🏷️ Touch Aversion
9 entries tagged with this trope
Investments
MontanaBohemian · 2016
Post-Crooked Kingdom where Kaz and Inej work through their trauma and build their relationship. The touch-aversion is handled beautifully and realistically.
The Birds and the Bees
thetolkienblackguy · 2016
Post-CK. Kaz learning to let Inej touch him. Each small victory is earned. The gloves come off — literally and figuratively. If you cried at 'I would have come for you,' bring tissues.
All the Wrong Things in All the Right Ways
aknightfornawt · 2016
Post-Crooked Kingdom. Kaz and Inej trying to figure out what they are to each other. Every touched finger is a battlefield. Slow-burn at the molecular level.
Investments
thefudge · 2018
After Crooked Kingdom. Inej returns to Ketterdam. Kaz learns to be vulnerable. Every touch is earned, every word weighted. The most Kanej thing ever written.
Gloves Off
summertevens · 2017
Kaz takes off his gloves. That's it. That's the fic. And it will destroy you. Every Kanej reader knows this moment is worth more than a hundred explicit scenes.
A Thousand Cuts
TheRavenThatFlew · 2017
Kaz Brekker's slow, painful journey toward being able to feel. Each chapter is a cut that heals a deeper wound. Inej is patient. Kaz is trying. It's enough.
The Broken and the Whole
inkandowl · 2016
After Crooked Kingdom. Kaz learns to reach for her without his gloves. Inej learns to stay. Every touch is a revolution.
Gloves Off
essie_stardust · 2016
Kaz without his armor. Each chapter is a moment where the gloves come off — literally and figuratively. Devastating in the best way.
Drowning in Daylight
essie_stardust · 2016
Kaz in daylight. Without his armor. The process of becoming safe with someone when safety was never something you got to have.