Here's what I'm thinking about on this fine evening: Ketterdam has a HUGE CANAL SYSTEM that runs pretty much through the entire city and I, somehow, completely missed that.
Here's the Ketterdam map, right? We know her. We love her.
BUT, let's zoom in a little:
You can see very clearly here that those thicker, darker colored lines connect distinctly into the harbor, which means that they are ALSO WATER.
So, if a person with a Six of Crows obsession and maybe a little too much time on their hands were to take that map and color it so that all of the water was blue, it would look something like this:
Now, I may just be stupid, but I'd like to believe there is at least one other person who will be as baffled upon seeing this post as I was when I made this realization. It's water!! Canals are a major form of transportation in Ketterdam!! This not only is very interesting to me in regards to Ketterdam’s culture, but it also changed the way I pictured the city in my head. This is life-changing stuff, people.
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Really sweet Crow friendship thing we never seem to talk about: Kaz bought the Wraith for Inej, yes, but he bought it from Wylan. Wylan knew!
Imagine it!! Not only Kaz effectively confiding in Wylan by doing this, but also imagine Wylan spending the next week with Inej staying in his house knowing what was going to happen!! Like he probably didn’t know Kaz had found her parents but he knew she was getting the boat (and that would be her key to finding her parents herself if Kaz hadn’t done). Inej vanished from his house one morning to go to the docks at the crack of dawn and I like to imagine that he watched her from the window so happy and so joyous because he loves Inej and he loves Kaz and they’re going to be so happy
This is beautiful!!! And it’s CANON! Why don’t we talk about this more????
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So I'm re reading six of crows for the millionth time, and I just wanted to share Matthias's first impressions of the crows (not including nina because shes already met him but if you want me too I can) because I can't stop laughing. This guy has no chill. And I know these are here for our benefit too to give us more description for the crows.
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Kaz: - "Gravelly voice" "Dark eyes" "pale demon with his black-gloved hands"
Inej: "small girl" "dark hair" "deep bronze suli skin"
Jesper: "long limbed boy" "bony knees" "deep brown zemeni skin and incongruous grey eyes. "He was built like a stork" 😭
Wylan: "Ruddy gold curls." "He's about twelve"
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Reasons to read Six of Crows
1. Actually good representation
- all the crows have ptsd of some sort that actually affect their actions
- religion also affects their actions (eg. Inej with her saints and unwilling to kill, Matthias with djel)
- Jesper and inej are darker skinned
- wylan is gay and jesper and Nina are bi
- wylan has dyslexia that he's really ashamed of because of his father(and when he told Kaz he(Kaz) literally just shrugged!!)
- Kaz is physically disabled (his leg) and needs to use a cane
2. Nina is canonically thick and curvy but is still described as beautiful and badass
3. Again with Nina
- she does eat more than the other crows and they don't judge her for it
- when she starts to eat less bc of parem her friends panic and try to get her to eat more
- and when she starts eating again they're so fucking happy
4. All the crows have their own horrible backstory and yet none of them have ever been in a toxic relationship
5. The boundaries that characters set are actually respected (eg. Kaz with his gloves and no-touch rule)
6. It's so funny ("My ghost won't associate with your ghost", "I'm going to get someone to burn my kruge for me / you could pay someone to pay someone to burn your kruge / I'll pay someone to pay someone to pay someone to burn my kruge / you know what the really big bosses do? They pay someone to pay someone...", "MAYBE I LIKED YOUR STUPID FACE" among other examples)
7. There are such impactful and beautiful quotes ("I would come for you", "I have been made to protect you" etc)
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9. To elaborate with the 'horrible backstory' thing
- Inej is a victim of sex trafficking
- Wylan was nearly murdered by his father's men for not being able to read
- Matthias was brainwashed from a young age to hate Grisha
- Nina (and other Grisha) were kidnapped and abused by Matthias and his fellow drüskelle
- Jesper's mum died when he was 7 years old
- Kaz's dad died when Kaz was 9 and left him and his older brother (Jordie) to sell the farm and go to Ketterdam. Jordie died from a plague a short time later and Kaz had to use Jordie's dead, plague-ridden body to swim to shore after being mistaken as dead and loaded onto the Reapers' Barge along with Jordie and then find a way to survive with no money and no family to go to
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Marya and Colm sharing embarrassing baby and toddler stories of Wylan and Jesper to the other Crows who are eating it up
Anytime either of them start to complain about something Kaz is doing, he just gives them his hundred yard stare and whispers any number of the embarrassing child stories he now knows about. Both of them shut up real quick
Inej is a little more gracious about it, but she still finds opportunities to tease them about it
Nina just can't stop laughing for like a week straight
Matthias doesn't outright tease them, but now he understands why Wylan keeps handing him small bugs and various frogs whenever they go outside literally anywhere
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I would love to see Aditi's reaction to Colm unofficially adopted 5 criminal children, I can picture her laughing and smiling at her husband and I can just see Colm looking at his criminal children with a disapproving face but deep down she knows he's enjoying himself.
I kinda wanna cry now.... I would kill to see this in fanart form.
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I’m never not thinking about the time Jesper revealed his grisha power in front of the boy he was flirting with and a literal witch hunter and when the boy he’d been flirting with asked why he’d kept a secret he looked directly at the witch hunter and said “I like walking the streets free” and everyone got quiet and squirmy only for Kaz fucking Brekker to suddenly go “Do it again” with no patience or real context and definitely no acknowledgement of the vibe. Read the room, Kaz, read the room.
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Okay but. I feel like these are The two quotes that sum up six of crows as a whole. Life hasn't been fair to any of them. It doesn't owe them anything, it doesn't owe them justice, it doesn't owe them fairness. And what do they do? They carve out their own justice by going on the heist to get their money and make their own life, where they can create their own fairness. Then in crooked kingdom, when they've been run to the ground in their hometown, they make the odds turn in their favour through their own means. They've all lived a lifetime of unfairness, each in their own way. But they're here to demand fairness of it anyway, and I think that that's the core message of the duology. That if things are unfair you have to ability to make it fair. And I think that's beautiful.
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Kaz in theory: bastard of the barrel, ruthless crimelord, dirtyhands, cunning thief
Kaz in reality: chaotic, sarcastic dark humor, inej omg inej is here I am a boy simp <3
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