|| sadbutradwriter on Ao3 || I feed Kaz gummy worms and he sits in my pocket and we judge you || Check out my Kofi maybe? https://ko-fi.com/sadbutradwriter ||
The Crows + Their Daemons, from a crossover of the Golden Compass/His Dark Materials and the Grishaverse. I tried to use the exact images I was referencing during the story so far, so sorry if the examples look weird. I also included in an edit the voice actors I picture in my head that would voice the daemons, though to me daemons have a strange voice that sounds as if it’s a blend of their human’s voice and their own. However that’s just me you are completely free to interpret them however you’d like.
It’s called “God I Want To Feel Again” on AO3 if you’d like to read it!
(for 22 let's go with what are their bedtime habits and how do they sleep together)
Thank you for your service 🫡
No because I'm actually so into this and so fucking here for it okay okay
4. What does their life look like together today? (unless they aren't alive this year)
Because I'm in charge of how I get to answer this question I'm taking "life looks like together today" to mean in a canon-compliant universe: i.e., not any of my omegaverse/modern/ghosthunting aus. so like okay.
First off, they are totally the 'it' couple of Ketterdam. They are diabolical together. Kaz keeps Wylan ruthless, Wylan keeps Kaz merciful, and together they are cracking their knuckles and diving into bringing forward the changes they want to see in Ketterdam. They're lobbying for disability rights and resources, they're holding Merchers accountable for their actions, they're cleaning the streets of the Barrel and providing room for a new age of infrastructure that Jan Van Eck could only fucking dream of from his grossy icky cell in Hellgate. Together they make Ketterdam the kind of place they had both dreamed it could be when they were children. Together they make it a city for children to be safe in, which was something neither of them got to have.
Kaz reads to Wylan (obvi), Kaz writes for Wylan (both in the professional sense for their work, and also to stay in touch with Jes and Inej sailing the seas together, Nina in Fjerda, Kuwei in Ravka, etc, etc). but I want to be very clear too that Kaz is Wylan's muse. Yes, Kaz is Wylan's literary crutch, but he's also a deep source of inspiration for Wylan. Paintings and charcol sketches of a familiar scheming face line Wylan's art studio, music swirls around the estate fast and loose just as Dirtyhands is known to fight like, Kaz's favorite mug is a lopsided mess of a creation that Wylan had made for him the first time he tried throwing something on the potter's wheel. Kaz is as much of a fixture in the joys of Wylan's life as he is in the necessities of Wylan's life.
Kaz and Marya are very close as well, and he has a weekly brunch date with her to gossip and drink tea together. I don't think Kaz can remember much of his own mother, but he finds Marya to be a brilliant and steadfast woman that he comes to trust just as deeply as he does Wylan.
I also think Wylan and Kaz slowly start to build up on Kaz's skinship phobia, but I feel like Wylan has a uniqueness to him in that he understands how to live life around a disability, and while touchphobia is not a disability in the traditional way I feel like Wylan would get very creative to show how much he loves Kaz while making an effort to remove the pressure Kaz would feel to reciprocate physical intimacy. If Kaz was willing to learn Wylan's music-theory approach to labeling his chemicals in the lab, Wylan could in turn learn how to reach a boy who feels utterly unreachable.
They're both smart as shit. Even if it takes them the rest of their lives, they will come to map and cherish every inch of each other - inside and out.
20. Where in the world would they travel together?
I know it's a cop-out for me to give the same answer that I gave for Kaztthias, but I feel like with the money these two have to spare they travel the world. Especially since their closest friends are spread out all over the world as well, trust that they'd take every opportunity to visit Pirate captain Inej and her first mate Jesper Fahey, they'd go visit Colm in Novyi Zem (and they'd take Marya too, so she could see some of the world outside of Jan's shadow for once), they'd visit Nina and Kuwei (just so Wylan could show off his hot boyfriend), they'd just... they'd allow themselves to see the world unafraid now that they have fought against their demons and persevered.
22. What are their bedtime habits and how do they sleep together?
I wish I could draw you a diagram of how they sleep but I imagine it goes like this, because these dudes are so fucking neurodivergent and you KNOW they have a routine. Like, okay, to be fair - they don't have a schedule, because Wylan's mind and his cptsd keeps him up at odd hours tinkering away in his lab or painting or whatever else he feels he needs to do and Kaz is a literal demon who is always up to something. They do not run by any man-made timetable, but they do have a routine.
I feel like whichever one of them makes it back to the Estate first starts a kettle boiling, gets the tea blends ready to steep, feeds their cats, water their plants, so on. Whoever shows up later is the one to turn down the bed for the night, locks up the house, and cleans up any messes. They always make sure to shower together though so that they can wash each other's hair and rub each other's backs, though sometimes Wylan makes sure to wrap his hands with the towel so his wet skin doesn't brush against Kaz's. They get soft and cozy in their jammies and sit in bed together. They give each other status reports of everything that had happened since they'd last seen each other, Kaz combs Wylan's curls so they remain healthy and springy, Wylan does a face mask and begs Kaz to join him (he will not, he does not need goo on his face thankyouverymuch).
I think sometimes Kaz would read to Wylan, or sometimes Wylan would sing for Kaz, but sometimes they just sit together in comfortable silence until they fall asleep.
I think Kaz is a blanket hog, I think Wylan has perpetually icy-cold feet, I think they have a line of pillows between them on the days Kaz can't bear the weight of another person so close but TRUST that Kaz can no longer sleep without Wylan in the room/somewhere nearby and vice versa. On the days either boy has to travel for work, the other is left sleepless and restless. That's usually when most of the home projects get tackled. Sometimes though, especially after sex, they cuddle for the entire night - and trust Kaz is like a fucking octopus when that happens.
the realization that the unhealthy trait you’ve given your favorite oc for funsies is actually something you unintentionally do is like watching a five year old innocently and perfectly mimic your bad habits
one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just "the gang goes to 7-11" type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don't see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(
One thing I love about Kaz is that he specifically had the DeKappel moved to a vault before leaving for the ice court. He's a petty bitch and even if he dies, Van Eck will NOT be getting his painting back.
A friendly reminder that tomorrow marks the start of pride month! Support LGBTQIA+ people! Also a reminder that the A in LGBTQIA+ is not for allies but for asexual, aromantic, or agender people.
it’s been farrrrr too long since i’ve done a random soc headcanons post so here’s a lot of them:
matthias is actually more of a cat person but just never knew because of the fjerda wolf obsession, and then when he got to ketterdam and saw all the stray cats he just kind of fell in love
jesper makes his barrel flash even flashier by diy sewing funky patterns onto his clothing
whenever the crows group hug they leave a big hole for kaz to just stand in between
while having to wait in the bunker kuwei wrote smut about him and jesper and burned it after
inej pretty much never talks about her period but nina will not stop complaining about hers and whenever she does inej does nod along vigorously, reminding the other crows that she, too, gets periods
wylan is very easily calmed by watching fish swim around
matthias loves winter but dislikes summer, nina loves summer but dislikes winter. they help each other romanticise all the seasons.
wylan thinks kaz stealing his fathers dekappel is the funniest thing ever and comments on it every single time he sees it, like “wow what a nice painting, where’d you get that?” etc
alys exclusively wears bows in her hair. or on her clothes. or both. she loves bows
HEARTBREAKING: friends who i should be going to the movies and playing dnd and watching anime and cosplaying and going to the mall and having sleepovers and exploring the woods with live one hundred trillion miles away
in my heart of hearts i believe wylan is both left and right handed specifically because when he was being (rather aggressively) taught to write, Van Eck and his tutors were like 'fucking hell i don't know try with your other hand maybe that will work' and basically just throwing spaghetti at the wall hoping something would stick (it didn't).
anyway it came in handy when he was too injured (van eck again) to draw or write out equations because he realised he could just swap hands whenever he needed to. I dont know, this is just fun to me.
