inej would 100% be the one to propose to kaz. especially after having every life altering decision torn from her hands from the age of 14, after having corrupt men’s false notions of love forced onto her.
and kaz would have deserved to be proposed to, to be offered a real promise of safety and love and a person to run home to. to have it not be a hoax or a selfish con.
inej would use a ring that perfectly matched the crow’s head on kaz’s cane. fabrikated by the one and only jesper fahey.
inej would have rooted out the sleight of hand required to perform the trick of a ring appearing seemingly out of nowhere. she spent every minute of questioning and practicing and deceiving her own eyes in the mirror thinking of how kaz would’ve had to do this as a boy.
when it was time, inej would ask kaz if he fancied a magic trick. she’d do the trick and hold the ring out and offer a steady hand of truth with it. no con, not this time, not ever.
and for the first time since kaz was a boy, he would’ve felt captivated by the magic. the curiosity, the enthrallment, the itch to make the magic his own.
but the magic wasn’t in the trick. rather, it was in the girl before him. all infatuated brown eyes and warmth. all goodness and hope.
and so kaz let’s himself say yes, he lets himself feel like magic is more than deception.
and jesper? well jesper would take more than a firm glare from kaz to stop boasting to everyone they knew about how he fabrikated the ring.
inej would roll her eyes fondly, and kaz would never let him know that he’d never felt more like a brother to him.
and when he asks jesper to be his best man, he all but blows the roof off the slat.