🌿 My Name Is Rola, And This Is My Story 🌿

mutuals solve this

I was listening to "No One Mourns The Wicked". I thought of something. Malleus would be a good fit for Elphaba character wise in a fandom fusion for obvious reasons. But someone else who fits the "No One Mourns The Wicked" song specifically is Kalim.

I genuinely believe that Kalim is an unreliable narrator and his family is rotten to the core. There are various instances in the main story, the events and vignettes where Kalim is shown to either flat out deny or overlook the more troubling aspects of his family. The references to poison attempts, frequent kidnappings, use of child labour, highly questionable treatment of their employees (like the Vipers), rampant animal abuse (since Kalim said during the Playful Land event that they keep animals like elephants, orcas and dolphins caged up or in small tanks on property, which is well documented to harm them both psychically and psychologically), his father bribing Crowley to allow his son to attend NRC and the strongly implied presence of a harem in the JP version are massive red flags that something far darker is at play behind Kalim’s idealized image of his family.

The fact that Kalim’s father is involved in politics makes him even more suspect. It's completely possible that he's manipulating the Sultan to make his family richer like Jafar in the movie. Or, worse yet, like Muskrat is right now.

Due to these factors, I think the average person from the country views the Asims like how people view evil American politicians. They see them as evil and the source of trouble and discord in their lives, being out of touch due to their wealth and power. I imagine that there could be a large subsect of people who would CELEBRATE if one of them died, including Kalim himself.

Deep down, I think that's something Kalim actually fears. That hardly anyone would care if one of those poison attempts did him in and would be glad that he died. It would explain why he's so generous. He's doing that because he's trying to win other's favour in order to prevent that from happening.

I was following up until the last sentence.

Kalim doesn't help people to curry favor. He helps people because he wants to be the kind of person he wishes everyone was. He's even said that he doesn't care if people are taking advantage of his kindness, it's the idea of making people happy that he values. So while the rest of this read is spot on, I do have to set the record straight here.

Corrupt family? Yep. Fear for his life? Debatable. Desire to help people and willingness to give everything to everyone on a whim? Geniune.

He's sheltered and privileged and naive so his goodness can come across in bad faith sometimes, but Kalim has no ulterior motives for being a good person and I will die on that hill.

Thank you for your take.

The beasts say in unison

PRAK PEKA PRAK PEKA PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK

i don't know why I made this

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

Kalim Al-Asim

HI! I’m a young artist and wanted to show off my recent art :3

so here’s my recent art

I TRIED TO COPY THE TWST STYLE

me and my mermaid malewife

Ong I need more people to hate on Knight of Dawn bro. It's quite a hypocrite that Henrik gets more hate than KoD when both plays a vital role for Briar Kingdom's almost downfall. He knew that colonialism is wrong but then he can't stop because of his future wife and his foster king father, like damn bro get some fuckin balls?? I'm so sick of seeing fanarts of him

You heard the Anon.

This is the rallying cry for all the Dawn Knight's haters!

It's not the first take that berates this character and I can see where these feelings stem from. So this is the place for people to agree to now air their grievances.

Thank you for your take.