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“If you get out there while you’re drugged there’s no telling what you’ll do,” Wylan said, pushing past Kaz to get back to his work station. “I’d think you'd want to avoid pulling the Dregs into this gang war.” He yanked a cabinet open and rummaged around for a pipette. Opened the vial. Drew out a drop. In his head he ran through the motions of the synthesis: he’d gotten close, before, with the blood sample. All he had to do now was see it through to the finish. “I know that.” Kaz’s voice was nearly a snarl, but then again it always sounded like that. There was still time. “I mean, why didn’t you lock it from the outside?” “Like that would stop you," Wylan scoffed. "You need an antidote. You said the others were dead within the hour.” “Only after killing everyone in their vicinity, Merchling, did you forget that part?”

#helloooo soc fandom i return years & years later bearing gifts!!!#aka me putting wylan tf through it for shits and giggles #i do hate this chapter but the exposition is necessary. the fun shit is already written and will be on its way.#six of crows #wylan van eck #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #wesper #soc #soc fic #six of crows fanfic #writing #my writing #writing tag

tankuare

A small little detail is that at the beginning of the ice court heist Wylan seemed surprised whenever his bombs worked they really were just letting him freestyle it up in the most important job of their lives

#wylan WAS smart enough to know what he was doing but neither he nor any of the other crows actually believed that at the time <3 #but it worked!!!#wylan van eck #six of crows #soc

snoocupz

The Moons, The Suns & The Stars 🪶

Finished Six of Crows couple illustrations; Full versions below!

#loves of my life….#six of crows #soc

wylanvaneckz

there’s a very specific genre of jack wolfe photos where his hair is a little curly and looks a tiny bit red bc of the lighting and this is the most wylan van eck anyone has ever been. btw!

wylanvaneckz

that’s my wylan!!!!!!!

#THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT BABY #wylan van eck #six of crows

there’s a very specific genre of jack wolfe photos where his hair is a little curly and looks a tiny bit red bc of the lighting and this is the most wylan van eck anyone has ever been. btw!

#they shook soc and jack fell out!!!#i’m such a redhead wylan truther but jack just IS him.#six of crows #wylan van eck #jack wolfe

kidclubz

I've actually been thinking about a western wesper au for a while... the concept is that Wylan joins the crows as a masked bandit to help them do schemes against his father (who is the sheriff) and it's a classic hidden identities situation

kidclubz

this is my masked bandit bruh we are going to JAIL

#omfg i need this au soooo so bad.#I LOVE WESTERN AUS YES #six of crows #soc #wylan van eck #wesper

kidclubz

More of this please

a doodle for u ^_^

#tags yupppp so true.#six of crows #wesper #wylan van eck #jesper fahey

love and larceny. like are we being serious.

#i can't stop thinking about them & about this letter. AUGHHH #i need it right now.

nancescreek

"BUT WHEN I LOOK AT HIM, AND THE FIRE BURNING MERRILY IN THE GRATE, THE FROST WEBBING OUR WINDOWS IN THE MORNING, THE BOATS ON THE CANAL WITH THEIR BRIGHTLY COLORED FLAGS, I THINK I'M PROBABLY THE LUCKIEST MAN IN THE WORLD"

#sixteen year old me used to pray for times like these #wesper #wylan van eck #jesper fahey

avatheoak

“I send my luck”

6 hours and 82 layers later, it’s done <3 I love these two so much, you don’t understanddd 😫

#i'm going to cry real tears #wesper #this letter. AUFDHGDHJD #wylan van eck #jesper fahey

faheywylan

favourite characters: wylan van eck

“Wylan,” Jesper said, looking into the wide blue sky of his eyes, “I really hope we don’t die.”

#pretttyyyyyyy #wylan van eck #soc #six of crows

the way that jesper goes from resenting wylan’s goodness and that he’s so different from the rest of the crows to wanting to preserve it to seeing it as a strength and something that makes him special…..i need to lay down.

#the bit in ck when jesper finds out kaz knew wylan’s mom was alive and he’s like #‘kaz playing the rest of them was one thing but wylan is DIFFERENT’ i’m sickened…..#wesper the THINGS YOU ARE DOING TO ME #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #six of crows #soc

JACK WOLFE COVER OF HOWL FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE??????

#this is life altering for me i’m so serious #howl has been a crows song to me since i first read the series/heard the song….#AND NOW JACK WOLFE COVER??#i need a studio version. RIIGHHHHTT. NOWWWW.

wylan’s hair changing color in every fic/fanart is one of this fandom’s greatest treasures ❤️

#i loooove the inconsistency with which he’s described both across the fandom and just in the books themselves #<- not even being sarcastic i think it’s so fun to see how different people imagine him #plus with the live action addition there’s even more room for playing with it!!#personally i’m a strawberry blonde/dark bronze wylan truther #but also jack wolfe has ofc infected my brain so half the time i’m picturing him #six of crows #soc #wylan van eck #mana.txt

rip ramy mirza and robin swift you would’ve loved neil perry and todd anderson

#yes i’m thinking about babel again #they’re so anderperry….godddd #babel rf kuang #babel #ramy mirza #robin swift #neil perry #todd anderson #dead poets society

cold-bath

Something that's been on my mind lately is the fandom's portrayal of Jan Van Eck and how it tends to stray from canon quite a lot. I often see him depicted as a clean-cut villain, someone who is irrationally angry and violent and predictable, which is true to an extent, but in my opinion, there's more nuance to it.

What gives Jan such power over Wylan is his emotional detachment. He's not constantly seething over Wylan's illiteracy; he is simply unresponsive. He talks in a very clinical way about his son's failures. He doesn't gloat when he sends Wylan away; he is logical and matter-of-fact. He talks about beatings as just another technique to 'fix' Wylan instead of a real emotional response. Wylan spits in his face and all he does is calmly wipe it off and then get his lackeys to do the beating for him, as if his son isn't even worth the effort of bloodying his hands. The only time we ever see Jan act with an emotion stronger than vague disdain towards Wylan is when he poses a threat to Jan's empire (on Velgeluk, after the auction) because the only thing he cares about is money. He loved Wylan as an heir, not a son, and once Wylan proved he couldn't fill that role, Jan completely lost interest. Even his hatred for Wylan wasn't really personal.

If Jan was irrational in his abuse, Wylan would have hated him, might even have sought vengeance for the way he was treated. But Jan was cruel and logical. He got into Wylan's head and made him believe he deserved the things that happened to him, that the abuse was necessary to 'fix' him, and the cruel words were just the way the world would treat him. Wylan wasn't angry at his father more than he was angry at himself, believing himself responsible both for his failure as a son and what happened to his mother. Even until quite far into book 2, Wylan was still subconsiously seeking his father's validation and forgiveness.

Jan is a successful villain because Wylan doesn't even really perceive him as one until the very end. He was righteously angry at his father because of what happened to Inej and Marya, but never really about what happened to him, because he truly believed that Jan had his best interests in mind, and that he was right about Wylan's shortcomings. Throughout almost everything, Jan was logical and composed, and that's where his power comes from.

All this to say, I think Jan is more nuanced and dangerous than some of the ways the fandom depicts him, which is what makes Wylan's relationship with him so complicated and painful. He isn't really driven by blind hatred for Wylan; he's driven by money and greed, and I wish fanfics touched on this as a source of Wylan's sense of inadequacy more often. Because no attempt to prove himself as a son would ever make him the one thing Jan wanted him to be: a monetary asset. Letting go of the desire to live up to that impossibility and finding strength in what he already had was the key to Wylan's development.

#FUCKKKKKK. yeah. yeah.#wylan van eck #six of crows #soc

amidautumnn1ghtsdream

Everybody commenting on Mr Van Eck's receding hairline and Nina worrying that Wylan might inherit it from him is taking me out

#that line made me laugh out loud during my reread LMAOOO #thankfully wylan has his mother’s hair!#soc

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