Sunsets Are Proof That Endings Can Be Beutiful

Sunsets are proof that endings can be beutiful

I know it's hard to let go, especially when you are attached to something. But there's always more to come. Every end is a new beginning. Every day is a new possibility. Endings can be beautiful too, for they not only mark the end of something good but also the start of something better.

Thinking about Kaz Brekker, who for all his harshness and violent reputation seems to make people's lives better wherever he goes. Inej would still be at the Menagerie if she'd still be alive at all. Jesper would have fallen in with a worse gang and gambled away everything he had. Wylan would have been eaten alive by the Barrel. Nina would still be trying to get Matthias out, probably eventually being killed in a pleasure house. Matthias would still be in prison and would have probably eventually been killed as well. This is not even to mention the other minor characters he seems to help in his own subtle way.

Part of the cruelty of Peka Rollins scam was giving the brothers the illusion of a home. But Kaz made the Slate one of the most hospitable places in the Barrel. A warm place where people can come and rest. Kaz was swindled by being tricked into investing in a fake business, but the Crow Club is a legitimate business that you could make some coin on (if you're not foolish enough to try and earn it by gambling there).

Not to mention if the Ice Court heist didn't happen then Kuwei would still be in the hands of the Fjerdans and there would have possibly been mass genocide.

Kaz has killed and hurt some, but many people owe their lives to Kaz Brekker

if sophie and fitz lose the vital platonic connection/relationship they have i am GOING TO SUE GOD

keefe: bad news- I locked the keys in the building

keefe : good news- we didn’t have to wait for a locksmith

keefe : bad news- Fitz finds it very disturbing that i know how to pick locks, and tried to unlock my tragic backstory. i was too embarrassed to tell him i learned because i figured that was the kind of skill to pick up cute girls

keefe : good news- a cute girl saw me do it

keefe : bad news- it was Sophie, and since she’s already seen me fall out of several trees, cry because i saw a fawn that was too small, and knows i can ride a unicycle, she’ll never think i’m cool no matter what i do. it’s too late. she knows

Fitz: *concerned noises*

cassius ripping keefe’s art that he worked really hard on to shreds because he didn’t study for an agriculture test (even though he did)?

nonono, we don’t do that here. 

we do:

-elwin hanging up almost - if not all - of the artwork/sketches keefe leaves out across splendor plains. hand poses etched into a napkin taped onto the wall, etc. 

-we do keefe getting embarrassed because “elwin, those are just bad doodles, don’t hang them up for everyone to see!” and elwin cheerfully going “they’re certainly better than my attempts at drawing stinky the stegosaurus! of course they deserve to be hung up!” 

-we do keefe spending a whole day holed up in his room painting some incredibly elaborate piece and wrapping it up in dinosaur paper as a gift for elwin

-we do elwin’s brain basically breaking at the quality and the gravity of the gesture and crying a lot of happy tears and lots and lots of hugs

-we do elwin still hanging up keefe’s “bad” doodles, but framing the paintings keefe gives him and putting them in spots where he sees them All The Time

basically: we do dadwin. dadwin for the win.

Are we ready to have the conversation about how Nico's fatal flaw doesn't make any sense?