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[kanejforever]

“Why the net, Kaz?“ I couldn’t bear to watch you fall.

Kaz has a hard time watching Inej perform, not because he doesn’t trust her skills, but there’s that slight chance she could fall and get hurt. It’s another reason why he can’t watch Jesper shoot at her, even though he knows Jesper is a talented shot. 

But as he turns his head to look away, Kaz observes the men staring up at her. With his intense stare, it seems as though Kaz feels another emotion. He knows what Inej has endured in the past, and Kaz becomes protective. We find out in Crooked Kingdom how hard it still is for her:

“It isn’t easy for me either.” Her voice, low and steady, the voice that had once led him back from hell. “Even now, a boy will smile at me on the street, or Jesper will put his arm around my waist, and I feel like I’m going to vanish.” The room tilted. He clung to the tether of her voice. “I live in fear that I’ll see one of her—one of my—clients on the street. For a long time, I thought I recognized them everywhere. But sometimes I think what they did to me wasn’t the worst of it.”

At this moment, it’s apparent that Kaz Brekker is demanding everyone show respect for Inej Ghafa—the Wraith of Ketterdam. 

[stevenrogered]

Freddy Carter’s Instagram Live with Entertainment Weekly, 5/4/21

[annebethchase]

scary and deadly Wraith being adorable and soft (´｡• ᵕ •｡`)ノ🔪

[kazsimp]

Wylan: kaz you have to be kind to people

Kuwei: hey-

Wylan: die.

[procrastinatoris]

Inej : “You lay a finger on me and Kaz Brekker will cut the baby from your pretty wife’s stomach and hang its body from a balcony on the exchange.”

Kaz : To hell with revenge, to hell with his schemes. If Rollins had done something to Inej, Kaz would paint East Stave with his entrails.

Crooked Kingdom (Leigh Bardugo)

They are both so romantic.

[southslates]

so someone asked me to comment on a post which claimed that this line:

is really inej disrespecting kaz's trauma and essentially saying that she prefers kaz without his trauma. this isn't the first time i've seen this which is why i really want to stress that i disagree.

let me just get this out of the way. this fandom has a habit of ignoring inej's own trauma and touch aversion because she is more well-adjusted than kaz is. i've seen plenty of takes before that say that kanej is toxic because inej refuses to acknowledge kaz's trauma but none of them acknowledge how much she has grown. inej has touch aversion too. she was sold into sexual slavery. obviously her trauma is not comparable to kaz because this isn't the trauma olympics, but the point is that she worked to get better and improve and she wants the same from him. she wants him to get better. but also, just because kaz is traumatized doesn't mean that the trauma is an inherent part of him.

that aside, i feel that most people with this particular criticism of this scene are failing to understand it in full.

inej isn't telling kaz that she prefers him without his trauma when she tells him she will have him without armor or not at all. the without armor line is not about kaz's touch aversion, it's about all the walls that he's put up against her. kaz knows everything about inej and inej doesn't even know his real last name. kaz's touch aversion is a metaphor for how genuinely closed off he is from her. obviously it's something they both also want to work through, but the larger issue at hand is the fact that inej wants kaz rietveld, not brekker. and she's not wrong to ask the boy who claims to love her to be honest with her.

and that's why the bathroom scene is progress made between them. not only do they touch physically, briefly, but kaz is honest with inej for the first time.

he breaks down and tells her about jordie and pekka rollins as much as he can. he's cruel about it, sure, but that's the real progress inej is asking from him. that's the other thing he's going to keep "trying again" for with her.

but yeah, kaz's touch aversion does absolutely come hand in hand with his aversion to admitting what he percieves as his shame to inej. and relationships don't just take hard work, they take faith and honesty. inej gives everything to kaz. he knows all of her. so yes, she can demand as much of him as he's willing to give. and she does let him wait till he's ready.

essentially i just think reading that line as inej demanding kaz without his trauma is sort of shallow, disregards her trauma, and doesn't really see the bigger picture. the beauty in kanej is that they both want to grow for themselves and each other, and their growth comes in communication.

[starshipsfall]

I just want @netflix to know I am 100% okay with seeing a man's eyeball ripped out of his skull and then replaced by a spit filled handkerchief... If you know you know.

[kanejforever]

You won’t.

This moment is a vow from Kaz and relief for Inej. The way Kaz quickly looks up when Inej says she can’t go back to the Menagerie. She wasn’t leaving because of him, but for her chance at freedom. Perhaps the reason Inej was walking away was her fear that she didn’t deliver on the job, and Kaz would think her less valuable now. But Kaz was already doing everything in his power to make sure she’d never have to go back to the Menagerie. Aka: Sacrificing the Crow Club and going on this mission in the first place; all for her freedom.

Also, can we take a moment to appreciate the way they communicate with their eyes? The relief on both sides, the nodding of reassurance, and the tiniest hint of a smile between them. Plus, that delicious longing that is always there. Their connection is special.

[starwarsrebels]

Inej 🥺soft eyes🥺 Ghafa

[alinastarvko]

insp

[jellybeanfruit-deactivated20210]

Leigh didn’t write Kanej canonically being sexually attracted to each other and desiring each other, written sexually underlined scenes between them, being supportive of them healing and taking “baby steps” to get to a more intimate level, write about Inej saying she wants Kaz without his armour (referring to his touch aversion.), had Kaz admit that he wants Inej for y’all to reduce Kaz and Inej to only their trauma and say they can’t ever heal or overcome it.

[southslates]

kaz telling inej that they’ll be “kings and queens” and then taking over a crooked kingdom by outwitting the worst men in the world while inej rules the seas as a pirate queen … now that’s a love story

[starwarsrebels]

# jawline sharper than inej’s knives

[dallasw1nst0n]

six of crows characters as the good place quotes bc these are literally made for them

kaz:

also everyone when they meet kaz:

inej:

jesper:

also jesper:

wylan:

also wylan:

nina:

matthias:

kaz and wylan after falling through van ecks ceiling:

[welldressedbuthelladepressed]

kaz brekker could’ve defeated thanos in infinity war but the avengers could have never pulled off the ice court heist and that’s just facts

[seasonoftears]

lqvekanej on Twitter compiled all the Kanej content from today’s Empire con. 🤗😍😍

I’m fine—

Narrator: She was, in fact, not fine.

[yenvengerberg]

EXPECTATIONS VS. REALITY

Shadow and Bone Bloopers: The Crows Edition.