magic from the ordinary. When the world owed you nothing you demanded something anyway.”

It’s ok to look up to the girls in fiction that may be one dimensional but make you feel a little less small. It’s ok to get caught up in the worlds of the people around you instead of living for yourself. It’s ok to not know who you are or what you want. But there comes a time when you can’t just keep stalling. You can’t keep “holding onto nothing.” You take what you can and create the life, relationships and sense of self that you deserve.

You demand something more.

[the-angry-acrobat]

summoning my inner inej will bring out the best of my abilities and I will smash my next circus performance

[lunarthecorvus]

Grisha!Kaz Brekker Alternate Universe fanfiction recommendations

part of Lunar's soc fanficiton rec series

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The Etovost Plague by Spikey44

Wordcount: 139k Chapters: 37/37

Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, Jesper Fahey, Wylan Van Eck, Nina Zenik, Kuwei Yul-Bo

Tags: Grisha Kaz Brekker, Post-Canon, Dead Matthias Helvar, Sorry, Not KoS/RoW canon compliant, Kaz is a Tidemaker. Sort of, some gore, scenes of plague, Don't worry only characters no one cares about die, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm

Author's summary/notes: Twenty-eight months after Kuwei Yul-Bo was shot dead and the plague sirens sounded throughout Ketterdam a new and terrifying sickness sweeps through the Barrel: a plague with a unique connection to Jurda Parem. But this time it’s not the Grisha who need to fear. It’s everyone else. This becomes that, and like no longer calls to like, forcing old crows to wing back to Ketterdam as chaos unlike anything they have seen before erupts through the Barrel, threatening to destroy all of Ketterdam and plunge the world into war. But it's a more personal fear that haunts Inej, Nina, Jesper and Wylan when Dirtyhands goes missing at the start of the plague outbreak. Now the Crows must grapple with the sorrow that Kaz may be dead and the even greater terror that the Etovost scourge has turned the Barrel's resident monster into a living nightmare hell-bent on destroying them all. Post-canon AU where a new Jurda Parem variant transforms normal people into Grisha. Starting with the Barrel Bosses. Uh-oh! My summary/notes: Having Kaz turn into a grisha is such an intruiging concept and I ate it up, at the same time its tragic because of the way being a tidemaker effects him and triggers his trauma. It will get real intense so be prepared. The villain in this fic is so interesting. An unexpected intersting part of this fic was reading the crows be a team without having Kaz as their leader sometimes. I love Inej in this fic so much. BAMF's Inej and Anika. Inej and Kaz have some cute moments. The ending eeee. My quick summary is the barrel goes to shit when a plague enters.

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On Black Feathered Wings by @martinakl13

Wordcount: 139k Chapters: 37/37

[this fic is also a grisha!Inej and grisha!Matthias au]

Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, Jesper Fahey, Wylan Van Eck, Nina Zenik, Matthias Helvar, Jan Van Eck, Alys Van Eck, Pekka Rollins, Jordie Rietveld, Aditi Hilli, Tante Heleen, Councilman Hoede, Imogen, Per Haskell, Doughty, Dregs Ensemble, Dime Lions Ensemble, Kaz Brekker's Father, Original Characters, Inej Ghafa's Mother, Inej Ghafa's Father, Matthias Helvar's Mother (mentioned), Matthias Helvar's Father (mentioned), Matthias Helvar's Sister (mentioned), Anya, Joost Van Poel, Gert Van Verent, Mikka, Kuwei Yul-Bo, Anika, Pim

Tags: Alternate Universe - Character Swap, Grisha Kaz Brekker, Grisha Inej Ghafa, Grisha Wylan Van Eck, Jordie Rietveld Lives, Aged-Up Character(s), Forced Prostitution, Human Trafficking, Misogyny, Racism Violence, Sexual Content, The Menagerie, Flashbacks, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Enemies to Lovers, Lovers To Enemies, unexpected relationships, Angst, POV Alternating, Jurda Parem, First Meetings, Bad Parent Jan Van Eck, Grisha Matthias Helvar, Abuse, Dyslexia, Rape, Humiliation, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Beating, Heist, Sexual Tension, Kaz constantly giving Inej flowers, Mutual Pining, Soulmates

Author's summary/notes: Inej Ghafa is a talented acrobat, but only her closest family knows that she uses her special power during her performances. Wylan Van Eck was sent to Ravka to be trained as a Grisha, but when he returns years later, his home is no longer his home. Matthias Helvar has powers he never asked for, and his family wants to keep him safe. What is the best way to hide Grisha in Fjerda? Among the drüskelle. Nina Zenik is a soldier of the First Army, gifted with excellent language skills. Jesper Fahey moves with his mother to Ketterdam after the tragic death of his father and the loss of their farm due to debts. Kaz Brekker has powers that no one has seen before. Or? My summary/notes: This fic is part of a series so there is a part 2 that is being regularly updated. Be prepared for this fic to simultaneously destroy and heal you. I live for the use of flower symbolism, its so adorable. I loved learning about the kind of grisha Kaz is, and reading Inej as a grisha is just so cool I need more grisha!Inej. Matthias being a grisha is so interesting, and reading Nina + Jesper as normal is so fascinating. Aditi is queen and this fic has Pim and Anika, I love those two so much.

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The Bastard's Brother by FlatApple

Wordcount: 214k Chapters: 66/66

Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, Jesper Fahey, Dregs Ensemble, Jordie Rietveld, Wylan Van Eck, Nina Zenik, Matthias Helvar, Jan Van Eck, Original Background Characters, (they're not important don't worry)

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Kaz is a Grisha, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Starvation, Touch-Averse Kaz Brekker, Haphephobia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Pre-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Organized Crime, Whump, Kaz Brekker is Bad at Feelings, POV Kaz Brekker, (mostly), Paranormal, Graphic Description of Corpses, Kaz Brekker is a feral orphan for large portions of this, Corpsewitch Kaz, Warning for strong language, Gang Violence, Heist, Slow Burn, Kaz Brekker-centric, Canon Rewrite, Ghost Jordie Rietveld, Good Sibling Jordie Rietveld, BAMF Kaz Brekker, Pining, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Sickfic, Hurt Kaz Brekker, Fever Dreams

Author's summary/notes: Kaz Brekker’s Mother was Ketterdam. His Father was profit. But Kaz Brekker’s Brother? That was Death. Or, the one where Kaz has been a Corpsewitch all along. My summary/notes: Reading Jordie as a ghost was so sad, the author managed to write him so well, this fic answers the question of what would Jordie's reactions be to Kaz's ruthless actions. We get to see young struggling feral kaz (it will break your heart) and we get to see Kaz grow. Every dynamic between the crows is explored and its so interesting to read. This fic part of a series and there is more.

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The Bastard Saint of the Barrel by Spikey44

Wordcount: 152k Chapters: 46/46

Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, Nina Zenik, Matthias Helvar, Jesper Fahey, Jordie Rietveld, Pekka Rollins, Wylan Van Eck, Jan Van Eck, Kuwei Yul-Bo

Tags: Grisha Kaz Brekker, Jordie Rietveld Lives, Kaz is Corporalnik this makes everything worse, Kaz is a Dime Lion, Pekka Rollins owns Kaz's indenture, Jordie is Dregs, Kaz has a new alias, A Kaz by any other name is still a bastard, Inej remains awesome in all realities, Jordie makes the deal with Jan Van Eck, Matthias is probably gonna live, Elements of Six of Crows reworked with Living Jordie/Grisha Kaz, Canon Disabled Character, Touch-Averse Kaz Brekker, warning for drug use eg: Jurda Parem and its effects, warning for mild depersonalisation and dissociation in ch 8

Author's summary/notes: In a story of star-crossed brothers, where Kaz's grisha powers save Jordie but don't save him from Pekka Rollins, Kaz becomes the Bastard Saint of the Barrel; Rollins personal Healer and the most feared Grisha to haunt Ketterdam's seedier streets. This upsets Jordie quite a bit. In an attempt to pay off Kaz's indenture, and save his brother from the threat of Jurda Parem, Jordie Rietveld, Dregs Lieutenant and confidence man, makes a deal with Jan Van Eck to perform an impossible heist. Naturally, Kaz, busybody extraordinaire, is not about to let his brother screw up in a foreign land alone. He's going to steal his brother's heist and one Bo Yul-Buyur --or his nearest relative, whatever works best --and save his idiot big brother from a Fjerdan prison. And if this means running out on Rollins -well, thirty thousand Kruge should be more than enough money to pay his way out trouble. Right? My summary/notes:

[captainsvscaptains]

Battle of the Captains Quarterfinals 3

No antipropaganda on my polls please

Propaganda

Inej (propaganda by @paul-hectus ) : She was kidnapped from her family when she was very little and brought oversea to become an unwilling sex worker when she was FOURTEEN. She is an amazing acrobat and skilled with knives. She's also a great friend and deeply devoted to her saints. The boy she is in love with got her freedom, knives and her ship. Now she kills and hunts slavers❤️

Picard's the captain of the USS Stargazer NCC-2893, USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E and USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D

[shoshansims]

Grishaverse Lookbook: Inej Ghafa (Part I)

I am so excited for this next character, she is one of my favorites! Inej's lookbook also has three parts. If you have any fictional character requests for lookbooks, feel free to send them! Part one covers everyday through part of the athletic categories. If I made a mistake with attributing the custom content, please let me know. You can find the credits under the cut. ♡

Everyday 01. captain ghafa

clothes: top | jeans | sneakers ♡ @sentate | @helgatisha | @jius-sims accessories: earrings | necklace | watch ♡ @giuliettasims | @glitterberrysims | @joliebean

Everyday 02. the wraith

clothes: top | jeans | boots ♡ @sentate | @ice-creamforbreakfast accessories: earrings | necklace ♡ @giuliettasims | @glitterberrysims

Everyday 03. whatever the night brings

clothes: top | pants | boots ♡ @rimings | @nolan-sims accessories: earrings | watch ♡ @giuliettasims | @joliebean

Everyday 04. shadows

clothes: top | jeans | shoes ♡ @sentate | @helgatisha | @jius-sims accessories: earrings ♡ @giuliettasims

Formal 01. the heart is an arrow

clothes: outfit | heels (under skirt) ♡ @ice-creamforbreakfast | @sentate accessories: earrings | bracelet ♡ @suzuesims | @ice-creamforbreakfast

Formal 02. her own blade

clothes: dress | heels (under dress) ♡ @sentate | @serenity-cc accessories: earrings | necklace | bracelets (left) | bracelets (right) ♡ @giuliettasims | @bradfordsims | @suzuesims

Formal 03. strength

clothes: dress | heels (under dress) ♡ @ice-creamforbreakfast | @sentate accessories: earrings | rings ♡ @giuliettasims

Athletic 01. spider

clothes: outfit | sneakers ♡ saliwa | @jius-sims

Athletic 02. the acrobat

clothes: outfit | sneakers ♡ saliwa | @joliebean

pose credits ♡ @hellosimsulani | @fatalrosecreations | @roselipaofficial

hair credits ♡ @laeska | @enriques4 | @aharris00britney

eyeshadow credits ♡ @crypticsim | @suzuesims

eyeliner credits ♡ @pralinesims | @crypticsim | s-club

eyelash credits ♡ @northernsiberiawinds | @dream-girl

blush credits ♡ @pralinesims | @anonimuxsimmer | @crypticsim

lipstick credits ♡ @pralinesims | @suzuesims | @crypticsim | @orangesimosas

nail credits ♡ @giuliettasims | @joliebean

And finally, content credits for the genetic features ♡ @northernsiberiawinds | @pralinesims | @poyopoyosim

Thank you so much to all the wonderful creators who contributed to this lookbook. ♡

[vilecemetery]

I was tagged by @ducksoup1933 (thanks man<3) to make a poll of my top 5 blorbos and see which is the most popular.

tagging: @the-anxious-acrobat @mrsmiroir @no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist @janvierjes @butterflypython