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For some reason my brain can't imagine kaz brekker in pajamas. Like, I just can't 😭 he would look so goofy

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Shamelessly spamming your inbox as well! Why do you think Kaz takes off his shirt in front of Inej? We know he likes to get a rise out of her (“something about the furrow between her brows was so satisfying”). Do you think he realizes he’s making her blush? Would you consider doing an analysis of your favorite parts of Kaz’s first POV in SOC and the CK bathroom scene? thank you so much!!

Hello and welcome to episode three of DK Finally Gets It Together And Answers Her Asks Because It's About Damn Time (working title)

Episode One - Episode Two

Hi, thanks so much for the ask and sorry that I've taken an eternity to get back to you, but yes absolutely let's talk!

Why does Kaz take his shirt off in front of Inej? The fact that Kaz takes his shirt off in front of Inej is kind of a strange one because it implies feeling a level of comfort around each other that neither of them are emotionally prepared to admit that they have - it's not that long ago (in fact I think it may have just been the previous chapter?) that Kaz told us "to say he trusted Inej would be stretching the point" and yet here he willingly removes his gloves and his shirt in front of her, a massive concession to his ability to be more vulnerable in front of Inej than he is anyone else. I think it's possible that, as you said, he enjoys getting a rise out of Inej however I aslo think this could be interpreted as yet another self-deprecating habit Kaz has collected around Inej to convince himself away from caring about her. I've talked a lot about the way his language separates them and famously the sarcastic delivery of "my darling Inej, treasure of my heart" to offend her even though the words represent, at least to some extent, his genuine feelings because he knows it will elicit a negative response (in this case pointedly referring to his cane and wishing him a long trip down the stairs before Inej herself slides down the bannister) and therefore he can somehow justify ignoring his feelings for Inej's because he had some kind of 'evidence' that she doesn't reciprocate. This is a damaging mentality to both of them, in Kaz with the evident self-deprecating qualities of the action and in Inej the belief that Kaz sees nothing in her except her monetary value to him (I believe the quote is something along the lines of "she was an investment no more no less" and is borne in Inej from the multiple times Kaz refers to her as such in his efforts to distance himself from her, unintentionally presently a massive and damaging misunderstanding of her trauma and the dehumanisation she went through - "bought her, and then sold her again and again"). the scene when Kaz removes his shirt in front of Inej is told from her perspective and we know she sees absolutely nothing beyond the practicalities of the moment as being any kind of vulnerability or romantically charged because she wonders what Kaz would think if she undresses and started washing herself in front of him, and comes to the conclusion "he'd probably tell me not to drip on the desk", and arguably this has a similar impact on her to the idea of being an "investment" rather than humanising terms because from her perspective he is acting exactly as he would if he were alone and with the way she's been treated and the kind of responses trauma and ptsd can cause in people this could to her feel like an extension of the dehumanisation tools that were used against her, effectively she may believe that he's willing to remove his gloves and shirt in front of her because he doesn't acknowledge himself as actually being watched by anyone - or at least not anyone of importance. Whilst this is obviously not Kaz's intention with the action I do wonder whether it's possible that it is to some extent another way of distancing himself from Inej. When Kaz removes his shirt Inej looks away from him, embarrassed, and pretends to study some of the papers on his desk. She comments that she had "lost most of her modesty at the Menagerie" but that there were still "limits". I think there's every chance that Kaz knows she will look away because she's uncomfortable with immodesty and the general vulnerability of the scene, as well as any relation she could reasonably find to her ptsd in this action, and that he is once again forcing himself to come up with this 'evidence' of her disinterest in him so he can bully himself into ignoring his feelings for her. I hope this made sense maybe it's just a rambling mess...

Also:

I have written an analysis of the CK bathroom scene so I will link that here

And when I was doing that series where I analysed my favourite quotes from each chapter I didn't get very far in because the posts took a long time to put together but I did cover chapter three (Kaz's first POV) split into a few different posts :)

Also, I'm back on my analysis nonsense right now so if y'all would like to see that series come back let me know, because I did have fun putting them together they were just also time consuming and I had a lot of other stuff to do at the time

Thanks so much for the ask! Sorry I took so long to respond, and the same to everyone else with questions in my inbox right now, but thanks for sending them in and thanks for reading this post - and don't let it put you off sending more asks if you'd like to! I am working my way through them, I promise :)

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Kaz: Before you try to hurt my feelings, take into consideration that I dont have any and you probably do

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I cannot explain how often I think about how so many descriptions of Inej focus on her hair and specifically its length, and how important it becomes to our understanding of her and who she is and that even though she never directly says it we have this understanding that her hair means so much to her. And I cannot explain how often I think about that in conjunction with this Tante Heleen quote from Inej’s flashback to being sold to the Menagerie in chapter 16:

‘She’d tugged on the matted hair on Inej’s head.

“This will have to be shaved,”

Then she’d stepped back.

“Pretty,” ’

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in another universe, colm fahey is sitting down for a lovely meal with his son and smiling as he listens to jesper talk about his friends.

the ghafas are grounding inej for sneaking off at night to spend time with her boyfriend

wylan has a flute recital on the weekend that kaz pretends he won’t go to (no one is fooled)

nina and matthias go on dates to the ice cream shop, and matthias always lets nina eat most of his ice cream

the crows are safe, and instead of being criminals, they are simply a group of trouble-making, angsty teenagers. they are children who were allowed to be children. they get the childhoods they deserve.

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Hey idk that I ever will- but for like the couple people who follow me and see this- should I put my ao3 account on here? I’ve been keeping my two accounts (tumblr and ao3) pretty separate but… idk if I should merge the two.

(I just write some soc fic lmao)

#six of crows #soc #soc ao3 #ao3

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Sorry but-

The fact that not only did Kaz purchase Inej her ship to leave and be free and follow her dreams but ALSO bought berth 22 as an invite to Come back and see him again so she’d know she was always welcome and always had a Place to Be.

Anyways-😭

#six of crows #soc #kaz brekker #crooked kingdom #inej ghafa #grishaverse #kanej #ck #kazbrekker #kazzle dazzle #inej x kaz #sankta inej #captain ghafa

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Bro got the whole alphabet in there (his head)

My fav s&b show scene so far

Inej: *glares at Kaz in “I told you so”*

Kaz: alright. Plan B.

*guard appears*

Kaz: scratch that. Plan F. Meet me at the escape route

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He could have done it too. He really could have forced her to stay. But he knew she’d been chained for far too long and staying wouldn’t make her happy so he set her free.

And when he did it, all he did was humbly ask that she willingly come back to him. That she visit. And he showed her he was willing to try for her so that she had reason To come back to him.

He knew the only way she’d Want to come back, was if he gave her everything she’d wanted- anything she’d asked. Her freedom, a ship, her family, and him.

ANYWAYS-😭

Something that makes me absolutely crazy is the fact that Kaz had thought of so many ways to keep Inej in Ketterdam, yet he acted on none of them. The way he actively puts her wants and needs first. He wanted her to stay, thought of ways to make her stay, and then turned around and bought her a ship and propelled her forward even though it brought her further from him. He was greedy for her but greedier for her happiness.

#😭😭😭 #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #kanej #six of crows #crooked kingdom #grishaverse

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The fact Kaz Brekker, bastard of the barrel, murderer and a gang leader tells your mum jokes and canonically likes dogs, hot chocolate and bergamot perfume is so funny to me. Like he’s just a seventeen year old boy??

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What if I said Matthias was not dreaming? What if I said he was not dreaming of her? What if I said the wolves were not howling? And they were not welcoming him home?

answer THAT Leigh Bardugo. Answer THAT.

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Nina whenever she sees Kanej together:

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I found a soc fic I never finished in my notes app with a good premise that feels well done and I feel like I’ve just found twenty bucks in my years old birthday card

#it’s a Kanej fic what else would you expect of me? #six of crows #soc #inej ghafa #grishaverse #kanej #kaz x inej #kaz brekker #crooked kingdom

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Today I realized that in Six of Crows alone, Kaz passes out/loses consciousness three times:

-After getting drugged by a grisha on parem

-In the prison wagon

-Going down the fun tree slide of icy water

…and the last two happened on the same day. Can we get this boy an echocardiogram, is he ok

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i like how reclusive and generally unpleasant you are

#six of crows

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have you guys noticed that the Six of Crows fandom doesn’t have any ship wars ??? All the ships are so well written that we all agree they belong with each other. I’ve never seen anyone in this fandom fight about a ship. love that for us

#i also love that for us #six of crows

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