#kaz brekker’s mother

[barrel-crow-n]

[cressjacquine]

MOTHER?

[i-love-soc-a-very-normal-amount]

Reminder that Kaz made a literal 'your mom' joke while breaking Matthias out of jail

[lunarthecorvus]

Picture it: Kaz's mother and Aditi (Jesper's mother) sitting and having tea while laughing about their sons while watching them from the afterlife

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

A few interesting parallels in the SoC duology that I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about yet

(Analysis/discussion of these parallels/quotes may come later if anyone's interested)

“These creatures were made to be weapons” - Jarl Brum on Grisha, Six of Crows chapter 35

“He looked like what he truly was: a weapon” - Jesper Fahey on the Khergud, Crooked Kingdom chapter 36

“Welcome to the Hellshow” - Kaz to Nina, Six of Crows chapter 6

“Welcome to the Ice Court, Nina Zenik” - Matthias to Nina, Six of Crows chapter 34

“Is this a play?” - Alys Van Eck “Yes love, and you’re the star” - Jesper Fahey, Crooked Kingdom chapter 8 when Alys is taken captive

“What was this but a play Kaz had staged, with that poor sucker Kuwei as the star?” - Jesper Fahey on the auction plan, Crooked Kingdom chapter 36

“he looked like a priest come to preach to group of circus performers” - Inej on Kaz’s appearance in comparison to the rest of the Barrel, Six of Crows chapter 2

“started to preach” - Inej on Kaz leading a coup against Per Haskell, Crooked Kingdom chapter 27

“Whoever he had become, Matthias was not going to shoot someone unarmed. He'd not yet sunk so far” - Matthias Helvar, Six of Crows chapter 29

“I am unarmed” - Matthias Helvar, Crooked Kingdom chapter 38

"I didn't even know the rules of Makker's Wheel" - Jesper Fahey on his first night gambling in the Barrel, Six of Crows chapter ()

"He knew his guns better than he knew the rules of Makker's Wheel" - Jesper Fahey on the concept of aim and its relationship to his life and his zowa/Grisha abilities, Crooked Kingdom chapter 36

“a tiny voice inside him said he should offer to take the drug as well […] maybe he could have helped to draw the parem out of Nina’s system and set her free. But that was a hero’s voice and Jesper had long since stopped thinking he had the makings of a hero” - Jesper Fahey, Six of Crows chapter 44

“Matthias gave you the remaining parem, didn’t he?” “So?” “[…] I can’t let my father down again. I need the parem as a security measure” “No” “Why the hell not?” - Jesper and Kaz in discussion about the auction plan, Crooked Kingdom chapter 30

I'll probably be back to add more, feel free to add your own as well

[sweetsault]

The crows love Wylan's mother.

She's smart and kind, just like her son, or it's more like he takes after her.

She knows everyone's respective favourite sweets and kinds of tea. She loves to listen Jesper read for Wylan out loud in the evening. Kaz regularly brings new paintings for her collection, sometimes really fancy ones (he never tells where he took them from, claiming that "a good magician wouldn't give away his secrets"). There are lines adressed specifically to mrs. Marya in the letters Inej sends to the Van Eck estate. She always asks the servants to get Nina's favourite food cooked whenever the latter visits Ketterdam. And she didn't have a chance to see Matthias in person, but she uses every chance to know something about him, and they all feel how sorry she is for everything that happened.

But the main thing is - Marya Van Eck never judges people for the way they manage to live.

She actually knows that every friend Wylan has made for the last five months has probably killed more than one person. But she sees them for who they are - teenagers who have been through too much. And the people who helped her son. Who gave him a chance to survive. Who taught him to appreciate his talents. Who showed him love, after all. Unfamiliarly fair and strong love, not chained by conveniance or reputation. And if people of the Barrel are capable of it more than any merch is, their lawlessness doesn't mean that much.

[silly--fangirl]

no, defending my favs on the internet is not enough

i need a gun

[isthataraccoon]

my friend messing around on my phone: “why are your parents’ contact names Ketterdam and profit?” me: 🤭🤭🤭

[the-wraiths-wife]

Am I the only one who wants Alex Stern to meet Kaz Brekker?

[pigeonriot]

love that wylan also figured out by himself that jesper is a durast just like kaz did, like mother like son

[zoyalaisobachka]

I don't know if this had been said before but I just reached this certain part in Crooked Kingdom again and it took me four or five rereads, but now it flicked a switch.

I see people call Kaz dramatic for this statement all the time:

"My mother is Ketterdam. She birthed me in the harbor. And my father is profit. I Honor him daily."

And yes, at first sight it does sound dramatic. But actually, it's the truth if we think about it.

Kaz himself said it: Jordie and he died these years ago, but Kaz was reborn. In Ketterdam, when he was escaping the deathboat on the waters of the city. It's not just a dramatic saying, but some kind of actual fact, dressed in a metaphor.

And his father profit? It was a foul mercher deal that led to his rebirth. He wants to get his revenge and destroy Rollins and getting rich is one part of it. So it also makes kind of sense.

I hope anyone can get where I'm coming from, it made a lot of sense in my mind.

[flowers-in-my-eye]

The modt unrealistic part of the entirety of six of crows duology is the fact the crows barely made fun of kaz 😖 like this is a group of silly mentally ill teenagers were talking anout

[mage-witha-glock]

The curse of writing fanfic: Writing something and having a "he would not fucking say that" moment

[egret-orchids]

okay so to the 21-ish ppl who’ve liked my tua/soc post (only gonna tag @wesper-my-pookie-wookies because that reblog made me smile. and tagging 21 people scares me/hj)

put simply, wealthy merchant jan van eck adopted 7 of the 43 children born on october 1 1989. numbered in order of individual importance, they are:

number one: matthias (helvar)

number two: inej (ghafa)

number three: nina (zenik)

number four: jesper (hilli)

number five, missing: kaz (rietveld)

number six, deceased: kuwei (yul-bo)

number seven: wylan (hendriks)

this is worded very specifically lol

i also have no clue who could replace pogo and grace but if anyone has any ideas feel free to uh. suggest them :>

[lilisouless]

Kaz: if you bury me in Ravka when you kill me, my ghost will haunt you for the rest of your lives

Nina: what if we bury you somewhere else?

Kaz: I’ll leave you alone, you surely had your reasons

Yes this is the same as the previous one

[mjshortformcjesus]

i love this for me