#tcf angst

[calethescammer]

What if Cale had a habit of wandering to high balconies or roof tops and just sitting there whenever he was stressed/sad?

See it this way: Kim Rok Soo had the habit of roaming around destroyed buildings and finding a high spot and just sitting there? Perhaps he liked seeing the horizon. Or maybe he wanted to see how far the destroyed area stretched to. Or maybe he thought of it as his responsibility to look out for anyone injured, who may still be looking for help. Either way, it brought him peace, some sort of serenity and quietness.

So anyways, as Cale, after the conflicts with White Star started, his habit involuntarily reappeared. He would frequently go on roof tops, sometimes a tall tree or just sit upon the balustrade of his balcony. His feet hanging, his heart quiet and his gaze fixated on nothingness.

And now imagine someone, maybe Raon or Ron, catching him sitting on the edge of the balcony with a blank face. Then the panic, the chaos, and maybe Cale lost his footing because of the startling shout, and he fell down before balancing himself mid-air thanks to the wind ap.

Now imagine him trying to explain that it was just on a whim, that he has no intentions of hurting himself, but the children keep on sobbing and his family hang their heads down with despairing eyes, and now Cale feels helpless.

And maybe he feels a pang of guilt, because sometimes, just sometimes, he had a fleeting thought, a nonsensical urge to jump off, not to hurt himself, like he hated pain more than anything, and of course, living was the best, but there was the curiosity to see how it would feel, first the amazement, then the numbness, and finally the quietness of his Records.

It's only a thought, he convinced himself. But that didn't stop his habit, the worrying gazes of his family and their watchful eyes on Cale, and the relentless explanations that would follow, with Cale always failing to convince them that he is fine.

[dragonsbluee]

Is it just me who took a while to realize just how heavy on the angst TCF is? Mostly because our wonderful (unreliable) narrator Cale just has this nonchalant tone about everything.

Cale: oh you know, I just watched the literal apocalypse start, lived through it for years, my best friends/brothers all but blood died before my eyes, and now I'm in a whole new world where I've built a family that is being threatened by the same apocalypse and worse. Also, turns out my life was shit before I came here becuase I was dealing with the consequences of some bastard's curse since he stole my original body.

Readers: wait, what.

Cale: oh yeah, I'm deeply traumatized, but I'm not going to admit it to anyone unless I'm literally forced to by a god (derogetory). And my friends keep having to watch me sacrifice myself, throw up blood, or put myself in other really dangerous situations.

Reader: ummmm. Can we circle back around to any of that?

Cale: no.

[fictional2dcharacters]

Guess who thought of something and then had a hyper fixation!!

It was me :)

I thought of Ohn angst and IMMEDIATELY had to draw it because Ohn and Hong could NOT have been treated well while in the cat tribe

so I drew her waking up from nightmares in hysteria :D

Because don’t you love it when an incredibly abused and damaged person helps another incredibly abused and damaged person(I’m talking about Cale and Ohn)

This took like 4-5 hours or something.

(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)

Huge shoutout to Saddist’s “Sunsprite Eulogy” passerine animation because looking for a reference on Pinterest to match the idea I had in my head, Wilbur having a breakdown ended up being my reference for these LMFAO

[murasaki-cha]

Therapist: Define pain

Tcf fandom:

[galaxygirl8880]

I literally have no background for this I just want angst.

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Cale becomes the caretaker of the super rock villa. He's extremely overprotective of the villa and if anyone gets near it he scares them away.

Why?

Because his family is asleep. They've been asleep for years and haven't shown any signs of waking up.

They remain unaging and so does he.

Even the crown prince resides in the villa.

Every so often, he has to check to remind himself that they haven't died, just asleep.

Still asleep.

He's trying to keep his promise to team leader by continuing to take care of the farm as well..

The bastard that is the god of death has been his only chance of waking them up. He's tried many cures for poisons, remedies for sleep potions, traveled places for even the slightest hint for waking them up..

At one point, he did the paperwork Alberu was behind in for said crown prince. Once it became apparent that he wasn't waking up..

Still asleep.

Rarely, a group of travelers or bandits will come and attempt to break into the villa..

The shield has become a permanent addition.

Cale suddenly became aware that his family's resting place won't stay hidden forever.

Kingdoms and Countries are expanding and exploring places they weren't able to before.

He can't protect the villa like this forever.

Cale has quite literally become a legend of the past. His stories actually being a popular bedtime story-

He chooses to ignore this.

Cale occasionally visits the descendants of his siblings, them being aware of his apperant immortality, but stopped doing so at one time.

He feels very alone.

Sometimes he goes out on short trips to collect any ingredients needed for whatever potion he decides to try. When he gets back, he checks on everyone multiple times.

He can't bring himself to use Eruhaben or Rosalyn's rooms, so he modified his study into a temporary potions workplace.

Temporary. He won't need to do this anymore when they wake up.

Hm.. maybe he should start a separate garden for potion ingredients?

Cale still waits.

(He's lost count of how many times he's cried by his children's bedside, pleading at them to wake up.)

He decides to hire builders to build him a greenhouse in an area far away from the villa.

After paying them, he quite literally picks up the greenhouse at night to take it back home.

It looks nice with the garden.

...

They're still asleep.

When Choi han stirs slightly when he is changing the bedsheets, he stops what he's doing and watches.

He doesn't stir again..

This, surprisingly, gives Cale hope. There's a slight chance that Choi han may be close to waking..

So, he takes to monitoring him a lot more closely.

He does this for two years.

Nothing happens.

The greenhouse has surprisingly started attracting butterflies. They're very pretty.

On one of his trips to the nearby county, he spots two children from the slums. A girl and a boy.

He hands them a gold coin and some bread. That's enough shopping for today.

...

Ron is awake.

He's awake. He's standing (albeit a bit shakily), he's breathing, he's alive.

Cale realizes just how lonely he's felt all of this time when the first thing he does is sink into Ron's arms and let out a sob.

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Ngl I got a little sad writing this-

I hope you like! :D

(I feel like I'm posting too much-)

Part 2 :>

[he4d-banger]

Psychiatry AU?

Hear me out

Cale and family reincarnated in another world, but nobody remember anything, so they kept their individual lives until Cale started to hear his ancient powers.

The Henituse family would be so shocked and concerned watching the firstborn talking to the air like someone was actually having a conversation with him. This will escalate further and no one will believe the little redhead kid and his vivid imagination of a fantasy world, so Cale learned to shut up.

He ended up being committed to a psychiatric hospital anyway. A lonely place filled with mad people, not the best place for a child like him.

To add angst the doctors started to restrain the visits, alluding that after them he gets worse, so fam stopped coming gradually, but little Cale didn't know that, and thought they just got rid of him.

It will be years later when everyone started to remember, but it's too late. Cale is now an scared traumatized teenager. If anyone mentions something about their past life his body and mind would react negatively for all those years conditioning him to thought that those were just inventions, and he would be punished if he externalized those memories.

Just imagine the regret, anger and sorrow

[alicehattera03]

Imagining a Cale who secretly plans the perfect way to rid the world of their enemies and the godforsaken wars but there's just one... small problem.

It would cost him his lifespan.

He's still smiling, blood dripping down his front as he falls backward, everyone screaming his name, magic sparking in the air but his wounds don't close as his vision darkens and all he can think about is how he's finally done it.

And he could rest at last.

[hajidumps]

When Cale was fighting in the war all he had wanted was to go home. To lock himself out and lay beside his family's grave. But he had to fight, if he didn't then everything he had would be gone and destroyed again. Burned into ashes by the White Star.

.

As Cale stood in front of the White Star, the only thing he could think was "I'm going home soon." He knew this was his end, he couldn't help but be irritated by it.

.

He would be the only one not buried with his family.

.

His death was not fast. So he flees. Trying to come back to his home. But he knew in his heart he couldn't return. He tries anyway to come back and finally reach them even just this once - even just in death.

[whitefantasy21-blog]

Yuki's Masterlist

First ever au i made, just a random modern au poly deruthxjourxviolan

To be the daughter of trash. Inspired by the many isekai manhwa I read, self-indulgent, i remember having an update drafts on this but never posted it.

Cale is Ladybug au had taken over my mind cause there are so many updates of it posted. I'll try to arrange the random ideas into some sort of fic with a chronological order. Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

Roan High School Host club. twins au.

The Henituse Family an au i made when encanto just came out.

It's all fun and games. where Cale is a self-aware NPC.

Undertale x tcf AU no one asked for.

baby OgCale and KRScale meeting. part 1 and part 2

Mystery of the Thames twins. i havent even given out a summary for this one XD

Just You. or rather a conversation between two sadists about a fic idea. Part I , Part 2, and art.

Halloween Special: Costumes. no angst this time. Og Cale meets his younger/future self

Dollhouse. Coraline x tcf. other Ron and Beacrox art. and link of a little doll Cale.

ogCale and Ron Angst. also, I just wanted to draw Og Cale in the sunset.

Christmas Angst. Cale doesn't celebrate Christmas anymore.

Animatics i have posted it here. ideas and finished works.

Bad Child. first ever animatic i proposed and its nothing but drafts.

Lemon Boy. i swear, I'm still working on it, its just taking a while

Two birds. Completed.

....theres more on my yt channel im tired of linking stuff.

Do you blame yourself?

[rokcale]

Angst au idea:

Deruth always knew that one day cale would leave them and be replaced ( jour told him even though she wasn't sure whether he would regress or transmigrate) and that was the reason he never tried to bridge the gap between them , have him meet violan before marriage or try to get him to bond with his family.

So to protect himself from the pain later when he leaves , he decided to just forget about his own son and wait until he felt that cale has changed, and then love and care for the one that was there to stay with them , making himself believe that since this was always supposed to happen, this one is his son too ( just older , he still likes to think it's cale ) and cale died (when forced to accept krs isn't elder cale)alongside jour . He mourned for both back then.

Because he is a coward and did not want to get close to someone who might leave one day.

BUT HERE IS THE TWIST:

That didn't happen coz krs got transferred instead and found out about the truth while reading the tboah ( there was an extra side story by nelan Barrow so if roksoo gets transmigrated, he won't get caught up in that shit.)

So he came , observed cale for a while , came to his canonical conclusion that cale ain't no trash , observed some more , got to know him , found out the reason why cale acted trash, realized the shit going on with the cute little sweetheart who is too good for his own good and just went :

Nope. U r coming with me , then runs away with him 😃❤😂

So now the tables have turned and the angst is for Deruth, coz cale happily ran away with krs since his job as trash was done 🥂 they lived happily ever after , since no wars or anything ever happened.

Reason? White shit went to the world tree to cut it , slipped and impaled himself like the idiot he is. He is dead dead. RIP💀

[calethescammer]

Tcf brain rot time :)

Ok so Cale as Krs never had any parental figures, and neither did Og Cale. So what if, some random day, Cale and his family go for an outing, just a small walk around the shops.

And somewhere in between, Cale stops in his tracks. His gaze lingers on the mother-son duo walking alongside a sweet shop, smiling and giggling all the while. His family watches Cale's blank gaze, with a hint of longing and sadness in it.

Cale continues walking like nothing happened. Ron thinks of the young child who had faced grief at an age of laughter and happiness, and Choi Han thought of Rok Soo's past, with just his abusive uncle as his guardian.

Raon, On and Hong shifted closer to the redhead, trying to comfort him even if they didn't know what was wrong.

And now just imagine the angst. Like maybe Alberu or Eruhaben notice it too, how he sometimes smiles sadly seeing kids run around with their parents, or how his gaze turns empty as he tries to numb down his emotions.

And so, to comfort the redhead as far as they can, they decide to shower him with love. While Deruth increased the number of head pats, Violan frequently had tea with Cale, asking about his interests, hobbies and giving him small unnoticeable compliments in between, which Cale very well noticed.

Ron served him sweet tea more often, Eruhaben and Rosalyn helped him talk out his concerns, majorly of ongoing wars and safety reasons, and Choi Han was the best suited to talk about his previous life, which Cale was very reluctant to share.

Alberu, being the Alberu he was, did what he felt would be best for Cale:

Cale and Alberu stared at each other, the latter smiling more brightly than ever.

"Your Highness."

"Hyung."

"Yes, hyung-nim. Can you tell me what this is?"

Cale pointed towards the table.

Alberu smiled more brightly and Cale almost heard him giggle softly, before covering it up with a cough.

"This, my dear dongsaeng, is a golden plaque."

Cale stared at him with the most deadpan expression.

"What do you want me to do now?"

Alberu just sat speechless, his face crumbling and smiling all together.

Eventually, he managed to convince Cale, telling him that a King needed to be benevolent, and that Cale had done more than enough to be rewarded a golden plaque. Not that Cale believed any of that bullshit, but well, free money should not be refused.

Aside from that, the kids brought him various flowers and Rosalyn helped in decorating Cale's hair with them.

'Why is everyone acting so weird?'

Cale thought, trying to ignore the warm feeling in his chest and his slight smile at the flower crown the kids had made.

[dragonsbluee]

So I've recently been re-reading TCF And chapter 196 is such an excellent example of how Cale interacts with the people around him, how he views himself and how they view him. This is also at the point in the novel where he hasn't really accepted that he is Cale now, not KRS, because he doesn't feel like he can.

So anyway, we start the chapter seeing the people of Rain City react to Cale's shield and they say something important!

"Won't he faint is he uses such a large shield? Why doesn't he just activate it when the northern bastards come?" "Can't you tell? He doesn't want to see us or the territory getting hurt at all."

At first, I thought this was just the regular drama of people reacting to Cale, but then Choi Han, the kids, and Ron tell him he's being ridiculous, and I realize the townsfolk are right.

The Wyvern Battle is only the 2nd or 3rd major battle Cale has been in so far but only as Cale. As KRS, he's done this before, and having read later chapters, we know Cale holds so much guilt over those battles and how he wanted to keep those he cared for away from it all but couldn't. After all, record only gives him information to guide them and make plans; he often couldn't physically protect them. How many times has he defended a shelter or teammates and wished he could have just covered them all with a shield instead of giving commands from the back? We know how guilty he feels over Choi Jung Soo and Lee Soo Hyuk's deaths.

He knows he doesn't have to keep it up, and he's the one who spreads a rumour that it's taking all of his energy, but he's already considering himself a "bad person" for taking military command and only giving orders. (except that's what it means to take military command?) There is absolutely another motive for keeping the shield around the city. Cale wants the opposing forces to view him as weakened, or he doesn't want people to think his power is as strong as it is. However, at the same time, he's absolutely protecting them because, just like the townsperson says, he doesn't want to see any of them get hurt by an attack he could have blocked.

Cale is doing what he can to undermine himself while claiming he's going to make everyone else the hero of this battle, but he won't drop the shield, which means no one can disregard or forget his involvement. It's not intentional! He's just literally made himself the first line of defense as a direct parallel to every time he was the last line as KRS. He wants to stay at the back, he does not plan to get involved unless he has to, but Cale won't let himself stay out of it. So the shield goes up and stays for multiple days.

Meanwhile, all Choi Han, Ron and the kids see is Cale surrounded by paperwork (because taking command of the entire Northeast is a lot of work), keeping a shield up that's known to make him cough up blood (they don't know about it getting stronger or the vitality of heart), and only sleeping 1 to 2 hours a night (thank you crybaby), so they assume it's a combination of work and concentration to keep the shield up. As usual, they're worried and frustrated at Cale's self-sacrificing tendencies.

We haven't even gotten to the actual battle yet, but this is such a great setup of how it's going to go and how the novel goes.

[fictional2dcharacters]

A thing from TCF that keeps getting stuck in it head is KRS’ scars.

So we all know that KRS had A LOT of scars. Instant was of course the cause of these scars, from situations where KRS had no other options during fights.

KRS lived with these scars, the wounds he gained never being able to truly heal. They were living reminders of the pain he has had to go through.

His body was changed and torn, no longer being the person he was.

Here’s the best part though-

Cale will never have scars. Like he is physically unable to have scars. The crybaby ancient power prevent scars from forming by completely healing wounds.

Can you just imagine how happy Cale must feel about that? To not be the walking reminder of pain? To not have his body permanently damaged?

This is like my 4th post about how the crybaby ancient power is literally the MVP of Cale’s ancient powers LMFAO

Idk, it’s just something I think about a lot.

It prevents his plate from breaking every time he gets backlash from another ancient power, quite literally save his life because when your plate breaks you die.

It prevented Cale’s body from exploding while he gathered all the other ancient powers.

It stocks up on energy to heal Cale more efficiently by making him hungrier.

It keeps Cale’s body is a perfect state of health- I don’t think Cale can even get sick- or be poisoned for that matter-

It give Cale the ability to go longer without sleep- which might develop some unhealthy habits, but for someone who has a mile long list of things to do, sleep and the body’s natural need for rest would be the number one enemy-

We do not give the crybaby enough love.

I do not know how I became the crybaby’s number one advocate but here I am LMAO

[murasaki-cha]

Are you normal or do these pictures hurt you

Edit: I gotta be honest I had forgotten I had scheduled this so imagine my surprise to opening my profile and seeing I had committed a hate crime

[galaxygirl8880]

Cale writes a will a few days before the final battle (just in case he dies) and someone finds it

Whether he actually dies after or not is up to you sksjhs-

(actually now I'm wondering if Cale could have stabbed himself beforehand- did the blood need to be wet-? Does the vitality wear off after a certain amount of time? Could he have theoretically taken the root into a random empty room, asking everyone to leave him alone for a few hours to make sure he has enough time to heal? What if he falls asleep and someone just finds him there Would it eventually get out after the final battle because Cale doesn't think it's important anymore? what if GoD is worried and ends up telling cage? What if he's really vague and forces Cale to tell them himself? What about family and especially Ron /Choi han drowning in self hatred for not questioning why the sword used to defeat the radish was covered in blood- what if they hate themselves even more when Cale comforts them saying it wasn't their fault? What if- )

BACK TO WHAT THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY ABOUT-

Cale writing a will

Yes

The world tree said he wouldn't die but just in case, he writes a will anyways.

Everyone notices him lost in his thoughts more often, nervous and contemplating. They brush it off and assume it's nerves.

What if Cale slips it in Alberu's office just before everything goes down? In a place he thinks Alberu doesn't check often a day or two before Cale-bab?

Maybe Raon notices when he teleports Cale into the office (when the crown prince isn't there) and assumes it's something important that Cale wants to show Alberu but can't because he's busy?

So like a good son, he leaves a note (it's readable but not perfect-) telling cookie prince about the super important paper that human left in his bottom drawer-

Later, Alberu walks in with Choi han, sees the cute note that's obviously from Raon, checks his drawer, notices the letter sealed with black wax, and opens it.

And Choi han witnesses his face slowly morph into one of anxiety and pure horror.

When they confront cale there are a lot of angry tears and they do it in the middle of everyone having dinner because there are more important matters at hand because of ONE suicidal bastard-

OR

Someone finds it (probably Hans or Ron idk- OR MAYBE THE KIDS-) when he's not quite done writing it and confront him

Actually what about a tea break and Ron is helping clear out Cale's desk and finds the will while Cale is drinking tea literally ten feet In front of him-

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I like angst.

I keep forgetting to post, ngl-

Did I ever tell you guys I got covid last month?

Anyways, have a good day!

[ukiyolatte]

A thought

Technically doesn't Cale have ptsd?

I mean his record is also basically his ptsd as well