Alternative Version Of Og Cale And Og Choi Han's First Meeting

ME WHEN CHUNG MYUNG DEVOTES HIS MIND, BODY, AND SOUL TO MOUNT HUA AND STILL BELIEVES THAT HE WILL NEVER ATTONE FOR CRIMES HE DID NOT COMMIT

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.

vengeful tang bo au hits a little different now that tang bo has had his webcomic spotlight and, even through unreliable narrator chung myungs biased perspective, its so clear tang bo loved him hopelessly..endlessly.. its so much easier to picture tang bo breaking apart, becoming resentful and bitter of the world and everyone in it who stayed their hand resulting in chung myungs death after we've seen him look at chung myung like one would look at their dearly beloved nonstop for several episodes straight..

MORE KRS!ANGEL AU DOODLES!! (i thought I was a crow au)

The babies are struggling because nobody told krs he's actually an angel (and they can't find any info on crow beastmen (because they don't exist))

Anyways they r besties and i love them

dude having a platonic crush on someone is so weird, cause you wanna be around them and talk to them all the time, you always think about them, and you constantly wanna hug them and hold hands (if you like physical touch) with them but the thought of being romantic in any way with them is just extremely uncomfortable

"I have no attachment to the people around me, they really are just stepping stones to reach my objectives." Mfs who risk their lives to save said people.

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.

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.