Yes I’m all for admitting Kalim is not as good as the fandom makes him out to be but for the love of Christ can we stop making it out that he’s idk the only one with no trauma?? Or that he’s the only one who’s privileged?
Hot take but most of nrc is privileged. Also another hot take (I can’t believe it’s a hot take), Kalim does have trauma.
If we’re going off of Kalim just being a rich heir and that’s why he’s privileged (which is he), then we have to remember that some house wardens and students are privileged too.
Riddle’s parents are both successful mages I believe and his mother is a successful doctor
I believe Cater’s dad is a banker and bankers do make a hefty amount of money
Leona is a prince
Azul’s stepdad is a lawyer and his mother runs a successful restaurant. Azul himself makes a bunch of money too, he’s literally a millionaire if we think about it
Jade and Floyd’s parents are implied (heavily implied) to be mob bosses, and it’s canon that they were spoiled during parties.
Vil’s dad being an actor and Vil herself (personal hc) being an actor and model
Rook’s family owning multiple villas
Idia/Ortho’s family is literally just as rich as the Asims, it’s mentioned in book 6
Malleus is a literal heir. That says enough.
That’s not even all of
Also if you’re gonna say Kalim has no trauma/has a perfect life, I’d have to remind you there’s been multiple attempts to kill him in his past (poisoned multiple times. That’s why he refuses to eat unless it’s Jamil’s cooking.), his dad is a literal piece of shit who’s neglected him, and to quote his VA, he’s living everyday as if it’s his last because there’s a chance it could be.
Also he’s had to deal with the betrayal of someone he thought he could trust, only to learn that person hates him. He saw Jamil as a brother, thought he could trust him, so when he learned the truth in Book 4, that’s like a fucking blow to the head for him.
Now I’m not saying that Jamil is worse than Kalim, I believe that they’re both equally as bad. This is not a Jamikali post either (I hate Jamikali with a passion.). I’m just saying we have to stop acting like Kalim has it all perfect.
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Coming off of the Masquerade event & the implication from lot of his voice lines that Malleus & MC spend much more time together than what we see in the game.....
Their friendship means so much to me?
And I feel like MC just makes Malleus less scary by association?
It's giving cheetah in captivity & its emotional support dog like at first it was "sure it's cute but it's also something that could definitely kill me if I got too close" and now it's "okay that's definitely still something that could kill me if I got too close but look at him play with his little puppy wuppy friend🥺"
Beauty and the Beast energy except the Beast is just some traumatized architecture/history/anthropology nerd and the Beauty once yelled at Kalim while he was already crying
Centuries old all powerful inhuman creature that is also royalty btw and just some random idiot who got isekaid
Friendship recognised and found between the odd ones out except they're both on the two extreme ends of the "odd ones out" spectrum
"I have way too much magic to ever justify being in a magic school" & "I have way too little magic to ever justify being in a magic school"
I'm obsessed.
Anyway if I spent my whole incredibly long life being so alone that it actually traumatised me, with the only friends I have being people who are also technically my family, unable to make any friends or even get invited to anything because everyone was just so scared of me before they even spoke with me and it was obviously hurting me deeply but I could never really show that because the hurt of that would probably level a city, only for some clueless idiot who, being completely powerless, should have even more right to fear me than everybody else just looks at me and immediately decides I'm their friend and then continues to act on that by giving me a silly nickname and inviting me to things and studying with me and talking with me about my interests and casually touching me because we're friends and that's what friends do I'd lose my fucking shit
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