she/her | pt-br / eng | | icon and header by @reinbouxsworld | just here to simp twst characters and share my friend's artwork | simp for every character wearing red [im looking at u (fem)Hua Cheng from TGCF, Jamil Viper from twst, Yamato from Dislyte]
⊹ ˑ ꗃ Please take some time to look through my new art for ! (under the #reinbouxsart tag) I'm still working on a new art sheet, and even with my art staying very much the same, some refinements may be different from the current sheet! (For the better).
I'm available through my MP right here to discuss beforehand, but please keep some references in mind! It does not only help me visualize better what you want but also makes the whole process a lot faster — If you have difficulty finding it, don't worry, I don't mind helping at all!
currently salivating over Crowley and muzan in your style I have never seen what people see in them until this moment
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Let me be honest the first one I was like "OK I can draw them nicely like, two nice man, ok ok" and I was not affected at all BUT THEM I CAME TO MYSELF "oh let's draw another crowley" AND I REGRET IT SO DAMN MUCH
WHY IS HE HOT?? WHY I WANT HIM?????? WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THIS FORSAKEN LAND??????
Hey so like sorry if you're the wrong person to say this to but I love Jamil's character so much and it makes me so mad that the fandom takes Kalim's side in his ob when they're so much more sympathetic to everyone else's ob situation. Like all the ob's are caused by trauma so no olympics but Jamil was Kalim's slave??? He was literally fighting to stop being his slave? To the son of a rich merchant family that could decide the fate of his whole family?? The stakes were so fucking high. Kalim not knowing says everything about his relative privilege and nothing about his innocence. Kalim's saving grace was his willingness to change when he learned, but that slave-relationship was multigenerational and Jamil had no guarantee it would happen if he "asked for his freedom". I think the fandom has some real inner reckoning to consider about why Kalim crying is more upsetting than Jamil's (and his family's) life.
OKAY I HAVE A LOT TO SAY ON THIS ONE.
﹙𝑡𝑤𝑠𝑡.﹚ ─ WHY JAMIL TRAUMA IS (BUT SHOULDN'T BE) DOWNPLAYED
﹙ or why i support jamil viper rights and wrongs﹚
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٬٬ I think the most obvious reason is that Kalim, by being a very kind and often naïve person, wins people over quickly (myself included). He’s sweet, kind, and honest. He just wants to have a good time with his friends—he’s easy to be around and talk to. More often than not, a "happy person" is easier to forgive than someone you’re not as close to.
But what do I mean by that?
Jamil is not used to being himself. He always has to manage and calculate his every step to ensure he doesn’t overshadow Kalim’s presence, even though, by merit, he could be in the spotlight (which, at this point, I see as an unspoken Viper family tradition). And it’s not just when Kalim is around — even when Jamil is alone, he’s still under pressure to maintain his facade. We do see glimpses of him sometimes, especially after the overblot, where he's a little bit more acidic, smug and sincere, but the reality is that his entire life has been shaped around a forced role. The most frustrating part of his story is that when Jamil got to NRC, he had a brief moment of freedom—only for it to be taken away again by Kalim’s overwhelming presence. And the worst part? He wasn’t even chosen to be there. Kalim literally bought his way into NRC just to be with Jamil. I don’t think people fully realize how hopeless that must have made an already frustrated teenager feel. He had no choice but to start over, once again masking himself under Kalim’s shadow.
I won’t go into the nuances of his initial actions leading up to the overblot, but they clearly show his frustrations, especially when he hypnotized Kalim to do his own work as a housewarden.
And then, right after all the resentment and fight, we get Kalim crying over his friend. Of course, as you said, Kalim’s willingness to change is a big reason why the fandom takes his side. It makes sense— he genuinely wants to be a good friend. But the frustrating part is that people still reduce Jamil to just "the scheming servant" while ignoring everything else we see in the chapter. Kalim’s willingness to change is important, but it doesn’t undo the years of pressure, resentment, and lack of autonomy Jamil has endured. At the end of the day, Kalim can change, but Jamil? He’s still bound by the same expectations, the same role, the same system.
If you don’t look deeper into each chapter, it’s easy to sum up an overblot with a simple explanation: "Riddle is acting like his mom," "Leona is throwing a tantrum because he’s not king," and so on. I think we are often drawn more to the breaking point than to the underlying cause of it. But in Jamil’s case, the most obvious problem is also the one people tend to overlook: Jamil was — and, by definition, still is —Kalim’s servant. More than that, all Vipers still are.
The reason Jamil seems "fine" is because, unlike the others, he can’t change the very thing that made him feel this way in the first place. To be clear, I’m not downplaying any of the other boys' trauma—I’m speaking from a storytelling and borderline objective perspective. Most of the other characters could change their circumstances if they wanted to (again, i'm not saying it is easy or simple). Many of them have the resources and/or support networks to do so. But Jamil doesn’t. Even after his overblot, while Kalim gets to grow and change, Jamil is still stuck playing the same role. He may have a little more space to breathe, but his reality remains the same—his life is still controlled by the Al-Asim family.
Remember when I said I had a goal to learn how to draw horses? I'm taking it seriously 🖐😩💗
Of course, the proportions are still wrong according to the references, but I enjoyed the process, and I'm proud of myself. I first practiced on the 25th with just simple sketches, and now I've tried a little more ✍️🐎💗✨️
I've been enjoying drawing them before commissions as a warm up, I feel energetic ✨️
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