#endings lcf

So, like, even though they yell or complain or worry sometimes, most of the time the vibe is just: "Oh, thank goodness, he's doing exactly the thing I wanted to see done."

Because. I mean. What's more agonizing than being a spectator stuck in the body that doesn't do anything you want?

The Ancient Powers are living their best second-lives, getting to vicariously have all the experiences they crave because Cale is as crazy as all of them combined.

Cale: "I will perform acts of service, deliver timely words, and devote my time to the care of people around me. Of course, I am doing this ingenuinely so that I can use them. Surely they will not mistake these behaviors for true kindness and affection and devote themselves to me."

According to what we see in the manwha and light novels, heaven for the moms protagonists of the so-called Holy Trinity means…

Heaven for Kim Dokja is a library full of his favorite book and a house full of his most beloved people

Heaven for Cale Henituse/Kim Roksoo is a villa on the seaside with the two kittens, the dragon, and lots of time, money, and strong people on hand to use as resources and security

I took part in a conversation about wisdom and the evidence of it, and the conclusion we came to at the time was that wisdom is evidenced as a kind of understanding of how to live.

I've seen conversation on this website and elsewhere where people talk about how we often don't know what to do because it is our first time being alive. Wisdom is the learning and experience we obtain as we continue to work and struggle through our 'first time being alive.'

In Lout of the Count's Family, My S-Class Hunters, and Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, the protagonists have been brought up in significantly similar circumstances and they end up taking significantly similar actions. Kim Roksoo, Han Yoojin, and Kim Dokja grew up essentially parentless, or at least abandoned, and through their life experiences they learned extreme hardiness and kindness, not shying away from pain for the sake of the people who are important to them.

However, their wisdom, their maturity, is on different levels. I think we partially see the differences in the amount of pain their sometimes-selfish selfless actions cause their loved ones as a consequence. I would love to hear dissent to reevaluate and deepen my understanding of the characters, but as I understand it right now, here's my analysis of the maturity of each protagonist starting from least wisdom:

Kim Dokja: He collects a family on the pretense of usefulness. He knows that adults should not hurt children, and someone has to stand in the way of the blade pointed at a helpless person's heart. Ultimately, he understands the desire of others to be understood, and he seeks to fill that void because he has seen the decay of his own life in which people constantly misunderstood him with no room for change. However, he cannot hope in anyone understanding him anymore because he hasn't had room to heal, so he fundamentally misunderstands (and therefore hurts) his loved ones, who are so desperate to reciprocate his love. They see that he has given them everything they need except one thing: the need to connect back. Instead, they are left reaching into the empty space he leaves behind, trying their hardest to squint and see the face behind the wall, because Dokja hasn't yet matured in wisdom to understand them.

Han Yoojin: He's only a little better than Dokja, honestly. Yoojin actually gets that his loved ones love him and want to make sure he lives a comfortable life. He is 30 years old and has become an expert at yearning for love, so he recognizes joy when his loved ones care for him. He loves them so much that he wants to keep being with them and continue letting them enjoy his care, too, to the degree that he does not want to die for them. He recognizes death and absence as absolute last-resorts, not as viable solutions like Dokja. However, he's still self-deprecative, still struggles with hating himself enough that even if death isn't an option, extreme agony and mental breakdowns are always on the table. He has spent a lot of time building up resentment against the people who hurt him, but when the people who hurt him were his loved ones, he redirected that resentment at himself. His lack of wisdom comes in that he can't share discomfort with others. He can't delegate agonies. He's willing to subject himself to hellfire, he hasn't developed enough security in his value to ask others to do the same. It stems from extreme outward-facing love, but lacks wisdom in that it is not sustainable with his F-rank self.

Lout of the Count's Family and The Greatest Estate Developer really took two guys from bad situations and put them in the bodies of some of the most hated young masters on their respective worlds, starting them off at -1000 in the hearts of almost everyone around them. The people who did care about the young masters, like their parents, loved them in spite of their behaviors. Then, these guys just kept being the people they had been before, working hard and focusing on their goals, and that's how, somehow, their reputations do a 180.

Lloyd and Cale start out as people who are hated with extreme prejudice, and that makes it certain when opinions change that the love they receive from those around them over time is directed at them because of who they really are. That love was not available for the people whose bodies they took. That love only came after their behaviors changed.

Good stories shatter me, and bad stories light my fires.

I'm here to forge my shattered pieces in the fires of my soul to create an archive of themes, conversations, laughs, and tears that enhance the experience of loving stories.

Stories I'm interested in:

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (ORV): Novel, Manhwa, Anime

My S-Class Hunters / The S-Classes that I Raised (MSCH/TSCIR): Novel, Manhwa

Lout of the Count's Family (LCF/TCF): Novel (part 1), Manhwa

Alien Stage (ALNST): Video Series

Greatest Estate Developer (GED): Novel (in-progress), Manhwa

SSS Class Revival Hunter (SSSCRH/SSSCSH): Novel (in-progress), Manhwa

Solo Leveling: Manhwa, Anime

Tokyo Ghoul: Manga, Anime

Vanitas no Carte / The Case Study of Vanitas: Manga, Anime

...And more to come!

My purpose in loving stories:

Engaging with themes

Exploring characters and relationships

Examining the craft of storytelling

In conclusion...

I'm Reader at the End, but you can call me Endings. While I haven't completed all of these stories, my readership is focused on following the narrative threads that weave the ending. The craft of the story, the craft! Therein lies the passion.

My personal tags:

All stories have Endings (all of my original posts)

Endings ORV (omniscient reader's viewpoint content)

Endings MSCH (my s-class hunters content)

Endings LCF (trash/lout of the count's family content)

Endings Trinity (orv + msch + lcf content)

Endings ALNST (alien stage content)

Endings Anime (any and all anime AND manga content)

Endings Crossover (content comparing media)

Endings Art (my personal artwork)

Endings Asks (answering asks)

... (more to come as I organize my posts)

My fanfiction on AO3:

Being a Part of His World (LCF) -> 28,844 words, 16/16 chapters, sickfic

Feathers Hold Memories (SCTIR) -> 6,728 words, 5/? chapters, wingfic

Yes or No, We Still Crumble (Vanitas no Carte) -> 11,304 words, 5/5 chapters, 2-work series, SH hurt/comfort

Who's Gonna Save Me? (I'll Do it Myself) (BNHA) -> 38,806, 8/? chapters, Villian!Midoriya, doppelganger

***NOT spoiler-free***