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The thing is, Inej knows she’s going to get the information out of him. Kaz knows she’s going to get the information out of him. But they have to do this little song and dance first because Kaz was never properly socialized.

What's the matter with Kaz he manages to have a tender moment without throwing up and then starts telling Inej where he hid the body instead of talking about his feelings

#grishaverse #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kaz: im unknowable #inej: jokes on you loser you literally trained me for this shit

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my truth

There is a nebulous jordie lives au which lives entirely in my head in which jordie recovers from the plague while Kaz is still sick. He gets up to find them food and water only to return and discover Kaz is nowhere to be found. Still recovering from the fever, he searches the barrel for days before he finally sees Kaz wandering down the staves in a sort of fugue state, soaked to the bone with a haunted look in his eyes.

Kaz won’t tell him what happened, but jordie knows it’s bad because his baby brother flinches every time he touches him, and soon enough he’s started wearing gloves, even in the height of summer.

Soon, they discover kazs gift for cards, and it keeps them fed and clothed, if not much else. Kaz is angry at jordie for losing the money, refuses to let him make any decisions. Jordie is beholden to his angry traumatized little brother because he can’t deny that he failed them the first time around.

Kaz is offered a place in his pick of the gangs, but the only one willing to take both him and his tag along older brother is the dregs. Jordie dies a little bit inside when they join up, when they take the tattoo side by side, but he’s not sure they’ll survive another winter on the streets.

And the plot of SoC generally goes on from there. Jordie tags along on the ice court, he and Jesper test kazs patience at every turn, he’s constantly offering unsolicited annoying older brother advice about Inej.

This lends itself to a really interesting exploration of Kaz and jordies relationship, what holds brothers together in the face of incredible trauma, the skewed power dynamic of Kaz becoming the breadwinner for them both at the age of nine, etc etc. But mostly, this au is a vessel for the sailing of the ultimate crack ship, which is of course, jordie/alys Van Eck.

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There is a nebulous jordie lives au which lives entirely in my head in which jordie recovers from the plague while Kaz is still sick. He gets up to find them food and water only to return and discover Kaz is nowhere to be found. Still recovering from the fever, he searches the barrel for days before he finally sees Kaz wandering down the staves in a sort of fugue state, soaked to the bone with a haunted look in his eyes.

Kaz won’t tell him what happened, but jordie knows it’s bad because his baby brother flinches every time he touches him, and soon enough he’s started wearing gloves, even in the height of summer.

Soon, they discover kazs gift for cards, and it keeps them fed and clothed, if not much else. Kaz is angry at jordie for losing the money, refuses to let him make any decisions. Jordie is beholden to his angry traumatized little brother because he can’t deny that he failed them the first time around.

Kaz is offered a place in his pick of the gangs, but the only one willing to take both him and his tag along older brother is the dregs. Jordie dies a little bit inside when they join up, when they take the tattoo side by side, but he’s not sure they’ll survive another winter on the streets.

And the plot of SoC generally goes on from there. Jordie tags along on the ice court, he and Jesper test kazs patience at every turn, he’s constantly offering unsolicited annoying older brother advice about Inej.

This lends itself to a really interesting exploration of Kaz and jordies relationship, what holds brothers together in the face of incredible trauma, the skewed power dynamic of Kaz becoming the breadwinner for them both at the age of nine, etc etc. But mostly, this au is a vessel for the sailing of the ultimate crack ship, which is of course, jordie/alys Van Eck.

#grishaverse #six of crows #jordie rietveld #kaz brekker #sorry. but I must speak my truth. #idk I’m hugely compelled by the idea of barrel boy jordie and sheltered housewife alys falling madly in love. #Kaz is trying to scheme them out of this whole mess and jordies like hey. do you think it would be okay to kidnap her again. like morally. #it’s just that I’ve thought of some really good jokes that I think she’d like. and Kaz (who has had negative sleep) just glares at him #also Kaz becoming uncle Kaz to Van Ecks new heir? truly the comeuppance Van Eck deserves #also yeah obviously the kaz jordie angst of this au compels me but make no mistake. it’s about jordie/alys #again. sorry.

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#me every time someone quotes kaz brekker didn’t need a reason as if that’s real and true #except it’s not even meant to be dismantled by the viewer inej literally debunks it in the next paragraph

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Rememeber when Inej tricked Kaz into climbing onto a chapel roof with her in Crooked Kingdom and he his response is “curse you and all your saints.” And then he smiles to himself without realizing it. SMILES? TO HIMSELF? What a loser. So whipped he’s out there thinking about how Inej outsmarted and smiling about it? The bastard of the barrel?? I love it when arrogant men become pathetic I miss kanej💕

#grishaverse #kanej #that was a date

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Per Haskell to the Dregs: hey guys we’ve got a new member everyone say hi

12 year old Kaz:

#grishaverse #six of crows #kaz brekker #per haskell #I just know he was the most haunting child imaginable

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thinking about this moment again:

particularly in regards to this conversation:

thinking about inej, who is actively dying, asking kaz for an apology. inej, whose native tongue leaves no room for triviality here. this isn’t “you were mean to me and you need to make nice,” it’s so much deeper.

this is “promise me you won’t treat me like a piece in your chess game again. promise me you won’t keep acting like i’m replaceable. promise me i’m not just another one of your investments.”

this is the first time we see inej holding kaz accountable, the first time we see her ask him to be more, to do better. this is the precursor to the “without armor” conversation. and i think it’s fitting that we never hear whether or not kaz did apologize. because at this point, i don’t think he’s ready to give inej what she’s really asking for here, and in a way, it’s best that she doesn’t hear him say the words. he’s not ready to mean them yet.

#grishaverse #six of crows #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #kanej #filed under: lines that make me insane in hindsight #i’m so normal about them i swear

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What's the matter with Kaz he manages to have a tender moment without throwing up and then starts telling Inej where he hid the body instead of talking about his feelings

#grishaverse #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #it’s the trauma baby #under no circumstances ever does he want anyone to know that he Feels. Emotes even. so this is how he covers it up #a few years into their relationship kaz is like hey inej i just want to remind you i’m an unlovable monster who has done terrible things #inej not looking up from her crossword: of course you are babe. unrelated but let me know if you want to talk

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kanej author recs | insignificant457

Notable/Favorite works:

What We Would've Become

“A hand seizes her wrist. It’s encased in cool leather, and she remembers it clutching at her in a chapel in Ravka. Remembers the voice that came with it, saying Stay.”

Rating: G / Quirks: Developing Kanej, Showverse/Book Blend (post-s2), pre-IC heist, Post-Canon (showverse), Canon divergence (book verse)

The Strangeness of Home*

She shakes her head, feeling befuddled. “I don’t know what to tell them, Papa. What do I say?” He smiles sadly at her, and gently tucks a strand of hair behind her ear. “You say whatever you need to. Tell them as much or as little as you want. It is your story to tell, when–if–you want to tell it.”

Rating: M / Quirks: Inej Centric, Post-canon, Visit to Ravka (Inej only), Inej's parents, Inej's relatives, Angst with a Happy Ending, Minor Kanej

*a good standalone story with a follow up (the unexpected visitor) but also that one can be read a separate too. While Kanej is not the primary focus I would highly rec for the feels.

The Unexpected Visitor (WIP)

So yes, she can admit that this visit is a long time coming. At this point, his myth is nearly as grandiose among the caravan as it is in Ketterdam. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Rating: M / Quirks: Established Kanej, Post-canon, Inej's parents, Inej's relatives, Angst, Fluff, Healing! So much healing, a lot of hurt but healing, Inej and her Dad actually having a moment (it's what we deserve), Kaz and Inej's mom having moments, Inej's parents love Kaz... I can't stress enough people actually love Kaz and hate him too

Operation Kanej (WIP)

“The point,” Nina says, “is that Inej and Kaz clearly have feelings for each other, and would clearly make a great power couple, but are both too emotionally constipated to admit it. So we need to, you know, give them a little shove.”

Rating: G / Quirks: Kanej, Modern AU, Crows Friendship, Established Wesper & Helnik, meddling Crows!, Humor, Fluff, Gaslighting

#thank youuuuu #🥺🥺🥺🥺 #i see that gaslighting tag and i respect it

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Red Rising characters as questionable lyrics from Taylor Swifts new album

(For legal purposes this is a joke)

Darrow:

Mustang:

Sevro:

Cassius:

Victra:

Lyria:

Lysander:

#red rising #darrow of lykos #virginia au augustus #cassius au bellona #sevro au barca #victra au julii #lyria of lagalos #lysander au lune #I rise from the dead only to be immediately crucified by the red rising swifties #genuinely I enjoy much of Taylor’s discography but there were some Choices made on this album #that deserve to be clowned a bit and well #*squeezes big red nose* honk honk bitch

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Apropos of all my musings about queer temporality and rejection of reproductive futurity etc etc I simply do not believe Kanej would ever have kids sorry. To my mind Kaz was born to be your dad's dubious, extremely rich friend who gives you a wodge of cash on holidays and birthdays, and Inej was born to offer to kill your ex and take you home when you're drunk and missed curfew and MUM WILL BE SO MADDD. To all Dregs-related children they're like the weird aunt and uncle who burn movies illegally onto DVDs for you, teach you to swear, let you eat loads of sugar, and then dump you back on your actual parents in order to shirk the consequences of all the sugar and swearing. All kids have to be sixteen before you get the 'so not only is Kaz in organised crime, he basically IS organised crime' chat. They hit your ex boyfriend's car. They bought you a pony. They said they'd bail you out of jail and you didn't think they were joking. Etc.

#grishaverse #kanej #yeah. YEAH. #they are so firmly childless to me sorry I cannot ever picture them with kids ever #not to say I haven’t enjoyed the occasional kanej baby fic but it’s very much in an au for me #kaz has been using the children of his enemies against them for years he is never opening himself up to that kind of karma #he got the magical universe equivalent of a vasectomy the minute pregnancy was even a remote possibility #and Inej is too focused on her work and has too much baggage around her bodily autonomy being stripped from her #she’s not signing up for that either #they Are the weird rich aunt and uncle who tell you stories you’re way too young for and drive you home from a party you got drunk at #while roasting you for it though

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kaz will never not be the brother of a dead boy and im so normal abt how that's the big key piece of his self he tells inej abt In The Books. like everything else can come after first and foremost his brother is dead and kaz is alive. it's so

#six of crows #grishaverse #kaz brekker #jordie rietveld #god. i am so deep in kaz jordie feels lately that i am sick to my stomach #just like…as a youngest sibling i sometimes think about like… #there has never been a part of my life that you were not in. you existed without me but i have never existed without you #something something…that one quote that goes #if you have a sister and she dies do you stop saying you have one. or are you always a sister even when half the equation is gone #tragic siblings arc guaranteed to do irreparable damage to my psyche

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So you have the same name on ao3?

Yep!

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cool cool cool. cool. yeah. fine. don't even care. normal about it and like, don't even care at all. cool

#grishaverse #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #kanej #oh she LOVES loves him #‘Kaz loves Inej more’? false. #they are down equally bad and yet she still is able to recognize her own worth and is willing to leave him if he doesn’t work to change #s tier fictional relationship #no one else is doing it like them and no one ever will

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Zuko: I must capture the Avatar to restore my honor, it is the only thing that matters. I will allow for no distractions. Iroh: Prince Zuko do you mind if we make port so I can indulge in dumb frivolous nonsense? Zuko:

#atla #zuko #uncle iroh #this is why they are the best dynamic to grace our screens in the last twenty years #dumbass energy unmatched

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Zukos crew being the 41st is an addition I can’t stop thinking about.

Because on the one hand—part of the tragedy of the original was that despite all zuko suffered in their name, it didn’t do a damn thing. They were still sacrificed and zuko lost everything for it, and having his actions and words technically save their lives doesn’t give it the same hopelessness.

But on the other hand—the scene itself was incredible. Them all bowing to him as a thanks for his sacrifice for them had me Feeling. And Dallas does a great job because you can tell that zuko hates this, despite the fact that he’s finally earned the respect of his crew. Because for the past three years he’s been trying to convince himself that compassion is weakness. Because his father said so, because all compassion got him is disfigured and banished, and just when he’s trying so hard to remind himself of that—because he almost forgot for a second there, when the avatar seemed less like a threat and more like a kid—he comes back to find these people thanking him—honoring him—for the very thing he is trying so hard to stamp out.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #netflix atla #zuko #my boy. my cinnamon apple. my sun moon and stars. #live action adaptation awakened all the love in my heart for zuko again I’m going to be crying about him for 2-5 business days

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Me, age six, standing in the doorway of my parents room to tell them I threw up

#atla #avatar the last airbender