#cale: yes

[infinizero]

I am of the opinion that if Cale were to ever realize how much his kids think of him as their parent, he would absolutely speedrun therapy and you cannot change my mind

[blueteller]

Cale explaining what happened to his plate be like:

Meanwhile, me:

"Uhhh, Cale? Your plate flows in your blood now? What's gonna happen the next time you spew blood like a fountain, then? ...Cale? Cale??"

[murasaki-cha]

Part 2 of TCF textposts because.... ngl I might have a problem because I made over thirty of these in one go...

(First one is here)

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

Part 2 of LCF is refreshing bc everyone in part 1 has gotten the chance to both revere and fear Cale and his family so now that they're going to different worlds we get to see new people go through the process of learning that Cale is a powerful saint that coughs blood who will steal and swear at and destroy everything in his path, and all of these things are true at the same time. And these new characters will always end up either loving him for it or being terrified of him, and that's beautiful

[thegradus2]

This was gonna be a sexy choicale drawing but then the kids took over and now choi han is just barely there

[somber-cryptid]

has anyone ever considered the idea that cale's (krs) way of thinking, aka telling himself everyone is annoying and he's just doing all this so he can slack off

was like. his coping mechanism after living with the curse? or way of trying to trick it?

and even tho he's free of it in a totally different body, it's still his crutch (that he's been doing his best to let go of with the help of his new family)

hm

[sadlynotthevoid]

Modern AU where Rok Soo and co do their usual shenanigans, except OgCale is an enstarrie and he just keeps playing/singing songs in the background.

[Rok Soo and White Star fighting]

WS: You're a reincarnator! You've been reincarnating for centuries to kill me, right?!

Rok Soo: ...

OgCale, in the background: Welcome to this happy paranoia~

In the middle of a meeting

Clopeh: *stars babbling about Rok Soo's godhood*

Mary: *nodding quietly*

OgCale, who somewhy got dragged into the room: *walks to the piano in the room* Just ride along with someone else's nonsense~ *keeps singing*

Ron: Hoh. This Ron didn't know the young master still could play.

OgCale, pointedly staring at Ron: Even youth doesn't last for that long~

Ron: ...

Any time, at any place,

Adin: *walks in*

OgCale, with his phone already out: *noisy beep starts playing*

Adin: (he's doing it again. What does that mean?! WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!)

[nukudraws]

So, this is a very short comic about Alberu and Raon, inspired by this art to the song "No One Is Alone" from Into The Woods

Version with sound|yt version

~Sometimes people leave you~

~Halfway through the wood~

~Do not let it grieve you~

~No one leaves for good~

~You are not alone~

~No one is alone~

~No one is alone~

..........................................................................................

It's a bit rushed, but it was made with love and tears more than effort and skills xd

[glassofice]

Wip

But I like it so far

[pumpkinrootbeer]

too many "omg mikko actually playing defensively" sentiments in the world lately... mikko has always played defense

here's him falling beautifully to get it out of their zone

here's him flailing beautifully to get it out of their zone

NEVER say he doesn't play defense his majestic tumbles are stunning defensive plays in disguise 💔💔💔

[kuroyuki-kokuyoku]

Random TFC-Related Thought: Tolerance

Here we go again with yet another of my literal shower thoughts.

So I was reading through some Humans Are Space Orcs posts and fics and one of my favorite tropes is capsaicin is a painful/lethal poison to the rest of the universe, yet we, humans, are a race insane enough to eat it for fun.

Follow me down this rabbit hole as I present to you the tried and true trope of Koreans do be built differently when it comes to spice, especially when compared to the people of a medieval fantasy world.

My headcanon is that the spices used in Nameless are completely different than those on Earth. Different worlds + different ecosystems = different food norms. My idea is that many plant-based ingredients used in healing potions can also be used as spices in food. Those very same spices were discovered a long time ago to have a lesser healing effect when used in food. However, the reason spices aren't widely available and/or distributed because they need them to mass produce potions, which has a far better healing effect than a tastier version of a pasta dish.

To sum, spices in food is a great show of wealth because otherwise it would be a complete waste of money and a precious healing potion that could have been made out of them. TLDR: Cale's palate have been spoiled ever since his transmigration cuz Beacrox has access to every spice in the world and money's no object to the Henituse.

Back to the topic of capsaicin.

Alright, so the White Knockoff is dead, Cale's farm is going great. He's been trying his hand at growing the ingredients so he could recreate Korean cuisine, starting with kimchi. His personal recipe to be exact. Just once problem.

Where the fuck is he going to get some peppers for his kimchi?!

Is there no equivalent in this fantasy world? He found a cabbage equivalent. He found some scallions equivalent. He even found a daikon radish equivalent (turns out, they're fast-growing edible weeds in this world. Hello, nostalgic catharsis). But no sweet, sweet capsaicin? The man has been craving for his own personal recipe of hot as Whale Beastmen kimchi, for Lee Soo Hyuk's sake!

Then one day, he gets invited to eat at another noble's mansion for plot reasons. Cale decides to go along with it, again for plot reasons. Now this noble was never Cale's biggest fan also for plot reasons, and they had the most brilliant idea of nonlethally poisoning Cale and getting away with it.

Cale takes a bite of his spiked food. Then another. Then another. Then he asked for seconds. By that point, the soon-to-be-put-on-a-T-shirt noble realized that Cale wasn't in squirming agony. Didn't their servants follow his orders to add the "secret ingredient" to Cale Henituse's dish. Whatever, discretely tell the chef to double to dosage just in case. But that only got more compliments to their food. And to add insult to injury, Cale asked to speak to his chef. Why?

Turns out, capsaicin can only be found in the pulp of a rare species of berry. The berry exponentially produces more capsaicin the longer they are left to ripe. Since Ancient Times, the ripened berries were consistently used in torture. But nearly a thousand years ago, it almost went extinct because it was primarily cultivated in the Dragon Slayer Village, and when the people died out, they took their secrets with them until some lucky botanist rediscovered them.

Once Cale knows about this, he made a beeline to Beacrox and shook him down for his stash of those berries.

Slightly sad but mostly funny headcanon here...

The reason why Cale likes his food hot enough to give Cheapskate's FoD a run for his gold is because of the White Rabies Symptoms' curse.

As a result, everything he eats back when he was KRS tastes a little duller so he has a habit of cranking up the spices and seasonings when he cooks. But he also learned through trial and error to make his cooking more palatable for "normal people".

The first time everyone tried his cooking made to his specific tastes and not dialed down for everyone else, the only other person who could eat it was Choi Han.

Later, an incident where they caught a would-be assassin and Beacrox asked Cale to get in the kitchen. No berries yet. They'll start adding that in the prisoner's meals if the assassin refuses to crack.

Cale didn't know how to feel about his cooking being used as an instrument of torture.

Bonus:

Zed: Ah, yes. You inherited Jour's disturbingly eccentric palate. She used to carry a whole jar of pickled berries and add them to all her meals. Her go-to excuse for having them was that they were her "medication" because if other nobles can afford to add healing herbs to their meals so why couldn't she add her personal "medicinal additives" to her meals? Deruth: (*sigh*) Unfortunately, growing the berries is illegal in Roan. Having them, on the other hand, isn't. I never did find out how Jour got her hands on them, but she'd always had a fresh jar every month until her dying day. Alberu: Oh no. Choi Han: OH YES!!! Do it, Cale-nim! FOR DAH KIMCHI!!! Violan: I'll get a greenhouse prepared. Cale: Oh, hyung-nim. Shining sun of our glorious empire. Won't you please find it in your generous heart of gold to grant this lowly citizen of your an exemption- Sui Khan: Hey, Cale. There's no such law in the Endable Kingdom. I can hook you up in exchange for some of that legendary kimchi of yours.

[marlair]

i actually really like the universal tcf thing where everyone likes cale and hes oblivious but CONSIDER: he isnt oblivious hes just an aro romance repulsed king and he feels terrible because it feels like he’s losing his closest friends because they see him as a romantic interest instead of a friend

like hes so “i dont wanna be the owner of your fantasy, i just wanna be a part of your family” coded

[blueteller]

People be like: "But Cale isn't farming World Trees! He's just planting them!"

Me:

Oh Cale is definitely farming, trust me🤣

[murasaki-cha]

I want to gently wrap my arms around Cale and give him a big hug.

But instead of my arms it's my hands

And instead of Cale's whole body it's just his neck

And instead of gently it's with my whole brute strength

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

Part 1 , Part 2

Kim Rok Soo wakes up several hours later. Surprisingly, he hasn't been moved from his position, still held up against the teenagers chest, face in his neck. Only now there's a monster fur wrapped around Kim Rok Soo's back and tied behind the boy. A... baby carrier.

Choi Han presses a hand on the baby monsters head when he notices it wake up. With his right hand he tightens his grip on his knife and casually swings it diagonally through the air, a black aura cutting through the space in front of him and arriving at the creature that attacked them, reminiscent of a cross between a mountain lion and a goat, with oozing green fur and bulging eyes.

The monster is cut. The monster falls.

Kim Rok Soo squirms in the carrier. It makes him recall a memory of a father that would tie his baby to his back when he went out to fight. His wife had died, so he had no choice but to manage alone, because he couldn't trust anyone with his child. They both disappeared one day, and Kim Rok Soo never heard of any bodies being recovered.

Whatever, he thinks. It isn't embarrassing to be in a baby carrier if he's a baby. He hasn't been thrown away or left behind, so it's fine, right? Unfortunately, he notices, it is glaringly obvious that they haven't left the forest yet. Nor does it seem like the teenager has a base.

He didn't want to admit it, but seeing that monster, and a black haired Korean teenager that managed to kill it so easily... it made Kim Rok Soo remember the book he read last night.

The Birth of a Hero.

It seemed unreal to jump to the conclusion that this teenager is Choi Han, and that they're in the Forest of Darkness in a fantasy novel, but the hand stroking up and down his back reassured him that this was reality. And that Kim Rok Soo... was a monster.

...

No, what was he? A monster didn't make sense. Could he really have been dropped into this world as a newborn baby monster? That might as well be the world telling him to die! If he hadn't been next to his egg shell then wouldn't Choi Han have killed him instantly?!

Kim Rok Soo doesn't know how long Choi Han has been in the Forest of Darkness, but the calm exuding from him even when he kills monsters bigger than himself makes it clear that's it's nearing the time that he'll find Harris Village.

His stomach rumbles with a loud noise. He's ravenous, but the idea of hunting a monster ruins his appetite. Choi Han will feed him, surely.

He hasn't eaten since he hatched. Kim Rok Soo was forced to record books about child rearing before so he knows that babies need to eat often. Does a teenager- no, a teenager that is over a hundred years old now- know how to take care of a baby?

Choi Han pats him on the head.

"Hey." The patting was a little harder than maybe it should've been. "... Can you eat meat?"

Kim Rok Soo hums but it sounds like a warble. Monsters don't speak. Babies don't speak either. This kid is really asking a combination baby monster a question about his diet.

Even if it wasn't super obvious, Choi Han was obviously desperate for companionship. The tone in his voice made it clear that he hadn't spoken in a while, to someone or to himself. Yet, in this terrible forest where everything sought to kill him, Choi Han willingly picked up a liability and is trying to care for it.

Kim Rok Soo warbles again, quieter. This is why this kid ends up being the main character. Kind people will always find a way to be kind.

Choi Han unwraps the carrier and Kim Rok Soo readily jumps to the ground. He misses Choi Han's flinch because he's facing the felled mountain-lion-goat monster.

Experimenting, Kim Rok Soo sticks his elongated mouth into the flesh wound made by Choi Han, but only gets a mouthful of flowing blood. It floods his nostrils and he takes his face back out, shaking his head and frowning at the bad tasting blood.

The wound won't work, so he tries to bite through the fur somewhere else, but it doesn't even tear. He's a baby monster but he can't even do that much?

He's going to try something else when a black flash has him flinching and tumbling backwards. He lands with his back to Choi Han's leg.

Choi Han reaches towards him.

Kim Rok Soo closes his eyes. Did Choi Han decide he was useless and that he's better dead? He hadn't even had the chance to try fantasy food yet! He wanted to fall asleep on a human bed once they got out!

Something wet touches his mouth.

Without thinking, he takes it into his maw, finding it squarish and squishy. It tastes like the blood his mouth is coated in.

Kim Rok Soo blinks and looks up. Choi Han is looking down at him with expectant eyes. Though his face is devoid of emotion, he manages to still seem like a friendly- if a little apathetic- high school student.

The meat is chewy and softer than he expected, or maybe his jaws are stronger than he thought, so he ignores the fact that it tastes like blood and stares into Choi Han's eyes.

For being stuck in this forest for a hundred years, he has a nice gaze.

Gulp. The meat glides down the back of his throat incredibly easily. If he hadn't been a human before this, maybe he would've swallowed it immediately without chewing.

Choi Han waits for him to finish swallowing.

Kim Rok Soo warbles, unable to ask why the century old teenager is staring. Is something the matter? He's still hungry.

When Choi Han doesn't move Kim Rok Soo points at the monster with a paw.

More.

He wants more.

Choi Han gapes, astonished, but Kim Rok Soo gets off his leg and sits patiently to his side, waiting. If he is going to take care of a baby, he should do it all the way. Of course, once Kim Rok Soo gathers his strength, he'll guide Choi Han to Harris Village and let them heal his heart. He has to leave to get some powers that he is interested in to make him moderately strong.

Choi Han cuts out another square of meat and offers it to Kim Rok Soo, only to receive a blank stare. Don't just offer it to me, feed it to me. Babies shouldn't eat by themselves, they're too weak.

The wine-red baby opens his mouth. Choi Han's mouth breaks into a small smile. He places the square of meat onto the baby monsters tongue and watches in fascination as it swallows without chewing this time.

They repeat this until Kim Rok Soo burps, lazily blinking. Being a baby is better than he thought it'd be, even if the food isn't great. He can swallow it quickly though, so he reasons that being a monster right now isn't so bad because he doesn't have to suffer through eating tough, bloody meat.

He taps his tail on the ground, like ringing up customer service.

Isn't he taking advantage of the twisted protagonist too much? Kim Rok Soo should hurry and deliver him to Harris Village as repayment.

Choi Han is quick to bring the baby monster up to his chest, wrapping the monster fur around it again. When he strokes the bumpy head, it feels warmer than when he first held it. Despite being here for so long, he doesn't know how a baby monster grows or is raised. Do they normally get warmer the more they eat?

He should feed it frequently, so that it doesn't get cold.

[thegradus2]

I actually kinda dislike that one drawing i made of him so i just redrew it KSNJSSNJSNS