#brother matthias

[fantastic-nonsense]

"Inej is the mom fri—" *loud incorrect buzzer noise* Wrong. You are looking for Matthias Helvar.

[barrel-crow-n]

I was just thinking about how Kaz built this heartless persona for himself and how everyone falls for it to varying degrees: He's widely regarded as a monster and as "not made right"; Inej thought he wouldn't come for her and that once she was useless to him that he would discard her; Jesper never knows where exactly he stands with him; Nina "doesn't want to know what dark hole he crawled out of"; Wylan calls him "the most vengeful creature he had ever met"; Matthias believes he's a demon. But in reality his true motives for most things are love and grief and loss of family.

Kaz only wanted money for revenge, he didn't want to try and build a meaningful connection with Imogen because she would distract him from pursuing his vengeance, he only mentions how Pekka conned them out of money to explain how they ended up on the streets, how it was never about the money but about Jordie.

Kaz says that he and Jordie were such easy marks because they missed their dad. Kaz's biggest gripe was not just the loss of Jordie but the illusion of a home and family that Pekka had snatched away before the plague snatched Jordie away too.

It all always leads back to Jordie and his loss and avenging him and about never wanting to be that vulnerable again. Kaz created Kaz Brekker to protect himself, to hide his vulnerabilities. His grief is hidden behind a fake name, his naivety is hidden behind violence, his touch aversion is hidden behind the gloves.

Kaz pushes people away because he fears what will happen if he lets them in. He gets mean when he's vulnerable to hide said vulnerability. He did it in the clocktower, he did it in the bathroom. After he accidently calls Jesper Jordie he lashes out verbally and physically, when Inej asks about Jordie and Pekka's involvement in what happened he recounts how he tortured someone. In both incidents it's again Jordie that he's hiding, that is causing him to be vulnerable. It always leads back to Jordie. Even with Van Eck! He's again angry that he fell for what he fell for before, the thing that made him lose Jordie making him temporarily lose Inej.

In both the Jesper and Inej examples he hides behind violence - by brawling with Jesper and recounting a time when he tortured a young boy. He does this because he loves Inej and Jesper, and it scares him, and he doesn't know what to do with it. Because everyone he's ever loved has died in horrible ways (his father was torn apart by a plough, his brother died from a horrible sickness) and he doesn't want to go through it again - especially since he still hasn't let go of Jordie, although it has been eight years.

Kaz is a person who loves so deeply. Who is mainly motivated by love. Who, when Pekka asks him what he wants, replies "Bring my brother back from the dead." because he never cared about money, nor power, nor anything else. He just wants his brother. All he wanted this whole time is his brother, and since he no longer has him he lashes out, all hurt and grieving. He's hurting so badly that he destroys everyone even mildly involved in what took Jordie away from him. But he only did that because he loved Jordie. It wasn't revenge for the sake of money it was for the sake of love. It was for the sake of Jordie.

Kaz loved Jordie so much that he became the most feared person in Ketterdam, that he took down the King of the Barrel and a merchant from one of the oldest families in Ketterdam (because even if his gripe with Van Eck was unrelated, it's because of Jordie's loss that life snowballed into their interactions and the consequent betrayal and destruction of everything Van Eck held dear). Kaz loved Jordie so much that it changed the entire course of the narrative.

If not for Jordie's loss the heist wouldn't of happened, all of the Crows lives would've been different, some of the Crows would even most likely be dead, and this extends even further to much more major things. The King of Ravka managed to steal the titanium because of his help which will aid Ravka in wars, the path to jurda parem is no longer in the hands of the Fjerdans and a cure is being safely developed in Ravka because Kaz rescued Kuwei, Wylan took over the Van Eck empire because Kaz tampered with Van Eck's will and papers, Inej is working on taking down the slave trade which is only possible because Kaz freed her from her indenture, Nina became the queen of Fjerda because of things that Kaz started (her joining the Dregs instead of being indebted to the Dime Lions, him freeing Matthias, him organising the heist, Matthias dying in the aftermath, her going to Fjerda to bury Matthias and the results which ended up being her and her new lover on the Fjerdan throne trying to fix prejudice against grisha, and women, in the most conservative country).

All of it leads back to Kaz. And he did all of it for Jordie. It all always leads back to Jordie. Jordie and Kaz's love for his big brother and his grief over having him snatched away from him.

[jkriordanverse]

Grayson Hawthorne, Jacks, Jason Grace, Dean Redding, Aaron Warner( idk i dont know the guy), Savannah Grayson, Matthias Helvar, Keefe Sencen, Nikolai Lantsov

[ambericesage]

*sirens going off in the distance*

Wylan, terrified, rocking back and forth: They’ve found me!!

Kaz, who the Stadwatch is really after: You better run

[sprnklersplashes]

Enough about Kaz's soft spot for Wylan. Let's talk about Matthias' soft spot for Wylan.

[sinukiyo]

During their argument, Kaz called Jesper by his brother’s name, “Jordie.” Later, when Jesper asked who Jordie was, Kaz said he was “someone I trusted,” “Someone I didn’t want to lose.” Based on this, we can say that Kaz sees Jesper as his brother, despite the fact that Jesper accidentally betrayed him. No matter how angry he was, he still wanted to protect Jesper by not giving him the Jurda Parem. In this essay, I will…

[veryaren]

blarg

[dasiesanddarkness]

i was watching shadow and bone with my brother and we got to the scene at the menagerie with inej and he goes "they're very barter-y."

and like. yeah they are kid. that is an apt description of the Kerch good job buddy.

[totallynots8tan]

He’s just a funky little white boy

[flogisto]

the relationship between wylan and matthias is so important to me. it's like. we always talk about how kaz and jesper are bothers (and they totally are, don't get me wrong) or joke about kaz being wylan's dad but. idk with matthias it's like. that's his little brother in a way i can't quite explain. they didn't have much time together but they still came to respect and care about each other, and the bond they have over being the newest crows and the way they both try to be good even though they are in a situation where they are forced to do things that don't necessarily align with their morals (at least at first). and the way matthias goes from wondering what a child is doing there to seeing wylan as an ally, and we were all supposed to make it, and just every single interaction they have or any time they reference each other even if it's just in their head,,,,, it's so fun to read and it makes me go absolutely feral

[thechaoticrow]

so we were all expecting jordie in season 2, right? but JESPER’S MOTHER TOO??? JESPER *AND* KAZ TRAUMA?? ON OUR SCREENS??? YOUR HONOUR THEY’RE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN AND IM NOT READY

[decider-of-fate]

I truly think that if Leigh were to kill another crow it wouldn't be Kaz, Nina or Inej. It could be Wylan. But I think it would be Jesper. Because everyone loves Jesper and no one thinks about him dying. The others provide so much angst, but I believe it would be so incredibly heartbreaking if Jesper were to die, because I at least wouldn't expect it. And imagine it's written by Leigh, thinking about that chapter it would be especially heart wrenching.

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round Two

The Blues Brothers

Defeated opponents: The KLF

Formed in: 1978

Genres: Blues

Lineup: "Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi) – lead vocals, backing vocals

Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) – backing vocals, harmonica, lead vocals

Steve "The Colonel" Cropper – guitar

Matt "Guitar" Murphy – guitar

Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar

Steve Jordan - drums

Willie "Too Big" Hall - drums

Lou "Blue Lou" Marini – tenor and alto saxophones, backing vocals

Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin – trumpet, backing vocals

Tom "Triple Scale" Scott – tenor and alto saxophones, backing vocals

Tom "Bones" Malone – tenor and baritone saxophones, trombone, trumpet, backing vocals, horn arrangements

Albums from the 80s:

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Made in America (1980)

Best of the Blues Brothers (1981)

Propaganda: Go watch The Blues Brothers movie

Scorpions

Defeated opponents: Pat Metheney Group

Formed in: 1965

Genres: Hard rock, heavy metal

Lineup: Klaus Meine- vocals

Rudolf Schenker- guitar

Matthias Jabs- guitar

Francis Buchholz- bass

Herman Rarebell- drums

Albums from the 80s:

Animal Magnetism (1980)

Blackout (1982)

Love at First Sting (1984)

Savage Amusement (1988)

Propaganda: 

[jkriordanverse]

Matthias/Jameson "don't kiss me I have a cold" boyfriend and Avery/Nina " Idc we have be sick together :D" girlfriend.

[sissytobitch10seconds]

Matthias: Nina said that I can't get any until she's done being mad at me

Jesper: You know you can take care of that yourself, right?

Matthias, softly: You don't understand.

[sindirimba]

Brothers By Blood (2020)