#on and hong

[aidanisking]

Matching Outfits

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[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

Choi Han sees a weird stick in Cale’s hair.

“Oh, wait Cale-nim, let me…” With the slight height advantage, Cale doesn’t actually have a choice but to let the swordmaster do as he wishes.

For moment he fiddles around, trying to grab the elusive, tangled object, when he suddenly feels Cale lean into his hand. He watches with bated breath as Cale closes his eyes.

(‘Ah, I’m so tired that I’m leaning on Choi Han. Aigoo, he must think I’m pathetic.)

Choi Han spends another minute to get the stick out, claiming that it was particularly stuck in his long hair. He burns this memory into his mind while also promising to never tell another soul.

Eruhaben is next. He notices the red head’s soft locks, freshly washed and neatly air-dried with magic. As a dragon, he doesn’t think twice about the temptation, standing from his spot on the couch to test if Cale’s hair is even half as soft as it appears to be.

It is, he learns.

(Cale shivers. Is Eruhaben threatening him? Just in case, Cale bows his head to hide his fearful expression.)

The dragon watches with amusement, thinking that it’s only natural to offer one’s head to a dragon as powerful as him. Until he feels Cale almost… press into his palm absentmindedly. Eruhaben vividly feels the exact moment that his heart melts into a puddle of affection.

He definitely will use this against the bastard next time he has the opportunity.

Oddly, On and Hong figure it out next. Cale is sitting in his usual chair, reading a book with his hair falling into his face picturesquely. On recalls when Rosalyn did her hair up with a pretty pin, making it easy to move around without getting in her face.

On considers if Cale would mind On experimenting a little, immediately coming to the conclusion that he wouldn’t give two shits.

She transforms into her human form and moves behind the chair. Of course, Cale doesn’t bat an eye at her unusual movements. When she gathers his hair up in her hands, he doesn’t miss a beat, leaning back to give her better access. He only changes the angle of his book so he can still read. Hong observes his sister from Cale’s lap with curiosity.

Her upbeat attitude is ruined quickly because she doesn’t know how to braid nor tie up hair, and is missing the necessary bows and pins to do it in the first place. She runs her fingers through his vibrant red hair as she tries to remember what Rosalyn did.

Hong’s eyes go wide. Cale had stopped reading as his sister continued her ministrations, closing his eyes and leaning back, relaxing into his seat. Hong urgently signals for his sister to witness this.

Her eyes narrow in on the sight with a calculating gaze. She changes the way her hands run through his hair, simply running her fingers through and carefully untangling it instead. Cale’s face gradually loses its constant pinch.

(‘Yes, the children should do whatever they want, even play with my hair.’ Cale internally nods to himself.)

On, unlike Choi Han or Eruhaben, tests her limits. She continues her gentle pattern without pausing. After a few minutes, both of the cats hear Cale’s breathing taper away into a relaxed rhythm. On silently makes eye contact with her brother, and they make a secret promise to not make a big deal about this, lest this trick never work again.

They hear Ron before he enters the room and On casually returns to her car form, stealthily and softly landing on Cale’s lap. Ron enters, pausing at the sight of his puppy young master.

Smiling benignly, he darkly assumes that Cale had been so exhausted that he managed to fall asleep in the middle of reading.

On and Hong don’t correct him.

If Cale has an especially bitter lemon tea that night, he doesn’t make a big deal about it. Not when the crown prince calls him soon after it arrives.

He arrives at the palace where the Crown Prince learns of this spreading secret. Cale uses his superior glib tongue to force a frown on Alberu’s exhausted expression, and the exasperated hyung sighs, walking around to the couch where his dongaeng is sprawled. He places a hand on his shoulder, threatening Cale with a high political position if he doesn’t stop doing dangerous things and causing trouble.

Cale shudders and agrees. Alberu smiles at this, his hand moving to ruffle his adorable dongsaeng’s hair.

(Cale sighs, closing his eyes and humoring his affectionate hyung. He leans back, questioning why everyone has been so touchy lately.)

Alberu feels his heart stop and stutter at the fragile sight. Cale looks completely at ease, slumped in the couch cushions and pressing his head into Alberu’s palm like a cat. His lip is quirked up slightly, but Alberu would bet a golden plaque that Cale hasn’t a single idea on what he looks like right now, otherwise he wouldn’t be even half as relaxed as he is right now.

He resembles a lazy cat. He’s being pet whilst lounging, with a content and pleased expression edging on his face. If this goes on long enough, Cale might even fall asleep.

Alberu continues talking without letting his smile leak through into his words, stroking the top of Cale’s head in an absent minded motion.

(Cale ignores the sneaking chill on the back of his neck, too focused on Alberu’s words about the kingdom. The petting is a bit strange, but Alberu is the crown prince, so he’ll allow it.)

As predicted, Cale doesn’t mention it.

After a minute though, Cale starts to frown, beginning to acknowledge the feeling that he’s being scammed somehow.

“Hyung, do you have a headache?”

Alberu acts like a polite and caring hyung, starting to massage Cale’s head.

(Cale frowns more. Something is definitely going on.)

Cale opens his eyes, protesting. “Your highness, my health is perfect at the moment. You, our shining sun, couldn’t possibly-“ Alberu changes from massaging to running his fingers through Cale’s hair.

(Cale sighs, cutting off. It was just a ploy to play with Cale’s hair. He should’ve expected his highness to scam him in this way too.)

Alberu grins when Cale stops talking, looking resigned to his fate. He goes completely limp, and Alberu’s blunt fingernails scratch against Cale’s scalp gently. Cale visibly shudders at the feeling.

(‘Too scary, what if he scratches and draws blood? If Raon finds out, he’s going to feed me soggy apple pie…’)

Alberu preens at finding Cale’s weakness.

On slyly asks Rosalyn to do up Cale’s hair one day- as an experiment- and is extremely pleased when Cale not only agrees, but he closes his eyes and falls asleep soon after the Mage is done gently tugging his hair into place and adorning it with intricate pins and accessories. Choi Han walks in on this scene and threatens Rosalyn to keep it a secret (after melting a bit on the inside). She agrees with a sly smile.

If only Cale knew how everyone was going to use this to scam him in the future…

Eventually the misconception that Cale likes to have his hair played with goes around the entire group. Cale- of course- is completely clueless. He just thinks that everyone suddenly became obsessed with his hair.

Ron is the only one who can’t get Cale to relax. Even Bud somewhat managed it, but Cale stays vigilant no matter what his old butler does. Ron finds his puppy young master to be amusing.

Cale really doesn’t understand what they want with his hair. Do they want his hair?

(He asks Ron for a trim a few days later. Ron only cuts off the dead ends and leaves it neat but long, much to the young masters displeasure.)

[manwtv]

Well, at least they tried (u‿ฺu✿ฺ)

[fugitivehues]

family

present for @nillacakester ! <3

[alien-slushie]

Hans: If I ever let anything happen to On or Hong, I don't think I could live with myself.

Cale: You wouldn't have to, because I would kill you.

[fandomscatscomics]

I need fanart or a fanfic of Cale purrito-ing his kids. It could be for any reason like tucking them into bed or something more chaotic like getting them out of the way so he can go do something he claims isn't dangerous or as like a time out when they are volatile and naughty

[unhealthyobsessiveworm]

someone make cale get poisoned. i want him hacking out his guts and lungs, i want the entire kingdom shutting down. it happens at a ball or something cale reluctantly went to, and alberu is viciously locking the gates as soon as cale collapses. no one goes in or out until cale is better and they've found who did it. i want everyone to feel helpless because they dont know who to punish yet and they devote everything they have to finding the offender while their hearts break as cale struggles to live

[rose-elynn]

You know what, i always wondered why Cale was so afraid of Ron. I mean, of course he is an ex-assassin but I'm sure Cale know that there's no way the old man gonna harms Cale in any way. And he seemed to become more scared of him as time passed.

So i was like, what if it was because Cale actually felt quite guilty about him not being the original Cale that Ron has been taken care of since original Cale was little? He can't actually faced Ron properly because he felt like he had somewhat betrayed Ron.

He didn't feel the same with the Henituse family because he knew, based on the Birth of the Hero that he read, Ron is the closest one to original Cale. Ron has taken care of original Cale more than the Henituse family.

Although we almost never got Ron's pov, we knew from side story, that Ron has once comparing On mature personality with the little original Cale. Though he said On was a bit more mature than original Cale at that time.

That proves that Ron cares about original Cale so much that he remembered little Cale's personality.

Beacrox also said how it had been so long since Cale last cried. He said that the only time he saw the young master cried is when his mother died.

These small attentions that they gave to original Cale show how they somehow care about him despite leaving him in the end. (In the tboah)

So Cale felt guilty and quite worry because he finally realised that it's not impossible for them to found out about the truth. Especially since they are currently travelling around the world.

Still, the day they found out about the truth is the day I'm gonna cry. Idk but I can't imagine how they are gonna react to that. Betrayed? Anger? Lost?

There's no way they will just let it slide and say "oh you're not the real young master? It's fine. You already the young master now."

I'm scared to know their reactions and Cale's fear towards Ron is understandable.🥲🥲🥲🥲

[salaapaoo]

They wake Cale up from a nap and he has the nap lines all over his face

He doesn't comprehend anything said to him for the next five minutes

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"cale-nim... Cale-nim, wake up..." A calloused hand patted at the redhead's shoulder.

The kittens were sprawled out around him, awake and lax, while Raon perched on the swordsman's shoulder. Cale only stirred for a moment, ignoring Choi Han's wake up attempt.

There's something the children had noticed recently. Something that made their chests feel funny and warm.

Cale was curled on his side with his face buried into the pillow to block out the sunlight.

On flipped onto her feet, padding over to the exposed part of Cale's face and placing a paw onto his cheek. She could hear him let out a huff at the ticklish feeling, but he was somewhat aware. If it were them waking him from these coma naps, then he'd wake up .... Kind of.

These were the naps... that were rare. They've been happening more frequently, but... For the first few minutes of waking him up? Nothing makes sense.

(they think of it as a show of trust because of how low his guard has to be for him to wake up completely unaware of anything around him, not even understanding words).

"cale-nya"

Their guardian made a sound akin to a cat's mrrrp?? and forced himself up to squint in her vague direction. there's red lines pressed into the side of his face. He must've had the FATTEST nap.

"you said we would go scam the townspeople out of all the tuna in the world," she whispered in a serious tone, random things rolling off her tongue.

Cale gave a garbled voice in response which followed with some sort of questioning noise. None of them were coherent thoughts and it was so hard not to laugh.

"yeah, the trees punched a hole through the wall just now, too," she continued to feed him nonsense, "you gotta get ready now."

Lifting himself up, Cale stumbled out of his bed towards his wardrobe, his eyes still practically closed. He threw on three shirts and a pair of shorts, none of which were put on correctly.

"can we get ice cream, too?" Hong added in, hopping off the bed to trail after him.

Cale gave them a slow nod after he had accidentally bonked his head against the wardrobe door while opening it.

Choi Han watched with amusement clear in his eyes.

Cale Henituse would not be fully aware until much later, when his kids start their endless teasing.

[morallygreyvillain]

I had a vision.....

Beacrox but in Zoros Mama outfit

Honselty I wanted to do more with it but I kinda started to lose steam and started hating it, I just hope it resembles Beacrox a little

[stop-takingallthenames]

ik cales not canonically strong enough to do this but he defiantly would carry the kids everywhere if he could

portable heaters yk

[aidanisking]

Cale : I can never understand why you always call me a self-sacrificing bastard

Ron: Young master Cale *Smiling while holding a lemonade tea *

Erubenim: Unlucky bastard

Crown Prince Alberu: Really Dongeng

Raon,hong and on : Human * looking at cale like seriously *

Flash back to everytime cale bled, feel into a coma and stab himself

Basically Cale's default mode

Cale: Well I am not a bastard, my parents were married when they had me

Deruth: Well..... * looking guiltly *

[murasaki-cha]

Please they’re literally CTRL+C CTRL+V

And they’re both doing the pose!!!!!! CALE’S KIDS!!!!!!!!

[manwtv]

Because Cale's existence itself is a gift (❁´◡`❁)

[alien-slushie]

Cale: No.

On, Hong, and Raon: O^O

Cale: What have I said about the puppy dog eyes?

On, Hong, and Raon: *sigh* They only work on Hans.

[amyfrysk]

I really don't understand the "the kids learned how to swear from Cale" trope, cuz they've been tortured and abused.

I'm pretty sure On and Hong heard the cat tribe cursing them while they are running away. They also lived in the slums so I doubt they haven't heard anyone swearing.

Raon was tortured even when Venion wasn't there, so I doubt his minions tried to be polite when the mf wasn't around. Since it was already mentioned that Rain learned the human language while he was trapped in the cave, so he learned it from Venion's minions, it only means that he also learned how to swear from them.

So like... They already knew how to swear and curse but I think they just started to do it the same way Cale does.