#the soc boys

[frogsareallgay]

Bob who has good parents but still never wants to be like his father because his father is a sleazy business man with a drinking problem. and Bob who is out of control because his parents are too trusting and let him do whatever. Bob who takes such good care of his boys and tells them off for doing something dangerous because deep down he wants to give them what he never had. Chet who hates going home because his parents are obsessed with perfection and constantly punish him for stupid reasons. Chet who has to remind himself to breathe before entering his own home. Chet who enters football practice with bruises on his wrists and back, brushing off Bob's concern saying it was a little fight with a greaser. Bob and Chet both knowing hes lying but too proud to tell the truth. Trip who has extremely loving parents who made him really sheltered when he was a kid. Trip who was initially horrified by the other boys but eventually numbed and lost his innocence listening to their dirty jokes and swearing. Trip who feels the need to be tougher than the other boys and brush off his old identity. Trip who feels eternally guitly because he loves his parents but now hes in too deep to change. Brill who loves his parents dearly and constantly chases their approval but never quite gets it. Brill who fades his voice out of conversations when he realises no one is actually listening to him. Brill who can never quite escape the feeling of being 9 years old and trying to show his parents a cool rock but getting no response other than "hm." and Brill who is genuinely scared to go home because his mind tells him that one day his parents will snap and just stop loving him all together. all the soc boys pretending to each other that everything is totally fine because thats what they are. Completely and utterly fine. Soc boys arent supposed to feel. Theyre strong and deal with their problems alone. all the socs boys desperately wanting help but never getting it

[shuteyeshuttle]

LITERALLY ANYONE I WOULD LOVE LORE FOR THE SOC BOYS IN THE OUTSIDERS MUSICAL (Chet, Trip, + Brill)

I LITERALLY CANT FIND ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR CHARACTERS

[fantastic-nonsense]

Things Kaz canonically does in the two years between Crooked Kingdom and Rule of Wolves:

(presumably) massively expands the Dregs' territory

buys Pekka's old club (the Emerald Palace) and completely renovates it, turning it into The Silver Six

massively expands the Crow Club to the point where it's "three times the size of every other establishment on the block"

builds an underground tunnel that goes from the Crow Club to the Geldstraat, where the Van Eck Mansion is

takes Jesper out on jobs with him often enough that Wylan has jokingly banned Jesper from answering the door when he knocks

learns about Ketterdam's Suli laborers and picks up additional knowledge of Suli culture

keeps up with Inej's whereabouts and helps her take out slavers

expands his information network to the Kerch colonies

is on friendly enough terms with the King of Ravka that he taught Nikolai how to pick locks and Nikolai feels comfortable personally writing him a letter when he needs to steal the titanium from Kerch

disguises himself just to follow people around on the streets

was planning to steal the titanium from the military base anyway just for fun

And that's just the stuff we see from Nikolai's and Zoya's incredibly limited perspectives during their Ketterdam sidequest

I 100% agree with Zoya when she thinks that "maybe Kaz was like Nikolai, a boy with an unquiet mind, a man in perpetual need of challenge" because ROW makes it so obvious that Kaz is bored and incredibly restless in his success. Someone get our boy a new life's purpose and a subscription to a long-running unsolved mystery podcast stat

[gardenveela]

dead boy detectives x six of crows crossover

i can finally post them all together!

[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

[vik-the-prik]

This is what Wylan looks like in my brain 90% of the time

[wecanstart-fresh2day]

If I see one more person saying that Kaz calling Inej an investment was romantic I’m going to invest in a gun

[nalesnik-z-morela]

I just had to, it was an inner need

[a-great-tragedy]

Found family is for the ones that never found their family

[jeremysknoxes]

what i would give to watch jesper bs his way through that zemeni oil future presentation

[mynxk]

Imagine Jespers friends and family in Novyi Zem

“Jesper married who?!”

[bubblegumbabycow]

Jesper: Why don't humans have a specific noise that means "there are bees here, let's leave immediately." Why are elephants more advanced than us. Wylan:��We do have a specific noise for it. It sounds like this: Wylan: "There are bees here, let's leave immediately."

[xblackmariahx]

this MAY be a hot take as i see people saying the opposite a lot but i don't understand why people don't like kuwei. "he was so rude for no reason!!" first of all no he wasn't second of all, he was a 15 year old who had just been imprisoned, had just lost his father, was dealing with what was probably his first crush on a guy (i mean it's unclear but i doubt he had much social interaction as a kid so he probably didn't really see kids his age to develop a crush on), and was living in fear of persecution. like sorry he pretended not to speak kerch so he wouldn't have to be in conversations and flirted with his crush, jeez.

[veerbles]

the end of ck is like, if you are a protagonist whose main character arc is being haunted by your dead brother and your friend has just recently developed powers allowing her to raise people from the dead, is it really a coincidence or is it just the doomed narrative coming for you?

[six-of-cringe]

p!atd has been taken out back. the balance has been struck once more

[wylanslcve]

I do not and will not tolerate any form of Matthias Helvar slander.