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Second year of artfight! 🍳

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Beloved OC with absolutely rancid vibes

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First time making merch, but I'm so proud of it! 🐙🐍

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Maid Day Nonsense 🐙🐍

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You really are my genie of the lamp! 🐙🐍

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Redraw of some of my older azjm art because I'm always weak for this kind of firework setting. Concept based on a fic I will never write, but details under the cut.

Starts at the end of third year and goes throughout fourth. 

Azul manages to get an internship with a company seeking to establish trade routes between the Coral Sea and Scalding Sands to guarantee he’ll work alongside Kalim and the Asim family (and Jamil by extension) 

He sees this as a win-win situation because he gets to establish a proper connection with the Asims which will be beneficial for business later. He definitely did NOT do this because he was afraid that his time with Jamil was running out and that they’d go their own way after graduation and never speak again without school as a common ground or anything!!!

When the paperwork has been finalised, he goes to Scarabia to celebrate with Kalim and thank him for his help in securing the position. He’d requested Kalim keep it a secret from Jamil until it was official, so this is the first time Jamil’s learning about it.

Jamil uncharacteristically drops a cup and spills some tea when he hears this. It’s odd, but Azul brushes it off to the news catching him off guard and doesn’t dwell too much on it. 

After the current third years’ graduation ceremony, Azul goes to congratulate Idia but overhears Leona and Jamil talking about how Kalim interceded with his family on Jamil’s behalf to get him an independent internship outside Scalding Sands. 

It seems Jamil is doing his internship in some sort of archaeological dig and exchanging quips about it with Leona. It’s the first time Azul is hearing of this and his heart sinks.

Haha, it doesn’t matter that Jamil isn’t going to be around. He did this with the Asim family in mind, not Jamil. It doesn’t matter!!! His plans are still on track!!! (Uh huh. Very convincing.) 

Twins come along because of course they do. 

Anyway, he goes off to do his work and excels at it. He’s satisfied from a business standpoint but he feels a little hollow. Slowly becomes acquainted with the culture of Scalding Sands. 

The time for the fireworks festival comes around. Kalim shows the three of them around before they go to the spot reserved for the Asims to watch the firework show.  

The fireworks are nice but it’s not really what he expected. Come to think of it, he doesn’t know what he was expecting at all.  Well, whatever. Given how popular fireworks are with merfolk, creating and advertising some kind of travel package to those first arriving on land is an excellent business opportunity. That’s all that really matters here.

Just as he’s thinking of excusing himself to go work some more, he receives a call from an unknown number. He steps aside to pick it up, it’s Jamil. It’s been a while since Azul has heard anything from him so he’s a bit at a loss. 

Jamil is unfazed though. He says that Kalim isn’t picking up so he’s calling Azul to make sure everything went smoothly. Azul feels oddly irritated by this. 

While they’re talking, he hears fireworks echoing from Jamil’s end of the line. He also hears some music similar to the one he heard earlier while Kalim was showing him and the twins around and  realises he must be nearby. He pinpoints his location somewhere around one of the canals with ships coming all the way from the sea based on some music playing in the background and immediately runs off to find him. Twins stay behind with Kalim. 

Azul can’t pinpoint the exact reason as to why he’s so annoyed, but the idea of Jamil hanging around all day without showing his face really ticks him off. 

(He’s irritated at himself  because he feels he’s been missing Jamil one-sidedly all this time while Jamil seems to be avoiding any chance to meet)

His stamina sucks so he gets to the canal all breathless and pissed. Because some sounds on the phone are becoming more distant, he surmises Jamil is probably on one of the boats.   

He very, very briefly (and reluctantly) considers swimming all the way to the boat to give Jamil a piece of his mind, but Jamil cuts him off and tells him not to move.

J: Not another step. I won’t forgive you if you miss it. 

A: —What? 

J:  Burn this memory into your mind, Azul. 

Fireworks time!!!!!!!!!!  The point of this concept is that Jamil prepared fireworks specifically for Azul from a distance because he couldn’t be there in person due to his current job (which forces him to be at sea).

Anyway the overarching plot for most of my azjm stories is Jamil researching the old maritime routes first taken by the Asim family generations prior and roughly identifying the site of major recorded shipwrecks over the Coral Sea so that he can propose doing an internship in marine archaeology seeking to recover artefacts relevant to the legacy of the Asim family and the history of Scalding Sands from the bottom of the sea

Haha he definitely DOES NOT set this up hoping to get the chance to learn as much as he can about merfolk culture and get to see Azul every now and again during his internship haha no sir he would never! 

………………..and then Azul says he’s doing his internship in scalding sands instead (EL. OH. EL. )

Anyway, it’s dokidoki hours for Azul when the realisation Jamil did this for him sinks in (how do I write sappy stuff, I don't know actually)

J: Oi. What’s up with you? What, are you crying?

A: …Perish the thought. 

J: (SNORT) Next time, getting to see your face in person wouldn’t be so bad. 

A: …Is that a promise? Let’s get that on paper, Jamil. 

J: Don’t push your luck.

A: I’ll make sure to repay the gesture next time we meet. Please look forward to it. 

J:  There’s nothing to repay— I didn’t do anything. 

A: Ever so modest, aren’t you? 

Something something the end 

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what were u thinking

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Took my nuis to the Ib escape room in Tokyo Dome the other day !

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Sleep with one eye open 🐙🐍

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Long time no azujami 🐙🐍

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Reopening these for 2025!!!

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bless you pixie for supporting my nonsense au!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Detective Azul from my Phantom Thief Jamil AU

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I like Jamil. I like Umineko. I am a simple creature.

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Phantom Thief Jamil AU

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TWST oc eee

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Colombian Buñuelos with Octarabia 🇨🇴🕯️

Colombia is full of Christmas traditions in December! From the 16th to the 24th, there is a celebration every night: for 9 days, we get together to sing Christmas songs, dance and cook special food, and so on. If they ever made a land based on Encanto in TWST, I think 9 days of partying would suit Kalim quite well...but Jamil.........

Buñuelos are some of the typical foods we eat during Christmas-- you can see them in Encanto! But because they are deep fried, they are famously easy to mess up and often accidentally explode accidentally. I have a relative who used to study nutrition in university, and she had to make buñuelos for a practical cooking lab. Because she hates cooking and wanted it to get over quickly, she put all the dough together into one single, massive buñuelo and threw it into the boiling oil. It promptly exploded, and the lesson was cancelled.

I can perfectly picture this sort of scenario with Kalim...he wants to make a big buñuelo because the bigger, the better, right? Floyd and Jade would egg him for the sake of chaos...