since we're on the topic of niche 6oc ships and I really enjoyed your post on kaz/matthias earlier: do you have any thoughts on kaz/jesper? especially with the background that leigh said jesper was in love with kaz. I'd love to read your undoubtedly well thought out opinion on that
omg it’s so funny you ask this because when i was writing that post i actually at first wrote a little piece on how the only ship with kaz i really feel something for is kaz/jesper, but i deleted it since it wasn’t relevant but ! i love kaz/jesper.
jesper being in love with kaz is so tragic and wonderful, i’m very happy leigh confirmed that. it shows us that she really knows her own characters, because to be honest, when you think about jesper as a character, it is so obvious. of course he was in love with kaz. he is a hopeless romantic, getting crushes and falling in love all the time.that girl on the street who picked up his hat when it fell off? yes.that boy working with dyeing fabrics that kaz sent him out to talk to? yes. that androgynous gambler at the crow club with pale patches on their otherwise dark skin who kissed him on the cheek when he lost to them? yes
so of course he is in love with kaz. kaz took him in and saved him. and kaz (even though he may wish that wasn’t the case) loves jesper with his entire heart. i think kaz and jesper is a wonderful match and as i said, the only ship with kaz i really feel something for.
jesper has got kaz’s back and kaz trusts jesper. (which is why it hurts so much when jesper accidentally relieves their plan to pekka rollins.) i see jesper as one of those two persons in the world kaz would trust his life with; inej because inej would be sure to get kaz through it alive, and jesper, because it is possible he would survive, but if he didn’t, he would die in the hands of someone warm and genuine, a person he truly loves.
idk maybe i’m just speculating and making an awful job since it was a while since i read the books, but jesper & kaz means so much to me. i am so tired of fiction where two male characters are like ‘he is like a brother to me’, like just make them mlm you cowards (naruto & xmen i.e.) but in the case with jesper and kaz, i love the story of jesper falling in love with kaz and i think kaz would’ve loved him back in the same way if things had been different. but instead, it is unrequited love until jesper finds someone new while kaz holds jesper as dear as he did with jordie when his brother was alive. kaz & jesper is the only time i accept the ‘i see him as a brother’-trope, because with what kaz has been through, where jordie left a brother shaped hole in his younger brother’s life and heart, it is perfect.
