#even alhaitham showed up to help with her curriculum

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Okay but cute fic idea if it wasn’t done yet: Collei and the boys. Collei doesn’t think much of her self, but it’s safe to say the rest of Sumeru doesn’t agree. How can they when she has the four great prodigies in all of Sumeru ready and willing to drop everything to support her?

[isekyaaa]

Things I've learned from Kaveh's hangout (spoilers):

Kaveh can do complex math in his head

He has very nice handwriting and will annotate a book better than the book itself

He is well aware of the fact that he used to, and still may, be idealistic due to his sense of guilt

When it comes to disagreements regarding decisions, he's the kind of person that'll bitch to your face and call you unreasonable, then would turn around and meet you the next day with ideas on how to make your ideas work

He is not completely blinded by idealism, nor by practicality either. He understands the importance of objective things as well as subjective

He understands the motives of different people and is willing to try and convince them on their terms

He's very easy to please

Tighnari has a good sense of smell

Tighnari is not the type of person that resorts to affection and soft care when he notices you're down. He'll say you look like shit, ask you outright if you feel like shit, and then will invite you over to hang out. He'll also scold your friend if he notices they did not take proper care of you when you're in your depressed state lol

Tighnari apparently knows about birds too, not just mushrooms

Cyno's dad likes telling lame jokes too

Alhaitham knows who Collei is and was willing to help come help Tighnari come up with a very reasonable curriculum for her

He also will straight up cross out conjecture an author wrote in their published books if he thinks it's stupid

The Akademiya allows students to write in the books located in the House of Daena

Now some extra thoughts.

While I am not an artist myself, I do understand Kaveh's work process of bitching at unreasonable demands and then doing his best to make them work. While one can say this is because of his ideals and that he views the demands of others as more important than his own (to which Alhaitham mentions at one part), I personally don't think that is completely the case.

I think when you love your job, you're always wanting to improve. You want to see if you can make the impossible possible, even when it causes you a lot of stress. There's nothing more liberating than struggling for hours and days on something and then finally finishing it to meet all or most of your expectations. There is joy in challenges and in a satisfied customer. They do touch on this a bit in the hangout that while Kaveh's job does cause him a lot of stress, he wouldn't be stressed if he didn't love it.

Overall, when Kaveh is viewed in the light of Alhaitham, he becomes a dramatic pathetic broke nag that lives in Alhaitham's house. He becomes the babygirl that everyone wants to dote on, the subject of many hurt/comfort stories of a depressed man. Kinda similar to how Diluc is viewed in light of Kaeya. Emotional issues galore.

This hangout shows that Kaveh, though temperamental, is actually quite reasonable. While he does tend to question whether he's being punk'd a lot, he's not in denial regarding his weaknesses or motives. He's aware of his faults. While he seems like the type that gets fixated on little things, turns out he's actually fixated on the bigger picture. He sees how different factors play together to create a unified meaningful whole.

If you ask my personal opinion of where he is now, he's the kind of person that is in a good place, but easily drops down into negative habits when faced with trouble. This isn't due to some personal weakness or insecurity, but mostly just an aspect of his personality. The reason why I say he's in a good place despite falling many times is that he is self-aware of his unhealthy habits and has introspected deeply about them.

I can't really say that Kaveh is any type of extreme. He loses sight of things. He loses sight of himself. He will indulge in unhealthy habits when he's in his moods. But to me, it doesn't seem like he indulges in these negative moods to his detriment. While he may self-sabotage from time to time, he does not show an addiction to that negative state.

If anything, he is just the kind of person that needs someone to help recenter him when he gets into those moods, similar to how the traveler did in his hangout. And once he recenters himself and is able to think clearly again, he starts to move forward once more.