Ok So Considering What We Just Saw In Book 7, I Have Come To A Realisation

Kalim isn’t faking being a happy person however he does show signs of heavily dismissing and pushing down his own feelings. He’s genuinely full of strong emotions but he doesn’t let the negative ones show. He probably is scared and afraid and upset and sad and angry and frustrated and destroyed but what’s the point of him complaining? It’s not like he’s going to complain to people who have “bigger” problems. He says that others being happy makes him happy and the probably goes the same for sadness. Kalim cheers up everyone but no one does that for him because they don’t think he needs to be cheered up.

Also yes ofc he treats things as less of a big deal than they are because could you imagine if he did? Could you imagine if he processed and carried the full weight of every betrayal, poisoning and kidnapping?

Remember Kalim lives like there’s no tomorrow because there might not be one for him

Heartslabyul in the Swap au/RSA au, my ideas for these characters are mainly for Ace since I want him to be the one that Overblots in this au

Which led to him having the most lore and ideas, like his backstory with we almost have nothing in canon for besides him having an older brother and a father who isn't a mage. So here are some ideas for his Backstory in the Swap au/RSA au

Backstory

Ace comes from a wealthy family that originates from nobility on his mother's side of the Family. He was raised in Wealth and spoiled, almost always getting what he wanted. He was also a gifted child who learned fast and quickly without Problems. However, Ace getting gifts was a way to distract him from their absences in his daily life with work until he was 6 years old when his cat he got gifted when he was 3 named "Diana" went missing, he tried to do anything to get his parents' attention for help to do something, his older brother "$%6$?" tried helping but nothing they couldn't find her. Then Ace on his own went searching for her in the Garden, mainly the Maze he easily got lost and ended up following an animal he thought was Diana. Sadly it wasn't instead it was a white rabbit that led him to a broken tree where he found a hole under, in that small hole, laid the body of his beloved cat Diana covered in blood. Ace screamed scared and ran back home trying to find his parents, brother or a servant to help him with what he just found nobody believed him, already being over the fact of Diana going missing and accepting it as she left. Ace tried anything to have his parents go to that tree and look he studied to get perfect scores and did extra classes just for them to go and look and they did a year later but instead of finding Diana under it there was nothing, Ace was confused but didn't voice anything when his parents angrily told him he was wasting there time. Ace continued to visit that tree doing anything under it studying, practising magic tricks, drawing or playing during those times he acted as if someone else was with him. Because for him there was Diana was back, she looked different and disappeared at random slowly in weird ways always leaving her smile at the end, her smile? "But cats can't smile" his brother always said. Ace started to hallucinate more and more it was treated as him being childish or him joking about the eyes watching him, pink smoke, or pig mushrooms even when he drew them, even when he talked to himself... no to someone else who wasn't even there. During this, he got tired of making an effort to do stuff (burnt-out gifted kid) even though he gave it his all he never got what he wanted so what was the point of giving it?

This is what I have right now I'm not completely finished and some parts might change.

Ideas/Changes to Ace's Story:

He blacks out after finding Diana's dead body instead of screaming and running for help

During his overblot thiers two Overblot monsters one bing his based on Alice and another based on the Cheshire Cat to represent Diana

Small facts about Swap au/RSA au Ace Trappole:

he has a pair of identical twin cousins who are a few years younger than him

He's still close to his brother

He has a black bow in his hair that he ties up in a small side ponytail, he always switches it up to busy his hand during hallucinations

Okay dam I didn't expect the results to be this spread out, I actually kinda of expected Curiouser and Curiouser.. to win but this gives me a lot more fun to work with

In the RSA Swap au Ace does in fact have an UM, the same logic goes for everyone having a different UM for example Deuce has "Into the Rabbit Hole" a teleportation UM but Ace is giving the most trouble out of Heartslabyul/Curiositea since he dosent have a canon one I haven't picked but i do have ideas

Curiouser and Curiouser...

An Barrier breaking spell, or a spell that neutralizes all magic around Ace

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't, a world of my own

A pocket dimension that you fall into through a rabbit hole that appears under the person or a mirror, that Ace has all control over

Into the Maze of Adventure

A maze appears around the person cast on that moves with talking/singing flowers to confuse the person. The maze is glass-like to Ace.

Life, what is it but a dream

Illusions that confuse the person, blind their vision with falls reality

I'm seeing so many cat versions of twst character and I can't say I'm complaining

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so I ended up listening to annapantsu (on YouTube) covers of Prince Ali and Arabian Nights, and this idea came to be in my head of an au where somehow Kalim after the events of Scarabi arc tries to make things better and ends up finding a book in the library that can alter reality in a way (don't ask how) and Kalim thinking it can fix or at least help with things between him and Jamil, uses it and it ends up turning time to a week after or around Azul's overblot but something is different in the Scarabia dorm Kalim and Jamil switch roles, Jamil now the housewarden of Scarabia and coming from a Royal family weil Kalim is the Vice-Hausewarden of Scarabia and Jamils "Servant". (Jamil and Kalim have more of Princ Ali and Genei type of relationship instead of the Sulten and Jafar)

And Nobody realizes till a week later when Yuu and Grim start feeling like they have done this before and so that story arc begins.#

Woulf Kalim overblot in this au...yes. would it be because of trauma...kinda of The reasoning would be more because of him overusing his magic, like to make sure the spell is working he must have his magic activated at all time

I'm making it!🥹

Genuinely wondering if Silver’s issues stem from being under that spell for so long. Like there’s no way being asleep for 400 years doesn’t have some sort of effect on his body

sorry i'm not done but how can you just drop this bombshell that malleus literally used to hate humans, that he'd refer to silver as "that thing" , that he thought lilia should've just dropped off the baby with some humans and move on with his life!!

and yet!! it was malleus who ordered the castle to have baby food delieverd to lilia's place for him, and it was malleus who'd sneak out whenever he could to come see silver and make sure lilia was taking care of him okay. and it was malleus who was so, so gentle teaching silver and sebek magic where lilia was so very crude

and after 17 years of malleus quietly loving him in his own modest way, it was ultimately the boy's tears - that thing's tears - that drove him to stop time and freeze the world over

This is literally a normal day for him

Do we need to call someone, hun

Lilia and Cater's designs here are concept-ish still working on them but once again Cater is a bearded dragon and Lilia is a bat (haven't decided what kind though yet)

also the inspo for this post

Twst what the fuck