#albeogcale

Little kid pretending to be waiting for her sibling? Yeah, he's the sibling. Cale Henituse who? He's this kid's older brother. Back off.

Guy pretending he has to go, really, he can't stay chatting, to get away from someone who won't take no as an answer? "Dad, can we hurry up? I'm not feeling well—"

Obviously uncomfortable teenager saying "I'm not allowed to date" to reject someone who scares them? He's their bossy cousin who will totally rat them out to their parents if they dare to take longer than that to talk. He makes sure to look extra mafia-worthy.

Some person getting cornered to go somewhere alone? He's their overprotective best friend. Where do you think you're taking them without him?

Rok Soo's friend says he's already seeing someone to avoid a malicious arranged marriage/set up partner by his evil step-mother? "Dear? What are you doing here? I thought you had something to do today". Suddenly, he's Alberu's secret boyfriend from many months. They met through a friend in common, Alberu asked him out first but OgCale confessed first, they do stuff like playing strategy games together, baking (Alberu bakes, OgCale tastes), enjoying music (OgCale plays, Alberu likes to listen to him) and going on walks. Obviously, a supportive model boyfriend like Alberu wouldn't even consider meeting anyone else while already having a partner himself.

Everyone he comes across from the people who knew him/knew about him is surprised about the kind of adult the known trash Cale Henituse became.

1) He's a— according to his own child, her teachers an the other parents— incredible parent. The kind one sometimes hears about from some lucky peers: patient, gentle, very caring and always paying attention to everything his child says, no matter how tired he is.

2) Despite his very obvious mischievous nature, he's also more mature than anyone would expect, not only drom him, but from most people his age. He is pretty young.

3) He's really smart and sharp. There's a businessman somewhere cursing whoever spread the rumor that Cale Henituse doesn't know how to do anything but drink all day. There's no fooling him.

Just twenty something ogCale being basically like the guy from the chick class hunter is filial.

One day he complains about it to Rosalyn, only for her, who shares seats with OgCale in a class and therefore knows he's in internet most of the class, to laugh at him. She then shows him the monkey-circus collection post.

Rosalyn: It's a meme. He's been calling you Rok Soo's monkey.

Choi Han: ...

Bonus:

Choi Han: wait. Alberu was also there. Why doesn't he call him a monkey, too?

Choi Han: Nevermind. Of course he isn't giving his boyfriend the same nickname as me. That could get weird.

Rosalyn: *chokes on water* did they finally get together?! When?!

OgCale somehow has a sort of school bully reputation despite never hitting a single student (or people in general) unless extreme circumstances. Yes, even if is a classmate he hates. Violence is not his first answer, intimidation tactics are. He's so good at them he has most of the actual bullies convinced that he's The Bully. The banchou. The boss, if he didn't refuse to accept anyone as part of his gang. Everytime someone tries to act like if they were under his orders, he gives them a glare that has them backtracking on their actions all the way to the entrance of the campus. He regularly uses that reputation to stop bullies and pretend it wasn't his intention to help. Sure, all a big coincidence.

Alberu, meanwhile, is the responsible student who for some reason put himself willingly in charge of his classmates, getting perfect marks and pretending he has never done anything wrong in his life. His classmates for some reason feel like they shouldn't test his patience too much, but sometimes forget and end up getting dragged to (usually) the principal's office or somewhere else for a private talk. At the end he almost always gets them to agree with whatever he says, but no one knows how. He's stressed as fuck and constantly cursing his classmates, the teachers, and the whole school in his mind. At least once per week, he questions why did he accepted the position in the first place.

OgCale ends up being transferred to Alberu's class after Mr. Olienne caught him red handed acing a test in internet— about a topic he had just purposefully gotten barely passing grades— in his free time, because he was bored. He came to the conclusion that OgCale either wasn't putting any effort because he wasn't being challenged enough by the schoolwork or was prone to getting anxious about tests. Or maybe both. And decided he was his problem now. So he got approval from his parents, the principal and OgCale's old teacher to transfer him to his class.

The first time he does it is because he was hanging out in the same room as Alberu when Alberu finally finished with a stack of paperwork and went to get up—

And the loud crack his back made startled the bird napping outside.

So, OgCale offered a little massage because "at this pace you're going to get back problems before hitting thirty". Alberu proceeds to experience the most relieving massage he has ever had.

It becomes a thing. They hangout at Alberu's office, Alberu works or (in the rare occasion he had free time) reads something while OgCale entertains himself with whatever puzzle, random object or book he found, OgCale moves to be behind him and starts kneading his shoulders and back, they take a tea break.

Everyone else thinks they act like an old married couple.

Alberu tries to reciprocate the massage once, only for OgCale to jump and a barely muffled giggle. Turns out, he's really ticklish, just that no one knew. Not even himself. He thought he used to be but had grown out of it, but no, he still is. It's just that no one touches him, so he honestly didn't realize he still was.

It's embarrasing, but at least it's Alberu who found out and not anyone else. Alberu is fine.

Then he commites the mistake of admiting he does not mind a little bit of tickles. Somehow, that turns into their first playfight. Which is actually more like a silly game of tag across the room.

Rok Soo happens to open the door just after Alberu has caught OgCale and is in the process of softly brushing his neck and side and making him laugh with so much joy— which was exactly Alberu's intention. He just wanted to make him laugh like that again.

That's not what Rok Soo sees. That is also not what Ron, who just happened to be accompaning Rok Soo, sees. That is also, indeed, not what Choi Jung Soo or Choi Han or Rosalyn or any of their friends, who were, for some reason, all tagging along, think it is.

The following explanation of what they had been doing is more confusing for Alberu and OgCale, who did not realize how they had misunderstood their silly playfight as anything but just that, than for anyone else. It's also more embarrasing for anyone who needed the explanation in the first place than for Alberu or OgCale. Why? Because then it's their turn to explain that they had mistook their improvised tickle fight for a couple making out.

I read until the "you're feeding" part in the notification and thought you were going to say either the trolls or the sharks.

Anyways—

No one has told me that (besides you just now, obvs) but thank you!! And I love you, random citizen.

That explains why when I look up his tag I mostly see my own posts :/

Btw, I have yet to tell you guys about the AU I thought about yesterday. An AlbeOgCale AU where an 18yo OgCale is trapped as a ghost temporary and Alberu befriends him without knowing who he is and not being able to even see him.

OgCale refuses to tell him who he is because that would mean explaining that the current Cale Henituse is a transmigrator and he thinks that's KRS!Cale's secret to share + doesn't want Alberu to tell him that the person who used to live in his body is now floating around like a ghost and risk that guy to do something stupidly self-sacrifical.

He really likes the new owner of his body. That's his new brother, no objections taken.

And so Alberu spends a lot of time with this friendly spirit, very much a ghost, who he knows is helping them and keeping an eye in their allies. He can't see and doesn't have a name to call him for, but he's witty, funny, one of the kindest people he knows and also strange as fuck.

More stuff about this:

• OgCale here can affect the nature to a certain degree because, when his soul started to drift away instead of going to the other's body as planned, GoD pushed in his soul any energy he could grasp that wouldn't clash awfully/destruct him to keep him from entering the reincarnation cycle. So, nature energy, mana, electricity and all the sort. Except dark mana because GoD doesn't know what would happen if he pushed that into a soul. Nothing good, probably.

• OgCale can also interact with the material plane pretty fine. He can touch and move objects, he can feel the breeze and the water, he can see even better than in life, he use air vibrations to talk. He can smell, hear and taste just like anyone else. But he doesn't have a body, so he can't eat or be seen.

• OgCale and the GoD are on really friendly terms. The guy put a lot of effort on prevent him from passing to the next life (which was sorta GoD's oopsies, for not checking twice). OgCale is touched, that's way more than anyone else would do for him.

• The first time they met, Alberu confused him with the Sun God because OgCale was making their surroundings warm and had said something about being a disaster if someone like her (the queen) was ever in the throne. OgCale laughed a lot.

• The second time, Alberu spent a moment trying to remember if there had been anyone with a sagely mindset between Roan's nobility that had died recently. The ghost was too chill about being dead and material possessions in general. OgCale laughs at him again.

• "Nah. I just was really rich so I never lacked anything. If I never lacked anything, how could I want something?"

• Alberu eventually finds out who the ghost is (without ogCale saying it himself) and has to stare at Krs!Cale, who was in the room at the moment, trying to figure out how can there be two Cale's.

• That's how Krs!Cale learns that the previous owner of his body has been there all along. He panicks internally for a hot second, thinking he's going to demand his body back.

• OgCale has to explain to him that 'no, he doesn't want his body back, really', and 'he was in part responsible to drag him here, anyways', and 'he'd rather have Krs!Cale have his old body and identity if that means the family stays safe and the world doesn't end', and also 'he's enjoying being dead more than he did being alive anyway' which is sad as fuck.

• They go back to the "the world ending" bit. "On an occasion, I happen to met the god of death. He told me what the future awaited and offered a deal..."

• Which brings the question of how this guy ended up meeting the GoD, who usually you only can meet when, well, dying.

• OgCale: *ghostly equivalent of avoiding eye-contact* ...it was an allergic reaction. Haha. I was having a sweet bun in my room before going to bed, but apparently they gave me one with poppy seeds mixed in instead of a normal one. It's embarrasing because usually I could drink poison and be perfectly fine.

Krs!Cale: wait. I'm allergic to poppy seeds? *Thinks on all the times he almost ate them*

OgCale: Don't worry, I wrote it down in the list of forbidden ingredients in the kitchen. By the way, Lily is allergic to cherries, so don't let her eat them.

• The bakery where he got it totally gave him the wrong one on purpose. Didn't know he was allergic, only that he's known to hate poppy seeds and thought it'd be "nice" to get one on the spoiled brat.

• OgCale's soul almost dissappearing once and Krs!Cale finding out because Cage told him that the crown prince went with taerang to hit the god of death.

• OgCale eventually getting a new body.

• Choi Han and the children realizing first what is going on with Alberu and the ghost. And all of them giving them vague encouragement words and advice that no one gets.

Alberu: *waiting while the GoD forms a new body, which is taking a while*

Choi Han: *pats his shoulder* Don't worry. He'll be fine. I know that you... care. a lot. about him. Cale-nim and everyone else also know how much you care, so they'll make sure everything will be alright.

There's so many possibilities here.

Alberu as the beast, the curse could be the result of a plot from one of his siblings/the queen. OgCale is the beauty. Our trash beauty ran on his own to get his father back after hearing the knights who escorted him report why they came back without him. Deruth wasn't in any danger but Alberu uses the chance to make a deal to help himself. OgCale doesn't mind.

The more time they spend together, the more OgCale grows found of the guy. To begin with, OgCale is a bit of an animal lover and had already thought his hair looked all comfortable and soft. That's to say, unlike most people, he'd be more adverse to a normal looking man trying to talk to him than to a beast-looking man trying to talk to him. And then it turns out that the guy also has a cute personality, a little bit dork and big headed, and a lot of interesting thoughts about society and discrimination. It's the first time in his life that politics has seem interesting.

Before changing back, Alberu tries to advert him about his prince identity—

Only to turn back into his dark elf self, completely forgetting he had put his mother's necklace in his pocket because the chain was too short for his beastly neck.

"Oh wow. How is it that you look cuter in your original form? I thought cats were the epitome of cuteness, you know?"

"Cale—"

"Your ears are twitching? That's so cute! By the way, is your hair still as soft?"

"Dear—"

"It is!"

"Cale, please."

Alberu dies from embarrassment because OgCale got curious. The prince reveal gets postponed for the next day.

Or

OgCale is the beast. The curse is a result of keeping his trash act and a nosy witch thinking he needs a lesson. He uses it as an excuse to renounce definitely to his heir position and go live far away from everyone. Alberu just stumbled onto his place because of the bad weather and stayed there for the following days.

This beast-looking person is so kind, so intelligent, too. He also switches between being utterly gentlemanly and scaring the shit out of people who come to cause trouble. He seems to have a mischievous streak, too. Alberu keeps coming back to talk or just spend time together because this guy because he enjoys his company, and also because he's the first person who is not his mother's family he has gotten close to. Alberu requesting help is the reason OgCale bothers on going out of his place and forest again. He could have done it before, but he didn't have a reason why. He didn't want to go around scaring innocent people and it's not like he lacks anything.

At some point he figures out how to change back but he honestly doesn't think much about it until he learns his family was looking for him. Alberu chokes on air when he sees the gorgeous guy who used to be his pawed friend. How is that the only consistent treat is his red hair, smart eyes and majestic air? No wonder his beast self was always so elegant.

"I'm starting to believe the witch was just jealous of you."

"How so?"

"Money, brain, a killer face— most people only have one of those."

"You forgot my heart." (Jokingly)

"You also have the biggest heart." (Serious)

Me: ...okay?

My brain: and when they find a strange room, turns out—

Me: It's about the Thames again?

My brain: The Thames had already been there! There was a weird Thames symbol on the wall and OgCale was lowkey freaking out because his family never tells him shit.

Me: and what about Alberu?

My brain: he was pretty calm by that point. Mostly because he had already gotten used to the weird being that is OgCale. He went to pat his back but forgot OgCale was wearing a backless vest (the shirt had a noble death on the first day) and ended up tickling him.

Me: lol. Why were they together there, anyways?

My brain: it was an obligatory group activity and the teachers didn't trust anyone else to not provoke OgCale (on purpose or accidentally) or to be able to handle things with him. OgCale wouldn't do something stupid that could put anyone else's lives in danger, but they don't know that.

Me: Ah. Makes sense.

My brain: there was also a scene where Alberu was sinking in bad memories bc of some plant with hypnotic abilities and OgCale had to hold his face to make him look at his eyes and walk like that all the way out of there. Yeah, making eye contact all the time.