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tsixofcrows · 1 day
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sometimes i forget crows are actual animals and they’re not a fictional group of heavily traumatised young adults im way too attached to
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barrel-crow-n · 3 days
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The other Crows as seen by Kaz
Investment
Jordie
Rich kid
Snob
Idiot
The other Crows as seen by Inej
Hot boss
Brother-like best friend
Hidden depths
Badass
Big
The other Crows as seen by Jesper
Hot boss
Badass best friend
Kinda cute
Hot shit
Fjerdan
The other Crows as seen by Wylan
Scary
Badass
Cute
Powerful
Fjerdan
The other Crows as seen by Nina
Annoying
Queen
Funny guns
Smart
Hot enemy
The other Crows as seen by Matthias
Demon
Bronze girl
Stork
Twelve year old
Witch
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All I can think about recently is that there are three main career options for Grishaverse main characters:
A) Child soldier
B) Criminal
C) ✨Both✨
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renegadesstuff · 3 days
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IT'S BEEN ONE YEAR SINCE THE CROWS RETURNED AND I'VE MISSED THEM EVER SINCE 🥺❤️
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neptune-scythe · 1 day
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you've heard of what type of person are [insert characters] at a haunted house
but allow me to present
The Crows in an escape room:
Kaz is the person who figures everything out immediately but won't say anything to anyone (they think it's because he's being a dick but really he's too smart for his own good and doesn't want to ruin the experience for the others by escaping in 10 minutes and doing everything himself), or he'll solve something while no one is looking and just go "oh wow look this just opened all by itself how crazy you should do something about that"
Inej and Matthias are calmly solving the clues and methodically writing things down, though Matthias gets frustrated early on, but he hides it well. Inej isn't as invested, she's just there to have fun with her friends and exercise her brain
Wylan is extremely invested. he wants to escape and starts getting flustered almost immediately and is more frustrated than Matthias and way worse at hiding it
Jesper and Nina are playing with the props, having conversations and making jokes. they both start screaming and jumping around excitedly any time the group solves something, even if they did nothing to contribute.
Nina is the person who keeps saying "come on guys we have to focus" and then immediately gets distracted with something that looks dick shaped and won't stop making jokes about it.
Jesper will be paying zero attention to the room and then take one look at something and solve it immediately and go right back to being silly
Kuwei is the one who looses all hope after five minutes and won't stop saying "we're all gonna die" and cannot be convinced otherwise. he doesn't do much to help just kinda sits there being a downer
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praisethelorde · 3 days
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The Six of Crows duology is my favourite book series even though I haven't touched a single Shadow and Bone book and I know I'm not the only one.
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thesuntomyshadows · 2 days
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Nina: I'm sad.
Matthias: *Holds out his arms for a hug* It’s going to be okay.
Y/N: I'm sad.
Kaz: *Nods* Mood.
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rinfae · 14 hours
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I made a bookmark for a book yay
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decider-of-fate · 3 days
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I truly think that if Leigh were to kill another crow it wouldn't be Kaz, Nina or Inej. It could be Wylan. But I think it would be Jesper. Because everyone loves Jesper and no one thinks about him dying. The others provide so much angst, but I believe it would be so incredibly heartbreaking if Jesper were to die, because I at least wouldn't expect it. And imagine it's written by Leigh, thinking about that chapter it would be especially heart wrenching.
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SoC incorrect quotes
I’m too scared to actually make real posts so you get more inccorect quotes :)
Kaz: When someone points at your black clothes and asks whose funeral it is, having a look around the room and saying 'Haven’t decided yet' is typically a good response.
Jesper: You can de-escalate any situation by simply saying, 'Are we about to kiss?' Jesper: Doesn't work for getting out of speeding tickets, by the way.
Wylan: If you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it’s venomous.  Inej: What if it bites me and it dies!?  Nina: Then you’re poisonous. Jesus Christ, Inej, learn to listen.  Kaz: What if it bites itself and I die?  Wylan: That’s voodoo.  Matthias : What if it bites me and someone else dies?  Inej: That’s correlation, not causation.  Kaz: What if we bite each other, and neither of us die?  Jesper: That’s kinky.  Wylan: Oh my God.
Jesper: I’m gonna need a human skull and I can't have you ask any questions why. Inej: Only if you also don't ask why Inej: *Pulls out 7 pristine human skulls* Take your pick. Jesper: Inej: Jesper: This one is fine
Nina: I can explain. Matthias: Can you? Nina: If you give me thirty seconds to think of a lie.
Kaz: You're the love of my life and my best friend, I would do anything for you. Inej: I want you to eat three meals a day and have a decent sleep schedule. Kaz: Absolutely not.
Jesper: Who thinks I can fit 15 marshmallows in my mouth?  Inej: You’re a hazard to society  Kaz: And a coward. DO TWENTY.
Matthias, watching the news: Someone tried to fight a squid at the aquarium today!  Nina: *walks in covered with ink* Well, maybe the squid was being a dick.
Jesper: I want to wake up with you every day for the rest of our lives  Wylan: I wake up at 4:30 AM  Jesper:  Jesper: I want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives
Jesper: Ok, maybe playing ‘whose family is most dysfunctional’ wasn’t the best idea we’ve had. Wylan's been crying in the bathroom for an hour. We can’t get them out...
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a-rainbowmess · 14 hours
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Kazzle this. Dazzle that.
NO!
I'm saying: waffles!
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barrel-crow-n · 3 days
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✨The crows and their problems✨
Inspired by that one trend
Kaz
😊Hallucinates the voice of his dead brother😊
Inej
👻Freakishly silent👻
Jesper
💫Hates himself💫
Wylan
❤Daddy issues❤
Matthias
🤗Part of a cult🤗
Nina
😜Drug addict😜
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Your analytic posts are the best:) Could you talk a bit about the scene on the roof of the embassy between Inej and Kaz? I have so many questions. They might die, so why does Inej pick that moment to tell Kaz she is leaving the Dregs? Why not wait until they are on the boat? Also why does Kaz rub her wrist (through the gloves, of course) where the temporary menagerie tattoo is? Why does Inej touch Kaz's cheek? And why does Inej tell him she will die unafraid?
Kaz's POV chapter previous to this scene is the only one where he doesn't really think about Inej. He is totally focused on finding Pekka in the prison. So, I was surprised when he said to Inej "I want you to know..." What did he want her to know? (I'm sure with her hand on his face --the first positive physical contact he's had in almost a decade--and her question to him about dying unafraid, his mind was reeling. It's no wonder he couldn't formulate an answer to her question).
Hello and welcome to episode one of DK Finally Gets It Together And Answers Her Asks Because It's About Damn Time (working title)
I am so sorry you sent this such a long time ago, but thank you so much for asking it and I hope my terrible answeringness (that's a word now, I've decided) hasn't put you off my stuff, I promise I'm not ignoring you on purpose, when I first read this I thought it was really interesting and I needed some time to think about it and now it's so long later it might even be a year and yeah, I'm sorry, but I'm here - let's go!
So I think that the reason Inej chooses to tell Kaz she's leaving the Dregs in this moment is for the very reason you voiced: they might die tonight, and they might not see each other again before that happens. Inej comments earlier on in the book, when they get hot chocolate at a cafe in Djerholm and wait for Nina to return, that whenever she talks about Ravka or about going home Kaz turns away and tries to find another conversation - in this case I think he starts chatting to Jesper - so we already have this idea that he doesn't want to confront the truth of the situation, which is that Ketterdam is a very temporary part of Inej's life. For Kaz the city is what fuels him and he needs it to enact his vengeance, but he also never sees himself leaving it after Rollins is dead and I think that's really interesting because he almost doesn't know how to comprehend any other existence - I've spoken before about how I don't think that killing Rollins will ever be enough for him and that his revenge is essentially an addiction. It's possible that he will one day be able to find the future and the relief that he needs in Inej, but right now not only does he struggle to view himself as ever leaving Ketterdam but he also struggles with the idea of being alone there - as far as he can see Nina and Matthias will go home together/find a new home together, Wylan will make peace with his father over whatever their arguement was and return to the Geldstradt, Jesper will pay off his debts only to carry on digging himself in deeper whilst Kaz is forced to watch him destroy himself, and Inej will leave and let Ketterdam become a brief blip in her life. I think that, for all he doesn't want to care about the others, Kaz has a very real fear of being an impermanent, small aspect of the others' lives whilst they are such a big aspect of his. And the most frightening part of that for him is to not have Inej with him anymore, the one person he can confide in, seemingly the only person he talks to without specific job-related purposes except maybe Jesper, and the only person he can remove his gloves on front of - I think this inner conflict is really well presented in the Bathroom Scene when he thinks about how he'd concocted a thousand schemes to bind her to him, but that ultimately he knew he was in the wrong and so he paid off her contract with Per Haskell and returned it to her. But from Inej's perspective, considering she doesn't know how he feels about her at this time, I think this could almost look cold. He doesn't want to know about her home, her life, who she was supposed to be, and what she's going to do with her future, and she may even be internalising the idea that the idea she can pay off her debts then up and leave angers him because we know that she massively internalised his description of her as "an investment" with damaging psycological consequences including her belief that she would not come to save her when she was taken by Van Eck and this even extending so far as the quote "He'll never trade if you break me". This is a gut-wrenching moment in Crooked Kingdom, when Inej is forced to admit that she genuinely believes Kaz will not care about her anymore if he "has no use for me anymore", whilst the reader knows that Kaz is losing his mind over rescuing her.
And all of that, as Kaz points out to himself on Black Veil during the "I would come for you" scene, is borne of real actions he completes that, although in a far less intentional way, actually align with some of the abuse that Inej has endured; the dehumanisation she experienced from being "bought and sold like a bolt of cotton" and the way she was denied her own identity to the point that she almost cried when she heard her own name said aloud can both be directly linked to the multiple times Kaz refers to her as an "investment" and the way he doesn't want to hear about her life. And his intentions are never to hurt her in the way he does or in the way she was hurt in the past, but it is also more than possible that some of this is part of the way Kaz distances himself from the others and pushes them away. There's a quote I think about a lot when Inej is horrified to see that Jackal masks, sacred symbols to Suli religion and culture, are sold like "party favours" and worn by pleasure seekers in Ketterdam and Kaz dismisses her emotions, and he then says "In moments like that, she thought he might hate him". I remember reading that and thinking 'yeah, because you just defended the appropriation of her culture, which she herself was forced to appropriate for a year whilst enduring horrific abuse, it would be more than fair to be mad at you right now' but I wonder whether that's almost what he wanted? I talked about it in my "Treasure of my heart" analysis as well where he uses a sarcastic expression of his real feelings to mock her so that's she'll be upset and he come somehow justify that it's therefore not worth liking her because she doesn't return his feelings; it's a self-destructive mechanism, but without meaning to it has the potential to hurt Inej as well.
Wow, if there were awards for tangents I think I'd win them. But my point here is that I think this is exactly why she chooses to tell him in this moment, because she has to say it and she has to make him hear it in case they don't make it out the other side of this night. It's also possible that Inej wants to have her dream said out loud in case she dies tonight. Although she was unable to voice it to Nina because she didn't think it was ready to be shared, that was when they were still following the original plan. Now that everything has spiralled very quickly out of control and into a new, far more daring plan with a lot more moving parts, and that will directly involve revealing themselves to be infiltrating the Ice Court, Inej knows there's a very good chance she won't survive the night. And if she isn't going to make it, she needs someone to know what she intends to do, it needs to be said out loud so that it's real and it means something.
Wondering what Kaz wanted Inej to know is one of the things about these books that has at some point or other kept me awake at night, and honestly my personal final conclusion is that I don't think he knew what he was going to say, but that I think this could have been his first attempt at a confession. This scene bears explicit parallels to the Bathroom Scene in Crooked Kingdom, as you said it's the first time they touch and both of them are greatly vulnerable in each moment; this is a moment of fear, of trust, of realisation, and I think for both of them it arguable is to some extent a confession. I think Inej tells Kaz that she will die unafraid as almost the beginning of what eventually becomes "I will have you without armour", she is directly challenging him in the way he hides his emotions but she has still seen them, and she directly telling him that she is trying to heal and that they only have a chance if he tries to heal as well. Inej doesn't tell Kaz she will only have him without his armour to say that he isn't good enough for her as he is or that he needs to fix himself alone for the final goal of being with her, but she is saying that if he continues down this path and never lets anyone help him and never makes any attempt at healing, that she will not be able to stay with him because she has to try to heal as well and she knows she would have to pull herself away from that situation to be able to do so. I really hope this makes sense. But I think that the touching of Kaz's cheek and the touching of the temporary menagerie tattoo could very much be linked to this idea that the confession has begun or will be coming and I also think it bears resemblance to the Bathroom Scene and I really adore that as a paralell
Thank you so so much for your question, I am so sorry about how long it has taken me to respond but I hope that this was interesting and made sense. And I am planning on continuing to work through my inbox moving forwards, so stay tuned for episode two, and please don't be put off form keeping asks coming I promise I am making my way through them! <3
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tsixofcrows · 1 day
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i think when the crows have their meetings they need a talking stick because..things get messy
like can you imagine??
kaz: nina, we should-
nina: hush bitch *waves stick wildly*
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a-map-of-gays · 2 days
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The Six Crows as the Bg3 Origin companions
Or: I am not immune to groups of six
Astarion and Kaz
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This is the most obvious one. Violent and feral persona, but secretly deeply soft. Very sexualised in fandom/canon despite having trauma that makes intimacy very difficult
Karlach and Jesper
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Chaotic entity of destruction. Metal/Heat/Melting imagery. Loves everyone passionately, big fan of physical touch. 'I wanna ride you till you see stars' is 100% a Jesper line, as is 'Maybe I liked your stupid face' for Karlach.
Wyll and Matthias
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Devoutly serving a power that is not healthy/teaches them to destroy people for things they can't control. CRIMINALLY underrated in the fandom. Just the sweetest boys.
Gale and Wylan
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Characterised as very sweet and baby, actually very forward when it comes to flirting. Bombs. Big wet eyes. Awkward and insecure, but can be arrogant when it comes to their abilities.
Lae'zel and Nina
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Trained to be a soldier from a very young age, incredibly patriotic/faithful to their own people. Naturally on the offensive with strangers, not particularly trusting.
Shadowheart and Inej
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Devoutly religious, gods favourite princess, objectively has the most main character energy of the group (despite fandom giving the title to astarion/kaz)
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