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I hate that no one else knows my friends ocs. I’m shaking about their arcs and character lore and I have to keep this shit to myself?!!

I CAN ONLY DRAW FANART SO FAST

#this is a cruel injustice #THEY NEED TO KNOW #friends ocs

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What if the Crows travelled back in time, accidentally saved Kaz' father's life, and came back to a future where Kaz is a farmboy with a family while the rest of them suffer in Ketterdam?

What if they visited him on the farm and discovered that Kaz Rietveld is even more punchable than Kaz Brekker? What then?

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“If it were a trick, I’d promise you safety. I’d offer you happiness. I don’t know if that exists in the Barrel, but you’ll find none of it with me.”

This was one instance i ended up liking the lineart way better than the rendered version lol I kept tweaking and working on it more but still couldn't quite capture what I had in mind so oh well

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Art requests from Instagram!!

#art #artist #oc #artwork #artistoninsta #characterart #artistoninstagram #ocart #sketch #halffictionalocs

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Love that all the crows are like "I wear dark colors because i have a tragic past and I'm sad inside" and then Jesper is just like "I have a tragic past and I'm sad inside but that's not gonna stop me from wearing the freshest most dope-ass 'fits you ever did see"

#he understands how to serve cunt #trauma is nothing compared to the bit #hes so precious #just a silly lil guy #jesper fahey #six of crows #six of crows duology #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #nina zenik #wylan hendriks

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gaming!!! 🦁 - -

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🪬🐦‍⬛The Storyweaver🐦‍⬛🪬

Guys I know Art isn’t in this batch, but spare me, she’ll be in the next! I did more silly lol lighting and color concepts!

Now, people who know me know I have problems when it comes to going insane and adding symbolism and silly lil Easter eggs:) so here’s some that are in each/a color code that you can use from here on out to recognize what a picture means!

1)we have Cassidy just after betraying her whole unit! Orange is the color I use for lies while green is for memories/familiarity! And Keola is commonly represented by sunflowers:3

2)smol Noir in her palace room before his reality was destroyed! Lots of yellow bc even then Noir was living a lie:)

3)Dawn needs more genuine connection that isn’t just to a cat.

4)smol Dawn and Noir! Noir used to worry a lotttt about Dawn and their uhhh…darker habits. Deep down he was glad they were so brutal though. It meant he was safe.

5)If Dawn is YOUR ENEMY, then why do you only have the blue connection color with them???🙄🙄 red means lonliness and yettt Phoenix always has blue with Dawn

6)Keola and Noir serve cunt together. Sometimes Noir just befriends the enemy because it’s a more strategic safety measure. They keep work out of their conversations and Noir can’t remember Keola’s voice or face, but they have fun times:)

#thestoryweaver #halffictionalocs #sw_dawn #sw_noir #sw_cassidy #sw_Keola #art #oc #ocart #artist #artwork #artistoninsta #look at them #characterart #artistoninstagram #i will post like people know my ocs #oc story #oc artwork

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Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

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shes climbing your dashboard

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do i ship these characters or do i want them to form a sketch comedy duo

#puts my little freaks in the same enclosure #now entertain me

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I love my own ocs sm I actually go a little insane about them. Especially now that I’ve figured out how I want to use colors thematically, so I can draw stuff like this where orange means lies and deceit and green means memories so you have the sweetest fucking picture and then those who know™️ get a gut punch

#I will post like people know my ocs #you can’t stop me #this is my blorbo #she is so silly #and sad #little miss traitor #art #artist #oc #artwork #sketch

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These are professional criminals

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girlfriends ☆

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its so unfortunate when different peoples neurodivergent traits clash horribly. like yes i totally understand that the man at the other table cant control his stimming and loud vocal tics and i think he deserves to have a nice day out at a restaraunt without judgement. however if i dont remove myself from the audible vicinity in the next 20 seconds i will explode.

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Some silly oc doodles except I added a lot of oc lore:3 fun fact, each color represents something!

#halffictionalocs #my dumbass #look at them #theyre so silly #art #artist #oc #artwork #artistoninsta

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My deepest fear for my ocs, actually

Sorry we put your autistic boyfriend in the fandom and they completely infantilised him. Sorry yeah he's an innocent baby who's never even heard of a sex and doesn't know a single swearword now. Yeah they're treating him like the team kid and calling his friends his parents I'm so sorry about this. Yeah I know he's committed felonies in canon but it doesn't matter it's too late now I'm sorry

#i would actually cry #it would be funny though #because he’s a 6 and a half foot tall man #who’s killed people #aww #he’s so silly #no that man is a fiend #who just so happens #to hate bright lights #oc

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Random SOC Trivia I Gathered On My Reread

I'll be using this for fics, but it's fun just to read!

Jesper does not hold alcohol well (though this is according to Kaz, who is not exactly impartial)

Wijnstraat, Nemstraat, Havenstraat, Ammberstraat are all street names if you want em

Van Eck has been involved in trying to clean up the Barrel; pious. (Allegedly pious, I doubt he really is)

1/5 Van Eck (or general Kerch trading?) vessels are lost at sea

Kaz arrested three times at ten, twice at eleven, once at fourteen. Does stints in jail but it does not say prison (ppl assume he's been to Hellgate / another prison but I don't think so. He'd never have shut the fuck up about it if he had; I assume the Stadhall Jail)

Kaz's cane is lead-lined. I wasn't sure if this was canon or fanon

Kaz runs book on prize fights, horses, and chance games. Floor boss at crow club since fifteen-ish. Youngest to run a betting shop and has doubled the profits.

Gambling halls: Treasure Chest, Golden Bend, Weddell's Riverboat, Silver Garter

West Stave brothels: The Blue Iris, The Forge, The Obscura, the Willow Switch, the House of Snow

Van Aakster is the widow mercher who sees Nina to ease his grief

Inej likes orange cakes in white paper

Black Tips tattoo is a hand with first and second fingers cut at the knuckle, Razorgulls is 5 birds in wedge formation

Nina Jesper and Kaz definitely all have the crow and cup; the others don't

Jordie seems to like books

ridderspel and spijker are arcade games

Bilge, clams, and wet stone smell in the Barrel (per Retvenko)

Kaz definitely is partial to dogs; Smeet's hounds and the grey dog the Hertzoon household had, the windup dogs, the metaphors. He loves a dog metaphor sorry ur not real babycakes you'd have loved thematic web weaving posts

Geldspin is the cotton mill in Zierfoort, Firma Allerbest is a cannery. Both in Alys' name

Wylan was 8 when Marya 'died'

the black veil tomb is carved like an ancient cargo ship

3 flying fish on a grave: government. Palm trees and snakes: spices.

Inej's mother braids her hair with orange ribbons (colour of persimmons)

University a series of buildings built around the Boekcanal and joined by Speaker's Bridge (where people debate and/or drink). Boeksplein four libraries built around a central courtyard and the Scholar's Fountain

Shipping container at third harbour is a Liddie hideout; Jam Tart House is an old hotel near the slat that the Razorgulls use

Long scar across Kaz's right knuckle

Violating contracts and interfering with the market can get you hanged in Kerch; same sentences as for murder (this is. Insane)

Haskell holds court with his mates at the Fair Weather Inn every week

Belendt is the second oldest Kerch city and sits on the Droombeld River

Jesper was 7 when Aditi died

Inej has an uncle (who seems to have some sort of ringmaster role) and cousins; Hanzi and Asha

Kaz convinced a locksmith in Klokstraat that he was the son of a wealthy merchant who highly valued his collection of priceless snuffboxes, and that's how he knows what locks the rich are using

Hubrecht Mohren, Master Thief of Pijl, who Kaz doesn't appear to think much of; one of Haskell's old cronies

Martin Van Eck, Wylan's great great grandfather, was a ship's captain, brought back a big shipment of spices from Eames Chin and started the Van Eck fortune

Kaz and Jesper (+ other Dregs boys) taught Inej to fight

Kaz and Jordie are from a town near Lij, as per the 'Johannus Rietveld' exposition, but Lij is seemingly the closest major city/county so it's easier to just say they're from Lij lol

The last time the Council of Tides appeared in public was 25 years prior to CK

Kaz found Filip running a monte game on Kelstraat; he also got the clerks who turned over fake info, the fake attorney, the man who gave them free hot chocolate

The spelling of Zentzbridge lapses to Zentsbridge, not sure which is right or if they're actually separate bridges or if there's a lot of wrong quotes floating around lol

Dryden house symbol is the golden wheat sheaf bound with a blue ribbon; Van Eck is the red laurel but we knew that

Kaz taught himself finance and gambling hall rules

Church of Barter roof is copper and long has turned green

Church of Barter built around the First Forge / The Mortar, which is a flat lump of rock that's supposedly Ghezen's altar

Ghezendaal Hospital is. Idk. a hospital. Just thought ppl might want the name