It Would Make Him So Insufferable If He Was Stoic. It Would Be Too Childish, Because Anyone Who Has Been

It would make him so insufferable if he was stoic. It would be too childish, because anyone who has been in some pain knows it's a lot, and it's way better to play it up than to play it down. If it's about attention, you'll get more attention if you play it down and everyone still knows you're injured.

This goes hand in hand with his character. It allows him to pass under the radar because everyone is used to ignoring his moans. It also is a part of his goofier, less mature self, which is why you see as the books go on he becomes more chill. In The Thief he flips out at Pol for cleaning his injured hands. In the Queen of Attolia, he's depressed for the majority of the book, and everyone acknowledges he's not himself, no jokes, grinning, he becomes stoic. The in King of Attolia, he's getting back into his groove and freaks out after the attempt on his life, whining the entire walk back to his room, as well as flipping out at Petrus when he starts doing the stitches (only to show how much control he actually has by calming down and not reacting at all to the stitches), and in a smaller way, he also complains about sword practice. In conspiracy of kings, he's less present, but he has his moments with sword practice. Think as thieves, he briefly complains about brinna hitting him, but again, he doesn't appear much. Then in return of the thief, he complains for the show of it mostly. He walks in on the ambassador kissing Irene and positively flips out, but when Irene gets sick, he doesn't waste any time talking about himself, he doesn't complain about the food that's brought to him (this is before he goes to the kitchens, so it still has sand, jars he can't open, etc) but he puts up with it silently. Then later when they go to war, he has his fair share of poor health. He gets a fever 2 days into riding and he blows it off, saying oh it's just this dumb coat makes me so hot, I'm not sick, and follows it up with complaints about the doctors. And later he's unconscious for several days and reassures the important people that he's alright. Over the course of the 6 books, he goes from complaining about everything to using complaints as a form of communication and only complaining when it's appropriate/acceptable. He whines as they get home after months away because they all know he's happy to be home and excited to see his wife and kids. He knows when he can and can't complain.

Anyway I don't really know where I was going with this but one other thing. Ages ago, I read the false Prince by Jennifer Nielsen. People said the main character was like gen. No hes not. Dont let anyone lie to you. He demonstrates the difference between Gen as a whiner and Gen as a stoic because the main character, Jaron is supposed to be all tough and stoic and LITERALLY CLIMBS A CLIFF WITH BOTH LEGS BROKEN, not to mention he then gets into a sword fight with his arch nemesis and fights until he passes out and then when he regains consciousness, his arch nemesis is like well I beat you but I decided you can have control of the pirates anyway. And since some people obviously have no idea what is plausible, they should really not be trying. That's something that's great about gen. Is it possible for him to just chill no matter the injury? Yeah probably. But would he? No. It adds so much more to him to not walk off every inconvenience and I love his complaining

One of the things that makes Eugenides such a fantastic character is that he’s brave and loyal and noble, but not even a little bit stoic.

He spends so much time moaning and complaining. He gets scared and he cries and he feels no shame about any of it. He broods and wallows. The gods themselves tell him to stop whining.

I know a certain amount of it is a calculated act, but also, he’s mostly leaning into his strengths in those cases. It’s just so rare to see genuine heroism in a character with such traditionally unheroic traits, and I love it. It’s not something to overcome, it’s just who he is — the most inspiring man you’ll ever meet, openly nursing grudges and dishing out petty insults by the dozen.

Soc fic idea

Jordie's still alive. Kaz lives a double life. Way back then, Jordie almost died and Kaz had to save them and fell into the dark side of ketterdam. He couldn't bring himself to admit the awful things he was a part of to Jordie and instead spent more and more time away from him to participate in gang jobs to make enough money. (Maybe Jordie has some sort of long covid type thing after initially not dying) Kaz gets them a room/apartment, but sneaks out when he can to rejoin the gang, until eventually he's spending more time away than with Jordie. Jordie doesn't know about what Kaz does while he's away and the crows don't know about Jordie.

My sister is dyslexic, so I read these books aloud to her. She completely missed the part about the hand, but not even halfway through goes, "I don't want it to happen, but I feel like Irene and gen will get together" and I had the hardest time not flipping out

My sister, who doesn’t often get into reading, started reading The Queen’s Thief and I am being so so normal about it

What if I rewrote Anika to be Kaz's sister? If she joined the dregs pre SoC, then the timeline works with canon. Alternatively, Anika can get a role as an older sister to Kaz's sister, which is also a good option.

Please give opinions + reblog, I'm working on a piece and would appreciate the help!

Does Kaz miss the farm? Like does he retire with his billions of kruge on a farm? Does he take vacation to the countryside? Or is it upsetting to go without Jordie?