“I messed up,” he found himself dumbly repeating, and as if weighed down by this realization, he plopped unceremoniously in the chair on the opposite side of Kaz’s desk. His shoulders hunched in defection. “And what do you want me to do about that?” Kaz rasped, throwing him a quick glance before returning his attention on the damn ledger he was consulting. Yeah, Wylan should have thought about this through.“
I’m rewatching Shadow and Bone, and in episode 5 when Kaz is walking down the hall at the Little Palace and he stops for a sec to rub his leg cause it hurts, we hear Inej saying “You should have one of us with you.” And Kaz is like “I’ll manage,” but he says it in a very hard tone, doesn’t he? And then the catches himself (cause, hey, that’s INEJ you’re talking to, sir, better watch your tone) and says in a softer tone, “You can’t blow your cover this early, and Jesper needs to plot our escape route.” PLEASE I love this show and I love these characters and LOVE AMITA AND FREDDY FOR BEING THE PERFECT INEJ AND KAZ!!
the crows are so much funnier than the fandom give them credit for
here are just SOME of the funniest moments throughout the books
“….you can find your way to Ravka or Matthias’ grandmother’s house for all i care” “leave my grandmother out of this”
obviously the ghost scene
pay someone to pay someone to pay someone to
“you speak Fjerdan about as well as i speak moose” “moose is probably your native tongue”
‘Had they blown up the lab? Kaz had definitely NOT told them to blow up the lab’
The deadpan ‘He had not been shot’
Kaz trying to justify his decision if bringing Wylan along to the rest of the crows: “ i told you, ✨hidden depths✨” “see Jesper, ✨marketable skillz✨”
‘“You all look so young, where are your parents?” Wylan and Jesper burst out laughing’
“This many people having fun in one place might have shocked the Fjerdan right out of you”
“I.Should.Let.You.Die”
Nina trying to bring Kaz back: “The Ice Court, remember? 3 million kruge?” Kaz’s eyes cleared. “4million”
“You couldn’t look guiltier if you were performing the role of Thief #3 in a penny play on East Stave”
“Who wants to buy i coat in the dead on night?” “Tourists”
“Tiny and Ferocious, just like you”
“Unless you have a unicorn for him to ride away on, there is no scenario that guarantees Kuwei’s safety”
‘They could fake a pregnancy. They couldn’t fake an actual birth. Or maybe they could, he wouldn’t put anything past Kaz at this point”
“He has a very soothing baritone”
‘“I’d prefer a pair of sable-lined swimming trunks, but we can’t always get what we want” A furrow appeared between Kuwei’s brows. His understanding of Kerch had apparently been reached and surpassed’
The Wyvil
Matthias thinking they should just let Nina and Jesper flirt the entirety of Ketterdam into submission
That MASTERPIECE of a scene where Jesper and Kaz have a random petty fistfight, and all the other crows literally move out of the way, and then when Wylan tries to get someone to stop them they just shrug and go ‘I mean they aren’t using their weapons let them fight it out’ and THEN Colm coming him and scolding them and both of them IMMEDIATELY stopping
“Whatever you say, Llewelyn”
Nina’s singing
Wylan and Kaz falling through the ceiling onto Van Eck’s dinner party will ALWAYS be iconic
Kaz’s chapters in general are absolutely HILARIOUS, but my personal favorite is when he’s depending on Matthias Not Betraying them, and he thinks something like this:
‘Either he was right and Matthias’ feeling for Nina would prove enough, or Kaz was about to pay for all those talking tree jokes’
The talking tree jokes in question
The initiation ceremony where the tree teaches you the secret handshake
‘His first thought was that this boy had the most beautiful lips he’d ever seen, and his second was that he was probably about to die’ Wylan honey we’ve got to talk about your priorities
“Is it that bad?” “No, you just have really ugly feet”
That scene at the start of Six of Crows where Van Eck has Kaz tied to a chair and is explaining what he needs, and then is explaining why he needs Kaz specifically, talking about how his De Kappel painting was stolen which is a really impressive feat, while Kaz is vehemently denying that he had anything to do with it although it was obviously him
Wylan being passive aggressive while Jesper is trailing after him trying to apologize for the Kuwei thing
“Can’t we just enter as performers? I hear Wylan really kills it on the flute”
Inej getting Nina’s cookie jar after she gets back and Jesper being offended that he didn’t get to take some
Nina making fun of Kaz’s haircut
“Is my tie straight?”
That’s all I can think of for now, i’m sure there’s more so if you think of something feel free to add on
-he grumbles about celebrating his birthday, but every year, Jesper and Inej go halvsies to book a whole day of the most challenging escape rooms they can find, they’ll even make road trips with Kaz to surprise him. Then, by the end of the day, Kaz is grinning like a kid because he got to spend the entire day solving complex puzzles for fun.
One lil whole meta level thing about soc fic and (quasi) 19th century stuff in general is the urban/pastoral divide. it’s something i dig into massively in my hell Fics in regard to fjerda and what Matthias’s life there was probably like as a rural “pauper” (his word! Not mine) if it was anywhere near some of the actual social history of working class/small holding 19th century scandinavian farmers e.g. not straight up cottage core. but it interests me that Kaz and Inej are so very frequently written as going to a golden-lit Lij or some wooden shoes and windmills version of his home town. and it’s like, I don’t think rural areas are straight up horror- I grew up in a small town and want to live in one for The greater portion of my life- but they certainly were and are violent in their own ways. we never find out what happens to Kaz’s mother, but she dies before the story begins. his father dies a boring, brutal death in a plowing accident that spreads his entrails across the fields. I think the mostly unseen location of the Kerch countryside - and rural areas in general, which are not bardugo’s strength- has a much more complicated role to play in fic about Kaz, but I don’t think it’s a straight up cottagecore gold lit paradise for either Kaz or Inej, and that’s why it kind of boggles me the prevalence it’s gained in fandom as the innocent land (where they can settle down, have bodice ripper sex, and raise babies) that goes so strongly against bardugo’s greatest strength for dry, well-chosen fantasy realism
BROKE Kaz and Inej retiring with their baby(ies) to a golden little Dutch-ish cottagecore town
WOKE Kaz using the old farmhouse to stash smuggled cigarettes and/or hide his bespoke jurda grow room from the prying eyes of the Authorities
BESPOKE: local teenagers know where it is and use it to hold drinking parties. Kaz avoids because he’s nervous around the authorities. Every single crow BUT Kaz has used it as a location to make out and/or hotbox
One lil whole meta level thing about soc fic and (quasi) 19th century stuff in general is the urban/pastoral divide. it’s something i dig into massively in my hell Fics in regard to fjerda and what Matthias’s life there was probably like as a rural “pauper” (his word! Not mine) if it was anywhere near some of the actual social history of working class/small holding 19th century scandinavian farmers e.g. not straight up cottage core. but it interests me that Kaz and Inej are so very frequently written as going to a golden-lit Lij or some wooden shoes and windmills version of his home town. and it’s like, I don’t think rural areas are straight up horror- I grew up in a small town and want to live in one for The greater portion of my life- but they certainly were and are violent in their own ways. we never find out what happens to Kaz’s mother, but she dies before the story begins. his father dies a boring, brutal death in a plowing accident that spreads his entrails across the fields. I think the mostly unseen location of the Kerch countryside - and rural areas in general, which are not bardugo’s strength- has a much more complicated role to play in fic about Kaz, but I don’t think it’s a straight up cottagecore gold lit paradise for either Kaz or Inej, and that’s why it kind of boggles me the prevalence it’s gained in fandom as the innocent land (where they can settle down, have bodice ripper sex, and raise babies) that goes so strongly against bardugo’s greatest strength for dry, well-chosen fantasy realism
