I thought long and hard about this cast. Everyone is cast based on their talents and what we know their strengths are. My goal for the cast is that there MUST be POC in the cast; they’re playing fairies and we shouldn’t limit beautiful fairies to just white - like almost every fanart I’ve seen. I also wish for the leads to be unknown actors - unknown to western films. We have Yang Yang - one of China’s most coveted handsome actors ever. I wish for Jude to be a new name.
I just realized that I hadn’t posted the extended version of my The Folk of the Air comic on tumblr, so here! This takes place when Jude is coming back from fighting Grima Mog in Holly Black’s book The Queen of Nothing. I love the kind of transition parts in the beginning of the book when tired, bounty hunter Jude just kind of deals with the human world.
minor spoilers for six of crows, these violent delights, house of hades, the cruel prince and an ember in the ashes below!
listen i know we all love unhinged female villains but can we just appreciate unhinged boys for a second? like.
kaz brekker’s dark, wet hair against pale skin and glinting eyes when he tears out oomen’s eyeball because he can’t stand the thought that he might lose inej because she’s his wraith and yes, he protects his investments but he’s also afraid of being alone and won’t let the people he loves slip away from him, not again, because then he might actually turn into the monster everyone assumes him to be, and what would jordie think of him then?
roma montagov launching himself at dimitri in the fighting ring because he’s reached breaking point and his anger is overwhelming and all-consuming so he bares his teeth and lunges for his cousin to prevent himself from breaking down because if he can’t prove his strength to fucking dimitri of all people, how will he stay strong enough to resist juliette and make his father proud at the same time? and if he fails at that, won’t he lose everything?
percy jackson, perfectly composed, drowning akhlys in her own tears because if she’s inflicted so much sorrow on him, why shouldn’t she feel his pain for once? why shouldn’t she know what it’s like to feel afraid? why shouldn’t someone be afraid of him, for once, to give him the power to end their life in a flick of the wrist?
cardan greenbriar, eyes gleaming with hatred, pressing his quill into parchment to scribble jude jude jude over and over again, the ink bleeding through the page until it stains the desk beneath it, smiling dangerously as he holds a knife to the love of his life’s throat because it’s either kill her or kiss her and he’s not sure if he’ll survive either.
elias veturius killing his best friends in the third trial after seeing them dead in the first, anger tearing at his skin and blurring his vision because if he doesn’t kill them then he’ll be killed, and the only thing he’s been taught how to do is survive. it’s instinct. lifting his head slowly, hands shaking, surveying the massacre, blood stains spattered across his shirt, his stomach dropping because is this what i’ve become?
when something inside boys breaks and they go absolutely feral, it is absolutely terrifying. and i love it.
jude dies and cardan goes on to become what he started as - a villain. He goes on a killing rampage. There’s nothing stopping him now as how he stopped jude from killing
