#third army

I'm sorry, I just couldn't un-see it.

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Constantly, I also think about how Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, Kit Young, Danielle Galligan, Calahan Skogman, and Jack Wolfe would have had a blast filming the Ice Court scenes. Just imagine the utter chaos in the bloopers and interviews. The insanity of the six of them (plus Kuwei!) clinging onto the side of a tank, four of them soaking wet, two covered in bits of glass and one in purple silks, and they're just storming through the snow while screaming "WE HAVE A TANK" at the top of their lungs.

But It’s never actually mentioned that Kaz wouldn't want children.

Yes, he scared Hanna to death, but one conversation doesn’t necessarily conclude in him not wanting to have children. Over many years and when he begins to get more emotional vulnerable (which he started to do at the end of Crooked Kingdom), I think children and Inej’s nieces and nephews would love him and his magic tricks.

And Inej comes from a nomadic culture in which having many children is typical. In the series she has a Brother, Harij.

So l do believe years into their future, they could have children.

Of course this would mean that Kaz would leave Ketterdam behind. There is no way he would let his child grow up in a city like Ketterdam.

And like many others this scenario didn’t appeal to me in the beginning.

Then I watched the series Revenge. It’s about a young woman who wants to avenge the people who are responsible that her father landed in prison framed for murder he didn’t commit. She changed her name too and in the end she leaves it all behind and begins a new life.

That’s when I realised that nothing that has happened, was actually Kaz’s fault. He didn’t choose any of it — as all of the other Crows.

So why shouldn’t he get to live happily, carefree, in peace with his small quiet family unit he’d ever wanted (as Freddy Carter said) far away from Ketterdam?

Then it gets always talked about the purposes of the other Crows: Nina fulfils Matthias’ last wish to change Fjerdans’ minds about Grisha by becoming herself the princess and then the future queen. Wylan shows himself with Jesper’s help that he’s a different Van Eck than his father (I do believe he keeps this surname because of this reason and to show himself that he’s stronger and survived). Inej has a ship and goes after slavers, making sure no girl has to suffer the fate she had.

It’s not mentioned, but I think obvious that Jesper’s purpose is helping another Durast in mastering his powers, being the teacher he’d wanted to have after his mother’s death.

We all know Kaz Brekker’s purpose. But when he begins to open up and becomes more Rietveld again, that could change.

In the series he’s at the end already at that point. He had his revenge against Rollins, he reached the thing he’d wanted for years, the thing that had been his reason to keep living, but who is he now? Brekker? Rietveld? Another new version of Kaz? (I’m going into more detail of this in my take of the Six of Crows Spin-off in whjch I combine the two books with the series)

So what could be Kaz Rietveld purpose except helping Inej in her quest as good as he can by providing her with information and finding ways with Jesper and Wylan together to close as many pleasure houses as possible?

I tried to come up with something big when I realised it’s the same purpose as Inej has: making sure no boy gets conned out of his money. In a city like Ketterdam scams most likely still happen and Rollins wasn’t the only one.

And once he helped boys to get their money back, caring when nobody did with Jordie and him back then, and being in a position where he can make certain that the merch goes to prison, he’ll make sure that they under no circumstances remain in Ketterdam. He knows how cruel Ketterdam can be for children and that’s why I think he wouldn’t want his own or any children to remain there, but give them a carefree childhood he only had for a short time.

If they have to stay there, it would be only with Jesper and Wylan who live far safer lives than Kaz and Inej.

The same applies to the children Inej saves who have no place to go back to. In the series she knows that Alina is still alive and if the ending of Shadow and Bone would have been the same as in Ruin and Rising, Mal and Alina would open an orphanage and Inej could let them stay there in good conscience or find another orphanage not in Ketterdam where she is convinced they can have good lives there.

The same implies to the slavers Inej finds. She wouldn’t send them to Hellgate, knowing that with status, money and influence you can bribe your way out of punishment. There has to be another city in Kerch, having firmer regulations that vets throughly procedural penalties.

Even if Kaz at some point would decide to spend the summer months with Inej on her ship while she stays during winter with him, that would mean that they only see each other half a year, meaning for years they never spend a whole year together. They could never get this time back with each other.

At some point when they’re old enough and overcome their pasts together, Inej could become pregnant (unexpectedly or not because birth control back then was never one hundred percent secure).

And Inej who lost years with her family, wouldn’t want her child to grow up with a mother who visits for a few months before she vanishes again.