#hevlar

[servantleverslutdrop]

FMK meme, Six of Crows edition. Since so many of the characters are underage (you can imagine them older of course), I put an opt out button in as well

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Daniel Molloy/Armand - The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

Celia St James/Evelyn Hugo - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Nina Zenik/Matthias Hevlar - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Nathan Byrn/Gabriel Boutin - Half Bad by Sally Green

[scarecrux]

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist.

I finally got the chance to finish my version of the SoC cover after it sat in my WIPs for 10 months! I am so incredibly proud of this one and I will be making and hopefully selling printable dust jackets in the near future! :)

[arillusionist]

can we talk abt helnik is such a good enemies to lovers example. he was going to burn her on a stake and she sent him to a torturous prison for a year. like thats the shit i want!

[eriscommitsarson]

so we all know inej and kaz are experts at sneaking up on the rest of the crows,

but wylan probably did a lot of sneaking around in the van eck house,

so i imagine that he walks really quietly, and accidentally sneaks up on the rest of the crows, who dont expect anything of the sort from him, and scares the shit out of them because hes just there all of a sudden

like this:

[nerd-at-sea5]

“you’re better than waffles, matthias hevlar.”

“let’s not say things we don’t mean, my love.”

SOULMATES

[demonictumble]

would i be friends with the crows?

kaz brekkar, 2/10 possibility of us being friends. i’d hate his attitude and i could not get close to him. on paper he’s a great complex character but i don’t vibe with that in rl. hes also really secretive and i could not like that. the points are added bc id have fun with nina making fun of hair and also he’d totally bring chaos into my life with his schemes (that would get annoying easily tho)

inej ghafa, 8/10 possibility of us being friends. i love have girl friends and she would totally be so great. also id totally rope her into doing my hair bc she seems to know how to braid and i would enjoy that. i dock two points bc i would be like him??? about kaz and we would both have a small fight about her low standards bc im still warming up to that man. and also bc i would tire of her sneaking up on me all the time.

nina zenik, 9.5/10 possibility of us being friends. nina seems like such a girls girl and i love her for that. i love girls girls and also she’s a queer icon like me fr. and idk we’re kinda similar and i like people im similar too. i’d love to team up with her on stuff like laser tag and we’d have a blast making fun of kaz together. .5 points deducted bc i feel she’s competitive if we ever played a board game and i too am competitive.

matthias hevlar, 4/10 possibility of us being friends. okay we’d vibe in certain situations when we both exchange glances and are like “stupid dumbassez, love them tho” . but there are bits that kinda make me shy away from being friends with him. the religiousness, like if it was like how it was in the beginning of the duology, would definitely be a sign to not associate with him bc i hage had too situations where people use religion as an excuse for being hateful. also he feels like he’s too much of a rule-follower when he’s not with nina. like c’mon, let’s go! also he seems sporty and i don’t really like sporty people which is an internal bias of mine that i’m working on okay.

jesper fahey, 7/10 possibility of us being friends. he’s so fun!! but also i hate guns so idk we’d butt heads over that sometimes but prolly not a lot. also gambling habits, i hate seeing people being self-destructive and it would make me sad to see that bc id try to help but id get frustrated quickly. he has a great personality tho i would be kinda weirded out by the flirting at first but he’d either tone it down or id return the energy. the points deducted are mainly bc of his gambling habits that he’ll get rid of but if i was there during it that’s why.

wylan van eck, 9/10 possibility of us being friends. he’d be a blast to have in a chemistry class bc you know class is gonna end with a fire alarm being set off bc he’s tired of being in class. he’s such a gremlin and i am too and i think we’d cause great chaos together. 1 point deducted bc he’s a gremlin but nobody would believe it bc he has that innocent type face (but i know your secrets van eck) and id try to convince people he pranked me and they’d be like him?! no way!! while he grins deviously. i’d shake my fist in anger but that’s all i could do.

[a-feller]

When reading a book, watching a show or a movie, or even experiencing real life, I often find, when a major character or important person dies, I mourn, not so much the person but more their loved ones, the great bond lost and the incredible damage done to them. Over time, almost subconciously I have grown to value a great bond of love, lust, friendship, romance, great platonic love, or that weird sixth thing two inseperable stray cats have, almost as much as human knowledge, something I greatly revere. This is most prominent in fantasy worlds, where for certain there is some haven beyond the barrier of death, where a person and their knowledge can go to live in harmony after whatever happened to them. Yet leaving their loved ones behind for years to come, perhaps forever. Maybe it is more amplified in the real world, or universes like the star wars one and my belief of real life, where there is no life after death. Just nothing. All bonds severed by death's scythe in one fell swoop.

I will list an example for every book/tv show/movie I can. Spoilers ahead for: The Bad Batch, The Scythe series by Neal Shusterman, Harry Potter, Trials Of Apollo, The Six of Crows duology, The Lord of The Rings

The death of Tech, a clone from the bad batch. His close, paternal bond with Omega, shattered as he sacrificed himself before her eyes, the unrequited mutual love with the pirate lady whom he promised he would come back safely and of course the rest of the bad batch, now a gaping hole within their group.

The death of Tiger, the Best friend of Rowan in the scythe series, slain by people he was played by and his body contorted into a new one for Rowan's greatest enemy. Their friendship gone and spited by the monstosity created from his headless corpse.

The death of Sirius Black and the huge damage it did to Harry and Remus Lupin. Harry losing his first ever loving paternal figure he can remember and Lupin losing a dear best friend (or more considering what half of you post about)

The death of Jason Grace. Killed slowing down an unkillable enemy to save his friends and close-ex-lover Piper McLean, leaving behind at least a dozen dear friends who fought, battle after battle together, almost dying time and time again, only for him to fall far away, after it was meant to be over. And specifically Nico Di Angelo who as anyone who read the book will know had a priceless, unique friendship with him that simply could not be created with another.

The death of Matthias Hevlar, just beggining to fit in with the people around them and his romantic relationship just springing up with Nina, those bonds once again shattered, and the last thing he asked for was a kiss (hold up just gonna go cry for a second).

Edit: The edit is here for the smoothness of the post. I cannot believe I forgot. The very ones who inspired me to make this post in the first place. David and Genya from the Grishaverse and the King Of Scars duology. Another romantic one I'm aware however they had just had a wonderful ceremony, a proper marriage at last. And then David left to go do something and the city was attacked by bomber planes. He wasn't seen throughout the following fight until Genya noticed his absence at the end. They later pulled his body out of the rubble. Some ink Genya was fussing over still there. Queue the funeral, Genya, in private afterwards reads from his notebooks containing all the little things he picked up on that make her happy (hair, skin etc). I am genuinely tearing up just thinking about it. David was also a leader and a role model to the other Grisha, especially other fabrikators. Close friends with Nikolai and Zoya. All of these bonds gone.

The leaving of Frodo Baggins. This one is a little different as he isn't dead but to all of his friends but Gandalf and Bilbo, he is. Never able to be seen or contacted again, no way to hear or feel them either. Sam, who carried him up a mountain. Refused to leave his side ever. Pippin, Merry, Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, All his shire friends, All the people they met along the way. Those bonds were shattered as if he was dead.

This last one is very different. It takes place in the real world. This death is obviously a thousand times more important then any of the others. A real human with thoughts, feelings and of course friends. This person is Technoblade. Funny, kind, skillful, he was friends with pretty much everyone he played with, best friends with those like Philza and of course the people around him in real life. The innumerable amount of people he either just made laugh, or helped get through some really dark times. Like me. 10 million people. Bonds reasonably one way but still there. 10 million people. Bonds snapped like rubber bands. All his friends. Online and off. Those he helped, those he inspired. All grieving with that bond suddenly a gaping hole, all lost. o7 Techno. Fly high.

Edit: I cannot believe I forgot. The very ones who inspired me to make this post in the first place,

[radkatzzstuff]

stop comparing wolf to matthias hevlar i haven’t even finished six of crows but he is a JERK and ANNOYING and DUMB but wolf is AWESOME and SWEET and COOL. like matthias is a walmart jacolf baby.

[servantleverslutdrop]

She lets me hit, because I know that the portrayal of the Six of Crows characters in the Shadow and Bone Show goes against everything those characters originally stood for.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Aristotle (“Ari”) Mendoza/Dante Quintana - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Nina Zenik/Matthias Hevlar - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

[best-character-named-x-poll]

Hi ! I hope you're doing great. I have a few names (with examples) to suggest :

Emmett / Bonnie / Connie or Constance / Matthias / Tegan

Emmett "Doc" Brown (Back to the Future)

Emmett (Pokémon)

Bonnie (Pokémon)

Bonnie Anderson (Toy Story)

Bonnie Winterbottom (How to Get Away with Murder)

Constance Bonancieux (The Three Musketeers)

Connie Blackwood (We Have Always Lived in the Castle)

Matthias Hevlar (Six of Crows)

Matthias (Redwall)

Tegan Price (How to Get Away with Murder)

Tegan Jovanka (Doctor Who)

Thank you for the suggestions!

[eclecticdemon]

Wylan:*slides homework page over to Jesper*

Jesper: I don't know how to do this*slides paper over to Nina*

Nina: I am tired *slides over to Matthias*

Matthias:I never learned this *slides over to Inej*

Inej: Oh for Saints sake I'll read it

[jo-has-feelings]

pet names! feat. the crows

Kanej: They aren't usually very big on pet names, but sometimes when Inej is zoned out and Kaz gets her attention she'll say 'What is it, darling?' and it absolutely destroys him every time.

Helnik: Matthias calls Nina classic pet names (usually in fjerden) 'my love', 'my darling', and Nina embarrasses the fuck out of Matthias by calling him things like 'sweet cheeks', 'cutie pie' and 'babycakes' in front of the rest of the crows (he'll never admit it, but he really likes it)

Wesper: Jesper calls Wylan all kinds of pet names regularly ('sugar' 'sweetheart' 'baby') because he loves the way Wylan grins at them. Wylan usually just calls Jesper by his name, but when someone tries flirting with him, all he will call Jesper is 'babe'. Think Jan and Michael in Dinner Party.

[multi-fandom-incorrect-quotes]

Matthias: Every talk I have with you people gets more and more absurd!

Kaz: You say “you people” as if you’re not part of the family. Well, I’ve got news for you. You’re already on the Christmas card.