My Ranking Of The Grishaverse Ships:

my ranking of the grishaverse ships:

(top being my favorite, bottom being my least favorite)

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wesper

helnik

zoyalai

genya and david

kanej

malina

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kanej fans, please don’t come after me. i feel really bad putting it that low, but it just wasn’t as interesting for me as the other ones. i’m not saying i don’t like the ship, because i really do love kaz and inej together. i just like the others ones better

i could have explained why i put all of them where i put them, but… words :/

tell me if i missed any important ones

Wesper Headcanons, Because I Just Think They're Neat

Tw mild mentions of violence, allusions to trauma, brief allusion to sex but it's blink-and-you-miss-it

Jesper- local university dropout- is constantly surprising Wylan with obscure facts and a surprising amount of knowledge on topics Wylan himself had no idea about

Wylan constantly complains about the Merchant Council’s latest lunacies and Jesper listens in eagerly and gleefully joins him in making fun of his fellow merchers

Jesper left to Novyi Zem a little while after Rule of Wolves to learn to really harness his powers. He learns from the other Zowa and the trip helps strengthen his relationship with his Da. He and Wylan send letters back and forth (Marya read them to Wylan). Sometimes Wylan would take a boat out to Novyi Zem and Jesper would run across the harbor and kiss him like they were the main leads at the end of a movie or something. They spend a few days together at a time, with Jesper taking him sightseeing or showing him around his family farm. Jesper moves back to Ketterdam after about half a year and it takes them both a little bit to get used to living together again, but after that they’ve never been better

Speaking of Marya, her recovery takes a long time, and it looked pretty bleak at first. It was really hard on Wylan, who was still struggling not to blame himself, but Jesper helped them both through the whole thing. Marya also slowly learned to recognise Jesper and when I tell you that she adores this kid. She sees him as a second son and pretty soon there are almost as many paintings of Jesper hanging up as there are of Wylan. Marya is always looking up from her easel and chiding Jesper to stop fidgeting long enough for her to finish the portrait. Jesper grins sheepishly while failing miserably

They still bicker and banter a lot, but now it’s just used as means to pass the time and as foreplay

A demo man with a ridiculous amount of wealth and a little bit of battle prowess, and a now-experienced materialnik with a lot of battle prowess? Dregs weaponry has never been deadlier

Jesper occasionally finds that he cannot run from his trauma- from his mother’s death and his years of fear of his Grisha heritage and years living in the Barrel that manifest in terrible nightmares and the occasional reckless decision-making. Wylan instinctively wants to comfort people even if he doesn’t know how to, and tends to look at problems through the lens of the scientific method to figure out a logical solution. He patches Jesper up after he does something stupid and try to get him to open up, piecing together if he needs to get rid of anything that somehow triggered the trauma, and what coping mechanisms would be a lot healthier. He can’t always help, as dealing with trauma is never easy, but it means a lot to Jesper that Wylan’s willing to go out of his way to try. Sometimes something will suddenly remind Jesper of his mom and it’ll hurt, but reminiscing aloud on how she taught him to shoot or how and him used to steal his Da’s slippers while he was asleep will dull the ache, just a little bit. Sometimes he’s feeling stormy and off-kilter for some inexplicable reason, but Wylan just sitting next to him and handing him a mug of coffee will help him feel calmer

They attend a lot of plays and discuss them at length on the way home

Jesper waxes poetic about Wylan’s looks but Wylan is the exact same. He’ll zone off thinking about Jesper’s ridiculously kissable lips and gorgeous dark curls and stormy grey eyes. He is absolutely in love with his cocky grin and easy smile and wonderful laugh. Jesper compares Wylan to a fairytale prince in his mind, but Wylan compares Jesper to a dashing adventurer, a charming rogue

The two of them criticize the other’s poor decisions but never the other as a whole. One of them will get frustrated and call themselves stupid and the other will go “You’re not stupid, your decision-making was stupid. There’s a difference.” or “You made a mistake. The important thing now is that you fix it.”

Wylan flinches sometimes when the door slams too loudly or when someone yells out just a little too sharply. Jesper notices this and does his best to accommodate it. It gets better with time

They hold onto each other instinctively sometimes when they’re in danger, whether that be a quick hand hold or putting themselves between a potential threat and their boyfriend

Wylan gets jealous easily. Jesper finds this cute, and teases him endlessly

Wylan rises early because of his job on the Merchant Council while Jesper is more of a late sleeper. Jesper sometimes wakes to the sound of his boyfriend cursing as he puts on his clothes because he’s late for a Council meeting and laughs hysterically

They’re both excellent at schmoozing people- Wylan with his polite mercher manners and Jesper with his easy charm and years of experience smoothing over tensions and maintaining Kaz’s reputation

A lot of Wylan’s music compositions are inspired by Jesper. Jesper loves their prominent beats and chaotic, high-energy melodies

Colm visits them often “to make sure Jesper’s staying out of trouble.” That, and he misses his son. Jesper and spends his visits just shooting the breeze while they laze around drinking tea or spending time in the garden. Colm sometimes tells stories of Jesper when he was younger, and Jesper is embarrassed but Wylan finds the mental image of young Jesper toddling around with a fistful of sunflowers or trying and failing to ride a horse infinitely charming

They spend many evenings with Marya playing piano and Jesper laughing loudly before roping Wylan into a dance

Jesper worries sometimes that mercher life might start to get too monotonous for him but then Kaz digs a tunnel to his and Wylan’s house and invites him on heists sometimes, and Inej drops by with tales of her adventures, and Nina shows up out of nowhere to tell him she’s the Queen of Fjerda now and they’re both invited to her wedding, and he visits Novyi Zem more now that he’s not hiding anything from his dad, and the garden has plenty of set-up targets to shoot at. And he and Wylan are always testing his inventions or going abroad for business or calculating odds in their business ventures or just spending time together so he’s like Oh. Oh, I’m never going to get tired of this.

Kaz is sick and tired of dealing with Jesper and Wylan’s lovestruck antics, especially while Inej is off at sea

Wylan makes an effort to learn Zemeni customs. It goes without saying that Jesper loves this

“Merchling” never fades from Jesper’s vocabulary, but it’ now accompanied by “love” and “sunshine” and “angel” and “Wy” and “sweet boy” and “darling,” as well as a million Zemeni terms of endearment. Wylan uses “Jes” and “sweetheart” and “darling,”as well as a couple of Zemeni terms of endearment here and there

Wylan and Jesper are equal business partners but a lot of merchers see them as a mercher and his trophy husband. Wylan is rightfully enraged but Jesper uses that misconception to mess with them and also to his advantage, so he and Wylan have the upper hand in the dealings without the mercher noticing. It doesn’t bother him the way it once would have because why would it, when Wylan is constantly reminding him how amazing he is, and he’s got plenty of friends to back up the case? He’s still delighted when Wylan exacts a little petty revenge though. Eventually the merchers catch on. Jesper is hated just as much as Wylan is

They both get the idea to propose around the same time. Jesper painstakingly crafts a ring with his Grisha abilities, engraving the notes to a refrain of the Kerch wedding march into the gold. Wylan orders an expensive, custom-made ring with pearls embedded into the gold, vaguely resembling Jesper’s revolvers. One of them attempts to propose to the other first with a shaky rendition of the speech they’ve been practicing for weeks now, but the other interrupts them and pulls out their own ring. The two squabble over who gets to propose to the other first before Wylan gets the genius idea that they just propose at the same time. After they’re married, Wylan spends a lot of time brushing his thumb over the notes engraved on the ring and smiling to himself, while Jesper wears the ring on a necklace because he wants to keep it close to his heart. Also, Kaz is Jesper’s best man

Been burnt too many times (has their favorite shows cancelled by netflix)

top ten moments before complete and utter disaster

“I’m writing,” I say as I pace around my room listening to the same song for the 19th time, daydreaming about the general *vibe* of my story.

Kaz and Inej