#jour thames

[cale-thames]

Cale: This body's biological mother will surely hate me. After all, I stole her only son's body.

Jour: You're so cute! Here, take my ancient power and the generational research of my family. Oh, and do you want to be the patriarch of the Thames family?

Cale: ...Huh?

Cale: Surely, the original owner of this body will hate me for taking over his body and giving that disgusting body in return. He might even wish for me to go to hell.

OgCale: I'm grateful to you for taking care of my family and this extremely hot body. May you have a peaceful life ahead of you.

Cale: ...

[delusional-daydreamer18]

I have a tiny nagging feeling that Cale's biological parents from Earth 1 are important people and might play a huge role in the story.

I get that it's pretty common for almost every single fantasy protagonist out there to be an orphan just for the sake of plot and to give them a tragic backstory to add more flavor to their character—and usually, their late parents are irrelevant to the overall main plot.

But this is TCF we're talking about which often subverts tropes. Where miniscule seemingly insignificant details turn out to be much more crucial later on in developing both the plot and characters.

Take Jour Thames as an example. In TBOAH, she was not directly mentioned nor were we given much information about her character—hell, she didn't even make an appearance. All we knew was that she was the late countess who died in a carriage incident. For hundreds of chapters, she was not once mentioned.

But who would've thought that the mother of the minor villain from a typical fantasy novel actually played a vital role to the plot and knows more about what's going on than what we were let on? Her ancient power—which we didn't even know she had—greatly helped Cale in finishing off White Star for good. Additionally, her journal gave Cale some insight about the Hunters and knowledge about time.

She's one of the most important characters in TCF despite her status as a minor side character.

Who's to say Cale's parents aren't either?

Moreover, Cale is a special person. Everything that has happened to him, everything that's related to him—they're not coincidences. There's always some hidden history or background to it. Such as how every misfortune that has befallen on him was all due to a curse and that he was supposed to be born in Nameless 1, but his original body got stolen by White Star. There were Hunters who targeted him during his high school days and erased some of his memories. He was fated to die but he lived. There's a high possibility that he is of Thames lineage had White Star not stolen his body—belonging to an enigmatic family who studies and researches subjects regarding time.

I doubt Cale's parents are normal. They're the ones who gave birth to such a peculiar person after all.

[sadlynotthevoid]

People speak about OgCale's trash act being a bad decision as if his mom wasn't Jour Thames herself.

Jour "taking the future transmigration and regression of my son to my early self-impossed tomb" Thames.

Jour "breaking my own plate to leave half my power in my tomb for a stranger abd the other half in an innocent village that has nothing to do with me" Thames.

Jour "secrets and suicide" Thames.

No one knows exactly how much she knew but the implications haunt me. If she knew there was someone hunting APs, then she put a target in Harris Village. If she didn't, then she just decided one day to go to break her own plate and die, leaving her 8yo child and Deruth to mourn her. And every single implication is like that.

Everytime I read a fic where ogCale didn't transmigrate and opens her journal, I cry a river because wdym her mom expected him to leave his body and identity and instead of trying to fight against that, she prepared an apology gift for a stranger? What the fuck. The only warning she gave him was that cryptic shit about how he would have a peculiar experience with time, which, mind you, he himself said he didn't understand what she meant until he was forty.

And the information she left was so important and useful but also, why would she leave instructions to kill a reincarnator and a list of places with APs unless she knew about WS?

Just, why on earth did she just accept that and planned in consequence. No wonder Heniroksoo's feelings for his mother were described as "sorrow, understanding and resentment". I'd threw up if I were him. Imagine being him and learning that the mom you lost as a kid and you loved deeply had already gave up on your life before everything even happened.

I hope she had her reasons? I'm sure she did. I hope.

Sounds hard for her but imagine being the other party here (A.K.A. OgCale): his dad throws money at him and agrees with whatever he says instead of actually parenting him, his butler who was next to him since baby left with no greetings whatsover, and his mon pulled this. When two out of those three people do better, he's not even there anymore.

Why are adults around him like this?

He's a "I'd do anything for my loved ones" but everyone else was a "let's sit and wait and do nothing" about him.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

This only makes me ship ogAlbeCale more. And sad. It also makes me sad.

[jadequeenemma]

I love the thought of Cale as Kim Rok Soo being regularly put on babysitting duties because they adore him.Instant trust,no need to pass go,you’ll get your 200 right here.

Like that one random child found after attack,scared out of his mind?Chuck him at one ☝️ Kim Rok Soo and watch the magic happen.

Team members with kids?Have an entire fucking waiting list on who’s turn it is to drop their kids off to him.(Kim Rok Soo does not know this).The kids come back with at least one more life skill then they had before,and surprising amount of emotional maturity for having been taken care of by the most emotionally stunted man known to mankind.

You can 100% be sure that if you drop your kid off with him,you’ll come back with the kid even more whole and healthy than before.

There could be an attack and Kim Rok Soo lowkey looks like a man with one step in the grave,the area around him is literally smoking,the ground has fucking vanished into craters,but oh would you look at that kid is 100% fine albeit crying cause they are now emotionally traumatized after seeing that shit.But like not the type of emotionally traumatized as ‘mommmy i never want to come here again’ but more like ‘moommmyy why are you taking me away look at mister he’s already so hurt,he’ll get lonely too,he kept me safe,he’s my hero’

(Kim Rok Soo does not like this,he would like the kid to stop now.)

AND after og Cale becomes him,he just assumes that the constant kids around him are like him being a dad of a little girl who obviously needs friends;man is determined to Not Fuck This Up and absolutely dads the living shit out of them.

It works out.

[ciancy-an]

I want to draw a small Cale and Jour but oops… my hand slipped

[wingedcreatorhlebushka]

Translation:

- Mom...

- Mom, are you here?..

-...

- Brother...

⧼ Si c'est vrai qu'on est libre

Qu'on peut s'envoler

Qu'on me délivre

Je sens que je vous étouffer ⧽

Day 2: "Ghosts and Spirits"

The psychologist's payment hasn't been processed for two days, so don't thank me

[needsleep-ls]

doomed mom and son yay

[gatoquecontaestrelas]

Guys, I've been thinking about something and I want your opinion. It took White Radish a thousand years to gather his ancestral powers because he was searching for the same ancestral powers as the original White Star, considered the strongest, right? But he also went after the ancestral power of Cale's mother.

This raises two possibilities:

The Annual Rings of Life were a power that belonged to the original White Star.

It was a case similar to the Sky-Devouring Water, where White Radish went after an ancestral power that he considered more suitable for himself than the one that belonged to his predecessor.

But here I want to focus on the first possibility, because if it's actually correct, it creates a very... interesting scenario. Remember when Cale obtained the second portion of the Annual Rings of Life, and young Jour's voice stated that only a Thames could properly use that power? In this context, this statement creates three possibilities based on the idea that this ancestral power belonged to the original White Star:

The Thames later obtained the Annual Rings of Life and made some kind of modification and improvement to the power, making it so that only members of the lineage could use it completely.

The original White Star was a member of the Thames lineage.

At some point, someone from the lineage descended from the original White Star (the same one from which the Crossman came) married into the Thames, giving rise to the lineage from which Jour came.

It's also worth pointing out some things that seem too related to be mere coincidences, such as the fact that the last body the White Radish possessed was conveniently that of a Thames, that it was a Thames who taught the Lion King how to consume a dark elemental, and that Jour did all that—breaking her own plate and dividing her ancestral power—as if she knew for sure that someone dangerous was behind that ancestral power.

It's almost as if the Thames and the power of the Annual Rings of Life were interconnected with the White Star.

I don't know about you, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced of these assumptions and theories.