#KRS Cale Henituse

[iikisa]

choi han from this red dragon!krs au in progress

and have an unrelated red dragon krs.

[dragonsbluee]

I need everyone to acknowledge the fact that KRS!Cale is a MASSIVE bookworm. He's able to thrive in Birth of a hero because he read it and enjoyed it. (yesyes record helps him, but you can't ignore the fact that he knows the characters, not just the plot. That comes from liking the thing you're reading!)

Give me the young master spending his afternoons reading under the shade of a tree with a new book series and absolutely devouring it in one sitting. He's missed being able to read a whole series and not having to hunt for the next books through a destroyed city.

Give me Cale with a little notebook full of books he'd like to read, the titles collected from the people he talks to. He'll read anything or at least try it out, but fantasy remains his favourite genre.

He also writes little opinion blurbs for his favourtie books, or jots down quotes and favourite lines. Sure his record ability means that he doesn't really have to, but it's an old habit he enjoys.

Cale, who starts collecting books on his travels, just one or two from every place he visits. His friends and allies pick up on this and start bringing him books they think he'd like. Cale has a very speicifc and rare smile when someone gifts him a book. Its small, but it somehow takes over his entire face, and you can almost see his eyes sparkle in delight. It quickly becomes a smile everyone looks forward to.

Cale, who never turns down a book given as a gift, and so he starts picking up bits of knowledge from across the continent. He learns about the edible plants in the Jungle, the different variations of marble and stone throughout the Roan Kingdom, the fables and myths of the Dark Elves. He keeps them on a shelf in his room in the super rock villa, and every once in a while, the kids pick one to have read to them. When the shelf is full, Eruhaben pulls some out from his hoard as a gift to Cale. They're almost too gaudy, but Eruhaben enchants them to protect the books from dust, damage, and pests. Cale spends an entire day reorganizing his collection.

He never thought he would be able to build his own personal library, but here he is.

Cale loves to compare the books he has in this world and the ones he knew before. Sometime in the future, he sits down and uses record to copy out his favourite series. He gifts it to Choi Han so he can have a small piece of home he never got to experience.

It becomes known that the best way to get Cale to stop and actually take a break is to plop a kid on his lap and give him a book he's been looking forward to. One year for his birthday, Alberu gives Cale free rein to explore the palace's secret library. They find him curled up in a corner a couple hours later surrounded by stacks of books.

Cale is 100% the type of person to insist that more libraries should be available to the public so that he can read easily when travelling to different places. It's definetly not because he wants more kids to be able to learn how to read, and he was able to grow into loving books because of his local library.

[thegradus2]

This audio keeps popping up on my fyp and i just keep thinking bout them jensjsn

[itrvahn]

I like the idea of a twins au solely for one reason.

People looking at KRS (36 inside) (18 outside) and being like "is this kid really 18?"

Then looking at (og) Cale henituse (40 inside) (18 outside) and being like "ARE KIDS JUST LIKE THIS THESE DAYS???”

Then looking at literally any other young adult and being like "oh...is it a henituse thing?"

[noxiousgrace]

LSH: hey guys

CJS: wut

KRS: what is it

LSH: what's the worst pain you've ever felt

KRS: we get damn near killed by monsters every day, be more specific

CJS: ya wat he said

LSH: okay, before the cataclysm then

CJS: err,,, i broke my arm really badly while practicing the sword once

KRS: i head to clean the house on a broken leg once. *Shivers* it was awful (-_-)

LSH & CJS: .....

LSH: was it your uncle

KRS: yeah obviously

*CJS and LSH glance at each other*

CJS: damn we should've killed that bastard

LSH: I'll figure out how to go back in time eventually, just wait.

KRS: *shrug* do whatever you want

[murasaki-cha]

Something about how KRS!Cale never completely erased his identity as Kim Rok Soo. He still refers to himself as Kim Rok Soo at times despite how adamant he was to leave his past behind and live as Cale Henituse. How even after meeting with OG!Cale and accepting they both now live respectively as Cale Henituse and Kim Rok Soo he still calls himself by his original name. Something about how he can't throw away his past despite how painful it was because that's still a part of him. He is Cale Henituse but he will always be Kim Rok Soo.

And that is not to say that Cale!KRS completely erased his identity as Cale Henituse. He still keeps his mannerisms as Cale even while accepting that he now is just Kim Rok Soo. The difference is that Cale!KRS never really planned to change or forget his life as Cale Henituse, meanwhile KRS!Cale wanted to erase it completely and start a new life.

[nonexistentirl]

Judging by his track record as Cale Henituse, I wholeheartedly believe Kim Roksoo destroyed a few guilds and came very close to (if not succeeded in) overthrowing the government of at least one of the countries on earth.

[favficbirthdays]

Happy Birthday

Kim Rok Soo/Cale Henituse & Choi Han (8th November)

Trash of the Count's Family

[daredevil-vagabond]

you've really got to stop spitting up blood everywhere you're scaring the hoes

[ohmycale]

Random Unpopular Opinion

Sometimes I wish, og!cale would just could leave everything and everyone behind for a time...or forever. Or have an amnesia for a time or...also forever. I'm trying to find a some point in canon when or where he did things for himself. Not for others, even for his family. Just himself. For such a background character, his relationships are complex but also exhausting. But since he is not the hero, we all just get crumbs and unfortunately, that leads a lot of theories about him (and his immediate groups). If he doesn't yet need an in-lore and canon competent therapist, he also needs a long and relaxing vacation. And yeah, I'm sure KRS would love to hang in that vacation too. o

[dyinggirldied]

I love KRS as hot pretty twink with long red hair Cale but I also want more of KRS as himself: beef and scarred

[iikisa]

kim roksoo from the red dragon au im imagining/working on

[arceviste]

the iconic back pose

[sammayrin]

I know we all make fun of Cale for sabotaging his own slacker life, but honestly given his life experiences, it kind of makes sense.

Beyond the obvious fact that he’s a good person who’s going to help where help is needed, it was also his responsibility to do so for around a decade.

Like, I’m pretty sure one of the reasons he gives for why he needs to do all this is because conflict would inevitably reach his doorstep and cause issues for him. In the shelter before he joins team 1, he wasn’t actively involved in the fighting… then the fighting came to him, destroying the shelter with massive amounts of casualties.

And unless I’m misremembering the side chapter, he did try to take a day off as team leader krs (for cjs and lsh’s death anniversary)—and then the company called him in to deal with a crisis.

So his life experiences do kind of align with the “I have to fix everything before I can have a day off” mentality

[samporrra]

I like to think about Og!Cale and Krs!Cale differences.

Imagine, like, Og!Cale:

Cares a little bit too much about his appearence

Haves 7 products to take care of every part of his body and more 15 to his hair

Goes out in walks oftenly

Bathes only in regular, warm water, not too cold nor too hot

Haves a skincare routine

Pleases for his personal space and, in his sleeping time, keeps the door locked

Eats properly to compensate the amount of alcohol

Usually sleeps the reccomended, not more or less

Used to enjoy to learn about Gods and respect elders and Gods (17!Og!Cale btw)

Cuts his hair usually

"Hated" to use made physical contact with his people (like outting a hand on their shoulder or petting)

And there's Krs!Cale...

"I have this single product that can clean my body and the floor of the Castle.."

7 in 1 shampoo

"Running? What's that imao"

Never touched a skincare product since he was born

Bathes only in boiling or freezing water with nowhere in between

Would eat a meal per day if no one remembered him of eating

And that meal would be the remainings of yesterday, and if there's no remaining, would eat a single candy with wine

"GoD? That fucker? GoS? That bitch? GoW? That Kratos copycat?"

Let's his hair grow cuz it's too lazy to cut

Had gave up in his personal space and sleeps with his door wide open

Pets and hands on shoulders

I get surprised of how Ron didn't find it out sooner...

[noxiousgrace]

Have you ever wondered what a conversation between jour and krs!cale would look like?

Same

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Krs!cale: ....

Jour, with a bittersweet smile: hello

Krs!cale: it's been a while. (Referring to the time he read her diary, this conversation is probably a few years after that)

Everyone watching: *misunderstanding what cale said, thinking he's talking abt the day she died*

Alternatively

Krs!cale: hello.

Jour: *hiding behind cale!krs*

Cale!krs: this is my friend, say hello

Jour: UNCLEEE!!!!!! *runs into krs!cale and almosy knocks him over* (cuz a part of her soul recognizes her sons body)

Cale!krs: *in absolute despair because she called Cale uncle before him*