#kaz brekker name

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In my head Kaz's full name was Kasper Karter Rietveld. Kasper came from someone i saw on reddit saying that Kasper and Jesper would be a cool parallel to Casper and Jasper from the bible (i think? I'm not super familiar with christianity). And Karter is just a name i though went well with Kasper (Carter witha K), because, like Jordan Johannus, i think their parents just liked to have the first and middle names star with the same two letters.

[hauntingyourself]

My favourite underrated kaz moments from the books pt 2

[mynxk]

Inej : Why do you look like that?

Wylan, laying face-first on the floor: Like what?

Inej : Like you’re dead.

Wylan: It’s because I’m dying. Leave me here to perish.

Kaz: Wylan accidentally called Jesper “babe” in front of the entire merchant council today.

Wylan: *sobs into the floor*

[m4rs-ex3]

due to this goddamn information i cannot stop calling him Sekastian

[lessnearthesun]

Kaz and Inej obviously get married one day because she’s religious and Kaz wants the tax benefits + he wants to make her happy, and I just know when that day comes Kaz takes HER last name

[salemontrial]

My favourite thing is that Jesper and Inej both know that the other is down bad for Kaz and instead of being jealous or whatever they bond over the uniting frustration that comes with being in love with the most closed off bastard the barrel has to offer

[w4rcr1me5]

Kaz Brekker and the other crows

[lilyimmsim]

the crows would have absolutely loved monopoly

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

So there’s something about Pekka Rollins that has bothered me literally since I first read the books and I think about it every time I read them okay and it’s this line:

“Who is Pekka Rollins?” Matthias asked, turning the ridiculous syllables over in his mouth. Kerch names had no dignity to them.

And this catches me out every single time because Rollins is Kaelish. As far as the reader knows for definite, “Pekka Rollins” is a Kaelish name, not a Kerch name.

Now, don’t get me wrong, we’re of course aware that Matthias is very sheltered from understanding the global scene and may simply have assumed that Rollins is Kerch because he lives in Ketterdam and runs the Dime Lions (this is the only piece of information he knows about him at this time) but I think this is unlikely considering that it was on a mission to the Wandering Isle that he met Nina and we know that, although he doesn’t speak Kaelish, he knows how to recognise it well enough that he knew Nina was speaking Kaelish and not Kerch or Ravkan (at the time he was monolingual, as he would later only learn Kerch by necessity in Hellgate).

And thinking about the name “Pekka Rollins” it doesn’t sound all that Kaelish… does it? Our examples of Kaelish names include “Fianna” (Nina’s Kaelish pseudonym at the Ice Court), “Colm”, “Eamon” (Dime Lions member), and “Harshaw”, but not many others to my recollection. Kaelish names are inspired by Celtic languages and Celtic names, as far as I can tell usually with more Irish and Scottish Gaelic influences than Welsh, Cornish, or Breton (but please note I am by no means an expert and I sadly do not speak any of these languages), and we can see this trend in our examples. But can we see it in “Pekka Rollins”? Or does this name favour the structure of Kerch names? “Kaz”, “Per”, “Wylan”, “Alys”, “Hiram”, “Gert”, “Henrik”, “Jellen”, and so many many more examples, we are overflowing with examples of Kerch names (if you are wondering about more examples I’d recommend checking out the Grishaverse wiki there’s a full list on there of all the characters mentioned from each country, but note it doesn’t include any pseudonyms as far as I’m aware), that tend to favour more separated syllables and harsher consonant sounds than, say, “Fianna” where the name runs quickly together, pronounced to have two syllables when it would probably be said with three by someone Kerch who only saw it written down, with more emphasis on the “yah” sound of the “ia” than the double “n”?

So is it, in fact, possible that “Pekka Rollins” is a Kerch name? A chosen name, by a man who fled his home to restart his life in a new city, with a name that matched it? Is this supposed to imply yet another parallel between Pekka and Kaz?????

I have no idea, this is purely theoretical, but considering that they are narrative foils and we can draw many, many parallels between them and this line is always on my mind, it’s personally my favourite solution. If you agree/disagree or have a different theory, let me know! I love stuff like this so much, it’s so interesting to see what different people think or how we might have read certain details differently

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Kaz's petnames for his crows:

Inej: Darling Inej treasure of my heart

Jesper: Jes

Nina: Dear/Love/Darling etc.

Wylan: Merchling

Matthias: Big Fjerdan

[televisionlassie]

Kaz telling the story of how pekka Rollins conned him and his brother which ultimately led to his death

Pekka Rollins:

[hauntingyourself]

I want to see these interactions on-screen

[servantleverslutdrop]

There's something so special about Kaz asking Inej if that's her real name, and then asking if that's what she'd like to be called, because he understands if she'd like a new name after all she's been through.

[dubiousdisco]

I miss them

[lessnearthesun]

Inej is the main character of SOC btw. Not only does the story proper begin and end with her pov, but she is the emotional heart of the story. Kaz himself says she is the lodestone of the Crows. Not naming names but SOME OF YOU simply reduce her to being “Kaz’s love interest” as if this isn’t as much her story as anyone else’s. In case you all forgot: She was not a lynx or a spider or even the Wraith. SHE WAS INEJ GHAFA AND HER FUTURE WAS WAITING ABOVE!!!!

[jazzkrebber]

you can't look at this and tell me Kaz wouldn't be a theater kid