#genya safin headcanons

[witchthewriter]

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰 & 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮

⤷ gender neutral, ambiguous race, and any size reader. Requests are open, thank you for reading!

a/n: Minor spoilers, I’ll do my best not to let anything slip!

Warnings: swears (I like to swear I’m sorry)

ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ      

𝑺𝑭𝑾🌿  

𝐊𝐚𝐳

・You honestly thought he hated your guts

・Like he truly despised you

・But Kaz saw his feelings as a weakness. He thought he was protecting you by keeping his distance

・It wasn’t until Jesper let something slip, which made you think Kaz might see you in a positive way.

    Sitting on a chair and propping his legs on the table, Jesper didn’t even look at you when he said, “Oh he loves you-”

“He what??” Your response cut him off and the sharp-shooter smirked. 

       “Haven’t you noticed? He’s extra ... Kaz-like when you’re around.” 

・From that moment on you thought about every interaction you’ve had with Kaz

・The tight-lipped responses, averting your gaze, but also giving you the easiest part of the jobs, making sure that you had extra protection ... 

・You didn’t know it, but Kaz was making sure you were never directly in harms way

・You were never too far away from him

・And when the jobs were too risky, he would pull you out. You thought it was because you weren’t talented enough, but that wasn’t the case at all. 

・It was starting to make sense now

𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚

・Shy around you, but will blurt out the most random fact? And it doesn’t have anything to do with the conversation

・Always able to spot you out in a crowd 

・It’s like some sort of sixth sense, she’s just able to find you 

・Uses her sun summoner powers to give you light whenever you need it 

・And yeah she might show off a bit ...

・Laughs at all your jokes - even if they aren’t that funny. I guess you could call it pity laughing ...

・Her journals are full of drawings of you. Never shows anyone, and would die of embarrassment if anyone found out. 

・Genya was the one to push her to talk to you

・Alina thinks she’ll scare you off with all the attention she’s getting. Everyone thinking she’s a Saint, being the one to tear down the fold, etc. 

・So when you agreed to go on a date with her, she didn’t know what to say next. 

𝐍𝐢𝐤𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐢

・Amps up the charm, so on the outside he seems so suave, but on the inside he is literally buRNING WITH DESIRE

・Would give you endless gifts, that are extremely expensive 

・Like his money advisor would be like “bruh where’s that $$$ gone?” 

・Definitely the type to write secret admirer letters 

・Always makes sure you have your favourite food. Either stocks it in your room, and says “I do this for all my ... friends” (lie, he doesn’t), or literally carries it on his person “just in case” 

・Tolya and Tamar tell him to pursue you, but Nikolai feigns confusion

    “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” the Prince says, shrugging his shoulders, pretending to read the map in front of him

    “Liar,” they both laugh, shaking their heads. 

・Okay so with it being very obvious that he has a crush on you, somehow you don’t ... see it?

・Your brain is like, ‘ This Prince of Ravka couldn’t possibly like me. I’m just imagining it.”

・But to be loyal to their captain, Tolya and Tamar keep their mouths shut (although they do try to see if you like him back - and of course you do?????)

𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐣

・You would have absolutely no clue

・So quiet, but somehow ... extra quiet around you?

・Watches you from afar to make sure you’re safe

・Has learned your routine, likes, dislikes and favourite things without saying a word to you 

・Feels so protective over you. Kinda like Edward and Bella vibes. Like she thinks you would end up hurting yourself walking down the stairs (because she’s seen you do it)

・You’d notice her because one day you were followed home and she saved you from the thugs

・She introduced herself, as if she was a skilled bystander 

・And from then on you kept ‘bumping’ into each other

・Because she knew all your favourite places 

・Okay this is starting to sound a lil creepy, but we know Inej has only good intentions. And she would realise how creepy it was getting and stop doing it

・But then you’d notice that you see her less and get a bit sad 

・So you seek her out and ask why you haven’t been seeing her as much

・And she kinda ... freezes because she thinks you caught onto her 

       “...work, you know?” 

・You looked away for one second, turned back and she was gone

𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫

・Flirty Mcflirt pants x1000

・Walks up to you confidently, about to say the best pick up line, but then he completely stumbles over his words 

・Complains to Inej about how he can be so charming with everyone else but he always messes up around you 

・We know Jesper ‘falls in love easily’

・But with you it was different

・His feelings weren’t flimsy; like parchment in water. No, they felt stronger, like a seed in the earth. 

・Somehow you became his first priority

・He found himself second-guessing his outfits-

    “I’m not sure if I look ... fabulous? Inej, what do you thi- oh she’s gone.” 

・But you always compliment him. And one of your compliments is worth a hundred from strangers

・Thinks you can do no wrong, like seriously. Thinks the sun shines out of your as-

   “They did NOT do that. Well, if they did good on ‘em!” 

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠

・Longing looks from afar 

・Never snappy with you, unlike interactions with other people 

・Has memorised your every feature so he can imagine you before he goes to bed

・Would feel confused; is it infatuation? Just a fleeting crush? Lust? 

・Or was it something more?

・His heartrenders notice his heart rate picking up whenever you’re around, “sir, are you okay?” 

    “Yes I’m fine, I’m fine-” he grumbles

・Sneaks you dessert after every meal. You thought he did this for every Grisha, until you asked Zoya how her dessert was one night and she looked at you like you were crazy

    “Does that have a hidden meaning?” 

“No...?”

・So it’s basically favouratism 

・And vERY JEALOUS

・No man is allowed to be alone with you basically 

・And no one is allowed to yell, hurt or speak to you in any sort of negative way at all

𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐚

・Is absolutely shameless about it 

・Gives the impression that she doesn’t care if you know about her feelings or not. 

・But that’s not completely the case. 

・Nina is sexually attracted to you - so she would try and pursue you on that front. But once she realised that there was a deeper attraction ... she knew she was fucked 

・She’s a whirlwind to be around; constant fast-paced and witty banter 

・Shares her food with you, and asks if you want to get food with her (it’s practically always waffles)

・Nina would approach you as another aquaintance - with her flirting. But what really showed her feelings was the food

・Nina didn’t just share food with anyone

・No, absolutely not. 

・Only those that she cared very deeply about 

・And she doesn’t just ask anyone to go get food with her; because eating is like a sacred experience...

・With the wrong company, it could completely ruin it

・So that’s why she always asks you

𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐬

・Creates a friendship with you by asking about all your favourite things

・When he first met you, Matthias felt this warm giddy feeling inside

・He thought maybe it was a one off 

・But every time you interacted, the same feeling occurred 

・He’s quite slow with his advances. One might not even classify them as advances because he’s so ‘old school.’ 

・He’d be the type who likes to “go steady”

・Matthias is actually pretty good at explaining his emotions and thoughts

・So he’s quite understanding! 

・Absolutely wholesome (once his misplaced hatred for Grisha isn’t there anymore...) 

・Gentleman; opens doors for you, offers his arm, never lets someone talk over you. And this is before you’re in a relationship 

・Never lets people speak negatively towards you or about you

・He has your back 24/7

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚

・Shy!!! But incredibly protective; will tailor someone to have pimples if they talk badly about you 

・Tries to get the Darkling to pair you up on quests/tasks

・Mostly gazes at you from afar, sighing every 30 seconds in admiration 

・Laughs the loudest whenever you make a joke (or say anything remotely funny) (and then someone nudges her arm, telling her to dial it down) 

・Asks about “nonchalantly” with others, basically to see how you’re going. Because she’s too embarrassed to ask you 

・Whenever she catches your eye, you give her a smile and her insides burst into butterflies 

・Gets sad when you get put on missions that make you have to travel, she misses you dearly

・When her confidence builds, she tells you that whenever you’d need her tailoring skills, she’d be glad to help

・Would do that hand thing in Pride and Prejudice when Mr Darcy holds Elizabeth’s hand and when he’s walking away he like ... flexes it (it’s more romantic on screen, I promise)

・That’s how she’d be, but with only brushing her hand against yours 

𝐌𝐚𝐥

・Tries his best to start conversations with you but they’re always so awkward, like he asks you about the weather? And small things like what your favourite colour is, what you think the best meal of the day is etc. 

・You thought he was just doing it to be nice, to create some small talk... 

・But little did you know this boy was falling HEAD over HEELS in love with you 

・The first time he made you laugh, he nearly imploded. 

・Your laugh was so refreshing...

・He didn’t think another person could give him so much happiness

・And being the source of your happiness was mind blowing to him. Hearing your laugh was like the weight of the world was lifted off his shoulders

・Thinks about you day and night, fantasising about your life together. Where you would get married, what kind of house you’d live in, how many children etc. 

・Literally already having names picked out for your kids 

・And when you started talking to him ... as in initiating the conversations - he felt like a king

𝐙𝐨𝐲𝐚

・It was obvious that Zoya liked you - she was never as coldhearted like she was with everyone else 

・Almost like she was constantly “going easy” on you 

・And then when someone would point it out, she would be twice as mean

・Leaving you completely confused 

・But once she ... settled? in her feelings, she started to change 

・Like showing off in front of you

・I’m talking, actually asking, “are they looking?” before showing off 

・Zoya makes sure no one is talking behind your back 

・She will literally tear them to shreds if they insult you. And I’m not over emphasising - she would tear some down utterly and completely, if they messed with you. 

・Thinks about you when she’s in bed, how she yearns for your arms to be wrapped around her

・Finds herself daydreaming about you, then snaps back to reality and pretends like nothing happened 

・Blushes whenever you’re around, but her bravado turns up tenfold

[sophiewith7es]

some of my six of crows modern headcanons xx

nina and inej are taylor swift and phoebe bridgers best friends

inej is vegan and i will not be explaining myself

matthias’ snapchat username is matthiashelvqr but jesper’s is animal_loverjes123 because he made it when he was nine

wylan is scared of planes but not helicopters

jesper is scared of helicopters but not planes

nina and inej listened to midnights together when it was first released

jesper got matthias into star wars

jesper loves the prequels and clone wars, matthias prefers the original trilogy and rogue one

both nina and jespers first bi panic was watching pirates of the caribbean

kaz has a secret fear of escalators so he always takes the stairs even though it actively causes him more pain

kaz and wylan watch criminal minds together in silence, but they both say the line about tracy lambert together

matthias falls asleep to animal documentaries narrated by david attenborough

inej jesper and nina are big greys anatomy fans

wylan’s first crush was teenage simba

matthias plays rugby

they have a book club (audiobook for wylan)

they read the acotar series and all had vastly different opinions

nina was an avid zoella watcher

kaz doesnt pay for any streaming services but has all of them anyway, jesper also doesn’t pay but uses everyone elses

matthias pays for the netflix account though

him and nina share one profile and everyone else has their own profile

nina cried when they took new girl off netflix

kaz says he prefers dc over marvel just to cause conflict

jesper read percy jackson growing up and still has the same battered copies he read as a kid in his room no matter where he lives

nina was a harry potter reading child and also still has her original copies of the books

HARRY POTTER REWATCH MOVIE NIGHTS!!!!

wylan is a secret marauders stan

nina jesper inej and wylan are all marauders era fans but wylan is soooo much worse

wesper = wolfstar

jesper’s favourite movie is the breakfast club

kaz says his favourite movie is fight club but it’s actually fantastic mr fox

kaz follows six people on instagram: inej and all the members of one direction

he does that to piss the others off

jesper went viral on tik tok one time

matthias loves oasis (both the band and the drink)

nina fought for eras tour tickets and managed to get them all tickets

kaz is going as reputation (his usual attire) jesper as lover, wylan as evermore, inej as speak now (she got the speak now dress), matthias as debut (they got him a cowboy hat) and nina as red.

matthias secretly cried over the how to train your dragon ending

matthias and inej read a lot of classics and share their collection, they both annotate the books as well and enjoy seeing what the other has written

kaz has a do not disturb sign on his bedroom door like in a hotel and puts it on the door handle even when he’s not in there

kaz is weirdly good with technology

jesper collects mugs

kaz and inej steal pint glasses from pubs

when inej and nina listened nothing new on red(tv) they lost their minds

kaz loves boygenius

matthias and wylan love modern family, wylan’s favourite character is gloria and matthias’ is jay

jesper loves formula 1 and its the only sport he’ll watch

nina and matthias play animal crossing together

kaz terrors jesper on terraria

when they play minecraft functionally, inej is the builder, jesper is the farmer, matthias and wylan mine, kaz has netherite armour in like half an hour and nina collects flowers and tames animals

when they play minecraft disfunctionally they just blow shit up

kaz plays the guitar

inej DEVOURED the cruel prince series

zoya and genya are nina’s foster/adoptive sisters

wylan is scared of clowns and is like that one episode of new girl when nick has to go into the haunted house

whenever jesper does something stupid or doesnt do something or whatever he says ‘#yolo’ and moves on and it drives kaz insane

jesper has muggies of everyone

inej takes 0.5 pictures of everyone when theyre sleeping without them knowing

matthias loves the hunger games series

kaz regularly predicts major global events

wylan loves breaking bad

[lassieposting]

S&B Characters + Sleep Headcanons

Aleksander Kirigan doesn't get a lot of sleep. He claims it's because he's an incredibly busy man, and that's often true - long hours are basically part of his job description - but in truth it's just as likely to be any of a dozen other things keeping him from his bed; nightmares, occasional merzost headaches, intrusive thoughts, the ghosts of fuck-ups past, the relentless stress and worry of trying to keep Ravka's borders secure with dwindling funds and forces. Over the centuries he's learned to bury himself in his work to avoid his demons, and he's become one of those people who's perfectly functional on four hours of sleep, considers six a lie-in, and will sporadically go days at a time without sleeping when he's not doing well.

For most of his life, he's been immensely wary of falling asleep beside a lover - there are few worse ways to discover your bed partner was just out to kill you for bone jewelry than waking up mid-assassination attempt. If he's keen enough on them to not have them leave after a casual encounter - say, Zoya - he'll usually stay with them until they fall asleep, and then get up and go quietly do some work or read until morning. He's willing to adapt, though, for the right person - Nikolai and Alina can both settle him enough to stay with them all night. The trick, as it turns out, is playing on his touch starvation; on the rare occasion he finds someone he can actually trust, he likes to be held, and affectionate little gestures like playing with his hair or scritching his stubble or massaging his shoulders will melt him and flick his OFF button real fast. He's surprisingly cuddly, though he'll swear blind that he just gets cold easily and Alina and Nikolai both run hot.

Nikolai Lantsov is very tactile and affectionate in general, so when he's sharing someone's bed, he likes to cuddle. Like most soldiers - and kings who have survived more assassins than anyone should ever have to - he's a light sleeper, but he also drops off easily, the legacy of learning to get his head down wherever and whenever he can in an active warzone. He likes to sprawl out over or wrap himself around his lovers, and he does a lot of idly playing with hair or repetitive stroking up and down random stretches of skin, almost like he's self-soothing by comforting someone else.

He's been known to react to things happening around him while still asleep - pulling Alina in against his chest if he feels her shiver, or rolling over to throw an arm over Aleksander and mumble easy, Sasha if he's having a bad dream. He has nightmares of his own - he spent his military service on the front lines, not safe in an officer's tent like Vasily - and he tends to burrow into the closest warm body for comfort, burying his face in Alina's chest or Sasha's shoulder to ground himself. Aleksander will almost always wake up for this and react, reassuring and resettling Niko. Alina, not so much.

Alina Starkov sleeps like the dead. Once she is out, she is Out, and she'll sleep through pretty much anything short of a bomb being dropped on the palace. For quite a while this actually frightens her - she worries she won't wake up in time if she's attacked - but Niko is a light sleeper and Aleksander startles awake if a butterfly sneezes in Novyi Zem, so once they're all sharing a bed she's perfectly safe to conk out like a light. She's always had very vivid dreams, but she doesn't remember them for long after she wakes, so she keeps a sketchpad by the bed so she can draw any ideas or lingering impressions she wants to hang onto after she wakes - a concept for a machine Nikolai might want to build, a kefta design Aleksander would look devastatingly good in, old memories from the war she needs to exorcise, random nonsense that makes no sense outside of the context of her dream. She's usually the last to wake - Aleksander and Nikolai are both military and ridiculously busy besides, so they're often up with the Saints-forsaken sun, but Alina loves a lie-in, and would much rather stay up late than wake early.

Mal Oretsev is used to taking turns on watch with other soldiers, so he tends to sleep in short bursts of a few hours at a time. This poses a challenge once he takes over the Volkvolny - he has a lot of extra time to sleep now that he didn't have before. He spends a lot of it painstakingly working his way through the collection of books in Sturmhond's - his - stateroom. If he's to play the role, he should probably have the knowledge, and he'd rather be able to pull his weight without getting in the crew's way. He enjoys the engineering manuals and seafaring tomes, but mostly uses the ones on statecraft to make himself doze off when his brain doesn't want to shut down and be quiet.

Genya Safin is a paranoid sleeper. Her bed is positioned and angled so she can watch the thin strip of light visible beneath her closed door, waiting for the old king's loathsome shadow to block out the glow from the other side. Long after his death, she'll wake and go rigid at the sound of footsteps in the hall. It takes her a while to actually let David into her bed, but when she does, she realises she finds him comforting, actually - he's so logical and steady that he can talk her down from even the worst of her dreams. He doesn't mind getting up to prove to her that her door is locked, or reassuring her nightly that the old king really is dead.

David Kostyk is That Guy. He talks in his sleep - quadratic equations and theories of immutability and assorted Fabrikator shop-talk. He gets up and wanders around sometimes - usually to and from his desk, but occasionally down the hall. At least once he's gotten up, put on a housecoat, double-checked the lock on the door for Genya, comforted her after a nightmare, and gone back to bed himself, having never really woken up in the first place. This is a known habit at the Little Palace, and has caused plenty of entertainment and consternation - he's "caught" Nikolai sneaking out of the Black General's chambers back when he was still the spare tsarevich, he's wandered into the war room at four-thirty in the morning to explain a prototype to General Kirigan, he's been found ambling about the kitchens barefoot. Everyone who tends to stay up late - Kirigan included - has kindly escorted David back to his own rooms at least once. His saving grace is that he's really quite particular about his pyjamas - they're Durast-made to feel heavy, like a weighted blanket, and he finds it difficult to drop off without the grounding sensation - so at least he's never gone sleepwalking in his birthday suit. He wanders a little less once he starts spending his nights with Genya - if she's resting her head on his shoulder, or has an arm draped over his chest, he seems to be reluctant to move her.

Ivan Kaminsky has night terrors, the kind that wake him screaming and thrashing and completely disoriented, trapped in his own blankets - the legacy of the front lines at the Fjerdan border over a century ago. As a younger man, fresh off the front lines with nothing to his name but a medical discharge from active duty, he'd often find himself seeking out General Kirigan, stumbling into his tent or the Little Palace war room pale and shivering and still in his sleep clothes, all terribly undignified. Kirigan never seemed to mind, really. It was an understanding of sorts, between old soldiers familiar with the lingering spectre of war. He'd give Ivan a cursory once-over - "Evening, Kaminsky." - pour him a drink, and push a stack of papers across the table to give him something to do. He misses it, sometimes, the long nights spent working in companionable quiet. But now the General spends his nights with the sun summoner and the puppy king who's been making eyes at him since he was a skinny princeling, and Ivan spends his with his Fedyor, who has a truly remarkable amount of patience for being woken up at all hours by all the flailing and yelling. Ivan still hates talking about his night terrors - Fedyor is too young to have ever fought in the campaigns that got Ivan his discharge papers, and Ivan is reluctant to place extra horrors on his shoulders - but Fedya would listen, if Ivan needed him to, and in the meantime, he'll regulate Ivan's heart rate and breathing for him, deactivate the fear centre of his brain and flood him with signals telling his brain he's close to sleep, until he really is.

Inej Ghafa likes to sleep in Kaz's office. Back when he first bought out her indenture and took her from the Menagerie, that was where she felt safest. Only one door, locked firmly behind him whenever he ventured down to the rowdy Club below, where the raised voices of drunken men made her feel sick with terror. Two windows, left open at her fearful request - exits, if she needed them. A comfortable leather couch. The scratch-scratch-scratch of Kaz's quill on paper. Jesper used to try to reassure her - no harm will come to you at the Crow Club, you're Kaz's - and a small, wounded part of her took that to heart. If her connection to Kaz Brekker kept her safe, this man who showed more interest in her blades than her body, then she would rest where he could see her, where that protection would be a physical, tangible thing. And he let her. Never complained, though she knows now what he's like about his privacy. Just let her curl up on his Chesterfield. Draped a blanket over her when it was cold.

She's not that terrified girl anymore. She has her own lodgings, with her own possessions, though she still has a nighttime ritual for safety - one final sweep of the building, checking her escape routes, jamming a chair beneath her door handle. But she's quite capable of protecting herself now. All the same, when she is injured or sick or has been summoned back to the Menagerie on business, she'll still climb through his window, breathe out a sigh of relief at the inevitable, unsurprised, "Hello, Inej," and make herself comfortable on the couch for the night.

Wylan Hendriks sleeps curled into a ball. He's spent his share of time on the streets of Ketterdam and that's how he's learned to do it - hugging his meagre bagful of possessions, threadbare blanket wrapped around him and it. In Jesper's room at the Crow Club, he likes to burrow under the blankets; he'll rest his head on Jesper's belly to sleep rather than his shoulder, so even his hair is covered. It muffles the sound drifting up from the club floor or the street outside in the evenings - the shouting, the drunken arguments and bitter insults tossed around like knives, anything that might remind him of - anyway. He tends to turn in fairly early compared to the other Crows - while he loves the music of the city's bars and even enjoys the camaraderie of watching Jesper gamble, closing time in most of Ketterdam peaks at around midnight, and that's about when all the socialising starts to get a bit much for him. The Barrel stays open late, and Kaz doesn't kick out his patrons until the early hours of the morning, so most of the Crows have become night owls by necessity. Wylan uses the hours between making his exit and Jesper finally coming to bed to decompress - compose, play his flute, experiment with chemicals, look at the books Jesper got him, the ones with all the pictures to tell him the fairytales. After a few incidents where Jesper bursting in drunk and noisy left Wylan...a little out of sorts...he's learned to knock, the same pattern every time, before he lets himself in, and it's always easier to uncurl a little and relax with Jesper holding him.

[naddybln]

Headcanons Grishaverse x reader

- the darkling took you from your parents when you were just about a year old

- you showed your powers early and your parents were afraid of you, just like the rest of your hometown

- growing up in the little palace was fun, everybody loves you

- having lessons with Bagrah were hard but effective

- Bagrah and Aleksander proteticing you at all costs

- Ivan and Fedyor are your male best friends, you are close to them and train with them

- Ivan cracking a smile around you

- Zoya is a little jealous because of your relationship with the Darkling

- she likes you nevertheless

- Genya and you are really close, wanting to spend time with her as often as possible

- trying to encourage her about David

- you offered her to kill the king, she denied it cuz you would get into a lot of trouble

- you visit David from time to time

- him explaining his new inventions

- you got hurt during training once and Aleksander went furious

- threatening everyone around him

- you needing to calm him down and ensure him it was an accident

- him not leaving your side for the first few days

- Genya taking care of you if she has the time

- Zoya might have thought the other Grisha who hurt you a lesson

- Ivan and Fedyor checking in on you multiple times a day and bringing you sweets

- Once you're healthy again you continue your training but this time everyone around you is carful not to hurt you (more like afraid of Zoya and Aleksander)

[stromuprisahat]

“When Genya’s abilities began to show themselves, I could have had her choose between becoming a Fabrikator or a Corporalnik. ...”

Shadow and Bone- Chapter 7

What she described was no mundane poison, but the craft of a girl somewhere between Corporalnik and Fabrikator. A girl who had spent plenty of time in the Materialki workshops.

Ruin and Rising- Chapter 7

Meanwhile, David and Genya bent their heads over one of his notebooks, trying to figure out where they could extract the components for a batch of lumiya. It turned out Genya didn’t just have a gift for poisons. Her talents had always lain somewhere between Corporalnik and Materialnik, but I wondered what she might have become, what path she might have chosen, if not for the Darkling’s influence.

Ruin and Rising- Chapter 15

Give the Stag to David?

Why not?! But I raise you- give Morozova’s amplifiers to Genya, who’s clever herself and already has natural inclination for crossing the boundaries between the Orders.

She should be the new Ilya Morozova!

With equally intelligent spouse and the original Morozova’s diaries, she’d figure out the world, while making it even look good.

[sparrowmoth]

Concept: Genya pioneering gender confirmation tailoring.

Concept, the sequel: T4T Wesper getting tailored by Genya, then taking the first possible opportunity to sneak into a spare room and undress each other like an act of worship, exploring their new bodies.

[charliekellybutworse]

genya is a “omg look at those pretty flowers” gf

alina is a *buys them for her* gf

(i’m almost done the first book!)

[lissa-edem]

After sab2?

Alina, worried: you two work for this country to the point of exhaustion.

Tolya: they both stubborn.

Genya: you have no romantic prospects.

Zoya: I don't care. all that matters is Ravka. romantic prospects of our annoying king are to be in a politically advantageous marriage. we'll find someone.

Nikolai: would you join me at my wedding, Zoya?

Alina and Genya, thinking: «It doesn't work, Nik!»

[lilisouless]

Grishaverse characters pet preferences headcanons (yes, know i do this things in order to avoid long post)

As you can see, some characters needed a whole category for their own

Update: DAVID SWEETIE AM SORRY, I AM SOOO SORRY THAT UGLY BITCH OF ME FORGOT YOU ON THE FIRST POST, OGM! I was so suure he was there i even tagged his name

[sophierequests]

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“None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.

But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.”

Alina Starkov

Malyen Oretsev

Aleksander Morozova

Zoya Nazyalenksy

Nikolai Lantsov

David Kostyk

Genya Safin

Tolya Yul-Bataar

Tamar Kir-Bataar

Harshaw

[witchthewriter]

𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬! 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬

⤷ female, ambiguous race, and any size reader. Requests are open, thank you for reading!  

Warnings: spoilers for season 2, may allude to the trauma that Genya has suffered, and mentions of scars. Not Yandere Genya but mentions of possessiveness.

ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ | ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ ᴵᴵ

𝑺𝑭𝑾🌿  

・After David, Genya thought she’d never be able to love again

・In all honesty, she still had doubts that she could be loved 

・Living with an eye patch, covered in scars; and that was only the physical part of her. Genya believed she was unlovable, or rather, too difficult to love. That she had too much baggage, too much that weighed her down. 

・But you couldn’t disagree more 

・It took time and a lot of effort. But you broke down Genya’s walls and she allowed you to become a part of her life

・You were a hidden Grisha, done so by your family who didn’t want you to be taken away from them

・And because the Fold had been destroyed, your family was able to move to Ravka without trouble

・You had been reunited with siblings, who had been separated from you while young 

・They too were Grisha. Taken by the testers when they were barely thirteen

・The Darkling may have had a point, but he tore apart many families in the process. Including yours.

・And to say you were happy about his death... was an understatement

・It’s what drew you and Genya close

・After Nikolai’s coronation, Genya needed someone to lean on, whether she wanted to admit it or not. And with Alina being busy growing as a future monarch, and Zoya...not the type of person to give comfort, you were the best option

・Genya didn’t want the friendship to be based on a need of hers

・But she couldn’t help how comfortable she felt around you

・And soon you were joking around with each other; teasing, having ridiculous amounts of banter

・It was a facade at first though; a way not to talk about the deeper stuff. The hurt. The pain. The unbearable grief. 

・But sifting through that pain was the only way for Genya to grow, and get past David

・It took a year, but she no longer cried whenever she thought about him. She no longer cowered at shadows or whimpered in the darkness. She had embraced it. 

・But something else grew, a sort of ... possessiveness from Genya

・She called it having a need to protect you

・However, what it really was, ... was a deep seeded worry that you too would be taken away from her. That someone or something would take you away, either by force or by putting thoughts in your head. 

・So jealousy became an easy emotion to erupt from the Tailor. 

・At first you would appease her, try to calm her down and tell her that nothing would take you away from her. But after weeks turning into months of doing so, you were ready to make it a little fun

・Now when she sees you with a pretty girl, you twirl your hair and flutter your eyelashes just a bit more, or when someone asks to do something with you - you accept, to watch the face of Genya. 

・Some would say it was mean, but you never truly meant anything you said when you knew she was listening. 

・And when you were alone with her, you cup her face and kiss it all over. Feeling the warmth, the jealousy practically seeping through her skin. 

    “Now do you believe me?” You whisper.

[sophiewith7es]

the crows but theyre in secondary school (not sixth form !!)

*nina writes in pink pen despite every single teacher repeatedly telling her not to

* jesper uses both blue and black depending on how much he likes the lesson (blue: good black: bad)

* inej and wylan write in blue

* kaz and matthias write in black

* matthias uses those bic pens with the four colours because they’re practical (but only the blue ones)

* inej gets away with wearing boots even though they’re strictly against school uniform rules

* nina and jesper took the shoulder pads out of their blazers because they hated the blockiness of them

* jesper always has food in his pockets and nina always asks for some

* matthias always has mint imperials on him at all time

* wylan is close with all the science teachers

* he also performs in school assemblies (not by choice)

* inej steals food from the canteen for the students who cant afford any #vigilante shit

* kaz almost ran for head boy just for the power he would have

* nina got head girl but she only ran because zoya was head girl when she was in year 11 and wanted to make her proud

* jesper never has a bag or a pencil case and basically just shoves everything into his blazer pockets

* wylan has a brown canvas messenger bag that he would get terrored for until year 9 and then everyone was jealous of how much he could carry around without looking like a dickhead

* matthias has a plain black backpack because he made the mistake of having a white one in year 7 and everyone drew on it

* inej has a purple kanken backpack and especially loves it for its little seat pad

* nina has an array of tote bags that she rotates through - they’re impractical and hurt her shoulder but she doesn’t care

* kaz also just has a plain black backpack but its almost always empty cos he just keeps most his stuff in his locker, that way no one can just take his stuff

* nina lives with zoya and genya and co in a foster home #orphan

* kaz lives with jesper and colm and has done since his parents died when they were in primary school (they’ve known each other since foundation)

* inej wylan and matthias all live at home as well

* wylan and his dad shockingly have a terrible relationship so wylan spends a lot of time at jespers

* matthias loves his parents but has grown to disagree with their beliefs since moving to the area in year 7 and he doesn’t know how they’d react to learning he no longer saw their views as correct

* inej loves her parents with her whole entire heart and would do anything for them

* the designated house they go to is normally jesper and kaz’s or inej’s

* wylan is a stem student through and through but he’s best at chemistry

* he also is brilliant at music but actively avoids a certain piano player

* nina is the best language student in the school and she unusually takes both spanish and french whilst also learning german and italian in her own time

* matthias is best at geography and history (he took both) and loves learning about the world

* inej also took geography but she adores re and loves learning about other cultures

* jesper took media studies and art for gcse and it was the best decision hes ever made

* kaz thrives in english and business studies but especially english literature as he has a hidden passion for poems

* they all (even kaz despite him saying otherwise) love pe because they were all put in the same class so its just them fucking around and competing with each other

* inej always has an umbrella

* nina and jesper never bring a coat in even when they know they should and get soaked walking home in the rain

* inej and matthias walk to and from school together as they live on the same road and they get hot chocolate from the costa in the sainsburys every monday morning

* kaz jesper nina and wylan all walk together

* jesper and kaz are closest to the school whereas nina and wylan have to keep going

*wylan then walks one way for another ten while nina walks the other for another twenty

* inej always makes nina take her umbrella

* inej got nina an umbrella for christmas

* they do secret santa every year but they all end up getting everyone something anyway

* nina and matthias both had crushes on each other in year 9 but didnt admit it until year 11

* jesper and wylan got together in year 10 after wylan was made to perform in the christmas show playing his flute

* kaz and inej never had to admit their feelings for each other just one day something changed between them and they rarely acknowledge it

* they sit the art room for lunch when its cold or on a picnic bench when it’s sunny

* kaz sells radnor fizz to students after they got rid of them from the canteen and makes loads of money from them

* inej and jesper are the best dodgeball players

* inej is best at dodging but jesper is best at throwing

* nina just screams a lot

* matthias is on the rugby team and they watch all his games

* he also despises football and gets angry whenever its on the tv

* nina is on the netball team

* the netball team and rugby team have a weird rivalry and they used to hate each other

* kaz writes all of jespers essays for money

* jesper writes all of wylans essays but wylan tells him exactly what to write

* theyre in a book club

* they are the book club

* its how they all met

* wylan used audiobooks and kaz gets him free audiobooks some how

* they were friends with each other before the book club but not as one big group

* eg. inej and nina / inej kaz and jesper / wylan and kaz / jesper and nina / matthias and inej / nina and wylan / wylan and matthias

* the first book they read in book club was the raven boys 💖💖💖💖💖💖

[nnon-it-up]

The darkling out here manipulating every dark haired underage girl he sees

[wilwywaylan]

(cont. from this)

Shenanigans keep happening, people aren't happy. It means twice more merzost !!

(The Darkling finds it hilarious, because Ilya has been pestering him to get him to spontaneously develop Durast powers. It wasn't very effective.)

[lpa6zn]

Genya Safin is swiftie, periodt

I can even hear her singing/screaming "you belong with me" with all the feeling

[acharliek]

Rock AU!Zoya part 2 (god I'm so gay)

Why yes, genya commented on another video just so Zoya had a comment to reply to and then sat her down to film the video social media manager who

Also:

Fans: ZOYA ZOYA WHAT DO UR TATTOOS MEAN

Zoya: bruh literally nothing I got them off Pinterest cause I liked how they look

Also Zoya: handpicked evey single one cause it has a deep personal meaning