kaz, in the end of six of crows: got caught giving a fuck. embarassing.
andreil going viral after Nicky uses that song a boy who's jacked and kiiind to make an edit of Andrew picking up Neil and throwing him over his shoulders like a potato bag to drag the idiot away from useless fight
read kevin as kaz and just went long with it until i saw exy
I appreciate the fact that Kevin is canonically hot but instead of being charismatic and charming, he’s just a complete asshole and his personality will clash with everyone because screw anything that isn’t Exy.
working on a bigger socmed project so have some randoms
there's something sooo special to me about writing that gives narrative weight and time to characters who are just brief flashes across the page, especially the ones that die. like how The Spear Cuts Through Water breaks its main narrative to give the people Keema and Jun cross paths with a voice, from the vendor to the messenger they kill to everyone else, just brief flashes of other lives that matter just as much. And how the Aeneid takes the time with the deaths in the final battles to say that this man was a hero, that this one loved his aged father, and so on. it's just the way that these books acknowledge that every single person has their own history and present, compared to so many books today that treat lives so carelessly
I love this trend so much oh my god
Happy birthday jr.
Madly into Andrew’s sense of humour, when he called Neil a Pinocchio — not just because he was a liar, but also because of Neil’s desperate desire to be a real boy.
oh? my? god? this is incredible
I’m not entirely sure where I’m going with this, but I really want to talk about how the upperclassmen and the monsters mirror each other. How each member of the monsters has a counterpart in the upperclassmen, someone with a similar backstory and similar motivations and goals, but with certain crucial differences that serve to highlight all the character development that happens throughout the books.
For instance, there’s Andrew and Renee: both foster children with harsh pasts who murdered and feel no remorse for it, but forced to face the consequences regardless. Andrew is left with a brother who can’t forgive him; Renee has to deal with the knowledge that she’ll never be the good person she wants to be. They have the same fighting style - defensive, reactive, but knowing that the only way to win is to stop your opponent from ever hurting you again; they both play goalie because they’re both best when they stand at everyone else’s backs and prevent anything from getting past them. There’s a reason Andrew charges Renee with protecting her half of the team, and not Dan, the official leader; where Dan is focused on moving forward and charging down the opposition, Renee and Andrew are about making sure everyone under their wing survives.
Then there’s Dan and Kevin, the team leaders (one official, one unofficial), a striker and an offensive dealer/occasional striker sub, #1 and #2. They’ve both been pushed down and shoved aside, marked as second-best or second-rate, and they both refuse to let that stop them. They both fight because they don’t know how to lose, because they can’t know how to lose, and they expect the same from everybody else. Kevin won’t accept anything but the best because that’s what he’s been taught, that’s the only way he knows how to live; Dan knows that anything less than perfection gives everyone else the right to stomp all over you, and is determined to never let that happen again. (And then there’s the fact that they both see Wymack as a father).
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Hey so it's actually batshit crazy that the upperclassmen (other than Renee probably) still think that Andrew is the crazy/fucked up one in the relationship when this was Neil's internal monologue.
Like he's really sat in the back of a COP CAR, covered head to toe in bandages due to the FRESH TORTURE WOUNDS he's currently sporting, and he's just destressing by daydreaming about his father's death THAT HE WITNISSED AND WAS FUCKING LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY ABOUT AFTERWARDS.
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