#sorry anon i got a biiiit carried away

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least favourite kaz headcanons?

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Anything that sets Kaz back in recovery permanently or implies that he’s fully dependent on Inej to heal. Though I think he’ll definitely have setbacks (because healing from trauma is not linear! And he has a fucking lot to unpack, from guilt over his brother’s death to his own role as a crime lord to the people he’s killed to his touch aversion… it will certainly take him a long time) and I do think Inej is an integral part of his recovery (in the same way that Kaz is integral to her recovery), I really don’t love when people leave him drowning in his state at the end of canon (or regress him permanently to his emotional state at the beginning of canon) or imply that Inej is the only person he’ll ever be able to be fully emotional and present around (because, frankly, that’s unhealthy for both of them.)

“Kaz is an evil mastermind” or “Kaz is ruthless” or “Kaz Brekker never has a reason”. Or comparing Kaz to the Darkling and saying they’re similar. Kaz is established to be an extremely logical and brutal and cunning character but … he’s human. He makes mistakes, he has a moral code, he doesn’t kill relentlessly and he doesn’t harm for the fuck of it. I’m not a fan of dark headcanons for the most part so I don’t appreciate those headcanons where he’s painted as a violent and psychopathic murderer. I like a Kaz with nuance!

I’m not a huge fan personally of the Jordie Lives AUs but this is mostly a personal thing in that I think the impact on canon is so great that it would shift the entire course of the series. For as terrible as it is that Kaz lost his brother, he would never have joined the Dregs if Jordie lived and thus would never have saved Jesper, Inej, and Wylan from the brutal underground of Ketterdam, or helped Nina and Matthias, etc etc etc… Basically the whole book would be totally different! Which is fine (it’s an AU, it shouldn’t be exactly like the book) but it’s not typically my cup of tea.

I don’t like the characterization of Kaz as someone who would continue to deny his feelings about Inej, TO Inej, post-canon. (He can hide them from everyone else, or at least try, but there’s no plausible scenario where he can walk back the bathroom scene/the final scene in the harbor and deny to Inej that he likes her. Also, he’s not stupid enough to try.) This is a long-winded way to say that post-canon Kaz would absolutely not call Inej an investment. Or anything equally infuriating. He might mess up and be terrified of his emotions and of the implications of their relationship, but he’s not cruel for the sake of being cruel, and he knows damn well he doesn’t and nor did he ever own Inej.

Last one: Kaz does not get a dog or a cat while he lives in the Slat, but I do think he’d like to train a dog when he and Inej eventually retire.

#kaz brekker #six of crows #this was so fascinating. i looked at this ask and was like wow i don’t know if there’s any I disagree with and then #immediately remembered the absolute CAN OF WORMS that is kaz brekker fic and suddenly i had an essay on my hands. #sorry anon i got a biiiit carried away #i love these asks tho send em innnnn i have too much time on my hands #luna asks