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Alberu is tired of his shit
Can’t believe my first real drawing of Cale is this
Anyways original:
Maybe one day I'll find the courage to finish this portrait. But while I don't, you guys can have our Lord and Savior Cale Henituse in his military uniform.
There is no way God of Death didn't get beaten up even once by Choi Jung Soo or Lee Soo Hyuk, especially after he pulled the "Your friends' death was your fault".
So, I just imagine Choi Jung Gun either joining them or giving the broom to them like:
This was the first time that Cale had ever been told he was cute, whether in this world or during his life as Kim Rok Soo. He had never been called cute in his thirty-plus, almost forty years.
LSH and CJS when I catch you.
Heol... Remember OgCale didn't use to set foot in the study? I may be overthinking here but what if that has something to do with the large full body mirror in his bathroom? Was it his secret study? So that he could secretly study while keeping up his trash act? It used to take multiple attempts from Ron to wake Cale up. Did he use to stay up late to study?
The reason why Cale always says he doesn't want to become Duke/Prime Minister/God is because there will be too much work and he won't be able to slack... It's not actually that he won't be able to , but that he won't be able to allow himself to. As we've seen, Cale (Kim Roksoo) is someone with a great sense of responsibility. He goes around solving other people's problems as a hobby. Do you think that guy would be able to neglect his duties and responsibilities even if he wanted to? His sense of responsibility, his conscience, wouldn't allow him to slack. That's why he doesn't want a position of importance. He's tired of being given responsibilities and not being able to ignore them.
Kim Roksoo is OG choicale’s secret love child from the future who went back to the past to save them from inevitable doom real not fake definetly happened
I think we as a fandom need to talk more about cale's lack of reaction to his ancient powers. Like one day one just started speaking in his head and he just was like. okay this is happening now. And over time the number of ancient powers speaking grew. And cale was just like wow ok new family members only in my mind this time.
Just a reminder that every day is "Kim Rok Soo stay alive, being alive is the best." Day.
reading some cale quotes for fic purposes and i can't believe how much you can forget when you blitz through 1000+ chapters in less than two months.
like, cale curses so much. so much. i guess i didn't really internalize it since it was spread out over the whole novel, but he has such a dirty mouth and literally every time he mentions his enemies, he's cursing up a storm.
"i don't care if he's lived a thousand years or not, that shithead is a fucking bastard from now on." cale henituse, on the greatest threat of the whole part one of the novel. he's so eloquent.
i forgot how snarky his internal voice is. actually, maybe not forgot. just, kind of got used to it? until i stopped registering the absolutely sick burns he keeps dishing out on the regular.
it takes him until chapter 270 to realize that he should have just let choi han beat him up. that seems like a lot, but we've still barely reached the eastern continent. adin is still alive. cale doesn't even know who the white star is. the trouble hasn't even started.
also, at one point he actually admits to being raon, on and hong's parent??? out loud??? i can't believe i missed that, the whole dodori thing distracted me.
"raon. I’m someone who cannot forget. don't be like me." i didn't actually forget this one, but it feels like a gut punch every time i read it again.
"Would you save me, even if I was weak?"
And you know what? He did
One of his indignity trials was to save (Not)Raon again
He came up with an entire plan to drug everyone and spent quite a bit of time with the preparations for it.
Put some poison in their drinks, wait for them to fall unconscious, take the key, and free the dragon. Easy, right?
And then, as soon as the torturer took out the whip he was like "Nope" and immediately threw hands to release him right then and there, plan be damned
Cale
Who hates fighting and has avoided it as much as humanly possible, and has made a point several times about not wanting to
Yeah, that Cale
some of my favorite choi han moments are the ones where he explicitly admits that cale is holding his leash.
like that one time the enemy called cale choi han's owner.
and choi han agreed. what's with that?? it's making me feral.
the way choi han takes pride in listening cale's orders. he wants to be good so bad. he's so happy when he can do what cale asks him to.
and this?? he's defying his friend and the future king in front of all of his vassals. telling the absolute ruler of your kingdom in the middle of a crisis that 'cale-nim's orders supersede your own' is ballsy as hell. choi han has no place for politeness when cale's orders are in question.
once again, i'm going absolutely insane at this level of loyalty.
The three distinct types of found family:
Commits crimes together.
Fights crimes together.
Constantly switching back and forth between the other two at a horrifying speed.
Part 2 Chapter 39 (Spoilers!)
Too? too??? You mean to tell me there's two of them??
Now I'm in the middle of feeling bad for Lee Soo Hyuk because he had to deal with the aftermath of their antics or to give him the side eye because it's very likely that he was the main instigator of said antics
Channeling my inner Eruhaben with this one:
Cale needed that evil god's test. Not only to fight despair, but also for his mental health.
He needed to see that there was a world where "Kim Rok Soo" was not left to survive alone. He needed to see all his "what ifs" happen. He needed to resolve all the regrets of "Kim Rok Soo" to fully live as Cale Henituse. Because even if it wasn't his world, he now knows that a "Kim Rok Soo" was happy, surrounded by people he loves, people who would survive with him.
That is how he can loosen the shackles of fear of being alone again as Cale. "We will all survive" is not just a random mantra for him. He needs it to be true. He has had so much loss and grief in his life.
Even if he doesn't really say so, that grief was what kept him going. To "not waste" the sacrifices of all those who saved him, he kept surviving. But that is also why he's reckless despite "valuing" his life.
I think, subconsciously, he thinks that if he can save more people, then that would be a good "payment" for those who saved him. His "slacker life" is basically world peace. 🤭
Back to the point... The test showed him Kim Rok Soo and everyone he cares for survive, so now he has more courage and less doubt to face WS because he wants a life like Parallel KRS', as Cale Henituse.
You know one of my favorite things about this novel?
Is that Cale (Well, Kim Roku Soo) actually acts his age (36)
I personally haven't read many Isekais aimed at male audiences, so I can't speak for those
I have, however read quite a bit of Otome Isekais
And one of the things that annoys me the most about the genre, is when the protagonist, usually an adult woman, gets reincarnated into a baby, a child or a teenager and you sometimes forget their actual age because some of the things they do, some of the decisions they make are /baffling/ when you remember they're a grown ass adult
But with Cale is quite the opposite, people around him are often left scratching their heads at some of his actions and level of maturity ("Aren't you supposed to be 18-20?")
Hell, one time he told Raon that he is "30 years older than him" only to remember mid-phrase that nope, he's actually supposed to be only 15 years older
-Spoilers for P1-
And it's also very funny when Alberu finds out that Cale is, in fact actually older than him, his reaction is pure gold because he's supposed to be the hyung around here you know?
Begging someone to draw Cale over this
Shocked by the sheer lack of Mafia!Au in the lcf/tcf Fandom.
Why is there none? Have you seen the way Cale acts ? The way he sometimes uses underhanded methods bordering on illegal to get to his goal while posing like a benefactor in front of the society ? Kidnapping, Torturing, looting religious/official treasures ? The mere existence of the Molans in his vicinity ? The revenge for Raon act ?
When Cale said:
[SPOILER AHEAD]
"There is an unchanging fact in the world...You don’t mess with family" to the WS he was not joking.
Before learning that Earth 1 was post apocalyptic and the whole backstory I really pictured KRS to be part of some underground corporation or gang involved in shady things. What's with:
-Team leader? -That's a very particular phrasing-taking him in-with no context
-Him saying he treated his work as normal office work when it supposedly was not? In which way ?
-The whole taking the reins of the team after alluded DEATH of the team leader??? Caused by what ? Or who ?
-Flimsy flashback of them all beaten up and sore on the ground after a "mission" hasn't gone as planned ? How tf was I supposed to know they were fighting monsters !?
-The whole I didn't want to get close to my coworkers to protect them shit ? What why ?? Of what ?
-Just the general way he acts super efficiently as Cale henituse and accommodatly ignores the law when he wants(for good reasons but still !)
-That one official art of Cale posing with SUPER BUFF laded with scars ???! KRS at the back
My brain was totally going off rails, but that's not the point. What I mean is there is exceptional potential here.
Though I don't know shit about cartels, gangs, or mafiosi, I can see the missed opportunity.
Give me that modern!au that slaps.
I wanna see guns, car races, corruption, scams that chaotic energy with things going boom boom in the background, children who shouldn't be there, and Bob. Lots of Bob.
I wanna see future politician!Alberu being totally gobsmacked that this trashy young master, with a failed idol carrier due to all the rumors and scandals related to his personality turns out to be his most trusted ally for the elections and apparently has more than one hand in the underground world and cartel mafiosi also stopping human trafficking, terrorism and slowly but surely preparing for war on a continental scale on the side, is his only match in term of wits and efficiency.
And this fucker says he wants to be a slacker. Haha! Make him prime minister.
Cale says he is a bad person, a selfish, stone cold bastard because he spent at least 10 years believing the words he heard on his team funeral and after it.
And he had nobody to say the opposite, nobody who knew him, who cared about him. To prove them wrong, to insist that they are the actual bastards without heart for saying that to a mourning person.
He was alone, terrified of getting close to people again, and thinking that the deaths of his family was all his fault. Of course he thinks he is a bad person.
For him, people that don't protect their family are trash, so he is the worst human being that ever put a foot on the planet.
Spoilers for Part 2
Cale's glare VS the Chois
VS Choi Han:
VS Choi Jung Soo:
Also, friendly reminder that one of the first things that Choi Jung Soo thought when he met Kim Rok Soo was that his eyes 'were like swords' and he has been very consistent at avoiding his gaze, my guy is really terrified of that glare hahaha
I just love the temple trials because they bring out the wildest scenarios: *Choi Han wakes up as an Office Worker in modern Korea*: What is an "e-mail"? when you say "click" on the tab you mean...?
*Cale, leaving the palace after turning it into utter chaos*: Today was a good day :)
*Clopeh after seeing that Cale, once again saved the world*: And I wasn't there to witness it???
*The Black Dragon after being freed from the mana chains*: I'm going to blow this place up! *Cale, realizing that that includes him*: Heck yeah! Blow us up! *everyone in the room*: ???
Choi Jung Gun to Cale: "Don't worry, I don't plan on you getting hurt." *Gets them into a traffic accident*
Cale: "I'm going to defeat the White Star with the power of friendship and this pebble that I just picked up! I may also beat up a god with it too while I'm at it."
*Choi Han, a random stranger taking kid KRS to his house to feed him*: You shouldn't go around following random strangers to their houses!!
*Kid KRS*: ...Ok....
*Cale, after realizing that CJG used him to lure the hunters away from CJS*:
*Also Cale*: Understandable, have a shit day