#og caleberu

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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.

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Made a short vid for one of my fav og caleberu fic

"Unexpected Meeting" by abralhugres: Fic link

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In honor to the pain in my neck, imagine OgCale giving a massage to Alberu.

The first time he does it is because he was hanging out in the same room as Alberu when Alberu finally finished with a stack of paperwork and went to get up—

And the loud crack his back made startled the bird napping outside.

So, OgCale offered a little massage because "at this pace you're going to get back problems before hitting thirty". Alberu proceeds to experience the most relieving massage he has ever had.

It becomes a thing. They hangout at Alberu's office, Alberu works or (in the rare occasion he had free time) reads something while OgCale entertains himself with whatever puzzle, random object or book he found, OgCale moves to be behind him and starts kneading his shoulders and back, they take a tea break.

Everyone else thinks they act like an old married couple.

Alberu tries to reciprocate the massage once, only for OgCale to jump and a barely muffled giggle. Turns out, he's really ticklish, just that no one knew. Not even himself. He thought he used to be but had grown out of it, but no, he still is. It's just that no one touches him, so he honestly didn't realize he still was.

It's embarrasing, but at least it's Alberu who found out and not anyone else. Alberu is fine.

Then he commites the mistake of admiting he does not mind a little bit of tickles. Somehow, that turns into their first playfight. Which is actually more like a silly game of tag across the room.

Rok Soo happens to open the door just after Alberu has caught OgCale and is in the process of softly brushing his neck and side and making him laugh with so much joy— which was exactly Alberu's intention. He just wanted to make him laugh like that again.

That's not what Rok Soo sees. That is also not what Ron, who just happened to be accompaning Rok Soo, sees. That is also, indeed, not what Choi Jung Soo or Choi Han or Rosalyn or any of their friends, who were, for some reason, all tagging along, think it is.

The following explanation of what they had been doing is more confusing for Alberu and OgCale, who did not realize how they had misunderstood their silly playfight as anything but just that, than for anyone else. It's also more embarrasing for anyone who needed the explanation in the first place than for Alberu or OgCale. Why? Because then it's their turn to explain that they had mistook their improvised tickle fight for a couple making out.

The one who has it worse is Ron, who, upon seeing the surprise become what almost seemed like illumination and then that become similar shameless contemplative looks on both of them, realized that they had just put the idea on their heads. If they hadn't said anything, they still would be unaware of how sweet the atmosphere between them is.

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Part of the reason I ship ogAlbeCale is because, for some reason, a part of my mind is absolutely convinced Alberu would find OgCale's personality and just his self in general really attractive.

I have no proof and at this point I have forgotten why I thought that in first place, but I still go back to that and then laugh my ass off in Mr. I-won't-marry, too busy courting the throne, falling head over heels for Mr. I'll-get-myself-out-heired-or-so-help-me, status means nothing over family.

Their goals are so different. They both keep an act day by day for the sake of those goals.

Yet I think ogCale, although not sure he would understand wanting a position of power (this is the guy who said he was going to get to CEO only because he doesn't like the night shift. That's it. Bro sees it as a means to an end, lmao), he would like Alberu's dream of making Roan a place where everyone can live under the Sun a lot.

And Alberu. Alberu would probably be confused about this guy who willingly gives up the equivalent of his own goal for a younger sibling he's not even close with, but in a good sense. Just how much does he have to care about his brother? Alberu wishes other noble families could have at least a finger of care for their own family members as this guy does. He would understand that they have different priorities, and they're both doing what they can to reach their goals.

And then there's this funny thing: if they got together, OgCale wouldn't have to worry about inhereting because being the crown prince's fiancé/husband is a perfectly good reason to decline the heir position without backlash for his family, and Alberu would have a strong financial backer (the Henituse family) and OgCale to help him (because this guy would never not help his loved ones if he can).

But I also think they'd genuinely like each other's personalities and enjoy spending time together and constantly act like a couple in the honeymoon phase that keeps tease-bantering at every chance and often forget there are other people in the room and have to be reminded. Two hyper-dedicated people focus too much into each other and become disgustingly sweet whenever they're near the other.

Actually, I think it'd be funny if they started dating in secret (because that's their business and they hadn't decided what to do about their situations) and when people find out, it somehow becomes into OgCale's act had been to help hide their relationship.

Which makes no sense because he started so many years ago, but people forget about that fact. It's just that they're so sweet and obviously in love that people think they were putting a lot of effort on hiding it for the romance and love or whatever. No one thought that those two things might be unrelated.

OgCale has to explain the truth to his family when Deruth and Violan hear this rumor. Because how else can he convince his parents that Alberu didn't do anything bad to him (nor has bad intentions) and they 'don't need to kill him, really'? They were ready to raid the palace, thinking the worst.

So, yeah, OgCale had to explain they only met recently and how actually Alberu is very against OgCale's act because it's "self-destructive" and that turns into explaining how the whole thing came to be because they didn't seem to believe it fully.

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I don't remember if I posted that post about a fantasy college AU where they have to live in dorms.

OgCale had ended up in the same room as Alberu Crossman, who seemed fine overall, even if he was trying too hard to be likeable, and Lee Soo Hyuk, who also seemed fine overall, even if he knew Rok Soo must had learned a lot of his most chaotic tendencies from him. They both are mature people (or at least appear to be) and he doesn't think any of them has bad cleaning habits. Actually, he's pretty sure they both are more the type to have some order and routine, while being flexible enough to keep up with whatever bullshit ogCale knows Rok Soo pulls.

So, although he's not thrilled about trying to keep his act around two very smart people who share room with him, he thinks it's going to be fine. They're by far not the worst roommates he could have.

He's so wrong.

Their cleaning habits are not a problem. OgCale is right on both of them being orderly people. Except for particularly busy days (exams week), both of them keep their sides and things in neatly.

The problem is that their routines and habits clash in almost everything else. If it's not that they both need to use the same space at the exact same time, it's that they need (read as want) exact opposite things.

He has lost the count of how many times they had woke him up at unholy hours of the morning because one of them wanted to take a shower and the other was already there. If they can get up two hours before needing to go to class, why can't they wake up 15 minutes earlier than that and use one of the many clubs' showers? But nooo. They just have to use the single one in their room and interrupt OgCale's hard attained sleep.

And who on earth thought it would be a good idea to put the cooling artifact in the kitchen? Everytime Soo Hyuk feels slightly warm, he turns it on and puts it at maximum because, according to him, it doesn't cools down the rest of the room otherwise.

You know what is also in the kitchen? Alberu when he's stress baking. You know what does not appreciate the cooling artifact's maximum temperature? Alberu and most of his pastries. Everytime he's baking and the cooling thing is on, he will lower it to minimum, claiming it's ruining his dough. Everytime, Lee Soo Hyuk will answer that he's going to burn them alive with both the cooling artifact so low and the oven on.

And they're like that for almost everything.

Funnily, the only one who hasn't started an argument so far and who with the others don't have a problem is OgCale. Which, anyone would have assumed he was going to be the difficult roommate. A part of him is convinced that the only reason they fight so much is because Soo Hyuk was Rok Soo's hyung first while Alberu got him to call him hyung faster. They're most likely jealous of each other's hyung positions. He wonders if he should get Rok Soo to call him hyung, too. Maybe then they'd join forces against him and stop bitching at each other.

He complains to Taylor and Cage once and they jokingly advice him, telling him to make out with his roommates or move with Taylor and Cage and make out with them.

One day, he enters in them having yet another argument. And he is done.

OgCale: if you two don't shut up I'm going to grab them both from your vests and kiss you both silly until your tongues are too tired to move.

Both of them: ...

Lee Soo Hyuk, trying to process that: *Soo Hyuk.exe stopped working*

Alberu, a little too fast: Olaf complex giant.

Lee Soo Hyuk, immediately: You have the hobbies of a grandma.

OgCale: That's it. *Proceeds to somehow pick them both up and threw them to the nearest sofa* After this, we're going to figure out a system you two can adapt to, or I will lose it.

Alberu: if we do that, do I get more kisses?

OgCale: If you can stop fighting, you can take me on a date.

Lee Soo hyuk: three dates.

OgCale, a little amused: *snorts* That was not up to bargain. This is not the price of the history.

Alberu, not above using puppy eyes: Please?

OgCale "weak to cute things" Henituse: Haaah. Fine. Now come here—

A month later, Rok Soo is confused when both Alberu and Soo Hyuk suddenly tell him he should call OgCale brother-in-law.

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just read your post about og cale not giving a shit abt alberu's true identity and only about how much hotter he is, and now i desperately want to read this. do you have any fic recs with that dynamic?

Not exactly the same but something similar happens in Noble of Heart by Verzy. It's a really great fic. You can jump to chapter three to four for Alberu's appearances or downright to chapter four if you don't care about the context of their interactions.

Fuck Our Problems (also from Verzy) is pretty much focussed on these two being a horny couple and dealing with the war. You can guess how the dark elf reveal went here. It's a pretty funny and interesting fic but obviously has angst since, y'know, war.

Another one is I reject the maidens by C0rr3ct. This one is hilarious and feels like a big fever dream. I think it was one of the first "OgCale into a fictional world" fics I read. Feels a bit like that Simpsons scene where everyone puts their fruits in the floor of the bus for a fruit race and cheer on them. Just, your favorite OgCale ship is the fruit. Hasn't updated in a little while but it's not abandoned as far as I know.

There's more but I don't remember which ones were.