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Finally – a proper TCF timeline!
At long last, I made a semi-coherent tBoaH/TCF timeline for myself
Obviously there are many characters I didn't list, but at least the main players are all there. It's a bit confusing in places, but that's how it is when you deal with time travel, lol
(Sorry for the crude "___" form but apparently the Tab key doesn't work!! 😕)
Timeline POVs
___________________age_____year(tBoaH)_____year(TCF)
Ancient times______-_______~10,000 B.F.C*__- Sheritt's death____~800____8-9,000 B.F.C___- Cale B.'s birth____0_______~220** B.F.C____- Eruhaben's birth___0_______219 B.F.C_______- Choi Han arrives___17______600-700_________- KRS's og birth***__0_______<=763___________<=767 1!KRS's birth______0_______767_____________745 2!KRS's birth______0_______-_______________763 Ron's birth________0_______721_____________- Beacrox's birth____0_______751_____________- Alberu's birth_____0_______758_____________- Destr. of Molan____-_______~759****________- Cale's birth_______0_______763_____________- On & Hong's births_0_______771, 774________- Raon's hatching____0_______777_____________- Destr. of Harris___-_______28th March 781__- OG!Cale regresses__40______803_____________- KRS transmigrates__36______-_______________781 Cale meets ChoiHan_18______781_____________- Meeting On & Hong__7, 10___-_______________781 Meeting Ron________60______781_____________- Meeting Beacrox____30______781_____________- Raon's escape______4_______781_____________- Meeting Alberu_____23______-_______________781 Meeting Cale B.____16-21___-_______________783 Sealed god's test__20/38___783 (for 2!KRS)_765 or 787 (for 1!KRS)
28th March 781 - the only exact date we got I believe
Events which happened only in tBoaH (the Birth of a Hero timeline) or in both are on the left, events from TCF (Trash of the Count's Family timeline) are on the right.
"Destr." is short for "destruction", since I couldn't find a better shorter word
1!KRS and 2! KRS refer to Kim Rok Soo from Earth 1 (the 36 years old KRS turned MC Cale) and Kim Rok Soo from Earth 2 (the KRS who's 20 years old). (...which lead me to the whole confusion with dimension travel ages?? That's why there are 2 sides. How do you count age, from which timeline, before or after regression? So I decided to include both.)
* - Before Felix Calendar begins ** - or >240 B.F.C if his first life counts *** - the birth of KRS's originally intended body, taken over by White Star (Cale B.) through reincarnation **** - I think it was mentioned that Beacrox was 8? I'm not 100% sure tho since I don't remember the chapter
Me to the shadow in the living room at 4:57 AM: No you do not understand the perfection of White Star’s death being so quick and unimpactful. He is someone who lives for the attention. His god complex is so empowered that he hates when something doesn’t go his way or he’s not the center of attention drives him insane. The whole fated rival bullshittery with Cale was just that, making it all about himself again. He needs to be important! So Yoo Ryeo Han making his death so quick and completely forgotten in a span of paragraphs is literally the finest torture for that man’s nonexistent never resting soul. It’s not that Cale didn’t struggle to kill him. We didn’t really get to see what Cale was feeling using Instant like the time he broke the statues, we only saw what everyone else was seeing. Cale was probably struggling a lot going towards White Star. But that doesn’t matter! He will never know that and he died with the thought that he was killed in the span of 2 sec without even a fight. THAT’S PATHETIC FOR HIM! A man who lived for the drama, died i. The most uneventful way possible for him and that’s the HELL for him and I LOVE IT! It’s similar to Locke’s death in QON where he died off screen and barely given a paragraph to describe his death. Literally the biggest FU to these bastards is not caring about their deaths. It’s what they would have wanted and we ain’t giving them that. So what I’m trying to say is that Yoo Ryeo Han is literally a genius when writing their character and especially scenarios depending on their personalities and how they would react in those situatio—
The shadow demon: *crying in a fetus position*
You know what??
De-aged Cale where its roksoo right??
He's sitting there anxiously as the adults discuss what the do with him. It's happening again. He knows they're going to get rid of him like some old, unwanted toy.
His stomach gurgles and growls. He keeps his eyes trained on the shoes everyone is wearing, ears burning. How embarrassing... He's usually better than this.
He jumps when a pair of shoes move in front of him. It's hard to hear what's going on when the cotton in your ears keep blooming. Suddenly, he's face to face with an old man... whose smile is.. pretty scary. Not that he'll say anything about it though. He can't figure out where to place his eyes. Adults don't like it when he looks at them in the eyes. They say he's being defiant, that they don't like the way he looks at them. But then they don't like it when he doesn't look them in the eye, something about finding the situation unimportant. He doesn't know what to do... So his eyes jump from meeting the old man's and back to things around the room. Back and forth, back and forth.
"young master," the man starts, "why don't you follow my son to the kitchen? My son, Beacrox, will get you something good to eat."
Oh! He can do that. He's been in kitchens before, so he willed himself to meet the man's gaze one last time before giving a small, but firm nod. Then, he hops off the plush couch and trails after the guy who must be Beacrox.
This man is stoic looking and not much of a talker. It's okay though, he isn't much of a talker either. They walk in silence to the kitchen, he tries to keep his breathing in check as he jogs to keep pace with the man. His steps must be too loud though since the man turns towards him and then slows his pace. So nice!!
Even when they get there, the man still hasn't said anything. He stands at the doorway, unsure of what he's needed for. The kitchen is clean... Extremely clean. How will he earn his food? What is he supposed to be doing here??
We makes his way up to the counter where he finds a rag. That'll do!! He takes it and wets it in the sink before making his way back to the sitting area. He drops to his hands and knees and begins to scrub at the already clean floor. The adults at home say that even if it looks clean, it's never clean enough! So surely this should be enough to earn his keep.
He hears a clatter and startles as the knife falls to the floor. The man's face isn't stoic anymore. The man is mad?? Is he cleaning wrong?? Roksoo is scared.
The man storms up to him and begins to reach out towards him. Roksoo fails to hold back a flinch. He's messed up, adults don't like it when he's scared. He squeezed his eyes shut, in hopes of hurting less.
Nothing comes. The pain never comes. Only a warm hand on his head?? He slowly opens his eyes and meets Beacrox 's. There's nothing, but hurt and eager swirling in the man's eyes. Why's he sad? Roksoo doesn't understand.
"young master..." Beacrox sounds strained. Again with that weird title.
Roksoo wordlessly watches the chef try to string together words. His own throat feeling too clogged up to ask what he did wrong.
He manages though.
"why.. why are you sad?" His words come out like small croaks. It's getting hard to speak again. Adults don't like it when he can't speak.
Beacrox's eyes just fill with more hurt, hurt, hurt as he opens and closes his mouth uselessly.
He seems to figure out what he wants to say though.
"young master, why are you on the ground?" Beacrox keeps his voice soft, keeps his tone open and forgiving.
"I didn't know what else I could do," he confesses like he's sinned. His eyes make their way back to anything other than the other's.
Beacrox brews silently, waiting for his master to finish his thoughts. Beacrox doesn't like where this is going.
"how else can I earn.." roksoo's palms feel sweaty where they're clenched at his sides.
"I don't deserve food yet," roksoo's words are firm and believing as he meets Beacrox's eyes.
The man's eyes seem to tremble as he processes what roksoo had said.
(Beacrox wants to skin whoever taught his young master this. He wants to make them beg for the sweet release of death as he slowly guides them towards it. Having them teeter on the edge of death and consciousness).
He snaps out of thought, saving them for later. The others will be hearing of this, they can all come up with the plans together.
"young master," Beacrox hopes his words will reach the boys heart, "you deserve everything."
He watches as the boy takes his bottom lip captive between his teeth. How the boy clenches at the hems of his shirt and tries to calm his breathing. How the boy is trying to blink away tears, but is failing.
"you are worthy" he whispers, removing a glove to pat roksoo's head. Beacrox looks seconds away from jumping back and escaping. Roksoo let's put a shaky laugh at the thought.
Right now it's hard to believe, but.. he wants to. He wants to believe that Beacrox is right. He'll try...
But he still follows Beacrox back to the counter and begs to help. He feels too antsy not doing anything.
All he's handed is a small bowl of snacks and he's told his job is to finish them by the time the meal is done cooking. He feels his heart swell. Roksoo feels like his heart is doing flips in his chest. He feels so safe.
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Feeling like I probably post too much on this,, but I will.. continue. :)
Cale, upon feeling the sensation of something like a parents warm hand, immediately deduces that danger must be nearby and that it isn’t to be trusted
That’s super depressing wtf
He so handsome (*༗▿༗)
So this was supposed to be just a small panel redraw sketch..... yeah I don't know what happened either
But I really liked this panel of Alberu in the manhwa and I wanted to draw it in my style!!
I'm sobbing from his beauty I can't he's so ethereal and pretty and gorgeous and mesmerizing and delicio-*gets shot and dragged away*
OUR BELOVED GOLDIE GRAMPS ERUHABEN CANON DESIGN IN ALL HIS GLORY!!!! He's so freaking beautiful for lack of words because no words can describe his beauty and so shiny WE ARE NOT WORTHY!!!!😭😭💕
Gawd damn- *gets shot*
Let it be known that I never joke around when it comes to Kim Rok Soo ✨️𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓫𝓪𝓼✨️
This would make for such an interesting fanfic
An Idea Orv x TCF
yoo joonghyuk as Choi Han
(゜。゜)
Have you ever think the reason why Cale is protective to children is not because..
Of his childhood but the state of the apocalypse done to children. Have u seen children, toddlers in any apocalypse movies? Or the problem being shown in the movie “quiet place” having a toddler and a baby with monsters sensitive in noise? There is a great chance that in apocalypse, children and toddlers are abandon, bought over yet killed in the way, or in the worse case scenario, cannibalism like what in the movies “snowpiercer, 2013” where they have no choice but to e.a.t the babies. Histories of where human is driven into cannibalism because of hunger.
Why Cale wishes the children, even the wolf children, and Lily stay as what children is. He just accepted the fact the children wants weapon as toys or Ron teaching the kittens, Sheritt to Lock, Choi Han to the wolf children so that the children knows self defense and take care of themselves in danger. Trying not to repeat the same thing of their pasts and his failure to what happened to the apocalypse, maybe another reason why he thinks of him as a trash.
Like the novel doesn’t mention any children except the teen siblings in the sealed god test In the earth 2.
After all, Cale had seen the cruelest and darkest side what can humanity do in the apocalypse.
Btw this just a theory of mine.
Someone should make a fanfic about this I would eat it tf up
Beacrox:*creates a spicy dish at Cales request(because Cale missed eating spicy things T^T)*
Cale:*tries it*hmmmm…. It’s good, but it could use some more spice.
Beacrox:*utter confusion* …yes young master-nim. *thinking that Cale might be insane because this is the spiciest dish he’s ever been in the presence of*
Beacrox:*adds more spice anyways because he’s so confused*
Cale: still needs more spice.
Beacrox:*worried confusion intensifies*
Beacrox:*adds more spice*
Cale: perfect.
Beacrox:*more worried confusion*
Later- *Beacrox enlists Eruhabens help to summon the whole Cale-nim protection squad*
Cale:*is summoned to his fathers office to find perhaps every person he’s ever met standing there with Choi Han looking perhaps as confused as he is*
Deruth: Son… are you feeling alright?
Cale:…yes…? What is this for..?
Beacrox:*puts the spicy dish on the desk*
Alberu: Dongsaeng, this is an intervention.
Deruth: we think something might be wrong with your taste buds.
Cale: huh? It’s not even that spicy? Try it if you don’t believe me?
Everyone in the room: *tries it and immediately starts dying(-Choi Han)*
Deruth: Dear God! That could kill a small cat!
Ohn: as a small cat, I can confirm, eating any more of that would kill me.
Cale: Oh come on! It isn’t that spicy!
Everyone:*confusion*
Choi Han:…
Choi Han:… it isn’t that bad…
Everyone:*appalled*
Alberu: You two are fucking anomalies. This is not something a human, or any race for that matter, can consume without horrible difficulty.
Cale:*walks over to the dish*
Cale:*eats the rest of it to not let it go to waste because it really does have the perfect amount of spice*
Everyone:*in utter terror as Cale shows zero reaction*
Alberu: I am terrified of you.
Someone should write a fanfic about this (✯ᴗ✯)
Rok Soo's ability isn't Instant AU
Instead of being able to, very briefly and painfully, fuck with time; he got an ability based on all the absolute bullshit that's happened to him.
From the childhood, to his friends dying in front of him. All the shitty rumors that sprouted up, all the shit luck, all of it. Just, all of it.
So instead of Instant, he got Lament.
Lament is a scream capable of leveling buildings, at the cost of absolutely shredding Rok Soo's throat.
As a result of that power, Rok Soo doesn't talk often, and when he does his voice is hoarse and pained. He also refuses to speak at full volume, because while he's got a handle on his power, he's paranoid that he'll slip up.
So when he transfers over to the body of Cale, people notice.
The Young Master went to bed his usual talkative self, but when he woke up?
Barely a word, and when he did speak, a whisper.
Cale barely speaks a word to Ron beyond the single syllable required. Barely bothers to acknowledge Deruth. Relies on hand-speak and notes to talk to merchants.
Deruth is going crazy trying to figure out what the hell happened to his son, Ron is very close behind him because what the hell got past him? He's Ron Fucking Molan.
Then Cale comes home with a bedraggled punk that smells like the trash the killed Ron's family, and Ron has to listen in astonishment as he says more to this jackass than he's said to Ron in a week.
Basically; Cale's power of Lament is so strong and painful that everything Cale is paranoid of letting it slip, that he's selectively mute. This causes many misunderstandings, in true Cale fashion.
Smooth real smooth alberu
Cale: I'm trash
Alberu: As someone who cares deeply about the environment, I am obligated to pick you up. Is seven okay?
Cale: ...
Rosalyn: You smooth motherf**ker
______________
Cale ／ \
(／ﾟｰﾟ)／ *responsibilities* Alberu
(ʘᗩʘ’)!
Some random person: You made such a mess!! What do you have to say for yourself
Cale: Anything regarding this matter shall be dealt by my hyung-nim, the Crown Prince of Roan, our shining sun, Alberu Crossman
He's just a silly little guy doing silly little things
Ever wonder what the “traditional” heroes before Cale were like? I imagine them like this:
Archmage: I studied the arcane arts after my master, a dragon in disguise, took pity on me, a human child. Under their tutelage, I have nurtured my talent in powerful spellcasting. Now I have become an archmage.
Swordmaster: I’ve swung my sword a thousand times, no, a million times. I have swung my sword day after day. It is my way of life, the way of the sword. I trained until I became one with my sword. My aura is proof that I have ascended into the rank of a swordmaster.
Saint: By the grace of god, I will heal the sick and guide those who are led astray. My unshakable faith is the reason why God blessed me as their Saint.
And there's this guy:
Yeah it's heavenly luck to acquire a single AP or whatever, but it's so funny when the hero party asks an AP user how they got their power and dude goes Oh I picked it up in my backyard 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who tf gave him drugs Σ(ಠ_ಠ)
GOD HES SO-
Yo why is ron in a bunny suit?
Happy pride month
Remember what I said about finishing this shit- I got a job and yesterday grabbed a pen in ages
It's a work on progress. I'm really tired, maybe I finish it later
I will just lay down and wait for the sweet kiss of death. Try again the next life or something. What are another 1000 years really.
The way the White Star had to invent a massive lore for Cale just to cope with the fact that somehow this 20-yr-old twink is casually wrecking his ass is honestly so funny lmaoooooooo
I think that's why Cale can trap him with Embrace so easily: the moment Cale revealed the truth, the White Star's ego physically cannot cope lmaoo
Imagine inventing yourself an archnemesis, only to find out that no, you are just a delusional bastard with a fragile ego, and that for close to 6 months, said "archnemesis" even tried to dissuade you a couple of times because you are that pathetic to him.
I would not recover fr
They both need to stay away from scissors. Twins.
Do y'all see the vision?
Both "Beast People", Both parentless, Both got inadvertently adopted into a found family, Both looking like cinnamon rolls, Both could kill you, Their main parental figure is a smart, calculating sonovavich that is "weak", Both got that dangly strand and uncontrolled hair, etc...
One of my headcanons is that KRS spent most of is carear as a team leader dehumanizing himself.
He was no longer Kim Rok-Soo but the Leader. He has more important things than having a break, or personal time. He was a fundamental piece of the machinery of the team and he needed to give everything to keep it running.
After all, he can't ruin the thing his hyungs died protecting.
Choi Han: What’s the hardest part of a vegetable to eat?
Choi Han: The wheelchair
*Cale choking in the back with a very confused Raon asking what that means*
Rosalin: so, Cale, how's your slacker life going?
Cale: Good. The other day I was reading a book about Stockholm syndrome. It was pretty bad at first, but by the end I liked it.
Rosalin: pff- *high pitched* yeah? I-im glad-
Is the fact that when he did get close to someone, they died, so he never understood what came next in friendship or any other kind of relationship.
What do you do with the people that you love? He doesn't know, because he never had the time. He never learned how to share. With who? The dead? The graves? The rests of his loved ones? God?
You know most of the time people get angry at Cale because he can't for the life of him communicate things as they are, specifically regarding his health and seems to be unable to register his family worries for him.
And to that I said, of fucking course, his whole life on earth was horrible and he didn't develop emotionally because let's do a quick recap:
His parents died.
His abusive uncle took him in
He ended up in an orphanage.
When he was twenty the world collapsed.
He was bullied because he didn't have abilities.
Then the shelter he was in was destroyed
Once again he was alone until he met with LSH and CJS and let's not forget he was already 20 something.
Not long after they died as well.
Then he closed off with everyone because he didn't want to get attached just to lose them again.
He woke up in a novel
GoD confirmed he was supposed to die not CJS nor LSH.
He had to face his past again due to SG test.
...Well you get my point by now he was a little too busy surviving for him to actually develop self worth, most of his life he learned he wasn't someone who deserves affection or care and unfortunately no one said otherwise and if they did they die leaving him worse than before.
So it is no wonder he keeps things to himself all the time, after all why would others worry about him it makes no sense? At least from his pov.
That's why he is so detached at the beginning, still he can't help but try fixing things because it is the only action he knows
Surviving and saving others is so deeply engrained in him that unknowingly he keeps getting in a bigger mess. He got attached against his best efforts and gives more than he can take because he is not used to getting, the people who ever gave him anything always ended up dying before he could understand being emotional or plainly having emotions is normal.
That's why my man is out there saying shit like "I Don't really care about these people" and then fixing (destroying) every problem they ever encounter
Plausible deniability, if he didn't say he cared about them or even admitted it to himself, they wouldn't die (?
thinking about how everyone who ever cared about kim rok soo would disappear from his life
and how he started to keep a distance from the people who cared about him
perhaps, in the attempt, that they might stay
and the people who managed to crack open his shell
died in front of him
Alberu, looking at the people Cale gathered: I didn't know we had so many strong allies.
Cale: Wait till you see the dragons
Alberu: What?
Cale: What
SO ACCURATE IM CRYING
Tcf texposts (because I'm procrastinating on my assignments and I have Adobe illustrator privileges)
