#deruth henituse

[cale-thames]

Deruth: "There is no need to be recorded in history."

KrsCale: makes history

OgCale: removes himself from history

Deruth: "…"

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

EVERYONE PAUSE

Read this sentence from chapter 1 of lout of the count's family for me

"He meets the main character a few times after he gets the scar, and, in a refreshing cider-like scene, gets beaten to a pulp."

"—meets the main character a few times"

I don't think og!Cale immediately got beaten up by Choi Han upon meeting him???

Now look at this from chapter 5.

"Cale threw five jabs before he was hit. Which means, one jab should be okay."

This sounds like og!Cale met Choi Han five times before he got beaten up. Of course, it could have been less and og!Cale just threw in more "jabs" per meeting but I find it interesting that, despite what is generally considered canon in the fandom, og!Cale was not immediately beaten up, and even met og!Choi Han multiple times before it.

To me... doesn't that sound like og!Cale was searching for a sore spot? Something that would throw Choi Han into a fit of anger enough to beat up the son of a count? Seems like his comment about Harris Village might not have been his true thoughts, but his last resort attempt– mocking the dead. To force Choi Han to react.

If my knowledge of canon isn't wrong either, og!Cale was alone with Choi Han when this happened. As if he had predicted that this would send Choi Han into a frenzy and didn't want his guards to try and protect him, or punish Choi Han for it. Since og!Cale also didn't tell anyone about who beat him up or why.

So as far as I can tell... og!Cale didn't mock Harris Village out of nowhere? But was instead a carefully selected choice that he made out of necessity– because Choi Han hadn't risen to any of his other "jabs" and he needed someone to beat him up. Perhaps to get out of going to the meeting with the nobles?

There's still some parts that don't make sense, but I'm going through the novel to double check my knowledge and verify it. For example, Ron says this in chapter 10.

"This is going to be your first time outside the Henituse territory, right?"

This implies that og!Cale has never taken up the responsibility of going to the noble's meeting, and this is confirmed when lcf!Cale goes to the residential manor at the capital and it's described how the servants have never met Cale before. BUT in the novel, it isn't a question on if lcf!Cale will be attending. He just does.

So og!Cale would have needed an excuse every time the nobles meeting came around for why he couldn't go. Now think about this: why did og!Cale get that scar on his side? Og!Cale isn't covered in scars, so why is it that suddenly he does something reckless like that a few days before having to leave for the nobles meeting?

Presumably, it's because he needed an excuse. But it's a scar by the time he meets Choi Han only a few days later, so clearly his father hired a priest so heal og!Cale, or already had one on hand. No injury, no excuse. So og!Cale decided to get Choi Han to beat him up. No one else in the territory would have been able to do it! og!Cale already scared off all the gangsters, who are also too afraid of the count's retaliation when they are found out. Choi Han has no fear of that retaliation, at least when it comes to mocking his dead family.

Note: og!Cale got that scar before meeting Choi Han. Then he meets Choi Han and starts throwing out jabs? This means either og!Cale didn't know that Choi Han was strong but goaded him anyway, knowing no one else would beat him up... or og!Cale already had enough strength to tell that Choi Han was extremely strong, enough that beating up a normal person and beating up a slightly strong person would feel exactly the same to him, and that's why he goes after him. Not because Choi Han would be the only one willing to beat him up in their territory– after all, surely there's at least one or two that would do it? So why Choi Han?

Please add onto this if you remember something relevent because I haven't reread the first 50 or so chapters, and so I don't remember if Cale had to go and tell Deruth he would be the one going to the capital, if I missed it as I was skimming through or if it was said in a later chapter. I must analyze og!Cale through a microscope!!!!

[wherethelarksroam111]

Cale is canonically pretty. He's a handsome dude that looks good whatever he does.

Also: He's really fucking rich. He's the eldest son of a count-turned-duke that is known for his money. He's notably charismatic. The crown prince is his sworn brother.

And he's real famous. Like, proper famous. A hero known on every continent.

So.

How many noble ladies are sending over their proposals on the reg? Cos you can't tell me this man is not constantly being swarmed by courtship requests. His poor parents must be busy declining proposals all day.

[sadlynotthevoid]

Wait a second.

OgCale was an "I can handle it" kid.

KRS was a "I have to handle it" kid

OgCale is the type that gets used a little too fast to solve everything on his own to the point where asking for help is not a thought he has had in a while, even when he really should. Thinks he's more resistant than he is and that if he can handle it, he should, even when it's not something he should deal with.

KRS is the type that has to learn to handle everything life throws at him, but will absolutely make it someone else's problem if he can. It's not if he should or can, he just has to. Whether or not he'd ask for help depends on what he has on the other person. More likely to trick (scam) someone into doing it. Would absolutely smack (not hard) OgCale's head for trying to do everything on his own.

I need an AU where they're like, elementary school classmates and just constantly worried for the other. Like 10yo or so children OgCale and Kim Rok Soo.

Kid!Rok Soo, following OgCale discreetly because his silly classmate just followed some shady people on his own. He really doesn't have space to worry about his silly classmate, but he won't be able to sleep if he lets him get hurt knowingly. Cue two literal children vs the gangsters little Cale overheard planning a kidnapping. Spoiler: the children win.

Kid!OgCale, dragging Rok Soo all the way to his ride and then to his own home because his dumb classmate is hurt and instead of getting help he was going to walk home on his own. Plus, he seemed scared about going home and in Cale's very correct opinion, if a kid is scared to go home then maybe they need a better home. Better home = his own home.

Bassen, who was also in the same ride: uhm. Hyung-nim, who...

OgCale: Bassen, this is Rok Soo. Rok Soo, this is Bassen, my little brother.

Bassen:

Rok Soo: hello.

Bassen: hello?

Deruth and Violan coming home, only to find an extra child there.

Deruth: Uh-um. Cale, son?

OgCale, from the spot where he, Bassen and Rok Soo were assembling a puzzle: yes?

Deruth: Don't you have something you want to tell us?

OgCale: ...Welcome back?

Violan, trying not to laugh: I believe your father means to ask who your friend is.

OgCale: Oh! That's Rok Soo. He's not my friend. He's our new brother.

Deruth: Excuse me?!

OgCale, slower: Our new b r o t h e r.

Deruth: I know what you said, son, but you can't just pick random people and decide they're family on your own.

OgCale: He's not a random person. He's Rok Soo. Also, he's hurt. *Gets hit softly with a cushion* You are. *Back to Violan and Deruth* I was waiting for you so you could take us to the hospital because apparently, you need an adult there, or they'll call yours. And I don't like his uncle.

Rok Soo: You haven't met him.

OgCale: *makes hand gesture* And yet.

Violan, who already caught on on what must be going on: Alright, we can call a doctor.

OgCale: And a lawyer.

Deruth, who understandably thought his son was just trying to make a friend in his own strange way: And a la— why do you want a lawyer?

OgCale, in the most "duh" tone he can muster: So he can be our brother. Weren't you paying attention? I can't just keep my classmate in my house without a paper saying he lives her, father. That's kidnapping.

Deruth: That's not—*Sighs*

OgCale's trash act never succeeds because, well, the whole dragging a classmate home to get adopted because he was hurt kinda immortalized him as a treasure. He could kill someone and people would think he had a reason for it. He gets the feral sweetheart reputation instead. Future art school student.

Rok Soo rats him out to Ron at least once per month for trying to do everything on his own and being reckless. OgCale rats him out to their parents for being reckless, getting hurt and trying to teach Lily (once she's born) to scam.

Bassen is the one who takes after his scamming ways instead.

OgCale/Rok Soo, about each other: he doesn't have survival instincts.

[alien-slushie]

Eruhaben taking a selfie with Cale and sending it to Deruth with the caption "Mr. Steal Yo Son"

[pityspider]

[jadequeenemma]

Random thing but i want lily and Ohn interactions so bad

Like the way i squealed because of the interactions between Violen and Raon in the novel,you guys have no idea.Thats a grandmother and her grandbaby you can’t convince me otherwise

Like there should be more focus on the Henituse family reacting to their eldest becoming a dad at 18.One of them has red hair.Like come on guys

Lily and ohn and hong would be the perfect trio

A sword master and two trained assassins?Match made in heaven (hell for cale tho lmao)

Also i want hannah and lily interactions too

Like can you imagine Cale asking Hannah to train his baby sister??

Adorable

And lock and Basen would be great friends! They both have so much in common already what with them both worshipping Cale

Wait

Henituse family reacting to Cale becoming a dad at 18 and a guardian to an entire pack of wolf kids

😭🙏Please the image is sending me

[gatoquecontaestrelas]

When you stop to consider the perspective of the other characters in TCF, especially the nobility, Cale's post-transmigration behavior must have been shocking and inconceivable to most. It was like: who the hell is this good person who's extremely competent in absolutely everything he does, and where is the trash noble we knew?!

Cale spent ten years acting in the worst possible way, to the point that his reputation as trash reached the nobility of other kingdoms. Then he changes his ways for no apparent reason and starts doing good things. It's strange, but the nobility is willing to accept it as the whims of a young noble, perhaps a genuine attempt to change his life. Then they blink, and the trash has become a confidant and close friend of the crown prince and has established positive connections with the leaders of several neighboring kingdoms. When?! How?! Why?! They get distracted once again, and Cale is now the commander in the northeast in the battle against the Northern Alliance. And he knows what he's doing. Cale takes the lead and commands the soldiers as if he's been doing it his whole life, but he's only eighteen. Where did this commanding skill and ability to handle the bloody, brutal side of war without blinking? What the hell is Deruth Henituse teaching his children?! A little more time and Cale is now the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies. What have they missed?! How could that kid who spent his days drunk and throwing bottles at gangsters have such an extreme and utter turnaround in his life?!

It must have been so confusing for everyone who knew the previous Cale. After all, Kim Rok Soo is a war veteran who survived the monster apocalypse, leader of what was essentially an elite combat unit of enhanced humans specialized in eliminating monsters and controlling other powerful humans. He had combat and leadership experience that most leaders could only dream of achieving in their lifetime. The man is a true monster when it comes to strategy and battle, not to mention his political skills that would make some diplomats cry in the shower and his natural charisma that managed to attract and win the goodwill of every powerful person he met on his travels.

The unsuspecting people would have looked in bewilderment at this boy who until recently had done nothing but drink and cause minor trouble, but now was destroying entire battlefields as if it were natural, and wondered what in the name of the Gods had happened while they weren't paying attention for Cale to become an absolute monster who could very well destroy them with a casual wave of his hand.