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“I hurried my steps, and soon I was in the square where Mal and I met every evening. I spotted him leaning against the lip of a fountain, talking with his Zemeni friend he’d met working at the warehouse. I couldn’t remember his name…Jep, maybe? Jef?”
— Siege and Storm (2013) by Leigh Bardugo Chapter 1
My conspiratorial ass:
Friendly reminder that Jesper was definitely using his grisha abilities in season 1 of Shadow and Bone.
When he was shooting the volcra in the fold, the last shot he fired was emphasized by the camera angle zooming in on his gun (specifically the bullet being fired) and his eyes were closed. He made the shot perfectly.
He must have also used his abilities when facing off against Ivan. Ivan is a heartrender with an amplifier, which makes him very dangerous if he has you in his line of sight. To keep Ivan on defense, Jesper had to stay hidden and out of his sights.
Jesper fires three shots at Ivan and all of them hit in the same exact place on his kefta. How did Jesper manage to aim so precisely three times in a row when he shot through several bed sheets and aimed at points on the wall/metal objects so the bullets would ricochet, all without a clear line of sight on Ivan? He couldn’t have. He probably used his abilities to guide the bullets toward the kefta that Ivan specifically told him was Fabrikator-made to be bullet resistant, so it probably had some kind of kevlar-like material woven into it that Jesper could have sensed and guided the bullets to.
Jesper does something similar in Crooked Kingdom when he sends the rubber bullet at Kuwei without a good line of sight, so it’s not an unreasonable assumption that he did it to Ivan too.
When Jesper has Ivan pinned to the ground, Ivan asked “What are you?” and Jesper deflected his question. Then, Ivan said “You’re a--” but before he could finish, Jesper knocked him out and said “You should have stopped while you were ahead.”
Of course, this implies that Jesper knows that he’s using his abilities to gain the advantage when shooting, whereas he didn’t think about it in the books until Wylan pointed it out to him. But, because Shadow and Bone is an adaptation of the books, they have some creative freedom to change things around a bit (such as the timeline, character descriptions, dialogue and events, etc. that we’ve already seen changed).
Overall, I’m pretty happy with how the show is adapting the books. The Shadow and Bone storyline is almost identical to the book (with the exception of the ending and the Crows’ involvement, of course) as well as Nina and Matthias’ backstory. I’m really excited to see how they incorporate the events of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom (and Wylan) into the show!
So…I became a grishaverse fan after watching Shadow and Bone on Netflix. I personally loved Mal in the series and I didn’t understand the Mal hate on here then…but, I just finished Siege and Storm…y’all were right, my b
#teamnikolai
I’m reading Ruin and Rising… enjoy this meme I made
Nikolai drinks his respect everybody women juice every morning
In Ruin and Rising, when Nikolai tries to eat Alina, to get him to stop she had to say “I’ll put you down”
Like….?
‘Put down’ as in a dog??
Because Nikolai is ‘Sobachka’ (puppy)???
WOWWWWWW—
The ending of Ruin and Rising was too good…I’m gonna cry…
Alina and Mal getting married, taking Misha and Oncat in, running the orphanage at Keremzin, and having Nikolai and the Triumvirate over as guests is so fucking pure I—
AND ZOYA GIVING ALINA A BLUE KEFTA EVEN THOUGH SHE CANT SUMMON ANYMORE—
“you will always be one of us”
I made another meme
Enjoy
I’ve been busy making memes about the grishaverse books and the Shadow and Bone series…
I hope this hasn’t been done before
SOC and CK spoilers!!
And he thinks of Jesper as a brother to the point where he accidentally called him Jordie and even went so far as to make Colm’s alias Jordie’s middle and last name🥲
Six of Crows duology & King of Scars duology spoilers!!
Oh Nina…
SAS and RAR mild spoilers!!
Crooked Kingdom spoilers!!
Watch it turn out like Scooby Doo 2 when they swap bodies or souls or whatever happened with that and it just sounds wrong😭
Nikolai visited the Crow Club (during Crooked Kingdom) confirmed???
King of Scars Chapter 27 (Leigh Bardugo)
Why are there so many meme templates that are perfect for Wylan’s inability to read😭
Name a better duo, I’ll wait
Crooked Kingdom, King of Scars, and Rule of Wolves spoilers!!
