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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    When Wylan’s normally called for his expertise in breaking handcuffs, the way it goes depicts the more brutal side of the Barrel.

    That’s what he prepared himself for. The gore and grime, broken bones and whatnot.

    What he hadn't prepared himself for was seeing the most beautiful boy before him, stark naked, with a lone wrist handcuffed to the frame of the bed…

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    meet-cute, one shot, good ole fashioned banter ♥️

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    05 Jun 2026

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    So Jesper had explained the whole story, of how every time he thinks of marriage he accidentally uses his powers to make a ring, and how Wylan doesn’t know any of this, and how until one of them proposed to the other, Jesper was simply doomed to accidentally make every metal object in his range an engagement ring because he wanted to marry Wylan so badly it was a little insane.

    “I think this is an extremely easily avoidable problem, Jesper,” Nina tells him, rolling her eyes and Matthias nods in agreement. Jesper was on the floor of the Slat, and he made no attempt to stand up. “Just propose to him.”

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    01 Jun 2026

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    Wylan keeps waiting for it all to go wrong.

    Ever since that first night, after they beat Pekka Rollins, ever since the night after that, when it wasn’t over. Every morning since, when it still wasn’t.

    Happiness isn’t reliable. Peace is not permanent. People do not stay. This is what Wylan knows; it’s the only proven hypothesis he has any reason to trust. And every day, he wonders how long he has left before everything good that’s happened over the last month is inevitably whisked away.

     

    Or: the scenic route to the Van Eck reveal. Wylan Van Eck, in the months following the Crow’s return to Ketterdam. Struggling with his past, relearning love in its many forms, and worrying an awful lot about how to keep it.

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    31 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 20

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    Having fun is an effort, and it’s a taxing game he knows how to play, how to stretch for as long as he can, because it’s worth it. Wylan doesn’t reach for words, he thinks in music anyway. He’s focused on being here, too much to divert attention to talking about it. Like a generator conserving energy to keep the power going, sacrificing some things in favour of more important ones.

     

    A night out in the Barrel. Clubs are loud, and Wylan is quiet. Neither of these things are a problem.

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    30 May 2026

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    Barely one in every hundred Grisha are lucky enough to have their soulmate’s first words etched into their skin. Otkazat'sya never receive the indelible ink, instead left to scramble for a soulmate who rarely, if ever, appears.
    Jesper dreamed of receiving his ink as a young boy. The chances of him meeting his soulmate were slim to none, the chances of those words appearing even slimmer. When he wakes on his thirteenth birthday with a burning rash circling his wrist, barely legible words beneath the blisters, he’s ecstatic. When the skin heals and he finally reads them, he’s terrified. Because the words on his skin aren’t a greeting, they aren’t exciting. The words on his skin are a warning.

    'He's going to kill me.'
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    Wylan Van Eck had been dreading his wedding. The engagement to a Mercher twelve years his senior (‘only’ his father had said, as if he should be grateful) seemed too easy an ending for him after years of torment. So, when his wedding night suddenly included hands too tight around his throat, an ungainly escape aided by a candlestick, and a midnight sprint through the city into the pits of the Barrel, well, that made much more sense.

    Title from 'Which witch' by Florence and the Machine

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    25 May 2026