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Not me accidentally staying up till five in the morning to watch the whole season 2 of Shadow and Bone in one sitting

You know I think an underrated theme in SOC is that, the adults have ruined the future of the next generation. They have created an inhumane environment that serves only them. They've crushed and wrung out the lives of the weaker and the new, keeping them desperate, subjugated, exploited, and dead. Pekka Rollins, Tante Heleen, Jan Van Eck, Jarl Brum, these are our villains.

But Six of Crows also says that these circumstances have manufactured a much darker and tougher individual than these people can imagine. While the older generation are content to rest on their laurels and their ill gotten easy lives, their juniors are sharpening their pain into cruel and effective tools, with a drive that someone on top simply cannot understand.

Idk, I think it's an interesting and empowering (if not subversively harsh) message for its core audience as a YA novel.

but like imagine this, if there were deaths in a third soc book:

wylan would die first (from an explosion, oit of irony) because we can all agree he's like a son to kaz, and it would be devastating. so then kaz has all this pent-up emotion. and jesper's unhinged gambling addiction gets worse, which gets kaz even more worried. because he's like a brother to kaz. and he does something reckless on this job, which therefore gets him severely injured, and he dies in inej's arms. and that leads to inej trying to help jesper cope while also suffering internally herself.

when news reaches nina in ravka, she thinks that kaz forged inej's signature at the end of the letter as a cruel joke. she went along with it anyway since she missed when the crows were all together. nina brought a few traditional ravkan treats that she knew kaz liked no matter how much he denied it. when she arrived at the slat, it was empty. nina went to the crow club and found inej with a far away look. she gave up on trying to help jesper with his addiction. im too lazy to be in writing mode, so im gonna half-ass the rest. anyway, nina had to snap inej out of her daze and ask her where kaz was. that's when inej finally broke down, and any word she muttered was incoherent. after what felt like ages, jesper went over to the two girls and told nina what happened. "the ol' dirtyhands finally kicked the bucket. thought he was immortal for a while. wylan went just before him."

there was nothing else but sobs that day and screaming out to the sky why everything that happened happened. bit over a week later, there was a joint service. inej engraved two slabs for the two out of wood with the first knife kaz gifted to her. she renamed it. sankt rietveld. and that's how she got assigned a new job. revenge. with a gloved hand holding her knife. (shitty ending, not enough detail, but here you go)

before, there were six of crows. then five. now only three.

i originally shared this with a server im in and, therefore, was banished to hellgate by my friends for making them all cry. oops. anyway, fuck you guys [affectionately but not really].

I don't care if the Crows spin-off is just the six of them acting it out in Freddy's living room while Freddy's wife films it on a phone, I'm willing to pay real money for the footage.

nina touching kaz when he starts having a flashback, trying to do her calming heartrender thing, but the power of his ptsd either cancels it out or just makes it impossible because she needs physical contact for it to work and that's obviously a no-go

kaz and inej's individual relationships with touch are honestly so compelling. inej hates the lack of control but when she sees it coming she'll let jesper and nina hug her because they're safe and she trusts them, and she wants to try with kaz despite everything, and she'll sit on the bathroom counter and let him stand between her legs to patch her up knowing it's difficult for both of them because maybe opening up about her own struggles will help him realise he's not all alone in the world

and kaz does try for her and he'll bodily throw himself at jesper to save his life and hold onto him when he gets knocked out in a very dangerous place in the process because like hell is he getting himself another dead brother, but at the end of the day it's still all about the trauma and the autonomy and the stolen innocence and the limitations and the boundaries and the trust placed in their chosen people not to cross them and-

thinking about how, as a child, kaz’s favorite trick seemed to be watching something disappear, and then he grew up and fell in love with a girl who could vanish into thin air, and how we’re told that when he looks at inej, he feels like a boy again and believes that there’s still magic in the world. imagine loving magic all your life, and then discovering that magic loved you too.

guys. GUYS. wylan van eck is NOT babygirl. He is insane and unhingged. Kaz brekker, on the other hand...

Something about Kaz hinging his entire plan in Crooked Kingdom on the fact that no one would bother checking on a boy they assumed was dead during the plague is just so...

Like, he remembers lying in that alley with Jordie and watching people walk past and then being rolled onto a pile of corpses by bodymen and staring up at them thinking Wait. I'm still alive. and getting dumped on the Reaper's Barge anyway because no one in this city cares.

"But won't the medic check to see if he's really dead?" No. He won't.

I need a six of crows and crooked kingdom audio book with each chapter pov narrated by the actors in the show RIGHT NOW please and thankyou

Things i absolutely NEED to see in the potential Six of Crows spin-off:

1. Kaz and Wylan falling through Van Eck's ceiling

2. Alys van Eck singing 24/7 and the crows doing absolutely everything to stop her

3. "Open your danm eyes, Inej"

4. Nina raising the dead to catch Inej in the net

5. Colm Fahey being a tired dad to a group of murderous children

Feel free to add stuff ^^

The trans masc urge to become wylan Van Eck

Crow brawl:

Jesper:*throws gun to Inej*

Inej:* catches and throws gun like it's a knife*

Jesper:*worried and horrified*

Inej:*knocks opponent out with gun*

Jesper:*shocked that it worked and can't let it go*

No you don't understand Kaz Brekker is always referred to as a person who doesn't value anything or 'doesn't find anything sacred' but the reason Kaz Brekker became the person he is today and the reason he succeeded is because he CARES and he values things around him. His motivation to live and gain revenge was out of his love for his brother, the reason he was able to pull off the ice court heist was because he valued his crows, the reason that (almost) everyone got their 'happy ending' was because he put them above all else. Kaz Brekker is Kaz Brekker because of his all encompassing care for everything he keeps close to him.

So I finished reading six of crows. Goooood book good book

Accept my offering dear SoC tumblr fandom

Based on this meme!!

I do like to think that Wylan swears a lot more than he initially lets on

He's all like; oh fiddlesticks, oh dear, this isn't ideal

Like a proper British lad, but as soon as he's alone he swears so much it'll make a sailor blush.

And one night after Jesper moves in:

Jesper, sleeping

Wylan, in the other room: *stubs his toe*

Wylan, at the top of his lungs: OH YOU FU-CKING SON OF A BIT-H- F- YOU AND YOUR WHOLE F-ING FAMILY.

Soc copium going strong

So hear me out; SOC video game, a similar style to like Until Dawn or Life is Strange, where the pov shifts and choices matter.

I feel like Wylan or Jesper would have the strangest choices, but Kaz or Inej's choices have the most consequence

Also, half of the interactions between Nina and Matthias, or Wylan and Jesper would just be quick time events with;

kiss? Not kiss?

SIX OF CROWS WEEK △ FAVORITE RELATIONSHIP  ▻ KAZ BREKKER AND INEJ GHAFA                 “No Saint ever watched over me. Not like you have”

SHADOW AND BONE MEME: [2/4] CHARACTERS → INEJ GHAFA

“She was Inej Ghafa, and she would not quiver like a rabbit in a snare.”

inej using kaz's cane in the middle of a fight and letting kaz use her knives would be pretty neat i think