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Sees George, who got fired for asking to many questions and Lucy, who left her old life.

he's listening to the static noise that plays in lockwood's head all the time

original inspo under cut

Van Eck’s gaze snapped to Kaz. He blew his whistle. The Tidemakers froze, awaiting instruction. Reluctantly, Van Eck dropped his hand. They let the wave fall harmlessly, the displaced sea sloshing against the side of the Ferolind.

“My son?” Van Eck said.

“Wylan Van Eck.”

Holly Munro being fashionable is always canon and The Thing for me

pls like if you like this, said she not ai artist

skull: I literally hate your man I'm going to kill him as soon as I get out of this stupid jar I'm going to snap him in half he will DIE do you understand. please lucy let me replace him I can be better than him lucy please

lockwood: lucy I don't trust the skull he's evil and bad and corrupting and a liar and evil. we gotta get rid of him. lucy get him out of here. stop talking to him all ghosts are evil. lucy please you're going to get yourself killed and I am an emotionally constipated 16 year old boy and I can't handle any of this. here's another family heirloom.

lucy: [seen 35 minutes ago]

and then holly/lucy/lockwood is just lockwood and holly braiding each others hair and giggling about how cool and pretty lucy is. they don't think of each other as competition so much as the president and vice president of the lucy carlyle fanclub. perpetual sleepover vibes at 35 portland row.

But the argument that "Inej gave up so much and that Kaz didn't gave her much choice when he asked her to join the Dregs" really puzzles me the more I think about it.

From the very first moment when Kaz and Inej share their first actual conversation, Kaz makes his terms very clear. He tells her that the conditions of the Barrel are harsh and that she was expected to do things like killing to survive. I've seen some peoppe say that Inej didn't really have much of a choice because her only other option was staying at the Menagerie.

And I can get that, but it feels unfair to zero all the frustration on Kaz. At that time, realistically, there wasn't much Kaz himself could do about Inej's situation either. Because remember, the Kaz then is not the powerful and wealthy gang leader he is now. Then he was still working under Per Haskel and keeping a hold on the amount of money and valuables they spend. It took him a great deal of convincing to just transfer the ownership of Inej's contract. And even that took a great deal of cash. At that time, Kaz offered her the best he has capable of offering and made his terms clear. And Inej agreed to them.

And then there's the thing about Inej giving up so much and having to kill despite her moral beliefs. I do feel sorry for her, given everything she's been through and the cost it is to her religious beliefs. As a religious person myself, I get it. Completely.

However, it's important to remember that Inej isn't the only person who was forced to kill and hurt people to survive. This is something that applies to almost every member of the Dregs. I'm sure there was a point when none of them wanted to hurt people or take their lives. But even they eventually adapted to survive. (We don't talk about Kaz, his situation was different and a bit more extreme given his age at the time). But isolating the "giving up so much" exclusively on Inej feels dismissive for other characters.

Sorry for not focusing on the whole rambling but do people ACTUALLY have this argument? Do people think Kaz is an all powerful or something? The book couldn’t be more clear Kaz may get away with outdoing Per Haskell in many things but he is still not in control of everything, at least not at that point. Kaz didn’t give her much more of a choice because they weren’t plenty of choices, he gave what he could. And I am not saying he was this pure hearted person, he knew Inej was useful AND empathized with her, both can be true, specially considering he didn’t know her.

but also this is literally a canonical thing he says: