#💙! damali

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Luxe couture outfits for the ocs I believe could participate in the event<33

Super happy with how this turned out, especially because I had such a difficult time with these😭😭

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The one and only time Damali was shy around Jamil

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I LOVE THIS NEW EVENT AESTHETIC

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Voice claim: Maomao - The Apothecary Diaries

Character info:

Damali Khepri is a sophomore student in Scarabia, she's twisted from the golden scarab beetle from Aladdin.

Damali's family is tasked with taking care of the Asim's treasure, and because a good part of their treasure was sent with Kalim to NRC, Damali was ordered by her parents and the Asims themselves to study there and to protect Kalim's fortune. Just like Jamil, Damali wishes for freedom to do what she wants and not just be a servant and protector to the Asim's treasures, but she's rather neutral at her job, not caring much about the Asim's themselves and just being nice for the sake of being nice.

Damali is calm, often being able to have a cool mind in dire situations, she's cunning and smart and often able to come up with solutions for difficult problems. She's also seen as a treasure herself, given how famous her own family is and how people see her as a key to getting to Kalim's fortune; people have tried to manipulate her too many times, she is able to identify when people are playing with her really easily... That and she also is very conscious of how people interact with her, she basically has trust issues.

She's canonically beautiful, having a lot of people fawning over her and wanting a bit of attention from her. She has an eccentric personality because of her interest in poisons and in insects, specifically the scarab beetles. She believes people won't like her for who she is — that being something her parents always told her, that she must be perfect and look perfect at all times for the Asim's reputation — so she often keeps this eccentric side of her to herself, in order for people to believe she's the wonderful, beautiful and collected Damali.

Fun facts: Damali is blind, not being able to see almost anything; she's known Jamil and Kalim for years, but they weren't as close until they got to NRC because her family's job (and by extension hers) doesn't require her to be near Kalim at all times; Damali often asks to taste test Kalim's food instead of Jamil, initially being simply because she wanted to taste the possibility of poison, but later because of she deeply cared for Jamil.

Basic info:

Age: 17

Height: 176cm

Nicknames: mademoiselle Scarabée (meaning beetle - by Rook), water beetle (by Floyd) and jasmine (flower meaning prosperity - by Perse)

Birthday: January 29th

Grade: sophomore (2nd grade)

Favorite food: grapes, chamomile tea

Best subject: potionology/poison making

Club: science club

Hobbies: studying and tasting different types of poisons/collecting insects

Homeland: Scalding Sands

Unique Magic: Diamond in the Rough - grants her the ability of determining and pointing out something that someone wishes the most at a certain moment (ex.: if she were to use this on, let's say, Jamil, she would figure out that what he wants the most is to be free to do what he wants and to be appreciated by his talents.); normally uses it when suspecting someone's going after the Asim's treasure; can only be used once per person.

Relationship dynamics:

Jamil Viper: Jamil and Damali have an interesting relationship. Damali sees Jamil as someone fun to play with, as different from most people he never fawns over her nor does he seem to care about her appearance. She's taken a habit of flirting with Jamil and teasing him frequently to see how he reacts (usually he makes a groaning noise and flinch in disgust, which makes her laugh); he's yet to get truly flustered by her advances and she made it her life mission to get to that point, but not because she loves him!! Or at least that's what she tells herself. Damali quickly understood that Jamil was manipulating Kalim, but since it didn't involve anything surrounding Kalim's fortune she stayed just observing the situation until an opening would come, so at first she just went along with it, pretending she didn't know that Jamil was doing something, but with Daisy (my Yuu) and the octatrio's arrival she quickly switched sides.

Kalim Al-Asim: despite being neutral about her job and not caring about what would happen to Kalim before the arrival of Daisy/the octatrio, seeing Kalim break down made her feel a lot of sympathy towards the boy, and seeing him cry woke her up to just how screwed up Jamil's plan affected Kalim. She grew fond of him after the events of book 4 and even more interested in Jamil as well.

Jeanne Hook: she hated Jeanne. Jeanne was going against Damali's job, and she did everything in her power to keep Jeanne away from Kalim's treasury and to ruin their date plans together with Jamil. Still, after realizing Jeanne's change of heart regarding her feelings for Kalim, she quickly calmed down, realizing the girl would not have the courage to steal from Kalim any longer — she also may or may not have used her UM on Jeanne and found out what she truly wanted was to be accepted for who she was, not treasure.

Jade Leech: Damali finds Jade's obsession with mushrooms and plant life delightful, and he often helps her figuring out stuff to experiment with more poisonous plants and fungi; they're both chaotic and weird together, but she tries to keep her act together because she knows Jade can and will use the information of her interest in poison to blackmail her.

Divus Crewel: her favorite teacher, he lets her play around with potions all the time but always when she's being supervised, he sees her as a mouthful because of her dangerous interests, but he's happy someone is so interested in his class.

Rook Hunt: little 👏🏻freaks.👏🏻 I am so certain Rook gave Damali a few flirting tactics to try and get Jamil flustered, and I am so certain that she had to stand there and go like "buddy I love you but I am not going to stalk him just to find out everything about him that's illegal". They are a menace in the science club, Trey is so concerned everytime they're together.

Trey Clover: Damali is always trying to push Trey over the edge and get him to participate in her and Rook's weird scientific experiments, he is almost always the voice of reason, making both Damali and Rook bummed out.

Character references:

Others:

Dorm room.

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🪲🐍

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COLLAB WITH @dibbledoodle HEHEHHEHEHEHE

Our silly OCs... Damali based on the golden beetle and Kinza based on the cave of wonders..... Both from Aladdin...... The babies ever.......... I love them............

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Damali explains how she does her hair! (ft. Jamil)

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Trying to get used to drawing Damali

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Finished Damali's room yippeeeeee

The cleaned up rooms for the dorms can be found here btw!

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Finally finished making the coffin icons for my girls!! Couldn't do one for Isabelle unfortunately bc she's an RSA student (⁠｡⁠•́⁠︿⁠•̀⁠｡⁠)

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aight now be amazed at how creative I can get

Adelaide - Parents argued a lot and caused her to have night terrors and get her um at concerning early(5) and her parents dropped her off at an orphanage after divorce

Davi - Dad left at birth and watched his mom get burnt alive in a fire he accidentally caused, and him and his siblings got separated causing him to go into the Kingscholar's care, bro was 6. Also has Night eating syndrome

Doyle - Half of his face got charred off by a fire fairy when he was 8

Malik - Arm got melted off leaving only the skeleton when trying to save his sister from a deadly disease, she dies anyway and his parents disowned him. He was 11

Scylla - Parents got killed when he was a baby so he was taken in by STYX bcus he was the first half phantom offspring, so it was a wonder he was alive. Then got physically, mentally, and emotionally abused by his caretaker, leaving his only real family to be the phantoms

Kyrie - His eye got scratched out by a stray dog. He was 13

Rigel - You already know :3

im such a good mom trust

I have a genuine question why do u physically harm all of ur ocs (with very few exceptions)? Like?? What'd they do sheesh😭😭

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YOU BOTH @viilpstick

HOW GET NEW OCS AND I DONT EVEN KNOWP???

Sorry we went a bit wild when u left us unsupervised 😔

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Cordelia: "Yes he keep rejecting my advances even thou he likes me"

Damali (that's their name right??? ): GIRL SAME

*insert screaming*

THEY'RE SO TIRED

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I'm actually extremely tempted to throw some personality quirks from the characters of Isa tkm (a telenovela from when I was younger and I rewatch it until this day bc ✨nostalgia✨) into my ocs... Mainly bc if people ask me why are they like that I can say "oh they're actually partially based on Rey Galan from Isa tkm" and watch as the person stares at me in confusion

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Hello Mah! ♡

I got this sudden idea for Cathie that I just wanted to share, as I also feel it's something Jamil would do, and I know you have an OC that you ship with him!

(Also I can see Kalim, or even Leona doing this too!)

So, since Cater has his ears pierced, I was thinking...

Imagine a single pair of earrings, where Cater wears one on one of his ears, and Ruthie wears the other on one of her ears! ♡

It's a cute way to be matching with your partner, and a small way of keeping them with you wherever you go!

I think Jamil would do this too, as not only is it subtle, but it's also a way for him to show that you are his (even if others may not know it!)

Whenever he sees you, and sees the earring on your ear that matches his, a small smile comes to his face, feeling a sense of pride ♡

And whenever he misses you, he holds the earring between his fingers, subtly rubbing where it sits in his ear. Sometimes he does it without even realizing it ♡

But yeah! I just wanted to share, cause when I got this idea for Cathie, I instantly thought of Jamil doing this with someone he's dating!

(Specifically Ian's Yuu Yuusha, but I think it applies to anyone with an OC x Canon with Jamil!)

Thank you! ♡

(Also, I just wanted to let you know I'll be sharing this idea with Ian too, as it was her OC x Canon that gave me this idea for Jamil! I just wanted to give you a heads up, in case you see this ask on her blog too!)

(I'm glad u warned me u were gonna send this to Ian bc I low-key was gonna tag her in this lmaooooo)

Makes me happy that you thought of me too when thinking of this hc!! I def imagine Jamil giving Damali an earring to share, I just love it when characters have something matching even if it's very small🥺💙

Also ahhh cathie having this as a little thing is so so soooo cute<33