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The Crows
The Crows as a group
- Anti-Hero Team: They're criminals, after all, and Kaz sometimes even enters Villain Protagonist territory. However, we root for them because they're True Companions who are trying to get by in a Crapsack World, and their opponents are usually Asshole Victims who are far worse than they are. While the Crows at least have some morals and standards, their enemies often have zero morals and are willing to do absolutely anything to achieve personal gain, even hurt children. This gets lampshaded by the Crows themselves.
- Criminal Found Family: After all the suffering they endure together, it becomes obvious that they're working together not just out of simple professionalism, but they've grown to genuinely care about one another and consider each other family.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Each of the Crows has a Freudian Excuse for becoming a criminal. Almost all of them have a tragic backstory and experienced some level of serious trauma, forcing them to become criminals or do questionable things in order to survive the world or situation they've been forced into.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: Virtually every conversation they have turns into them throwing snarky comments back and forth.
Kaz Brekker
Kaz Brekker Rietveld
"Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever."
Played by: Freddy Carter
Kaz: I'm a businessman. No more, no less.
Inej: You're a thief, Kaz.
Kaz: Isn't that what I just said?
Kaz is the infamous lieutenant, turned leader, of the Dregs, who rules over the Barrel neighborhood in Ketterdam.
- Always Save the Girl: Kaz's tendencies towards this with his second, Inej, are clear indications that she's not just an "investment" to him like he claims she is. In fact, Inej getting hurt proves to be a Berserk Button of his.
- Amazon Chaser: While Kaz prefers to see romance as a weakness, the two girls he ever developed romantic feelings for were tough as nails and unafraid of a nasty fight. He mentions in his narrative having his first crush at 14 to a girl named Imogen, who was also a gang member and would readily fight the boys. In the series, we see him have his First Love with Inej, who's a solid Action Girl and always ready for a fight.
- Animal Motif: The Crow.
- Kaz calls his crew the Crows, he carries a walking stick with a crow's head handle, and one of his businesses in the Barrel is called the Crow Club. He later reveals that this is because crows are birds that remember both those who have wronged them and those who were kind to them.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: His ingeniosity emerges from his buttheaded nature: if he sees someone perform a trick, he will not stop until he has broken it down and learned to do it even better.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Kaz wears neat, tailored suits, in an effort to look like the businessmen he scams, dupes, and steals from.
- Best Served Cold: He won't be satisfied by simply killing Pekka Rollins, oh no. He wants to utterly tear him apart "brick by brick" until he's been completely destroyed, reduced to nothing, and knows it was Kaz who ruined him.
- Cane Fu: Kaz generally uses the beak of his cane to strike at specific body parts of his enemies. He also mentions having his canes custom-designed with the specific purpose of being strong enough to break bones should a situation get nasty and serve as a combat advantage to him.
- Can't Have Sex, Ever: Due to his extreme aversion to skin-to-skin contact, Kaz has to physically force himself not to flinch when Inej simply touches his cheek.
- Cannot Spit It Out: More like will not spit it out. He refuses to admit he has feelings for Inej out of fear of emotional attachment, always referring to his kinder actions towards her as "protecting an investment". It's been damaging for their relationship, as Inej genuinely believes he doesn't care for her for most of the story; even when others point out that doesn't seem to be the actual case given Kaz's reactions to her being in danger clearly indicate a deeper attachment.
- Character Development: He grows more comfortable with admitting and showing his feelings for Inej over the duology. To the point he buys her a ship, finds her parents, and holds her hand without his gloves. In general, Kaz starts to be more patient and appreciative of his crewmates, being less hard and critical with them.
- Character Tic: Whenever Kaz comes up with an insane solution to a problem, he stares at nothing with a faraway look in his eyes. Inej and Jesper dub it the "scheming face," which the others take to calling as well; Wylan even briefly emulates it.
- The Chessmaster: He's almost always one step ahead of everyone simply by having several contingency plans on hand in case something goes wrong. Just when someone thinks they've finally outmatched him, Kaz proves them wrong and that he's the one in control.
- Classy Cane: Had one custom-made after breaking his leg and mentions off-hand how expensive they actually are to ensure a high-quality design.
- Combat Pragmatist: Kaz doesn't give a damn about a fair fight, not to mention he's already at a perpetual disadvantage due to his limp. So he'll use any brutal trick to swing the odds in his favor.
- Conspicuous Gloves: Kaz sports a pair of black gloves that he never takes off in public, which leads to much speculation about what he might be hiding under them (ranging from injuries to demonic talons). He actually wears them due to trauma from handling his brother's dead body, leaving him unable to bear touching skin again.
- Crazy-Prepared: Kaz is ready for nearly every kind of situation; with a collection of disguises, safe houses, documents, finances, connections, and other necessities of every sort at his disposal. In one example, Jesper explains to Wylan that he carved out a hole in a theater so he can access costumes and stash them away for safekeeping should they ever need them. This isn't the extent, either; Jesper's worried when their ship to Fjerda is seemingly blown up at the docks, only for Kaz to tell him it was just a decoy.Jesper: You knew?
Kaz: No, I took precautions. It's what I do, Jesper. - Cruel Mercy: His stated reason for pulling a particularly cruel Batman Gambit on Pekka Rollins without actually hurting anyone.Inej: You showed mercy, Kaz. You were the better man.Kaz: Inej, I could only kill Pekka's son once. He can imagine his death a thousand times.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's definitely got a tongue as sharp as his mind.
- The Determinator: As stated, Kaz is extremely stubborn. He readily tells Inej in Crooked Kingdom that if he had to crawl in order to rescue her from her kidnapping, he would have.
- Disabled Badass/Evil Cripple: And how! Despite suffering from osteonecrosis, limping, and needing a cane (as well as dealing with severe PTSD and resulting touch aversion), Kaz has clawed his way up the Dregs' chain of command to become one of the most dreaded figures in all of Ketterdam.
- The Dreaded: A reputation he works hard to achieve and maintain.
- Everyone Has Standards: Kaz is... not a great person, but even he has standards.
- He's appalled at the sheer lack of love that Jan Van Eck has for Wylan. In the first book, he and Wylan have a wager; Kaz bets that Jan will be swayed if he thinks his son could die while Wylan bets his father would let him die if it meant personal gain. Kaz is genuinely surprised (and disgusted) when he loses — but Wylan isn't.
- Also well exemplified at the beginning of the second book. When the clerk he was threatening for information tries to weasel his way out by revealing he's blackmailing one of the Menagerie's prostitutes for sex (and could extend the favor to him), which would lead to the girl's death if Tante Heleen found out. Kaz specifically points out the man's deeds are endangering the girl and, after this, lets him fall to his death.
- Later, when the five-year-old daughter of the lawyer they're robbing discovers him in the middle of the night, he scares her into keeping quiet by pretending to be the boogieman. When Wylan criticizes him for terrifying the girl, he retorts that they needed to ensure she didn't blow their cover; hence, their options were to either scare her into keeping quiet or kill her and stage an accidental death scene. In general, he's never shown harming children (even if he often likes to pretend he will as part of a threat).
- While Kaz is willing to profit from illegal and morally questionable activities, he refuses to do business in slave trade, prostitution, and drug dealing. This gets brought up several characters, including Kaz himself.
- Evil Genius: Of the precociously mature type.
- Farm Boy: What Kaz Rietveld once was.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He was once a naive Farm Boy who was perfectly innocent of the world. But, after a trip to Ketterdam, a traumatic loss, and a horrifying ordeal - that trusting youth was replaced by the Bastard of the Barrel who worked his way into becoming a terrifying crime lord in his mere teens.
- Gang Banger: How Kaz started out, and what most of his gang seems to consist of.
- Genius Cripple: Of the street smart, rather than academic, variety.
- Handicapped Badass: Kaz suffers chronic pain in his right leg, has a limp, and relies on a cane. It's the result of falling off a building that resulted in a broken leg that didn't heal right, but Leigh Bardugo links it to her own condition of osteonecrosis (which can be caused by injury).
- Harmful to Minors: While you'd be hard-pressed to find a character in Six of Crows to whom this doesn't apply, Kaz is a special case. After being conned out of their money by Pekka Rollins, he and his big brother Jordie ended up on the streets during an epidemic. Kaz woke up one day to find he'd been dumped in a watery mass grave, with Jordie's bloated corpse right beside him. Worse still, he had to use the corpse as a floater to swim back to shore. He emerged from the sea as Dirtyhands.
- Hates Being Touched: Human contact makes Kaz physically sick, to the point where he literally faints when he's forced to enter a cramped prison wagon. The feeling of touching another person induces panic, nausea, and flashbacks to when he was mistaken for a corpse during an epidemic and he was dumped into the ocean during disposal of dead bodies; being forced to use his brother's decomposing body to swim back to Ketterdam.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Despite being the Dregs' title leader, Per Haskell usually spends his days drinking and building model boats. In the meantime, Kaz is the one who did the work into making the Dregs the criminal force they're recognized as.
- It Works Better with Bullets: When Haskell draws a gun on him, Kaz swats it away, then gives it back once the misunderstanding is cleared up. Then he casually hands over a couple of bullets after their conversation is over; Haskell laughs at realizing he'd swiped them from his gun before returning it.
- Long-Distance Relationship: His relationship with Inej seems to be going this way at the end of the books. Inej is ready to go out hunting slavers while he stays to wrestle Ketterdam under control. But, after he proves he's willing to better himself and holds hands with her for the first time, she says she's "not done with Ketterdam" yet and promises to come back to visit him.
- Love Epiphany: He slowly realizes the extent of his feelings for Inej over the course of the story, in particular, whenever she's in danger and how the idea of a future with her is something he may actually want.
- Made of Iron:
- He lost his parents to a horrifying accident, lost his brother in another traumatic manner, was put on a funeral barge after being mistaken for a street corpse, forced to use his brother's decomposing body as a raft to survive, and also fell off a building that resulted in life-long chronic pain in his leg (due to it improperly healing).
- In Crooked Kingdom he continues this by surviving a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from his former gang.
- The Man Behind the Man: Per Haskell may be the face of the Dregs, but everyone knows it's Kaz Brekker who keeps things running.
- A Man Is Always Eager: Strongly and tragically subverted. It takes great effort for Kaz to allow Inej to simply touch his face. Towards the end of the first book, Kaz asks Inej to stay in Ketterdam with him. She turns him down because his phobia won't allow for true intimacy (physical or emotional) and, therefore, she sees no point in a relationship.Kaz: I want you to stay. I want you to... I want you.Inej: You want me. And how will you have me, Kaz? How will you have me? Fully clothed, gloves on, your head turned away so our lips can never touch? I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: So many. Kaz Brekker and its harsh sonorities could've been enough, but no. To date, he is also nicknamed Dirtyhands and Bastard of the Barrel.
- Nominal Hero: Slides between this and the villain protagonist, at least in the first book. His motives are, after all, purely financial (although part of a larger scheme of revenge against Pekka Rollins.) By the start of the second book, he looks to be sliding into Unscrupulous Hero territory.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Inej knows something's up when fully in control, gravel-voiced, vicious, and ice-cold bastard Kaz actually faints in the middle of the prisoner cart.
- Official Couple: He and Inej get their Relationship Upgrade in literally the last few pages of Crooked Kingdom.
- Pet the Dog: For all his terrible deeds, he does care about the other Crows, even if he won't admit it. On rare occasions, he'll actually let them know he does appreciate them.
- Literally, too: Kaz takes a moment to pet and play with a pair of dogs that are supposed to be guarding the house he and Wylan are breaking into. As opposed to harming the dogs, he instead chooses to learn a command whistle to get them to obey him upon breaking into the home.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Before his Character Development, most of Kaz's nicer actions are because he's aiming for an angle. note
- Red Baron: "Dirtyhands" and "The Bastard of The Barrel."
- Red Right Hand: Two of these, actually. He walks with a weighted "fabrikated" cane because of a poorly set broken leg that hurts worse depending on the weather, and wears gloves due to a traumatic aversion to skin contact.
- Revenge Reveal Story: He tells Pekka why he hates him and wants revenge. He explains that he came to Ketterdam with a brother, a brother that is now dead, and that he blames Pekka.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Once he had the ability, he took bloody revenge on everyone involved in Pekka Rollins' plot to con him and Jordie out of their savings. The only one he talks about at length is Filip, whom he tortured for two days before leaving him to die in an alley, with the key to a wind-up dog shoved down his throat.
- Satisfied Street Rat: On his path to becoming Dirtyhands.
- Single-Target Sexuality: For Inej. While he's had innocent crushes as a child (that he was able to "best"), Inej is the only person with whom he's ever developed a serious romantic connection. When he realizes she's the one person he can't get over, he ends up giving what is essentially a Love Confession and asks her to stay with him. In Crooked Kingdom, he gifts her the ship and crew she always wanted so she can live out her dream of hunting down slavers; only asking in exchange that she come back to visit him. In later books, taking place months later when Inej has since started sailing the world to hunt slavers, it's shown that Inej is still a soft spot for Kaz and his feelings for her haven't wavered.
- The Stoic: He takes the utmost effort to always maintain a straight poker face.
- Tranquil Fury: Calmly rips out a man's eye with his own fingers and drowns him after said man nearly kills Inej and boasts about it. Even Jesper is stunned by Kaz's unusually "crazy" reaction.
- Trauma Button: Any contact with anyone else's skin - or even the sight of a lot of bare skin - triggers Kaz into remembering when he used his brother's decomposing body as a float to avoid drowning or what it was like being under a massive pile of dead bodies.
- Troubled, but Cute: He holds this sort of appeal for the girls of the Barrel who find him attractive and mysterious. And the boys of the Barrel. And the readers.
- Unscrupulous Hero: Looks to sliding into this territory in Crooked Kingdom. His motives have changed from money to rescuing Inej and, more nominally, taking down Van Eck and Rollins. While the first chapter he's in has him toss a man off a lighthouse and terrify a little girl to pieces, the reasoning behind both was definitely of the A Lighter Shade of Grey variety. The first was the Vigilante Execution of a man who blackmailed trafficked prostitutes into servicing him for free (which can get them killed), and the second was the choice that didn't involve killing a child to ensure their silence so their cover wasn't blown.
- Would Hurt a Child/Would Not Hurt A Child: He's a curious mix of both tropes, as shown by the incident with the little girl in Unscrupulous Hero. And then he pretends to kidnap Pekka Rollins's son and bury him alive to solely mess with Pekka Rollin's mind and reduce him to tears.
- Young Conqueror: Played With. At 17, he's already one of the most powerful criminals in the Barrel, and he plans to eventually become the crime king of Ketterdam. However, while he's certainly ruthless, his idealism died with Jordie.
Inej Ghafa
Inej Ghafa
"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true."
Played by: Amita Suman
"Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz."
Inej is a Suli acrobat, turned spy and assassin for the Dregs, second in command to Kaz.
- Ambiguously Brown: Inej is described as bronze-skinned. The Suli appear to be coded as Romani of close Indian descent, but this is mere conjecture.
Word of God has said Neelam Gill, a British-Indian model, closely resembled how Inej was intended to appear. Amita Suman, who was born in Nepal and raised in England, was also cast to play her in the Netflix adaptation. However, Inej's 'race' is very much up for interpretation as she is literally just described as brown-skinned and with black hair. - Behind Every Great Man: There is no doubt that Kaz Brekker wouldn't be Dirtyhands without his Wraith to do the deeds he himself cannot physically do. He even bought her with this specific purpose; telling her that she's to sneak around the city and learn everything about everyone that he can use as leverage and to his advantage. The information she's gained has allowed him to build and grow his criminal business.
- Blade Enthusiast: Inej's main weapon and specialty are knives. She is capable of using multiple at once, never misses her target, and pretty much always has many knives on her person.
- Braids of Action: She has long black hair, wrapped in a tightly coiled braid. It becomes part of her signature look.
- Combat Parkour: Inej makes use of her past in acrobatics while fighting, but she's more of a stealthy backstabber than a showy ballet fighter.
- The Consigliere: As Kaz's most trusted member of the Dregs, Inej functions as this.
- Deadpan Snarker: Often combined with religious proverbs and Suli sayings, for maximum effect.
- Defiled Forever: Nobody considers Inej to be "defiled" for the abuse she's been through, but she herself feels she died on the slaver ship that stole her from Ravka and her tragic time in the brothel destroyed any innocence she had left.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: From nameless sex slave to pirate and vigilante. It's later mentioned that she's making a name for herself as a hunter of slave traders as captain of her own ship and crew, even slowing down the human slave trade with the impact she's creating.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Completely averted. Inej uses knives and hand-to-hand combat while Jesper shoots.
- Harmful to Minors: Inej was kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery at only fourteen years old.
- Heel–Face Turn: Unusually, this doesn't entail a betrayal. Inej simply decides to use the money from the Bo Yul Bayur heist to leave her life of crime behind and start a career of hunting slavers, even if it means having to possibly part ways with Kaz.
- Hot Gypsy Woman: What Tante Heleen sold Inej to customers as.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Kaz will pull unexpected stunts during an operation because he knows, not only will she instantly catch on to what he's doing, but she can also handle herself and is far from helpless.
- Insecure Love Interest: Kaz's refusal to open up and insistence she's just an "investment" have not been good for Inej as she's forced to accept her romantic feelings for him. For most of the story, she doubts he cares for her in any way above cold professionalism and genuinely believes he considers her replaceable as his spy. (She also concludes that, even if he did care for her, his phobia and her own past wouldn't allow for a true future between them.) Her heartbreaking plea to stop Van Eck from breaking her legs shows just how deep Inej's insecurities run.Inej: (screaming) He'll never trade if you break me! I'll be of no use to him anymore!
- Knight in Sour Armor: She knows painfully well how cruel the world can be, but doesn't let it stop her from believing in a better one and doing her part in helping others when she can. Inej prays in penance for every kill she makes and is the only person to continually believe in (and try to encourage) Kaz's inner goodness. By the end of the series, not only is she ready to live out her dream of forming a crew and taking down slavers, she believes both Kaz and Ketterdam can be "saved" after all and are worth the effort.
- The Lancer: She is unambiguously the second, the Wraith to the Bastard.
- Long-Distance Relationship: Her relationship with Kaz seems to be going this way at the end of the books. Inej is fully set to begin hunting slavers worldwide while he stays in Ketterdam to wrestle it under control. However, she promises to return and they manage to hold hands for the first time, giving her hope for a future together.
- Morality Chain: To Kaz, especially at the beginning of the series. If there's anyone who can successfully reign in Kaz's worst behaviors, it's Inej.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Wraith.
- Not So Stoic:
- She's generally calm, even in the face of torture. But when Van Eck threatens to break her legs so badly they can never properly heal, Inej's composure cracks and she begins begging him to spare her.
- In a much happier example, she starts crying Tears of Joy when she sees her parents again after years of separation and almost faints in simple happiness.
- Official Couple: She and Kaz get their Relationship Upgrade in literally the last few pages of Crooked Kingdom.
- Proverbial Wisdom: Her use of Suli proverbs often makes her sound like an old sage offering wisdom; see also Wise Beyond Their Years.
- Red Baron: The Wraith.
- Rescue Romance: Kaz negotiated with the Menagerie to buy her contract, rescuing her from sex slavery, so she could work for him as a spy. As such, while she's very much aware he's not a Knight in Shining Armor, Inej still holds great affection for him; feeling that she owes him for getting her out of the Menagerie and bettering her life.
- Servile Snarker: Inej is one of the few people who can actually talk back to Kaz without consequence, but that doesn't mean he necessarily heeds her advice.
- Silk Hiding Steel: She's one of the more virtuous members of the Crows; being kind, pious, and reserved. Even Kaz is stunned by how, despite having been brutalized and abused, Inej can still be so kind and positive. However, Inej will not let anyone make her a victim or slave again. She even declares how, while she may have become a killer and done many bad deeds, she would rather "be a killer than a captive again". Yes, she may feel a measure of guilt over committing a bad deed or hurting someone, but if she feels it's truly necessary, she'll do it. Her second POV chapter has her punching one of the Dregs giving her trouble (although not without feeling bad about it), then kindly telling him to clean himself up and go home.
- Stealth Expert: Inej can move around without making a single sound or giving notice to herself. (This was how Kaz became interested in adding her to his crew; Kaz was at the Menagerie purchasing information when Inej unintentionally snuck up on him despite being half-naked, wearing bright colors and body paint, and had bells on her ankles. Given that she snuck up on him of all people, this told Kaz she had unique skill in stealth.) She can also climb almost any surface, including a nearly flat one that's blazing hot.
- Tattooed Crook: Averted. She's the only member of the Dregs to not bear their signature tattoo despite being Kaz's second. She had been forcefully given the Peacock feather tattoo as a sign of her slavery to the Menagerie but had it removed after being freed and joining the Dregs. When medically tended to by Nina, she notes how Inej oddly doesn't have the Dregs tattoo despite how getting the gang tattoo isn't optional. Inej reveals that it isn't - Kaz made an exception for her. He was unwilling to brand her again after freeing her from slavery, so she was allowed to not get the signature Dregs tattoo.
- Vigilante Man: While scaling an incinerator that is active, Inej has an epiphany that her dream isn't to just survive, pay off her debt, or help Kaz. While these things are all nice, what she really dreams of doing is hunting down slavers and helping victims like she herself once was. By the end of Crooked Kingdom, she's well on her way to making it a reality. It's later stated she's successfully doing just that; saving trafficked victims and viciously punishing slave traders. It's mentioned that she tarred and feathered several slavers she managed to catch.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Despite her understandable frustration with him, Inej doesn't want Kaz to die. When the Dregs put him through a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown so violent it looks like they're really going to kill him, the only thing that barely stops her from carving them into bloody pieces is Kaz giving her a look to let it happen.
- At the end of the second book, before she leaves to start sailing the world, she breaks into Pekka Rollins' safehouse during the night and wakes him up with a knife to his throat. She calmly makes it clear she's there on her own terms and warns that, if he ever returns to Ketterdam, she'll personally (and literally) carve his heart out. She punctuates this by giving him a slow and brutal laceration across his chest as a preview of what she'll do and threatens his son by putting a stuffed crow in the sleeping child's arms to back up the seriousness of her threat before leaving.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Inej has a tendency to spout Suli proverbs during certain moments, which occasionally makes her sound like an old man offering wisdom. It gets lampshaded about how she's always reciting some Suli saying or cultural fact, to where it gets pointed out as odd when she doesn't.
Nina Zenik
Nina Zenik
"Oh, I see. I'm the wicked Grisha seductress. I have beguiled you with my Grisha wiles!"
Played by: Danielle Galligan
Matthias: It’s not natural for women to fight.
Nina: It’s not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.
Nina was a heartrender in the Second Army, recruited from school early due to numbers being low, until she was captured by Fjerdan Drüskelle.
- Ambiguously Bi: She flirts with women, too.
- It's not so ambiguous in King of Scars, where Nina goes as far to tease Hanne, wax poetic about her beauty, and compliment her lips. She eventually works her way up to holding hands with her at the end of the book.
- The Atoner: She feels horrible for accusing Matthias of slavery and getting him thrown into prison, even if the other choice was letting him be tortured to death by Grisha who wanted him dead for being a hunter of their kind. Kaz gets her onboard by simply promising to rescue Matthias.
- Becoming the Mask: Nina spends King of Scars disguised as a Fjerdan woman, Mila Jandersdat. Hanne is later disguised as Rasmus, the crown prince of Fjerda. Rule of Wolves ends with both women assuming these identities to marry, presumably for the foreseeable future if not the rest of their lives.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Goodness, she and Matthias. There's hardly a word between them that isn't bickering.
- Beware the Nice Ones: A kindhearted, loyal friend... and an absolute terror in battle.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Is described as "generous" and curvy in the novel, and plus-sized by the author. This has subsided somewhat by Crooked Kingdom due to her encounter with Jurda Parem and its negative impact on her health; which includes depriving her of an appetite.
- Deadpan Snarker: Sarcasm may be well one of the many languages she speaks.
- Genki Girl: Nina is loud, funny, and unapologetic about herself.Matthias: Nina is everything you say. It's too much.
Inej: Mmm. Maybe you're just not enough. - Girly Bruiser: She's unabashedly feminine and takes care of her appearance, but she's also one of the more deadly members of Kaz's crew.
- Has a Type: Tall Fjerdans with a close connection to Jarl Brum.
- Healing Hands: This is far from being her domain of expertise, but Nina can piece people back together when push comes to shove.
- The Hedonist: Is said to flirt with cake and shoes.
- Honey Trap: She briefly tries this on Jarl Brum in order to get close to the highest security Ice Court prisoners. It doesn't work out.
- Military Mage: Nina is a soldier of the Second Army.
- Nice Girl: Although she's not to be trifled with, she's easily one of the kindest of the Crows.
- One Degree of Separation: In King of Scars, one of the Grisha she works with, Leoni, describes how she nearly died as a child by drinking contaminated water. The Grisha who saved her drew the poison into herself and died as a result. This is precisely how Jesper's mother died.
- People Puppets: She can't quite control a person's entire body, but as a Heartrender she can influence the beating of the heart, hormone production, oxygen flow, and all sorts of fun stuff. When she is under the influence of Jurda Parem, this trope becomes a lot more literal, and she is able to take out a large group of guards by simply making them go to sleep.
- Platonic Prostitution: Runs a sort of magical counseling center (she manipulates the hormones in customers' bodies to give them a respite from grief) out of a brothel.
- Polyglot: Speaks Fjerdan, Shu, Kaelish, and Kerch in addition to her native Ravkan. It's part of how she became a soldier so young.
- Shipper on Deck: For Kaz and Inej. Despite not being a fan of Kaz himself, she mentions how (due to her heartrender powers) she can sense Kaz's breathing change every time he looks at Inej. Nina is also shocked and upset to hear Kaz calling Inej an "investment" despite his clear feelings for her.
- Skyward Scream: Her reaction when Matthias dies in her arms.
- Sweet Tooth: She has a noticeable penchant for waffles and cake. When told to pack for their heist, she instead packs junk food as her "necessities".
- The Tease: Nina likes to flirt. Nina likes to flirt a lot. To the point where everyone who knows her simply dismisses it as a general part of her personality. This includes Kaz, random guards, and women.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She loves waffles.Nina: You’re better than waffles, Matthias Helvar.Matthias: Let’s not say things we don’t mean, my love.
Jesper Fahey
Jesper Fahey
"If I see a single scratch or nick on those, I’ll spell forgive me on your chest in bullet holes."
Played by: Kit Young
Jesper: Sure, I'm skinny, but I stay drier in the rain.
Matthias: How?
Jesper: Less falls on me.
Jesper was once a fresh-faced student at the University of Ketterdam, before falling into debt due to his gambling habits and getting in with the Dregs to get by.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Wylan.
- Broken Pedestal: To his father in Crooked Kingdom, when he's finally coming to terms with being a Grisha after being forced to suppress it due to a combination of his father's fear about him being hunted for being a Grisha, and his father's anger over Jesper's mother dying as a result of overusing her powers.
- The Charmer: Cocky and ever smirking, he makes an Olympic sport out of flirting.
- Dual Wielding: Jesper is in a devoted and loving relationship with his twin pistols.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Jesper does all kinds of things, up to putting his own beloved revolvers on the line for a bet, to try and make up for his unintentional blabbing, but Kaz treats him with clear anger. They eventually get into a fistfight over it.Kaz: What do you want from me? My trust? You had it and you shot it to pieces because you couldn't keep your mouth shut.
Jesper: One time. How many times have I had your back in a fight? How many times have I gotten it right? Doesn't it count for anything? - Eating the Eye Candy: Slightly averted; he's annoyed with himself that he didn't appreciate the view of a stripping Kaz when he had the chance.
- Elemental Powers: He is a Durast, meaning he can manipulate glass, wood, metal, stone and more. He is untrained, however, and not very powerful.
- Farm Boy: He was raised on an ordinary farm in Novyi Zem, though he had a few brushes with guns and death in those years already.
- Foil: To Jordie for Kaz, subconsciously.
- Friendly Sniper: One of the most upbeat and outgoing characters, and a deadly shot.
- Functional Addict: He's a gambling addict who still gets his job done most of the time, but his functioning can be put into question. He did drop out of university and is having to resort to more and more desperate smooth-talking to keep himself and his father safe.
- The Gambling Addict: Jesper has a taste for all sorts of thrills, but gambling is his most common infraction.
- Gang Banger: Initially to feed his gambling addiction.
- Gay Cowboy: Has a strong Western flavor to his character, due to being a gunslinging frontier farm boy.
- Gayngster: Flirts cheerfully with people of any gender, and is one of Kaz's inner circle among the Dregs.
- The Gunslinger: He's a sharpshooter, and is particularly enamored of his twin guns.
- Hidden Depths: Jesper actually is the one who brings up a possible cure to jurda parem in a conversation with Mattias and Kuwei.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Jesper's a master marksman with revolvers or a rifle, thanks to being taught by his mom. Wylan theorizes that part of his prowess may be due to him subconsciously tapping into his Grisha powers, allowing him to influence the bullets' trajectories.
- Like an Old Married Couple: With Wylan.
- Like Brother and Sister: With both Inej and Nina.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Jesper tends to be the last guy to learn something about Kaz's schemes. This includes Wylan's identity, the decoy ship, and Wylan being Tailoured by Nina to look like Kuwei. The last is a partially because Kaz wants to punish him for accidentally telling Pekka Rollins about the big job.
- Loose Lips: Jesper spilled that the Dregs were going on a major heist to one of Pekka Rollins's men, leading to them attacking on the Ketterdam harbor and racing them to Fjerda.
- Love Martyr: It's implied that one of the reasons he's part of the inner circle is because Kaz knows he will do any of the dirty work without turning against him.
- Noodle People: Downplayed, but the narration often goes on about Jesper's long arms and general lankiness.
- One Degree of Separation: His fellow Crow Nina ends up meeting the girl his mother died saving.
- Trapped by Gambling Debts: He's in trouble with the Dime Lions, and is turning desperate as they threaten his father.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Jesper has been careful not to let his father know that he dropped out of university and became a hired sharpshooter, in spite or perhaps because of their good relationship.
Matthias Helvar
Matthias Helvar
"The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive."
Played by: Calahan Skogman
A previous Drüskelle, now a hardened convict. Kaz seeks his expertise on the Ice Court.
- Antimagical Faction: Matthias starts as a Drüskelle, a Fjerdan soldier trained specifically to track and neutralize Grisha.
- Bavarian Fire Drill: Matthias has a natural commanding tone when he speaks Fjerdan, which comes in handy to briefly rattle Drüskelle.
- Broken Pedestal: He holds up Jarl Brum as an exemplar Drüskelle warrior, mentor and father figure. He's very shaken to discover Brum actually enjoys torturing Grisha; Matthias hates them, but he considers it a duty to stop them, not a pleasure.
- Character Development: He goes from an angry, sulky convict who despises Grisha, wants revenge and holds his homeland on a pedestal, to a happier man willing to see the flaws in his culture's beliefs and the good in Grisha. His dying wish is for Nina to help the rest of Fjerdan see the same good he did.
- Defecting for Love: He ends up turning against his old commanding officer Jarl Brum to save Nina.
- Fantastic Racism: He doesn't think of Grisha as people, or at least he doesn't want to think of them as people. He gradually gets over this due to his love for Nina and witnessing how Grisha are persecuted.
- Gladiator Games: Matthias, during his imprisonment at Hellgate, proved to be exceptionally talented at these.
- Honor Before Reason: More than once, Matthias contemplates simply taking the pardon from Kaz (and even tries it unsuccessfully at the start of their deal) or alerting his former comrades-in-arms, but he chooses not to because it would ultimately be a different kind of dishonor.
- Love Across Battlelines: He met Nina while he was holding her prisoner on a ship. They traveled together after the ship sank and grew to know one another.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Matthias turns his back on the Drüskelle when he realizes the Grisha aren't inherently evil. He pays for it when he's killed by a teenaged Drüskelle who's as brainwashed as Matthias once was.
- Only Sane Man: Best illustrated in the following.Kaz: What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?Inej: Knife to the throat?Jesper: Gun to the back?Nina: Poison in his cup?Matthias: You're all horrible.
- This becomes a Brick Joke in Crooked Kingdom.Kaz: Where do you think the money went?Jesper: Guns?Inej: Ships?Wylan: Bombs?Nina: Political bribes? (to Matthias) This is where you tell us how awful we are.Matthias: (shrugs) They all seem like practical choices.
- This becomes a Brick Joke in Crooked Kingdom.
- Prisons Are Gymnasiums: He was strong before, but after a year of illegal gladiator games in Hellgate, Mattias becomes a violent, muscled, fighting machine.
- Sacrificial Lion: Near the end of Crooked Kingdom, he's killed by an angry young Drüskelle who regards him as a traitor.
- Sexy Scandinavian: Very much so. He's also the most physically muscled of the Crows, although Nina's powers give her an edge over him in fighting scenarios.
- Spirit Advisor: Appears as one to Nina during the first half of King of Scars. But it turns out to be subverted as he wasn't actually there, it was just Nina's wishful thinking.
Wylan Van Eck
Wylan Van Eck
"Music. Numbers. Equations. They're not like words. They don't get mixed up."
Click here to see Wylan post-Crooked Kingdom
Played by: Jack Wolfe
Wylan: I may not have had your … education, but I’m sure I know plenty of words that you don’t.
Jesper: Also the proper way to fold a napkin and dance a minuet. Oh, and you can play the flute. Marketable skills, merchling. Marketable skills.
Wylan: No one dances the minuet any more.
Jesper: Also the proper way to fold a napkin and dance a minuet. Oh, and you can play the flute. Marketable skills, merchling. Marketable skills.
Wylan: No one dances the minuet any more.
Wylan is the sheltered son of Ketterdam mercher Jan Van Eck, who also happens to be the man who ordered the Dregs to rescue Bo Yul Bayur.
- Abusive Parents: Wylan's father shamed him continuously for his inability to read, to the point of intentionally sending him loving letters he couldn't read just to mock him.
- Ambiguous Innocence: Wylan is inexperienced and shy, but he's also eager to prove himself in the world of organized crime, perfectly willing to be an accomplice to murder, and to Jesper's surprise, might be more sexually experienced than one would expect.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Jesper, who makes a sport out of antagonistic flirting, and is pleasantly surprised when Wylan responds with actual flirting in the end.
- Demolitions Expert: One of Wylan's less peaceful talents lies with explosive chemicals. He's initially dismissed as a "passable" demo expert but soon proves to have an innovative streak.
- Elegant Classical Musician: He's said to be a good flautist and singer, as well as being talented in drawing.
- Foil: To Kaz, in many, many ways. Wylan is the man Kaz could have been if Jordie had lived and been able to take care of him. Additionally, both boys almost drowned in the waters around Ketterdam, and came back "reborn." Both are also genius-level intellects and, likely, have great futures in leadership.
- Heroic BSoD: He has one when he discovers that his mother Marya has been alive in an asylum all along, despite his father telling him that she was dead.
- I Have Your Wife: He allows himself to be a hostage for the Dregs without kicking up much of a fuss. He doesn't believe his father would pay much for him anyway.
- Innocent Prodigy: Despite being dyslexic, Wylan has considerable skill at playing the flute, singing, demolitions, engineering, technical drawing, and thinking on his feet.
- "L" Is for "Dyslexia": His inability to read isn't because he was never taught—his father certainly had many tries. For Wylan, it's a matter of genuinely struggling to put the letters together.
- Like an Old Married Couple: With Jesper, though Wylan takes a while to grow accustomed to his brand of banter.
- Morality Pet: Mattias never insults him the way he does the others, even in his narrative, Jesper slowly warms up to him, and even Kaz starts being a little kinder to him. The Bastard of the Barrel, later on, goes so far as to encourage him not to let his dyslexia stop him from making his own way in the world.
- Naïve Newcomer: Wylan has only survived for the past four months because Kaz secretly had him under protection.
- Pretty Boy: Described as pretty and boyish compared to his other male companions.
- The Runaway: He left his home four months before the story begins, and got involved with the Dregs while on the streets.
- Shapeshifter Mode Lock: For the sake of the mission (and with Nina's help), he assumes the appearance of Kuwei Yul-Bo, and the effects may be permanent. However, Genya Safin eventually restores his true appearance.
- Sheltered Aristocrat: In this case, a quote is worth a thousand paraphrases.Kaz: Always hit where the mark isn't looking.
Wylan: Who's Mark?- In Crooked Kingdom, Wylan uses the phrase himself, this time knowing exactly what it means, to demonstrate his Character Development.
- Teacher/Student Romance: According to Inej, rumor has it that he may have been caught having sex with one of his tutors, which accelerated his decision to run away. However, this rumor may or may not be true and isn't focused on.
Other criminals
Pekka Rollins
Pekka Rollins
The leader of the Dime Lions gang, rival to the Dregs. He runs gambling dens and brothels all across Ketterdam.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He gets down on his knees and begs Kaz to release his son, whom Kaz claims to have kidnapped and Buried Alive.
- Arch-Enemy: To Kaz, due to his central role in Kaz's Start of Darkness.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Rollins forms an alliance with Van Eck after the Crows kidnap his wife. Of the two, Rollins is far more competent and dangerous, and no matter how much the Crows gun after the merchant Rollins will always be Kaz's primary target for revenge.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: And boy, did it backfire on him. To elaborate, when Kaz demands that Pekka simply recall Jordie's name in exchange for his son's life... Pekka can't remember it. Granted, his son turned out to be fine and it was only a brutal mind game Kaz pulled. However, the encounter unnerves Pekka all the more because he still can't remember Jordie as the boys were just random marks he scammed years ago. And if he can't remember Jordie and Kaz, how many other former, nameless victims are possibly out there and waiting for a chance to take revenge like Kaz? He ends up fleeing town as a result.
- Con Artist: He used to be one in the past, pulling elaborate cons to trick people out of their money.
- Create Your Own Villain: Years ago, he swindled two naive and orphaned farm boys out of the little money they owned. The boys were Kaz Rietveld and his older brother Jordie. The result: the boys were left on the streets during an epidemic, resulting in both boys getting sick and Jordie dying, causing a traumatized Kaz to undergo his Start of Darkness, becoming the Bastard of the Barrel, and seeking revenge on Pekka.
- The Don: He's the most powerful mob boss of Ketterdam.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a son, whom he truly loves, as proven when he's ready to sacrifice his reputation by getting down on his knees and begging Kaz when he's led to believe that the latter has buried his son alive.
- The Irish Mob: Well technically the Kaelish mob, but it's pretty clear. Rollins likes displaying his Kaelish heritage with fake pots of gold and red-haired lasses.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Rollins initially starts planning on how to take back control of Kerch after being in hiding for a while. He then gets a nighttime visit from Inej who warns him that if he ever comes back, she'll carve out his heart. Realizing that Kaz and his generation of criminals are far more vicious and bloodthirsty than Rollins' ever was, he comes to terms with the fact that his reign is at an end.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Kaz and his crew ruin Fjerda's plans for Jurda Parem and indirectly save countless lives in the process. Kaz was once an ordinary boy until Pekka swindled his older brother out of all of their money and indirectly got Jordie killed, giving him the drive to become the master tactician he is during the books.
- Properly Paranoid: In the epilogue of Crooked Kingdom, he and his son are in hiding from the Crows, surrounded by bodyguards. Despite this high-security protection, Inej manages to sneak into both their bedrooms (putting a stuffed crow into the sleeping child's arms without the boy's notice) and violently threatens Pekka regardless.
- The Syndicate: What he seems to be running.
Tante Heleen
Tante Heleen
Heleen is the owner of The Menagerie, the brothel where Inej was enslaved.
- Band of Brothels: Heleen oversees the Menagerie, and buys new and trafficked girls for it.
- Laser-Guided Karma: At the end of Crooked Kingdom Kaz makes arrangements for her business to be temporarily shut down during a plague scare, and it's heavily implied it will be shut down permanently because she won't be able to make rent. Even if she does come back, Inej now has the crew and funds needed to take on the people who facilitate the slave trade. And it's later mentioned that Inej has since slowed down the human trade system due to taking out various slavers that are responsible for snatching innocent girls and boys that fuel the illegal trade.
- Race Fetish: The Menagerie caters to as many of these as it can. Tante Heleen's nickname for Inej, "little lynx", derives from Suli stereotypes, while girls from the Wandering Isle are called Kaelish mares (for their red hair) Zemeni girls are called fawns (because of their large dark eyes) and Shu girls are called serpents.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil/Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: She is one of the most repulsive characters in the book. She works in the sexual trafficking of minors, violently abuses the girls she purchases (sometimes to actual death to make an example out of them for "wronging" her), and she also forces indentures on her "employees" to legally tie them to her brothel so they can work off their "debt" to her. She doesn't remotely care about their suffering as long as they can earn her profit. Inej is in constant fear of her early on in the book due to the trauma she suffered from her.
- Villain Raises a Toast: Upon seeing Kaz in her debut, she raises a toast to him as a threat.
Others
Jan Van Eck
Jan Van Eck
A rich mercer and Wylan's father. He's also the man who ordered the Dregs to rescue Bo Yul Bayur.
- Abusive Parents: Enacted nothing less but psychological warfare (and the occasional beating) on Wylan for his inability to read, in spite of him being a Child Prodigy in almost every other subject. This culminates in attempted filicide.
- Archnemesis Dad: Undoubtedly the main villain of the series and Wylan's worst enemy.
- Bait the Dog: In the cruelest way imaginable. Those letters Jesper found, where Jan kept saying he loves Wylan and wants him to come home? Yeah, Wylan can't read them. And Jan knows it. He didn't mean a word of it; he was just taunting his son in an absurdly cruel manner. In fact, the letters specifically said things like "If you're reading this, know that you are missed". Not just cruel because Wylan can't read them, cruel because if he could, then Jan would want him back. If Wylan had asked someone to read the letters to him, then it would have been far worse.
- Big Bad Wannabe: While certainly dangerous and one of the main villains of the series, Van Eck isn't very competent. A majority of his encounters with the Crows end in them getting the better of him in some form, and he has to enter a Big Bad Duumvirate with Rollins to stay on equal footing.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: His reasons for wanting Bo Yul Bayur out of the Ice Court seem quite smart at first, but then he goes back on his deal with Kaz, destroys a ship he believes to be carrying his son, and holds Inej ransom for Kuwei's location. He also threatens to break Inej's legs, and it's clear that he's deadly serious.
- Death Faked for You: He has Marya, his first wife and Wylan's mother, secretly committed to an asylum so he can divorce her and take all her assets, then claims that she died.
- Evil Counterpart: He's just as brutal and corrupt as Kaz. However, Kaz is aware what a bastard he is, truly cares about the other Crows (although he rarely admits it), and has occasional Pet the Dog moments. By contrast, Jan is a self-righteous, sanctimonious sociopath who cares for no one but himself, yet seems blissfully ignorant of how evil he is.
- Hypocrite: He looks down on Kaz for being a thug who takes advantage of legitimate businessmen like himself. While Kaz does quite a few unscrupulous things, it's clear that he has a moral code and never targets the innocent in his cons, and he fights tooth and nail to ensure his allies and their families are protected. Kaz's ultimate goals are also quite selfless, truly wanting to root out corruption in the city and wanting to help Inej find her family and cripple the slave trade. Meanwhile, Jan will throw anyone and everyone under the bus as soon as they are no longer needed. This includes faking his own wife's death and seizing everything she owns, trying to have his own son outright killed for not being an adequate heir, and introducing Jurda Parem into the world, something which would result in countless lost lives.
- It's Personal: In Crooked Kingdom, he makes it clear that he resents Kaz, whom he regards as a brutal (if brilliant) street thug who victimizes noble, pious businessmen like himself.Jan: But I confess Kaz Brekker does offend me. Vile, ruthless, amoral. He feeds corruption with corruption. Such a remarkable mind might have been put to great use. He might have ruled this city, built something, created profit that would have benefited all. Instead, he leeches off the work of better men.
Inej: Better men? Like you?
Jan: It pains you to hear it, but it is true. When I leave this world, the greatest shipping empire ever known will remain, an engine of wealth, a tribute to Ghezen and a sign of his favor. Who will remember a girl like you, Miss Ghafa? What will you and Kaz Brekker leave behind but corpses to be burned on the Reaper's Barge? - Laser-Guided Karma: By the end of Crooked Kingdom, he's been outed as having faked his first wife's death, trying to kill his son, and attempting to manipulate the jurda market; an offence to Ghezen, Ketterdam's patron deity. Wylan gets control of his fortune and Jan is suspected of insanity (since he keeps protesting that Wylan can't read, while his son makes him look like a liar by 'reading' a document while actually reciting something from memory; fitting, since Jan had Marya imprisoned in an insane asylum and abused Wylan for his dyslexia) and is thrown in jail.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His decision to hire the Crows ultimately ruins Fjerda's plans for Jurda Parem. And his decision to double-cross them in the cruellest way possible makes him their personal enemy, and their game of cat and mouse ends with his first wife freed, the son he despises in control of his fortune and business, and Jan himself both suspected of insanity and in jail with his treasured reputation utterly ruined.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: He has Kaz literally tied up while he makes his business offer.
- Offing the Offspring: He's tried to kill Wylan several times.
- Unequal Pairing: His second wife is just barely an adult, only a few years older than his son.
Jordan "Jordie" Rietveld
Jordan "Jordie" Rietveld
Jordie is Kaz's older brother. He died a few years before the start of Six of Crows.- Cool Big Bro: Kaz has nothing but good memories of him, which makes his tragic death all the more traumatic.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: He's rarely referred to as "Jordan".
- Parents as People: Kaz can admit to himself that Jordie did play a role in their downfall by signing away their entire life savings on an investment he should have never made when they were struggling; which turned out to have been a scam. However, this does nothing to curb his desire for revenge against the man who tricked Jordie into making said investment.
- Posthumous Character: He died prior to the books from a disease, largely due to Pekka Rollins.
- Promotion to Parent: After their father died, Jordie became Kaz's sole guardian while they struggled to survive the streets of Ketterdam. Sadly, this didn't last long as they're quickly conned.
Alys van Eck
Alys van Eck
Jan's second wife and Wylan's stepmother.- Adoptive Peer Parent: She's only a few years older than her stepson, Wylan.
- The Ditz: Proves to be something of this in her appearance.
- Pity the Kidnapper: She annoys her captors with her crying and, later, her singing.
- Pregnant Hostage: She gets kidnapped by the Crows while pregnant to force her husband (whose only concern is the unborn baby she's carrying) to release Inej in a prisoner trade.
- Spoiled Sweet: She's a rich girl who thinks the most important thing about a man is his money. However, she's actually a Nice Girl, is never rude, and seems to have a good heart.
- Sympathetic Adulterer: It's implied she's, at the very least, having an emotional affair with her music teacher, Adem Bajan. Not only is Adem closer to Alys's age, but he seems to actually care about her not just the baby she's carrying. As opposed to her husband who only "cares" for her in that she's carrying a child he hopes won't be a disappointment.
Joost van Poel
Joost van Poel
A member of the stadwatch.- Intro-Only Point of View: He's the point of view character of the first chapter of Six of Crows, which introduces jurda parem and shows its effect when Anya uses it to kill him and several others.
Council of Tides
Council of Tides
A mysterious group of Tidemaker Grishas with massive political power in Ketterdam. They watch over the tides and maritime transport in the island, giving them power over who gets in and out of Kerch.- The Ghost: The council hasn't been seen in person for decades, and it's impossible to get a handle on their identity. Kaz uses this to make a group of Grishas fake being the council and accuse Van Eck in public. The real council appears in the end of Crooked Kingdom, however.
- Omniscient Council of Vagueness: They're extremely mysterious, to the point that the combined efforts of Inej and Kaz still can't gather data about them. They've never been seen and their identities are unknown. Even on the rare occasion they appear in public, they wear blue cloaks and have their faces hidden by mist that they generate using their powers. The real council uses simply masks, and they're completely aware of Kaz's plan for Kuwei.
