#shadow and bone season 2 spoilers

[rietveldbrothers]

you guys insist mal is “better” on the show

im mad that they didn’t let him be angry and traumatized

we are not the same

#mal oretsev #sab spoilers #sab s2 spoilers #shadow and bone spoilers #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers

[thecrxwclub]

They’d been fools. Maybe one day Kaz could forgive Jordie for not being the perfect brother he held in his heart. Maybe he could even absolve himself for being the kind of gullible, trusting boy who believed someone might simply want to be kind.

#SCREAMING #LOOK AT THEM #shadow and bone spoiler #shadow and bone spoilers #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #shadow and bone #shadow and bone season two #shadow and bone season 2 #kaz brekker #kaz rietveld #jordie rietveld #six of crows #crooked kingdom #grishaverse

[booksandicedmatcha]

#shadow and bone #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #kanej #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #the yell i let out #ungodly #six of crows

[fishy-lava]

���he’s just a kid”

“so was i” congratulations kaz brekker for continuing to make me relate to you in concerning ways and delivering one of the lines that is guaranteed to make me lose my shit any time i hear someone say it

#i know that feeling more intimately than nearly anything else #and it breaks me every time i hear it #kaz needs to stop making me relate to him alright i dont know what to do with it anymore #kaz brekker #freddy carter out here breaking me and i love him for it #shadow and bone #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone spoilers #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #six of crows #soc #crooked kingdom

[furiouswritingbiologykid]

Inej really just said "he would not fucking say that," so hard it snapped her out of a poison induced hallucination huh.

#shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #six of crows #kanej #all jokes aside i love how well they know each other #and sure inej wants that future #one where kaz can be open and vulnerable with her #where they can truly be together the way she wants #but she knows this isnt really him he hasn't gotten to that point yet #and she only wants it if its actually real if he's put in the effort to heal for her

[emeraldties]

The Darkling this, Sankta Alina that, why is nobody talking about Sankta Neyar?

“‘Weakness’” “Hundreds of years I closed my heart, as if that was the solution to ending all pain” “what a safe way to live, and what a small way” “you guard against pain, you guard against joy” “two worlds make a universe”

“He’s not my weakness, he’s my universe.”

Fuck whatever mess those two have over there, I want a love like THAT. He may not be her last or her first, but that doesn’t mean their time loving each other was meaningless, even in the grand scheme of things, because some people are worth losing.

#Tuyen Do ATE and left no fucking crumbs #shadow and bone #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #I’m specifically talking about the show #she literally had one monologue #made me sob #then dropped a magic sword on her first husbands coffin #then left #queen… or saint I mean #she even got Kaz to admit something vaguely emotional #kanej #the darkling #love doesn’t combat existentialism appreciating it does

[lost-in-the-hellaverse]

Thank you @futurecorps3 for that post cause as soon as I saw it I went I need this with the picture of that scene.

#patrick gibson #prince nikolai #nikolai lanstov #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone netflix #paddy gibson #tumblr shitpost #not my post #shitpost meme #grishaverse #grishaverse meme #shadow and bone meme #nikolai lanstov meme #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers

[thetimetraveler24]

Me when Mal takes up the Sturmhond mantle and Inej goes with him and Tolya smiles at her:

#shadow and bone series #shadow and bone #shadow and bone tv #mal oretsev #inej ghafa #tolya yul bataar #alina starvok #kaz brekker #six of crows #grishaverse #grisha trilogy #netflix #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #malina #kanej

[mutliwankenobi]

Okay I know we’re supposed to hate the Darkling but they really put a scene of him crying as he cradled his mother’s dying body in his arms and apologized through sobs and thought that we weren’t going to feel sorry for him?? Like I’m sorry I would do anything for that man. No one makes Ben Barnes cry and get away with it on my watch.

#shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #shadow and bone #ben barnes #the darkling #general kirigan #alina x aleksander #aleksander kirigan #darklina #alina starkov #alina x the darkling #leigh bargudo

[whatbusiness]

WHEN ASKED ABOUT KAZ AND INEJ IN S2 THIS IS HOW AMITA RESPONDED

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN???????

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#like is it a kaz dream sequence bc let me tell you #that would be the end of me right there! ! ! #amita suman #kanej #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #shadow and bone #shadow and bone season 2 #sab cast #shadow and bone spoilers #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers

[immortal-enemies]

Am I being the most offensive person in the entire world when I say I'm high-key here for Wylan and Jesper having already had a hookup?

#like i was so here for it. #LIKE IDK I LIKE THAT THEY KNEW EACH OTHER BEFOREEEE #sab season 2 #sab season 2 spoilers #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #sab s2 spoilers #sab s2 #shadow and bone #wesper #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #wylan x jesper #*

[fandomestuff]

I just wanted to say that by the rules of cinematography

No body = being alive

David is alive and you can't tell me otherwise

#i don't care if it's canon #i don't care if he's actually dead in the books #i'm in denial #insert terry jeffords gif #shadow and bone #shadow and bone spoilers #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #shadow and bone s2 #sab #sab spoilers #grishaverse #david kostyk

[bookishbunnies]

Okay, so rewatching the earlier season Wesper scenes is a million times funnier now I know they straight up fucked already and Jesper doesn't fucking remember. Wylans face, every time, is such a mix of 'I'm I'm love with this man' and 'wtf why do I feel like this for a fucking idiot' and 'does he seriously not remember me???'

#Shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #sab2 spoilers #wesper #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #like cmon jesper #seriously

[acourtofblackthornsandcarstairs]

mad respect to Alina but if the Darkling said “I have seen what you truly are and I have never turned away” to me, I could not be held responsible for what comes next

#shadow and bone #SAB #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone spoilers #sab spoilers #sab s2 spoilers #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #alina starkov #jessie mei li #the Darkling #Ben Barnes #darklina #the Darkling is so toxic but I will forever be in love with Ben Barnes

[fishy-lava]

nina and matthias fucking broke me like that scene where theyre both kicking and screaming and fighting to get to each other at the hellshow hurt me so much bro like fuck sometimes i forget how much i love helnik and then i am violently reminded of how much they mean to me and i crumble

#i am a weak bitch #i see lovers fighting desperately to get to each other to no avail and i lose it #helnik my beloved #helnik #nina zenik #matthias helvar #shadow and bone #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone spoilers #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers

[ineffablebookgirl]

No, but like, there was no way Inej was ever going to say, yes, okay, I'll stay in Ketterdam with you instead of looking for my brother. And Kaz knows this.

He literally just gave her the lead on where to start looking for her brother. He knows this has been her whole purpose for so long, just like avenging Jordie has been his. And she may actually be able to find some peace and happiness by achieving her goal, unlike Kaz, who is left adrift after completing his revenge.

Four times over the course of this season he sends her away. Her response to each one shows her own character development as well as the arc of their relationship.

The first time is when they first arrive back in Ketterdam and find out that Pekka Rollins now owns everything, including Inej. Kaz tells her to get out of the city and says, "This isn't your fight anymore," which, honestly is totally ridiculous to say that her own indenture contract is not her own business. Her response: "I'm not leaving you." Matter-of-fact, knee-jerk, and he doesn't argue. This feels like a well-worn routine for them.

Then we have the "bathroom scene," where her resolve and energy are refocused by Kaz telling her Pekka killed his brother. Before the main event, Kaz again tells Inej, if things go awry, get out of the city, find your brother, and never look back. Once again, she refuses to promise this. "I can only promise you that Pekka will beg for his death."

Then she makes the choice to get the trafficked women off the boat instead of being there in the shadows to watch over Kaz. I think he genuinely was upset that he didn't know that she was okay, and genuinely upset that she wasn't there to watch over him. But he uses those genuine emotions to push her away a third time. He has finally secured her freedom. He can finally really keep her safe, and the safest thing is for her to leave the city, because also, in securing her freedom, he has shown Pekka his hand, revealed his true "tell," which is his love for Inej. So he pushes her away again, this time more forcefully, by really hurting her. But, she gets drawn back in by the quest for the Neshyenyar. "You have your freedom. Why would this be what you choose to do with it?" "I'm not here for you. I'm here for Sankta Alina." It's a half truth.

Then we've got the toxin trips, which move both of them forward, but kind of in opposite directions. Even though for Inej it's her really confronting what she wants from Kaz, it's also confronting the reality that she is not going to get that from him, where he is right now. Just hours ago she saw him have a serious flashback / breakdown just from bumping into someone. And though she understands it, because of her own trauma, she also understands she can't save him from it.

So by the time we get to the end, Inej has made some kind of peace with this. She is leaving the phase of her own healing journey where she needs him to lean on as a fellow traveler, and where taking care of him serves as a way to avoid taking care of herself. And he, meanwhile, has had Inej rescue him from his trauma nightmare in reality at the teashop, in his toxin dream where she pulls him out of the water (oh, not to mention, literally saves his life by forcibly touching his face and making him eat the butterfly). And then he's had the philosophical talking-to from Ohval about how loving someone isn't a weakness, it's what makes life worthwhile. He is opening up slowly, confronting his feelings for her and how that vulnerability fits in with his life philosophy.

When he comes to say goodbye in the chapel, he is finally sincere. Finally him pushing her away isn't because of what he wants or needs emotionally, it's about what's best for her, which is being able to follow her own path to completion, the way she has enabled him to follow his Jordie path. And it's because he's in this place where he can finally, authentically let her go, that he can finally, authentically ask her to stay, out loud. All the other times he told her to leave, he was really asking her to stay. And now, when he is really ready to let her choose to leave, he is able to ask her to stay.

And she is also ready to say, yes, I am going to leave, for real this time, on my own path. Because I know that I actually need and deserve more from you now, and I know that you can make it without me, I am asking you to stand on your own two feet.

And of course he understands that too. Even with all the vulnerability and hope he allows himself in that moment, if she had said yes to staying with him, it would have felt wrong immediately.

She's not rejecting him, she's laying out her terms, which she's finally able to do because they are finally able to voice their true wants, both of them. (Yeah they both still have a looooong way to go, with healing and with not communicating via riddles and omissions).

It's also a narrative parallel to Alina letting Mal go on his own path. Both stories are about allowing the one you love to choose their path, be the main character in their own story.

So, I think this is a beautiful, if heartbreaking, end to their arc this season. Growth! Being together is not off the table, but they are one step closer to laying out what it would really look like for them to be together.

#obligatory disclaimer that i haven't read the books yet so this is all based on the series only #shadow & bone meta #shadow & bone #long post #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #kanej #shadow and bone season 2 spoilers #shadow and bone spoilers #shadow & bone spoilers #sab spoilers