Slightly Nefarious

og cale: ooooooo you fucked up~

cale: (this little. tsk) i know what im doing, you damn bastard

Og!Cale, hissing like a snake: if you fucking ask him again if he's gonna sacrifice himself I'm going to tear out your god-damned neck with my fucking teeth. That was MY fucking body body that he's putting through the grinder!

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Cale: hm. I could let the others fight, and maybe get hurt.

Og! Cale: sounds like a plan.

Cale:... Or. I could fight the enemy myself, risking a coma or possibly dying...

Og!Cale: NO

Cale:... Yeah that sounds better. I'll go with that.

Og!Cale: HOE?!?

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Cale, picking up another ancient power: oh cool

Og!Cale: yeah maybe slow down with this collector bullshit, I didn't think it was possible with a metaphysical, non-tangible place like your mind, but it's getting CROWDED here. This HAS to be an OSHA violation.

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Cale, who due to Ron having a day off had to dress himself, followed Og!Cale's advice and is now on the cuntiest outfit ever: why is this noble looking at me red faced? And why do Choi Han, Alberu and Eruhaben-nim look so murderous? What did I do?

Og!Cale, twirling a mental glass of wine: dunno. Maybe try smiling at this noble. Oh and let them kiss your hand in greeting. That surely will make everyone else happy.

The Glutton, whispering: WHY are you telling him that? He's gonna get this noble accidentally killed.

Og!Cale, taking a sip: I'm bored.

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Og!Cale: please. A little jog. Maybe a few burpees. ONE push up. ANYTHING.

Cale, couch -potatoing the second he has a free afternoon: nah

Older brother!1: Hey Sun Fei, back already? How is the eye?

Suo: good, good. All healed

Older brother!2: how was your convalescence?

Suo: Oh, nothing big. Joined a fight club type school, to keep my skills sharp, but nothing big. Got elected as second in command of my division, though.

OB!2: Interesting... So, let's -

Suo: ah, I did participate in a match with spectators in order to keep our school from being absorbed by a rival gang. I took the chance to impart some... Life wisdom, in my rival.

OB!1: oh, that's cool. wonder if there's a video of you kicking the other dudes a-

Suo: I also participated in two separate gang wars.

OB!2:... What?

Suo: yeah. I lost control and almost killed a man in the first one, and I was in charge of strategizing and being one of the heavy hitters in the second.

OB!1: I honestly can't tell if he's fucking with us.

Suo: I also helped my captain regain his faith in humanity and in human connections as a whole

OB!2: what type of therapist -like side quest...?

Suo: ah, i also might or might not have gotten involved in a polyamorous situationship with my captain and co-vice captain. It's unclear whether it was romantic or platonic.

OB!1:...

Suo: I am pretty sure it ended when I knocked out one of them. I miss them, though.

OB!1, stopping mid punch: wait stop cut the music, that shit about gang wars was TRUE??!!

Sakura: Huh??? What- yeah of course, what the hell?

OB!2: We thought he was lying! And the 'fight with audience ' thing...?

Nirei, holding back tears but very confused about the paused violence: uh, that did happen, yes...

OB!1: Damn I thought that was like when he told us he was going to the movies for a few hours but ended up meditating in the mountains for DAYS back in middle school

Nirei: WAIT THAT MEDITATION STORY WAS TRUE?!!??

Sakura: HEY WHAT ABOUT WHEN HE SAID-

And then everyone stops fighting and starts comparing notes, until-

OB!1: damn that's crazy. So it seems like the only thing he was ACTUALLY lying about was the polyamorous situationship, uh...

Sakura & Nirei: ....

OB!2: that WAS a lie, right?

Sakura & Nirei:...

OB!1:...YOU TWO??? WITH OUR LITTLE BROTHER???

See Wolfram is awesome because he doesn’t do the mistake a lot of tsunderes do where they make things worse for their love interest. Wolfram is like genuinely helping most of the time I fear. Yuri you lowkey are winning because Wolfram wants you and is willing to put up with your bullshit so yeah lowkey put up with his it’s a fair trade.

Wolfram is so funny he’s like just a competent fighter, decently knowledgeable, and very loyal so actually yeah Yuri you lowkey do deserve to be berated by him sometimes. Like usually tsunderes are just mean to be mean but Yuri sometimes you are being kinda dumb and I mean this with all the love in my heart.

Btw the audacity of Yuri to leave when Wolfram and Conrad request he stay put or stay by them and that’s like the one thing they asked man. I get it I get it but yuri come onnnnnnn.

I would say Wolfram deserves better but no they are perfect where they are. They balance each other too well for anyone else to be an option. They care deeply about each other but also bicker and have clashing ideas sometimes.

However it’s so important to me that like there are times where they just go “damn yea I was wrong my bad babe” which awesome 10/10 you are doing better than 90% of couples.

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However, their behavior doesn't change whatsoever. They still scream at each other during peak lord meetings, still get in random fights, still diss the fuck out of each other. They're just also dating. (Bc any ship with SJ is just automatically toxic yaoi sorry thems the rules)

They quite enjoy the dynamic. It's enrichment for them. Shen Jiu gets to take out his rage on someone consequence free, and Liu Qingge gets all the fights he could ask for, plus they both get less awkward aphrodisiac relief.

They both think they're quite obvious about it, but not a single other person has picked up on it. Except maybe Luo Binghe.

Yue Qingyuan keeps trying to get SQQ to stop aggravating LQG and SQQ is Horrified and Disgusted that YQY keeps trying to, what, interfere in his sex life? Kink shame him? What is this??

He, of course, responds with fan beatings and incoherent screeching rather than anything that would clue YQY in.

Everything goes great for LiuJiu, until, that is, the Lingxi caves.

Where Shen Qingqiu still fails to save Liu Qingge.

Naturally, SQQ is miserable, despondent, and rages at anyone who dares to even reference Liu Qingge. The rest of the peak lords think he's being defensive because he killed LQG, and especially Liu Mingyan and Qi Qingqi.

However, SQQ is not willing to let LQG go so easily. Using demonic cultivation he learned in his past with Wu Yanzi, he seals LQGs soul in one of his fans, effectively forcing his dead boyfriend to haunt him, and goes into a research deep dive to try and figure out how to bring LQG back, the ghost of said man bopping around beside him, supremely annoyed at his new incorporeality.

This culminates in him finding a way, while his martial siblings are rallied to prosecute and imprison him for the murder of LQG despite YQYs protests.

This results in SQQ committing corpse theft, Luo Binghe style, and also kidnapping said Luo Binghe after figuring out about his heavenly demon blood, and going on a cross country road trip with an unwilling disciple, a pissed off ghost, and a corpse trying to find various PIDW plot devices to fuel his LQG-Resurrecting demonic cultivation, while the rest of the peak lords hunt him down looney toons style, trying to get the corpse back and capture SQQ.

It, of course, culminates with a dramatic evil looking ritual done by SQQ, being attacked by 9 peak lords.

However, when the ritual finishes, instead of LQG rising as some kind of evil mind controlled killing machine controlled by SQQ, it's just Liu Qingge.

Who immediately makes out with SQQ sloppy style.

*so my BSD mutuals know what the hell I'm talking about

I have no proof and at this point I have forgotten why I thought that in first place, but I still go back to that and then laugh my ass off in Mr. I-won't-marry, too busy courting the throne, falling head over heels for Mr. I'll-get-myself-out-heired-or-so-help-me, status means nothing over family.

Their goals are so different. They both keep an act day by day for the sake of those goals.

Yet I think ogCale, although not sure he would understand wanting a position of power (this is the guy who said he was going to get to CEO only because he doesn't like the night shift. That's it. Bro sees it as a means to an end, lmao), he would like Alberu's dream of making Roan a place where everyone can live under the Sun a lot.

And Alberu. Alberu would probably be confused about this guy who willingly gives up the equivalent of his own goal for a younger sibling he's not even close with, but in a good sense. Just how much does he have to care about his brother? Alberu wishes other noble families could have at least a finger of care for their own family members as this guy does. He would understand that they have different priorities, and they're both doing what they can to reach their goals.

And then there's this funny thing: if they got together, OgCale wouldn't have to worry about inhereting because being the crown prince's fiancé/husband is a perfectly good reason to decline the heir position without backlash for his family, and Alberu would have a strong financial backer (the Henituse family) and OgCale to help him (because this guy would never not help his loved ones if he can).

But I also think they'd genuinely like each other's personalities and enjoy spending time together and constantly act like a couple in the honeymoon phase that keeps tease-bantering at every chance and often forget there are other people in the room and have to be reminded. Two hyper-dedicated people focus too much into each other and become disgustingly sweet whenever they're near the other.

Actually, I think it'd be funny if they started dating in secret (because that's their business and they hadn't decided what to do about their situations) and when people find out, it somehow becomes into OgCale's act had been to help hide their relationship.

Which makes no sense because he started so many years ago, but people forget about that fact. It's just that they're so sweet and obviously in love that people think they were putting a lot of effort on hiding it for the romance and love or whatever. No one thought that those two things might be unrelated.

OgCale has to explain the truth to his family when Deruth and Violan hear this rumor. Because how else can he convince his parents that Alberu didn't do anything bad to him (nor has bad intentions) and they 'don't need to kill him, really'? They were ready to raid the palace, thinking the worst.