If you've been watching Shadow and Bone literally at all, you know that the fans are pretty serious about their favorite couples.
You've got Darklina shippers, Malina shippers, and a whole fanbase for Milo the Goat. But there's one relationship everyone's rooting for: Kanej (aka Inej and Kaz).
Kaz is a criminal mastermind who runs Ketterdam Crow Club. He's also the head of a gang that includes Inej, who's trying to buy her freedom from a pleasure house called the Menagerie.
Basically, they're inseparable, and people are loving how much of an emotional connection the two characters share.
1. You will become obsessed (you've been warned):
kanej take up most of my thoughts on a daily basis #ShadowAndBone
2. Enough said:
give me my kanej photoshoot or give me death netflix
3.
people ask me if i’m okay when my comfort ship is KANEJ.
4. The way they look at each other is just *chef's kiss*:
shadow and bone is just kanej yearning through prolonged eye contact for eight episodes and i'm not mad about it
5.
no one is talking about how inej sees kaz after he agrees to let alina free.
6. And when the cast says how much they love Kanej, it drives us even crazier:
AMITA SAYING INEJ KNEW KAZ WAS WORTH SAVING BECAUSE HE WAS ONE OF A KIND, EVEN IF SHE DIDNT UNDERSTAND WHY- IM MISERABLE
7.
No thoughts just crying over Freddy and Amita talking about kanej in the most poetic way 🥺♥️
8.
amita suman said "wheb i finished the books i thought their relationship was so magical and unique. it's so rare to find a relationship where it's all internal. it happens in the eye and the hear" SHE UNDERSTANDS KANEJ YOUR HONOR
9.
ben barnes being openly a kanej shipper gives me a little thrill every time i think about it... look at his face while freddy and amita were talking
10. We're very emotionally attached:
#shadowandbone #shadowandbonenetflix kaz to inej: no Saint ever watched over me. not like you have. us:
11.
i just realized kaz's love language is gift giving
12. I would also have trouble breathing if I were in Inej's presence:
friendly reminder that kaz brekker won’t flinch when taking out a man’s eyeball but his breath catches when looking at inej 😊
13. Also, can we just have a round of applause for the casting?
hello freddy and amita didn't have a chemistry read before shooting and they did this??? kanej won your honor
14.
props to kaz for keeping his composure during this scene bc my mind would stop working the moment inej ghafa walked up to me looking like this
15. Even the TikTokers have gotten involved:
HAVING A KANEJ BREAKDOWN THIS IS SICK
16. Kanej basically created their own trope:
enemies to lovers this, friends to lovers that, y’all are forgetting the best trope: feeling them before seeing them, communicating everything with silence or just a look, thinking of each other during heists instead of the actual heist YES i’m talking about kanej what about it
17. We've also got crossovers with another classic "we're pining for each other but don't say so until the last minute" situation:
okay but people doing parallels between pride and prejudice and kanej is honestly too much for my poor weak little heart
18.
leigh bardugo didn’t write "he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn’t pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her" for y’all to call kanej toxic stfu
19. Basically, Kanej is the best, and I won't be accepting questions at this time:
not the interviewer asking about other ships for kaz besides kanej
If you need me, I'll be reading Six of Crows and fangirling.
