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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..?

umpopular oppion: no, cale does not like clopeh

and will not do so in the future

hear me out

currently reading chapter 206

"Why would he care about the people who tried to kill him? What about the people in his territory that were hurt because of them?"

All this /probably/ has some relation to actual situations he had in earth 1, very likely so

It might be as a result of his trauma the reactions to who is friend and who is foe are extremely intense. He will never friend those who hurt or attempted at hurting his close circle or underlings, it is most likely that the only end they will see is death, though how long till it comes depends on how long he will use them, his foes will never be friends. Ever. 

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I Am Saja – A Mother Holding On Through the Return of War

My name is Saja. I am a wife, a mother to a precious 8-month-old girl, and I am writing this in a moment that I wish I didn’t have to live t

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From My Heart to Yours Maybe our lives are worlds apart. Maybe you’ve never lived through war. But if you’ve ever held a child and wished the world could be better for them — then you understand more than you know.

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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?

Was just thinking about how unlike Kim Roksoo who has people in both worlds who know of the life he has led, Og Cale has no one. Lee Soo Hyuk got to reincarnate with his memories, Jour didn't. The time of Nameless 1 regressed, so nobody who survived the war with him exists any longer.

Choi Jung Soo, and Choi Han who received his memories, know what kind of life he had, albeit not all of it.

OG Cale inherited Kim Roksoo's memories. 20yo!Kim Roksoo inherited 38yo!Kim Roksoo's memories when the latter possessed the former's body. So there do exist people who know the full brunt of his trauma.

But nobody, not even OG Roksoo, knows about what Og Cale went through.

When people think of Kim Roksoo, they think of the orphaned boy who was abused and then rescued, the young man who was saved during the apocalypse by Lee Soo Hyuk, the one who followed after Lee Soo Hyuk and became team leader of Team 1, the Team 1 leader who had a 0% mortality rate, yet the man who was incredibly lonely to the point everyone thought he might die any second.

When people think of Cale Henituse, all they think of is the trash young master of a rich aristocratic family who lost his mother and has a poor relationship with his family. An alcoholic who picks fights left and right and on the verge of being pushed out of the line of succession.

Nobody knows the Cale Henituse who lost his family and fought in the war to avenge them. Nobody knows the Cale Henituse who spent 20 lonely years as the only survivor of Henituse name. Heck nobody knows the real Cale Henituse who made up a fake persona to protect his step brother. Nobody knows the Cale Henituse who kept a distance yet still loved his family.

How the heck was not a single person unable to see through the act of a child for nearly a decade? Was he such a good actor that nobody could tell the boy wasn't actually drunk? Nobody picked up on how he primarily targeted gangsters and never laid a hand on women and children? The entire world failed Cale Henituse.

On Mary: a note

note on describing mary's voice from the perspective of an in-universe character (who wouldn't know what a 'google translate' voice is)

“[a] child with a stiff voice ... [like] her vocal cords can no longer fluctuate.”

the implications? many, and all with great potential for fics.

hjyj yuri

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

Bonus:

I'll only be able to accept it if Fake Hilsman turns out to be Jour's brother and the would-have-been father of KRS if he hadn't been pushed out by the White Star from his original body because that's the only way it would make sense that he managed to loot Cale the looter Henituse.