Jamil Viper

Jamil Viper is a second-year student and the vice head of Scarabia. His ancestors have served Kalim's family generation after generation, so he's been dragged around by the careless Kalim since they were young.

Appearance
Jamil has dark skin, grey eyes, and long, black hair, with some locks in tight braids. He has noticeably less jewelry and accessories than Kalim. He has gold bangles on his left wrist, a thick choker, small hair accessories on the ends of his braids, and a snake armband that curls on his upper right arm. The snake and choker match with Kalim. Jamil wears a cropped black vest with gold detail and red lapels over a sleeveless black hoodie with red trim on the inside, plain other than the gold design on the hood. Like Kalim, he wears a belt resembling safety tape wrapped around his waist, with the long end trailing down. The belt is imprinted with the name of his dorm, along with a snake insignia. Under his hoodie, he has dark red cloth wrapped around his waist with gold designs on it. He wears black parachute pants with red flame designs and black sandals with a gold scarab design.

Personality
As Kalim's attendant, Jamil is shown to be loyal to the Asim family and Kalim. He takes care of Kalim's every need, including tying his own turban for him. However, his protectiveness of Kalim is noted by some characters, like Silver, to be overbearing. Jamil presents himself as an average student by doing only well enough in school so that he does not overshadow Kalim's own performance in anything. However, it was eventually revealed that Jamil is actually much more skilled and intelligent than what he lets on. After years of Kalim overshadowing him, Jamil yearns for recognition of his abilities and this is one of the reasons why he came to resent Kalim. However, even if he does get the recognition he desires, Jamil is shown to be unable to handle such attention, and would instinctively try to put Kalim on a pedestal to humble himself, or attempt to change the subject. This frequent need to conceal his ability was likely a reason why Vil Schoenheit criticised his dancing in his SR Gala Couture personal story. He was able to execute the moves perfectly, but his performance lacked passion up till his meeting with Idia Shroud in the school courtyard.

In addition, Jamil is meticulous, resourceful and cunning. The incidents which occurred in Episode 4, which focused on Scarabia, were engineered entirely by Jamil - he hypnotised Kalim to turn him into a tyrant so that the dorm would go against him, he executed his plan during the winter holidays when most of the students are away in order to keep his plan going smoothly, and his plans were only thwarted because of Azul, Jade Leech, Floyd Leech, MC/Yuu, and Grim. If Octavinelle and the Ramshackle Dorm residents hadn't interfered with his plan, Jamil could have ousted Kalim from the position of Scarabia's dorm leader without rousing any suspicion from his fellow dorm students, and possibly the Asim family and his own family themselves. He is shown to have the quick wits to improvise with what is available around him in his SSR Dorm Uniform personal story and in Episode 5 of the Main Story. It is notable that in both attempts, he was supporting Kalim's efforts in executing a plan. He is also cautious about other people's motives, especially those of his fellow classmate Azul Ashengrotto. He usually conceals his own ulterior motives by presenting himself as a kind and cheery person, and his voice goes to a higher pitch than usual during these attempts, as seen when he tried to sweet talk MC/Yuu and Grim into staying in Scarabia in Episode 4-11.

Background
As a member of the Viper family, which has served the Asim family as attendants for generations, Jamil was assigned to be Kalim's personal attendant ever since he was a child. The Vipers do not live in the same household as the Asims, however. Jamil resented the fact that his parents were completely subservient to Kalim's parents and his position as well. Although Jamil has been shown to have great talent even in his childhood, his parents would scold him for not letting Kalim be the winner or the best in their games. Jamil would reluctantly agree, but this resulted in his resentment building up over the years until the events of Episode 4 of the Main Story, where Jamil executes his plan to oust Kalim from the position of dorm leader of Scarabia. In contrast to Kalim's happy recollections of his time with Jamil, Jamil is shown to not treat the same memories fondly. Kalim would search for Jamil in Asim Park and seek the help of the security personnel, who would give him access to the security cameras in the park. As a result, even though Jamil wanted to spend his breaktimes in the park dancing by himself, Kalim would always ended up finding him and he had to spend time with Kalim again. Jamil himself was unaware of the fact that Kalim had the help of the park's staff until Kalim mentioned it in Episode 2 of Scalding Sands' Al'ab Nariya event story. Outside of his time in the Asim household, Jamil played with Najma and the other kids in his neighbourhood and would often emerge as the winner for the animal toy stacking game. On the other hand, Najma would sulk at her loss and Jamil ended up getting scolded by his parents while having to put away the toys scattered by her while she was gone.

He is stated to be able to use magic since a young unspecified age. It was revealed in Scalding Sands' Al'ab Nariya that Jamil used to love dates, like Najma. His dislike for the food stemmed from having an insect crawl onto his hands after they had bought dates from their usual stall in the Camel Bazaar. By this point, Jamil was able to use magic, albeit without much control. He used fire magic in an effort to exterminate the insect, burnt the dates stallholder's canopy by accident, and ever since, he has not been able to tolerate the sight or smell of dates.

In addition, Jamil was put into a two-week coma after testing Kalim's curry for poison when they were younger. Despite that incident, his favourite food is still curry, while Kalim came to dislike it instead.

According to Jamil himself, it was only in middle school that he was able to have a taste of what it is like to have time for himself and experience various activities like studying and dancing together with friends. His time then likely reinforced his desire for freedom in his life.

Powers and Talents

 * Keen Intellect: Jamil has the potential to be one of the top students of his level if he wasn't holding himself back to satisfy his parents' (and likely, the Asims') demands. He knows how to apply his knowledge to various contexts even if it doesn't appear obvious - in his SR Lab Coat personal story, Jamil was able to identify with his cooking expertise how exactly to perfectly create the potion that the second year cohort was instructed to make in one class even when Riddle Rosehearts, the top student of the cohort, was unable to do so himself.


 * Athleticism: Jamil is a member of the the Basketball Club in school and also does well in Ashton Vargas' Flying lessons, He also represents Scarabia in the inter-dorm Magift tournament and was one of Ruggie Bucchi's targets in Episode 2 to weaken Savanaclaw's competition by causing injuries using his Unique Magic.


 * Magical Abilities: As a student of the prestigious Night Raven College, it is assumed that Jamil was accepted for his magical potential. His magical power reserves are high, and even remarked as such by Azul Ashengrotto when he used his Unique Magic to hypnotise the entire Scarabia population present during the events of Episode 4. He also uses magic for the mundane act of styling his hair, but this is also remarkable on its own since his hairstyle is the most complex of the Twisted Wonderland cast thus far. While he does note that it took practice for him to be able to use magic to style his hair daily within 5 minutes, he also mentions that such use requires the user to have considerably magical dexterity to perform such fine tasks
 * In more than one instance, Jamil has used fire magic to exterminate insects, typically while overcome with fear.

Unique Magic
Jamil's Unique Magic is called Snake Whisper. It allows him to hypnotise someone who looks him in the eye for some time. The victim's eyes change colour and glow red when it takes effect. However, the duration seems to depend on the victim's own abilities as well, as he had noted that it would be difficult to keep Azul Ashengrotto under his control for a long time in Episode 4-30. Jamil is shown to have the magical power and skill to hypnotise the entire Scarabia dorm into doing his bidding in Episode 4 of the Main Story, but such intensive use of Snake Whisper causes Blot to accumulate rapidly. It is possible for one to snap out of the hypnotism on their own accord, as shown with Kalim in Episode 4-14 when he heard Grim's pleas for water, but the specific reason why this is possible is uncertain. It is also possible to deflect Snake Whisper, but this has only been demonstrated once with Azul's use of Bind the Heart.

Trivia

 * Jamil is based on Jafar who was presented as the Sultan's most trusted and loyal advisor from Aladdin.
 * His younger sister sometimes told him that his cooking looks plain in appearance, leading to them quarreling back then.
 * During the "Scary Monsters!" Halloween Event, Jamil almost went so far as to entirely burn down Sam's shop as an excess of littering was causing insects to flock toward Scarabia's stamp rally location.
 * According to Kalim, when Jamil was younger, he once found an insect mixed in with his favorite dates, and ever since he has always hated insects.
 * If he has a parrot, the first word that he would teach it is "Master"
 * Jamil likely has a habit of pulling his hood (if any) over his head to hide his bashfulness from receiving praise from other characters.