Jun 1, 2024
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ivan being given gifts by a "secret admirer," and he's convinced it's a spy or an assassin
Ivan and Fedyor at the fete Bonus:
I really love the addition of this relationship, and the fact that they introduce the relationship like this, because it makes Ivan a much more sympathetic character. You can see how much he has to lose and how easy it would be for him to lose it. It makes his staunch defense of The Darkling (no matter what atrocities Aleksander commits) make much more sense.
ivan: someone will die
fedyor: of fun!
Friendly reminder that Jesper was definitely using his grisha abilities in season 1 of Shadow and Bone.
When he was shooting the volcra in the fold, the last shot he fired was emphasized by the camera angle zooming in on his gun (specifically the bullet being fired) and his eyes were closed. He made the shot perfectly.
He must have also used his abilities when facing off against Ivan. Ivan is a heartrender with an amplifier, which makes him very dangerous if he has you in his line of sight. To keep Ivan on defense, Jesper had to stay hidden and out of his sights.
Jesper fires three shots at Ivan and all of them hit in the same exact place on his kefta. How did Jesper manage to aim so precisely three times in a row when he shot through several bed sheets and aimed at points on the wall/metal objects so the bullets would ricochet, all without a clear line of sight on Ivan? He couldn’t have. He probably used his abilities to guide the bullets toward the kefta that Ivan specifically told him was Fabrikator-made to be bullet resistant, so it probably had some kind of kevlar-like material woven into it that Jesper could have sensed and guided the bullets to.
Jesper does something similar in Crooked Kingdom when he sends the rubber bullet at Kuwei without a good line of sight, so it’s not an unreasonable assumption that he did it to Ivan too.
When Jesper has Ivan pinned to the ground, Ivan asked “What are you?” and Jesper deflected his question. Then, Ivan said “You’re a--” but before he could finish, Jesper knocked him out and said “You should have stopped while you were ahead.”
Of course, this implies that Jesper knows that he’s using his abilities to gain the advantage when shooting, whereas he didn’t think about it in the books until Wylan pointed it out to him. But, because Shadow and Bone is an adaptation of the books, they have some creative freedom to change things around a bit (such as the timeline, character descriptions, dialogue and events, etc. that we’ve already seen changed).
Overall, I’m pretty happy with how the show is adapting the books. The Shadow and Bone storyline is almost identical to the book (with the exception of the ending and the Crows’ involvement, of course) as well as Nina and Matthias’ backstory. I’m really excited to see how they incorporate the events of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom (and Wylan) into the show!
Ivan: What I’m about to tell you is going to make you want to kill me.
The Darkling: I’m not going to kill you. It takes too much time to break in a new right hand man.
I don't know if someone had already came with this, please let me know, but...
Spoilers for the Siege and storm, Ruin and Rising and episode 5 of the show:
Theory: Ivan would be the one to (incidentally, of course) betrays Genya in the show.
So, it's pretty simple - In the show Marie died in the first season + we didn't heard anything for Sergei (aside from Marie setting on fire some boy, who invented her on a date)
Creating new story for Genya's review, will be pointless, especially since Sergei not only was part from that, but also he was the reason the Darkling found them.
Now, there are two options: introducing us to new characters, one of which will have to die, or using characters we already know.
And who are the two characters, who didn't made it to book 3, so they can be good to take someone else's place and die in book 3? Ivan and Fedyor.
Tbh, I started this as Fedyor will be the one, who will survive, and part of me still thinks it will be him, but I'm not smart enough to figure how the things will twist for this to work, so I'm going with Ivan.
Originally, he died on Nikolai's ship, but that can easily be avoided, if he doesn't cross Tamar and Tolya's path. So, he survives this and makes it to the palace, where he sees how the person he serves, kills his boyfriend. So, seeing this, makes him understand that the Darkling doesn't really care for the other grisha sorry, not sorry and so, in his anger, he turns against him in a big moment, where he saves Alina, Mal, or some other important character, because, you know, it's important for the others to see he switched sides, in order to not kill him, when they make it to the tunnels...
And yeah, from that part, Ivan just follows Sergei's story 😶 I'm so sorry for making you read this, I know it hurts 💔
(requested by anon)
