inej "but even statues crumble when they're made to wait" ghafa and kaz "i'm so afraid i sealed my fate" brekker

Kanej // Heir & Bodyguard AU

A little headcanon of mine is that Kaz and Inej keep their respective surnames after they get married, but also use all of them interchangeably. Their last name ends up depending on who speaks first.

Kaz can and will tell Zoya that, “It’s Mr. Ghafa now, actually.”

Meanwhile the elderly couple who own a bakery in Lij know them as the Rietvelds.

Inej referring to herself as Mrs. Brekker is saved for when she wants to strike additional fear into the hearts of men. But she also once joked about her and Kaz going by Mr. and Mrs. Dirtyhands.

Sometimes I just think about how the first time Matthias met Inej he tried to tackle her and she just sidestepped, easily dodging him, tripping him, and then she just goes “clumsy, this one”

Like-COME ON! how could Kaz NOT fall in love with her????

Kaz: [tapping fingers on table]

Jesper: [taps fingers back furiously]

Wylan: …What’s going on?

Inej: Morse code. They’re talking.

Kaz: .-- -.-- .-.. .- -. / -.. --- . ... -. .-..-. - / .-.. .. -.- . / -.-- --- ..-

Jesper: [slams hands on table] YOU TAKE THAT BACK 

Speak, she begged silently. Give me a reason to stay. For all his selfishness and cruelty, Kaz was still the boy who had saved her. She wanted to believe he was worth saving, too.

SHADOW AND BONE | Episode 8 | 'No Funerals'

SIX OF CROWS | Leigh Bardugo

She looked down at his gloved hand clutching hers. Everything in her wanted to say yes, but she would not settle for so little, not after all she’d been through.

SHADOW AND BONE | Episode 8

SIX OF CROWS | LEIGH BARDUGO

Thinking about how the Dregs canonically have a pleasure house but Kaz vehemently had nothing to do with it even when he was involved in the finances of all their other businesses, and that shutting it down was probably one of the first things he did after the coup

See below cut for evidence/quotes and lil smidgen of analysis

In chapter 3 Van Eck calls Kaz “a bawd and a murderer”, to which Kaz replies “I don’t run whores, and I kill for a cause”. Whilst the more obvious implication of this would be that the Dregs isn’t affiliated with a pleasure house, we learn later that this assumption is incorrect. When Kaz pays off her contract Inej believes she’s moving to another house and Heleen replies “Haskell does own a pleasure house, somewhere in the lower Barrel, but you’d be a waste of his money there”, both confirming that the Dregs have a pleasure house and implying that they get very little income from it. Since we know that Kaz is the only one who actually does any work with the finances and that many times it’s been said that the Dregs would collapse without him not only because they would lose a lot of the fear his presence brings but also because they would lose most of their income, it’s fair to assume that the reason this business is unsuccessful is because Kaz refuses to be involved with it. I think that Van Eck’s accusation comes from him looking through the Dregs’ businesses (he has a collection of papers and information on Kaz and reads them during this conversation) and assuming Kaz is involved in all of them, and we can also follow the implication that Kaz is offended by this false accusation since he’s so quick and blunt in defending it during an otherwise lengthy and often philosophical conversation.

i will cry every single time i read inej’s last chapter in ck. the boat. her parents. the hand holding. how kaz asks if his tie is straight. how she runs to them. sobbing.

I found this on Instagram and...

The comments are killing me

#when they know there’s nothing sexier than consent

Okay, here's the thing.

Yes, they've sped things up and put them out of order, but this hasn't ruined anything. In fact, we now have a chance for a true Kanej relationship that we never got to see in the books.

We are now in a post Inej "ultimatum" timeline where they get to grow separately from each other for awhile. (I hesitate to call this version an ultimatum, it's more of a promise/threat and Freddy's acting really hammered home the idea that Kaz understands what she's asking of him.) We know Kaz is already starting to pull himself into the type of man she deserves by his offer to buy the indentures of the Menagerie girls. When Inej returns for the Ice Court job, she's going to find a Kaz who is already much closer to who we know at the end of Crooked Kingdom. She's going to find a Kaz willing to try for her.

And our favorite scenes work in this new context too.

Inej is stabbed and bleeding out?

Kaz carries her to the safety, the same way she pulled him to safety in Shu Han.

And do we really think he's going to be less violent towards the man who almost took her from him? After already admitting that she is what he wants? We're gonna be lucky if he doesn't set Oomen on fire.

The bathroom scene. Good God, the bathroom scene.

Last time he tried to help her, he couldn't even touch her with gloves on. This time, she's injured again and it's his fault and maybe he'll fail, but Saints be damned, he's gonna try.

I'm just saying, we now have a Kanej that knows they love each other. Think of them potential for longing looks and pain and trying to be what the other needs.

I am personally here for it.

(Please, anyone who can hear me. Give me a Six of Crows spin off. I will gladly give my soul.)

It’s not what you think. It is what you think.

“Kaz and Inej need to work through their trauma- especially Kaz” NO NOT “ESPECIALLY KAZ”!!! ESPECIALLY BOTH OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!! INEJ’S TRAUMA IS JUST AS VALID AS KAZ’S AND YOU’RE A FOOL IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE!!!

Yes I will admit Kaz’s trauma is more in your face and immediate-

but Inej FLINCHED the first time Nina hugged her. THIS GIRL IS NOT OKAY. She didn’t say “this isn’t easy for me either” for y’all to undermine her trauma. She doesn’t just have issues when it comes to sex, she literally FLINCHED when her friend tried to hug her. SHE NEEDS TO HEAL TOO OKAY??????!!!!!

Kaz: Who hurt you? Inej: *snorting* What, do you want a list? Kaz: ...Yes, actually.