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Great so like they're canon they're canon now

kai in queen demon: nirana's awkward behaviour around ziede makes her crush very obvious. no i havent noticed the increasingly awkward behaviour of my close personal friend bashasa, the only mortal who will voluntarily touch me, what are you talking about,

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Ziede can tease Bashasa about his crush on Kai, right in front of Kai, and Kai Does Not Get It

mari-lu-ben

Kaiisteron, Prince of the Fourth House of the Underneath, called With King:

Kai's funny

we11yboot

Kai: this bitch is so fucking stupid I have no choice but to devote my immortal life to him

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I love how the magic Kai uses to take his revenge against the Hierarchs mirrors their crimes. They trapped him in perpetual rain and he flooded their halls with that same spell. They burned the Saredi clan tents and his first intention was fire — and it quickly became the main one he used in battle. They burned his world and now he is burning their army in an attempt to unburn the world and I just like that a lot.

mari-lu-ben

"Kai looked down at the hand on his arm, and wondered if Bashasa was not being manipulative and clever but that he was ill, in his mind, in a way that made him not fully aware of his actions."

we11yboot

Absolutely brilliant what martha wells did in Witch King with kai and bashasa. Straight from the jump we know bashasa is dead and has been for at least around 20 years. We also know that by that point Kai was close enough with him emotionally to be the one who hears his last words.

Then we get the flashbacks. And they aren't just a one-and-done thing, setting up exposition. They're practically their own novel, a fully-fleshed out story of the war and how all these characters from the modern storyline came to mean so much to each other. And Bashasa is there, he's alive, and he's brilliant and shining and it's impossible not to see how much kai admires him from how he recounts the story. And they're falling in love (though they may not realize it until Queen Demon) and you the reader are falling in love with bashasa right alongside Kai, all the while knowing he's dead. He was a mortal and now he's dead.

And you, just like Kai, know it can't last forever but you still cant help it. It's a textbook tragedy.

Anyways this rant was inspired by wren's Witch King playlist. Putting The Moon Will Sing and All Things End back to back was truly diabolical.