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"Ketterdam Is Made Of Monsters" by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
16 May 2025
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All demons were stronger underground.
The people of Ketterdam didn’t know why, and they didn’t need to. They just kept the entrances Onder locked up and well guarded, at least in the good part of town, and stayed wary of what might emerge from the canals. Every once in a while—after a plague or a bad fire; a bad fall for the stock market (it was Kerch, after all); a spate of strange killings—the Merchant Council would turn their attention yet again to the city’s “demon problem” and send their priests and their soldiers into the tunnels. But most of the time, Ketterdam left their monsters be. After all (so they thought), the demons stayed below—or if they didn’t, then in the worse parts of the Barrel, where the stadwatch didn’t patrol and the thrill-seekers didn’t wander, and this amounted to much the same thing. Most of the time, the rich folks just prayed to Ghezen and Sankta Margaretha for protection, locked their doors (for what good that did them), and went about their own business. Feeling a little less evil for their own human blood. Feeling certain their neighbors shared it.
They thought they were safe.
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Firsts by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
29 Mar 2025
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"In the back of Inej’s mind, something asked just what that really meant about her, and whether it would really be as okay for Kaz as it would for her if they never got there. They hadn’t talked about it; they kissed and held hands and slept next to each other (when they could), and they had both expressed interest in hugging, cuddling, and a lot more kissing, but past that was a comfortably blurry space they never quite got around to thinking about. It was all very gentle, all very beautiful. All very just what Inej had always wanted."
If you are of the persuasion that it’s problematic to headcanon these particular two characters as ace, one simple thing to do is just not read this fic. Alternatively, you could read it and remember that you can always change your mind. I do not write their asexualities as a result of their traumas, nor I do not imagining them opting out of moving forward and healing because of being asexual. Inevitably, their traumas are how come they’re ace-coded, but one need not erase or misrepresent either thing. I write each as informing the other, much as each aspect of a real person’s lived experience inform one another.
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Hold Over Me by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
21 Dec 2024
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Kaz had never seen the cat before. He had no idea how she had gotten in. And yet, there she was sitting on his bed with her long thin tail wrapped around her, looking immensely pleased with herself in that way only cats can achieve. She blinked at him once, as if trying to trick him into believing that somehow or another she had been there all along. She had not been. Kaz sighed, leaned his cane against the nearest wall to free up both hands, and approached. Seeing what he intended, a shiver went over her as if of offense, and she slipped through his grasp like smoke. He turned, could not locate her. He checked the closet, under the bed, limped down the hallway, went back for his cane, and there she was on the bed exactly as before.
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- Part 1 of Six Of Crows cat AUs
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While I'm Away (part II) by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
28 Apr 2024
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Inej was used to her sleep being interrupted by the outside world. Once, when they’d hit a storm days after taking down all their intended targets, she’d been thrown right out of bed by the ship’s pitching, and landed on her feet and hands before she’d truly woken up. Meanwhile, she’d gotten used to the normal motion and noise of the schooner, no longer plagued with sleeplessness and bad memories as she had been on those first voyages. But things had been bad this last time. She wasn’t surprised by the alarm signals ringing through her skull yet again, telling her she was back there, telling her everything could and would be stripped away from her once more.
It would only require one wrong step, her brain told her. And you’ll go from this to freefall.
Inej didn’t believe these kinds of thoughts. But disbelief wasn’t enough to shake them out of her head.Series
- Part 3 of Sensually Crooked
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While I'm Away (part I) by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
21 Mar 2024
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I wish...
Without completing the thought, Kaz propped his elbows on the desk, rested his head in his hands, and closed his eyes. I need sleep. He had some irritations, of the human variety, to attend to “in the morning,” and that for his own benefit rather than theirs. Hell, he would wake them up himself, with something exceedingly sharp, if that hadn’t been his girl’s trademark.
Maybe I’ll sleep until her return, and she’ll have to do that to me.
Kaz snickered darkly at the part of himself that took that idea very seriously, that slipped so smoothly into imagining her real knives—the ones she named for her Saints, that he’d seen slice open flesh with scarcely more resistance than they cut through air—against his skin.
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A companion to my previous story.
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- Part 2 of Sensually Crooked
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Six Of Crows cat AUs by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
Fandom: Shadow and Bone (TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
21 Dec 2024
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Sensually Crooked by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
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To Meet a Monster by FairytalesOfForever
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
20 Jan 2022
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“Just now,” said the boy, “You were sizing me up, weren’t you? Thinking you could take me?” There was a dare in his eyes, a cruel black glitter that begged to be set loose. “I want everyone else to think that, too. And I want a weapon to prove them wrong.”
It's hard enough to be a Fabrikator hiding in Ketterdam. It only gets worse when the boy called Dirtyhands wants something from him.
Bookmarked by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
10 Mar 2025
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supplication of a shooting star by pinspec for southslates
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
29 Jun 2021
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She finds herself wanting to keep him here. Could she even begin to understand another human being in a conscious way, or is she destined to spend the rest of her life running from ghosts and forming parasocial relationships with the stars?
While travelling through space, Inej finds a man in the wreckage of a spaceship and decides to save him.
Bookmarked by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
13 Jan 2025
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"She can’t shake the feeling that they’re orbiting each other, trying hard not to crash but inevitably fated to."
Absolutely gorgeous.
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and when you're close, i feel like coming undone by TheTenthSunrise
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
10 Dec 2020
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Kaz and Inej love each other and that's that.
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- Part 10 of sunrise writes six of crows
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Bookmarked by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
13 Jan 2025
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Kaz Brekker will make Pekka Rollings know Jordie’s name.
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- Part 18 of sunrise writes six of crows
Bookmarked by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
08 Jan 2025
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Inimitable unhinged Kaz.
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Crows of the Saintly Days by Allthebestpeopleare
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
27 Dec 2023
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A very chaotic Inej, Nina and Jesper go to Ketterdam University. Things start to get interesting when Nina catches the eye of a cute jock in psych class, a very shy and sweet Wylan stumbles into their friend group, and a past associate of Inej's makes more and more appearances.
Text fic with prose :)
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Bookmarked by proper claws for proper thieves (Graivity)
08 Jul 2024
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Modern AU Imogen is absolutely delightful, enby Wylan warms my heart, and this depiction of the friend group is so spot-on I think someone must have leaked screenshots of their texts to the author