#Adrik Zhabin

[hiddenvioletsgrow]

Abruptly, Adrik snarled, "I'm glad Sergei's dead. I'm just sorry I didn't get to wring his neck myself."

"You'd need two hands for that," said Zoya.

There was a brief, terrible silence, then Adrik scowled and said, "Okay, stab him." Zoya grinned and passed him the flask.

Zoya is so brutal💀

[savethegrishaverse]

Disability and neurodiversity in the Grishaverse

With Disability Pride Month, let’s explore the Grishaverse's disability representation. Leigh Bardugo’s experience as a disabled author gives her a unique perspective in writing disabled characters, resulting in an intersectional cast that includes characters with physical disabilities and neurodivergences.

Kaz Brekker relies on a mobility aid—his infamous crow's head cane—due to a leg injury he sustained as a teenager that left him with a limp and chronic pain. Mobility aid users are usually portrayed as older, meaning Kaz, as a younger character who uses a cane, brings much-needed representation.

Wylan Van Eck has severe dyslexia. As he describes it, letters get mixed up, unlike music, numbers or equations. However, he excels in math, science, music and art. While there are many types of dyslexia, with differing severity, Wylan’s struggles resonate deeply with many dyslexic fans.

Bardugo also confirmed writing Jesper Fahey as having ADHD symptoms. His energetic nature makes him restless and impulsive, potentially contributing to his gambling addiction. He often spins or fidgets with his revolvers and rings, which can be interpreted as stimming. Fans with ADHD can relate to Jesper’s trouble focusing and constant need for stimulation.

Genya Safin suffers from monocular vision due to injuries from a Nichevo'ya attack and wears an eye patch. Her inclusion brings awareness to different types of visual impairments.

David Kostyk is a brilliant scientist and inventor but has trouble navigating social situations, is often quiet and prefers to keep to himself. He has difficulty maintaining eye contact when overwhelmed and expressing his feelings. David is interpreted as neurodivergent by many fans, which provides further representation to the series.

Two characters with prosthetic limbs are Adrik Zhabin and the Darkling. Adrik has a prosthetic arm due to an attack by the Darkling’s Nichevo'ya. Ironically, the Darkling lost his hand as well and now uses a prosthetic. Having two characters like this helps normalize limb differences.

Leigh Bardugo took great care to include neurodivergent and disabled characters in her stories, without them being defined solely by it. They go on adventures, fall in love, make mistakes, save the day—and just happen not to be neurotypical and/or able-bodied.

Because of this, the Grishaverse has some of the best disability representation in the fantasy genre. Not only does this kind of positive representation help similar fans feel seen, it also helps to destigmatize differences, showing we are all human. Happy Disability Pride Month!

[daughter-of-lethe]

Aesthetic: Genya Safin

[kolarpem]

Morning Doodle: “Zoya’s a better leader than I expected,” admitted Adrik. “Even if I’d never tell her so.” “Can you imagine? You might as well ask her if she wants to snuggle. General Zoya Nazyalensky does not need or want our approval.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 8)

[shootwithintenttokill]

Can we talk about Jesper Fahey unintentionally being one of the most powerful Grisha in the Grishaverse? (Bear with me)

Okay, agreed, Jesper struggles with doing basically anything intentionally. Makes sense - he was never trained.

But if we consider what he can do; controlling the path of bullets. Taking tiny chunks of metal moving at ~120-370 m/s, and directing them. And not just a little bit. He literally managed to make his bullet curve 90° around a right-angle corner. This is a skill we see no other Fabrikator able to do, and you would have thought, if it was a common ability, or even ever seen before, the Darkling or the Triumvirate would have utilised it in the Second Army. They have not. The only people known to use it are Jesper and his mother.

(And let's just give an honourable mention to Aditi Hilli, who could extract poison from the bloodstream of another person. You remember how the tidemakers in the Ice Court needed to be on Parem to mess with a person's blood? But Aditi Hilli? ...I don't want to say no problem, because she did die, but she saved Leoni too, so... half-marks? I'm just saying Jesper has some serious badass genes.)

Actually, talking about the tidemakers on parem, Jesper, with no training and having all the blood in his body sucked out of him, still managed to kill them with dust. A rather dark trick, but one we've never seen David Kostyk, or Leoni Hilli, considered the two most powerful Fabrikators alive during canon, replicate.

But the real reason Jesper is so powerful has very little to do with that, so much as HOW he does it. Every grisha alive used their arms to direct their abilities. After being captured by the Darkling in S&S, Alina has her hands bound, and says something about how she can summon, but not direct light without her hands, so she's basically powerless. It's obviously a common tactic, because the Druskelle do the same thing with Nina and the other Grisha they captured, and only after they get their hands freed on the sharp edge of a broken cup can they use their abilities again.

The only people we see not using their hands for the small science, in fact, are Adrik, who has to relearn his technique after he loses an arm, and, of course, Jesper Fahey, who can direct bullets with his mind - no hand movements required.

If anything, it's probably this ability that makes him so good at directing bullets. After all, at the speed a bullet is going, you don't have time to be waving your hands around to control it. What's especially funny to me is that before Wylan pointed it out, he had no idea he was even doing it. He was using an ability no other Grisha can, and Didn't Know. Can you imagine him mentioning that to Nina... or basically any Second Army Grisha.

("You can control bullets?"

"...you can't?"

"...how?"

"I'm not sure. I mean, my mother sort of taught me, but also I didn't really realise I was doing it until my boyfriend pointed it out, you know?"

"...YOU WERE ACCIDENTLY CONTROLLING BULLETS?!!!")

This is, of course, all book canon, but somehow the show takes it even further. It hasn't been officially revealed Jesper's Grisha in the show, but there are enough clues - Jesper repairing Kaz's cane, Ivan's cut-off comment after their fight, not to mention the fight itself - that I'm taking it as canon. In this, it is accepted NO ONE can use their grisha abilities, except merzost, without first touching their hands together. Not The Darkling, not Alina, no one. Except, of course, Jesper Fahey, who can shoot his bullets and direct them to the exact same point on a kefta, after deflecting them off random objects first.

Tl;dr: Jesper Fahey is amazing and crazily powerful and should be appreciated.

[brotherconstant]

2.01 || 2.03 

#siblings

[leah-jeffries]

𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖊 ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ 2 ʀᴇᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ #176 ↳𝟸.𝟶𝟽: 𝚖𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚠

[the-witch-of-woods-beyond]

you know how everyone refers to the six characters in six of crows as “the crows”? well is there a name for the group in the grisha trilogy for all the main characters???

[lightninstrikedragon]

Let's gooooo!!!!!!!!

Keep the numbers up guys if you want a renewal

[witchcraftandgeekness]

I know I'll probably be ignored about this but I think people need to hear that...

•Genya is not her full name. Her full name would be Evgeniya (eh-v-g-EH-n-ih-ah) Safin. Soft form is 'Genechka'. And actually, in right russian Safin would be Safina, because it is feminine form of the last name.

•Nikolai's short form would be 'Kolya'.

•'Lina', 'Alya' or 'Nina' is short for Alina. If you want her nickname to sound softly it should be 'Alinochka'. Starkov is masculin form, feminine form of this last name is Starkova.

•Tolya is short for Anatoliy.

•Tamar (in russian more commonly pronounced as Tamara) can be called 'Toma' or 'Tomochka' as a form of endearment.

•Nadia is short for Nadejda (naa-DYEHZH-daa). Nadia, a girl, is Zhabina, Adrik, her brother, a boy, is Zhabin.

•Aleksander's nickname is Sasha, english fanbase already grasped this. His last name in right russian would be Morozov, while Baghra and Ulla remain with 'Morozova'.

[lilisouless]

The men on the hospital, all of them with broken bones

Zoya: what the heck happened in your birthday party?!

Nikolai: we went to the zoo and made an animal race, i rode a tiger

Zoya: how could you do something so stupid?

Mal: before i get in trouble i want to clarify Misha was wearing a helmet and that’s why he is not hurt too

Alina: you took Misha?!

Adrik: i tried to stop them

Adrik the day before: (riding a giraffe) GET AWAY YOU BUNCH OF LOSERS!

David: is not my fault either , they tricked me

David the day before: if they die they die ,Mr Rhino

Tolya: i barely participated

He is actually telling the truth, he sat on a giant turtle while reading and called it a day so Nikolai doesn’t say he didn’t participate

Tamar: wait…how did you got hurt too then?

Wylan: Jesper what are you doing?! You have the horse going on circles! We are losing! Tolya and the freaking turtle are ahead of us!

Jesper: do you want to win or do you want to look cool and dreamy riding a horse in slowmo?

Wylan: win! I want to win!

Jesper: ugh, okay. Let’s go Destiny, let’s win and jump over that turtle

Wylan: no! Don’t jump over the turtle!

Jesper: WE ARE JUMPING OVER THE TURTLE!

Kaz: i wanted to win but my animal was less than cooperative

Kaz: come on, you stupid beast! (Hits with his cane) move your dumb fat ass

Matthias: get off my back,Brekker!

[hiddenvioletsgrow]

Adrik watching Nina drag Matthias' corpse around Fjerda:

[inejs-knife]

happy disability pride month to everyone, but especially to Kaz and Wylan and Adrik!!

[daughter-of-lethe]

Aesthetic: Nikolai Lanstov

Art Credit: @kolarpem

[kolarpem]

Morning Doodle: “You were just as much of a mother hen when we all came back from the Fold.” They’d both been children really. Nina had been a student at the Grisha school when they were all evacuated to the orphanage at Keramzin. But Adrik had begged to go with his sister, to fight beside the Sun Summoner. He hadn’t been there when the Darkling took Nina and the other students hostage. (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 8)

[capinejghafa]

anon request | squallers + hand gestures