"cool Character I Guess..." I Mutter, Walking Away With A Suspiciously Character Shaped Lump In My Throat

The Soos are all different brands of scary.

Lee Soo Hyuk comes off as a chill person at first, but he's scary when he gets serious.

Choi Jung Soo has that golden retriever vibe to him, but he does a complete 180 when things get serious.

Kim Rok Soo appears lonesome and lowkey depressed on first impression, but he's literally the most unhinged of them all.

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?”

Sui Khan: so... How did you get Cale to call you Hyung exactly? He wouldn't call me that no matter what.

Alberu: I announced in front of an audience that we're sworn brothers now and asked him to call me Hyung in front of everyone.

Sui Khan: genius. I should have done that too back then. Damn.

Cale Henituse transmigrating into Kim Rok Soo when he was under Lee Soo Hyuk would never work because LSH and CJS would clock it so fast.

Cale!KRS walking into the office:

LSH: who are you?

You can’t tell me LSH and CJS wouldn’t realize in .01 seconds that their dongsaeng isn’t their dongsaeng anymore.

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

If Cale is a farmer already, why not let him taking care of livestock....?

Like, Rooster!Alberu, Cow!Choi Han, Sheep!Beacrox, Duck!Ron... And etcetera? German Shepherd!Rosalyn is my favourite.... Border Collie!Lock would be cute. Did I messed up with the image? Well that's the purpose.

I'm craving non-human characters and Cale being the only Human as the cherry on topXD like it is never necessary to have heavy plot, like slice of life and crack is kinda rare in this fandom....

Cale going back and forth in selling his harvest but never the livestock he had taken care of since they're his precious babies<3

"What is it, Ron?"

"Quack.^^" (Rest.)

"Got it. I just bought more premium food."

"...." (This dumbass.)

you can start anytime.

you can brush your teeth in the middle of the day. you can wash the dishes at 2am. you can do things outside the normal times assigned by society.

Cale needed that evil god's test. Not only to fight despair, but also for his mental health.

He needed to see that there was a world where "Kim Rok Soo" was not left to survive alone. He needed to see all his "what ifs" happen. He needed to resolve all the regrets of "Kim Rok Soo" to fully live as Cale Henituse. Because even if it wasn't his world, he now knows that a "Kim Rok Soo" was happy, surrounded by people he loves, people who would survive with him.

That is how he can loosen the shackles of fear of being alone again as Cale. "We will all survive" is not just a random mantra for him. He needs it to be true. He has had so much loss and grief in his life.

Even if he doesn't really say so, that grief was what kept him going. To "not waste" the sacrifices of all those who saved him, he kept surviving. But that is also why he's reckless despite "valuing" his life.

I think, subconsciously, he thinks that if he can save more people, then that would be a good "payment" for those who saved him. His "slacker life" is basically world peace. 🤭

Back to the point... The test showed him Kim Rok Soo and everyone he cares for survive, so now he has more courage and less doubt to face WS because he wants a life like Parallel KRS', as Cale Henituse.

Goldie gramp, I hereby declare that you are my newest obsession.

just thought "i wanna go home" bitch youre already home wtf are you talking about.