#wesper being pretty love songs and kanej being Depression in a Song

[vernesatlas]

six of crows ships x folklore

i assign songs from miss taylor swift’s folklore album to kanej, wesper and helnik, because pain is infinite and inescapable. (will be changing some of miss swift’s original meanings to fit the ships)

wesper - mirrorball

a song about expectations, insecurities, but also about how there’s a special someone you’ll always shine for. a pure, beautiful song for them but also with a bit of angst.

i'll show you every version of yourself tonight/  i'll get you out on the floor/ shimmering beautiful- they both bring out the best in each other 

hush/ when no one is around, my dear/ you’ll find me on my tallest tiptoes/ spinning in my highest heels, love/ shining just for you- intimately they both show each other their real selves (e.g. wylan confessing that he has dyslexia, the Scene preceding their first kiss)

i can change everything about me to fit in- jesper is a grisha but he pretends not to be one in order to fit in with the dregs (and also not to get fucking killed but ok) and wylan hides his dyslexia out of fear that he would be shamed

you are not like the regulars/ the masquerade revelers- they are both accustomed to a certain lifestyle; jesper the dirty streets of the staves and wylan the luxurious though unhappy life he lived with his father. and jesper thinking that wylan “looked like he’d fallen into a wrong story, a prince turned pauper”.

helnik - exile

pretty self-explanatory title. by all accounts almost a perfect song for them. describes their relationship after nina’s betrayal and matthias gets locked up in hellgate (nina, probably: oops)

 you’re not my homeland anymore/ so what am i defending now?/ you were my town/ now i’m in exile seeing you out- matthias having a big ol’ crisis over his loyalty to his country vs this hot grisha who threw him into jail. him not knowing where his place is anymore

i’m not your problem anymore/ so who am i offending now?/ you were my crown/ now i’m in exile seeing you out- nina’s persperctive: “ok dumb fjerdan i’m not here to make you angry now u happy?” but still feeling that she has lost something by betraying matthias

all this time/ we��ve always walked a very thin line/ you didn’t even hear me out/ you never gave a warning sign- their relationship as allies being precarious from the start as... well because one of them was a grisha and the other hunts grisha for a living. nina betraying matthias in order to protect matty boy but matthias only being angry (you didn’t even hear me out) and matthias being caught off guard at the moment of betrayal (you never gave a warning sign)

kanej - peace & hoax

ah finally. the reason i made this post. these songs are actually made for them. and i might be cheating a little here since it’s two songs but i always saw them as a combined duo. and also because they’re the saddest songs in the whole album.

peace

but i’m a fire and i’ll keep your brittle heart warm/ if your cascade ocean wave blues come- they keep each other “warm” by their own ways, protecting each other from trauma and hurt. “brittle heart” reminds me of kaz so deeply.

all these people think love’s for show/ but i would die for you in secret- seems like something they would say to each other, especially kaz with all his dramatic bullshit.

would it be enough if i could never give you peace?- mostly kaz fearing that his love wasn’t good enough for inej and always fearing that his love for her would put them in danger

give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other- they often sit together in silence, e.g. when kaz is working in his office and inej is outside his window feeding the crows. the intimacy and understanding that they have is perfectly portrayed by this line.

hoax

my twisted knife/ my sleepless night/ my winless fight- all motifs related to kanej. first one obviously inej, the last two pointing to kaz and all his vengeance

don’t want no other shade of blue but you/ no other sadness in the world would do- reminds me of inej saying that she will have kaz without armor or she will not have him at all. they want each other, trauma and all, and nothing else can replace that

my best laid plan/ your sleight of hand- also motifs, this time reminding me of kaz

you know it still hurts underneath my scars/ from when they pulled me apart- both of their traumas hidden under their “scars”, both figuratively and literally. 

and thus concludes my post on using my education on writing about fictional people. i would also very much like to do an evermore one. possibly. 

[vernesatlas]

six of crows ship x evermore

back again with assigning songs from evermore to soc ships. folklore one posted previously, read that too if you want.

kanej - cowboy like me

i’m convinced ms swift actually wrote this song for them. i don’t think explanation is even needed.

i've got some tricks up my sleeve/ takes one to know one/ you're a cowboy like me- “tricks up my sleeve” referring to kaz being a master of sleight of hand and generally a conniving mastermind, and the latter is them similarly being people made from trauma and hurt

never wanted love/ just a fancy car- love was the farthest thing from their minds; kaz wanted revenge (and money) and inej wanted a boat so she could leave this shit

you’re a cowboy like me/ perched in the dark/ telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear- they are both “perched in the dark” in different ways; inej literally because she is THE Wraith, kaz metaphorically, hiding in the shadows, biding his time for vengeance. kaz swindles the “rich folks” by feeding them lies and double-crossing them like six thousand times.

you're a bandit like me/ eyes full of stars/ hustling for the good life/ never thought I'd meet you here- they’re both bandits and thieves and criminals, and kaz definitely has thought about inej’s eyes more than he would ever admit. they met unexpectedly, through the dirty streets of ketterdam.

it could be love/ we could be the way forward/ and i know i’ll pay for it- kaz and inej has a tentative relationship, both of them knowing that if this turns into love it may have repercussions and dangers

and the skeletons in both our closets/ plotted hard to fuck this up- they have secrets and bad pasts that could potentially ruin their beginning 

i’m never gonna love again- because they’ll only love each other, no one else :)

wesper - gold rush

once again wesper has the pretty love songs because it’s what they deserve <3 and it’s so fitting for them simply because of the pure chemistry (ahem, get it?... sorry) and magnetism between them, which is perfectly embodied in this song.

 gleaming/ twinkling/ eyes like sinking ships on waters- jesper describing wylan’s eyes as “clear-water blue”. and “gleaming, twinkling” makes me think of jesper when he’s teasing wylan

but i don’t like a gold rush/ i don’t like anticipating my face in a red flush- wylan’s tendency to blush everytime jesper says something remotely suggestive

i don’t like that anyone would die to feel your touch/ everybody wants you/ everybody wonders what it would be like to love you- wylan: *looks at kuwei*

walk past/ quick brush/ i don’t like slow motion double vision in rose blush/ i don’t like that falling feels likes flying till the bone crush- them being extremely in love with each other (what’s new), and jesper mentioning that wylan made him “feel like a kite on a tether, lifted up and then plummeting down, and he liked it.”

what must it be like/ to grow up that beautiful?/ with your hair falling into place like dominos- i imagine jesper is fairly obsessed with wylan’s curls because... who wouldn’t be? 

and the coastal town/ we wandered 'round had never/ seen a love as pure as it- the coastal town being ketterdam, and i like thinking about the locals staring at wesper and going “they’re so adorable...”

helnik - evermore

now... this brings a bit of pain...  i don’t know why i keep giving helnik such sad songs since they’re not the most depressing ship but... it just fits them so well. also, crooked kingdom (major one) + king of scars/ rule of wolves (not so major) spoilers. don’t read if you treasure your spoilers chastity.

gray november/ i’ve been down since july- thinking about nina in king of scars, still mourning the loss of matthias, still heartbroken while undercover

i replay my footsteps on each stepping stone/ trying to find the one where I went wrong- nina having guilt and self-loath over matthias’ death, replaying his death over and over again.

and I couldn't be sure/ i had a feeling so peculiar/ that this pain would be for/ evermore- when matthias died nina lost a part of herself, and she was in a lot of pain

hey december/ guess I'm feeling unmoored/ can't remember/ what I used to fight for- in the start of kos nina was undercover, trying to find out a new meaning, trying to find something she has to live for

can’t not think of all the cost/ and the things that will be lost/ can’t we just get a pause?/ to be certain we’ll be tall again/ whether weather be the frost/ or the violence of the dog days/ i’m on waves out being tossed/ is there a line i could just go cross?- also nina being disoriented and lost when she lost matthias, trying to heal (”can’t we just get a pause?”), trying to remove the pain from her heart (”is there a line i could just go cross?”)

and when i was shipwrecked/ i thought of you/ in the cracks of light/ i dreamed of you/ it was real enough/ to get me through/ but i swear/ you were there-  i like to think that this was a shift to matthias’ pov. when the drüskelle ship sank and they were literally shipwrecked, then when matthias was jailed in hellgate and he constantly dreamt about nina (and also about killing her but we don’t talk about that), it was thinking about nina which kept him surviving. and ofc the notorious chapter 40. and then nina doing the same (thinking about matty) when she was in turn “shipwrecked” (lost matty), and him being the only thing that kept her living.

and i couldn’t be sure/ but i had a feeling so peculiar/ that this pain wouldn’t be for/ evermore- an echo, during rule of wolves when she realised she was in love with hanne and saw that the pain of losing matthias could be healed 

thanks for reading! my brain capacity has depleted. have a nice day crying. <3