#soc chapter 37

Six of Crows- Chapter 37 (Leigh Bardugo)

" ... the Black Heretic, the Darkling who created the Shadow Fold. It was a mistake, an experiment born of his greed, maybe his evil. I don’t know. ... "

Shadow and Bone- Chapter 5

But power was exactly what Aleksander had found, tucked away in this basement—his grandfather’s journals, the records of his experiments. They had become his obsession. He’d been sure that he could do what Ilya Morozova had done, and so he’d tried. The result was the Fold.

Rule of Wolves- Chapter 21

“A Grisha can have only one amplifier. You told me that yourself.” “Morozova’s amplifiers are different.” I gaped at him. “There’s another like the stag?” “They were meant to be used together, Alina. They are unique, just as we are.” ... " ... I know the truth in your heart. The loneliness. The growing knowledge of your own difference.” He leaned in closer. “The ache of it." ... “There are no others like us, Alina,” he whispered. “And there never will be.”

Siege and Storm- Chapter 3

“Morozova was the Bonesmith, one of the greatest Fabrikators who ever lived, and a man who tested the very boundaries of Grisha power, but he was also just a man with a wife. She was otkazat’sya, and though she loved him, she did not understand him.”

Ruin and Rising- Chapter 10

One of the essential tenets of Grisha theory was “like calls to like,” but Morozova seemed to believe that if the world could be broken down to the same small parts, each Grisha should be able to manipulate them. Are we not all things? he demanded, underlining the words for emphasis.

Ruin and Rising- Chapter 4

No?!

They believe Grisha capable of deceit, not virtue.

Oh yeah! A bit of infantalization! Bois will be bois, right?!

Pretty sure they'll be all (or at least mostly) legally adult, and calling them boys only serves to seemingly lessen the danger they represent and rids them of responsibility for it.

Look! They're so young they barely understand what they're doing! We wouldn't want to ruin their lives for one small mistake, would we?! They were taught to act like this. They don't know any better!

I have an old ask saved, unanswered for now, saying "LB wants us to sympathize with the drüskelle so bad it makes her work stupid".

Six of Crows- Chapter 37

Reading Nina's chapters is getting harder and harder. Especially when I dig up my vague memories of KoS², highlighting how little she developed, learnt or improved.

An opportunity!

Assuming he's not lying, he knows enough about chemistry not to make it obvious! An intelligent strategist would ask what else is he able to do with the substance, and how can it be used further.

This is hardly strategic thinking. Nina lacks mentality of a spy, even a common soldier. This kind of simplified morality has no place in any conflict, certainly not one deciding a fate of a whole race.

*seething*

HOW CAN SHE BE THIS STUPID?!

The Grisha in the vault will be tortured, used against their kin and murdered. HOW is letting them to go through that admissible option for her both as for a soldier and a HUMAN BEING?!

As for Brum- she just listened to him explaining what is he more than happy to do to her and any other Grisha. Being "blown into bits" is a kindness he hardly deserves.

Not to mention- does she truly believe MATTHIAS will be safe FROM BRUM now that the later knows the depth of his treason?! If she claims to think about the boy, she should act in his interest. But no, that might damage HER relationship with him. Which would be less of a concern for her, would she truly care about his well-being and continued survival.

Aaaaand, Nina should've been already attacking. This isn't even about cooperation. Using distraction of the enemy is any kind of fighting 101.

Six of Crows- Chapter 37

When the security around the most sought-out asset turns out to be pretty lackluster once you get close enough.

Are the Fjerdans so arrogant as to assume a single man is enough to guard their current secret no. 1?!

That two sets of locked door can't be breached?!

Why?

Nina and Matthias are likely to recognize him by voice alone, and since the drüskelle are stupid enough not to notice a stranger in their midst, why reveal himself? For ✨effect✨?!

If this were at least a little bit realistic ELITE group of highly-trained soldiers would shoot already. And wouldn't miss. Instead they wait for Kaz to act and drag his cronies into a newly-made tunnel.

Wow, how convenient drüskelle lead spies and traitor through open space right to their sacred tree instead of having them kneel by a wall, or at least walk by it, so they're somehow protected from one side if nothing else.

If there's not direct route to prison sector, don't tell me they were about to lead a potentially dangerous group to the glass bridge?! There's crème de la crème of several countries present, so shouldn't they first stow these prisoners somewhere easily guarded, and get their superiors?!

Organize the move instead of arrogantly counting on everything working out, when they already know there are interlopers.

Six of Crows- Chapter 37

As if it were an offense, not just a common sense.

A few hours earlier, Matthias voiced his distaste for her whole kind. Truly betraying Nina is actually more likely than stabbing his beloved mentor in the back.

Gods, how do I hate the narrative's insistence drüskelle and Second Army are two groups of equal footing!

Apparently Matthias wasn't merely a part of a mission or two, he was actively helping to design TORTURE devices.

Who's barely old enough to be a fully-fledged member of their order.

Walks with a limp even though their members seem to be the perfect specimen of their nation.

Doesn't speak a word in Fjerdan.

All during the no. 1 event full of foreign visitors, therefore possible spies.

The most serious alarm just sounded, an explosion blew off a chunk of the inner castle and they've found a traitor kidnapping their most important secret asset.