Khadim Malik Antar
Nickname: Mal
What: jinni
Gender: male (he/him)
Age: appears 42
Height: 6'0
Orientation: pansexual
fc: na.veen and.rews
Bio:
Being a jinni is pretty cool. Power. Immortality. Invulnerability. Being chained to the desire of any mortal who picks up your lamp.
Okay, so the last part’s pretty shit.
And sure, Malik’s met some pretty cool people in the thousands of years he’s been alive, but he’s also met some pretty terrible ones.
(And then there was that one who was both.)
He’s been doing his job for longer than he can remember and granting wishes gets kind of dull after a few thousand years. Masters don’t keep him long and when they do, it always ends terribly for him. He lets himself get attached, knowing he shouldn’t, knowing it’ll fuck him over. In ancient Egypt, he loved a girl who used that to her advantage. She manipulated him and got him to break the rules without actually breaking them. He’d have done anything for her and she was fully aware of that. When he realized what she’d been doing, it nearly destroyed him. He’s been a lot more closed off ever since.
Jinn have a reputation for extreme evil or extreme good, but Malik likes to think he lands more in the neutral zone. Not every wish he grants backfires, but not all of them work out either. A big part of this is the master. If they’re kind and respectful towards him, he’s a lot more willing to help the wish run smoothly. If they’re rude, he does his best to make sure the wishes backfire in the worst possible way.
Malik prefers not to go by his first name and will very rarely tell someone what it is. It means “servant” and the irony is not lost on him.
There are a few rules that come with being a jinni, of course. Can’t have all that power without any limits. Three rules apply to the wish-maker:
1. Jinn can’t bring back the dead. 2. They can’t make anyone fall in love. 3. No wishing for more wishes.
A couple of rules apply to jinn:
1. They can’t betray or disobey their current master. 2. They can’t take a life unless they are ordered to do so. 3. They can’t be freed without someone taking their place.
Malik doesn’t mind being attached to the lamp, but he wouldn’t stop someone from wishing him free. He probably wouldn’t even warn them of the consequences. Freedom would diminish his powers, but it wouldn’t remove them completely and it might be nice to be his own master for once.