#og!cale

[jenjenmina]

Choose your character

Cale "I need to achieve world peace and end wars to live a peaceful and lazy slacker life" Henituse

Kim "I need to become the CEO of your company and get rid of the night shift" Rok Soo

[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

[jasmineaoi]

Incorrect quote#

After a battle, soldiers are sitting chatting around and to relax.

Eric *trying to bring positivity into og!cale*: Cale, if you will get a reward right now, what do you want?

Og!cale: Revenge.

Eric: okay...undertstandable. What about like...umm..practical things.

Og!cale: Swords, Concealed knifes, poisons-

Eric: OKAY! What harmless things do you want?

Og!cale: ....a fluffy pillow-

Eric: *nodding* good-

Og!cale: -to suffocate them-

Eric: -ALRIGHT TIMES OUT LET'S SLEEP.

Inspiration: lazy-cat-corner tumblr

[unadulteratedbluebirdnightmare]

An AU with og!cale where he is basically a genius in the music (in tboah world but no white shit) and instead of him being trash he moves away from his family and becomes a international talented musician

(this can maybe turn out a og!albecale, og!choicale, whatever other ship you want or just a fic with cale having family issues but I probably just don't continue)

[sadlynotthevoid]

The other day I had this weird dream where, in a timeline where the Soo's, somehow and for some reason, stopped the plaza terror incident— pretty much with no casualties. And then, like a week later or so, the king or Alberu (or any royalty, not sure who) gathered the nobles and other people related to the matter on the palace.

Here's when things start to... happen, I guess?

Turns out, between the people there was a really angry noblewoman who went straight to the king to ask for divorce of her husband. Not really sure what the guy did, but he was also there and he was kind of a jerk, so... Fair.

Zed, for this time in the right, tried to explain that 'yes, he can get them divorced, but right now was not the time for it'.

—It didn't worked.

The woman was really mad and indignated and the jerk of the husband wasn't helping. Obviously, the situation escalated.

The discussion turned into yells, which turned into them throwing things and a random woman (seriously, who was this? a mistress, maybe?) joining the jerk. Food was launched, Antonio Gyerre almost got a fork at the eye and, by the end of all this, Choi Han had a chicken wing on his hair (that was Choi JungSoo, actually).

After they got them separated, the jerk ended up being held by the guards for some reason (I think he threw a knife, but I'm not sure. It could had been Raon). The woman stomped off the room, being followed by a distressed maid holding a baby.

Five minutes later, Cale Henituse entered through the door, looking really confused. He glanced at all the people covered in food, at the man being picked like a naughty cat by the guards and at the spoon tangled in the king's beard. He tilted his head.

"What happened here."

And, instead of answering him, Bassen asked, "hyung-nim, what are you carrying there?"

Slowly, Cale moved the bunch in which he had his coat wrappled in his arms. He pulled off a piece of fabric a bit, showing a pair of litte hands to Bassen.

"—!!"

"Some crazy woman threw this baby at me at the hallway. Literally."

----

Then I woke up and now I don't know what happened later with og!Cale and his accidentally acquired baby. I mean, besides that he kept her, obviously.

[thevoicestellmetosteal]

Ok ok, so hear me out, consider this song

For og!Cale

[thegradus2]

He passed out like 10 minutes after this

[ciancy-an]

Took me forever to finish this because this vain little young master won’t leave me alone until I made sure everything on his person looked absolutely dashing and gorgeous.

Ref for pose and composition: X: @tnadmszo01

[noxiousgrace]

The lemon teas were meant as a way to tease og!cale and krs!cale at first. Since ron thought it was funny that the "disrespectful young master" would obediently drink his least favourite tea as long as ron was the one serving it.

And it's a stretch to say ron loved og!cale, but he saw og!cale grieve his mother and comfort his father. He was able to empathize because his own wife and sons mother had died before they ran to the henituse county. The book was inaccurate in a lot of the familial descriptions, ron cared for cale even if he didn't prioritize him over his own life and went on to travel with choi han because of arms reappearance

However after krs!cale literally saved the world and gave the molans a chance to rebuild their life, their relationship changed as well.

Now ron uses the lemon tea to scold cale more than to tease him. The assassin doesn't show it but he genuinely cares about krs!cale, he himself said that the molans repay their debts a hundred fold, and wants what's best for him.

Seeing krs sacrifice his health over and over again for this war is stressful for any caretaker to watch, ron uses the lemon tea as a way to keep cale in check and to make sure he's mentally still okay.

If krs suddenly changed the way he views lemon tea, it would be a cause of concern for ron, and an easy sign that something isn't right with krs!cale.

Having something routine with the people you care about is a very easy and simple way to connect with them when they aren't the talkative type

A new understanding of cale’s character

cale henituse is a depressed bastard (we kind of been knew) am currently rereading the novel, so this time I noticed a tea symbolism, where the after the first time ron gave cale lemon tea and he drank it life's kind been giving cale lemons ever since. so of course it got me thinking more about the relationship between cale and ron and find that it would be interesting to study.

what kim rok soo observed of the relationship between og!cale and him was that ron didn’t have any particular like for cale, so could he as cale also operate under that or..?

[blueteller]

You guys ever think about how funny it is that the whole reason why Cale did not have try at all to impersonate the original Cale, was because no one actually knew anything about him, despite the fact that everybody knew about him? On an international scale, even??

Cale: (doing an absolutely terrible job at being trash) Everybody else: That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about Cale Henituse to dispute it

[jenjenmina]

Honestly, I was once somebody who thought ogcale was being too extreme with the trash thing. Like, 'Violan is beautiful, intelligent, elegant and talented, it's such a stretch that people hated her and Basen so much that Cale had to do that'.

Then I saw this comment on Basen's wiki page (you can still find this at the bottom of the comments to this day)

(They are factually wrong btw)

But bc of this, I was like oh…

I get it now.

That must've sucked.

Sorry for ever doubting you ogcale.

You did what you had to do.

We love and appreciate you for it.

(Like if a person irl had this thought, I can just imagine what the extended family were saying)

[ohmycale]

og!Cale, Vacation and the Cat Distribution System

I posted about og!cale having a vacation...with KRS and cats!

og!Cale: Finally! A vacation...more to sleep in and...what are doing here?!

KRS: Yo! I'm your vacation guide...

og!Cale: I don't need a vacation guide. I need a vacation with my niece only.

KRS: Sure about that? (releases Hong and On to Og!Cale)

Hong and On: Nyah!

Og!Cale: ...whaaat!

KRS: You're a lucky winner of the cat distribution system! Don't bother resisting, you won't win. especially with Hong and On! Can't you see how cute and majestic they are?

Hong and On are posing like models and rubbing themselves to Og

Og!cale: Aren't they your cats?

KRS: Nice of you to assume they listen to me when I say I own them. They own me really.

Elsewhere, Raon Miru

Raon: Human! Why is there no dragon distribution system?

[jasmineaoi]

I have so many imaginations centering og!cale in my mind. There's the;

Belle Au (og!cale being a secret famous singer, and may have talk with roksoo through the app when they're young)

Everyone but og!cale regressor Au (with the climax of teen cale finding out that all of their care are reserve for someone else, oh imagine the angst *evil laughter*)

Rokcale Your Name Au (im just stuck with the ending train scene but make it RokCale)

Also Rokcale Weathering with you(it's the notion of "throw away the world for you" that caught me in a grip, also dont you think that the both of them the type of person to do that; Lcf!cale be choosing to hurt himself over and over for others and og!cale who already forsaken a timeline with his deal)

Uncle Og!cale Au(cale transmigrating into roksoo's uncle's body and using his war veteran skill to FIGHT AGAINST FATE!)

Oldest Og!cale with barrow and roksoo as dongsaengs Au(just cale showering them with so much love that they dont know what to do with it)

That one og!cale saving Krs!cale Au(*cough* by sacrificing himself*cough*)

Modern Au where og!cale being the perfect joker ever, fooling everything and everyone(....and being lonely as hell)

[nonexistentirl]

OG!Cale : my mother died because she broke her plate.

Cale (sweating): ... I see.

OG!Cale: *sees the state of Cale's body* what happened to you?

Cale (sweating profusely): ... I broke my plate.

OG!Cale: ... Okay wtf

[sadlynotthevoid]

Personally, I think that Og!Cale's perfect futuristic/sci-fi weapon wouldn't be a sort of gun, but rather something like whatever Gogo Tamago has on her feets.

He would slide and twist around, pretending to be figure skating. Then, passing near a distracted enemy, spin faster and faster and— BAM.

High speed kick to their face.

He still can get a gun with it tho. It also would be great along with a whip or similar.

[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.