Kaz also suffers from haphephobia, the fear of being touched or touching others. This developed from his traumatic experiences as a child, when he was thought to be dead and dumped with hundreds of dead plague victims. Kaz was forced to swim to shore, using his deceased brother as a float to keep him from drowning.
Kaz awoke among those ravaged and decaying bodies, including his brother's. Too weak to swim, he was forced to use Jordie's body to float back to shore. The occurrence left Kaz severely traumatized to the point of being touch-averse: he can't endure direct skin-to-skin contact with another person.
He used his brother's body as a floatation device to reach shore, but the experience left him with deep trauma. His memories of the Reaper's Barge, and his brother's decomposing body, turn the sensation of physical touch into a horrific trigger for Kaz.
The leader of the gang, Kaz Brekker, suffers from PTSD despite his fearsome reputation. He has touch aversion and wears gloves all the time, but he manages to turn it into a strength to add into his reputation.
Robot, protagonist Elliot Alderson is strongly implied to suffer from haphephobia, frequently avoiding the touch of others. In the 2015 novel Six of Crows, protagonist Kaz Brekker suffers from this condition, causing him to wear gloves and take other measures in order to avoid skin contact.
Kaz also suffers from haphephobia, the fear of being touched or touching others. This developed from his traumatic experiences as a child, when he was thought to be dead and dumped with hundreds of dead plague victims.
His physical disability is treated like a “declaration,” and readers are told in the story that he made his cane into a symbol of pride, that he is stronger for having been broken. Even though he exists in a world with magical healing, he never asks to have his disability healed, and it isn't brought up.
Kaz Brekker is a character who allows for many, multifaceted and sometimes conflicting interpretations of asexuality. He gets to have desires and wants, but he is also allowed to be confused, angry, upset, and traumatized by those desires.
Weaknesses. Clumsiness: Kaz is very clumsy and tends to mess up certain situations, much like Leo in Lab Rats.
Shadow and Bone's Amita Suman Says It's Time Inej's Trauma Is Explored. Inej's arrival in the island nation of Ketterdam was not by choice. She and her brother were kidnapped by slavers, and she was forced to join a brothel named the Menagerie under the ruthless Tante Heleen.
After Jordie died of firepox, Kaz was trapped alone on a pile of corpses moved out into open waters due to them carrying the infection. This ordeal left Kaz extremely averse to touching other people, which led to him getting gloves in order to limit accidental skin-to-skin contact.
Kaz Brekker can not stand to be touched, skin to skin; he feels sick at just the thought of it. It's why he wears the gloves, and it's why Freddy Carter's performance as Kaz in Shadow and Bone is so utterly brilliant.
Kaz Brekker
In Six of Crows, Jesper was considered Kaz's right-hand man and the person he liked most after Inej. Early in the duology, Jesper harbors a crush on Kaz, which he commiserates with Inej about and which Kaz does not return. He is also occasionally jealous of Inej's close relationship with Kaz.
Kaz Brekker/Rietveld, also known as Dirtyhands, is a 17-year-old master thief with a reputation for doing anything for the right price. He has a personal vendetta against Pekka Rollins, who swindled Kaz and his older brother Jordie out of all their money when they first arrived in Ketterdam.
Kaz Brekker is an ENTJ personality type. He is a bold go-getter who is set on achieving his goals.
I think I would've been furious had there been a makeout scene or even a kiss between Kaz and Inej, because you can't get over trauma that easily, but Kaz's baby steps – kissing Inej's neck and then recoiling and even in the end when they intertwined their fingers was beuatifully portrayed.
Kaz is a young, skinny, pale adult with dark brown hair and blue eyes. He walks with a limp and carries a cane with a metal crow's head. Kaz always wears black gloves, and he is only seen with them off once, when he was in his private chambers.
In the books, all the Crows are somewhere between 16 and 18. Inej and Wylan are the youngest at 16; Kaz, Jesper and Nina are 17 when the story starts in Six of Crows; and Matthias is the oldest of the gang at 18.
Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
There is one major m/m romance and one additional minor queer character.
-The first thing you need to realize about Kaz and Inej is that they never have sex. It doesn't matter how much time passes or how much progress they make on their respective traumas, it never happens.
Kaz is not Grisha, nor is he a soldier, an assassin, a spy, or a sharpshooter — he's a club owner with a sharp sense of style and a trademark cane in the shape of a crow. But he is still Shadow and Bone's most dangerous player.
Answer and Explanation: Six of Crows takes place in a fantasy world with a limited understanding of mental and emotional disorders, so Jesper is never officially diagnosed with ADHD. However, his behavior lines up with many of the symptoms of ADHD.
Kaz sports the crow and cup tattoo as well as one other, a mysterious letter R. Only he knows that the R stands for Rietveld, his real last name. The R reminds Kaz of home, the only place he truly belonged.
The boys are violent and grumpy and have panic attacks; the girls are sad and stressed and have panic attacks. Kaz, to be fair, is violent and often grumpy, but he also demonstrates PTSD traits that are often underrepresented in fictional depictions.