#I've written it before and agtdufEARDUGIF

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

Taking them apart is the best!! It's easy for me to look back at them with context now but I still love analyzing... just prepare for all your expectations to be rocked at some point.

Ehhh I think you should be fine even though you read that. Usually fics tend to get Cale's inner dialogue wrong (bc he's so.................). And the whole self-sacrifice thing... you'll understand as the novel progresses. Let's just say that, well, it's complicated? It's the reason behind why Cale is so...... hard to write.

OK. The reason I decided to finally read TCF was that someone promised me the main character wasn't actually a typical "blank slate for the reader, doesn't acknowledge their past or personality, no real connection to their original world" isekai protagonist.

Because that's the thing I dislike the most about a lot of isekai stories! And part of why I got hooked on ORV was the hints we got early on that Kim Dokja had his own traumatic history that would be explored in the story! (Though I know you can argue ORV isn't a true isekai, it's close enough for my point). The main reason I end up losing interest in a lot of isekai stories I start is that I get so frustrated with the blank slate protagonist.

So I was promised Kim Rok Soo/Cale Henituse wasn't that kind of protagonist, but uhhh. This. Is not very promising.

But!! It's only chapter one! Kim Dokja started looking like a blank slate at first too! I have been promised! I will hold on to hope!

On another note, very interesting to have a protagonist that has a core trait being avoiding pain and death. Maybe we can have a sensible protagonist that isn't self-sacrificing for once?

(Doubt doubt doubt doubt doubt)