#jesper fahey*

[bookswithdee]

Ugly ? UGLY ??? 🥹🥹🥹🥹💗

Some ugly crow doodles for today 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

[seidenbros]

The Crows as random photos of my cats I took over the years

[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

[lilisouless]

Nina: superman!

Jesper: Batman!

Nina: you are such an edge poser

Jesper: and you are basic!

Nina: Superman is more powerful!

Jesper: Batman is smart AND rich. I am basically dating Batman,what’s your excuse? Can Matthias fly or be bullet proof?

Matthias: what’s this weird feeling?

Nina: you know what? Lets just have our friends make the tie breaker. Matthias? Which one is best?

Jesper: hey! No undoing your buttons!

Nina: pff fine

Matthias: i honestly like Superman better, he is friendly and gets things done more easy

Jesper: laaame

Jesper: now,Wylan , which one?

Nina: hey! No undoing his buttons!

Jesper: ugh,fine

Wylan: well while i appreciate Superman’s concept of kindness born from good parenting from honest people…

Nina: ha! Points for me

Wylan: hold on, BUT i am more of a fan of Batman using his richness for the common good so people won’t suffer like he did…

Nina: boring! Ugh,another tie…huh…Ine-

Inej: Wonder Woman

Jesper: fair

Nina: well,we should call it a tie…

Jesper: Kaz hasn’t voted!

Nina: we don’t need his opinion

Jesper: yes we do. Kaz..

Kaz: Superman

Jesper: ha! It seems like…what?

Kaz: Batman doesn’t even shoot his enemies,he puts them in jail to “help them” what a weakling. Superman on the other hand, puts them in the phantom zone, a fate worse than death when they will travel around the universe,lost,lonely,bound to become insane. That’s the kind of cruelty trive in

Nina: what?…no! Thats not what Superman is about…no!

Jesper: why are you complaining? He made you win

Nina: NOT LIKE THIS!

[undercover-grisha]

If Wylan went away for a weekend on a business trip, he’d come back to Jesper sleep-deprived and with bright blue hair

[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.

[stromuprisahat]

... he glimpsed a big dining hall. One wall ... was adorned by an enormous banner with no discernible pattern, a patchwork of slender strips of cloth—mostly red and blue, but some purple, too. It took Jesper a moment to understand what he was seeing. “Saints, Grisha colors. ... Red for Corporalki. Blue for Etherealki. Purple for Materialki. Those are pieces of the kefta that Grisha wear in battle. They’re trophies.”

Six of Crows- Chapter 30 (Leigh Bardugo)

If they ever killed the Darkling- do you think he'd get ✨a special✨ place in drüskelle Wall of Genocide, or would they just sew his in as if he were an ordinary witch?!

[seyo]

them being actual teenagers

[r-u-living]

The six crows as things me and my friends have said

Kaz: "I can and will dream of vicious revenge beyond my capabilities. And the laws of physics."

Inej: "Im a sneaky sneaky girl. Oh the shadow you keep seeing over your shoulder when your home alone? That's me."

Jesper: "Do not debate me you will lose because I will just keeping going nuh uh."

Wylan: "People think I'm shy because I'm quiet? No. I just hate you."

Matthias: "Yeah, pussy is great and all, but have you ever gotten eye contect?"

Nina: "Oh I'm eating too much!??!!??! ILL FUCKING EAT YOU YOU UGLY BASTARD!"

[xblackmariahx]

i do too. never beating the wylan allegations.

My favorite SoC headcanon is that Wylan bites the heads off gummy bears and eats them limb by limb. Jesper, appalled, threatens divorce.

[f4llendeity]

Dolly Parton wrote Jolene about Nina Zenik, actually.

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Jesper: So my kid just asked me if Santa was real. Hes 9 now so I told him no but that it’s still fun to pretend

Jesper: I asked him who he thinks really puts all the gifts under the tree…This boy looked me right in the eye and said THE GRINCH 😭😭

[mynxk]

Colm: “did you know there was an illegal gambling operation just down the street from where you live?”

Jesper: “😯 Nooo… there was an illegal… what I don’t even know… what’s that?”

[xblackmariahx]

"matthias helvar has been to prison" had absolutely no right to be that funny

also now someone has to draw kaz in platform heels, it's a legal requirement

(an addition- jesper can't walk in heels for the life of him and is incredibly jealous of kaz for this skill)

I did one of those headcannon generator things with the crows. Here are the results.

[procrastinatingacademic]

Six of Crows Live Blog - Chapter 18-20

"Because I've been looking for an excuse to talk to you for two days"; "He needed to know she believed in him" The burn is slow

Kaz’s touch-aversion being less bad when he’s with Inej🥺

"You Inej, you" PAIN

✨backstory✨trauma✨

The Amsterdam vibes are strong with this one

"I've never heard you admit you're not good at something" "Well, it happens so rarely" Never change, Nina

Matthias reaffirming what I brought up in my live blog of chapter 10-12 - talismans have their power

“There is no diplomat of the group” no kidding

“Nina can sing” Inej no-

Nina and Matthias taunting each other into surviving is 100% their vibe

"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand" I love this sassy line so much

"He'd lied. He did like the way she talked"

"Don't mock what you don't understand" Bit hypocritical, Mattias

Nina being able to empathise with Matthias by epuating Zoya with Brum...

I love how the drüskelle oath works so well for the Helvar relationship

Nina being able to tell Kaz everything when she could tell no one else, knowing there would be no judgement. Another layer to a friendship I love so much