#kalim is a precious ball of sunshine who needs to be protected at all costs

[thelazyhermits]

Gonna talk about the Yuu & Scarabia dynamic underneath the cut

I mentioned before that Yuu would have a good dynamic with Savanaclaw since I thought her personality would mesh well with those guys, and I also feel the same way about the Scarabia guys, whom I wanted to talk about here since their dorm is another favorite of mine.

For starters, Yuu absolutely adores Kalim cause he’s adorable and literal sunshine incarnate, literally one of the sweetest guys she has ever met in her entire life, which truthfully isn’t really saying much because she grew up surrounded by villianous people but still lol

Kalim is the first student Yuu interacts with at NRC because, during the ceremony, she helped him out when Grim set his butt on fire because she just couldn’t just leave the poor guy alone.

She was surprised by how kind/friendly he was toward her. Sure, she helped put the fire out, but because of the people she’s used to being around, she really wasn’t expecting much thanks.

What really caught her off guard was how bright/warm his smile was. It was something she was only used to seeing in her visions of All Might & Midoriya. 

Needless to say, it didn’t take long for Kalim to become one of Yuu’s favorite people on campus. She just couldn’t help but be drawn to him since she was so unused to kind people like him who treated her like she actually mattered - like she was someone he actually enjoyed being around.

Because of how he is, Kalim takes an immediate liking to Yuu and always approaches her whenever he sees her, even if it’s just to chat for a few minutes.

Hanging out with her makes him happy since he can tell she’s happy whenever he’s around, and it’s not because of what he could do for her with his vast wealth.

Yuu just likes being around him because she likes him as a person. All she sees is Kalim, not the son of a wealthy merchant family.

Yuu doesn’t even realize how rich he is until Book 4, but even after learning it, she doesn’t care since money doesn’t matter to her. However, she does freak out anytime he tries to give her something expensive or whenever he makes a comment related to careless spending since her penny-pincher heart can’t handle it lol 😂

Kalim also likes how Yuu doesn’t mind when he’s physically affectionate with her. Rather, she welcomes the physical contact since she’s touch-starved. He doesn’t know that, but Kalim does eventually come to the sad conclusion that she doesn’t normally get that kind of affection after spending enough time with her, which just makes him wanna dote on her even more.

The Yuu & Kalim relationship is just really soft and pure. Their combined sunshine energy is powerful enough to blind anyone watching them if they’re not careful lol Jamil is completely immune though since he’s used to it haha

Another funny aspect of this relationship is I like the idea of Yuu starting to having visions about Kalim after Book 4′s events. They don’t happen all the time, but occasionally, her Quirk will show her whenever Kalim gets into trouble which leads to her warning Jamil ahead of time or her trying to get to Kalim before he does something he shouldn’t lol

This leads to Yuu experiencing just what a tough job Jamil has, so she really respects him for all the work he has to do day in and day out. 

Of course, that doesn’t mean Yuu was okay with Book 4′s events. She definitely did not approve of him using his UM on her or what he had planned to do to Kalim.

Sure, she understood where Jamil was coming from after hearing the whole story, but she thought his hatred was misplaced since Kalim really didn’t deserve the brunt of it.

Which is why Yuu helped put an end to Jamil’s plan and made sure to punch him at the end of the Overblot battle lol

However, Yuu doesn’t hold a grudge against Jamil for everything that happened. She gets everything off her chest during the battle, so she just treats him normally after the Overblot and doesn’t view him in a negative light like most people would. 

This surprises Jamil and makes him suspicious since he doesn’t understand why she has no issue talking to him after everything he did. Her actions just don’t make any sense.

This is why Yuu decides to tell Jamil about her past. Up until this point, she has mostly kept it a secret and hasn’t told anyone about her being a cage fighter since she didn’t want anyone to look at her with pity or treat her any differently after learning about her horrible past.

The reason Yuu picks Jamil, of all people, despite not even being super close to him, is because she sees similarities between the two of them because she basically grew up being treated like a slave/servant. Either she was being forced to fight to make money for Mumei or she was forced to do all the cooking/cleaning at home. 

Before coming to TW, she didn't really have any freedom, so she could understand where Jamil was coming from in Book 4 even if she didn't completely agree with his methods since she knew Kalim was nothing like Mumei and shouldn't be receiving the full brunt of Jamil's hatred/anger. 

Yuu tells Jamil about her past so he'll know that her treatment of him isn’t because she's really nice/a saint. It's because she doesn't think anyone is irredeemable. At least, she hopes they aren't. Otherwise, she's just as bad as him since she did plenty of things to survive that she regrets, so she doesn't see herself as being any better than him. 

So, out of all the guys, Jamil has the most info about her past, with Leona likely being second since he's so observant and pays attention to the things she says that hint toward her past.

(As far as why Yuu is doing this, it’s because she genuinely wants to become friends with Jamil. While they didn’t have a lot of interactions prior to Book 4, Yuu still had come to like him as a person since he had helped her with her studying for her final exams, and he had never been overly rude toward her.

Plus, there was just something about the way Jamil held himself that drew Yuu’s attention to him. Something about him felt familiar, and it wasn’t until learning about his past that she realized she was seeing similiaries between the two of them because his mannerisms sometimes reminded her of how she acted around Mumei in the past.

It was while Yuu was staying at the Scarabia dorm in Book 4 that she really started to get to know Jamil. There was some apprehension on her end since her Quirk had warned her about his UM and his future Overblot after she had gotten herself trapped at the dorm. 

However, despite this, it was hard for her to be completley wary of Jamil since there were moments when he’d be genuinely nice to her, like during the training in the dessert when Jamily scolded her for giving most of her water to Grim and made her drink his to keep herself hydrated while they were running. 

Throughout the whole experience, Yuu would get glimpses of the different sides of Jamil, so it was hard for her to come to hate him when she found out about his true plans for Kalim. 

That’s why, after getting out all those negative emotions she felt during the Overblot battle, Yuu decided that she wanted to properly befriend Jamil, so she could see what kind of person he truly was.)

Another reason Yuu felt comfortable telling Jamil about her past is because she didn’t think he would treat her any differently. She didn’t think he would give her special treatment, and she was right.

If Jamil were in her shoes, he wouldn’t want any special treatment either, just as he doesn’t want people treating him any differently after hearing all the details about his past, so he just treats her how he’d want to be treated.

However, that said, Jamil does become slightly softer toward her, not out of pity but because she becomes someone he feels truly comfortable around since she gets where he’s coming from. Sure, she hasn’t gone through everything he has, but she at least has a better idea as compared to most people.

Also, it really impacts him when he learns that he’s the only person that Yuu has fully confided in about her past. Of all the people to get trusted with that kind of information, Jamil never expected someone like him to be chosen.

Sure, it was because of the similarities between their pasts, but the fact that she still trusted him with that information after everything he had done just really threw him for a loop.

It still takes a little while for Jamil to completetly stop himself from being suspicious of Yuu when she approaches him without ill intentions, but eventually, he comes to trust in her words of wanting to become friends with him.

After spending enough time with her, a lot of which involves Yuu volunteering to help him with chores or her just taking a moment to talk to him since she wanted to hang out with him for a little bit when he’s not super busy, Jamil grows fond enough of her that he starts to look after her like he does Kalim.

Obviously, his top priority is Kalim, but if he ever notices something going on with Yuu when he has a free moment, he’ll subtlely check on her. Or if he thinks she needs a break, he’ll invite her over to the Scarabia dorm, either to cook with him or have fun with Kalim who always welcomes her visits. 

One funny aspect of this relationship is that Yuu is very generous with compliments. She’s the type that if she has something nice to say about someone she typically says it and won’t get embarrassed even if it involves complimenting someone’s appearance.

So she’s often telling Jamil how much she admires his many skills/talents and has brought up many times how pretty/handsome she thinks he is. 

Jamil really wishes she would stop cause he is not used to all this positive attention which can be really embarrassing since she has completely pure motives lol However, deep down, he definitely enjoys the praise; he just won’t admit it haha