#og cale henituse

[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

[cale-thames]

OgCale: implying he was an ordinary soldier

Me:

Ohh~! Definitely!!! The person who fooled the ENTIRE KINGDOM as a kid and made them think he was "useless" can NEVER lie again! That's unimaginable!!!

• You're ordinary despite having survived Choi Han's beating who can easily break walls.

• You're ordinary despite surviving the Henituse war which "probably" killed everyone else.

• You're ordinary despite being one of the last survivors of the two-decade-long war.

• You're ordinary despite joining the last battle which had the strongest individuals.

• You're ordinary despite being near where Choi Han and White Star were fighting— which has to be the front line.

• You're ordinary despite GoD choosing you for the transmigration.

• You're ordinary despite managing to do KRS's work properly which no one else can do.

• You're ordinary despite being a THAMES!!!

Oh, and like someone once mentioned: why didn't ARM bother to kill you later?!

They had all that free time hunting down Ron and Beacrox after destroying the Molan household, right? So what possibly could have stopped them from offing you while you were actively fighting in the war? Hmm?

Oh wait— your flaming red hair, sooooo eye-catching, sooo similar to their dear lord's— surely impossible to miss! Surely.

So how in the world did you survive so long, hmm, dear Roksoo?

Could it be… they tried?

And couldn't do a single thing to you?

And why would that be?

Hmm.

Please, kindly inform us, my dear ordinary soldier who survived on pure luck for TWENTY YEARS! We're dying to know.

[needsleep-ls]

My brain loves making me suffer. So.

Modern au and ogCale is that one rich friend. Case in point, all his friends somehow end up being in jail. Some more than once. And he is that friend that just comes and bails them out.

Rok Soo in jail cause he kidnapped someone's pet? Call Cale.

Choi Han in jail cause he beat up someone? Call Cale.

Taylor in jail for forging something? Call Cale.

Cage in jail for public drinking or tax evasion? Call Cale.

Archie in jail for speeding? Call Cale.

Hans in jail cause he was at the wrong place at the wrong time? Call Cale.

Rosalyn in jail cause she was caught purchasing illegal stuff for her experiments? Call Cale.

At this point Cale knows everyone in the police station. At one point he just thinks his friends like to go to jail. At some point he stopped questioning why the are in jail at all.

One time he is the one in jail because of being near a murder scene. He did not do shit, but it's protocol and all. He doesn't call anyone, he's just chilling while playing cards with the guards or smth. Than the next moment chaos ensues cause instead bailing him out with money his friends decided to break him out of jail.

Later he's the one paying for the mass destruction.

[delusional-daydreamer18]

Rosalyn: What is your most preferable method when dealing with troublesome people?

Cale: Strangling people. It's oddly satisfying.

Rosalyn: Oh, uhm. That sounds...lovely. Err, how about you...?

Og!Cale: Throwing wine bottles at people. A tried-and-true method. 100% recommend it. Therapeutic too.

Rosalyn: ...

[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!!!!

[mich-vanadis]

ogKRS gives of "depressed old man syndrome" energy, ogCale gives "altrustic bastard fraud hiding under a lout facade" energy, KRS!Cale gives "cunty young man with depression" energy, and Heniroksoo gives "cunt serving depressed old man that's simultaneously a dilf AND a milf" energy

[apeiron69]

Dw guys you can both get what you want for the very low price of ! Losing everything

[sadlynotthevoid]

OgCale is definitely the type of person to willingly and enthusiastically join into strangers' acted lies.

Little kid pretending to be waiting for her sibling? Yeah, he's the sibling. Cale Henituse who? He's this kid's older brother. Back off.

Guy pretending he has to go, really, he can't stay chatting, to get away from someone who won't take no as an answer? "Dad, can we hurry up? I'm not feeling well—"

Obviously uncomfortable teenager saying "I'm not allowed to date" to reject someone who scares them? He's their bossy cousin who will totally rat them out to their parents if they dare to take longer than that to talk. He makes sure to look extra mafia-worthy.

Some person getting cornered to go somewhere alone? He's their overprotective best friend. Where do you think you're taking them without him?

Rok Soo's friend says he's already seeing someone to avoid a malicious arranged marriage/set up partner by his evil step-mother? "Dear? What are you doing here? I thought you had something to do today". Suddenly, he's Alberu's secret boyfriend from many months. They met through a friend in common, Alberu asked him out first but OgCale confessed first, they do stuff like playing strategy games together, baking (Alberu bakes, OgCale tastes), enjoying music (OgCale plays, Alberu likes to listen to him) and going on walks. Obviously, a supportive model boyfriend like Alberu wouldn't even consider meeting anyone else while already having a partner himself.

Alberu doesn't know whether he should be impressed or alarmed that one of Rok Soo's friends he barely knows beyond his name somehow managed to keep an hour long conversation based on credible lies about Alberu himself. But at least it worked and he only asked for a dessert in exchange.