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I agree with you. Smoke cigar give him western vibe than eastern. it makes more sense to make cigarette the traditional way than to smoke a ciggar (my granpa used to rolling his tobacco, idk what it called in eng but in my place it called melinting/ngelinting). I'm not a middle east, but i don't think cigar is common in east (any asia continent)
ML's aggressive and temperamental behavior do not be passing the vibe check ┑( ̄Д  ̄)┍
And o get the author was trying give him a hot look by having him smoke cigars but.....it's just out of place because even if this world is made up, I don't recall in that kind of time, his culture, or at least what it's inspired from, smoked cigars? More like pipes or bongs or whatever you call it, just out of place
Not trynna be historically correct, but making him smoke from a pipe would give him a better allure and the fact that only his kind "smoke puffs" because the substance in the cigar isn't something "humans" can ingest, wouldn't say otherwise