READ YOUR TAGS ON THE CALEB POST PLS PLS PLS DIDI/JIEJIE AU!!! ON MY HANDS AND KNEES FROTHING AT THE MOUTH I LOVE YOUR BIG BRAIN
Anon I have wonderful news for you…
Because I have so many thoughts on didi! Caleb…
You know how a lot of his restraint comes from the fact he views he views himself as the protectors between him and you, right? A lot of your current relationship with him as your Gege comes from the fact you choose him as your older brother, as family – he went with it and took it to heart, a little too literally to the point he couldn’t imagine himself not being your Ge. So, in this case, how would it go…? Do you come up to him and declare yourself his older sister? Do you take him under your wing, as his Jie? Or does he replace you and ask you to be his Jiejie?
In this AU, I decided to go into a situation where Caleb (so he can still be possessive and a little crazy) approached by you first; I like to think you see a younger kid and, feeling protective and bad, you reach out and take the older sister role, both in an attempt to mimic normalcy and to feel useful. Caleb doesn’t approach you, but he reciprocates immediately – falling into the role of a younger brother quickly and loving it every second.
More thoughts UTC & Sneak Peak at the fic at the end ^_^
I think he’d still remember the experience at EVER but in this case you would too, albeit more vividly than he does. However, he’d hide this from you.
This Caleb, due to being younger and not having the “obligation” of behaving like an older brother, gets to be way more selfish and open about his feelings. If he isn’t pleased with something, he’s way quicker to put on a sad face and act pouty, expressing his disappointment and manipulating you by appealing to you not necessarily as a man but as someone weaker. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to be seen as a man by you, in fact – I think this is one of the aspects where he’s more reckless in. In his mind, he’s in a disadvantage; women tend to like older men, but he’s a whole 3 years younger than you, so he probably lacks a lot of “maturity” and “experience” compared to your peers. So he’s more of a “try hard” in the sense he’s almost always trying to subtly impress you by seeming reliable, he’ll help you cook, clean, he’ll work out more often and more publicly to show you he’s grown.
He’s still have that Caleb angst, I don’t see a modern version of Caleb where he’ll never beat himself up for liking you until you reciprocate his feelings openly, but he’ll actively seek you out and try to “tempt” you.
He’s also way more jealous, I think that’d be connected to his insecurity of being younger. But he’s also less quiet about it, if he doesn’t like someone he’ll tell you flatly about it and try to twist it into something it’s not – especially if the person is closer to his age range than yours, he’ll pull the “I know people my age better than you do”. He probably gets away with being more “bratty” due to a lot of it being able to be chalked up to him trying to be annoying or a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian.
I think he’d also be more… I wouldn’t say violent but definitely more threatening. A lot of his restraint, as I said, comes from being your older brother and having to protect and provide for you – once he’s freed from most of these responsibilities, his desires get to be put on display more freely as well. He may feel like he can be less social with others, be clingier, be more reckless, have less shame, because a lot of these things just aren’t expected and are more often forgiven in younger men than they are in older women. Normally, older sisters are expected to carry even more weight than their male counterparts, and in a way that kind of gives him a lot of leeway to go undetected in his actions – so he’ll definitely use it to his advantage.
He’ll still want to repay you for all your hard work and provide for you once you’re together, but for now he’s using everything under his disposal to tire you out physically and emotionally so you have to rely on your didi who’s becoming more and more respectable everyday (^_^)
