Wanted to ask if you have any particular headcanons for Jamil? Ones that you might not have mentioned/written, or you havenāt seen others share?
I have the standard ones like:
Jamil has ptsd, but handles it very differently from Kalim. Where Kalim is more in denial, Jamil is overlly controling in an attempt to control his own fears. He is no longer capable of responding to small problems like they arenāt life or death, meaning that each decision he makes has a huge monologue in his head to justify it to himself.
Jamil had a crush on kalim when they were kids, but his parents, especially his mother, subtly pushed for him to stop, not out of homophobia but out of fear of kalim exploiting it when he grew older. So jamil burried rhe crush under resentment
Jamil has been trained in poison resistance and basic physical combat, although the times heās actually had to use it arenāt that many. Just enough to make him paranoid
Slightly less common headcanons but iāve seen others share:
Jamil is a cringe loser who thinks heās cool. His overthinking and superiority complex from all of kalimās praise means he misses some social cues and then justifies them to himself, unaware of how silly he looks.
He had at least one thing he thinks heās good at but sucks at because kalim said it was good
He likes cooking but feels burnt out by having to do it every day for kalim and his guests. If he could step back from it, heād probably enjoy it more
Food is one of his love languages, and he takes great pride in kalim trustinf only his food, even as he resents having to always cook
He will always get himself mistaken for being with kalim because no way an outsider would look someone is that obsessed with someone and think they arenāt in love.
When he was in middle school his classmates thought he had a secret boyfriend because he would occationally mention someone named ākalimā and the refuse to elaborate anything about him. Jamil had no idea
When he goes on his internship, jamil will keep in touch with kalim and justify it to himself as logical worry. His fellow internship members also think heās dating kalim
If Kalim had any children with someone else, jamil would be an overprotective helecopter parent to those children, eventhough heās not even technically in a relationship with kalim, more so than even kalimās own wife (who would have to at least tolerate jamilās position in kalimās life to get the wife status) both the wife and kalim keep trying to get him to chill out
Eligible young ladies who are considered as matches for Kalim have been warned against Jamilās existance by their servants. Jamil doesnāt know it, but the way Kalim talks sbout him has basically cemented him as kalimās secret boyfriend. This has stopped a fair share of marriage proposals from even happening. Kalim and his family have no idea.
No position of power could ever make jamil happy. His ptsd would only fuel his paranoia anf make him worse. What he needs is to see a therapist and learn some things are out of his control.
He would make a great crime novelist if he ever tried. Heās lived enough intrigue to make very elaborate plots believable.
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