#kaz wylan parallels this

[insignificant457]

ok but i can’t stop thinking about kaz matthias parallels. like hello?

their situations (only surviving family member after the death of parents and sibling) are actually so similar, but while kaz is left to fend for himself among the criminal underworld spawned by kerch individualism, matthias’s grief and vulnerability are taken advantage of by the fjerdan nationalist state and he is propelled into life as a child soldier. if they’d been born in different countries, raised on different values, they could have been each other. leigh bardugo i’m in your walls

[kanejbr3kker]

never not thinking about the fact that two of the last scenes in soc are kaz trying to convince inej to stay in ketterdam and matthias begging nina to stay alive and then two of the last scenes in ck are kaz giving inej a boat so she can leave ketterdam and nina begging matthias to stay alive

[salemontrial]

So did we all just unanimously forget that both Kaz and Wylan's trauma breaking points have to do with crawling out of the canal, shaking and half-dead and (literally or metaphorically) leaving something behind in the water

[dasiesanddarkness]

im sorry but i will never be over the fact that from the time his mother died all the way to like halfway through soc Wylan had no one. his father was abusive, he never formed any connections with the servants or other merchant kids, and his relationship with Alys was strained because she was so close to his age and married to his father. and then his father tried to kill him, and so he runs away from the only place that could ever have been considered a home and joins the Dregs, where everyone treats him like he's useless and a burden. even at the beginning of soc, everyone's kinda shitty to him (even Inej).

Matthias had family in the druskellë, even if they were incredibly hateful and prejudiced. Nina had family at the Little Palace and then with Inej and Jesper. Kaz had family with Inej and Jesper (though he'd never admit it). Inej had family with Jesper and Nina and Kaz. Jesper had family with Inej and Nina and Kaz and the other Dregs. but Wylan was alone.

his father tried to kill him, and he had no one to fall back on. no one to hug him and tell him it would all be okay, no one to laugh or smile or cry with. he was entirely alone.

[19burstraat]

wylan & kaz, the flipped coin

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[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

[dovahkiining]

local man makes everyone listen to his deranged crows parallels, part one.

or, theseus' ship & the bite of a mutt.

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[hauntsthenarrative]

I'm sorry that on that day. The day you were shut out and left to die. No one was there to lift you up in their arms. The way you lifted others into yours. And then, what became of you? I should have known,you wouldn't be content to disappear. Not my daughter.I couldn't save you then, so let me save you now. It's time to rest, for you, and for those you have carried in your arms.

[likeimurloverr]

The people who treat Wylan like hes a mini kaz are just as bad as, may i even say, worse than people who make him too kind (baby him)

[sunnybluebunny]

The way that I am absolutely FERAL with need for a Six of Crows spinoff featuring the Ice Court heist.

[nine-butterflies]

rewatching shadow and bone and the contrast of pekka rollins being willing to lose everything for his son versus the inevitable realization that jan van eck willing to do anything to get rid of his….currently in pain

[timesomewhere]

reducing kaz and wylan's dynamic to 'father and son' killed my parents

[servantleverslutdrop]

Again, I would be fascinated by a 'Wylan has to live in the Barrel for a prolonged period of time, some of which is spent without Kaz's protection,' exploration. Who would he become?

[sunsetcurveauto]

one parallel i loved about s2 is that kaz and wylan were the only ones who connected the dots that jesper is a grisha

[inejs-knife]

“Ever had your pocket picked, Wylan?” “I … not that I know of.” “Been mugged in an alley?” “No.” “Hung over the side of a bridge with your head in the canal?” Wylan blinked. “No, but—” “Ever been beaten until you can’t walk?” “No.”

[6point5crows]

Six of Crows x Unwind

Kaz vers 1: Parents died before he or Jordie could ever be signed up for unwinding— though their parents would’ve never anyways. However upon meeting Pekka, he was somehow able to sign off on their unwinding forms (having strings he could pull, able to get money for this, etc). They were getting shipped off when Jordie and Kaz tried to escape. Jordie didn’t make it, and sacrificed himself for Kaz to escape, where he was on the run ever since. A few years later, he caught Pekka now having Jordie’s hands.

Kaz Vers 2: (Aka another au outcome of this) His parents did end up signing off on his and Jordie’s unwinding— or even just Kaz’s. Jordie helps him escape and they flee to the city to disappear. However, Pekka was a parts pirate, and he manages to trap them. Kaz is able to get away but Jordie doesn’t. Same outcome as before.

Jesper: He was never signed off to be unwound, of course, but after the loss of his mother and never able to sit still, he was sent to Ketterdam (as before). However he starts to get involved with runaways, and eventually gets mistaken for one anyways. Parts pirates begin to target him, and he loves the thrill of being on the run. So, he joins the ranks of the unwind-runaways, despite never being one himself.

Inej: Once she is kidnapped and taken to Ketterdam, and then further sold to Haleen, she is still made to work for her. However, Haleen has already signed off on Inej’s unwind papers the day they met, and was waiting to submit the papers until Haleen (ugh.) saw fit. However, Kaz knew of this practice and, as in canon, payed off her indenture and her unwind form so it wouldn’t be submitted. Plot twist: eventually Haleen submits it anyways, leading to Inej becoming a runaway as well. Of course, not even parts pirates dare to target her.

Nina: She was actually storked, having gone to house to house. She was passed around until finally she landed at the doorstep of a Ravkan military official. They took her into a home until she was revealed to be a heartrender, where she was then placed into the Ravkan army. She would not be unwound unless she failed to serve Ravka— abandoning or betraying them. This was never an issue to cross her mind until she was kidnapped by Fjerda and thought to be dead. She and Matthias have their storyline, and instead of her accusing Matthias of being a slavor, she accuses him of being a false parts pirate— somebody who takes kids not meant to be unwound and unwinds them. Though in doing so, this reaches Ravka who then fr does sign her unwinding form and she hides in Ketterdam hoping they don’t catch wind of that.

Matthias: Much like the situation with Nina, once he joins the Fjerdan army, he must work hard and prove himself to keep him from being unwound. This, he is able to do, until he is put into Ketterdam prison. While there, they sign his unwinding form for a few months out (they are really backed up, I imagine) until the Crows break him out. He is given the option to be freed from that unwinding form (ruled as a mistake) if he helps them break into the Ice Court. After he does so, and that whole plot happens, Fjerdan still has ability to sign an unwinding form for Matthias. They do so, and he becomes a runaway.

Wylan: The threat of being unwound has always loomed over his head. His own father constantly threatening to sign the form— even going as far as to keep a copy of the signed form framed on Wylan’s wall to remind him that it could be sent out anytime. However, eventually, Van Eck starts to go around and tell people that he was actually raising Wylan to be a tithe instead— something Wylan never found out until too late. He was sent off one day, only to discover that he was actually heading off to his own unwinding. He escaped, much like he did in the books, and flees to Ketterdam under a new name. He learns from the other Crows that nobody had blinked an eye at his disappearance as they all believed he was tithed and unwound. He only becomes a runaway once it’s learned that he is alive by Van Eck, who hires parts pirates to specifically try and capture Wylan to unwind him.