#alby rollins

[sandyman-on-a-pirateship]

Pekka: "What. did. you. do."

Kaz:

[zev-rynna]

The detail on the melted wire of the piano that Jesper has fixed - with clear signs that the wire was melted unevenly as a way to indicate that Jesper is under trained with his abilities as a durast. I loved that.

[ravenyenn19]

Six of Crows future head cannon:

Alby Rollins joins the Dregs.

Picture it: 1920’s-esque Ketterdam, 10 years post Sweet Reef/ Ice Court. Slick Rolls Royce cars line the cobbled streets, a city spiraling toward a new age. Rain drenches the obscure signs & hidden arrows pointing to the Speak-Easy halls. In a time of prohibition… down, down, down must one go in the Barrel to find the most notorious of them all. A slice of sin, six feet under. A crowd drunk off vice served in black tea cups.

The young man walks into Kaz Brekker’s office (after fighting his way there), sits himself in a chair opposite a great obsidian desk. Winded & lip still bleeding from his tousle with the men at the doors, Alby wheezes: “Teach me.”

In turn, A near 30 year old Kaz smirks. “I thought lions preferred their pride.”

Alby, barely pushing 17, gives a smile of a golden boy, nervous but strong enough to hold the gaze of a devil. (He’s practiced.) “I thought Crows scavengers. Here I am, a shine for the taking.”

“Still have that crow, little lion?” A feminine shadow whispers from the corner. Unnoticed by the young man previously, he clicks his teeth but still refuses to show fear. A serpent-like bead of sweat slides down his spine, a shiver chasing after. He holds firm, biting his cheek to hide the startle.

He knows this shadow, this phantom. She haunted him, once.

“I buried it with my father,” the Kaelish prince whispers, “or rather, in place of him. Never did find a body. Pity.” He shrugs.

Kaz’s eyes glint like a cat’s, his smile a loaded gun. A gloved hand stretches halfway across the table in offering. “All right, cub. What do you want?”

Alby reaches forward, feeling the cold black leather of Dirtyhands’ grip between his fingers. The moment is a stormy crossroads, a whip between his shoulders reminiscent of his father’s favorite belt. He smiles, for this is a pain Alby has been walking toward since the day he woke up clutching stuffed black feathers.

(His blood never did bleed emerald.)

More than one answer to Kaz’s stinging question come to mind, nettles along the path of his thoughts. Yet, only one pricks Alby into speaking, the rage in his voice real rather than bravado. “Revenge.”

The Wraith giggles roughly, slipping herself to the arm of Kaz’s chair on silent feet. Alby swallows.

“On me?” The leader of the Dregs rasps, a brow peaked with amusement. His wife smiles with closed lips, knives glinting along her body like hungry specters. For here, her teeth are shown. Alby knows she Captain’s a fleet of the deadliest ships in the True Sea. He drags his gaze from her quickly.

“No.” Alby stutters, but he does not lie. Kaz Brekker bested his abusive father, and he does not care about Pekka’s death. In fact, sitting with the suspected murderers, Alby finds he rather prefers their company.

Kaz reclines in his chair, a hand lazily splayed on Captain Ghafa’s knee. He regards Alby with black eyes, a sharpness that pierces through his strength but doesn’t shatter it. A blade meant to probe. A test of mettle. Alby has waited too long for this audience, he cannot lose it. A moment passes.

Dirtyhands looks to his wife, his Wraith. She quirks her head in the silent exchange. Six heart beats have passed, and Alby Rollins is certain he won’t leave this room. He waits for the snap of a cane to bank his vision, a warm blanket of red to cover him from the jugular down.

He waits for death, but does not invite it. It does not come.

Instead, a voice like choking smoke, “Then let us begin.”

Alby Rollins releases a breath. His knuckles loosen in parts. A tattooist is called in.

The Crow & Cup bleeds as it settles, accepting the fresh skin as it’s master’s tithe.

Alby sits taller, a prince of a different kind, a darker throne.

I don’t make the rules but this is now my personal agenda & important that u agree

Crap now I have to put it in a fic

Should I do it?

[leah-jeffries]

𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖊 ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ 2 ʀᴇᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ #73                                             ↳ 𝟸.𝟶𝟹: 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎

[jazzkrebber]

no because in Kaz's face of with Pekka Rollins, when he's talking about Alby and he tells him "the trick is not to love anything. your mistake was that you let someone get in. someone you'd sacrifice everything for and it makes you weak." yeah, he's talking about Alby in order to rattle Pekka, but deep down, he's talking about Inej. he knows she's his greatest weakness, and thinks that letting her in would be a mistake. that's why he pushes her away, because if he lets her in, that means he has something to lose. something that anyone could use against him, just like he used Alby against Pekka. he may not have actually done anything to Alby, but others would surely hurt Inej. he doesn't want her to be targeted because of the things he's done, not her.

[sixofcrowdaydreams]

I cannot stop thinking about the implications of the Kerch alphabet on canon. I know I’m the only person who cares, but hear me out!

1. The show itself made a mistake with its own made-up language.

2. Wylan is a foreign name or he’s a Tragedeigh child.

Explanation below:

Daddy

Right before Jesper and Wylan meet Alby Rollins, Jesper finds a child's drawing labelled “Daddy.” In Kerch the word uses 3 distinct D letters, one of which is attached to the vowel. And bizarrely at the end of the word, the letter J/Y. The English translation is literally labelled beneath it so we know exactly what it says.

But according to the two alphabet charts here, there is no Y vowel in the Kerch language. The Y is given a J sound, (as in Jan Van Eck pronounced as Yan Van Eck) which makes sense given the Dutch influence on Ketterdam.

So Alby’s drawing says, “Daddya.” Daddy in Dutch is Papa, according to my nifty translation app. Where does Daddya come from? Either Daddya is a Kaelish pronunciation given the Rollins' Kaelish heritage despite it being spelled in Kerch, or the show made a mistake.

I think the J/Y letter may have been used to keep the same number of letters to make the connection between Kerch Daddy and English Daddy the same for the audience to quickly make the connection.

However, in Kerch the word Daddy should be spelled as “Daddee” with the hard E vowel attached to the last D consonant.

(When ranting about this to my husband, he listened to this entire spiel, then asked quite confused, “Who’s calling who Daddy in this show? That sounds more like a fanfic thing rather than something from canon...” 🤣 Saints, I love that man.)

2. Now let’s talk about Wylan’s name because it fascinates me.

There is no hard I vowel in the Kerch language. It just doesn’t exist. There is a hard A, E, and O, but no hard I. The name Wylan (pronounced Why-lan) cannot be written in Kerch.

Matthias’s name cannot be spelled in Kerch either. But that’s ok because he’s not from Kerch. He’s from Fjerda, where presumably, he can spell his name in his native language. Because it would be very silly to give someone a name that is unpronounceable in their native linguistic system. Right?!?

Except Wylan is as Kerch as Kerch gets. His family is old money with strong roots to the country and culture.

So what happened?

Maybe the name Wylan comes from one of the other cultures, Fjerdian or Kaelish. We don’t know much about Marya Hendricks/Van Eck and her family/cultural roots, but we do know that book Wylan inherited her red hair. So maybe somewhere in her family tree there’s Kaelish ancestry. Or she just really liked a Kaelish or Fjerdian name enough to give it to her son.

This explanation makes the most sense, but at the same time, I can’t imagine Jan Van Eck, a man so concerned with family legacy, not choosing a Kerch name for his oh-so-important heir.

So consider this alternative explanation: Jan Van Eck just sucks as a human being and gave his son a Tragedeigh name. AKA a name that is spelled and or pronounced nonsensically enough it makes you want to pat the kid on the back and legally help them change their name to something less awful.

For the record, I think Wylan is a lovely name. But it doesn't make sense as a Kerch name given how it uses sounds/letters not in the language.

Wylan’s name could still be pronounced as Why-lan and still written as Way-lan in Kerch. Or Will-lan, or even Wee-lan. We don’t know because we didn’t get to see it in show. There’s no hard I and some vowel needs to be used!

So Wylan was that kid who spent his entire life correcting everyone on how to say his name. Because his name was spelled one way but pronounced another. It’s simultaneously hilarious and tragic. The idea that his family was so wealthy that they gave him a special, nonsensical rich person name. And because Wylan can’t read he has no way of knowing why everyone says his name wrong if they see it written first. Ghezen, he'd be exhausted correcting everyone who met him.

Absolutely headcanoning that Jan Van Eck tried yet another way to screw Wylan by giving him a ridiculous name that can't even be written in Kerch.

[my-darling-inej]

shadow and bone + the onion (season 2 edition) pt. 4

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Kaz Edition

Season 1: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Crows Edition

[thecrxwclub]

4/8 episodes yeah okay we're about to be in the trenches this season i'm not gonna be able to emotionally handle this!!!!

[savethegrishaverse]

For our next twitter party, we want to spotlight the #ITFRollinsBoys Dean Lennox Kelly (who plays Pekka Rollins) and Taylor Fay (who plays Alby Rollins)! Come prepared with your best tweets, questions, comments, gifs, memes, and more. Let's make some noise! 🗣️

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[shadow-and-bone-kaz]

Honestly, Into The Fold, Convention by Starfury from 1-3rd March 2024 was absolutely incredible. The cast was sweet, kind and funny.

Jack said that my name was fairytale like, honestly he is a sweetheart.

Jessie said she loved my top and earrings as well as making lovely conversations about my work in the performing arts industry.

I have many more stories with other cast members that were there, but these two stick out for me at this moment in time!!!

[the-wraiths-wife]

A six of crows meme I made when I was supposed to be doing my homework. Hope you enjoy :)

[sleepless-crows]

now im curious what happened to alby's mom, is it a van eck putting marya in an asylum type of situation, is it like aditi's death type of situation, or is it like kaz's mom where we will never truly know

[leah-jeffries]

𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖊 ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ 2 ʀᴇᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ #72                                             ↳ 𝟸.𝟶𝟹: 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎

[georgies-ftts]

wee scottish child tha is tae wean of one of ketterdams most feared gangs is gonna tell his da on ye if ye dint sign tae petition 👀👀👀 get on it lads n lassies

i think i’m so fuckin funny

[jazzkrebber]

shadow and bone season two spoilers!!

the "Alby Rollins can't help who his father is" scene means so much more when you realize Kaz probably already knows who Wylan really is. he knows that Wylan is speaking from a place of pain, that he relates to Alby, but Kaz still lets him believe that he's going to hurt him

[abruisedmuse]

Seeing Wylan ask for Alby not to be harmed and giving that speech of he can't help who his father is knowing Jan Van Eck is his father makes me a bit emotional. Because even though they have different lives, he knows how it feels to have a horrible, powerful man for a father.