#comatherapy

I’m so happy that my analyses piqued your interests … spreading the kalim agenda (and infecting everyone with the kalim agenda to slowly indoctrinate people into the crazier ideas I post on Twitter) is half the reason why i do them in the first place. he is genuinely such an interesting character that im not even sure you can properly explain everything about him in one post without missing a few other details that add to his nuance (even my 10K+ word analyses - the point is to drive a point with those, but it isn’t the end-all be-all of his character)

I especially hope that it touches more people’s hearts after Book 7 and Book 7.5, and that I can generally help to explain a little of how his logic works (and doesn’t immediately get dismissed as “he’s being stupid/incompetent”). With the way he’s written, it’s even harder to say that what he’s thinking (and most of the cast just understands that he’s unpredictable. I think I can count on one hand the amount of people in the cast who genuinely try to piece him together, and it shows in Kalim’s interactions with those people as well). Like… right after Book 7 Chapter 9 came out, I made that analysis … and although Book 7.5 did vindicate me in some areas (keeping his true feelings close), it outright showed us his thoughts (first time we ever get to see them properly) and how he’s not exactly focusing on wanting to get along with Jamil for the sake of altruism (recognizing that Jamil may try to take over the Asim family, and making the resolve that he won’t allow that - although he was smiling during the conversation with Jamil) (this is contrasting the idea that maybe he might be balancing his position as heir with helping out Jamil in any way he can. he basically tells us that he’s not going to do that straightforward and has his interests ie keeping his family safe and keeping his position as heir), and emphasizing that “cold indifference” that we see in the story a few times but never in the main story (I think back to Kalim’s moment with Riddle in his school uniform story, or Kalim’s reaction to some fighters in the tamashina mina ring insulting him outright and his reaction to it).

It gives me the vibes of what’s described in his newly released parfum (setting sun, hiding a gentle serenity, etc). It’s just another nuance to him, but even with me saying this, it’s definitely not all there is to his character. he’s an empathetic guy who wants people to be happy bcuz that makes him happy! but he’s slowly enforcing boundaries and it’ll look off and offensive because he’s so used to giving to others; that’s what most people are used to. but he still wants to get along with people. but he can’t ignore his own feelings anymore! he also interacts differently with different people, and as he learns about the world he was isolated from, his learning curves will also look off and unfocused because he’s actively looking for direction as well; there’s a reason he tells us he got tired of distrusting people as he grew up. but like any other teenage boy, he still wants to cement an ego, so even if his ideas sound weird or off and he’s stubborn over it, it doesn’t hurt to listen to them, especially because that is most of the cast anyway lol.

his max level voice line is about how he wants to understand us more, and wants us to learn more about him, too. his max friendship lvl voice line is about him wanting to give us clothes or jewels as a thanks and him then trying to figure out what it is we really want if not materialistic gifts from him. in both cases, after getting to understand him more, you realize the way he interacts with the world is through trying to understand it too. (or at least, that’s what’s emphasized in a reciprocative way after trying to understand him first.) that quiet serenity … it’s not really delusional. it’s just that some people might be more touched over it than others, but it’s these little things that make him feel so real to me…