Follow Your Passion: A Seamless Tumblr Journey
Okay so basically I have two ways to approach this.
On that is just me being a petty sucker for love and the other a little more… scientific.
So what if we had them going all the way to ‚properly‘ - which I just assume is kissing and/or sex.
For one Kaz shows that he is starting to work on his trauma by holding hands with Inej at the end of CK.
And Inej with her backstory at the menagerie it‘s like: Bruh, don‘t get me started on how she must feel about sex!
So they both just start to tackle their individual problems slowly, which is absolutely fine (and possibly leaves room for a third book).
But they are just so darn hecking cute together I want them too smooch for pete's sake!
(As I said I just am sucker for love in a well developed story)
And so, the let us say ‚scientific‘ reason I think they are ‚only‘ holding hands at the end of CK (appart from a possible third book) isn‘t Kaz character but Inej.
Kaz is shown in his flashback scenes that he actually tried before to live without the gloves (with that other girl, sorry I forgot her name, that he was collecting fight bets with). He just choose not to, because working through his trauma was getting in the way of business and that was simply more important to him and his big revenge scheme. So I think if Leigh had just started to ‚rehabilitate‘ Kaz just a little earlier in the books she could have comfortably made him confident enough to go out ‚properly‘ with Inej by the end.
And that is why I think It‘s actually about her and her past as prostitute.
Idk how to explain this but at least to me, Inej might be trying to work through her history but even close to the end she is still terrified by the menagerie.
She is not like Kaz, who sort of choose to just go along with his trauma, she is still somewhat in it‘s thrall.
So that will just take a lot more time to unravel and she is only just beginning with it.
Sure she stuck her middle finger into Tante Heleens face but isn‘t that the exact reason why she wants to be a pirate and fight? To work her way through the trauma?
To become stronger? Strong enough she can leave the nightmares of the menagerie behind once and for all?
So in conclusion
*Clears throat after typing a lot of probably unnecessary explanation that got kinda of topic at the end*
Leaving aside my petty desires and also I my imminent need a Wesper/Kanej double date because fu** you, that is my jam!
*nervous sweating*
I don‘t think it would have been realistic for Inej to make that step, even at the end of CK.
Which is just a too long explanation of: I want it, even though it definitely doesn‘t fit into the novel!!
So I am glad Leigh didn‘t actually let them get together ‚properly‘ - and here come my big big hope - yet.
(Even though it would have been just so cute *silent sobbing*)
Also @arin-saintsforsakencity - no problemo ;)
Oh man so a couple days ago I met a high school teacher who had read Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom and she had the coldest fucking take I’ve ever heard despite being otherwise a very smart, sensitive person. I knew she had read them and I was so excited to talk about my close readings of metaphor and subversion/reinforcement of racial tropes and all the other stuff I’ve never quite managed to type up. So I asked her what she thought. And she said.
She said that she wished Kaz and Inej had been able to “properly” get together at the end of CK and I almost choked on my fucking orange soda. I’ve never been so let down by a literary opinion in my entire life.
I managed to argue with her a little but her heart wasn’t as in it as mine was. I’m so disappointed. So yeah if you hold this same bad opinion, this is an open invitation to hash it out with me.