It’s always “I love you” and never “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
I know we love talking about Kaz and Nikolai parallels, and it’s brilliant, but also, I wish we spoke more on how Kaz is also a LOT like Zoya, too.
They’re both ambitious, prickly, not good at communicating their feelings, extremely powerful but underestimated, quick thinking and smart, leaders, not really good in social interactions, have only a handful of people they trust but care for fiercely, don’t believe they’re good enough for their love interests, willing to sacrifice everything for said love interest, tragic backstories that left them traumatized, lost loved ones, used by the adults in their lives and as a result do not trust easy, vengeful, etc.
I could go on, but you get the gist.
Zoya not believing in Saints because when she prayed to them to save her as a child from marrying an awful, disgusting old man they never listened, and then screeching this at Juris in her breakdown.
I’m not ready for a S3 exploring Zoya’s backstory.
I am not strong enough.
“Did he love the girl he forced to commit those murders? What about the girl he tossed into the old king’s bed for his own purposes, then mutilated when she dared to challenge him? Or the woman he blinded for failing to offer him unswerving devotion?” Who would speak for Liliyana, for Genya and Alina and Baghra if she did not? Who will speak for me?
‒ King of Scars, Chapter 14














