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alejandraa6002 · 7 months

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Friendly not so friendly reminder that Inej Ghafa is one of the main characters of SoC and not just “Kaz’s romantic interest”

#inej ghafa #six of crows #inej ghafa supremacy #nina zenik #crooked kingdom #shadow and bone #leigh bardugo #matthias helvar #jesper and wylan #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #kaz brekker #wylan hendriks #amita suman #kaz x inej #alina starvok #kanej #wesper #helnik

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lunarthecorvus · 6 months

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People don't talk about Inej's bluntness and sarcasm enough.

I just remember when Kaz hired Wylan and she was like 'Raske is better' - like damnnn Inej, I just want to see more that side of her because she's not always nice and I love that side of her, although I do feel bad for Wylan

#inej ghafa #six of crows #grishaverse #crooked kingdom #soc #wylan van eck #leigh bargudo #inej ghafa supremacy #inej ghafa appreciation

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soapysudz · 3 months

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I was just thinking how a Ketterdam and Gotham crossover/mashup has so many possibilities! I haven't really seen much tho so here are some thoughts.

I picture it as slightly more Gotham, set in the modern (ish) world but also having the political systems and gangs of the Barrel mixed in. The grisha would still have the categories of powers that they do in the grishaverse but less organized, basically considered a subset of meta (my head is currently full of stress so sorry for any and all lore mistakes I make!).

So there's beginning SoC Kaz with the Crows and he hears right away when there's a certain up an coming crime lord in town. Kaz wants to get his revenge on Pekka Rollins but there's the issue of his debt and how many gang leaders don't take him seriously because he's young and walks with a cane. After gathering more info and concocting some convoluted plan that has 43 steps and 15 backups he meets with the Red Hood to see if they can come to a mutually beneficial agreement as Kaz has tabs on pretty much everything in Ketterdam and all the political gang stuff that goes on. He also has PLANS that I'm pretty sure Jason would disrupt and Kaz is gonna do his best to integrate him into those plans while also maybe helping direct him in what he should be doing for optimal takeover.

Like if Kaz has the firepower of the Red Hood to add to his plans? Absolutely terrifying. Ofc there would be interpersonal conflict but that's like half the fun, the character dynamics possibilities are endless! I was thinking that the generally fanon accepted rules that Jason has (I'm more familiar with SoC canon and am more fuzzy on dc details so apologies) like regulating the drug trade, protecting sex workers, etc and strict enforcement of those rules are all things that Kaz wouldn't mind AND if Jason took down Tante Heleen's Menagerie? That would be a great scene for after everyone has started working together and taking over, maybe Jason doesn't know Inej's history but he can probably guess and offers to torture Tante Heleen for her (do I hate Heleen? Yes I do) wether or not he does Tante Heleen won't be conducting her business ever again.

I think that Kaz could definitely spruce up Jason's ten step revenge plot but how idk. For real tho, Kaz's lack of experience is one of the few things holding him back, when he's older? Even just late twenties, it'll be over for everyone lol.

The Barrel seems Crime Alley adjacent so those can be smashed together (would that make Kaz from Metropolis?? Lol but nah probably some farming state)

Omg what if Dick is Inej's brother? Doesn't really fit I think but just an idea. That'd be so freaking sad tho, she's gonna search for her parents and not know they're dead :(

Batman does batman stuff I guess, I didn't really care about him when I was thinking of this crossover but there could be interesting ideas for him. I feel like there's so much going on in Ketterdam/Gotham (Gothdam?lol) that he'd be run ragged and honestly I'd understand him barely putting even a dent in crime there. I'd still have Duke be a meta as opposed to a grisha mostly bc he's closest to a sun summoner and I'm not a fan of the Shadow and Bone books. Damian should definitely have his metal spine, maybe he's a Fabrikator or got that spine put in by one. Steph might be on the very fringes of Crows activity, I really like when her and Jason are besties in fics bc I feel like they have the least amount of baggage/history and have similar backgrounds so its easier if u want to ease him into the batfam one person at a time. Not that I've decided if that's what's happening here but anyways. I'll have more later, ttfn and please take any of this and run with it! Imma tag this thing Gothdam au.

#Gothdam #Batfam #Six of Crows #Unholy mashup of Gotham and Ketterdam #Fic ideas #fic prompt #The Crows and Jason Todd's unbeatable team up #Inej ghafa supremacy #I bet she could take out Jason no problem #am i biased?#Yes #red hood #Gothdam au #2 am ramblings

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she-posts-nerdy-stuff · 1 year

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It is my firm belief that one of the most important parallels in Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom is that Wylan Van Eck had the potential to become Kaz Brekker, and Kaz Brekker had the potential to become Wylan Van Eck, in this essay I will -

#grishaverse #leigh bardugo #six of crows #crooked kingdom #kaz brekker #wylan van eck #shadow and bone #wylan van sunshine #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #nina zenik #matthias helvar #kanej #wesper #kanej supremacy #wesper my beloved

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whosthatfunkyrat · 6 months

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Sometimes I just think about how the first time Matthias met Inej he tried to tackle her and she just sidestepped, easily dodging him, tripping him, and then she just goes “clumsy, this one”

Like-COME ON! how could Kaz NOT fall in love with her????

#six of crows #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #soc #crooked kingdom #shadow and bone #grishaverse #kanej #ck #sankta inej #kaz brekker x inej ghafa #inej my beloved #inej supremacy #kaz x inej #inej x kaz #soc inej #kazzle dazzle #kaz being kaz

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livin-in-fantasy · 3 months

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Kaz and Inej totally have a love language which no one but them understands.

For her birthday Kaz gave her the location of the biggest slaver ship. While Inej gave Kaz the trade records (including the backhand deals) from all her travels for his.

Their first anniversary was celebrated by stealing a DeKappel, just the two of them, for old times sake.

#six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #kanej supremacy

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applecidersstuff · 8 months

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In Kaz’s office there is a special place where no one is allowed to sit. This place is the windowsill, this windowsill has a blanket and a couple pillows. Some of the Dregs tried to sit there if they were in the office, but very fast learned that it is fraught with being pierced by a cane. The one and only person who can sit there safely is Inej Ghafa. And why wouldn’t she? Kaz arranged that windowsill personally for her, so she could sit there comfortably and feed the crows

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lonslibrary · 1 year

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a reminder that we are lucky to have gotten a soc adaptation at all. the books are so perfect that nothing was going to live up to them anyways. if u think of them as separate entities, i promise you’ll enjoy yourself much more!

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fics-and-quotes-andthelike · 7 months

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*after the Crows have been separated for a few years*

Wylan van Eck: So what have you been up to recently?

Nina Zenik: Leading a revolution.

Wylan van Eck: Good for you! That's awesome!

Nina Zenik: I know! Anyway, have you heard from the others? Inej?

Jesper Fahey: Happily living as a pirate queen, happily married to Kaz. What about Kuwei?

Wylan van Eck: *mockingly* What about Kuwei?

Nina Zenik: Wrongfully locked up in an asylum, which reminds me, we need to break them out later. But wait, what about Kaz?

Jesper Fahey: Still a gang leader.

Nina Zenik: Yeah, that sounds about right.

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sinukiyo · 2 months

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“She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and got drunk on it every night, he would have.”

#he’s so in love with her I’m crying #kaz x inej #kaz brekker #kanej #kanej supremacy #*cries in kanej*#inej supremacy #soc inej #six of crows inej #inej ghafa #inej gafha #inej my beloved #six of crows #grishaverse

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a-library-ghost · 1 month

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haven’t kanej doodled in a minute

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jeremysknoxes · 1 year

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jesper your pining is showing

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lunarthecorvus · 2 months

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I would give anything to work on the Wraith.

Even if it's just to clean toilets. They need me to mop the floor, yes. They need me to cook, yes. They need me to fight yess.

#six of crows #inej ghafa #captain ghafa #inej ghafa supremacy #inej supremacy #crooked kingdom #kaz brekker #soc #grishaverse

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thescriptorfireflyy · 2 months

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Incorrect Quote, Six of Crows

Kaz: While I’m gone, Jesper, you’re in charge. Jesper: Yes!!! Kaz, whispering: Inej, you’re secretly in charge. Inej: Obviously.

#incorrect quotes #six of crows #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #inej ghafa #inej supremacy #kanej #soc #inej x kaz #the crows

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she-posts-nerdy-stuff · 10 months

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Iconic things Inej Ghafa did that we seem to forget about/don’t talk enough about:

1) Threatened to bite a guy’s finger off

2) Swapped out Alby’s toy lion for a toy crow

3) Successfully stole Heleen’s diamond choker by making her think she was being choked to death

4) Nearly choked Heleen to death

5) Suggested she and Nina use their money from the Ice Court Heist to buy the Menagerie and burn it down

#grishaverse #leigh bardugo #six of crows #crooked kingdom #inej ghafa #nina zenik #kanej #soc inej #six of crows inej #my darling inej #inej supremacy #i love inej

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whosthatfunkyrat · 6 months

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Chapter 26 of Crooked Kingdom is so well written,

Literally it is a chapter of conflict. And I love that So much. Everything conflicts.

The way Kaz describes things, distance distorting, feeling too far and not far enough.

The way Inej makes him feel, her gentleness making him want to not be gentle.

His thoughts, the conflicting wants.

Helping/destroying

The way she looks at the world in contrast to how he does.

The way Kaz relies on Violence to help heal her. Direct opposites. He’s been so used to being dirty hands that he doesn’t know how to be gentle without relying on the experience of violence to help him.

Also the line “I can best this” in contrast to “he could not do this”

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|”creating a gap, feeling both regret and release as he broke contact with her skin”|

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Feeling both regret and release when he stops touching her.

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| “He secured the knot. 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘱 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬. He did not step back.” |

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Disregarding his own commands.

How the sickness is there, the need to run, but so is the need for something else (alluding to his longing to be close to her)

“Kaz thought he knew the language of pain intimately, but this ache was new.”

“After all she’d endured, he was the weak one.”

How it hurts for him to stand so close to her, but it also hurts to be so far away.

“ 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐’𝘮 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 he thought wildly”

Despite the pain, he pushes himself close to her.

Him waiting for her to reject him, her accepting him.

His imagination running wild the moment he kisses her. Images of her, alive, well, images of love. Only to be replaced with images of loss, her dead body before him, eyes that were once filled with life replaced with coldness. He feels Disgust and longing twisting in him.

Kaz is always at battle with himself. His wants are constantly conflicting depending on what side of him is talking.

I think the reason the chapter conflicts with itself so much is because this is the first time we see inside Kaz’s head as he directly is confronted by his other self. Kaz Rietveld is the boy who wants to love. Who wants to beg Inej to stay. Who wants to kiss her. It was Rietveld who bent his head to her neck. It was Rietveld who wanted the net. It was Rietveld who took his gloves off. It’s Rietveld who keeps pulling on Brekker’s strings. Loosening him until he gives. Kaz cannot hold off his other self. He cannot hold off who he is deep down. The farm boy who was filled with wonder. Who is 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 filled with wonder every time he looks at Inej.

And what makes this stream of thought horrible- is that when you follow it, everything Rietveld does, everything he Wants, everything he tries- touching her- kissing her-

Every time Kaz tries- Rietveld dies again. In the harbor, with his brother’s body in his hands. Every time Kaz allows his softer side to take hold- he’s brutally murdered again. He drowns. And eventually what’s left standing is Brekker. Cruel and inhumane.

When Kaz kisses her neck, he gives into Rietveld. His mind is flooded with images of love, things he scarcely let himself imagine because he scarcely let himself Be Rietveld. Only when he hears her laugh, sees her smile, looks at her hair, her eyes, does his mind wander to the soft side- the tender side of himself. Only when he’s near Her does he wonder “what happens if I move closer?”.

He kisses her and desire corses through him, love corses through him. But then Rietveld dies at the harbor again. Her body turns into a corpse’s and all the lovely lively things about her die with all the same things in him.

He jumps back, and stops her when she tries to draw nearer. He becomes cruel again. Brekker. He snarls on about who he tortured, who he killed. He see’s her flinch and a pain goes through his heart because beneath the layers of Brekker he’s built atop his heart will Always be Rietveld trying to reach out.

He covers himself in a facade, a mask, layers of clothing, gloves, armor. Layers to protect the boy inside him, still raw and hurt and in need of warmth, in need of love. He has armor in more ways than just his gloves. He builds walls nearly impossible to scale. But Inej is The Wriath, and there is no wall she can’t scale, and no secret she can’t steal.

“Then you can steal my secrets too.”

The hard truth Kaz has to face is that no matter how hard he tries, he will Always Be Rietveld. Deep down he’s not a demon. He’s a human boy. He needs love, companionship, friends.

“Tell Jesper he’s missed… around the slat.”

He cannot face the world alone despite the reputation he builds around the lie that he can. He cannot keep from Loving Inej. No matter how hard he tries, no matter how scarcely he lets himself think about her- he always will eventually wind up thinking about her when he lets his guard down, let’s himself be human, even if it’s for but a moment when her hair is freed from its braid and the sunlight dances through the window behind her. When she laughs. There’s no way, no matter how inhuman he believes himself, he can keep himself from wanting human things to want. Everyone needs love. It doesn’t matter in what capacity you’re talking- everyone NEEDS it. Friendship, romance, companionship, a pet, a kind word from a stranger, opening the door for someone, any of those things- it’s human nature and there’s no avoiding it.

Kaz Brekker Thrives being called a demon. He thrives on the mystery, the myth, the cruelty. He breathes it in because he can’t survive without it. His reputation is quite literally all he has. And his friends are even a result of it. The violence Fuels him. And he’s gotten so reliant on it that he doesn’t know how to be anything else. He doesn’t know how to be anything for anyone unless it involves a scheme, a score, a bit of blood. He quite literally cannot help Inej with her bandages unless he thinks about it as if he were drawing a weapon on someone. Violence was easy.

But the truth is he cannot be Brekker solely.

And he cannot be solely Brekker happily or even contently because he knows Inej will not have him with his armor. So the only option he’s left with is to indulge in Rietveld. To let himself die again and again at that harbor, for her. To use her voice as a tether so that he may not die again. So that she may pull him out of the sea. So that Rietveld can live to give her the love he longs to. He NEEDS Rietveld because he IS Rietveld. And there is no reasoning behind it, no scheme he can concoct to keep his truest self away.

“Dirty hands would have cut his losses and moved on”

But still he says “I would come for you”

Still he reaches out, grabbing Inej’s hand, staying with her, desperately fighting back the waters.

Still, he catches her when she falls, holds her up with worry in his eyes.

Because he’s not JUST Brekker. He’s not JUST dirty hands. He cannot be. No matter how much his hurt self wants him to be. He has to fight to stay alive in the harbor every time he touches her, but he will. Over and over again. For her. For them. He has to.

I’m not suggesting Kaz has some sort of personality disorder or something-

I’m saying I think his past is who Inej sees behind the cruelty. She understands the language of pain intimately, and knows when someone is responding out of pain. I think she sees him for all he is, Brekker and Rietveld, and loves him. He isn’t two people- but one- a very hurt boy who behaves like one, who’s built his life on pain. He conflicts so much with himself because he KNOWS Rietveld was too weak to survive in the barrel. He knows he cannot let himself be too soft. His tell is his love for Inej, and when all that mattered was for him to keep his cool, he looked at her- and Van Eck took her from him. His life is the same story written again and again with a different victim of his love each time- and he’s afraid that should he love anyone, go soft for a second, he’ll lose them. But there’s no way to avoid loving people. There’s no possible way to keep from caring about his friends.

So his only option is to let them have him, have Rietveld.

His only option is to balance both sides of himself, Rietveld and Brekker.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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