#rietveld brothers

[barrel-crow-n]

Kaz's final showdown with Pekka makes me so crazy because. He didn't have to do all that.

He could've just told Pekka he buried his son and make him beg in order to make sure he isnt there to support Van Eck but no. This is personal.

Kaz had Pekka where he wanted him. He didn't have to make Pekka try and remember the name but he did.

He wanted Pekka to remember. He wanted Pekka to say Jordie's name.

It probably hurt all the more when he couldn't.

#he was probably fighting the urge to scream #kaz brekker #six of crows #six of crows duology #grishaverse #jordie rietveld #rietveld brothers #pekka rollins #kaz rietveld

[lordfunkyhair]

ok, hear me out: jordie rietveld

#shadow and bone #kaz brekker #jordie rietveld #wonka #wonka 2023 #timothée chalamet #six of crows #crooked kingdom #grishaverse #rietveld brothers

[paraskao]

lil kaz and jordie i drew on a piece of scrap paper that had seen better times

#six of crows #kaz brekker #soc #shadow and bone #jordie rietveld #art #my art #fanart #six of crows fanart #kaz #kaz rietveld #rietveld brothers

[thechaoticrow]

okay so we all know how kaz was only nine when he went through such horrific trauma, but something i think we all forget is that jordie was only thirteen. his first teen year and he was responsible for his little brother, trying to keep them both alive, and dying homeless and sick in a back alley. so young. can you remember what you were doing at thirteen? how desperately you wanted to be older? he was just 13

#jordie rietveld #kaz rietveld #rietveld brothers #he was just a boy #thirteen years old #barely a teenager #and he had to do so much #ketterdam #death serves no man #or no child apparently #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #six of crows #grishaverse #crows #crow club #nina zenik #inej ghafa #matthias helvar #inej asking why anyone didn’t protect them #and kaz saying #we were supposed to protect each other #OH MY ACHING HEART

[i6crws]

baby kaz: maybe there's a race for lonely children!

jordie: that's "only" children, kaz.

jordie: lonely child is what you're gonna be when i sell you.

#rietveld brothers #kaz brekker #jordie rietveld #six of crows #incorrect quotes

[peppermintgrishaverse]

Kaz: Jordie, good news, I figured out a way to express my feelings for Inej.

Jordie: *sigh* Is it actually calling her an investment?

Kaz: I don't understand.

Jordie: I want you to express your feelings for Inej. Is that what you are going to do or are you going to call her an investment?

Kaz: I am going to express my feelings.

Jordie: You're sure. You are going to express your feelings and not call her an investment.

Kaz: That is correct. I am going to express my feelings. I am not going to call her an investment.

Jordie: Excellent. Please, express your feelings.

Kaz: Here I go. *calls her an investment*

#jordie rietveld #Kaz Brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #kaz rietveld #six of crows #soc #shadow and bone #sab #Grishaverse #incorrect quotes #the good place #tgp #the crows #the dregs #rietveld brothers #au

[19burstraat]

I know I've definitely seen posts abt this before, but I can't get over how much the 'Jordie' in Kaz's head is just... not Jordie. Like obviously it's not, bc he's dead, but it's also not even accurate to Kaz's memory of him.

Like these are the sorts of things that are attributed to 'the voice of' Jordie:

Jordie had come for his vengeance at last. It's time to pay your debts, Kaz. You never get something for nothing. But he could hear Jordie laughing. No, little brother. No one is stronger. You've cheated death too many times. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.

While Jordie was no stranger to grandstanding statements, and one might argue Kaz actually picked that habit up from him ('The city is winning so far, but you'll see who wins in the end' for example), these aren't the sorts of things he'd have said to his kid brother??? Yes, he could be arrogant, and he's snappy with / acts superior to Kaz a few times, but as far as we see, Jordie is mostly very good with Kaz; he has a remarkable tolerance for/patience with him, especially for a newly orphaned thirteen year old. Kaz admittedly comes across as a quiet kid and is pretty compliant; he rarely talks to anyone except Jordie and Saskia, he seems to just watch for most of their interactions with 'Hertzoon', he largely does as he's told and doesn't wander off, but he's still like... nine, and wants to do stuff like see the magicians and make all the dogs walk at once, and sulks when Jordie stops him from doing stuff and makes him stay inside. We also see Jordie pretty frequently lying to Kaz to try and make him feel better. But this mental-Jordie is not a comforting presence. The start of SOC is literally set up to make you think Jordie is someone that Kaz has swindled or betrayed, that he fears will come back for vengeance, so it's a big 'oh wait wtf' moment when you realise that he's not a rival gang member or anything, he's just his brother, and it wasn't his fault. But you wouldn't know it! Kaz wants 'Jordie's' voice silenced 'forever' and seems afraid of it, almost— at least, it turns up in vulnerable moments. He thinks that 'paying his debt' (i.e. taking out Rollins) will get rid of it. (Sorry hon. It won't.) Kaz thinks at one point that he still sees Jordie as "infallible" and looks at him through the eyes of the child he'd been, but in other scenes he's glove-puppeting 'his brother' to punish himself. I guess he still sees Jordie, even in death, as the ultimate authority figure, and to cope with guilt/stress/grief he imagines that this is something he's being compelled or commanded to do, and that when he does it he'll have redeemed himself, when really it's just desperate flailing to get the closure he couldn't have. I'm sure he knows goddamn well that this isn't actually what Jordie wanted for him ('You'll go to school') and that's why the mental 'Jordie' is really off, because Kaz knows its not really the will of his brother— it's just him. It talks like him! He doesn't even try to imitate the real Jordie! It's just Kaz, alone— but he's never really been able to come to terms with that.

#kaz voice I don't believe in anything. except the mental mystery cult I started for my dead brother where I'm the only member #six of crows #kaz brekker #jordie rietveld #my post #soc meta

[ambericesage]

*sirens going off in the distance*

Wylan, terrified, rocking back and forth: They’ve found me!!

Kaz, who the Stadwatch is really after: You better run

#kaz and wylan #dynamic in six of crows #Kaz is just a really bad influence older brother to Wylan #six of crows incorrect quotes #six of crows #soc jesper #soc kaz #soc wylan #six of crows inej #six of crows kaz #soc inej #kaz brekker #six of crows jesper #kaz dirtyhands brekker #kaz fucking brekker #kaz rietveld #kazzle dazzle #wylan van sunshine #six of crows wylan #wylan hendriks #wylan van eck #six of crows kuwei #six of crows matthias #six of crows nina #soc wesper #soc kuwei #soc nina #soc matthias #soc #crooked kingdom

[mygreatsin-whatiwillallowmyself]

If jordie had to freaking die I hope he finds Bianca di Angelo in the afterlife and together they watch their baby brothers make the worst strings of decisions ever known to mankind. They’re like 10.

#bianca di angelo #nico di angelo #percy jackson #six of crows #jordie rietveld #kaz brekker #They also have bets on their siblings relationships #Bianca: I totally ship ur brother and that pretty girl. The quiet one.” #Jordie: “ur brother likes that water guy right” #Bianca: yea he does but he’s got a gf. The blonde guy is cute tho” #Jordie: “why haven’t you come to see me?” There’s a literal war going on my god” #Bianca: “shut up. You raised the guy who just told the girl he likes that she’s an investment”

[sixcrowsinateacup]

If you ever hear me say Wylan is Kaz’s son, I do not mean that Kaz is his father. I am using “son” as slang. The way that any other older friend might view you as their “son”. It’s the same way that a HS senior would “adopt” a lowerclassmen (freshman, sophomore or junior). That’s his son but that isn’t Wylan’s dad okay? That’s Wylan’s older friend who saw him and threw him over his shoulder and Wylan isn’t getting off anytime soon as much as he wishes Kaz will drop him back into the gutter where he found him. Okay, they’re bros, Kaz gets to be the older brother for once and he refuses to abandon that title.

#THEY’RE BROS #that’s my son in the way thats my lil brother/sister/sibling #this can’t be just a nyc thing #you’re telling me you never called/have never been called son by a friend #its found family #six of crows #kaz brekker #soc #wylan van eck #crooked kingdom #grishaverse #kaz and wylan #wylan hendriks #wylan van sunshine #kaz rietveld

[scriptedencryptid]

I’ll wait

#six of crows #shadow and bone #kaz brekker #jordie rietveld #He’s a magician at heart #I’d imagine if kaz ever got the chance to do any of the convoluted escapes that magicians do he’d never waste the chance to weasel out on h #His own #Ran out of characters in that last tag lol #Jordie would just watch him squirm #Like a good brother #‘You done? Need help’ #‘No. Stop. I got it’ #headcanons #cranium artillery

[barrel-crow-n]

I was just thinking about how Kaz built this heartless persona for himself and how everyone falls for it to varying degrees: He's widely regarded as a monster and as "not made right"; Inej thought he wouldn't come for her and that once she was useless to him that he would discard her; Jesper never knows where exactly he stands with him; Nina "doesn't want to know what dark hole he crawled out of"; Wylan calls him "the most vengeful creature he had ever met"; Matthias believes he's a demon. But in reality his true motives for most things are love and grief and loss of family.

Kaz only wanted money for revenge, he didn't want to try and build a meaningful connection with Imogen because she would distract him from pursuing his vengeance, he only mentions how Pekka conned them out of money to explain how they ended up on the streets, how it was never about the money but about Jordie.

Kaz says that he and Jordie were such easy marks because they missed their dad. Kaz's biggest gripe was not just the loss of Jordie but the illusion of a home and family that Pekka had snatched away before the plague snatched Jordie away too.

It all always leads back to Jordie and his loss and avenging him and about never wanting to be that vulnerable again. Kaz created Kaz Brekker to protect himself, to hide his vulnerabilities. His grief is hidden behind a fake name, his naivety is hidden behind violence, his touch aversion is hidden behind the gloves.

Kaz pushes people away because he fears what will happen if he lets them in. He gets mean when he's vulnerable to hide said vulnerability. He did it in the clocktower, he did it in the bathroom. After he accidently calls Jesper Jordie he lashes out verbally and physically, when Inej asks about Jordie and Pekka's involvement in what happened he recounts how he tortured someone. In both incidents it's again Jordie that he's hiding, that is causing him to be vulnerable. It always leads back to Jordie. Even with Van Eck! He's again angry that he fell for what he fell for before, the thing that made him lose Jordie making him temporarily lose Inej.

In both the Jesper and Inej examples he hides behind violence - by brawling with Jesper and recounting a time when he tortured a young boy. He does this because he loves Inej and Jesper, and it scares him, and he doesn't know what to do with it. Because everyone he's ever loved has died in horrible ways (his father was torn apart by a plough, his brother died from a horrible sickness) and he doesn't want to go through it again - especially since he still hasn't let go of Jordie, although it has been eight years.

Kaz is a person who loves so deeply. Who is mainly motivated by love. Who, when Pekka asks him what he wants, replies "Bring my brother back from the dead." because he never cared about money, nor power, nor anything else. He just wants his brother. All he wanted this whole time is his brother, and since he no longer has him he lashes out, all hurt and grieving. He's hurting so badly that he destroys everyone even mildly involved in what took Jordie away from him. But he only did that because he loved Jordie. It wasn't revenge for the sake of money it was for the sake of love. It was for the sake of Jordie.

Kaz loved Jordie so much that he became the most feared person in Ketterdam, that he took down the King of the Barrel and a merchant from one of the oldest families in Ketterdam (because even if his gripe with Van Eck was unrelated, it's because of Jordie's loss that life snowballed into their interactions and the consequent betrayal and destruction of everything Van Eck held dear). Kaz loved Jordie so much that it changed the entire course of the narrative.

If not for Jordie's loss the heist wouldn't of happened, all of the Crows lives would've been different, some of the Crows would even most likely be dead, and this extends even further to much more major things. The King of Ravka managed to steal the titanium because of his help which will aid Ravka in wars, the path to jurda parem is no longer in the hands of the Fjerdans and a cure is being safely developed in Ravka because Kaz rescued Kuwei, Wylan took over the Van Eck empire because Kaz tampered with Van Eck's will and papers, Inej is working on taking down the slave trade which is only possible because Kaz freed her from her indenture, Nina became the queen of Fjerda because of things that Kaz started (her joining the Dregs instead of being indebted to the Dime Lions, him freeing Matthias, him organising the heist, Matthias dying in the aftermath, her going to Fjerda to bury Matthias and the results which ended up being her and her new lover on the Fjerdan throne trying to fix prejudice against grisha, and women, in the most conservative country).

All of it leads back to Kaz. And he did all of it for Jordie. It all always leads back to Jordie. Jordie and Kaz's love for his big brother and his grief over having him snatched away from him.

#he makes me INSANE #talk about haunting the narrative #kaz really said: my brother is haunting me and i'm going to make that everyones problem #kaz brekker #jordie rietveld #kaz rietveld #jesper fahey #inej ghafa #nina zenik #wylan van eck #matthias helvar #pekka rollins #six of crows #six of crows duology #grishaverse #my analysis

[jazzkrebber]

no because I just know it's gonna hurt when they find Inej's brother alive and well and Kaz gets to be the big brother like Jordie was to him. he'll care for him not just because Inej does but because he sees himself in him too

#ALIVE AND WELL #NETFLIX DO YOU HEAR ME #DONT HURT HIM #big brother Kaz patting him on the head omg #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #jordie rietveld #kanej #leigh bardugo #freddy carter #amita suman #shadow and bone #six of crows #grishaverse #shadow and bone season 2 #crooked kingdom #ruin and rising #siege and storm #king of scars #rule of wolves #shadow and bone season three #soc spinoff #six of crows spin off

[catapparently]

So uhm I promised tobannah series but I suddenly got super motivated for an averyjameson AU SERIES!!! (Not telling what au yet but I'm so excited)

Sorry not sorry but here's a poll for some next fics because I have a long ass list and I can't really choose which to work on after and in what order

Okay bye watch me disappear again

#the inheritance games #the wicked king #cardan greenbriar #jameson hawthorne #jude duarte #jude x cardan #the brothers hawthorne #the naturals #genshin impact #xiaolumi #xiao x lumine #six of crows #six of crows duology #rule of wolves #king of scars #crooked kingdom #cassie hobbes #dean x cassie #dean redding #cassandra hobbes #nash hawthorne #libby grambs #averyjameson #avery kylie grambs #avery x jameson #kaz brekker #kaz rietveld #toby x hannah #grayson hawthorne #xander hawthorne

[thechaoticrow]

kaz acts all big and tough but you know what lies underneath it all? guilt for jordie’s death. he tells inej “we were supposed to protect each other”, and jordie’s ghost taunts him despite jordie being his protector in life. they were supposed to protect each other, and here kaz is alive and kickin while jordie is dead, and he used his body to keep himself alive. in kaz’s mind, maybe if he had been stronger, less dependent, maybe if they hadn’t bought that coat or those boots, if he hadn’t fallen so easily for hutspot and a kind family making big bank promises things would be different. underneath it all, kaz is just a boy with survivor’s guilt

#kaz brekker #kaz rietveld #taylor swift #everyone moved on #i’m still here #so real so kaz #jordie rietveld #lij #ketterdam #crow club #jordie #kaz #rietveld brothers #jesper fahey #inej ghafa #matthias helvar #nina zenik #wylan hendriks

[justanotherbarrelrat]

What’s really heartbreaking to me is the way Kaz has those dreams/that hallucination where Jordie is angry. I’m thinking that’s the guilt of being the only one to survive. I feel like Jordie would actually be proud of Kaz for surviving that hell they went through, that he’s glad his brother is alive and that he made it despite the odds, and he so desperately wants to tell him that he is loved, he will be loved no matter what, but Kaz won’t know this. He won’t know that Jordie is nothing at all like his nightmares and hallucinations

#i hope this all makes sense i’m really Feeling Things about them #i really want this to be the case #i can’t have angry jordie resenting his younger brother for being the one to survive #it’s unrealistic but i want a snippet that shows how jordie REALLY feels #it would be a good insight to Jordie’s character plus it would TOTALLY BREAK ME #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone season two spoilers #kaz brekker #jordie rietveld