#kanej the cuckoo couple

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In the “I berried him six feet deep” scene(book) Kaz really reminds me of a cuckoo bird.

If you don’t know what a cuckoo bird is, it’s alright, I’ll gladly explain it.

Cuckoo birds are famous for throwing their chicks into the nests of other birds. Their eggs don’t look suspicious for a mama bird, but as a cuckoo bird gets older it starts demanding more food, and eventually throws the ‘true’ chicks that cannot yet fly out of the nest. In the end the mama bird is left with a ‘parasite’ which she continues to feed because views it as her child.(forgot to add, cuckoo birds are HUGE, and even chicks are bigger than a mama bird)

Also in the Eastern Europe where cuckoo’s mostly live exists a believe that if you ask cuckoo birds “cuckoo, how long do I have to live?” the amount of ‘cuckoo’s that you’ll get is the number of years you have left.

Reminds you of anyone?

Kaz got to Ketterdam as a sweet little boy who was no threat to anyone. But after Jodie’s death he became the ‘parasite’.

Kaz gets rid of most barrel gangs step by step, brick by brick, until eventually he’s left one on one with Pekka.

He feeds himself on Pekka’s empire by stealing his ‘pigeons’ and slowly, almost unnoticed, draining his clientele and money.

Inej also has ‘cuckoo’ vibes:

As soon as she gets out of the “menagerie” she gives Kaz an opportunity to stop using Tante Heleen and ‘her girls’ as a blackmail source.

She basically feeds herself on the money Tante Heleen would have had if Kaz didn’t get Inej as his spider.

In the end she’s basically the reason why Kaz destroys “Menagerie”