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helniksdaughter · 3 days

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Helnik // Demon & Angel AU

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bazberkkerwrites · 1 year

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Bazberkker fanfics as Penguin Classics novels

Original idea by @achilleslikespeas

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she-who-the-river-could-not-hold · 11 months

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01. Internal Instinct

part of Broken Wings, a Whumptober-inspired Six of Crows Prompt Collection

Summary: Matthias knows that he’s supposed to be glad to see this witch dying. It’s his calling: to rid the world of their evil. But maybe there’s something wrong with him. Or maybe when she saved his life she changed something in him, because he can’t bring himself to watch her die in his arms. He has to do something.

or: a whumpier take on what transpired on the way to the whaler’s hut

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There should be a wolf's howl of pride in his chest; there should be thunderous applause from Djel himself.

He had a near-dead witch in his very hands.

Matthias could end her life right here, right now. He could snap her neck and feel her life transpose into his hands as he took it. Or he could simply let her freeze out, let the blood run out of body until it stained the snow below her body. The opportunities were both endless and simple. Presented to him on a platter. There would be no need to struggle to detain her back for a trial. It was practically a gift to him after all of the struggles that had been following him lately.

But something gnawed at his gut and held him back.

Why couldn’t he do it?

He hated that it wouldn’t take long for him to root out the reasoning. It shouldn’t matter at all––but it did.

The witch had saved his life.

She’d known who he was and saved him all the same.

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#helnik #helnik au #matthias helvar #nina zenik #six of crows #six of crows fic #fic: broken wings #kathryn writes #kathryn writes: six of crows #my creations

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the-element-siren · 1 year

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Darklina Prompt

Based on a Hallmark trilogy called the Wedding Veil Trilogy. Altered so it can be a mixed friend group

Alina and Inej met as roommates in undergrad, Fedyor was the TA for their general history who they helped save from a bully and Matthias is his favorite cousin, who wanted to get away from his strict religious parents after he was able to accept Fedyor who came out to him. So after his first year at college in Fjeda, he transferred. It didn't help that they kept trying to force women on him so he could find the "perfect traditional" wives.

The four of them have stayed friends and make it a point to meet up every four months for a two-week travel vacation where they get lost in some random tourist trap city. On their current trip to Bhez Ju, they find this random broach that has a very old symbol of luck. It's said to bring the owner luck where they needed the most. Inej, in a completely out-character move, demands that they buy it and Alina should be the first to have it. She finally ended the toxic mess that was her situation with Mal. Calling it a relationship is an insult to the word. They all agree and split the cost and return home.

Except for Matthias, who is in Halmhend (Fjerdan border town), the others are scattered all over Ravka. Alina is in Os Alta as a curator for their Ravkan Art Museum. Inej is in Novokribirsk, running a program for abused and kidnapped children. Matthias works with a security firm in IT and as one of their translators, he speaks Ravkan, Fjerdan, and Shu. Fedyor runs a culinary department at a small university in Adena.

Alina meets Aleksander at a food festival, he runs the charity division of his family's foundation. He was looking into donating funds to their restoration department, which has been losing funding and painters regularly for the last few years.

Inej's program is at risk of losing its building. Some company is buying up older buildings so they can knock them down and build some hotel or other building. Aleksander puts her in touch with his frat brother, Kaz, and his assistant Jesper, who is very good at finding ways to help create funding for programs like this.

Nina, Kaz's foster sister, is a type of federal law enforcement and needs some specialty digital assistance. She's trying to link a group to a very big crime and needs a good codebreaker and linguist. Matthias is recommended to her.

Ivan, Aleksander's cousin, joined the university as a language professor. He and Fedyor's offices are right next door. They barely talk outside of pleasantries. Something happens, then bonding, followed by some slowburn. The entire university is shipping them.

#darklina #darklina au #darklina prompt #hallmark inspired #kanej #kanej au #kanej prompt #helnik #helnik au #helnik prompt #fivan #fivan au #fivan prompt #prompt idea #modern au #multiship prompt

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heartrenderxnina · 2 years

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Once again, she was dreaming of him.

Even in her dreams, Matthias Helvar haunted her just as much as she seemed to haunt him in his. Nina rolled on the big bed that felt too empty and too cold for her, no matter how heated the rooms were or how warm her bed covers were, the piercing cold temperature of the True Sea was making her shiver and tremble in the comfort of her room.

She was using her power on him and he was supposed to swim for them, that was the deal. “C’me on you big brute! Where is the ferocious Drüskelle training?!” she practically begged. Nina liked swimming, but being in the middle of a storm in the middle of the sea was terrifying. The waves crashed against them and Nina spent most of the time coughing and holding onto him, trying to keep him warm with her powers. She knew it wasn’t his fault, there was only so much he could do. If only she were a tidemaker or a squaller…

“Hurry!” She urged him but the large wave crashed right onto them, dragging them into the depths of the True Sea.

Nina opened her eyes, gasping for air and coughing as if she had been drowning in her bed.

Her heartbeat was off the charts and it took her a moment to use her gifts on herself until she could breathe properly. Nina ran a trembling hand through her face and hair before checking on her phone: 1:30 am. She thought about texting him, the urge to check up on him was strong, but she then admonished herself.

He’s not a baby, Nina. It was just a nightmare.

So she let her body collapse against all the pillows and closed her eyes. She didn’t want to sleep, the memories of the shipwreck and her captivity still chased her through her dreams. The bullying, the torture, the starving… the thirst.

Saints, Nina had never been thirstier. She had never thought she would crave so much for something as simple as a glass of water, like she did during those days chained in that ship. It seemed almost ironic; how could someone be so thirsty while also being surrounded by that much water? Just when she thought she was going to pass out of thirst, he came. Oh, if only he hadn’t given her that glass of water.

“I do like you.”

“What was that?”

“I do like you,” he said angrily.

She’d beamed, feeling a well of pleasure erupt through her. “Now, really, is that so bad?”

“Yes!” he roared.

“Why?”

“Because you’re horrible. You’re loud and lewd and . . . treacherous. Brum warned us that Grisha could be charming.”

“Oh, I see. I’m the wicked Grisha seductress. I have beguiled you with my Grisha wiles!”

She poked him in the chest.

“Stop that.”

“No. I’m beguiling you.”

“Quit it.”

She danced around him in the snow, poking his chest, his stomach, his side. “Goodness! You’re very solid. This is strenuous work.” He started to laugh. “It’s working! The beguiling has begun. The Fjerdan has fallen. You are powerless to resist me.”

And then the ground give up on her and Nina fell. She grasped the edge of the ground and held on for her life, the ground was so cold that it burnt her skin. She felt the Drüskelle holding her arms, preventing her from slipping into the pit. Her legs were suspended on the air and her furs had already vanished in the void. Nina looked up at him, her green eyes filled with tears. “Please”.

He had been trying to help her, that was until her eyes connected and it was as if something within him switched. Somehow, Matthias’ eyes looked even colder than the Permafrost.

“No, please”, Nina begged, but it was too late. She always thought that hatred was something that burnt within someone, but no, hate was cold, it wasn’t fire, it was ice. The witch hunter didn’t let go of her, but rather pushed her into the void as he muttered the word ‘Drusje’.

This time Nina woke up crying; hot, fat tears rolling down her cheeks as she panted heavily and sobbed inconsolably. That wasn’t what actually happened, Matthias did help her, but that nightmare was very present in her sleeping hours. Back in the Permafrost, there was a moment in which she thought he was going to let her fall and she sometimes wondered if, right now, whatever they had was real or was just part of a big scheme to punish her for what happened in that village.

Nina grabbed her phone and scrolled through her social media as she tried to calm herself down. She sniffed as her finger moved through the screen. Before she knew it, she opened his text messages and started to type one but then paused. She was being too annoying, looking for his validation when half of her dreams about him consisted on him murdering her. Whether it was by letting her drown in the sea or falling into that pit in the Permafrost.

Sometimes Nina would dream of the two of them entangled in warm and fluffy furs, finally succumbing to their passions, eager to touch and please one another until his large hand would grab her by the throat. She would always smile at first, thinking it was a kink of his, but then the grip on her would become tighter and tighter and his warm and affectionate gaze would turn stone cold. Nina would tell him to stop, but that would only encourage to squeeze harder until she blacked out.

The Grisha felt the cold shivers running down her spine. “For Saint’s sake, Nina” she whispered bitterly, placing her phone away and turned over on the bed.

She closed her eyes, rnot at all eady to jump into the next nightmare when her phone buzzed in the darkness. “Fucking Kaz, he better not…” she began as she grabbed her phone and stopped when she saw his name instead:

I dreamt you turned into the moon and filled every night of mine with laughter.

It was both embarrassing and pathetic how fast the smile came to her lips.

I am a very funny lady. She wrote and hit send. What a clown. No, that wasn’t enough.

I love you, and I wish you were here with me. She sent right after and his answer arrived even faster.

Me too, Little red bird.

#inspo #drabbles #nina zenik #matthias helvar #helnik #otp: you are better than waffles (nina&matthias)#helnik au #drowning tw #choking tw

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zaritarazi · 1 year

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listen sometimes i watch skyrim lore videos because i find epicnate315′s voice and enthusiasm soothing and today in one of his older videos he mentioned something i had completely forgotten about in-game which is the group of bandits that specifically run a wolf-fighting ring and not to bring back this helnik au written for helnik week 2021 that takes place in the elder scrolls universe (skyrim specifically) but i just need to highlight a few things:

1. this au is actually delicious i might go back to it i love the idea of nina and matthias having to fight all those draugr in sarthaal especially since in tes canon most regular people have no idea that the dead very much do reanimate and try to kill you like, constantly. the idea of nina leading matthias into this at the very least to scare him and then they both get way in over their heads and have to claw their way out.... it pleases me

1.5. actually nina watching matthias use a word wall and having that same rush of jealousy but also kind of being a little awed by it and them having a Moment... also very good

2. trying to figure out how to fit the rest of the crows & grishaverse into tes lore is a fun thing bc i’ve decided only matthias is from skyrim and everyone else has ended up (mostly in riften) out of bad luck- i like the idea of them mostly on matthias’ home turf, bc that’s kind of what they had to do with the ice court but this is on a much bigger and weirder scale

3. just thought of this the crows having to explore dwarven ruins together is thrilling to me

4. the crux of this universe is, of course, that matthias is the dovahkin and how that’s making him reevaluate war and the cost of it and the ideals of “skyrim for the nords” and all of that, but also i do so so very much love the idea of matthias like “uh dragons can wait we gotta go free the wolves” bc wolves don’t actually hold a ton of special significance in skyrim he’s literally just a Wolf Guy and making it everyone’s problem

5. okay also just thought of this but the fact that at some point each crow will end up with a daedric artifact and sort of lowkey have that dremora as a patron now and NONE of them are happy about it.... love that for them

#soc au #helnik #helnik au #okay first impressions #inej obviously gets mehrunes' razor especially bc he also represents change and revolution #kaz gets the skeleton key #nina gets the black star #matthias gets the dawnbreaker or the ring of hircine. maybe both bc he's my special boy #jesper gets the wabbajack bc he loves random chance and also shegorath is in love with him. we're working on it. please send help #wylan gets the mask of clavicus vile bc i think clavicus would LOVE him as a follower #and now i've gone too far #anyway if you're not a shill for todd like me and you love yourself congratulations on not understanding this #for the rest of you....

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rupturedhaven · 2 years

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Where Do Broken Hearts Go? - Chapter 27 is live! Wylan's P.O.V. of quite the double date.

#soc fic #six of crows fic #ao3 #archive of our own #au #wesper #helnik #wesper au #helnik au #jesper x wylan #nina x matthias #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #nina zenik #matthias helvar #rupturedhaven

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she-posts-nerdy-stuff · 8 months

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Stupid six of crows au where instead of the ice court it’s a water park and instead of gauging their timing by the elder clock they time it by the sound of the wave machine.

#don’t ask me why #i don’t know #grishaverse #leigh bardugo #six of crows #crooked kingdom #inej ghafa #nina zenik #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #matthias helvar #wylan van eck #kanej #helnik #wesper #au #soc au #six of crows au

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nikolailanstovswife · 10 months

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I wanna know what would've happened if Jordie didn't die? Would Kaz still have met the crows- in different circumstances? Would Inej have of been freed from the menagerie?

What do u think would've happened ?

#grishaverse #leigh bargudo #shadow and bone #six of crows #crooked kingdom #kaz brekker #kazzle dazzle #inej ghafa #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #nina zenik #matthias helvar #helnik #wesper #kanej #what would happen if jordie didnt die #alternate au

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verdiris · 5 months

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✨️ Morning wakeup call ✨️

Six of crows Road trip au!

#art #fanart #digital art #six of crows fanart #six of crows #soc #soc fanart #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #nina zenik #matthias helvar #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #kanej #helnik #wesper #roadtrip au #modern au #social media au

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lonslibrary · 1 year

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a reminder that we are lucky to have gotten a soc adaptation at all. the books are so perfect that nothing was going to live up to them anyways. if u think of them as separate entities, i promise you’ll enjoy yourself much more!

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bazberkkerwrites · 2 years

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FINAL CHAPTER OF MY HELNIK STORY IS NOW UP!!

Ship: Matthias Helvar/Nina Zenik

Characters in chapter: Matthias Helvar, Nina Zenik, Ylva Brum, Jarl Brum, Zoya Nazyalensky, Hanne Brum (mentioned), Nikolai Lanstov (mentioned)

Tags: Greek Mythology AU, Orpheus and Eurydice AU, not really angst??, but definitely not a happy ending ahaha, slight kos spoilers, Matthias Helvar lives

The guards went inside, and they motioned for Matthias to come. He did, his feet heavy and numb as they shuffled into the cell.

Then he spotted her. Nina — his Nina — sitting in the middle of the big, empty cell by herself. Her hair was greasy from going so long without a bath, and her eyes and cheeks were sunken in. She looked at him curiously with wary green eyes, her chapped lips parting to blow a strand of hair out of her eyes.

"What? Don't like the new look?" she said hoarsely.

"You are just as beautiful as the day I met you," Matthias said.

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emryyyyyss09 · 3 months

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okay consider this:

a six of crows descendants au.

taste it. feel it around your mouth for a bit. breathe it in.

on the isle of the lost: kaz (obviously), matthias and wylan (i'll explain my reasoning in a bit)

in auradon: inej, nina and jesper

canon couples -> wesper, helnik and kanej

so i put kaz, matthias and wylan on the isle because:

- matthias was put in hellgate and we can still have that angsty helnik plot, where nina tries to get him off and contacts kaz somehow.

- wylan and kaz share that "reborn out of the water" kinda thing and they're on an island.

- poverty and illness for my guy kaz.

- abuse for my guy wylan.

- c'mon guys wylan is basically carlos de vil but with fire.

- it's perfect. i just don't know their parents 😭.

and i put inej, nina and jesper in auradon because:

- inej and jesper have decently good family lives.

- magic for nina's grisha abilities - could be an underground kinda thing?

- military - for their fighting skills.

- jesper and tourney.

- they're all ambitious to a point, and i can't see them on the isle. a huge part of their individual characters is their ability to search for what they want, to work for their dreams. inej, in finding her family and liberating slaves, jesper in searching for a rush, for fun, and nina, in searching for her happily ever after.

- where as kaz stays in the barrel trapped by bitter spite and revenge, wylan is stuck in a prison built of his own shame and matthias is trapped by his own beliefs (misogyny).

sorry this got deep.

what do you think?

#the crows #six of crows #descendants #soc #for you #grishaverse #leigh bardugo #au #isnt this fun #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #wylan van eck #wylan hendriks #jesper fahey #wesper #nina zenik #matthias helvar #helnik

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lunarthecorvus · 2 months

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The crows and their modern au side hustles

Inej - Spying for Kaz and works with Kaz

Nina - Runs a food blog, walks around, and goes to cafes / bakeries and rates food

Kaz - A blackmail and heist business

Matthias - Gym trainer (used to have to do fights for money because he needed the money)

Wylan - Makes bombs and acids for Kaz

Jesper - Alcohol rating podcast, tried alcohols and rates the taste, the drunkeness feeling etc.. also rates parties he's been to.

They all do jobs for Kaz sometimes :)

#kaz brekker #inej ghafa #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #nina zenik #matthias helvar #six of crows #grishaverse #crooked kingdom #soc #modern au soc #kanej #wesper #helnik #yes i know some of these are very similar to canon #its funn #modern au crows are so interesting

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manikas-whims · 2 months

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26/02/2024: Nina and Matthias’s son asks Kaz if he’s a bad person

“Uncle Kaz, are you a bad person?”

They were walking down the bustling streets of Little Ravka.

Unsurprisingly his four year-old nephew, Soren, had acquired the same love for waffles as his mother. From his father, had merely acquired the sparkling blue eyes which he weaponized quite a lot whenever he needed to coax Kaz into doing his bidding.

And so, after ignoring Soren’s adorable pleas and big, blue, sparkling eyes for hours, Kaz had agreed to take him out for a snack. As such, they were heading towards this famous local diner in the area to try some ravkan-styled waffles.

Kaz had expected the child to show his excitement over it. Expected the little one to constantly persuade him into buying delectable sweets on their way. But questions about his morality were the last thing he had imagined. And from a child at that.

“Why do you ask?” He spoke in an even tone.

The child replied without a beat. “Cause a lot of people in Fee-eda say so.”

“I see.”

It’d been years since the Ice Court Heist. Despite never being able to prove it, there was a common tale spread around the Fjerdan folk about a sinister Demjin named Kaz Brekker who had come from the land of Kerch and broke down the formidable walls of the Ice Court using his dark powers. That he had peeled off his gloves inside the court and cast a sinister enchantment with the devious motions of his fingers to corrupt the sacred tree. That he was a mad man who had stolen the Shu child on a whim, and then decided to sell him off to the highest bidding nation for further entertainment.

“Wanna know what I think?” Soren asked, waving his hands in excitement.

Kaz smirked. “I honestly don’t care but you’ll tell me anyway, won’t you?”

The boy giggled. “I will! I will!”

“Well..?” Kaz waited patiently, both gloved hands now resting on his crow head cane.

“I think you’re a good person.”

The words stupefied Kaz more than they should have.

“And what makes you believe so?” He asked. He was expecting some sort of innocent and childlike response such as: because you spoil me with candy, because you show me magic or because you defend me when Papa gets mad.

The boy however, tilted his head, cheeks puffing up as he collected his thoughts and formulated a response.

“Because Aunt Inej likes you.”

Once more Kaz was left stunned. And a little flustered by the child’s words. He could only hope no one else heard it for the mere idea of someone liking Dirtyhands could stir the entire barrel with some spicy rumors. And he would not want to deal with them when his little nephew was around.

Soren’s eyes twinkled as he went on. “Aunt Inej likes me too! And, and..she told me she only likes good people. So that means Uncle Kaz is good too!”

“Alright then, ” Kaz coughed to compose himself and offered a gloved hand for the boy to hold. “Let’s get you those damned waffles.”

Soren bounced with joy at that and accepted the proffered hand as they continued their walk.

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#six of crows #kaz brekker #manika's mini fics #nina zenik #matthias helvar #helnik #helnik child #helnik parents #kanej #inej ghafa #wesper #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #grishaverse #crooked kingdom #soc fanfic #soc fic #post ck #canon divergent au

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zaritarazi · 2 years

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alpha nina and omega matthias. not because i know anything about a/b/o but because that would be personally be very fun for me

okay so my idea for THEM actually plays on the idea ari once posed that betas are basically switch hitters and so if they're near an alpha and the alpha is in rut they become omegas and vice versa if they're near an omega going into heat but SO my idea is like. nina and matthias are both betas but being stuck together she starts to emerge as the alpha and he starts to emerge as the omega and they're both like. really confused but also nina does find it deeply funny and matthias is like i don't know why you're laughing because if i start getting horny i'm killing us both and like, he means it, but doesn't that just make it funnier

#and what else is he going to do but get horny? come on matthias be realistic #helnik au #helnik headcanon #soc headcanon #asks #psychepng

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