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#that said inej is just literally :knife emoji: @ pekka rollins
wraithqveen-archive · 3 years
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I was looking through SoC/CK to find every single bit in which kaz and inej react or think to react violently to the other being in danger (for science!). to no one’s surprise, kaz has the most I’ll murder this person violently reactions to her being threatened or hurt, with inej having one where we can see that’s how her thoughts and the others being more about her acting (or starting to) than thinking of it. not counting when they’re just fighting and there doesn’t seem to be an emotional reaction, it’s interesting that when it’s related to kaz in two out of three times she’s at her most quick to resort to violence/most vicious when it comes to pekka rollins. considering all that, the most notable moments she has of being ready to kill for kaz are
1. when he goes take the leadership of the dregs from haskell 
Inej was moving before she thought of it. She couldn’t just watch him die, she wouldn’t. They had him down now, heavy boots kicking and stomping at his body. Her knives were in her hands. She’d kill them all. She’d pile the bodies to the rafters for the stadwatch to find.
2. before he threatens rollins’ son, because the moment he suggest he’ll fight kaz she’s already readying her knives 
“I can admit I didn’t show you the proper respect, lad, but now you’ve got it. Congratulations. You’re worth the time it’s going to take me to beat you to death with that stick of yours.”
Inej drew her knives. “No, no, little girl,” Rollins said warningly. “This is between me and this skivstain upstart.”
3. when she literally cuts up rollins’ chest and leaves the implicit threat she will cut his heart out if he goes back to ketterdam.
“You can scream now,” she crooned. She peeled back the fabric of his nightshirt, and then her knife was digging into his chest. He screamed around the gag, trying to buck her off.
“Careful now,” she said. “You wouldn’t want me to slip.”
Pekka forced himself to still. He realized how long it had been since he’d felt real pain. No one had dared lift a hand against him in years.
“Better.”
She sat back slightly as if to review her work. Panting, Pekka peered down but could see nothing. A wave of nausea rolled through him.
“This was the first cut, Rollins. If you ever think about coming back to Ketterdam, we’ll meet again so I can make the second.”
with the last one winning for most vicious ALTHOUGH I think the first one is the most emotional
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