Inej, Kaz, or the two of them combined
â™’ - cooking
ŕµ -Â random
Cooking: Kaz is a human garbage disposal. Look, the boy was orphaned at 9 and grew up on the streets. He is no stranger to eating the shit no one else wants. I fully believe that if he needed to, he would eat his own shoes and then complain that his feet are cold. Fanon has him as a delicate palate contrasted with Inej’s high spice tolerance, and I’ve played with that before, but I honestly don’t know that he would ever turn his nose up at food of any kind. He’s been hungry, he won’t go back. He eats as quickly as he can and will literally stab you for trying to take a fry off his plate without asking. Inej has to explain things to him like “food tastes good” and “this is a thing you do for pleasure as well as calories, slow the fuck down and chew before you choke.”
Inej loves to share food. She loves knowing that someone else is having the same sensations she is having. When she was with the caravan it was common for people to literally put their food on your plate whether you wanted it or not. The first time she put something of hers onto Kaz’s plate (there was no plate, she just slipped one of her potatoes into his identical serving of fried potatoes) is when she realized that she was healed enough to maybe start to trust him with more than survival.
Random: Kaz would never ever admit it, but I think he is looking for reasons to help people. My first feeling about how he and Jesper came together was that this handsome, farm-strong boy walked into the casino and started losing just so much money and Kaz thought I hope that idiot has a skill so I can save him from himself the way no one did for Jordie.
Inej is actually much more cautious about who she is willing to bring into her circle. I have read some lovely stories where she rescues people and lets them join her crew, but I don’t honestly think she would do that very often, because it’s too close to her own story and it takes a long time for her to accept that not every part of what happened to her in Ketterdam and what she had to do to survive was bad. She would much rather send people home and to their families (if they can be sent home to their families) than to accept another person has been too twisted by their world to go back.
(Headcanon meme)










