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Inej and Matthias both being the Crows with the strongest connections to religion and turning to that religion in hard times…..Inej and Matthias both doing what they feel they “need to do” but still having lines they won’t cross and being ‘held back’ by their own decency in a sense…..Matthias talking Nina down from killing Brum and the other Drüskelle while she’s high on parem…..Inej being Kaz’s anchor to his own humanity….. “They were twin souls, soldiers destined to fight for different sides” and “Inej felt as though she and Kaz had become twin soldiers”…….THE PARALLELS

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if Inej ever tells Kaz he’s the smartest person she knows he would turn bright red and immediately become the dumbest person in the room ironically enough

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i think it says a lot about me that when i first heard the Oppenheimer quote “I am become death destroyer of worlds” i immediately thought of Mal’s tattoo that said “ i am become a blade”

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Inej: You know, I really like crime documentaries

Kaz, trying to impress her: I have been a prime suspect in over 50 murder cases

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brick by brick (crow by crow)

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how i imagine them interacting

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i saw this and i cant stop thinking about it

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@iambecomeyourvillain

Jesper: On a scale of one to ten, how mad are you at me?

Kaz: An eight.

Jesper: I can do better than that.

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I wanna know what would've happened if Jordie didn't die? Would Kaz still have met the crows- in different circumstances? Would Inej have of been freed from the menagerie?

What do u think would've happened ?

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Here's a friendly reminder that Wylan doesn't actually like chemistry, he's just good at it because he thought that being good at it would compensate for the fact that he can't read, that it would earn him his father's approval.

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The next time I see someone call Wylan "boring" because his trauma isn't "as bad" as the other Crows' (namely Kaz' and Inej's) I'm going to throttle someone. Firstly, trauma isn't comparable: trauma is trauma, regardless of what traumatic experience a person goes through. The point of Six of Crows is that all the Crows are traumatised but find comfort and solace within one another and galvanise each other's healing process.

Secondly, Wylan is a victim of ableism and emotional, mental and physical abuse - which is traumatic - and his story makes me feel physically ill whenever I think about it. As a disabled child, Wylan needed accommodations that his father refused to give him: instead, J*n treated him as something that needed fixing, and treated his disability as pure stubbornness that could be forced out of him with punishment and abuse. He "tried specialists, tonics, beatings, hypnotism" - which are traumatic. J*n also manipulated Wylan into believing that it was his fault by constantly shifting the blame to him (a behaviour very typical amongst abusers). As a result, Wylan never acknowledged his father's behaviour as abusive, which is why he tells Jesper in Crooked Kingdom that "he isn't evil" despite J*n literally trying to kill him twice. In fact, Wylan tries to justify how his father treated him, claiming that he "had done his best to care for his son, and if he’d failed, then the defect lay with Wylan." He also takes it as a display of affection and the desire to protect him, claiming that "his father might sound cruel, but he wasn’t just protecting himself or the Van Eck empire, he was protecting Wylan as well."

Wylan blaming himself for his father's actions doesn't stop there: in the period after Inej is kidnapped by J*n, Wylan feels responsible for what happened despite knowing that "he couldn’t have prevented his father from double-crossing the crew and kidnapping her. He knew that, but he still felt responsible". The guilt is eating away at him because he's so accustomed to taking the blame for his father's wrongdoings. Even after finding out the truth about his mother, which was really the catalyst for him recognising that J*n is indeed evil, his initial response is him blaming himself for it: "it was me. I caused this. He wanted a new wife. He wanted an heir. A real heir, not a moron who can barely spell his own name." This is only made even more sickening when we learn that Wylan would hear how his parents "fought all the time, sometimes about me", which would only amplify his feelings of responsibility for his father sending Marya away, stripping her of her life, family and fortune.

This is all without him not being allowed to grieve his mother's "death". This is all without the imposter syndrome and self-loathing Wylan experiences as a result of all of this, the fear that the Crows would see him as worthless and defective the way his father did and abandon him.

tl;dr: stop overlooking Wylan's trauma because he too has deep mental and emotional scars.

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wylan and inej wear gold jewelry, kaz and matthias are silver girlies, and jesper and nina constantly wear both

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Zoya: “I hate you with the fire of one million exploding suns.”

Kaz: “I dream you die and wake up laughing.”

Zoya: “….”

Kaz: “…..”

Zoya: “So I’ll see you next month?”

Kaz: “Of course.”

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Nina: So here's the tea.

Kaz: For the last time, it's called a report.

Nina: Do you want the tea or not?

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How long do you have?

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More little details that you might have missed/forgotten about in Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

(Part 4, I think)

1) When Bahjan said that if she didn’t eat anything he would have to force-feed her, Inej’s immediate reaction was to reply that if he tried then she’d but his fingers off and honestly I just love that so much what a damn icon

2) It also took Inej all of five minutes to become suspicious that Bajhan and Alys were having an affair, and there are several instances later in the book that heavily imply her to be correct

3) When Jesper was a kid and first realised that he could pull colour from objects, his first instinct was to bleach a massive swear word across his father’s jurda field; this will never fail to amuse me

4) In the first chapter of Six of Crows, Leigh has Joost wish that Anya’s eyes were blue instead of brown because they would be easier to compliment, then spent the rest of two novels having Kaz and Inej internally describe and compliment each other’s brown eyes over and over again - it gets me every time

5) When Colm first arrives in Ketterdam and Jesper is terrified to tell him the truth of what’s going on, Wylan panics and makes up a lie about being duped out of their money. He also immediately takes the blame, claiming that he suggested to Jesper that they took a deal that turned out to be false. Not only is this linking to the point the books like to bring across about the best lies being close to the truth by referencing the deal with Van Eck going south, but it’s also a heartbreaking nod to Wylan’s trauma when he internally explains his reasoning for doing it; that he couldn’t bare the idea of Colm’s stress and confusion turning to anger that he would take out on Jesper. We as the reader know Colm to be a wonderful man and a far cry from Van Eck, and although Wylan quickly learns this in that exact moment it’s a dark nod to the paralysing fear he had of his own father because of the abuse he suffered, and the terror that every parent is like that and he has to put himself in the way to protect Jesper.