#pre soc

[lunarthecorvus]

I love the different dynamics Inej has with Jesper and Nina because both are like her best friend / sibling yet she's has two distinctly different relationship with them, but also at the same time they are similar dynamics, I know I sound confusing, just here me out.

I picture Nina as the person Inej might confide in, and Nina would confide in her as well. And she's the person who will be with her when she needs to vent but also the person who will help lift her up. (I can also see Jesper doing this, but eh) Also, I think Nina would try to ease Inej out of her comfort zone for stuff like helping Inej feel more comfortable in her body after the Menagerie.

And for Jesper, I can see her having a veryy sibling like dynamic. For example, they'd practice fighting together, but they'd end up just laughing. They'd both talk about home with each other sometimes. Also, because Jesper was her first friend, I reckon he was there for her first drink and showed her how to laugh in this world again. Jesper would teach Inej Kaelish and Zemini dances, and Inej would sometimes teach him Suli dances.

Now that I'm writing this, I have a list of the similarities of their relationship.. One of them is that they both would cheer her up when she's down, but each in unique ways. Fuck now my brain has forgotten the other points I was going to make... So I might update this if they come back to me..

I hope this makes sense, and this probably is not grammatically correct, I might make a part 2, but I'm not sure, though. By relationships, I mean in the friendship/ family way, NOT the romantic way. I would love to read a fic pre soc exploring both relationships and how they interact with Inej, so if you have any recs, feel free to send them my way :)

- No mourners

#grishaverse #inej ghafa #nina zenik #jesper fahey #six of crows #crooked kingdom #soc #leigh bargudo #pre soc #six of crows inej #six of crows jesper #six of crows nina

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Jesper: Oh fuck you, merchling

Wylan: Fuck me yourself, coward

Jesper: oh

#obvs pre get together #soc #six of crows #soc incorrect quotes #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wesper

[theriseandfallofshittyurls]

playing with colour

#liv’s art #they’re participating in a pre-soc heist #wylan got dragged along clearly #six of crows #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #nina zenik #inej ghafa #poor matthias in hellgate atm #he isn’t important enough for kaz to break him out :( #kanej #wesper #ig #biblically accurate crows #book accurate crows #artists on tumblr #pre-soc #my art

[barrel-crow-n]

Kaz and Pim in front of Jesper's room, in the Slat, after he didn't answer the door

Pim: Huh, maybe he's not here? I hope he's alright...

Kaz: Don't worry, Pim, I've got a key to his room

Pim, bewildered: Wh- wait, wh-why? You shouldn't have keys to anyone's room!

Kaz: Nah, I've got keys everywhere, and you've all been fine. By the way, I may have left something in your room today, so let me know if you find it! You're not afraid of centipedes, are you?

Pim: KAZ! That's literally my only fear, WHY would you do this?!

Kaz: What? It could be a totally unrelated question! You'll never know until it's too late...

#quote from the amazing digital circus #this happened pre-canon #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #pim dregs #six of crows #six of crows duology #soc #grishaverse #incorrect soc quotes #the dregs

[fantastic-nonsense]

absolutely obsessed with how Kanej is a friends-to-lovers relationship where their broken pieces fit together and complement each other in a way that is nearly impossible to achieve with anyone else in their lives

We get several fun little tidbits of Kaz and Inej's pre-canon relationship sprinkled throughout the books, and it's honestly fascinating how Bardugo did the best she could to scream "they're best friends!" without outright saying so.

We know that Kaz gave Inej her first knife and personally trained her ("Kaz taught her to crack a safe, pick a pocket, wield a knife"). We know that Inej regularly spent time in Kaz's room doing everything from giving reports while watching him casually undress (lol) to lounging on his windowsill while he worked. We know they stole the DeKappel together. The literal second chapter of SoC mentions that they "spent weeks" playing Buzzfeed Unsolved about the Exchange murder case. And we get these delightful throwaway lines too:

In nearly two years of battling side by side with Kaz, of late-night scheming, impossible heists, clandestine errands, and harried meals of fried potatoes and hutspot gobbled down as they rushed from one place to another, this was the first time she had touched him skin to skin, without the barrier of gloves or coat or shirtsleeve. -Ch. 28, SoC

Kaz had rescued her from that hopelessness, and their lives had been a series of rescues ever since, a string of debts that they never tallied as they saved each other again and again. -Ch. 4, CK

But I’m here now, he thought wildly. He had carried her, fought beside her, spent whole nights next to her, both of them on their bellies, peering through a long glass, watching some warehouse or merch’s mansion. This was nothing like that. -Ch. 26, CK

Like...they're besties, y'all. Inej became the one constant in Kaz's life and she gets him on a level that no one else does. Meanwhile, Kaz manages to always see Inej even though she's crafted her entire persona on being invisible. Jesper may be Kaz's brother and Nina may be Inej's sister but Kaz and Inej are each other's best friend, and the bond of all those shared experiences are a big part why they fall in love with each other.

That bond also deeply informs how they interact with each other throughout the books. Kaz and Inej are in some ways custom-built for yearning and pining and loving from a distance because of their pasts and mutual trauma, and there aren't very many other people who could understand how that trauma affects them and what healing looks like. The reciprocity of that understanding and the allowances they give each other because of it is a genuine rarity that I don't think many people appreciate, especially in a relationship weighed down by that much mutual baggage.

Kaz can't touch skin and Inej often walks on metaphorical eggshells due to the fear of her skin being touched. And while their trauma comes from dramatically different places, they both react to it similarly: by becoming "untouchable," keeping most people at a distance, and laser-focusing on a personal goal. Even their PTSD manifests in similar ways: Kaz physically and psychologically feels like he's drowning when he's triggered, but Inej dissociates and retreats inside herself, drowning within her own mind.

But as traumatized as they both are, as angry and stubborn and mean as they can both be with each other, they're each other's safe harbor in a very lonely and dangerous world that dealt them both a shitty hand; relying on and trusting each other helped keep them afloat and alive. So they're willing to let each other go even if it kills them inside, because they have too much personal respect for each other and themselves to do anything different...but they're willing to fight for each other too, and that's what makes them click in a way that would be insanely difficult to accomplish with any other person.

Kaz and Inej don't really want to become more whole for each other, though that's part of it, but they absolutely want to become more whole because of each other. They want each other, physically and emotionally. They can't necessarily have each other at first because of their mutual trauma, but they're also both willing to a) fight for the chance to be together and b) give each other the space, time, and freedom to heal on their own terms, because they both fundamentally respect the other as a person and friend...which is the solid foundation that enables them to eventually come together and succeed as a couple.

Anyway nothing says "this ship is for yearning" like the boy who can't stand physical touch and the girl who escaped from sex slavery, both of whom are deeply traumatized by their pasts but see each other as bringing safety and magic into their world. We simply have no choice but to stan.

#AND HERE'S PART 2 OF THE MASSIVE META I HAD TO SPLIT UP #in which I wax poetic over Kanej AGAIN #(also the more I think about the tiny breadcrumbs bardugo left for us the more obsessed I become over pre-canon!Kanej) #six of crows #crooked kingdom #long post #soc meta #kanej #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #otp: on the seas and in the city

[sleepless-crows]

i personally think freddy did an amazing job bringing kaz to life with what he was handed but the writers still haven't managed to accurately depict kaz

#and i wont take the 'oh its because this is kaz pre-soc and he need character development' when they literally adapted so many ck scenes #i should go to sleep my mind is suffering #grishaverse #six of crows #shadow and bone #soc #kaz brekker #sab spoilers #shadow and bone spoilers

[incorrectquoteslobby]

Matthias: Look, last night was a mistake Nina: A sexy mistake Matthias: No, just a regular mistake

#YOU LEAVE HER ALONE #this is probably pre-soc (mabey mid-soc?) #soc incorrect quotes #soc #six of crows incorrect quotes #six of crows #soc matthias #matthias soc #matthias helvar #soc nina #nina soc #nina zenik #helnik #matthias x nina #nina x matthias #helnik incorrect quotes

[bitchthefuck1]

i decided to reread the books as comfort and i love this from the beginning about a Zemeni ambassador's murder "Kaz hated a puzzle he couldn’t solve, and he and Inej had concocted a hundred theories to account for the murder - none of which satisfied." Kaz being a nerd over impossible crimes and theorizing w Inej is so great

It's honestly one of my favorite of his character traits, that insatiable need to figure out how something works. Also I love the mental image of he and Inej in his office late in the evening tossing theories back and forth trying to figure out how the hell the killer pulled it off

#like his obsession with puzzles and figuring out how things work is just such a great foundation to build the character off of and I love #that its one of the few clear character threads that we see throughout his life like its one of the things that stayed constant about him #pre and post losing jordie #six of crows #kaz brekker #soc

[mistylakeee]

Sometimes I just think of pre-soc Kanej and how they would just hang out in Kaz’s room all the time simply enjoying each other’s presence *sighs*

#kanej #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #six of crows #soc #pre-soc #I think about this too much #this is the most wholesome thing ever #they ate dinner together up there #they plotted and solved murders together up there #I want this kanej banter #did he show her ~card tricks~ #cuz I would pay money to read that #kaz is such a dork loser that he probably did cuz he wanted to impress her #anyways

[six-of-cringe]

never thought i'd say it. not happy about gay sex

#look. some of it might not be as bad as it seems. #i don't have context or all the facts i haven't watched it yet #maybe this 'bathroom scene' is just a precursor for a later callback #but like. jesper had a one night stand or something with wylan and FUCKING FORGOT ABOUT HIM??? #real cute real romantic. /s #the hypersexual bi man trope!! the unnecessary sexualization of queer relationships!!!! #like there's nothing wrong with stories about relationships like this! to me it's the fact that it's being applied to wesper! #a relationship which i enjoyed bc of the slower building of care and knowledge and trust and meaning and all that sap shit #these writers do not know how to show queer characters' sexualities without making them have sex. #jesper just forgot about the prince who fell into the wrong story dude i'm gonna be sick #of all the ways they could have written jesper and wylan's pre-SoC history........bruh #listen wesper might have been the least developed of the SoC relationships but holy shit it was better than this #jesper wylan get behind me sweethearts #idk how to describe why it feels so hurtful. it just feels like something has been taken from that story #shadow and bone netflix spoilers #sab spoilers #s&b spoilers #delete later #this isn't like SEX BAD GAY SEX BAD. it just has me going like. who are these guys. these are different guys. #they are doing strange things that the people they claim to be would not. this story has been altered in a way that makes me feel it less #if you enjoy it still fine. but for me it detracts.

[soctherapy]

kinda wanna start some oneshot series abt the socs on ao3

#shut up staar #mostly cause i’m just thinking abt cherry hating fights #idk. just a look into the socs lives pre-canon

[themerchliing]

@wehavefoundthestars

Out of all the events Wylan was taken to, dinner parties had to be among his least favorite. He found no joy in sitting there pretending to be the perfect image of a Mercher’s son while surrounded by his father's stuffy colleagues. It wasn’t like they ever acknowledged him anyway, so why did he have to be dragged along each time? He was aware that his father was simply keeping up appearances but it was no secret to either of them that his frustration and hatred of Wylan seemed like it was about to reach a breaking point.

Tonight was the same as always as he sat quietly, head lowered while his fork idly played with the beets on his plate. He strongly disliked beets but he would gladly eat a whole plateful if it meant he would somehow be freed from all of this. At least dinner would be coming to an end shortly, giving Wylan the chance to slip away into a quiet corner to hide until he was carted back home. He’d no doubt get an earful about all the wrongs he’d committed upon returning but that was par for the course.

To his left sat a family that he hadn’t seen before. A man, a woman, and a boy who might have been closer to Wylan’s age. That made a change; usually the people who attended these events were always middle-aged or older. It was refreshing to see someone in his age bracket, even if it might not change the outcome of the night.

Once dinner was finally over and his father moved to the lounge with the businessman he was trying to make a deal with, Wylan began his hunt for a quiet area to escape. He had to be careful while roaming so that he didn’t accidentally trespass into a room that was off limits. Figuring the lower levels and gardens were safe, he made himself as discreet as possible and wandered down a hallway. He tried one of the doors and found that it swung open to reveal a library. Wylan managed a wry smile. Ironic that a safe, empty space for him would be among books. He stepped inside and quietly clicked the door closed behind him.

#wehavefoundthestars #&; ( in character ) #&; verse ( pre soc )

[boysborntodie]

Me @ to anyone, please anyone, I am begging you-

#do i think we need an outsiders remake/reboot/etc? no #do i want one? FUCK YES #come we've gotten like over a dozen anne of green gables remakes #just one outsiders remake to reawaken the fandom #it doesn't even need to be good i just need it to become relevant again #in my most delusional fantasies I'd wish for a sort of AU where johnny and dally survive and live together and get out of tulsa)(and marry) #i know their deaths are very important to the story but you know what else would be so important? #showing two boys who were born to die defy their fates and the roles forced upon then by society #and become more than anyone including themselves ever thought for them #but more realistically i think a pre-outsiders tv show would be so so so good #characters like tim two bit and steve can be expanded upon #their home lifes their struggles etc #we can have more dally back story #the soc ans greaser dynamics can be explored more #cherry marcia randy bob can be explored and we can get more insight on the lives of the socs #we can see how darry was before their parents death and how it changes him #johnny before he got jumped #like there is so so so much that can be explored #(and a jally kiss) #the outsiders #bob sheldon #steve randle #cherry valance #jally #ponyboy curtis #darrel curtis #sodapop curtis #dallas winston #johnny cade #two bit mathews

[eerna]

Tbh I feel like most of the issues with the crows in the show can be boiled down to “this does not belong in a prequel story” bc it just completely takes away how satisfying some of the best moments in the duology are and it makes me rlly sad tbh.

Yeah :((( It would have costed 0 dollars to make it a REAL prequel, but instead sometimes they are acting like CK era characters........... idk man it's all so weird they are really giving us The Best Of reel in an attempt to cash in on the Crows' popularity

#eernask #eernanon #eernask talk grishaverse #sab salt party #you're telling me that pre-soc kaz would ever teel inej ''no one is like you'' #that nina would even THINK of looking ravkans in the eyes and betraying them for matthias

[crowshoots]

i've been wondering recently if i should slap jesper into a more universal fandom verse (and translate his grisha-ness over there) so ppl who haven't read the books can still interact...

#tbh. you dont need to know much about jesper to interact w him. honestly. u could Not learn about his secret abilities #bc thats how he keeps it like 3 ppl know (pre soc) #also hi! my friends and roommate are ok the shooter was apprehended #but the gvrpc is like 5 active ppl and i want to get my grubby little hands on Everyone

[fantastic-nonsense]

reading some of y'all's post-Crooked Kingdom fanfics and headcanons like "did I just imagine Kaz and Inej flat-out promising each other to take on the slave trade and half of Ketterdam together, both on land and at sea?" and then I went back and re-read the last chapter and nope, some people just apparently enjoy making canon even angstier than it already is

#six of crows #crooked kingdom #kanej #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #soc spoilers #the amount of fics I've read where they're all like 'inej runs off for months/years without talking to kaz *at all*.... #or pretend Kaz would just regress back to how he acted pre-Ice Court #like what final chapter did y'all read 😭 #let them heal and be happy together! #otp: on the seas and in the city