#wylan notices

[thief-of-eggs]

Despite focusing a lot of effort on his outward appearance and personal hygiene, I just know that Jesper does not wash his bedsheets.

#he figures if anyone ever happens to actually SEE his bedsheets they’ll be much too preoccupied to notice the state they’re in #wylan notices #of course he does #and he stops to comment on it #jesper fahey #six of crows #soc #the crows #wylan van eck

[neptune-scythe]

We as a society do not talk enough about how Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands himself, the Bastard of the Barrel, carved an entire underground tunnel from his club ... To his besties house

There is no explanation for this other than that he is king softy

Like just imagine how much money that would cost, and how much work. Like sure bro is rich as fuck but like be fr, there is no way he would do all that for crime and gang business, it's just not practical. Like take the surface roads it costs nothing and it's probably not that much slower

Like bro fr just wanted a secret short cut so he could drop in on his babes whenever he wants and never be seen by the masses

Got a reputation to uphold after all

Can't have the pigeons seeing Dirtyhands taking another trip to the Geldstraat to visit his favourite boys

#there is also no heterosexual or monogamous explanation for this #but as a diehard aroace i can find several #i just prefer to ignore them in this instance #bros are gay #they so gay bro had to build a whole underground tunnel to see his boyfs #alternatively hes just a softy and wanted to check up on them without them noticing #cuz god forbid they catch him caring #gotta be sneaky #im literally just projecting at this point #the entire tags are just projection #why are the tags a whole post in themselves #reply with a crow emoji if you read all these tags #for science #grishaverse #six of crows #kaz brekker #dirtyhands #the bastard of the barrel #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wylan hendriks #wesper #Kazper #kazlan #polycrows #jesper x wylan #jesper x kaz #kaz x Wylan #jesper x kaz x wylan

[the-wraiths-wife]

Am I the only one who thinks Kaz Brekker is like the boss baby??

@jccatstudios @she-posts-nerdy-stuff @bookworm-center @wraith--2

#that's literally the same person #twinning #i was re-watching this with ny brood of siblings when i noticed #the fact that theyre scarily alike #go re-watch the movie #six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #kanej #grishaverse #nina zenik #shadow and bone #wylan van eck #kazbrekker #incorrect shadow and bone #soc incorrect quotes

[lilisouless]

You know, I like how the ships had “their thing”

Kanej got the hands shots

Malina got the tender nose rubs

Wesper got the best stares

Genya and David got the prettiest words

And Zoyalai got a fandom patient as fuck

I wanted to end this up with the joke but i’d be just like netflix if i ignore how the girls got…well, sidelined, that’s what they got

#i did wanted the post to be wholesome but… #i remembered the girls #like Leigh’s writing on them was already lazy as hell but dam #netflix shadow and bone #and if you notice one ship is missing i didn’t forgot #I’ll recognize it’s existence until i stop being mad over Nina’s writing #Kanej #malina #wesper #genyavid #Zoyalai #tamadia #jesper fahey #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #wylan van eck #alina starkov #mal oretsev #genya safin #david kostyk #zoya nazyanelsky #nikolai lanstov #tamar kir bataar #nadia zhabin

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Jesper: Went for a hike with Wylan, turns out my Merchling is not built for the outdoors

Wylan: *Though deep breaths* You tried to assassinate me… with… the… sun

#wylan is anaemic #he gets out of breath easy #but being wylan he was too stubborn to say anything until he was almost crawling #jesper and his adhd brain was too busy going on about nature to notice wylan dying #soc #soc incorrect quotes #six of crows #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wesper

[bitchthefuck1]

It's always so funny to me when people call Kaz a serial killer or a murderer bc like. boy do I have news for you about the other crows.

#like idk how to tell you this bestie but every single one of them has a kill count. yes even wylan. #prime example of getting so caught up in the aesthetics or character types that you miss the actual reality of what happens in #a story #also i'm not sure serial killer is even an accurate description #similar to when people started referring to inej as an assassin. like bestie that is straight up not what she does. and if it was she's #doing a terrible job. the books tell you a million times that she's a spy #to be clear this isn't an 'uwu kaz did nothing wrong' post esp bc most of the time when ppl call him this they're not actually criticizing #his actions. it's just a pattern i noticed. if anything its a 'stop sanitizing the rest of the crows' post. #but it is interesting to me that kaz is the only character that people will really joke about having killed people #something something you've bought into the dirtyhands legend #i feel like i've made some version of this post in the past but i don't remember so you're hearing it again #six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #matthias helvar #nina zenik

[skepticalcatfrog]

""Say goodbye, Miss Hendriks!” urged the nurse.

Marya’s lips moved, but this time Wylan was close enough to hear what she muttered. Van Eck." -Crooked Kingdom, Chapter 14

#she is one of the most tragic characters in the whole grishaverse #i cried while i read chapter 14 #six of crows #crooked kingdom #leigh bardugo #wylan van eck #wylan hendriks #marya hendriks #marya van eck #grishaverse #also if anyone notices the one major sneaky detail i put in ill love you forever #also I KNOW ive put quotes for my last two captions #but this book is art and also poetry

[barrel-crow-n]

Kaz has three animal motifs all to himself

The Crow

The Dog

The Shark

The Crow

This one is the most apparent. It's his symbol, the sign of his gang, the tattoo on his arm, the name of his crew, the bird that nests around his territory.

The crow represents many things: death, danger, misfortune and illness. Kaz identifies with all of these, and uses them as his armour. He brings and causes death, he is dangerous, it is people's misfortune to cross him, he allegedly causes people's flesh to wither and die at his touch. However, it also describes his life. Everyone he has cared about has died, he lives in constant danger in the Barrel, misfortune caused him to catch the plague, be mistaken for dead, thrown on the Barge, and lose his brother. He became ill with the Queen's Lady Plague and "died". But crows also represent: rebirth, self-reflection, intelligence, and loyalty. Kaz was reborn in the Ketterdam harbour. He decided to never love again to never hurt again, believing love to be the cause of loss. He's scarily intelligent, probably the smartest man in the city. His gang is loyal and his crew is loyal - he gathers people around him that will never betray him. Jesper, his second that will do anything Kaz says. Inej, the girl who would kill a dozen men to protect him.

Also: "Crows remember the faces of the people who wronged them. But they also remember those that were kind. They tell each other who to watch out for, and who to look after." Kaz remembers everyone who has ever wronged him and goes after them in a bloody quest for vengeance, but he also looks after his people.

He is deeply associated with the crow, but he also personally relates to it.

The Dog

One of his nicknames is "Per Haskell's rabid dog" and he has all of the qualities that the dog symbolises.

Dogs symbolise: guidance, protection, loyalty, fidelity, faithfulness, alertness, and love, strength, courage, and tenacity.

Guidance: Kaz is a leader. He's a gang leader, he's the leader of the crows. He makes the plans and finds the resolutions of problems and difficulties that they face. But he also helps others, in his own way. He never judges Nina for what she did to Matthias, and not only does he focus more on what Wylan can do instead of what he can't, he gives him advice. He tells Wylan that he should not be ashamed, that shame eats men whole, that he doesn't need to be able to read to be valuable.

Protection: Kaz is very protective. When Inej got stabbed, he killed a dozen men and carried her all the way to safety despite his limp. He has his crew's back in a fight. He offers safety and protection to his gang: threatening retaliation if one of his own is hurt. He gives Wylan his father's empire. He lies for Jesper to Colm and refuses to give Jesper the parem. He looks after his own.

Loyalty: Kaz is committed to the Dregs. They are his gang and he does his best to look after them. He made their revenue, makes them money, insulates the house, pays for the water. He looks after them in a fight, too. And of course, he expects the loyalty back.

Fidelity: He is exclusively loyal to his gang, and his friends. When Pekka says that he offers a Kaz a place in the Dime Lions Kaz deadpans that he'd rather "be roasted on a spit with Van Eck turning the handle". This is partly because he utterly despises Pekka, but it is also partly that the Dregs are his people. He may not exactly see them as a family but he cannot deny that that is what they are. "Did Muzzen have any family?" "Just the Dregs." Kaz admits that the Dregs are a family, and Inej says that Per Haskell was a little like a father to Kaz, and Kaz like a son to Haskell. He wouldn't betray them.

Faithfulness: He is true to his word and never breaks a promise once he has given it.

Alertness: Kaz is always alert. He's always ready for a fight, or for something to go wrong.

Love: At Kaz's core, he deeply believes in love. His motivation for revenge was not that he got conned out of money, it was the loss of his brother and the feeling of betrayal that Pekka caused by pretending to replace the family he had lost, only to snatch everything away. Whenever he threatens someone, he threatens to hurt their loved ones, because he believes it's the worst kind of pain - he experienced it himself. He loves Inej so much that he's willing to try and better himself for her. He accidentally calls Jesper by his dead brother's name.

Strength: Kaz is strong - physically, emotionally, and mentally. Physically, he dangled a clerk by the legs from the top of a light house for an extended period of time, fought a whole gang on his own, and many other feats. He can handle running and fighting even when he is in agony. Emotionally, he manages to maintain a poker face at everything and almost nothing fazes him; when something does, he doesn't dwell on the pain, but on how to get revenge or how to save the person being hurt. Mentally, he managed to push past the trauma and swim back to shore from the Reaper's Barge using his dead brother's body as a raft. He was able to try and push past the trauma to try loving Inej.

Courage: Kaz is brave, and strong in the face of pain and grief. He went and fought the Dregs on his own, has survived so much and still kept going.

Tenacity: Kaz never stops. He's persistent and he won't ever quit. He doesn't quit on his revenge at Pekka, he doesn't quit even when the Dregs nearly kill him in the Slat fight. He keeps trying until he gets what he wants.

The Shark

Kaz's eyes are often compared to that of a shark: black and cold. He also has the qualities that the shark is a symbol for.

The shark symbolises: power, superiority, authority, focus, determination, adaptability, and self-confidence.

Kaz has a lot of power. He is now the king of the Barrel and very rich. He's the leader of his gang and no longer has a boss. No one tells him what to do. He's superior to most in the Barrel - more ruthless, more driven but also, ironically enough, morally superior. Not just in the Barrel, but to more socially acceptable people. He doesn't deal with slavers and despises the skin trade. He is actively against slavers and bawds. Kaz also has a lot of authority. He's the leader, and the Dregs and the Crows follow his orders without question.

Kaz is very focused. Mainly on revenge. He has nothing else in his life, just that primal urge to take down Pekka Rollins. He is also determined in this focus yielding results. He doesn't give up. Ever. Even when everything is falling down around his head, he finds a way to flip it around and end up in control again.

Kaz is extremely adaptable. He became what he had to be to survive the Barrel. He became cruel and mean and ruthless because that's what it took to survive the Barrel. When something goes wrong on a job he always has a spare plan and when those run out (which is rarely) he is good at improvisation. He can turn even what seems like an utter loss, into a win.

Kaz is very self-confident. Arrogant, too. He knows that he's good at, and exactly how skilled he is at what he does. He confidently went to the Slat and fought a dozen gang members, he broke into the Ice Court - one of the most impenetrable strongholds in the world, he's confident in his plans, and he knows how to make people stand down, bring them to their knees. He uses people's loved ones against them because everyone has someone they love that he can use, this has no exceptions. Sure, he failed to use Wylan against Van Eck, but he managed with Alys. Using people's loved ones is absolutely a good technique and he knows it. He knows he's skilled in fighting, blackmail, breaking and entering, etc. and he's confident in his abilities.

#he is also a cat cuz he hisses when you approach and won't let you pet him but when you start to show love he goes. oh. that's nice #also he asks for attention in funny ways like breaking into wylan's house and pushing wine glasses off of tables #the dog one is really detailed because at first glance kaz doesn't really display those qualities #but he really really does #also notice how none of them are prey animals #and can be associated with death #kaz brekker #six of crows #six of crows duology #animal motif #i LOVE animal motifs

[skeptical-scribbles]

Birds for your viewing pleasure

(Check out the updated version of this drawing!)

#six of crows #crooked kingdom #grishaverse #leigh bardugo #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wesper #nina zenik #matthias helvar #helnik #click for better quality obviously #please notice the little teeny tiny details #my art #fan art #digital art

[sleepless-crows]

oh nothing, just ketterdam

#grishaverse #six of crows #soc #crooked kingdom #shadow and bone #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #nina zenik #matthias helvar #i notice wylan isnt here but these are just the ones im mostly sure happen in ketterdam #shadow and bone netflix #netflix shadow and bone #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone s2 #shadow and bone season two #sab season 2 #sab s2 #sab netflix #sab

[goblinthefrog]

On top of my love for neurodivergent show SaB Wylan, Kit’s playing of Jesper is also so perfect. The way that he so easily accepts Wylan for who he is is amazing.

He listens to Wylan’s rants about his interests, no matter what they are, and tries to continue communication in the process. While Jesper doesn’t particularly care for the butterflies, Wylan does and he wants to do what will make Wylan happy and expresses that exactly. He also tried to compliment Wylan whenever he could.

He shows pride in him in a way Wylan has never experienced before. He calls him a genius and he means it. He proudly exclaims that Wylan is his when he thinks of throwing the bomb at the Nichevo’ya (even if it didn’t work for long). He also silently stares in wonder after Wylan plays the piano for Alby, a skill that Wylan father always looked down upon in the books.

He sees Wylan as endearing, but not in the way a lot of TV likes to express neurodivergent characters, as if they are akin to children. Wylan is, as I like to believe, autistic but they doesn’t infantilize him. He didn’t know what Kaz was going to get him into, but once he learned he decided to stick around on his own and became an important part of their crew. I also appreciate the illusion to sex scenes, it further expresses the idea that Wylan is not a child but a grown man in a serious relationship.

#six of crows #six of crows wylan #shadow and bone #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #kaz brekker #wesper #shadow and bone season 2 #their relationship is so good #notice how this started out about Jesper but ended as me blurbing about Wylan again

[miss-fabrikator]

✨peacock wylan✨

#am i the only one who noticed this- #shadow & bone #six of crows #grishaverse #s&b #shadow and bone #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone s2 #wesper #jez #soc jesper #jesper fahey #jesper #jack wolfe #peacock wylan #wylan van sunshine #wylan van eck #wylan #kit young #ketterdam #crooked kingdom #s&b cast #bi king

[lpa6zn]

yessss! Wesper❤️‍🩹🥹

#Shadow and Bone you can't post this on a Friday afternoon without any prior notice #my little heart is not so strong #them are so cuteeeee😭 #i love these two #shadow and bone #grishaverse #six of crows #shadow and bone s2 #shadow and bone spoilers #wesper #wylan hendriks #wylan van eck #jack wolfe #jesper fahey #kit young

[jeremysknoxes]

of course your disappointed

#didn’t notice this before #six of crows #crooked kingdom #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wesper #jesper x wylan #six of crows jesper #jesper my beloved #wylan my beloved #soc jesper #wylan van sunshine

[thechaoticrow]

unpopular but necessary opinion: people that headcanon wylan as transmasc and also see him as the “van sunshine” uwu smol bean baby crow to be protected need to take a second look at if they really think he’s transmasc or if they just refuse to see trans men as real men

#trans #as a transmasc person i’m just saying #it’s a little suspicious #notice your micro aggressions people #wylan hendriks #wylan #he is a literal bomb maker #he is not your uwu bean #six of crows #kaz brekker #grishaverse #shadow and bone #jesper fahey #wesper #transgender #transmasc #crow club

[drowinginaseaoftears]

Can we talk about how Kaz Brekker could have easily actually buried Alby Rollins, and he certainly would have, If Wylan wouldn't have talked to him about how Alby shouldn't pay for Pekka Rollins crimes.

He even made it look like Alby was actually buried (and that he was at Black veil when pekka got arrested). while actually burying him would not have been to much extra work.

That's why I love him, he may be the Basterd of the Barrel, Dirtyhands. But somewhere deel deep deep deep deep down he has a heart. Small and shriveled up, but a heart nonetheless

#i have not read the books yet #this is all from what I've seen in the show #but i noticed it #and I don't see people talking about it #kaz brekker #wylan van eck #baz krekker #kazzle dazzle #wylan van sunshine #s&b netflix #the crows