#kanej my beloved

[reggieslocket]

you just don't get him like i do (a traumatized fictional character with a horrible past who has murdered people)

#shadow and bone #shadow and bone s2 #kaz brekker #inej gafha #kanej #jesper fahey #six of crows #wylan van eck #nina zenik #matthias helvar #freddy carter #amita suman #kit young #jack wolfe #grishaverse #wesper #kanej my beloved

[gigi-drxws]

One of my fav quote of all time 🖤

#shadow and bone #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej fanart #kanej my beloved #six of crows

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

More little details that you might have missed/forgotten about in Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

(Part 4, I think)

1) When Bahjan said that if she didn’t eat anything he would have to force-feed her, Inej’s immediate reaction was to reply that if he tried then she’d but his fingers off and honestly I just love that so much what a damn icon

2) It also took Inej all of five minutes to become suspicious that Bajhan and Alys were having an affair, and there are several instances later in the book that heavily imply her to be correct

3) When Jesper was a kid and first realised that he could pull colour from objects, his first instinct was to bleach a massive swear word across his father’s jurda field; this will never fail to amuse me

4) In the first chapter of Six of Crows, Leigh has Joost wish that Anya’s eyes were blue instead of brown because they would be easier to compliment, then spent the rest of two novels having Kaz and Inej internally describe and compliment each other’s brown eyes over and over again - it gets me every time

5) When Colm first arrives in Ketterdam and Jesper is terrified to tell him the truth of what’s going on, Wylan panics and makes up a lie about being duped out of their money. He also immediately takes the blame, claiming that he suggested to Jesper that they took a deal that turned out to be false. Not only is this linking to the point the books like to bring across about the best lies being close to the truth by referencing the deal with Van Eck going south, but it’s also a heartbreaking nod to Wylan’s trauma when he internally explains his reasoning for doing it; that he couldn’t bare the idea of Colm’s stress and confusion turning to anger that he would take out on Jesper. We as the reader know Colm to be a wonderful man and a far cry from Van Eck, and although Wylan quickly learns this in that exact moment it’s a dark nod to the paralysing fear he had of his own father because of the abuse he suffered, and the terror that every parent is like that and he has to put himself in the way to protect Jesper.

#sorry I’ve been kinda mia for a bit #gonna try to get through my inbox soon #love y’all darlings #grishaverse #leigh bardugo #six of crows #crooked kingdom #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #nina zenik #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #kanej #wesper #kanej my beloved #wesper my beloved

[sandyman-on-a-pirateship]

well, well, well if someone isn't about to lose focus and have a consensual workplace relationship:

#try guys #kaz brekker #inej gjafa #inej my queen #incorrect six of crows #six of crows #soc #crooked kingdom #soc duology #shadow and bone #sab netflix #kanej #kaz x inej #kanej my beloved #grishaverse #consensual workplace relationship #inej gahfas #try guys drama

[savethegrishaverse]

(credits to @butyoureyessaidyes for the accurate meme)

#grishaverse #shadow and bone #six of crows #netflix shadow and bone #netflix #sab #soc and ck #soc #six of crows fandom #kazzle dazzle #kaz dirtyhands brekker #kaz fucking brekker #kaz x inej #kaz brekker #kanej #kanej meme #kanej my beloved #save the grishaverse #saveshadowandbone #save shadow and bone #six of crows spinoff #six of crows spin off #no mourners no funerals

[hyper-fixated-princess]

I can’t wait for Kanej to reunite so that Inej gets stabbed and Kaz carries her all the way to the ship without his cane and proceeds to remove Oomen’s eye with his bare hands cause he can't handle the thought of losing her again.

#gotta love the angst #this would be fantastic #kanej #kanej fanfiction #kanej headcanon #kaz brekker #kaz x inej #inej x kaz #kanej supremacy #kanej my beloved #kaz rietveld #inej ghafa #six of crows #six of crows duology #six of crows netflix #netflix shadow and bone #shadow and bone netflix #shadow and bone series #shadow and bone season two spoilers #shadow and bone season 2 #sab spoilers #soc spoilers

[lynsstrange]

i once read a Pinterest comment that said “do you think Kaz sometimes holds Inej in a way where he can remind himself that the person he’s holding is alive and breathing?” And I have not been mentally well since

#Six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej my beloved #kanej #bookworm #ya books #the dregs #grishaverse #leigh bargudo #shadow and bone #leigh bardugo #jesper fahey #nina zenik #wylan van eck #matthias helvar

[historicalfictionenthusiast]

Hey (with the intention of coming for you, and if I couldn’t walk I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together—knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do.)

#kanej my beloved #six of crows #leigh bardugo #grishaverse #grisha netflix #shadow and bone #kanej has my whole heart #kanej #kaz brekker #inej gafha #six of crows wylan #kaz x inej #inej supremacy #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #nina zenik #matthias helvar #wesper #helnik #crooked kingdom #fantasy #romance #soulmates

[sylv3onpropaganda]

six of crows fans are so insane that they could see kaz and inej make eye contact once and go “oh my GOD. THEY SHOULD GET MARRIED. THAT EYE CONTACT WAS SO POETIC. I WANT A LOVE LIKE THIS.” but if they ever kissed everyone would go “HOW COULD THEY. this is a TRAVESTY. they RUINED kanej. i am NEVER buying a book EVER again.”

#have 2 run all my posts by the grishaverse swifties now #ly guys #this isn’t a critique by the way we’re so right for that #kanej #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #six of crows #crooked kingdom #grishaverse #the grishaverse #kanej my beloved

[lpa6zn]

It seems to me that we are all a little too obsessed with them.

#grishaverse #shadow and bone #six of crows #kaz brekker #kanej supremacy #kaz x inej #netflix shadow and bone #shadow and bone s2 #kanej #kanej my beloved #my darling inej #inej ghafa #soc #i love them #*cries in kanej* #it's understandable #they are amazing

[siredtodeadgaywizards]

Inej: Why crows, Kaz? You could’ve chosen a new symbol, built a new myth.

Kaz: Caw caw motherfuckers

#kazzle dazzle #kaz brekker #demjin #kaz dirtyhands brekker #the bastard of the barrel #inej ghafa #the wraith #kanej incorrect quotes #kaz x inej #six of crows #crooked kingdom #grishaverse #ketterdam #my darling inej #*cries in kanej* #kanej my beloved #incorrect grisha quotes #the crows #the dregs #he calls her his investment i can’t #freddy carter #amita suman #kaz fucking brekker #brekker by brekker #the crow club #the slat #incorrect kanej #soc #knife wife

[reggieslocket]

it's always "i love you" and never "i would have come for you. and if i couldn't walk, i'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together, knives drawn, pistols blazing. because that's what we do. we never stop fighting."

#shadow and bone #shadow and bone s2 #sab s2 #sab season 2 #sab spoilers #shadow and bone season 2 #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #kanej my beloved #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wesper #nina zenik #matthias helvar #helnik #six of crows #grishaverse #the crows

[henryspocket]

#shadow and bone #shadow and bone season 2 #six of crows #kaz brekker #inej gafha #kanej #kaz x inej #kanej my beloved

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

An interesting thing about Kaz is the way he views a hierarchy within everyone he meets, an attitude probably defined in him by the Kerch culture of trade and the environment of Ketterdam. Kerch is a country that in many ways is designed to reflect the American Dream as it is portrayed in classic literature such as The Great Gatsby: as an ultimately unattainable and useless lie, designed to control and quell the masses in the danger of extreme capitalism. The social hierarchy in Ketterdam is well-established and discussed throughout the novels, though mostly in Crooked Kingdom since the plot stays almost entirely within city limits, and the attitude of viewing a miniature hierarchy amongst those around you as part of the overall societal structure is evidenced in Kaz, and possibly reflected in Wylan; a link both to their different upbringings within the Ketterdam social structure, and their position as literary foils. (I wrote a whole long thing about how Kaz and Wylan had/have the potential to become each other, so feel free to check that out for more detail if you want it). The city’s hierarchy and the unattainability of joining the rich upper echelon of society is cleverly hinted at from the very beginning of Six of Crows, when Kaz is jumped and then wakes up in what he expects to be the deb of a rival gang. He instead finds himself in Councilman Hoede’s Manor House, which I believe is on the Geldstradt, and the way he makes the distinction is by realising that the decor in the room he’s in “takes real money”. We know that people like Pekka Rollins or Tante Heleen have become truly rich from what they do in the Barrel, and so it’s strange to suggest that you’d need “real money” for this since we would generally use that phrase to refer to a large amount of money. What Kaz actually means here is “old money” or “family money”; you need the kind of money that the Merchant Council have been hoarding for generations, making supposedly risky trades when they have millions of savings to cushion the blow if things go wrong, not the kind of money that comes from the popular gambling dens and brothels of the Barrel. He means the kind of money that Daisy and Tom have in Great Gatsby, people who’ve never worked a day in their lives and yet like to think of themselves as very successful at life when all they’re truly succeeding in is spending their parents money, not the kind of money that Gatsby scraped and saved and began to chase through undisclosed illicit means. Even when men like Gatsby and Rollins make their money, and their name, they are never equal in the social hierarchy to people with old money. (To be clear, not that this is a defence of either character, I have criticisms of both, especially Rollins).

But the hierarchy Kaz places upon himself and upon the others is slightly more subtle, and arguably subversive. He looks down on Matthias because he “stinks of decency” and because he supposedly hasn’t struggled, arguably gaining slightly more respect for him when he learns of him losing his parents and baby sister but still maintaining the idea of ‘everyone has a sob story and you were clearly more lucky in your options to deal with it than I was, it’s not my fault if you made the wrong choice’. We as readers obviously know that Matthias had no options but to go with Jarl Brum and spent the next 6 years of his life (I think that’s the right amount of time, please correct me if I’m wrong) being emotionally manipulated and abused by him, but Kaz simply refuses to accept has suffered because it would be psychologically damaging to him to admit that Matthias was able to go through that and still come out a good person, when Kaz sees himself as having become truly demonic. Matthias looks down on Kaz for the exact same reason, unable to understand - especially since he knows far less detail about Kaz’s trauma - how someone who ever had a core of decency couldn’t maintain it through their pain, he assumes Kaz was never a good person, or never had the potential to be one. Kaz also looks down on Wylan, arguably far less for his attempt to maintain a core decency but because he views Wylan as having had the option to do so. Kaz seems to have more respect for Wylan in Crooked Kingdom than in Six of Crows, when he knows more about (but never, it should be noted, the full extent of) Jan Van Eck’s abuse to his son, once again showcasing that he struggles to accept the idea of someone feeling bad when they have supposedly suffered less than him. His trauma has clearly warped him in many ways, and one of them is losing the ability to see relative pain and how different things can affect different people in different ways; he effectively views everything in the manner of ‘I had it worse, and I’m fine so you need to get over yourself’. He labels Nina “a snob” for staying away from the Crow Club and the Slat despite being a Dregs member, and her response is “she didn’t much care what Kaz Brekker thought”. I think that Nina is possible the person Kaz holds the most respect for in his platonic relationships, and that is mostly because she simply couldn’t care less whether he respects her or not.

His relationship with Jesper is more complex; he judges Jesper for his addiction and yet continually eggs him on, giving him a line of credit to play cards at the start of Six of Crows and having the first step of his planning in Crooked Kingdom to make Jesper play all night, although it’s unclear whether Jesper has ever shared anything about his mother if anyone knows then the most likely parties are Kaz or Inej and yet Kaz forces Jesper to give up his revolvers in Crooked Kingdom, his most treasured possession and his constant connection to his late mother, he consistently infantilises Jesper, but mostly in his head and this is possibly an interesting link to the final nail in the coffin of their relationship; Kaz sees Jesper as a substitute to Jordie. I think it’s possible that he likes to see him as younger because that’s how he remembers Jordie - it’s also important to remember that Kaz is now several years older than his elder brother ever was so seeing him in someone his own age is possibly even more painful because that’s a point Jordie never reached (he was only 13 when he died). Jesper is someone that Kaz feels the need to keep at arms length, not because he doesn’t respect him but because he fears having a close relationship with someone who could so easily slip away from him like Jordie did. I think we can also arguably see aspects of Jordie within Jesper, the naïveté of thinking you can make it Ketterdam followed by the city swallowing you whole, killing Jordie and driving Jesper to his slow self-destruction - “I’m dying anyway, Da. I’m just doing it slow”. (If y’all have read many of my analytical posts you may have begun to notice that’s one of my favourite quotes)

Then we have Inej. Kaz places Inej on a pedestal whatever she does. I’ve spoken before about how she claims to be bad at picking locks whilst he claims to have done “a shoddy job at teaching her to pick locks” because he’s incapable of accepting that she is incapable of something; if there are flaws, they must be his because she cannot have any. In a lot of situations this can be harmful, going back to the romance of Daisy and Gatsby where Daisy is placed on a pedestal and idealised so much that she become more of an image than a person, so when she does not live up to his every high expectation Gatsby is destroyed by it. But with kanej this seems only to elevate their position, possibly because Kaz isn’t claiming that Inej is flawless, but rather that she is capable of working on her flaws in a way that he isn’t; it is almost a form of envy. For example, Inej also has a fear of touch and human contact, but she purposely forced herself to cope with small amounts of it, such as allowing Nina and Jesper to hug her even though it makes her flinch, because she fears it becoming a debilitating condition, as it has done for Kaz (not that she knows that initially when it’s first implied that she too fears contact). In the bathroom scene when she admits to him that she also struggles with touch, it has such a massive effect on Kaz not because he refuses to accept that she has flaws but because he sees her as so much stronger than himself and wishes that he could be more like her. Although both of them are ultimately unable to go any further than a few light brushes of contact, it’s suggested that what trigger Inej more than the touch itself is the sexual implications of those touches based on everything she went through at the Menagerie. Kaz doesn’t see Inej aligned with with himself or the other gang members, but as above them - and not in the way he labels Nina as a snob, but in a genuine manner he refuses to acknowledge her as low in society because he sees her as deserving of so much more. He notably never refers to her as “a canal rat” and he never even comes close to defining her by her time at the Menagerie, a start contrast between him, the supposed low of the hierarchy, and Van Eck, the supposed upper, he yells at her “you little skiv! You little whore!”. However, there is one way in which Kaz arguably looks down on Inej and it’s in a similar way that he looks down in Matthias: how dare she still try so hard to remain truly good, and decent, and to find her Saints and to politely ask them for forgiveness, when it would be so much easier to let the world beat that out of her? Arguably, it’s not that he judges either of them for their faith, but it’s that he fears them judging him for losing his, be that in religion or in the world at all. (I don’t think we know if Kaz was raised in a religious household or not, but based on societal structure in Ketterdam and the way most of the population in most of the countries are religious I think it’s safe to assume he at least grew up with an understanding of Ghezen). Kaz fears that they’ll judge him for failing to maintain his core of decency, which is exactly what Matthias does, and so he aims to offend or challenge them before they can him.

Ok I’m not gonna lie to you guys it’s like quarter past one in the morning as I’m writing this, and oh my god it just got so long out of nowhere… I might have lost my point somewhere in there, I don’t even know, this came from one quote I was thinking about and I’m not sure I even wrote that quote in there so, yeah, I guess. If you bothered to read this far the tysm I hope it made sense

#grishaverse #leigh bardugo #six of crows #crooked kingdom #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #nina zenik #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #kanej #kanej my beloved #kanej bathroom scene #kanej supremacy #matthias helvar #freddy carter #amita suman #ketterdam #kerch

[yearning4life]

when he's a murderer but he also wants to “bottle up your laugh and get drunk on it every night”

#kaz brekker #inej ghafa #shadow and bone #shadow and bone series #six of crows #crooked kingdom #kaz x inej #inej x kaz #kanej my beloved #kanej headcanon #leigh bardugo #nina x matthias #kaz dirtyhands brekker #the wraith #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #nina zenik #matthias helvar #them <3

[strawberryloveyyy]

Kaz Brekker appreciation post. Because isn’t he just so dreamy? If he isn’t the man of my dreams. Then I’ve got no dreams. I could even say he’s the man of my nightmares... But if he’s in them, would they even be nightmares?

#kazzle dazzle #kaz brekker #kaz #kazoo #inej ghafa #inej #knife wife #i love inej #kanej has my whole heart #kanej my beloved #kanej #kanej supremacy #*cries in kanej* #nina zenik #jesper fahey #wylan van sunshine #matthias helvar #six of crows #crooked kingdom #rule of wolves #shadow and bone #shadow and bone season 2 #helnik #wesper #holy shit he’s pretty #the teenage girl is teenage girling