#I want justice for Matthias but also his dream of a fjerda worth saving to come true

[notyetbulletproof]

Listen,

What if SOC 3’s pull is the idea of “one last heist”. After the previous “one last heist” ahah, anyway— it’s the heist for the thing mentioned in ROW. It’s the game changer of an impending war. I saw someone mention it might be in Shu Han because it’s the one place Leigh hasn’t explored in great detail yet.

As I haven’t read Nikolai’s duology, my information on that is limited but hey, more crows being awesome??

Here for it.

So that’s the pull but what if the real heist is to get Kaz Brekker back? To save him??? There was too much set up in the crows duology to not consider this as a possibility. This storyline as a possibility. To not consider that the team would come back without hesitation to save Kaz. It could happen before the heist or after. He could go missing and that’s the catalyst that brings them together or he could go missing after the job and that’s the catalyst to stay on mission to find him.

So I keep thinking of where the crows are now. About what Nina said before she left. No matter the time and distance, always. “Count on it Brekker”. Of Wylan and Jesper in ROW (stuff I’ve seen). Of Inej being on the high seas but still clearly in contact or tied to Kaz.

And this is what comes to mind:

Only it’s Jesper and Wylan that comes to find Inej. They sneak onto her ship as she’s giving a briefing below deck. They slip past her guards but she was the Wraith before she was a captain and the stealth skills of the former isn’t just reserved for her ship so she lets the meeting continue (as a ruse) while she organises herself. She plans to ambush the intruders with a couple of her crew.

The three of them end up giving themselves a terrible fright and Wylan almost drops the flash bomb he took out (just for emergencies) and Inej has to immediately point her crew member’s rifle down just in case he gets too nervous and pulls the trigger.

And she’s all

“JESPER LLEWELLYN FAHEY!!! What the hell, we could have shot you?!”

And Jesper goes:

“You could have tried. Doubt it would have done you any good though.”

And then the mood shifts and these two people just stare at each other before breaking into face splitting smiles. Inej moves to embrace him and sees Wylan and is excited and then adjusts and her confusion is evident because what is going on? They weren’t supposed to rendezvous for another 2 weeks? Kaz was clear that it wouldn’t be safe till then.. but wait where is Kaz??

And then Wylan tells her what Jesper can’t bring himself to say—- that’s why they broke protocol. Kaz has been taken and they can’t find him. Jesper can’t look at her anymore and she knows he feels responsible even if it isn’t his fault. It’s not.

They’re here because they need the team. They need to find him and help him. They’re sure he’s not gone off on his own job. He would have told someone. He would have told Inej. At first they thought he might come find her but all his usual protocols have not been activated or carried out or whatever —- nothing. Radio silence. He hasn’t checked in anywhere. He’s gone dark (or their storyline’s version of that). He can’t have just disappeared or walked away. He wouldn’t have. He’s in trouble.

Inej agrees. Kaz wouldn’t let go like that. Not after everything.

And SOC 3 is literally the heist for Kaz brekker. (Probably after Zoya’s job or before and maybe it involves the council of tides???) but basically that whole moment is in my head.

I feel like it would be interesting to see the team come together like that for Kaz. This whole “ okay think think/- what would kaz do”.

Now imagine the “how do you steal a man’s wallet” conversation but they all try and answer with what Kaz would say. All those moments could provide the humour.

And it would also be amazing for a character like kaz to truly accept that his found family cares deeply about him too. To realise that they’d help him, save him, put the same effort into protecting him. Kaz never shielded them from the emotionally painful stuff sure but he kept them alive (better terrible truths than kind lies). He did his best to make sure they all walked away with their future intact.

(He couldn’t do that for Matthias because Matthias’s past came back to hurt him (Curse you wayward fjerdan murder child!). I’m sure it haunts him. After Nina, he’s probably the next one to find out who did it (fjerdan murder child).)

Kaz did his best to protect them and it would be cool to see them have the plans and go save him this time.

It’d be the ultimate heist and we’d still get each character POVs.

#told this story to people I trust #@murderbabies #@abitlikemercury #someone write a good fic incase I leave this world before SOC 3 or it ends badly. #it won’t. I have faith in leigh #please god #kaz brekker #Inej Ghafa #jesper Fahey #Wylan van eck #Nina zenik #six of crows #I want justice for Matthias but also his dream of a fjerda worth saving to come true #I want more brother parallels with Jesper #even the whole father/son vibe or rather older brother vibe with Wylan #temperament of a wet cat older brother but still perfection #and kanej #always kanej #seeing nina and Inej together again though #yes please and thanks