#isenulf

[stromuprisahat]

Sasha killing a legendary isenulf and wearing its pelt as a cape

I mean... yeah, it would paint a lovely picture, considering his usual black-on-black attire, BUT!!!

I raise you:

Second Army spies getting their hands on isenulf puppies, Grisha taming young abandoned isenulf, who was "freed" after losing their master... if I am to believe they're anything like wolves and have personalities of their own, getting rid of them once they lose their closest human shouldn't make them happy at all.

“They are returned to the wild, but they will never be accepted by any pack.” And what was a wolf without a pack? The isenulf were not meant to live alone.

Crooked Kingdom- Chapter 15

I can accept the difference between ordinary wolves and insenulf are too great to mingle, but what are their own social structures supposed to be? What is the bond between insenulf and human? Do they not breed or form any bonds among themselves when they're part of drüskelle?

All we know about them looks like another part of worldbuilding made more for ✨aesthetics✨, than functional piece of information. Just the fact they're supposed to be immune to Heartrender powers... like... do they lack internal organs? Are they not mammals? Is their skin physics-repellent since we're supposed to believe Grisha powers work that way?!

But if we're to work with what we have, I'd prefer Grisha fancier befriending abandoned social creature, giving it new home and turning anti-Grisha weapon against its creators.

#reply #Grishaverse #grishanalyticritical #isenulf #The Darkling #drüskelle #Grisha #What if/AU/... #CK Chapter 15 #books #quotes #Leigh Bardugo #Am I projecting? #*looks at her found and aggressive babies* #Nope! #Not at all! #But I'd totally stick to my pet/annoy them into acceptance strategy.

[demjin-in-disguise]

“Nina, little red bird. Don’t go.”

#so I decided that quote runs my life now #so have isenulf!Matthias #and bird!Nina #anyway I’m not good at drawing wolves so the proportions are kinda wacky #six of crows #grishaverse #helnik #my art #fanart #procreate

[pyreshegone]

the six of crows verse i have with hawky is something that can be So Personal

#someone in ketterdam asks why livvy has what is very obviously an isenulf and nina just '...emotional support dog' #he emotionally supports her by explicitly threatening to maul anyone who so much as glances at livvy in a way he doesn't like #lowkey keeps livvy safe while she can't use her grisha powers and mattias is in prison bc nina can't be there 24/7 🥺 #some point he brings livvy one of those fake keftas bc she's getting sicker and sicker not using her powers and he wants to help and nina #almost has a heart attack :(

[pinesicle]

if i think too hard about van eck bringing wylan to see those isenulf puppies because he knew how much he loved them i can and will cry. this reminder that nobody is pure evil, and if they are, then they haven't always been. van eck is a monster, but somewhere, at some point, behind all of those layers of abuse and a+ parenting, there was a time where he loved his son. and that is the most tragic possible thing

#somewhere in me there's an analysis of this story and what it says about love #how we are who we love #nearly every single character's “weakness” is a person #a parent or a friend or a child or a lover #whatever whatever whatever i'm normal about love #benny.txt #six of crows #wylan van eck #jan van eck #shadow and bone

[kazscrows]

Reading Matthias’ death scene in Crooked Kindom was insane for me. I knew he would die because I had it spoiled for me. So while I was reading about Trassel, I remember thinking: oh no, this is how it’ll happen—the druskelle are going to set his own isenulf on him. And then . . . he was shot by someone he had been. It’s still tragic and reflects Inej’s belief about a person’s shadow, but I can’t help but think it could have been more tragic. And it would have made Nina very conflicted in KoS.

Woah.. Matthias’ death was a surprise for me so I had no idea how it’d happen and I was in denial when it did. Like. Nope— All my Crows are supposed to live happily ever after thank you very much-

But the wolf thing… that probably would’ve really broken me- that definitely would’ve been more tragic yeah. But.. a part of me is really glad this didn’t happen. I like happy endings. Er… well Matthias still doesn’t get a happy ending, but I guess now I know it could’ve been worse-

#anyways gonna go cry about Nina and Matthias yet again #thanks for the ask! #six of crows #matthias helvar #shadow and bone #nina zenik #grishaverse #soc #CK #crooked kingdom #kazscrows #kazscrows answers things

[thatfangirlofsb]

Headcanon

Fivan (life as a couple)

T/W: Spoilers from the grishaverse (especially from the book).

A/N: (SPOILERS)

What would the Fivan be like, in the books, if neither of them had died?

—————

They would marry after the Shadow Fold disappeared.

They would adopt Trassel (Matthias's isenulf).

The two would be in charge of showing the Little Palace to the new grisha. Fedyor: Oh, and this room is next to the war room. When the squallers of this group would be capable of control your power you will be able to gossip what happens there. Ivan: War room, punishment: death. Weapons room, punishment: death. My room, punishment: put up with Fedyor and the isenulf.

They would make single grisha feel sad.

Loving glances at any time.

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #grisha #leigh bardugo #my ships #shipping #fivan #ivan x fedyor #fedyor kaminsky #ivan

[pyreshe]

one thing about s.ix of crows livvy is that she has a slight limp, especially when the weather is bad. when the druskelle captured her, an isenulf bit and dragged her by one of her legs, and she was denied medical attention while awaiting trial. by the time mattias was able to get her to a doctor, the doctor said she was lucky they got her in when he did and that waiting even one more day would have resulted in her losing the leg completely. nina later tried to help heal it as well but there was only so much she could do. if livvy needs to get somewhere fast, or if walking gets too painful, she rides on trassel's back like princess mo.nonoke

#ask to tag

[titanslayer]

grisha/verse jason has a necklace with isenulf fangs on it :] it was a gift from his druskelle hunting older sister :]

#pov ur like 7 years old wearing a necklace made of wolf teeth. you are jason #tbd. #alright alright alright alright #time 2 write

[musicallisto]

👒 + matthias helvar (of course 😭) i like playing video games (im playing that new game stray rn!), i get super loud/talkative around my best friends, i also get drained from said hyperactivity So quickly, my main hobby rn is staying up till 3 am for absolutely no reason whatsoever. my favorite color is pink and ive liked the smell of gasoline since i was a wee lad. um. cancer sun, intp (used to be an infp!!!!), i have gotten chaotic evil on the alignment test 4 times and have accepted thats what i am (i am a gremlin at heart 😽) anyways bye ily clara 🫶🏼

no way you're playing stray!! that game is so cute i want it so bad but it's expensive😭

some headcanons about your dynamic with matthias:

okay but a tangent on modern!matthias for two seconds: VIDEO GAME NIGHTS!

he would not get the concept at first. like, at all. he's probably seen enough violence in his life to not want to take pleasure in a game where you have to kill people.

"but they're fake guards, helvar. it's all make believe." "and? what if they have families?" "they're lines of code-" "what if they have code families??"

so you decide to show him a harmless game like stray and he's not convinced either.

"why in the three hells would i want to play as a cat?" "uhm, you've never wanted to be a cat? do nothing all day and just be an inconvenience? i mean, yeah, thats kinda what you do already" and homeboy is OFFENDED--

but then you tell him, "think of it this way. are you not curious about what trassel does all day? how he sees the world? what it is to be him? that's the power of video games. it's the best way to put yourself into somebody else's shoes."

and even though he still grumbles that it's literally So Pointless, he gets it a bit better with the trassel example.

which by the way! Trassel loves you. So much. You spoil him rotten and give him treats and belly rubs and matthias at first tried to insist he's like, a combat isenulf!! and not some vulgar dog!! but you look him dead in the eye for like 3 seconds and he gives in. he literally spoils him rotten and gives him belly rubs on the daily what is he even ON about

evenings at the crow club!!! delirious. so much fun. drinking games GALORE. he's cocky enough after one pint to challenge you to a drinking game and boy, do you not like to back down from a challenge. you coerce jesper into playing too, but jesper is a lightweight compared to the two of you + you're so keen on outdrinking matthias that you'll stop at nothing, not even cheating, to always be the one giving out the shots.

so jesper has to back away, and he does in mild terror, like O.o houston we might have a problem on our hands

but it leads to careless nights, stumbling drunk to your temporary home in ketterdam, leaning on each other for support and talking one another's ear off (you both get So. Talkative. when night falls and you've had too much to drink, it IS literally funny).

perhaps that's how the first "i love you" is blurted out, in the dead of night, the words forgotten in the morning by both parties, but the feeling remaining just as strong...

#murs 💎 #2022roadtrip #shadow and bone #matthias helvar #grishaverse #six of crows #matthias helvar headcanons

[lostinthelightss]

dear (lover, ch. 6)

The snow on the ground around them sparkled like diamonds in the sunlight as Nina and Matthias made their way through the forest, hand in hand...

The snow on the ground around them sparkled like diamonds in the sunlight as Nina and Matthias made their way through the forest, hand in hand. Leaning against his bold, broad shoulder, Nina shivered as another brisk gust of wind blew through the trees, the extra hat on her head doing nothing to protect against the Fjerdan chill. When Matthias had suggested a stroll through the woods behind his grandmother’s house, she’d expected it to be a little cold - hence the extra hat, and the double layers pretty much everywhere on her body - but this was on another level.

“Has my nose fallen off?” she asked, scrunching it up and causing tingles to radiate from the center of her face as she looked up at him. “I can’t feel it, it’s definitely fallen off hasn’t it.”

Matthias chuckled before leaning down and kissing her on said nose. “If it fell off, I couldn’t very well do that, now could I?”

If her cheeks weren’t already red from the cold, they certainly were now as she felt heat flood them under his gaze. “I suppose… But I think my lips fell off too, can you check for them?”

“If you wanted me to kiss you Nina,” Matthias muttered as he dipped down further, “all you had to do was ask.”

She smiled against his lips, the simple gesture warming her insides better than any whiskey she’d ever tasted. Sweeter, too. But suddenly, Matthias stiffened against her before sweeping his hands up her arms, then bringing a finger up to silence any protests she might have had.

“Look,” he whispered, the sound whisked away almost immediately on the wind, but as Nina turned to where he pointed, she understood why he’d been so quiet.

There, stepping out from behind a nearby copse of trees, was a reindeer that seemed to stand even taller than Matthias, an impressive set of antlers atop his gorgeous head.

“When I was younger,” Matthias breathed into her ear, “my grandmother would take me out hunting with her, to keep hold of our dog, Isenulf, while she scouted for the creatures.” “Isenulf? You named your dog ‘ice wolf’?”

Matthias hushed her softly, wrapping his arms around her from behind before resting his head on her shoulder. “Don’t tease, he was a very white dog and I was very young.”

A note of sorrow was woven into his words, and Nina leaned back to press a kiss against his cheek. “Did you miss him when you left home?”

“Isenulf was long gone before I left. But I did miss him, all the same.”

Another kiss, and then a long pause, as though Matthias was stuck in a distant memory, one where he’d traipsed through these woods in search of food with his grandmother, and his boyhood companion. By the time he came back to her, loosing a brief sigh into the wintery air, the reindeer had continued on its way, leaving them alone once more amongst the trees.

“Come on, I want to show you something,” he said, pulling her with him towards the space where the reindeer had appeared.

As they neared the copse, Nina spotted soft tracks against the snow, before Matthias pointed out into the distance and her breath caught in her throat. She hadn’t noticed that they’d reached the edge of a precipice that overlooked a large expanse of open field, upon which was spread a significant herd of the reindeer.

“This herd has been here since before even my grandmother was born,” he explained, gesturing again towards the meadow. “She told me that her father took her brothers out to hunt, and she would sneak out when her mother wasn’t looking and follow them through the snow.”

“Ah, so Mormor was a bit of a troublemaker herself?”

Matthias laughed again. “Without a doubt. But don’t let her know that I told you.” He placed a soft kiss against her temple and she melted into him again. “If she couldn’t find them right away, she would start to track the reindeer. If the tracks were straight, like those,” he pointed at the tracks around them, “then you could follow. That means your deer is moving with purpose. If they begin to weave, however, you have to keep an eye out, if you intend to catch it.”

“And what if your deer is standing in front of you?” Nina quipped, slipping her hand into his. “What if it’s just waiting for you to catch it?”

“Are we still talking about the reindeer, Nina?”

She grinned up at him. “I’m just wondering if you found my tracks in the woods, If you would’ve looked for me.”

Matthias smiled back at her, raising his hands to cup her cheeks with his scratchy woollen mittens. “I have always been searching for you, my dear.”

. . . . .

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[dhampiravidi]

@starlsssankt @sankta-alina-s stop me before I let Jayn adopt an isenulf (druskelle wolf) that she has to train to like Grisha--

lol imagine Aleksander finding them in the backyard of the Little Palace :)

#admin #jlw: aesthetic #I love wolves zomg

[stromuprisahat]

Calling someone a wolf is probably one of the worst insults among Grisha what with the isenulf

I wanted to go for a serious answer, but all I can think of is the possible hilarity of Grishaverse/The Witcher crossover, when witchers meet, clasping hands, hugging...

"It's good to see you, Wolf!"

bystanding Grisha:

#reply #Grishaverse #crossover #The Witcher #Grisha #grishanalyticritical #Kaer Morons

[wesper-ao3feed]

your pain is eased but you'll never be free

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/louSzTe by mosshearted “He took me to see Isenulf, the pups, actually. They were big, or maybe I was small, am small, just comparatively.” He softly tilted his head as he spoke about the wolves, Matthias paused his carving to listen better, Wylan was different. “Drüskelle took me to see them,” The word, his identity, his life, nice and neat in Wylan’s mouth, on his tongue. Words: 2138, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen, M/M Characters: Matthias Helvar, Wylan Van Eck, Jesper Fahey Relationships: Matthias Helvar & Wylan Van Eck, Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Eck Additional Tags: POV Matthias Helvar, Protective Matthias Helvar, Minor Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Eck, Protective Jesper Fahey, Talking, Childhood Memories, Bonding, Friendship/Love, Developing Friendships, Canon Related, Inspired by Twitter, is a really funny tag so im using it, Boats and Ships, Crisis of Faith, Pet Names, Affection, Jealousy, Awkward Tension, Unresolved Tension, wytthias lambisms for the fellow tortured souls, me. im a tortured soul. read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/louSzTe

#wesper #wylan x jesper #wesper fanfiction #wesper ao3feed #ao3feed #fanfiction

[pyreshegone]

six of c.rows verse rundown:

livvy gets Got by a pocket of druskelle and brought to the ice court. mattias ( @hellvar ) isn't one of the ones who catches her but he is absolutely Horrified that this witch they're talking about is a terrified little girl who can't be older than 10. he tries to reason that she's too young for trial and that she can be reformed but no one listens.

so he breaks her out of the ice court and runs like hell

during the course of the running he bonds with livvy enough to decide that he will protect her with his life. he reevaluates his stance on grisha and lowkey realizes he was in a fuckin cult. trassel too decides livvy is Baby Shaped and not a threat.

some point in the fjerdan wilderness he encounters nina, fresh from the wreckage of the boat she was held captive on and looking for ravka. and nina just sees a druskelle recruit, an isenulf, and a baby grisha that she recognizes and IMMEDIATELY attempts to yunk mattias on livvys behalf.

livvy barely keeps her from bloodbending him into a pretzel

enemies to friends to lovers ensues over the course of the month they are traveling together and livvy thinks it's the sweetest thing

nina has to accuse him of being a slaver and get him arrested to save all of their lives when the druskelle eventually catch up with them 🙃

spends the next year in ketterdam hiding her powers and pretending not to be grisha for safety while nina works to provide for them.

kaz, bastard he is, puts enough of livvys backstory together to realize that she is grisha, that she's been to the ice court, and that she escaped.

inej asks Why they brought an 11 y/o to an underground prison fight club and it turns out it's because livvy is the Singular Thing keeping mattias from killing nina.

might add more later

#✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ: ooc / and i think it's going to be a long long time #I'll think of a tag later but

[heirceleste]

@summonshadcw + i was raised by the wolves

cassidy remembers the isenulf growing up, the white wolves she thought were dogs, learning when one nearly took a hand off that they were weapons. a lesson she was reminded of once again as she's chased through the winter winds. druskelle are long dead their blood staining her flesh, a knife still clutched in her hand. a patch of ice sends her sliding into a tree, just barely managing to avoid hitting her head.

the wolf is young, she knows because the druskelle that had chased her was young too. which maybe why she hesitated for a moment, either that or the way the cold was eating away at her skin. as the wolf lunges at her, sinks its teeth into the flesh of her arm, her wrist bending to slash its throat. in that moment she feels it, a rush of power, fire at her fingertips, her body melting off the frost from her skin.

only it had not just been the bite at her arm, but claws digging into her skin. panting, she looks at the wolf with a sense of sadness, regretting having to take the life of a creature only doing all it knew. the rest of the day is a blur, cassidy is later unable to recall exactly how she survived. lucky to have made it out of the permafrost while she was being chased, cassidy managed to drag both herself and the isenulf to a second army out post.

she remembers bits and pieces, refusing to let go of the wolf. two days later when fully awake she writes a letter to the general.

druskelle in full force in ryevost and tsibeya, hiding anywhere they can. barely made it out alive and there was an incident. i'll be home in a few days and will need to meet with you immediately. regards, cassidy.

the next morning she does what must be done, strips the wolf of its fur, cooks the meat, preserving it so that it will last her the journey back to the little palace. cassidy cleans the bones and packages them, knows that they will need to be made into something she can wear. that afternoon she leaves for the little palace, stopping only when absolutely necessary to rest. still, everything passes in a blur. aches in her entire body and scratches across her chest and thigh to match the bite in her arm that hadn't been fully healed.

once at the little palace, cassidy is quick, goes directly to aleksander's rooms. bathes there and changes into one of his night shirts before climbing into bed. the bones and fur of the wolf lay in her bag next to her, feels the last week taking over her aching body, the chill of the permafrost still eating away at her beneath her skin. is just drifting off to sleep when she hears the creak of the door. saying nothing, cassidy slides over in the bed and makes room for aleksander.

"i left before i was supposed to, wasn't fully healed. but we need to talk about what happened. right now...right now i need you to lay with me for a little."

#thread: cassidy #summonshadcw #song is wolves by big sean btw #if i dot know it from the show i know it from wiki so like if im wrong lemme know and ill fix it #idk how healers work

[affcgato-archived]

⚾ :: Is your muse a competitive person? Do they ever go too far on the field/court/ice/etc.? || snagged from the development tea room’s challenge archive (september)

in canon

Matthias is heavily competitive - something he’s had to be as a matter of survival. Fjerdan villages present a very rugged lifestyle, & that was before taking into account the personal tragedy Matthias suffered losing his family, & subsequently becoming drüskelle. while he was noted as being the strongest & the fastest out of all the potential candidates, his temper doesn’t necessarily lend itself to him being a team player & he clashed with the other boys. 

Matthias as a whole tends to gravitate to harder challenges - if someone tells him something is “too difficult,” or “can’t be done,” it ignites a certainty in him that he’s going to lock onto that challenge & overcome it as a personal mission - for better or for worse. this is seen is how he selected his isenulf - going for an older, crotchety wolf instead of a more trainable pup. 

that competitiveness is absolutely how he ultimately became drüskelle & survived the Hellshow for six months before being freed. 

in his modern au.

without the added incentive of his very survival hinging on his ability to be the best, Matthias is no less competitive. he’s part of the sailing team in college, constantly pushing everyone to train hard & give themselves the same edge he constantly seeks for himself. he also plays water polo, as well as enjoys membership to other sports clubs on campus when he’s not giving his friends a good natured hard time in the classroom.

#rpcdev #→ matthias helvar // headcanon