Would I get hate crimed if I said I really enjoy JamiKali both romantic and platonically. I know it's a ship that tends to have a lot of backlash due to the slave/master thing but I personally enjoy them due to how complex their relationship tends to be.
Though, I don't enjoy them as your typical "oh, lets just ignore all of the shit that happened between the two and just make them kiss instead!!" like I see a LOT of people tend to enjoy (which leads to way too much mischaracterization...) No, no. I enjoy JamiKali where everything in book 4 does happen, Jamil overblotting because of his life with Kalim and finally showing his true colors, leading to the two being how they are now. I then like it where after his overblot, they spend the next years to come (I'm thinking like.. 5-10 years. Yes. A lot of time) communicating and trying to fix everything between the two of them, even if it's hard on Jamil's part in particular. I also like to picture during these 5-10 years that Jamil finally gets his freedom and goes on to live his own life before coming to terms that he misses Kalim due to the amount of time they spent together throughout his life and so he goes back to Kalim, more time passes (2-3 years), they communicate some more and THEN they finally get together.
It's either this or I like the thought of Kalim having a crush on Jamil and Jamil never reciprocating his feelings and so it's just super one sided for his entire life.
Moral of the story, I feel like Jamikali dating in high school will probably never be the best for either of them and I want them to grow and communicate for a LONG time before even considering getting together and I really hope this makes sense lol😭 I do very much eat up any Jamikali content in the end though, NRC years or not.
(Any hate on this ship in the comments will be deleted btw!! If you don't enjoy it then there's no reason to be interacting with a post about it in the first place.)