Deuce goes to Kalim and Jamil for help with his Starsending dance, where Jamil observes that he just doesn’t “subscribe to the notion that earnestness is inherently embarrassing” and Kalim says that Deuce reminds him of his little brothers.
When Deuce is struggling during Book 5 (“I’m neither book smart or a clever thinker. I don’t have much going for me at all, really…”) Kalim suggests that the problem is that Deuce keeps trying to use his brain, saying that Deuce reminds him of someone writing with their non-dominant hand while wondering why they are bad at writing.
Kalim empathizes, saying that he is also told that he is thoughtless and oblivious, but it means that all he needs to do to feel better is eat, rest and dance.
Kalim and Deuce also overlap during New Years, where they agree that they have “actually grown as people…like, a lot.”
