call me polaris?

Thanks to you for starting the fight.

And you for finishing it.

Notes On A Scene

This is the most important scene when it comes to Robby and Tory’s dynamic.

I’ve talked abt them before. The thing with Tory is that she is stuck in the cycle of giving out what she receives. She is used to people looking down on her and assuming the worst of her so she is always ready to hit back without really thinking, always aggressive.

Robby’s thing is that he becomes whatever he needs to to survive — from running scams so he can have food to allowing bullying of himself so he doesn’t get his face busted in another locker.

Coming to the scene, it’s interesting that she SEEKS him while he is minding his business. What she wants to do is ask how he is doing since their run in at the parole office. But Tory being Tory, cannot help her snappy way of speaking. And Robby being Robby, simply answers the question.

Visually, she is in the dominant position at the moment, with him having to look up to her. And she exercises it some more, wanting to see how far she can push before he, too, hits back at her like everyone else does. So she taunts him abt his juvie stint. She may not realize but we saw what a painful experience it was for him. What she wants to tell him is how bad running away was/would be for him, but can’t help phrasing it as a snide remark.

At this, he stands up.

Now they are face to face i.e., equals. She anticipates him hitting back, dares him even. In a way that is ‘I won’t tread back on what I said, you are welcome to call me b*tch like everyone else does.’ But he doesn’t, he is just concerned abt defending himself (surviving and getting by + Miyagi Do) than commenting on her. She nods, now understanding how he operates.

That she can tease or taunt him and he wouldn’t snap back at her. And if that’s the case, then maybe she can also open up to him and he won’t judge her. And so she immediately opens up to him, telling him how much she hates herself for what happened, advising him on how he can use his anger instead of bottling it up like he is currently doing. And she invites him to Cobra Kai’s hangout, again phrasing it as a taunt which he also doesn’t respond to.

I believe this is why their relationship works and we continue to see this in their dynamic going forward. She enquires after him disguised as a taunt and he always just answers the question with no additional comment abt her taunt, her or ANYTHING for that matter. So much so that he doesn’t even ask why her day was crappy because she doesn’t like personal questions and he respects that too.

here are just SOME of the funniest moments throughout the books

“….you can find your way to Ravka or Matthias’ grandmother’s house for all i care” “leave my grandmother out of this”

obviously the ghost scene

pay someone to pay someone to pay someone to

“you speak Fjerdan about as well as i speak moose” “moose is probably your native tongue”

‘Had they blown up the lab? Kaz had definitely NOT told them to blow up the lab’

The deadpan ‘He had not been shot’

Kaz trying to justify his decision if bringing Wylan along to the rest of the crows: “ i told you, ✨hidden depths✨” “see Jesper, ✨marketable skillz✨”

‘“You all look so young, where are your parents?” Wylan and Jesper burst out laughing’

“This many people having fun in one place might have shocked the Fjerdan right out of you”

“I.Should.Let.You.Die”

Nina trying to bring Kaz back: “The Ice Court, remember? 3 million kruge?” Kaz’s eyes cleared. “4 million”

“You couldn’t look guiltier if you were performing the role of Thief #3 in a penny play on East Stave”

“Who wants to buy i coat in the dead on night?” “Tourists”

“Tiny and Ferocious, just like you”

“Unless you have a unicorn for him to ride away on, there is no scenario that guarantees Kuwei’s safety”

‘They could fake a pregnancy. They couldn’t fake an actual birth. Or maybe they could, he wouldn’t put anything past Kaz at this point”

“He has a very soothing baritone”

‘“I’d prefer a pair of sable-lined swimming trunks, but we can’t always get what we want” A furrow appeared between Kuwei’s brows. His understanding of Kerch had apparently been reached and surpassed’

The Wyvil

Matthias thinking they should just let Nina and Jesper flirt the entirety of Ketterdam into submission

That MASTERPIECE of a scene where Jesper and Kaz have a random petty fistfight, and all the other crows literally move out of the way, and then when Wylan tries to get someone to stop them they just shrug and go ‘I mean they aren’t using their weapons let them fight it out’ and THEN Colm coming him and scolding them and both of them IMMEDIATELY stopping

“Whatever you say, Llewelyn”

Nina’s singing

Wylan and Kaz falling through the ceiling onto Van Eck’s dinner party will ALWAYS be iconic

Kaz’s chapters in general are absolutely HILARIOUS, but my personal favorite is when he’s depending on Matthias Not Betraying them, and he thinks something like this:

‘Either he was right and Matthias’ feeling for Nina would prove enough, or Kaz was about to pay for all those talking tree jokes’

The talking tree jokes in question

The initiation ceremony where the tree teaches you the secret handshake

‘His first thought was that this boy had the most beautiful lips he’d ever seen, and his second was that he was probably about to die’ Wylan honey we’ve got to talk about your priorities

“Is it that bad?” “No, you just have really ugly feet”

That scene at the start of Six of Crows where Van Eck has Kaz tied to a chair and is explaining what he needs, and then is explaining why he needs Kaz specifically, talking about how his De Kappel painting was stolen which is a really impressive feat, while Kaz is vehemently denying that he had anything to do with it although it was obviously him

Wylan being passive aggressive while Jesper is trailing after him trying to apologize for the Kuwei thing

“Can’t we just enter as performers? I hear Wylan really kills it on the flute”

Inej getting Nina’s cookie jar after she gets back and Jesper being offended that he didn’t get to take some

Nina making fun of Kaz’s haircut

“Is my tie straight?”

remembered xmen blue + am reminiscing abt the way erik and lornas relationship used to be presented......

current/xfactor/trial erik acts like he's had a long history of being this overbearing + demanding father. past eriks acted (fittingly!!!) like a reconnecting absent father. one that knows they have no room to demand anything of their child + treats them as the adult they are.