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(in the voice of a guy that will defy fate to save you) i don't care

Something I initially really liked about Cale's character is how he suddenly became the "trash" of the count's family and he seemingly takes it as an asshole permit.

No manners, rude? Well duh, He's the local trash.

And then, hundreds of chapters later it hit me:

This guy really never changed the way he acted, he says so himself and it's why Choi Han was able to easily recognize him in Choi Jung Soo's memories.

Which begs the question: What sort of internal narrative did he have going on as Kim Rok Soo to "justify" his behavior?

Baby Rok Soo was at the bottom of the social ladder, an orphan, poor and his uncle was an alcoholic and a gambling addict to boot

How many times do you think he heard things like "What can you expect from someone without parents?", or "Just what you would expect from someone who wasn't raised properly"

"Someone of your kind"

And then he became a Team Leader

How many things did he do or didn't do under the pretense of being "Cold-blooded"

It also doesn't help that he's unable to process praise or kindness directed at him.

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

some of my favorite choi han moments are the ones where he explicitly admits that cale is holding his leash.

like that one time the enemy called cale choi han's owner.

and choi han agreed. what's with that?? it's making me feral.

the way choi han takes pride in listening cale's orders. he wants to be good so bad. he's so happy when he can do what cale asks him to.

and this?? he's defying his friend and the future king in front of all of his vassals. telling the absolute ruler of your kingdom in the middle of a crisis that 'cale-nim's orders supersede your own' is ballsy as hell. choi han has no place for politeness when cale's orders are in question.

once again, i'm going absolutely insane at this level of loyalty.

the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this

Cale: “Hmm I don’t owe these people a full explanation, it’s too much work and too complicated. I’ll just give them the watered down version and avoid extra trouble”

*Proceeds to explain things is such a way and with such wording that he makes himself seem like the holiest, most self sacrificing, caring MF in all of history*

Cale afterwards: “… why are they looking at me like that?”

ohhhhhhhhhh it's a metaphor

ME WHEN CHUNG MYUNG DEVOTES HIS MIND, BODY, AND SOUL TO MOUNT HUA AND STILL BELIEVES THAT HE WILL NEVER ATTONE FOR CRIMES HE DID NOT COMMIT

I think happy cale so I draw happy cale

can't say enough positive things about the humble square bracket in a writing draft. [place name] [adjective] [description of x] you have saved me from staring at a poorly crafted sentence for hours more times than you could ever know,