The Book:

Phillip when asked how he managed to touch Eloise without making noise while his brothers were in the other room with guns: Practice but you know…

He gave up his life as an academic to look after a woman who had been promised to his brother and to look after his family’s estate, when he could slam and just go on with his life.

He tried in every way to have a healthy relationship with Marina, thought he even succeeded, but then realized that Marina would never deny him the possibility of sharing the bed and therefore she no longer touched her.

When clearly he could have taken advantage of Marina’s mental state for other times.

He never had any other sexual or romantic relationship when he was married to Marina.

Because although he didn’t love her he had the utmost respect for the mother of his children

Despite his cruel upbringing he always treated his children with respect, sometimes even being too permissive because he wanted to be a better father than his own.

He would have married another woman without loving her to give her children a maternal figure bc he never had one.

His passion for botany is not at least the tavern and it is not a way to escape from his duties, but it is his vocation.

He understands his mistakes and very often apologizes and tries to fix it. Like when he realized he had to be more present and be less afraid of hurting his children, inviting Eloise to swim with Oliver and Amanda

Despite its gruffly manners it is very sweet, like the fact that it took a long time to write letters very often because they had to be PERFECT for Eloise, letters then always accompanied by a flower.

He respects women and above all respects Eloise, as he showed by giving her the gun and saying that he would let her protect the house.

Sir Phillip is clearly feminist.

He is incredibly shy and therefore does not like to gossip and consequently a gossipy company like the London one

He lives thanks to Chlorophyll Photosynthesis.

He knows he is not a perfect man but he also knows that for this he must have a person next to him who can improve him, like Eloise.

He is not a prince charming, but he is a good person, and in his imperfections he is in my opinion he is perfect.

like so many dark edgy ya boys are brooding loners who aren't good with people but kaz is such a subversion of these traits

in the first scene we see him through inej's point of view he's cracking jokes with the dregs, he makes smalltalk about weather with the black tips, like Inej makes a point to note when he changes from being Kaz to being Dirty hands, who is all those edgy tropes but kaz isn't always Dirtyhands

"you're passable at demo you're excellent at hostage"

"why don't you pay someone to burn your Kruge for you thats what the big players do"

literally anything he says to Matthias when he's trying to goad him

like kaz is not some humorless sad boi, even his eternal monolog can be funny

"I definitely didnt tell them to blow up the lab"

"maybe I'm finally going to pay for all those tree spirit jokes"

also the entire scene with Van Eck when Van Ecks like "the best thief to send would be the guy who stole my deKapple" and Kaz just straight face saying "yeah. too bad we don't know who took it huh?" and then a scene later telling Inej to move it from its UNDER HIS BED cause he didn't even care enough to sell it

KAZ BREKKER & INEJ GHAFA in Shadow and Bone (2021)

SHADOW AND BONE (2021-) | “No Mourners” (1x08)