Matthias: you know, not every problem can be solved with a knife.

Inej: i know that's why i carry 20 knives.

Thinking about how in chapter 3 of Six of Crows we get this really well written juxtaposition between the spring crocuses and the smell of death in the boathouse - reflective both of the duality of the social hierarchy in Ketterdam as Kaz and Van Eck stand there together and the abrupt end of Kaz’s idyllic, childhood memory of crocuses on his family farm into the pain and literal dead bodies that have haunted him for the past 8 years - that in itself is paralleled at the end of Crooked Kingdom when Jesper describes the spring flowers outside the boathouse then learns Matthias is lying dead inside, with the addition that Wylan then picks one of the tulips to lay on Matthias’ chest and they all follow suit

I- I- just saw- someone saying- that Helnik are better off as friends-

I’m mentally unwell.

Helnik vibes

That kind of talk is not permitted here

when nina told hanne “i have a gift for getting past fjerdan defenses” we all know what that meant LMAO

"who fell first who fell harder" i actually need them both to be down horrendously bad for each other. hope that helps

I don't care if the Crows spin-off is just the six of them acting it out in Freddy's living room while Freddy's wife films it on a phone, I'm willing to pay real money for the footage.

rip shadow and bone. we would have loved to see dark alina. we would have loved to see matthias finally get out of jail. we would have loved to see kaz learn to love. we would have loved to see zoyalai on screen. we would have loved to see wylan's story. we would have loved to see the ice court heist. we would have loved to see colm fahey. we would have loved to meet kuweii. we would have loved to see jesper get over his gambling addiction. we would have loved to see matthias relearn all he knew for nina. we would have loved to see inej find her family again. we would have loved to see mal find out what life is like without alina. we would have loved to see nina learn to live for herself, instead of her country.

we would have loved to see more of the characters we all know and love.

Matthias: *has one Unholy™️ thought about nina*

Matthias to himself: TAKE A WALK YOU ABSOLUTE WHORE. AND WHILE YOUR AT IT YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUMP IN A RIVER YOU SLUT.

netflix really canceled shadow and bone before matthias could have any screentime in general and with any of the other crows in particular

so sorry king you deserved better

yeah your ship may have kissed but did they try to kill each other?

i love that kaz said to nina it ‘had to look real’ and instead of tailoring him she chose to fucking deck him

love how kanej and helnik are practically DROWNING in the angst and wesper are just living their best rom-com life being cute and wholesome

kaz brekker 🤝 matthias helvar 🤝 nikolai lantsov:

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