Crying Screaming Throating Up-

Always thought of the idea that Cale, despite being oblivious to everything else, is actually extremely aware of his surroundings all the time.

And maybe this was discovered by the kids when they found out that he wouldn't get jump-scared no matter what they did (he tried to act scared for them but his stoic face couldn't quite convince anyone).

And everyone around him thinking how it must be some sort of trauma response to staying in the front lines of every battle ever.

(They aren't exactly wrong about the trauma part)

A subconscious habit developed as Kim Rok Soo, just another means to live another day.

But now, he lets himself space out for longer durations. Not observing his surroundings like a hawk and just, well, breathing.

And when he does blank out, he ends up flinching at almost every sound ever.

And that led to the belief that their vigilant Commander carries such a burden on his shoulders that he sometimes doesn't even notice his own family walking upto him (who are mostly trained individuals, or a traumatised high schooler, or two kittens–who all had to learn to walk stealthily just to survive, much like he once did).

Ironically, he always gets scared whenever Ron enters, even more so when he's already aware of the butler's presence.

The old man sometimes deliberately makes no noise when entering, just to see Cale flinching so hard and then acting nonchalant afterwards.

But Cale doesn't dislike it. Simply blanking out amidst this comforting safety that he had always wished for. With his family always beside him.

I wonder when Cale will have the conversation with Ron and Beacrox about his life as KRS. There’s always something standing in between that stops them from having that conversation!😭 I like how the Molan duo doesn’t press Cale about and are wanting for him to tell them. Knowing Cale’s personality he will info bomb them like he always does!🤣

OP I have tears in my eyes, I literally have the perfect wip saved in my files for this 🙏🙏🙏

I've been thinking. Dragons are the greatest beings in the world right? The rulers of mana, the living gods. With a flick of their wrist they can perform complex magic that human mages need to cast many complicated circles for. So here's the thing. Why do almost all the dragons have humanoid forms? Save for Raon, who simply refuses to polymorph, and Eruhaben, whose polymorphed form is an elf (which is not so different from a human) every other dragon we have come across across three worlds now has a human form. Sure, the human form is smaller than their real one. Convenient, easy to move around in. Easy to blend in into the human society. But the thing is, why do they need to blend in? Dragons like Exion and Eruhaben are exceptions who like to mingle with the humans. But dragons with superiority complexes like pretty much every other dragon we saw on Aipotu, and the loner dragons of Nameless 1 like Rasheel. Why do they need a human form? Why don't they ever polymorph into something like, idk, a cat? Maybe a freaking swan? Why always a human? Mila is understandable. But why did Rasheel appear in his human form at the palace (during his first appearance) when appearing in his dragon form would have been much more intimidating? He didn't have any reason to be considerate because he was pissed for having his sleep disturbed. And for beings at the pinnacle of magic it doesn't even make sense to take the humanoid form for the sake of convenience, because they can literally do nearly everything through magic! And creatures who are considered the most prideful and adamant about being unique to the point they don't take after their own parents, does it make sense to try to take the form of "lesser" creatures like humans? Again, Eruhaben and Exion are supposed to be exceptions. So why is almost every dragon we come across in humanoid form? I just don't understand!

Wrote a thing again:

Alberu & Cale Henituse, Alberu & Tasha

Alberu-centric (1883 words) <t rating>

Summary:

Alberu Crossman was used to living in an empty palace. There were servants, there were workers, knights, record keepers and mages, yet ultimately it was empty.

He was surrounded by undercover dark elves risking everything to help him, his aunt giving him unconditional love and support yet he still felt alone.

He wanted to make the future a better place but did not think himself worthy of existing in it. He learned and trained and did everything in his power to live up to the title of ‘crown prince’ and be better than everyone around him. After all, if he himself is not needed he just had to make his skills indispensable and earn his right to exist through them.

And then, he met Cale Henituse.

......

Or inspired by the stupid feeling when you wanna go home but you're already there, so now what? except it's Alberu and he found his home in the people around him

Alberu rolls in with a level 99 equipment to a level 3 battlefield

Friendly reminder that Mary is older than both Cale AND Alver. Do you think Alver used to call her Noona (when he went to the underground city) when he was younger?

op..🥹

Sometimes, all I want is for Cale to absolutely loose his shit.

Like kicking and screaming cursing about how his slacker life keeps getting away from him. Like we know how hilariously devastated he is as readers, but I don’t think those around him understand just how OBSESSED Cale is with achieving his slacker life.

Like I want them to know the batshit decisions this walking disaster has made for the sake of a peaceful slacker life rolling in money.

He has scammed, looted, burned, fought, bled, fainted, stabbed himself etc. just for that stupid slacker life. Or maybe just once, even though I know this may be OOC, I want Cale’s thoughts to be broadcasted out loud.

I don’t know, maybe he gets cursed or something and suddenly Alberu, Choi Han and company are in on the batshit insane voices in Cale’s head plus the terrible choices he makes to get his slacker (which only makes his slacker life go far away haha).

Like do y’all REMEMBER that one scene in Part 2 where Alberu asks Cale to tone himself down lest he births another religion in ANOTHER WORLD.

This dude’s thought process is an instant 0 to 100 percent. Bro does not know moderation.

Cale, feeds some kittens: Welp you’re part of the family now.

Cale, free a dragon who follows him around: Guess you’re my son now.

Cale, meeting feral Choi Han: Oh? Hi, protagonist of the novel who kicks my ass canonically that I could definitely just avoid meeting at all instead going out of my way to stalk to the gates of Rain City. Want a meal, a bed and mental stability?

Also Cale: Hehehe, but I’mma justify it saying that I’ll make all of you pay for your meals (even though in reality I’m just gonna sacrifice myself for y’all)

CALE HENITUSE *SCREAMS* Available on my shop

We've been blessed with so many good Raon expressions these last couple chapters.

Bonus:

A new understanding of cale’s character

cale henituse is a depressed bastard (we kind of been knew) am currently rereading the novel, so this time I noticed a tea symbolism, where the after the first time ron gave cale lemon tea and he drank it life's kind been giving cale lemons ever since. so of course it got me thinking more about the relationship between cale and ron and find that it would be interesting to study.

what kim rok soo observed of the relationship between og!cale and him was that ron didn’t have any particular like for cale, so could he as cale also operate under that or..?