#isolde haskell

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Isolde Haskell was a lot of things, but a coward wasn’t one of them. 

The idea of the Ice Court job should have sent her running for the hills. Not only was she just a criminal from Ketterdam, she was also Grisha. Entering Fjerda alone was a risk, but the literal headquarters of the drüskelle? Yeah, she was out of her mind.

But Brekker was right. This wasn’t a job for elite military teams. It was a job for thugs and thieves.

And like hell was she going to let him be right and not be a part of it.

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oo i'm going to do a scene for each (you know most of these already, but oh well, you're getting some more detail haha) (also soc book spoilers below for isolde)

shreya

the post ryevost scene

so shreya helped alina flee the little palace but when alina got sighted, shreya basically bought alina more time to get away, but it led to her getting caught

she's brought back to the darkling and he is pissed

she was one of his, like, star pupils so he's thrown for a loop that she would betray him

but the rose colored glasses are officially off and she no longer has any illusions about the type of person he is

there's just like a really intense discussion between them where her life basically gets threatened and he's like i'm so disappointed in you, you were going to help change the world and she is just DONE

like she's so sick of him spouting that line and she ends up pretty much telling him that alina is a lot smarter and stronger than he thinks and shreya vows to help her burn his kingdom to the ground

natalya

the fjerdan attack on the tracking camp

she's dead asleep when it happens, most of the others are outside getting ambushed

one of the fjerdans ends up dragging her out of her tent and she's kicking and screaming and is absolutely terrified

like this is not what she signed up for at ALL

like she's pretty much waiting for the end

the others get the drop on the person attacking her and help her up but she's fucking TERRFIED

so cue the even more intense attack, mal's down, the rest of the team is getting killed and she's like struggling once again

she ends up making the last killing shot on one of the fjerdans and it rocks her to her core because she's never had to shoot someone before

like if mal wasn't on the verge of fucking croaking right then and there, she might have just curled up into a ball right there

isolde

(we know v little about tidemakers so i'm just gonna create my own canon here but also the darkling's short story showed a tidemaker doing things with ice so this is valid idc)

when they're in fjerda heading towards the ice court and they get attacked by those grisha hopped up on parem??

isolde is NOT having it

anyways, ice is just water in another form, so girly just like,,,goes off

matthias is literally standing there like 👀 because one, that's his homeland ice and two, did she just melt down this patch off ice, bring it up in like a tidal wave motion and end up refreezing it to stab these two grisha with little icicles?

he's already a little wary of her but she just sorta unleashes some badass tidemaking

nina's just happy to see her doing grisha things

kaz is unimpressed as always, but inside you know he's like ...remind me not to make her too mad

like just picture something out of katara's little showdown with pakku in that one episode of atla

another isolde song. the lyrics of i am sick, i am damned but i am holding redemption in the palm of my hand. she knows who she is and what she's done in life and she's not exactly sorry or repenting for it, but she knows who she needs to be to move onto better things and she knows who she needs to be for inej.

this is a total isolde song! the repetition of i'm so far from home so far from home oh not where i belong and the line of just let me know i'm not forgotten out here alone just scream isolde. both in the sense of when they're out of ketterdam pulling off the ice court heist and also how alone she feels even in ketterdam. she lost both of her parents young and she's kind of always had this crushing fear and reality of being abandoned and that she's drowning in it.

i is for isolde haskell, my six of crows oc!

there’s like 100 meanings of her name that i’ve seen but “ice” seems to be a regular contender which feels fitting due to her icy personality and her abilities as a tidemaker

practices her abilities in secret and using her powers makes her feel closer to her mother

grisha have considerably longer life spans, which she refuses to acknowledge given that some of the important people in her life aren’t grisha

doesn’t often stand up to her grandfather (as he barely does shit anyways, her and kaz have been running the show for years) but any time he gets high and mighty and tries to treat inej like property, all bets are off

likes to sit on rooftops during the evening because she knows at some point, inej will suddenly just be beside her

okay full disclosure i'm dumb and never can pick out the underlying meaning of songs unless it's hitting me directly in the face so this might be terribly off meaning wise BUT anyways possible soc spoilers??

isolde haskell + the crows actually get their kruge at the end of soc

so the deal goes through and the crows get their money and ck doesn't have to happen

everyone's figuring out what to do with their share of the kruge

inej, bless her heart, is already out looking for a crew and a ship

she offers isolde a spot on the crew

it's a thinly veiled way of saying come with me, i can be without you but i don't want to be, please stay with me

isolde is conflicted

a large part of her died when she was nine, buried at the reaper's barge where her father's body was taken

another part of her just simply ceased to exist when her mother vanished

a part of her, that scared little grisha girl who had powers hated/coveted by ketterdam, has always been waiting for her mother to come home and take her away

she wants to wait

she's not sure who's heart she breaks more when she tells inej "no"

kaz, in a rare act of being a helpful friend and not just an insufferable bitch, basically tells her she's an idiot

inej's boat is leaving the dock the following week

she's excited because she's inej ghafa and that future that was waiting above is now in front of her, in reach, just beyond the shoreline

but tears are stinging her eyes at what she's lost

and then, racing down the docks, screaming her name, a bag slung over her shoulders is isolde

because sometimes, you need to leave the past behind and live in the moment

and the future is waiting before them

minor soc/ck spoilers?

anytime kaz pisses her off, isolde lords her seniority and status as haskell's granddaughter over him

she doesn't want to inherit the gang and knows kaz is the perfect candidate for the future leader of the dregs, but god, she she loves pissing him off

doesn't believe in saints but tries her best not to make jokes about it for inej's sake

"now why would i pray to some saint when i've never been more protected than by you having my back with your knives?"

always lets inej initiate any form of physical touch

threatens to drown matthias at least four times during soc

speaks shu fluently

is the first to catch onto kuwei lying about being unable to speak kerch, thinks it's absolutely hysterical, and lets him continue be an unhinged lil shit

nina constantly tries to persuade her to come to ravka and join the second army

isolde is like babe i love you but pls shut the fuck up about that damn army

during the auction in ck, she's the one leading the "council of the tides" and she is unleashing a level of power that her friends really haven't seen from her

matthias is counting his blessings that he never pissed her off too bad

inej: this one's obvious, it's a hasfa world and we're just living in it, slowburn babies for the win (but for real they're very soft and isolde even gets her a knife (i know kaz also did this but kanej is platonic in this book and it's fine bc isolde gifted her with her sankta alina blade which is just arguably much better))

jesper: because jesper is absolutely 100% the kind of guy to get random, fleeting crushes on his friends (like it's already canon he lowkey liked kaz) but this never amounted to anything and probably lasted a week

nina: not so much a crush but more of a "you're really pretty, i would like to kiss you" and isolde def has that vibe in return but alas they're both hung up on other people and isolde is very anti-ravka because of the grisha army lmao