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hc jacks would watch dating shows like love island and the bachelor, etc

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no one talks about how much of a dork kaz is. dude has tossed and turned for nights trying to figure out magic tricks, canonically carved a hole through a theatre wall for costumes, he’s roleplayed as a guard, a beggar, etc also his haircut is shit apparently

he probably literally looks like a rat wearing a suit 😭 how many all nighters has this guy pulled like he probably strictly survives on black coffee and the amount of fights hes gotten in proves how much scars he has on his body

modern world hes just that weird emo kid who sits in the back corner and happens to know magic tricks

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Morning Doodle: King Nikolai Lantsov and General Nazyalensky

Artist Notes: Don't mind me, just testing workflows and programs.

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the glimpses of the Crows and their post-Auction lives that we get to see in Rule of Wolves make me very soft and gooey inside

Kaz taking over Pekka's club and naming it in honor of his Crows:

Kaz building a tunnel from the Crow Club to the Van Eck mansion so he, Jesper, and Wylan can see each other without raising suspicion:

Kaz refusing to have anything to do with Nikolai and Zoya's proposal and then instantly asking for more information the second Inej's safety is mentioned (Kaz may have Nikolai clocked but Nikolai has Kaz clocked too lmao):

Inej being delightfully chaotic as she takes out slavers:

Kaz literally going "Inej Ghafa? I don't know her" to Nikolai's face when Nikolai was the person Kaz enlisted to find Inej's parents in CK:

(Nikolai: "bitch please. I helped you find her parents two years ago I know you're together.")

Also Kaz flat-out threatening the King of Ravka over Inej and agreeing to help specifically to guarantee her safety...who do you think you're fooling, Kaz? Because it's not Nikolai:

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Wesper being hilarious and in love and the delightful chaos trio that is Wylan, Jesper, and Kaz:

Jesper and Wylan still being ride-or-die for Inej and teasingly tiptoeing around the elephant in the room that is Kanej:

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Nikolai's relationship with Kaz...*chef's kiss*

Kaz pulling his own blackmail material on Nikolai so he won't do that shit ever again:

Also Zoya and Inej in the epilogue.....I love them. I need more of them immediately

anyway all of my kids are thriving, happy, in love, and pursuing their life goals, and I'm so incredibly proud of them

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You know, I kind of find it interesting when the narrative of fanfics is always like Kaz is in a bad mood because Inej isn't there... rather than Kaz is bored because Inej isn't there. I guess two things can be true at the same time... but also, in the following years, Kaz built the following: an underground tunnel in Ketterdam, the Silver Six, expanded the Crow Club, expanded the Dregs territory (presumably). That's two years... of pure restless energy.

We are also told that he really only talks to Jesper and Wylan when there's a job he needs help with presumably because he's so busy. Kaz also finds time to correspond with a king of a whole other nation... and has been known to roleplay as a beggar (yes, I will keep bringing this up bc it's funny). Imagine, if you will, an 18-19 year old Kaz coming into all this wealth and so much time to just build because he can. Maybe because he's a little lonely, or bored, or both.

I don't think Kaz is angry, I think Kaz is restless.

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just me thinking about how a man walking down a crowded road will check to make sure his wallet is still there, and in doing so tells the thief exactly where his wallet is. Kaz looked at Inej to make sure she was still there, and in doing so told van eck exactly who to take 😭😭

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Daily reminder that Kaz is actually just a teenage boy playing at being this really edgy gang leader when in reality he has the humour of a 13 year old

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kazzle dazzle

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kaz’s chapters are SO short in the crooked kingdom i feel deprived

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sometimes I think about how every time kaz says that kaz rietveld dies, he ignores his child self screaming "I'm alive" from the reaper's barge

idk if anyone else ever thinks about that

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the comfort this cast gives me is unmatched

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based on this and this [ids in alt]

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This is my inej ghafa fanart

I posted kaz few years ago and u were so kind and sweet ..so u motivated me to draw inej❤️

What to do think?

(If you'd like, feel free to check out my Instagram page zizy_art I'd really appreciate it! 😊❤️❤️❤️ i need a little help there)

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An evening in Ketterdam

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reading six of crows and i count down the pages till i reach a kaz pov again… im 100 pages away… just 100. I CAN DO THIS. lowk i love reading abt the other characters too tho

nana booboo im reading six of crows for the first time and ur not 🤣🤣🫵🫵 but also i yearn to search up SoC content but i dont want spoilers 😭 I WANNA SEE FANART PLS

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“Because I’ve been looking for an excuse to talk to you for two days.” KAZ BREKKER I LOVE YOU

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We all know Locke only played with Jude and never really loved her, but did Jude love Locke? She seemed pretty into him at the beginning

Did Jude love Locke?

I really don't think so

At first, it might seem like she did. She definitely seemed pretty into him at the start of The Cruel Prince. He was charming, flirty, and treated her like someone special in a world that often made her feel small and insignificant. He gave her attention when most of Faerie ignored her, and let’s be real, that would be appealing to anyone, especially someone like Jude, who’s always fighting to prove herself.

But looking at it closely, it’s more likely that what Jude felt wasn’t really love. It was more about the attention and validation Locke gave her. He represented something she was craving: acceptance in Faerie, being seen as more than just a mortal. And Locke, at least at first, made her feel desired and important, which is probably why she got so wrapped up in him. When he asked her if she could love him, she said that she could, the same way she was able to love the murderer of her parents. Which means she didn't really understand what it meant to love someone romantically and thought that she might fall in love with him in the future if they continue like that. And I'm pretty sure he used his lovetalker powers on her, which made her think she was falling for him.

The thing is, once Jude saw Locke for what he really was - the manipulative, self-serving jerk he turned out to be - her feelings for him quickly shifted. If it was love, his betrayal would have hurt a lot more and lasted longer, but Jude bounced back fast. She didn’t waste time mourning that connection. It was more like she got over a crush than dealing with heartbreak. What really hurt her, wasn't Locke's betrayal - she couldn't care less about him. It was Taryn's. From Taryn she expected love and loyalty, not from Locke. She didn't expect her twin sister of all people to throw away their relationship for some asshole.

When you compare it to her relationship with Cardan, it’s obvious that what she had with Locke was way more surface-level. With Cardan, there’s real depth, anger, attraction, and understanding. With Locke, it was more about what he represented to her in that moment than anything genuine. Which explains why she so quickly got over Locke when he betrayed her for her sister and never cried over him, while with Cardan she couldn't hate him and never took off the ring even after she thought he had exiled her and married her only to trick her.

So no, Jude didn’t really love Locke. She might have thought she did at first, but it was more about wanting to be accepted and feeling seen. Locke just took advantage of that to mess with the twins, hurt Cardan all over again and create another story of his.