IF GOD WON’T SAVE YOU I WILL

[THE BASTARD OF THE BARREL]

actually you know what wldve been funny. kaz pretending he was pekka’s long lost bastard son and pulling a heist thats kinda the reverse of what pekka did to them.

wait reverse mamma mia au where kaz tries to convince 3 men (pekka, van eck, and per haskell) that he’s their illegitimate child

the rest of the gang: where the hell is kaz he’s supposed to be at the incinerator now

kaz, checking all the cells for pekka:

Is Kaz Brekker inherently camp. Discuss

He canonically modeled his entire aesthetic as a way of standing out from and making a mockery of the men in power in his city, the people who nearly destroyed his life. Drag. Punching up. His goals revolve around not only crushing his enemies, but doing so in an often humiliating and generally reputation-destroying way. Remember how he rescued the love of his life from a hostage situation by utilizing dozens of barrels of flower petals, the timely yearly celebrations, and the in-universe equivalent of the commedia dell'arte? Camp.

A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he’ll keep to any deal you strike with him.

my piece for the @grishaversebigbang ! This one for @wybiegowritey and @misterrimpossible’s fic “aught that man may question”!

(ID: a digital drawing of several characters from six of crows on a bright red orange background. From left to right: matthias, a pale muscular white man with long blonde hair and a scarf, looking stern; Nina, a fat pale white woman with long curly dark hair and a leather jacket; Kuwei, a brown skinned muscular East Asian man with short hair and holding a syringe and paper sheets; Kaz, a pale thin white man with short dark hair with an undercut, a suit, and a cane, looking up at kuwei; and Inej, a thin brown skinned South Asian woman with long dark hair in a braid and a cloak and daggers. Behind all of them is a syringe, a blood splatter, and sickly green bubbles. Beneath them upside down are zombies drawn in that same sickly green.)

Check out my other gang members and their pieces!

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Another of my pieces for the grishaverse Big Bang! This one for the fic “Murder on the Ketterdam Express” by @trassellynn !! You can read it (here)

(ID: a digital drawing of Kaz Brekker and Inej Ghafa sitting at a table inside a train compartment. They are sitting across from each other, smiling, and conversing, while snow falls outside the window. There are plates of sliced apple on the table in front of both of them, and a crow-headed cane leaning against the table next to Kaz. The whole piece is bathed in light blue light.

Kaz is a white man with pale skin and dark short hair with an undercut. He is wearing a dark waistcoat over a collared shirt. Inej is a South Asian woman with brown skin and long dark braided hair, wearing a blue waistcoat and light blue shirt.)

Check out the other artists from this gang @cinno (piece here) @wqemzz-blog​ (piece here) @floriahart (piece here) @itsiparwing @wicked-books-101 @neon–diamonds​ (piece here) and the podfic by @forgetyourtroubleshappyday (link here)!!

i know everyones already drawn it but its such a good scene

The symbolism of Kaz and Inej taking the tools from the people who hurt them and making them their own.

Inej takes a ship, the very thing that stole her from her parents and brought her to Heleen, and uses it to hunt slavers, to stop that from happening to anyone else, exposes the rich men that profit from human trafficking.

Kaz dethrones Rollins, takes the Barrell for himself, uses that power to shut down the pleasure houses that exploit people, lets anyone with a little extra money invest in the Crow Club for the chance to improve their lives, the same con Rollins pulled on him and Jordie but legitimate this time.

Brekker and his Wraith Queen, architects of a kinder world.

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kanej hadestown au wip that i never finished lmao

Can’t find the original post so I’m just going to make a new one.

Kaz limps on his right side. That means when standing or walking or generally using his cane for its intended purpose and not as a weapon, it should be in his left hand. I got this info straight from a cane-user but here’s a breakdown of proper cane usage:

Please please stop drawing Kaz putting all his weight on his injured leg or using his cane improperly!

i. the magician - Kaz Brekker, depicted as a tall, tan-skinned East Asian young man. He is formally dressed in a black suit with a red vest and iridescent blue-purple lapels. He stands against a dark blue background and rests his weight on a cane with a silver bird-skull handle. In his right hand he holds a glass goblet half-filled with amber liquid. Gold lines swirl around him to form waves and two hands reaching up for salvation. Above his head is the figure-eight symbol of infinity, and below his feet are the words “THE MAGICIAN.”

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a happy family!

Couples portrait, 1916.

Based on a photo from this post, which reminded me that Ketterdam is based on early 1900s Amsterdam, so photography is possibly a thing. The idea of Kaz and Inej getting a photo taken when they're older is just very precious to me.

Never make decisions out of fear. Only out of spite.

Six of Crows thoughts: the scene at the end of the first book is a direct parallel to the parley disaster at the start of the book, which Kaz wins both by outplanning/maneuvering/staging a situation, and by relying on another person’s humanity- that the guard will run because he thinks his mistress is in danger. Over and over again, despite being a pessimist, Kaz relies on the strength of human ties between other people, whether romantic, as between Nina and Matthias, or familial, as between Colm and Jesper. He loses against Van Eyck because Van Eyck is better at maneuvering and outplanning and outposturing Kaz, using the image of respectability- the merchant’s council seal, his place in the community- to provide an image of legitimacy that Kaz buys hook, line, and sinker. But Kaz also loses against Van Eyck because he relies on Van Eyck’s love for Wylan, and because Van Eyck spots Kaz’s concern for Inej and uses it against him. Kaz loses because he expects someone else to be human while he is the monster, and instead finds himself human and someone else heartless. 

This post is getting more traction so let’s dig into something else ive realised since that fascinates me: Kaz does what a criminal should never do. He falls for the Same Con TWICE. He falls for the important looking businessman with the official looking stamps in the fancy house with the servants. He falls for The thing he scoffs at others for playing by the rules of. He falls for respectability. IMO the duology is tightly interlaced with parallels and shadows and alter egos, and the manner in which Kaz is tricked by van eyck is incredibly similar to the way that he and Jordie were tricked by pekka Rollins. A shiny businessman- the kind of clean, upstanding businessman society tells you should be trustworthy- in a fancy house tells you you can be rich behind your wildest dreams if you do this One Thing for him, and so you give the devil your name. the first devil in a suit takes jordie’s life and the second almost takes inej’s.