#wylan: THEN SAY THAT

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Jesper: I love when our son forces Wylan to bake with him because its the one thing Wylan is a teeny tiny bit not good at and its so funny to watch

Wylan: Ive never been more stressed in my life

Jesper: You’ve got flour on your forehead

Wylan: Ghezen

[dasiesanddarkness]

whenever people say that they dont think the crows act like teenagers i have to laugh because. like. as a teenager. they do. they're relatively mature because they're all severely traumatized and had to grow up fast (also because considering the time period it's based on it's completely reasonable for younger kids to be expected to do more) but they still act like teenagers. i've seen a bunch of people mention the "my ghost wont associate with your ghost" convo and "pay someone to pay someone to burn your kruge" but also, Jesper makes multiple sex jokes. Inej purposefully takes the harder route Kaz can't handle so he'll let her go alone. Wylan complains about pretty much everything. Nina spends most of the first book needling and pissing off her ex because she enjoys it. Kaz spends half his energy trying to be mysterious and cool. Matthias calls Kaz a demon for most of the books because he doesn't like him. Kuwei uses the fact that he looks like his crush's crush to kiss his crush. he also pretends he doesn't know Kerch because he didnt want to talk to people.

and, hands down the most teenager scene in the entire duology, Kaz and Jesper get in an argument and start a fucking fist fight. they are literally rolling on the ground punching each other. and everyone just fucking stands there. watching. Wylan wants someone to stop them but no one does. because they're not actively trying to kill each other. so whatever its fine. and then afterwards they're besties again. that is how 99% of the fights at my school go my dude, they are SUCH teenagers.

[dragonqueenstormwitch]

how i sleep at night knowing that kaz turned the emerald palace into another gambling hall for the dregs and named it after his friends

[sprnklersplashes]

reading six of crows is like.... you read exchanges like the "my ghost won't associate with your ghost" or "pay someone to pay someone to pay someone to burn your kruge" and your lol "aw, they really are just kids". and then you watch them be thrust into life or death situations or the book slows down and sits with the weight of their unspeakable trauma or they tally up the things they have done to survive and you sort of sit back and whisper to yourself, "oh... they're just kids."

[thelastbatwings]

my favourite crooked kingdom scene ever is the one where kaz is like "omg wylan did you really think you could get away with lying to me you poor fool" bc its like. kaz. Babe. baby girl. he did get away with it, multiple times

[i-cant-think-of-anything-to-say]

Leigh Bardugo had to make Wylan and Kuwei enemies because she knew they'd be too powerful as allies

a wylan-kuwei duo could destory the world as we know it

[solemnswearings]

rereading six of crows at seventeen is such a strange experience. like on one hand i relate to these characters, but on the other they’re out here committing intense crimes and pulling off impossible heists while i’m writing fan fiction in my room and struggling to get through the school year with my sanity intact. like.

[bookishwords]

maybe a percentage of that 30 million kruge should go to therapy

[calamity-crows]

Kaz, talking to Wylan: They're trying to lure me into a false sense of security! Well, joke’s on them! I’ve never been secure in my life! And I’m not about to start now!

[barrel-crow-n]

The "Wylan should learn how to read" thing irks me because a huge part of his arc was learning to accept that this was just something that he couldn't do, and that it can't be fixed and that he shouldn't live in shame over it.

Wylan just can't read. Van Eck tried everything. And true, at one point it would get stressful but Van Eck was a kind father at first. It's not about getting a new teacher, it's just something Wylan can't do.

A big part of his growth was learning to accept that. And Kaz is a big part of this.

Kaz is the first person not to scorn Wylan for his dyslexia. Kaz is the first person to just genuinely not care.

Kaz was the one that told Wylan that his weakness was never his disability but his shame surrounding it. He normalised the disability for Wylan, made it a small deal. It's still a part of Wylan, but not as life shattering as his father had always made it out to be.

It can be inconvenient (taking double the time to read the papers at Smeet's office) but it can be worked around. In fact, I believe taking Wylan to Smeets office was for Wylan's benefit. "I knew how long this was going to take" - dismissing Wylan's shame that Wylan is slowing him down. Reassuring him, in his own way, that it's okay. That it's not that big of a deal. It's not even really a problem.

"I didn't hire you to read." Wylan doesn't need to have the ability to read to get on well in life, despite Van Eck's opinions, and Kaz decides to show Wylan that. He decides so because that's what people said about his limp. That a disabled boy with a bad leg will die in the Barrel.

Kaz could get a healer for his leg, hell, Genya offered. But he declined. Why? Because he refuses to be ashamed. Because this is what he is and he won't change that. "It had become a declaration. There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken."

He becomes a boy to be dreaded despite the limp, no, with it. His cane is his weapon. It's not a weakness, it's also a strength. It's not fear the boy despite the limp it's fear the boy with the limp.

And I believe Kaz was truly one of the most important people in Wylan's life because he did that. He showed Wylan not to be ashamed. That he can be powerful not despite the disability, but with it. That what Wylan can do is more important than what he can't and I don't think Wylan will ever forget that.

[jpg-of-dorian-slay]

[rainforcsts]

they hate it when you serve light-haired genius with a neurodevelopmental disorder of sorts who's the child of a terrible father, who's also a famous rich businessman, and is more or less kicked out from your family because of your neurodevelopmental disorder. oh and also, the terrible father has a replacement kid who's neurotypical

[mynxk]

Crows: Kaz, remember when you said you weren’t going to interfere with my love life?

Kaz: No, that doesn’t sound like me at all.

[lilyimmsim]

the crows would have absolutely loved monopoly

[multi-fandom-bi]

Kaz: I don't see "hurt people, hurt people" as a saying

Kaz: I see it as a motto

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Wylan: If you take it literally, “Last Christmas” by Wham is a song about organ donation from the POV of a ghost

Kaz: I just want you to stop saying odd shit