#tboah react to tcf

[halloween-neko96]

…So I got around and started to write my TBOAH react to TCF fic. Dear Dragons, please help me.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62846893/chapters/162310825

[tryingahandinholdingapen]

this is absolutely just my obsession with misunderstandings in fiction coming through, but whilst I greatly enjoy fics where characters from TCF and/or TBOAH react to KRS!Cale's life, what I really want is a reaction fic that does NOT tell them everything. I want a fic that, instead of letting absolutely everybody know about everything KRS!Cale has done so that they more or less know the truth of things, creates new and exciting misunderstandings, and have THAT be the focus

Like most of the reaction fics I've read have an ending (or presumed ending in the case of WIPs) where all misunderstandings have been pretty much dispelled. There might still be some secrets in some cases, but all the misunderstandings are pretty much cleared up and a shit ton of secrets have been revealed

Fuck that. Give me a reaction fic where what they do/don't react to has been selectively chosen to cause MORE misunderstandings. TCF canon+fandom are both rife with misunderstandings it's kind of inherently part of it all at this point but look at me. Look at me. I PROMISE we can make it worse

(edit: I'll limit myself to one example of how that could be played per bulletpoint but trust me I have like 3+ examples for every bulletpoint)

Here's a few options I can think of just now, there's probably loads more, assuming we're starting with the premise of some form of reaction fic:

- knock out or don't include KRS!Cale in the reacting side of things, therefore all other reacting characters have to rely on what they see/hear and discussions with each other, with nobody there to clarify things. this would probably rapidly snowball into bizarre assumptions + interpretations that nobody corrects (or only corrects with weirder versions of what might be going on) very quickly

- you could easily create a billion misunderstandings about Kim Rok Soo and/or Cale!KRS. for example: simply not explaining the transmigration + regression

- what if you simply didn't let the characters know that TCF/TBOAH was another world. leave them thinking both things have happened/will happen in the same world they all live in. what then. for example: no duplicates of the characters you choose to react, take them from earlier in their respective timelines and/or people who have otherwise had no reason to meet, be extremely selective about what scenes you show, result: allow both worlds to think "woah. all this has been happening without me knowing about it? what the fuck"

- disproportionately show scenes in which a character has or acts on an inaccurate belief. do not show said belief being cleared up. let's have a montage of people assuming KRS!Cale is not human and scenes that inadvertently support that assumption and then clear none of that up, for example. let characters go home after this shit side-eyeing KRS!Cale and/or TBOAH Cale like no one's business

- show less scenes than most reaction fics choose to. for example, I know it's interesting to think about how characters react to Raon's rescue, but consider: how would they react to NOT seeing Raon's rescue? what if they just saw several scenes where KRS!Cale has no dragon and then suddenly scenes start showing up where there IS a baby dragon, and everyone in said scenes acts like that's normal, no explanation. I want to see the resulting conspiracy theories for that

- show roughly the same scenes/same amount of scenes as reaction fics tend to....but show less of KRS!Cale's thought process for such. for example: generally people either don't know abt it at all or they know he did it to get an Ancient Power, but please imagine a huge room of people trying to figure out why they've spent the last ten minutes watching scenes of KRS!Cale buying truly obscene amounts of bread only to dump it into a hole beneath some tree

- instead show MORE scenes than most reaction fics tend to include. for example, throw in a scene of baby!og!Cale listening to his mom tell him his time is warped, maybe alongside a scene of White Star's wild theorising about KRS!Cale, to maximise confusion. Now I'm gonna be honest and say that I've seen several fics with Jour telling og!Cale about his time but I legitimately do not know whether that's a canon scene I haven't read up to yet or a fanon idea that several people liked, so in case of the latter I'll add a second, alternate example of how the extra scenes thing could fall it. So, second example: let's include scenes of KRS!Cale talking to gods through whatever methods, and scenes of him talking to Cale!KRS and Jung Soo and Sui Khan. For added misunderstandings let's make whatever controls the scenes use the same method to clarify "this being is not a mortal originally native to this world" for all of those beings, because then if that's never explicitly stated then we could have the characters reacting assume that that mechanic actually indicate "divinity" and therefore assume that Cale!KRS, Jung Soo, etc, are gods. For even more added misunderstandings, keep that assumption but add "hey, KRS!Cale isn't a mortal /originally native to this world/ either, he transmigrated, ditto for Choi Han" and have the reacting characters wonder if they've made a mistake somewhere or if they have two gods (Choi Han and KRS!Cale) just....around. Maybe have them try to connect nonexistent dots with how in TCF Choi Han follows KRS!Cale and in TBOAH Choi Han and Cale met and immediately hate each other

- have them see a few scenes that just, are nor relevant to anything. not often but occasionally thrown in there there'll be a brief clip of Random Citizen 251 walking through town and then buying some fruit from the market or something. then let the reacting characters scramble to try and figure out the relevance of this because surely if they're being shown this scene it must be important somehow, right? right???

- whoever said these scenes had to be in clear chronological order, or let the characters have any idea of what happens when? no one. we don't have to do that. fuck, you could even show a few scenes from when KRS!Cale's Ancient Powers were alive, let them try to decipher THAT. you could for example show them Henituse County being attacked by wyverns and then show bits of the Plaza incident, which would probably result in the extremely unfortunate assumption that the celebration that will get attacked is a different later one than the one that actually gets attacked (...nobody said reaction fics had to have 100% easy-ish happy endings either-)

- most reaction fics I've read either have the characters reading something (TCF, Wikipedia, etc) or they have the characters watching TCF like it's a movie. Either way they figure out very quickly that KRS!Cale is at the heart of everything going on. New plan! They don't get to know who the 'main character' is for a long time. For example, have them watch TCF as though it's a movie BUT it's in first person perspective (from KRS!Cale's point of view) and minimise the number of scenes in which people actually use his name. Let's see the reacting characters be like "uhhhh well we're looking v slightly UP at the crown Prince of Roan so whoever this is is shorter than him by a tiny bit", "does anyone recognise this fancy place we keep waking up in? no? fuck [talking abt Super Rock Villa]", "do we even know what country this person' from? I was assuming he was at least from the Western Continent but then the last several scenes have all had him casually in the Eastern Continent..", it'd be really funny. Hell have them assume for a brief period of time, until another scene dispels that belief, that with KRS!Cale's nonchalance around Alberu, Witiria, Litania, etc, maybe the person whose perspective they're seeing these events through is a ruler from an unknown region, or something

- have all scenes be about/memories from past or future of Cale BUT interpret "Cale" really generously. What I'm saying is there should be scenes from Kim Rok Soo, TBOAH Cale, og!Cale, KRS!Cale, and Cale!KRS's memories/future events and it should be real fucking unclear what's what. Ideally in a way that maximises confusion

- reaction fics often include bits of KRS!Cale's thoughts, at least, the bits we see in the narrative of TCF. Why don't we also include random snippets of record? But without context. KRS!Cale knows that that snippet he suddenly remembered is from a novel he read three years ago, because he remembers yk reading the whole novel etc, but do the characters reacting to these scenes know how to distinguish between "random snippet remembered from (fictional) source" and "random snippet remembered from (nonfictional) source" and "KRS!Cale's actual, often random or seemingly off-topic thoughts"? No, no they don't, because they don't have the necessary context to do so

Okay now onto reasons the above bulletpoints could be included:

- whoever is in charge of showing the scenes genuinely just didn't realise it would be an issue; this could for example be how that last bulletpoint happens it just didn't occur to them that someone who doesn't have Record might struggle to discern what was that ability and what was usual thoughts/memories

- whoever is in charge of the scenes is trying to create misunderstandings on purpose. often people writing reaction fics elect a god to be in charge of that, so we could for example have a god of mischief trying to cause maximum chaos (I think I've actually seen that before, though they were trying to chase chaos by revealing secrets not by causing more misunderstandings) or maybe it is SOMEHOW One Final Hurrah from the god of despair who thought maybe causing enough confusion would make KRS!Cale feel misunderstood and isolated and miserable

- technical difficulties/someone fucked up the process of letting them read/see scenes. oops

- Neither Cale (KRS or og) can be here to clear up any possible misunderstandings because there's some inherent incompatibility with having them present and showing scenes/memories of theirs at the same time. Just can't do it. They can be here or you can have smth to react to but not both

- whoever is in charge of the scenes just doesn't have enough power/energy to present things in a clearer way (chronological, more scenes, etc)

- they could have done it in a way that was less confusing way (third person POV instead of seeing through KRS!Cale's eyes, for example) but they thought this was better for emotional impact, which they deemed more important. Maybe they thought the characters would figure out who it was eventually anyway and the emotional impact would make them more likely to understand+sympathise with KRS!Cale which was the ultimate goal orrr thought it would make TBOAH characters more likely to take this shit seriously and stop fighting each other to instead take notes and plan which was the ultimate goal

I'd also really like to not only see reaction fics that increase confusion/misunderstandings/etc but to then have the fic continue PAST when they've reacted to stuff. I want to the characters dumped back where they came from and I want to read at least another 10 chapters from there about the fallout

I feel like there was something more I wanted to add to this post but I forgot so I'll leave it here

more reaction fics that tell you stuff but clarify nothing! maximise confusion rather than minimise it! cause all the problems in the world! yeah!

[ladycrimsonandblack]

been reading tboah meeting or reacting to tcf fics, and once, just once, i want to see cale wearing a disguise and introducing himself as bob and tboah!alberu telling him that's a terrible alias.

[idontknowmyownmind]

I NEED a reaction fic where LCF and TBOAH verse react to an OG!AlCale fanfiction.

Idk if it's just me but I see Alberu and OG!Cale as soulmate, while Alberu and TCF!Cale as brother.

For example, in reaction verse, Alberu only feels exasperated when react about something about him and TCF!Cale. But when it come to OG!Cale with him, even a little hint, makes him feels things.

They may have the same face, but it's the souls that make the differences.

[caleism-1]

Tboah Choi Han was the one thinking/asking this

Pfft-… I don’t regret saying this tho…

[robins-on-lea]

TCF/TBOAF reaction fic ft people from the sealed god’s test except TBOAH!Cale has this dimensional pouch filled with a variety of ranged weapons + poisonous needles/knives and the only one who knows the contents is Og!Cale. And as a (semi-)responsible adult-ified version of TBOAH!Cale, Og!Cale tries (and fails) to convince him NOT to shoot TCF!Clopeh.

Like, every time TCF!Clopeh opens his mouth and starts talking(which usually is just him preaching abt ’Cale-nim’), TBOAH!Cale just starts reaching out for his pouch for a gun or even his crossbow but Og!Cale would always stop him.

And whenever TBOAH!Cale looks at Og!Cale wondering ”WHY?!?!”, Og!Cale just turns to TCF!Cale is like;

“Hey, do you mind if Clopeh dies or get injured?”

“…Which Clopeh?”

“The one from your world, obviously.”

And most most of the time, TCF!Cale says he does mind cuz yea Clopeh is currently getting on his nerves with all the praises but it isn't all THAT bad.

Until at one point, TCF!Clopeh starts praising Og!Cale and TBOAH!Cale. And since TBOAH!Cale is still an emotionally constipated teen, he just snaps. Like;

TCF!Clopeh: [Preaching abt ’Cale-nim’]

TBOAH!Cale, on his last fucking straw: [Whispering] I’m at my fucking limit

Og!Cale, who’s tired of TCF!Clopeh’s bullshit: You know what? I’m not even going to stop you this time.

So TBOAH!Cale just stands up and goes ”YESSSSS” and everyone’s like, “wtf is wrong with the kid??”

But then TBOAH!Cale pulls out a fucking shotgun and before anyone, even the dragons, could react, he shot TCF!Clopeh on the shoulder without taking that long to aim.

Everyone ofc just goes ”…what?” bcs what the fuck? what the actual fuck?

Even TCF!Cale and SGT!Kim Rok Soo didn’t expect that. Meanwhile, Og!Cale is just;

“Yep, that’s mini-me, who’s also me. That’s what I did after Ron left. Shooting people in the face and back whenever they annoy me. With nobody to stop me.”

While everyone was still staring in shock, Clopeh was already on the ground clutching his shoulder while in pain whilst TBOAH!Cale was already readying his next shot.

Og!Cale, who knows TCF!Cale still has uses for Clopeh, tries to stop and reason with mini-him.

It succeeded.

…….somehwat

(this stuff is also filed into my nonexistent Reaction fic :’))

[unparalleledtrash]

I had a sudden, random thought as I was reading yet another reaction fic (help, this is turning into an obsession).

So... The authors usually differentiate the TBOAH and TCF characters. The TBOAH people are usually dragged into a dimension to react and gather information so they could change the future... But what is their future? Then I thought about the regression thing. If you think about it, wouldn't TBOAH characters' future be TCF? I think Jour's diary should explain the difference of Transmigrators and Regressors. OG/TBOAH!Cale went back to the past before transmigrating.

So, as TBOAH's timeline goes on, they'll eventually become the people from TCF. The TBOAH's future would be TCF's present.

If TBOAH's timeline went unchanged, at some point OG!Cale would regress. The fate of their world is to regress. (I don't know how the regression works in the novel because in ORV, when YJH regresses, a different worldline is created. But for this post, I'm assuming that the world regresses with OG!Cale because he simply went back in time before actually going to a different dimension – the dimension being KRS' world.)

Thus, an idea for a fanfic was born :DDD What if TBOAH (the book/novel) was not actually about Choi Han. The book was supposedly about the the birth of multiple heroes all over the continent with Choi Han being the protagonist. But what if, the real birth of a hero is beyond the 5 volumes of the novel Kim Rok Soo has read. It is OG!Cale's death that resulted to the change of their future. The Gods saw how effective TCF!Cale is in dealing with the destruction of the world. The world that TBOAH was based on has already collapsed. Cale Henituse and Kim Rok Soo has given the Gods hope and a solution for the other parallel dimensions. The guide that was meant for Choi Jung Soo was now purposefully written for KRS. The fanfic will be about the birth of a hero who was fated to die. The Last Volume of TBOAH that Choi Jung Gun is writing would be about a hero who dies to bring the savior of their world. At the end of TBOAH, two heroes are born – one born as he dies and one born as he rise. It is a sad and cruel fate for both heroes. I doubt that anyone would try to save OG!Cale if it meant a brighter future with TCF!Cale was ahead of that sacrifice. OG!Cale dies, regresses, then transmigrates for the world. It is a cycle of that for every parallel dimension. And although he is now happy with his mother as KRS, doesn't he deserve happiness in his birthplace? It would be even crueler if he is aware that he's fated to die for the world. He acts as trash because he refuses to die for the world, but ends up doing it anyways. He does not know about the war, but he knows he'll die at a chaotic time. Idk how you'll save the dude if you ever think this is an interesting concept for a fanfic or reaction fic tho... At this point, I'm just rambling and typing the things I thought of at the top of my head. I just made my head hurt, I don't even know if I'm making sense anymore. Smh. I applaud you if you made it this far to the post. Bless you in the name of our God, Cale-nim, and our Pope, Clopeh... Jk

[messy-haired-bum]

I actually haven’t read about the SG tests. Like, I got spoiled a lot since I’m using tumblr, but I’m curious, you know? Especially since there seems to be a scene where Cale went completely unhinged lmaoo.

So, since I’m thinking of reading it anyway, I’m thinking of making a reaction fic where everyone in tcf (or tboah too, ig, I just crave angst) react to it with me. How about that?

There have been a couple of reaction fics about the same subjects but they all have just barely started......

Idk.

Cale’s past will be known, the Calebab scene, etc......

idk. it’s still pending. but I’m tempted.

Obviously this is supposed to be in the [In an Instant] verse, but I know it will take me literal years to get to this point, and I’m impatient af

(Am I potentially opening another WIP when I already have 2 other on my hand? Yes, yes I am.)

(Fuck me.)

[amyfrysk]

Okay, so I was reading a TCF fic and y'all remember when the SG send KRS!Cale to Earth 2 inside Earth2!KRS, right?

So this fic was one of those "TBOAH react to TCF" but TCF is like Earth 1 and TBOAH is like Earth 2

So we have Cale!KRS (aka OG!Cale), KRS!Cale (our workaholic slacker) and the other Cale (who is only 18yo and is OG!Cale counterpart or something like that. I'll call him Earth2!Cale to make it easy)

THE WHOLE POINT IS: THE ANGST I got from reading it

Because OG!Cale and Earth2!Cale were both seeing that no one noticed that KRS!Cale was a completely different person. They didn't care. They didn't miss OG!Cale at all.

And this part of the fic goes something like that:

It hurt something awful when he realizes that no one wants Cale.

No one cares.

Not his father, not his butler, not anyone.

Not the woman who replaces his mother, not his step-brother and sister.

Not even his dead mother, after all she did went to Harris Village to die and leave him behind.

No one cares for poor, little motherless OG!Cale.

No one wants to care for the trashy OG!Cale either.

There's just something inherently unlovable about Cale that send everyone away.

It took throwing away his whole identity for something new for OG!Cale to start being happy again. But will Earth2!Cale have such luxury?

He then had this sudden urge to cry.

This all was just ripping away the bandages to expose all the bleeding wounds in OG!Cale and Earth2!Calle poor, little hearts for the world to see and step over.

And the angst goes on and on and I just need OG!Cale to slap the entire Henituse family (plus the Molan duo) with the true. Because I want all of them to cry and suffer.

I don't care! OG!Cale is my precious baby and he deserved better.

AND I WANT OG!CALE TO TAKE EARTH2!CALE TO EARTH 1 WITH HIM!! FUCK IT ALL!!

[calehenituse-brainrot]

Tcf!Cale, Tboah!Cale, Cale!KRS, and SGT!KRS juat singing 3 by Britney Spears

Exchanging the names of the song from Peter, Paul, Mary to Cale, Rok, Soo. With Cale representing tboah!cale, Rok with Sgt!KRS and Soo with Cale!KRS.

And Tcf!Cale singing the part "or four" implying of foursome with him joining.

Imagine the chaos because of the misuderstanding.

And it will be better if it was on the setting of a reaction au so the 4 worlds that is reacting can hear and see this in the middle of a break

And now I want some band or idol au with the four(or six if the pre-transmigration and pre-regression included) of them be sets of twins or triplets in the same band somewhat known for some of their song being sensual(sexual?)

-✍

NOT GONNA LIE THIS REMINDS ME OF THOSE IDOL AUS ON TWITTER AND SOME FROM HERE 😭😭

but yeah, the idea of them being idols and just causing a scandal everywhere is 😩😩

[cottoncandycloudsfluff]

So I have been reading tcf/tboah react fics and read this fic where tboah reacts and they were jealous asf-

So like, I had this thought of what if, they force the ancient powers to their cale and without knowing the correct order/that you need vitality of the heart, cale explodes

I have no idea why I even thought of this :D

[halloween-neko96]

In the next chapter of [For Our Future, The Story From Another World]:

For some reason, the TCF AlChoiCale Trio keeps having emotional moments during my TBOAH reaction fic… 🧐 Say, are they OOC or not?

On the other hand, after this chapter and one more chapter will be a meal break. Should I add a small Q&A game for the TBOAH cast? What do you guys think? Please give me some suggestions! 🙏

Link to the fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62846893/chapters/162310825

[halloween-neko96]

Raon had successfully scammed The Assistant!

▶︎ Link to the fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62846893

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[halloween-neko96]

…I might have gone overboard. Dear Dragons, please help me. The contents being streamed do not follow chronological order or segment order. The [Sui Khan] part will be in the far far future or even not being shown at all lol.

Also, I got sidetracked with the TCF trio and suddenly they were having a heart-felt talk:

…Praying that Cale is not too OOC in this.

Link to the fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62846893/chapters/162310825

[halloween-neko96]

It's finally out! Dear Dragons, please give me strength.

Link AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62846893/chapters/162336247

[halloween-neko96]

Well, it's out, guys! Time for me to crash out.

Link AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62846893/chapters/163429153