I think Kaz’s backstory is so fascinatingly darkly comedic, because any single thing that happened to him could be The Tragic Backstory for literally anyone else.
Mother not in the picture? Already the basis of Jesper and Nina’s trauma.
Father got cut in half with a plow while working the farm that made them money, and left him and his brother orphaned? Holy shit that took a hard left.
Brother and him having to sell their childhood home and move to the big city, only to have to stay in a hotel while his older brother works his tail end off to try and find a job so they can eat? Fuck, alright. Lotta resentment for the system building right there.
SCAMMED BY A GROWN MAN OUT OF THEIR “PIDDLING FORTUNE” AND LEFT TO ROT? HOLY HELL I’D BE ANGRY ALL THE TIME
Then, while out on the STREETS that the Bastard Scammer left them on, with no money and no food and no schooling and no shelter, a plague breaks out. On an island.
Then he gets the plague for days, then his big brother gets it.
THEN his big brother FUCKING DIES while HE gets better!
THEN he and his brother’s CORPSE get dropped on a PILE of corpses in the middle of the harbor.
then, of course, the main show, where he has to use his brother’s body to FLOAT back to land, where he is still homeless and still broke.
THEN BC IT STILL GETS WORSE, once he finally has his life semi-together and he’s working his way up, he does a dumb move on top of a building after robbing a fucking back btw, and is permanently disabled for his efforts, and constantly in pain.
honestly Kaz’s atheism might be a form of self-preservation at this point 😭 because if I went through all that the only options I’d see as realistic for the gods is either they don’t exist or they just hate me and I’d much rather believe they don’t exist then that they hate me
