#ok i'm stopping here but DEAR GOD THESE GUYS LEND THEMSELVES TO A '20'S AU SO EASILY

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Also: 1920s au

                ari’s au thoughts || always accepting

o1. Speakeasy Crow Club. SPEAKEASY CROW CLUB. The Dregs being a gang of rumrunners and enforcers that used to be small time, but then this kid named Kaz Brekker got his hands into Per Haskell’s operation and made it better.

o2. Okay but the Emerald Palace being a rival speakeasy that the Dregs (and especially Kaz) are trying to steal business from. Because Kaz hates the Dime Lions (and Pekka Rollins screwed him and his brother over when they came to town, leading to Jordie’s death) and it’s personal af.

o3. Bartender!Kaz tho. Using that skill at card tricks to mix drinks smoothly and beautifully. Some people (usually young women but sometimes young men coughcoughJESPERcoughcough) stand around to watch him pour drinks. He gets asked out a lot but never accepts because vengeance takes all his time.

o4. That and he’s lowkey infatuated (coughcoughinlovewithcoughcough) this girl he found at one of his competitor’s places, and lured over to the Dregs to spy for him. She’s a trained acrobat, and he’s keeping an eye out for news of her family as she pays off what it cost to buy her freedom.

o5. Matthias as an ex-cop tho. Having tried to report them, but his superiors are all bought off so it didn’t get him anywhere. Currently working as a bouncer because at least this way he can gather information if the feds come in. 

o6. FLAPPER NINA. Flirting with everyone who moves, and finding it especially fun to fluster the big blond bouncer~ She gives Kaz a headache, but she’s good in a fight so he keeps her around.

o7. Wylan as this rich kid who first came in to prove to himself that he wasn’t scared. And coming back partly because of the fact that it was one of the first places he felt like he wasn’t judged for his inability to read, and partly because of the tall black gangster with the infectious smile who could just be flirting with him.

o8. NINA AND JESPER BROTP THO. Like, they’re both the biggest flirts in the Dregs, but they’ve always got each other’s back. So they waltz in, charming (almost) everyone in the room quickly, and keep the mood easy and free.