#kit young

[maybemacdc]

insert they have chemistry pun here

[the-glacian]

I don't care if the Crows spin-off is just the six of them acting it out in Freddy's living room while Freddy's wife films it on a phone, I'm willing to pay real money for the footage.

[freddycartr]

the comfort this cast gives me is unmatched

[ameliawarnerr]

This is soooo crow of them

And kit (= Jesper) being the one posting this is just peak characterism

[nerdlingmerchling]

[reggieslocket]

you just don't get him like i do (a traumatized fictional character with a horrible past who has murdered people)

[dragonsdemer]

How I imagine book Jesper

[musings-of-an-aesthete]

Kaz Brekker and Jesper Fahey

SHADOW AND BONE | 01x01 A Searing Burst of Light

[ainadelothwen]

Jesper commission by the incredible @jccatstudios ! The moment in S2 when he kisses his gun before jumping out from behind the wagon lives forever rent free in my head.

[thekingofkawai]

SHADOW AND BONE (2021-) - live Kaz reaction

[leah-jeffries]

INEJ & JESPER SAY GOODBYE | Shadow and Bone, Season 2

[wylanslcve]

This genre of Freddy Carter smiling like a proud little kid after filming the most gut-wrenching scenes in the entire show.

[evellynssocbrainrot]

I'm just saying, the Six of Crows Spinoff would have made big money for Netflix. Likely even more than the first season of Shadow and Bone, just look at how highly rated Six of Crows is on Goodreads with a "95% liked this book" average score. As well as how hyped it is on BookTok and the fuck ton of fanart and fanfiction.

Constantly, I also think about how Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, Kit Young, Danielle Galligan, Calahan Skogman, and Jack Wolfe would have had a blast filming the Ice Court scenes. Just imagine the utter chaos in the bloopers and interviews. The insanity of the six of them (plus Kuwei!) clinging onto the side of a tank, four of them soaking wet, two covered in bits of glass and one in purple silks, and they're just storming through the snow while screaming "WE HAVE A TANK" at the top of their lungs.

I will cry now.

[shadowandbone]

1.07: The Unsea || 2.08: No Funerals

[totallyboatless]

All of the actors for the Six of Crows storyline are remarkably well cast, but gonna focus on Kit Young for a second because that dude has something so fucking special. There's a subversive joy in his choices as Jesper that just kills me. Like at the end of season one with the line: "Tell me you have a plan. I don't care if it's a lie."

Reading that in your head without having seen his interpretation, the instinct is to go a little ragged, sardonic, exasperated - something to tell us that the character does actually care but just fucking can't deal with this shit right now. But Kit puts a pleading inflection on the line, his Jesper truly wants to be lied to, bringing it around to comedic desperation.

And it's not just with this line delivery, those facial expression reactions he does elevates every scene he's in. My favorite underrated moment is when he gives Wylan a confident wink and thumbs up when they're both getting the shit beat out of them. The juxtaposition of Jesper indicating "this is going exactly according to plan" when it's clearly not brings so much fun to the scene.

But the scene I keep coming back to over and over that I'm blown away by is under the carriage, when Jesper remembers Wylan. I could see so many actors taking those line directions and putting some angst behind them. We know Jesper was hurt when Wylan left in the morning, we know he blocked it out because his ego was bruised and he didn't want to face the pain of it. It would have made perfect sense for the line reading to have an edge to it, any indication of a grudge.

But Kit's face is lit up with nothing but fondness and joy as he remembers. And obviously actors aren't islands, the writers and directors have big influence - and they clearly are in line with a joy-filled Jesper, since the first thing they have Jesper say isn't "and you left me," it's "and you brought me stroopwaffles."

Jesper isn't a clown, but he's allowed to be one when he wants to be, and Kit leans into choosing joy with such effervescence. It only serves to make the dramatic scenes that much more heart wrenching. I hope we get a lot more Crows on screen, but whatever happens I'm excited to follow Kit's career, what a talented dude.

[nerdlingmerchling]

If you don't think Kit unconsciously gunslinging his mic and Jack noticing it is the cutest shit you've ever seen, then, I don't know what to tell you.