#lcf cale

[iikisa]

...Hi i bring comfort with hints of angst ! i picked up my drawing pad for a second and 4 hours later.... bam!!! I have to say i'm proud for doing this in one sitting :,D

[caleshairtie]

So... here's some "not my circus, not my monkey" memes in context of TCF. Except we all know they do be monkeys in each other's circus and then claim they ain't owning any circuses.

Well, that's because they do be going everywhere to cause chaos, including you, the ringleader clown.

Again, Cale-coded, sooooo....

Choi Han really be the poster kid of justice and good... until you threaten his family. Then be ready to get the royal treatement, French Revolution style.

Yes, Alberu, they are. And yes, Cale is heading them. Get your gold plaques ready.

Yess, drag Cale into the ownership. Drop the responsibility and the gold plaques on him and run.

Poor Beacrox, the collateral damage. Handling kids, destruction and food all at the same time.

Ron is the reason Beacrox is the collateral damage, since he keeps sending his son as the errand boy.

It is technically his territory where his eldest son is running around, doing shit to attain his "Slacker life" that he himself actively be chasing away.

In all honesty, whenever Witira shows up in TCF novel, she always be so confused with the new shit Cale be pulling.

Like, girl, get used to it. This man ain't gonna sit quietly unless he faints.

To me, this is Eruhaben-coded. He be sooooo much enamoured (platonically) with Cale and his infamous bad luck that he agreed to babysit the entire Cale and co.

Our beloved Goldy Gramps, adopting kids at the very ripe age of grandpa.

[midnightwalker19049]

Me, looking at KRS!Cale: You can fit so much trauma in this bad boy. (looking at him suspiciously) Almost too much...

Fanfic Writers: More...

Me: Hey now, I think that's enough--

Yu Ryeo Han (the actual Author, btw): No, they are right. MORE!

Me: Ma'am, please?!

[complexityissimple]

*spoilers for tcf part 2 chap 207*

THEYRE KILLING ME I CANT

[lynnlyrae]

dolce far niente

[makzee-51percent]

I love remembering I have free will

[scammysmileroksuu]

In most of the de aged KimCale fics I read so far, the plot is mostly about the fam discovering the horrible abuse Cale had to go through as Kim Rok Soo, suffering thru the PTSD and helping him out of it, and all that hurt/comfort, healing type of beautiful angst.

But sometimes I crave some twisted angst, where kimcale is de-aged to a point before the abuse and the trauma. Where he was just a soft, smart little boy who loved his family and complained about side dishes.

I want to see Ron offering him the usual lemonade, but to his surprise, Rok Soo refuses. Because why should he accept something he doesn't like? I want to see him smile care-freely, leading Ron by his hand while calling him grandpa, and have the old butler reminisce on the young og!Cale who used to smile just the same. I want to see Choi Han stiffen in shock, wondering if this child is really the same boy he saw in the worthlessness test. I want the kids to play with him, see him tear up when he trips and gets hurt. He doesn't say he's fine when they ask- it hurts, he says instead, and wants to go home and nap. They wish he had stayed the same, admitting he was in pain and avoiding getting hurt. I want to see him hang around with Eruhaben and Rosalyn, excited about their experiments and magic, marvelling at the dragon's golden hair with utter wonder, curious about every new, fun discovery. I want to see him be picky about meals, but eat all the snacks Vicross brings, saving the sweetest ones for 'appa and eomma'. I want him to still get into all sorts of trouble, courtesy of the curse, and have Eruhaben help him out every time, complaining about how much of an unlucky bastard he was, all while patting and hugging the scared Kim Rok Soo.

I want to see him show affection and love freely, show discomfort and sorrow, without the fear of being abandoned or hurting/being hurt by the other. Just a child who is oblivious about the curse, still too young to understand pain or hunger.

I want a small, expressive Kim Rok Soo, that is a clear contrast with the stoic, grown up Cale Henituse.

[thelikesoffinn]

Also, another thing that I find extremely interesting is the discrepancy between how Cale views the things that happen to him and how those around him view them.

The best example is probably right after Cale got the sky eating water.

Cale continuously refers to it as 'while he was in pain' or 'while he was shivering and coughing up blood'. He never calls it what it was while the others refer to it as 'while Cale was dying'.

It's perfectly Cale and it perfectly highlights the one area where he's really selfish.

He'd rather be in pain or, quite frankly, die before he lets anyone else get hurt. But that means he forces those close to him watch him struggle and nearly die all the damn time.

It's selfish.

It really is a fucking selfish and cruel thing to do and Cale would probably go insane if he was the one who had to watch his friends behave like that but I really love that this otherwise very giving and very caring man has this one area where he's extremely selfish.

So to him, this is no big deal. It hurts, it's annoying, but it's okay cos he wasn't the one watching. That is the most important thing for Cale.