Breaking My Slience (again ... I've Ranted About This At Least Twice Already But I Keep Thinking Of Fun

Breaking my slience (again ... I've ranted about this at least twice already but I keep thinking of fun new ways to word it whoopsie)

When Inej says she'll have Kaz without armour, she's not saying she wants a physical relationship from him

She is asking him to trust her enough to know that he doesn't need to protect himself around her, that she'll never cross his boundaries, that if he took off his armour he would be safe with her.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

last line hit me in the gut bro

thinking about this moment again:

particularly in regards to this conversation:

thinking about inej, who is actively dying, asking kaz for an apology. inej, whose native tongue leaves no room for triviality here. this isn’t “you were mean to me and you need to make nice,” it’s so much deeper.

this is “promise me you won’t treat me like a piece in your chess game again. promise me you won’t keep acting like i’m replaceable. promise me i’m not just another one of your investments.”

this is the first time we see inej holding kaz accountable, the first time we see her ask him to be more, to do better. this is the precursor to the “without armor” conversation. and i think it’s fitting that we never hear whether or not kaz did apologize. because at this point, i don’t think he’s ready to give inej what she’s really asking for here, and in a way, it’s best that she doesn’t hear him say the words. he’s not ready to mean them yet.

An Inej quote that I think is her most underestimated quote:

'Raske is better'

I have to say first I love Wylan so much, and I felt so bad for him in this scene, but no one really talks about what Inej said. That's the reason why I think this quote is underestimated is because it shows that Inej isn't this all loving person who is afraid to be rude. I love it because it shows that she is going to speak her mind, she won't hold back, and she's baddass. So why I think this quite is so important is because a mischaracterisaton is that Inej will be sweet to anyone who hasn't hurt her or her friends, but in reality, that's not true. She isn't the counter energy to Kaz's impolite energy, she is Inej Ghafa, not Kaz's polite love interest. She can be brazen and blunt, and it's amazing. It's who she is.

what makes Snow such a formidable villain within THG universe is that nothing he does was set in stone. there was no sense of inevitability about his actions and his brutality. Snow had enough perspective of poverty, capital cruelty, district hunger and not to mention his own arena experience’ and yet he actively chose at every moment to stray from natural goodness. its even more terrifying in the sense that he had the ability to care. Snow is not a mindless sociopath, he displays feelings to others such as sejanus, lucy grey and tigris but ultimately he will always choose himself. his ability to betray those he cared about in order yo advance himself makes him so much more than the stereotypical villain who is forced into his actions.