Did David Kostyk die in ‘Shadow and Bone’ season 2?

shadow and bone Season 2 had several surprises in store for fans, and one of them had to do with David Kostyk.

Season 2 follows Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) as she joins the fight against General Kirigan (Ben Barnes), aka The Darkling, to save Ravka. To do this, she needs Illya Morozova’s last two amplifiers to increase her power and she is helped in this mission by Nikolai Lantsov (Patrick Gibson).

When General Kirigan and his Grisha forces come to fight Alina, Nikolai and the others, the fate of Luke Pasqualino’s character is left hanging in the balance. Here’s everything you need to know.

Warning: this article contains spoilers for shadow and bone Season 2.

Did David Kostyk die in ‘Shadow and Bone’ season 2?

In the battle, Kirigan unleashes some of his shadow monsters (Nichevo’ya) on the Ravkan base where Alina is. One of them attacks the Sun Summoner, Mal Oretsev (Archie Renaux), Genya Safin (Daisy Head) and David.

The four are separated in the incident, with David and Genya going one way and Alina and Mal going the other. David and Genya end up cornered in a kitchen by the Nichevo’ya, and he urges his partner into a dumbwaiter which he then locks from the outside and sends off before the shadow monster can enter.

When the battle is over, Genya searches for David and returns to the kitchen where she last saw him. There, she can see blood smeared on the walls, and she says she “can’t hear its heartbeat” when she searches for it using her Grisha powers.

However, while Genya assumes this means David is dead, his body is not actually shown onscreen, raising the question of whether he actually died during the battle against the Nichevo’ya. Leigh Bardugo’s original novels may offer an answer.

The Durast survives the events of the shadow and bone trilogy, and he appears in king of scars And Wolves Rule, the Nikolai-centric duology set three years after the trilogy and also after the Six of Ravens duology.

In king of scarsit is revealed that David and Genya were married before the events of the book, which is teased on the TV show when Genya finds a ruby ​​and a design for an engagement ring in David’s coat pocket.

David and Genya have a more lavish wedding ceremony at Wolves Rule, and at the wedding reception, David leaves to work on an idea in his studio where he is killed during a bombing of Fjerdan.

Given the ambiguous nature of David’s fate in season 2 of shadow and boneit is unknown if he really died, or if he was simply carried away from the battlefield by the Nichevo’ya who were pursuing him and Genya.

David’s fate was written in the Bardugo books, but the lack of an obvious death in the series means it’s not necessarily the case that he’s already dead in the series. Shadow and Bones.

shadow and bone Season 2 is now available on Netflix.