#wylan is just everything to me

[deviatedfromtheplan]

look at him!!!!! look at this guy and his backpack!!!! he’s probably got his lunchbox in there!!! as well as many deadly weapons!!!!

[wylanslcve]

Reading people's facial expressions has never been my area of expertise but even I could tell you that the only thing going through his head is "whatamIdoingherewhatamIdoingherewhatamIdoinghere"

[kanejbr3kker]

third time reading crooked kingdom and i think i finally understand what's going on

[veerbles]

very curious about public opinion

honestly we all know post ck kaz is putting his whole back into making the council's lives miserable until they stop slavery. but what about the 1/13 of them that is uhhhh maybe like his friend or something (don't ask him to admit this out loud. he won't)

[sparrowmoth]

this is larger than the both of us • [AO3]

Teen | 5.7K | Wesper | Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Found Family

Excerpt:

It was a dangerous business being a mouse, and Wylan many times wished he could be any other creature. He thought this most intensely when shadows swooped above him and he had to dive among the tree roots, hoping against hope there were no snakes in the leaf mould around him—or huge, hairy, horrible spiders—or— He shuddered, trying to calm his racing heart with the promising thought of his prize if he could simply make this journey. It made no sense to go back now, not as far as he’d gone. The scent was getting stronger, more intoxicating. He would taste it soon. Just imagine…

Summary:

A folklore-ish tale of love and misadventure, featuring mouse!Wylan and witch!Jesper, along with two familiar friends.

➵ Read on AO3

P.S. Special thanks to @waterloou for worldbuilding this AU and giving me permission to play in their sandbox, which I so adore.

[aphroditestummyrolls]

If you’re looking to avoid the wild oscillation of mischaracterising wylan van eck (the pendulum between uwu baby and mini kaz), it helps to just… stop blanket-labelling behaviour. Unlearn the idea of something being blank-“coded”— these things are fun and funny when they’re memes, but if you’re writing the character (or ANY character), stop approaching things like a handful of moments with limited context can determine what “type” of person he is.

Like… just let him be a person. Keep his backstory and his motivations throughout your story in mind as you take him from point a to point b to point c, and explore his thoughts and his reactions.

I don’t know, maybe that sounds tedious, but it’s one of my favourite parts of character work, and it’s a pretty huge part of writing. I honestly don’t understand how you can like writing and not want to do that, but I digress. If you’re looking to understand a character more completely, though, it helps to take the TikTok Typology of Characters out of your brain, and see where wylan takes you when you stop judging his every move so hard.

[barrel-crow-n]

Be gay do crime

[ksuhi13]

Me when Nina's stomach growled

[metalandmagi]

IF NETFLIX DOESN'T LET ME SEE MY CHAOTIC SEVENTH CROW SON, I WILL MARCH TO THEIR HEADQUARTERS AND CAST HIM MYSELF!

[tryingforthedelicatehopeofitall]

I am actually crying after watching that scene for like 15 times straight (gay). Everything in that scene just pulls at my heart strings.

Sipping tea (I am assuming it's tea)!!!! Comfy clothes!!! The way they are so comfortably sharing each other's space!!!

The way Wylan opens up to Jesper and tells him that Ketterdam has never really felt like a home. I haven't read the books yet but from the fics I do know that he has had an abusive childhood and his own house surely could have never felt quite like home either.

The way Wylan tries to be so nonchalant while saying “so of course I came back” and then the way he says with conviction that there's no one better than him!!!! I am so proud of him 🥹

And then the way Jesper is listening to him so intently and then makes that key with the coin he was playing around with in his other hand and the twinkling sounds in the background 🥹

It's so obvious that it's a key but Wylan does not assume and asks Jesper what the key opens. The way Wylan is a bit unsure and then hopeful but still processing the information that yes indeed that key is the key to the kingdom inside Jesper's room that could be their home :"",,,)

And I cannot even process that kiss right now. ...

I am just so emotional right now. Wylan and Jesper and their love means so much to me 💙💜💖🫶🏼

[neptune-scythe]

Ngl I always imagined Hellshow much more of like a big gladiator ring vibe with tiered seating instead of tiny ass cage with people standing around outside

[dirtytransmasc]

this post is gonna seem so fucking random, and its really not at all important, tiktok is just being tiktok, and I have something to say that really doesn't mean shit but would get me flamed on that hellsite, and I hate not saying whats on my mind, even when its in my best interest so I'm saying it here, cause I can, just ignore me.

there seems to be this devote group of people in the SoC's fandom (*cough cough* I've only seen them on tiktok, and they're always those types of fans, that just like, care way to much about others opinions. *cough cough*) who hate people who see the dynamic of kaz and wylan as a father/son-esque relationship, like getting all types of mad about it. again it was like 5 or 6 people, but it was enough to make me really think about it and then proceed to get pissy, cause I'm a stubborn asshole at heart who can't just drop something once it's pissed me off, and it really only pissed me off cause someone said interpreting them like that was "infantilizing gay men" and I just... no, please no, that's not at all whats happening, I promise.

so here's my unnecessary two cents, cause I can't just move on;

what would you like me to call their dynamic hmm? kaz is only a bit older in age, but forced himself to mature and take on burdens that make him much older then he is, burdens he won't let anyone take off his shoulders. while he is very much like a mentor or older brother to wylan, trying to be who he needed after losing jordie, his role within the group as a whole puts him into much more of a caretaker role. he's the dad of the group, he is provider and protector, he is the brawny brains so to speak, a very paternal energy as head of the 'family'. he is the protector of his crows, he takes care of them, all of them, in his own fucked up ways, being what they need him to be. he would do anything for them, even if he tries to hide it, and this typically ends up with him in one way or another taking on a nurturing role of sorts (describing this man is so hard, cause his internal vs. external actions are so fucked by his mental state. going above and beyond for him and like bare minimum to the average person, and I don't know how to verbalize it). factor that into the fact that wylan lacks a father figure, a good one at least, he naturally plays that role in a very similar way that an older brother or mentor would fill the void of a younger sibling/mentee. wylan also looks up to and takes after kaz a lot, which points into the father/son-esque vibes. all in all, no they aren't your traditional father/son dynamic, but like, that's the closest simple term I can slap on them, cause I'm not giving this little speech a million times. their dynamic is messy and layered and complicated by both of their metric tons of trauma, paired with the overall found-family/trauma-bond thing those littles shits got going on over there. let them be messy and let me just sat father/son for my sanity, I beg (if someone tells me I'm infantilizing wylan cause he's gay/dyslexic/autistic-coded I'm gonna have a stroke, I just want my boys to be vaguely happy and have some semblance of family alright, and sure, maybe my daddy issues play into it, but that's none of your goddamned business)

please say I'm not the only one to encounter those fans, and please tell me this makes sense to someone, I beg of you.

[kaleidoskuls]

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[natmadethis]

love this little dude, here’s a silly doodle of him since i’ve been obsessed with six of crows recently

[eerna]

Oh lord there are rumors of nikolai and kaz being tailoured to look like each other at some point because there’s one second in the trailer when nikolai’s holding the cane, and now, there’s that introduction snippet of nikolai and the twins, and he seems to be wearing black i’m not liking this because assuming kaz was made to look like nikolai in that shot, he did not have his gloves on 😭

adding yet another fear on my "how badly will SaB butcher the OG SoC storyline" bingo

[ravenousgf]

does anyone have good wesper fic recs i am desperate