Ivan is a gay character from Shadow and Bone.
Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov and Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev in Shadow and Bone. In Leigh Bardugo's books, the answer is yes, they end up together. At the end of Ruin and Rising, Tolya and Tamar Kir-Bataar bring Mal back to life and Alina loses her power.
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. By contrast, the actors and actresses portraying them in the show are all between 27 and 30.
How are both of these series connected? The Shadow and Bone Trilogy is set in Ravka and the Six of Crows Duology is set in Ketterdam, two countries within the Grishaverse. Six of Crows begins two years after the events of the final book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy.
Suhani Nothing more than a kiss or two. Crooked Kingdom is the spicier of the two, but no sexual scenes.
Answer and Explanation: No, Alina does not appear in Six of Crows or its sequel, Crooked Kingdom. The only mention of Alina appears when Inej recites the names of her knives, calling one of them Sancta Alina.
Throughout the first book, Jesper and Wylan grow incredibly close, with Jesper at first taking Wylan under his wing and teasing the ever-loving hell out of him. Wylan clearly has a crush on Jesper, but it takes Jesper a long time to see it past his own crush on The Dregs leader Kaz.
Some time passes, Jesper and Wylan are shown to be happily flirting and kissing in bed. Kaz interrupts them to annouce a new job for Prince Nikolai of Ravka, which requires them to travel to Shu Han to retrieve a blade and bring it Ravka.
Jesper opens his mouth to take a breath and Wylan leans in and kisses him, then Jesper says "I really hope we don't die." At the end of Crooked Kingdom, Jesper has moved in with Wylan and the two have a romantic relationship. Over the course of the duology, Jesper and Wylan connect and begin to look out for each other.
Packed in there are so many couples: Jesper and Wylan, Nina and Matthias, Genya and David, of course Mal and Alina (and perhaps briefly Alina and Nikolai), and Kaz and Inej, though their relationship is less straightforward than the others.
Kaz Brekker, the 17-year-old leader of the Dregs, is the cold, calculating mastermind of the heist who skillfully manipulates dire circumstances to his advantage while privately struggling with the emotional scars of his traumatic origin story, which he takes great pains to conceal.
Alina is automatically powerful just by being the Sun Summor. She destroyed the Fold, which was with the help of three amplifiers. Because of those amplifiers, she is in third place. Coming in at number two, we have the Darkling.
He feels the loneliness of immortality, causing him to fixate on Alina because she had the capacity to be like him. However, he is also shown to truly care for and wants to be loved by his people (the Grisha) and his nation, claiming that all he ever wanted was to create a safe place for people like him.
At the end of season one of the show, Alina wasn't in a relationship with anyone. She kissed General Kirigan, only to find out that he was the Darkling who created the Fold. In season two, she kills him, so he's off the board as a love interest.
Alina Starkov
Although they were best friends, Alina had always loved Mal but he was oblivious of this fact, constantly flirting with other girls and boasting about his conquests to Alina. After it was discovered Alina was Grisha and had to leave to go to the Little Palace, Mal became cold toward her.
Kaz quickly grows to trust Inej more than anyone else; even willingly removing his gloves in her presence. Kaz slowly realizes his romantic feelings for Inej but tries to suppress them, viewing them as a weakness or a liability for both himself and Inej. Inej is also the one to pull Kaz out of his panic attacks.
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.
But that's the famous moment in the book Crooked Kingdom where Kaz kisses Inej's shoulder. There won't be more intimacy than this in the story told by Leigh Bardugo, and since Kaz and Inej's stories stop after Crooked Kingdom, so far, there is no real kiss between them.
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.
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.
During The Darkling's attack at Os Alta, he reveals that he has set nichevo'ya on Genya Safin for sparing Alina. Alina fights him and uses merzost, which causes her hair to turn white, and nearly drains her of her power, defeating them both. This leaves her almost dead and the Darkling, also, badly wounded.
The fate of Alina's powers in the show and in the books
It's not been explained yet, of course, but it's safe to assume that the price Alina had to pay for using merzost to bring Mal back was having her “original” Sun Summoner powers corrupted and turning into a Shadow Summoner, like the Darkling used to be.
Mal was oblivious to Alina's love from before book one even began. He slept with Zoya and countless others before he realised who was waiting by his back door.