Kalim says he has “a relative who “tigers really take to,” and that he himself is great with animals because of empathy: “We’re all living beings, so if you just ask nicely, everything will work out.”
It seems he has had an empathy for animals since he was young, releasing caged elephants and giraffes in his family’s park as a child. According to Jamil it “caused chaos”, but then led to a full review of their living conditions, and they are no longed caged as a result.
Kalim impresses his fellow dorm mates in a vignette with his ability to manage animals such as elephants, tigers, lions, monkeys, bears, peacocks and camels and explains that it is all because they understand each other, but there may be a limit to the extent of which his empathy can influence them: when Kalim decides to release the caged animals he brought on campus “to get to know them all” Jamil steps in to talk to them himself, as he “can’t trust Kalim with anything.” Kalim references animals often, and they might be the reasoning behind his enjoyment of parades. (He suggests bringing animals with them to Fairy Gala, but this was removed from his line on EN.)
Kalim is often mentioning parades at different opportunities, and actually gets his way in crossover dorm vignettes: with only a day to prepare he assigns cooking and decorating tasks to Jamil so that he can put together a parade despite Jamil’s protests.
He describes a part in Disney’s animated “Aladdin”, saying, “First, we’ll have the elephants throw open the doors like ‘BAM!’ Then we’ll have tigers dancing about their feet! With white monkeys astride camels and then lions and peacocks…and don’t forget the bears. And then, at the very end…I’ll come riding in on a magic carpet along with parrots of every color of the rainbow, rising out of a fountain of water! Then, I will graciously greet everyone as host.” Jamil is unamused.
The parade is for the Headmage, who dropped a travel guide for the Land of Scalding Sands in front of Kalim in a move hat Jamil suspects was deliberate. (During the vignette, “Bamya” and “saltah” get removed from Kalim’s EN dialogue so that the only food he references is curry.)
Crowley is suitably impressed by Jamil’s cooking and decorations and Kalim’s nearly-disastrous parade efforts (he falls from his magic carpet into a fountain), congratulating Kalim on his leadership for “being able to easily arrange something as grand as this”. His dorm mates agree: “Housewarden Kalim is always thinking about us students. He’s the best housewarden ever!”
Kalim’s dorm vignette ends with Jamil telling him that the next time the headmage asks for anything, he is to reply that he will first discuss it with the rest of the dorm, which we see him do in Fairy Gala Remix.
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