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Kaz is very much like a goose

Just gonna put this here...

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Catch me in the streets gettin shot in fly red pants

An astounding armor with matching Rotella and saddle plates collectively embossed, chiseled, blued, silvered, and gilt and belonging to Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria.

Made in Milan, ca. 1559, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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Oooooh yos ask me

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💬 — Who’s the most talkative character?

👑 — Any members of royalty in your WIP?

🤕 — Which haracter ends up the most bruised (physically and/or emotionally)?

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🤫 — Which character is keeping secrets…?

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🐶 — Which character is the most loyal?

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🥳 — Are any of your characters a party animal?

🐣— Which character is the youngest?

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🦊 — Which character is the most clever?

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🌩 — Do any of your characters have elemental abilities?

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#ask game #wip #writing #do it #characters

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That’s a deep… dock.

by Penzilla

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Anti wolf heck collar

“The purpose of the collar is to protect the dog wearing it when it has to fight the wolves. The collar base protects the dog’s throat and carotid arteries, while the spikes are intended to deter bites to the neck or even injure wolves trying to do so.”

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Banana Man is a fucking trip

Like aside from the fact that on first glance the song’s an archaeological dig of “LAWL RANDOM XD” humour, circa-“I’d never go back,” the song itself is just mental

Like the whole song is just about bananas and with shit like this being half the song’s video

But then we get to the office and hospital scene, which is a hard left, mind you, but it’s decently logical

And then there’s the unprecedented ending which is just this unrivalled sense of melancholy and is so drastically different from the rest of the song entirely, with these being the lyrics:

And then you realize that the song’s far deeper but all that’s overshadowed by the old 2004’s random xd humour. If you look deeper you can see that the banana is a symbolism for drugs and the song is about turning to drugs to get away with life and I can’t stop thinking about this damn song

#writing #song #lyrics #tally hall #banana man

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She makes a game of scaring him with toasters, like a cucumber and a cat

Adding to the toaster headcanon—Nina knows and makes waffles next to him while he’s sleeping, just so she scares the shit out of him when the toaster goes

YES, she can not get over the fact that dirtyhands is scared of toasters.

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So, I’ve said this once and I’ll say it again

I do not think Kaz and Inej will have kids it would be very impractical for them. They’ve seen and experienced some of the worst things that life has to offer and likely wouldn’t be keen on sharing it with children even in the distant future I doubt they’ll somehow magically decide to run away from Ketterdam because they have work to do at least trying to make a difference in the world. But someone’s got to takeover when they’re gone (particularly Kaz he’ll probably die young.) No, they won’t adopt a kid either because that’s still someone who might be impressionable enough to fuck up and they’re not the most nurturing.

Why wouldn’t it be another kid like them who ended up on the streets of the barrel? Someone without family, confused, traumatized and hanging on to coping mechanisms but deserves a chance to succeed and has some useful qualities. There might be some other’s but the next generation of Ketterdam kids probably won’t be the lovechildren of our favorite Dregs that’s just not how it works.

·         Inej has younger members of her crew that she’s trained and who’ve learn to trust her, respect her and look up to her.

·         Of course she’s more willing to admit that she cares about them, and wants to see children who, like she and the other crows, went through a lot and had to become too mature too quickly.

·         She wants to see at least a few do better than she did and tries to play role model for them.

·         Kaz is feared and idolized by a lot of kids in the barrel. He probably has a lieutenant, someone who can help him run the gang because Inej isn’t around enough.

·         But he needs someone young enough to be moldable, someone loyal to him who doesn’t have ulterior motives that he can mentor to take over eventually and do a lot of grunt work he hates doing.

·         He really doesn’t want his gang to go to shit after he dies, and he has no idea when that’s going to happen, but it could be any day.

·         So he finds what he dubs an ‘apprentice’ (basically just another Wylan and I know you’ll want to say son but it’s really more like student teacher).

·         He’s too old to be a son and too young to be a brother

·         He’s also a great character so let me introduce you, he’s nearly as fucked up as the rest of the dregs! 😊

·         His name is Aleksander Verona, and he’s a Ravkan boy who’s about 14 or 15.

·         He’s smart and practical but he doesn’t really have an edgy dramatic streak and was in the dregs for a couple years before Kaz noticed him.

·         Because none of his strengths show very well, and he seems a bit boring.

·         He’s very average looking, and the way his says things is very straightforward and simple.

·         You wouldn’t notice he was serenading someone for information, and they wouldn’t either until he’d already gotten it.

·         Any insults he says pass right over people’s head until they rethink what they just heard.

·         He just seems like a very plain person (at least for a gang member in the barrel), but that’s mainly because he keeps everything under lock and key.

·         It comes out in short violent bursts when he finally can’t keep it under control anymore.

·         His outbursts get very vicious and very nasty very quickly and he doesn’t even realize what he’s doing until its already done and by then its too late because he’s gotten in deep.

·         It’s exactly that trope of when some guy gets in a fight and loses control and literally can’t stop himself because he’s upset about a chick or something, but this happens to Aleks every single time he starts to get frustrated, scared, worried etc.

·         He’s not even that mad at the situation or whatever person he lashes out at, but he gets starts spiraling.

·         That’s his weakness, and how Kaz noticed him.

·         He’d been put on a crew for some job or other that ended up with a brawl and it was him, Aleks and a couple others.

·         Aleks seemed competent but not like anything special, not until it started to seem like they might lose the fight.

·         Then he just tipped over some invisible edge, and the signs were clear.

·         His eyes got hazy, breathing turned to ragged pants and his movements had a precision and force that seemed manipulated by an invisible hand.

·         It was spectacular, some little scrap managed to salvage the fight entirely by himself.

·         And Kaz liked that, he liked it very much.

·         Of course, he didn’t just tell Aleks that he kept an eye on him for awhile and he wasn’t just good in a fight, he was calm and collected (alot of the time), intelligent, and most of all loyal.

·         Almost like a dog.

·         He was perfectly trainable and so Kaz decided to take him under his black, feathery wing.

·         It wasn’t an official thing.

·         It started with him sending Aleks on more exclusive jobs and personal errands until eventually he was teaching him how to do the crow club accounts.

·         Aleks does a lot of the things that Kaz hates doing himself which usually involves running around the city and checking in on things constantly.

·         He’s a very quick study for most of the things Kaz teaches him and even if Kaz isn’t willing to admit it he’s impressed.

·         Aleks is usually at Kaz’s heels and for the manner in which his outbursts occur he starts getting called “Dirtyhands’s Guard Dog”

·         And less commonly, “Prince of the Barrel”, usually to piss off Kaz because he’s not even old enough to have a 15-year-old kid.

·         It’s about 12 years post ck so Kaz would be 29-30

·         Aleks and Kaz lowkey bond over being fucked up messes and it’s really not good because Kaz doesn’t know how to help him at all.

·         All he does is tell him how to not let his issues interfere with work.

·         Especially after Aleks lashed out at someone during a meeting, no physical violence just said some awful things and got that same cloudy look in his eye.

·         But when he lashes out with words it can be just as disastrous.

·         Let’s talk about why Aleks is fucked up, and more of his general history.

·         He’s actually only half Ravkan.

·         He was born in Ketterdam though.

·         His mother had him when she was very young and didn’t even know who his father was but he’s a mutt, probably a little Kerch or Shu, maybe some Kaelish who knows.

·         She died when he was about 5, which would have been two years after ck when the gang wars in the barrel were really starting to rack up carnage. (this is what Kaz had to fight through)

·         He doesn’t have a lot of memories about her but one very vivid one he has is of walking east stave with her and seeing a crow land in front of them.

·         He asked her what it was, and she told but she’d used the Ravkan word, ‘verona’

·         You see it? Yes he changed his last name to the only Ravkan word he knew.

·         He’s actually very disconnected from his Ravkan heritage and isn’t super happy about that.

·         But back to his mother.

·         She’d lived in the barrel for a few years but she got caught in the crossfire and Aleks was left on his own.

·         He saw some really horrible things growing up in Ketterdam around that time.

·         Particularly his mother’s body chock-full of bullet holes and gruesome brawls in the middle of the street.

·         He saw shootouts and watched gangs take people hostage when the stadwatch threatened to intervene.

·         He saw some of the corpses gangs left for each other to ‘send a message’

·         He bounced around orphanages and temporary homes but by the time he was 9 or 10 he was out on the streets

·         And he ended up right back in the barrel.

·         He’d been beaten bloody and had his head held in the canal until he nearly drowned, had his money and food and dignity stolen.

·         He nearly died several times and it was only when he learned how to fight for himself, he started to do a bit better.

·         He always sees himself as a useless child, watching the chaos and being unable to do anything when his mother or anyone was being attacked.

·         Whenever his eyes start to get hazy, he’s flashing back to those moments and he really believes he’s that he’s still a helpless child.

·         Even when he’s bloodied and bruised and panting like a rabid dog.

·         And that’s what he is truly, a rabid dog who’s nearly impossible to keep a leash on.

·         He tries as hard as he possibly can to rein himself in, but he’s never 100 percent contained.

·         There was one particular outburst, when he was sparring with Kaz that freaked both of them out.

·         Kaz had told him to go as hard as he possibly could and that might have been his own fault because Aleks nearly beat him to death (he was about 17 at this point)

·         By the end of it he was covered in blood and his knuckles were bruised so bad he couldn’t even feel them, in fact he couldn’t feel anything.

·         As soon as he became aware, he’d simply dropped to the ground.

·         Kaz had seemed more worried about the deranged, vacant look in his eye than the fact he just got his ass kicked because that’s absolutely the look of a flashback.

·         Something Kaz would know all too well.

·         But they don’t talk about it, because he knows better than anyone that it can’t be fixed.

·         Even if you tried to tell yourself beforehand that it wasn’t real when it happened it was the only real thing.

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So @bitchasscrows and I had weirdly similar oc ideas and we started talking and came up with an ass ton of hc. There’s even more than this its like really bad. But I hope you guys like this! She wrote some of her own and you should them up soon, I urge you to read them and ask either or both of us for any more hc!

Its also late and I’m tired so sorry if this sucks or there’s any errors but I wanted to share and I’m too lazy to wait till tomorrow.

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Hnng

Don’t like this

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*slams fists on table*

Y e s

I’m not excited for the SoC show because you know they’re going to age up the characters so they can sexualize them and I’m not for it

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IM NOT PLANNING ON IT I WILL MOCK HIM SO HELP ME

I just got one of my friends into six of crows and by god I don’t know what I’ve done he’s considering getting a haircut like Kaz

OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT LET HIM!!!

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cursed interaction

kaz: [angsting about breaking his leg when he fell off the roof] jesper: well at least you have bones to break, kaz

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White card:

Threatening a small child

Daddy issues

Pigeons

Getting thrown into Hellgate

I Need Suggestions

I’ve summoned forth my legion of dorks and we’re going to be adding to our SOC cards against humanity deck. (no grisha tho they haven’t read it) I’ll post a list of the ones we already have.

white cards:

crows?

Kaz’s cane

Inej’s Knives

Wylan’s satchel

Jesper’s revolvers

Nina’s cleavage 

The Bathroom Scene

Wylan’s daddy issues

Ketterdam’s questionable stench

30 million kruge

capitalism

forced prostitution 

Jesper’s unrequited love for Kaz

waffles

Trousers

Being a 17 year old virgin

blood

Kaz’s awful haircut

Thirsty million kruge

Scheming face

black cards:

What’s in Wylan’s satchel?

Why can’t Kaz take off his gloves?

Why did Jordie invest all his money?

What did Nina put in her cleavage?

Kaz has a secret passion for___.

Wesper get kinky with___.

Kaz killed someone with___.

What makes Wylan blush profusely?

If ur too awkward u can send suggestions via anon.

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Hamburger helper and lime

A disaster, just like me

Perfect

Your fae scent is now the last food you ate plus whatever soap is in your bathroom. Mine is chicken nuggets and grapefruit- I’m sure all those fae males are just drunk off my amazing chicken grapefruit smell… EDIT: @spaceshipkat asked me to make this a post so I’m updating, the last food I ate was a rolo so my fae smell is chocolate caramel and grapefruit!

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As a male victim of domestic abuse

Yes, I care

Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

Of fucking course

What sick bastard doesn’t

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Cheat Sheet for Writing Emotion

Anger:

Grinding teeth

Narrowing eyes

Yelling

A burning feeling in the chest

Heavy breathing

Unjustified or justified accusations towards other characters

Jerky movements

Glaring

Violence

Stomping

Face reddening

Snapping at people

Sadness:

Lack of motivation

Messy appearance

Quiet

Slow movements

Crying

Inability to sleep

Frowning

Red eyes

Isolating oneself

Fatigue

Not concentrating

Love:

Thinking about someone

Good communication

Not forcing a friend/lover into something

Smiling randomly

Making eye contact with loved one

Nervous behaviors (fiddling hands, biting lip)

Cuddling

Flirting

Inside jokes

Holding hands

Kissing

Offering gifts

Fluttering stomach

Racing heart

Losing track of time while with loved one

Daydreaming

Denial:

Disagreement with someone

Shaking head frantically

Backing away

Putting hand on one’s chest

Rapid speaking

Rationalization or justifying something

Dismissing someone or something

Embarrassment:

Blushing

Avoiding eye contact

Grimacing

Looking down

Changing the conversation

Rubbing back of neck

Shoulders slumping

A weak voice

Tightening chest

Panicked thoughts

Running away

Getting quiet

Concentrating on something else

Happiness

Smiling

Laughing

Squealing

Bouncing on toes

Warmth in chest

Fast pulse

A sense of contentment

Relaxed posture

Quick movements

Breathlessness

Desire to help

Fear:

Face going pale

Panicked thoughts

Jerky movements

Mind racing for a solution

Running

Freezing

Fighting

Fawning (doing what people tell you to do)

Side note: flight, fight, freeze, and fawn are all reactions to adrenaline. Aka the fight or flight response

Thinking of survival

Rapid breathing

A panicked feeling

Guilt:

Feeling horrible about oneself

Lying

Grimacing

Trying to redeem themselves

Asking for forgiveness

Anxious thoughts