#wraithblogging

Kaz isn't born out of wedlock. Still he refers to hinself as the bastard of the barrel. Nikolai tries to hide the fact that he is a bastard for his reputation.

Kaz is the one called Demjin and treated like an actual demon. Nikolai turns into the demon people feat in Kaz.

Kaz has built rumors around his gloves, about having hands soaked in blood, hands covered in scars and having claws. Meanwhile all of these are true for Nikolai.

Dammit I’m now committed to this trashfire. This actually turned out rather cute?

Tyelpe is shy but pleased, Gorlim just really wants to pet his hair.

And I feel like that really is how it often is with criminals. But we're taught to see them as people who just chose to be bad and be criminal or had it coming and all, which Six of Crows kinda also does with in a way with the antagonists. But with the crows you see they didn't chose this life. There was a life before crime and clear changes that lead to them being where they are at this point.

And I feel like another thing it did well is that while reading the duology I didn't wonder "why don't they just stop and have a normal life?" Like a "just stop being poor" approach people often take when it comes to crime. And while Wylan and Jesper (and Nina I guess) make the jump to having what would be considered a "normal life" you also have Inej and Kaz who both at some point did chose crime (cause hunting slavers and all isn't really a legal thing to do, formally) and went with it as a way to deal and to take what happened to them. And they show that while this fucking sucks it's their way to live.