it should be illegal for netflix to print their little "now a netflix series!" circles DIRECTLY on the cover of books that inspired shows they've cancelled
obviously I've been super inactive on this account. idk if anyone was really waiting on me to post about shadow and bone season 2 but this is just to say I won't be. i personally found the show disappointing and won't be finishing it. but of course if you enjoyed it then that's great and I'm happy for you!!!
so, yeah! don't expect much from this account until another grishaverse book comes out
random thought i had that doesn't really mean anything
i always felt, for some reason, that kaz, inej, jesper and wylan felt separated from matthias and nina in some way
dont get me wrong, they all work great together and contribute to the story
but im gonna ramble about this for a second (big spoilers)
kaz, inej, jesper and wylan are victims of capitalism
the negative effects of capitalism is a major theme in the soc duology.
kaz was scammed by a rich asshole that saw fit to rob children, leading to a bout of poverty and homelessness that killed his brother and sent him into a life of crime, in a bid to get some control over the system that screwed him over
inej was seen as an object when trafficked by the slavers, something they could take and sell for their own gain. then, by kaz, she’s called an investment. but she eventually takes back her own identity (”she was inej ghafa and her future was waiting above”) and does what she wants with her life, free from the system that used her
jesper is what kaz would describe as a pigeon. granted, he’s a very smart pigeon that would shoot me to death without a second thought, but the fact of the matter is that he was taken in by the allure of the casinos when arriving in ketterdam, fell into debt, formed an addiction, and had to start living a life of crime to ensure his debts didn’t reach his father
wylan is the son of a wealthy man who saw him as useless when he couldn’t fit society’s expectations. he was so ashamed that his son wasn’t going to be a typical ‘productive member of society’ that he cast him out and tried to KILL him, not only to get rid of him, but to save his own reputation
all of these people are screwed over by the system of capitalism in different ways, and they come together to get their own back
...and then there’s nina and matthias.
sure, nina had to work her ass off in a dangerous city to save matthias, but that was her own choice.
what really separates these two from the others is that they’re victims of war
(yes capitalism leads to war in a lot of cases but let’s not get too complicated)
nina is an orphan, and because of her talents, had to become a soldier
matthias’ family was killed, and he had to become a soldier too
their countries hated each other, and so they had to hate each other. even when, against the odds, they started to fall in love, they couldn’t be together because ravka would’ve had matthias killed, so she had to get him arrested to save him.
when everything seems fine at the end, and they think they can finally be together, what gets matthias? not a scam or some rich asshole like van eck, but another druskelle that killed him for defecting.
like i said, i think they work well in the story and it’d be incomplete without my favourite witch and witch hunter. but, thinking about the rest of the grishaverse (the shadow and bone trilogy and king of scars duology), the six of crows duology is the odd man out in that its story doesn’t centre on a grand war.
but, of course, the effects of war still manage to catch up to nina and matthias
AITA for stealing a kid’s trousers after I crawled out the river where I had to use my brother’s body as a floatie? In my defense, I was under a lot of stress-
AITA for ripping a guy’s eyeball out when he stabbed my investment? I just got mad because I went through a lot to hire her and-
AITA for calling my crush an investment? She asked me to apologise after I said it and now I think she's mad at me :(
WIBTA for burying a child alive to get revenge on his father? Ok hear me out-
Now that I have 3 irl friends following this account, none of which have read the whole Grishaverse, seriously contemplating what I'll still have to mark with a spoiler warning 😂
AU where Inej is the sun summoner instead of Alina
She has to fight her way out the brothels of Ketterdam to reach Ravka. Immediately picks up on the Darklings bullshit and doesn't trust him for a second. Finds out about Baghra being the Darklings mother almost immediately
Yall wanna talk about Kaz switching with Nikolai but if Inej took Alina's place she'd find those amplifiers in three chapters
Me: well I would like my favourite character to be the badass assassin with a strong moral code or the hot flirty gunslinger or the beautiful heartrender who only speaks in sarcasm or the adorable demoman who looks innocent but would blow me up-
But I'm stuck obsessing over a stabby gang leader who called his crush an investment
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