#og cale

Lcf the princess and the pop star AU except OgCale is the pop star and Rok Soo is the prince.

OgCale works under an alias and disguise with the help of his magic microphone but his family knows. He told them he was going to be a singer, mostly to cut off the growing schemes of the relatives over who was going to be the heir (bc a more modern society means OgCale'strash behaviour starts getting treated as a "rebellious phase" and some people stop taking it as a real reason of why he shouldn't be the heir) but also because he likes most forms of art and his siblings likes it when he sings. Still, he values the little privacy he has and doesn't want his family to get dragged down if he ever gets into a scandal + wants to be able to just dissappear from the public's sight if he ever retires, so, disguise.

Rok Soo is the eldest prince of the country OgCale is currently touring by. He's Sheritt's (who is alive and well) adopted and eldest child. Raon, On and Hong and the red dragon (who is also alive and well) are his siblings. Rok Soo is not the crown prince because the last time someone asked if he was going to succeed the throne, he menaced with running away. On and Hong are also not interested— On is thinking on joining the intelligence division since one of the agents told her she had a real talent for it, and Hong has taken interest into the botanical department since he learned they both work with poisonous plants and use them to make medicine. Raon and the red dragon agreed they would take turns and no one knows if they were serious about it or was just children joking around.

The reason they swap is because, while Sheritt was away for queenly reasons, their honorary uncle in charge started acting out and Rok Soo wanted someone to cover for him while he and On sneak around. Why? Because Rok Soo is the oldest and while no one will raise an eyebrow if the energetic young kids dissappear for a bit during boring events, everyone would question it if the young adult, seemingly responsible and mature, prince who doesn't like to move much, dissappeared from the event he should be part taking in.

Cue popstar!OgCale, whose face and height looks really similar to his own, offering to cover up for him. Why? Because it sounded important and he doesn't want literal children to be in danger if there's something bad happening. He also happens to know enough about politics, high society and manners to pass as a prince, which is useful.

Rok Soo thinks he's going to have free reign to investigate while disguised as OgCale because he was supposed to have a whole free week before he has to go back to work.

Except he doesn't.

OgCale's manager or whatever is useless. OgCale is supposed to be resting, so why is that guy calling him for any and every random small thing all the time?!

On the second night of passing as OgCale's artistic allias, Rok Soo text OgCale to tell him he fired his manager or whatever. His new manager is now some younger guy who helped install the sound equipment. It's Lock. Lock is his new manager.

OgCale doesn't mind because the boy happens to be trustworthy, learns fast, and has a better personality. Also, apparently he uses part of his salary to dote on his siblings and help his family? OgCale approves.

And how that guy reminded me of the marquis Stan: letting his children fight for the inheritance and even encouraging it, turning a blind eye even if they died— he even has a sob who ended up in a wheelchair bc of the succession battle as well!

And how that made me think "hey, imagine an AU in which Rok Soo transmigrated or reincarnated as one of Taylor's unnaned younger siblings instead, and just when he's about to fake his death and bolt out of there— Venion got in trouble/punished for losing the dragon (Rok Soo broke Raon out) and, since his father apparently doesn't count Taylor for the succession anymore, Rok Soo (the next in the race he isn't even running for) has to go to the stupid royal event.

And Rok Soo is like "okay. I'm gonna do this and prevent the attack and then run away", but no ten minutes since he enters the capital, he runs into Cale fucking Henituse, who apparently is a seer. So they team up— Rok Soo convincing himself it's just this time and then Cale and others are going to do the rest of the job and OgCale assuming they're going to do the whole thing together because they're the only ones with both information about the enemy's plans and the desire to not let them succeed. Everyone else has either one or the other.

There's also a little funny misunderstanding between the two of them that happens just as they met and agreed to cooperate:

• Rok Soo thinks, since OgCale told him he doesn't want to inherit his father anyway, that OgCale came to the capital to attend the royal event obliged like Rok Soo himself. He did not. He suggested that Bassen should attend the event and said he'd rather explore the capital.

Bassen agreed because he gets to travel with his hyung and he wants to use the chance to get to know him better and spend time with his brother. Violan agreed because she felt better knowing they'd had each other to protect themselves/rely on, instead of sending one of their children alone (meaning away from Violan and Deruth, the knights and some servants still go with them). Deruth agreed because OgCale expressed active interest in something other than drinking. Lily tried to get in the carriage while their parents were making a last minute checking, but got busted by her teacher. She unfortunately couldn't go because she had extra homework to do (punishment for skipping etiquette lessons to do sword practice instead). But she got her parents to accept she could catch up with her brothers in their trip if she finished all her homework well and didn't skip lessons for the next week.

• OgCale thinks that Rok Soo, like himself, bullshited his way to the capital for the sole purpose of preventing the attack. And since he saw Taylor later at the capital, he thinks "huh. These two have a better relationship than I would have expected, coming from that house". He thinks Rok Soo came to protect Taylor because they're brothers.

In reality, they have never met other than in the scarce obligatory "family" dinners— a way for their deadbeat father to see how the competition is going first hand. Rok Soo didn't even know Taylor was going to be there, nor Taylor knew that Rok Soo would come in Venion's place. Taylor spotted him earlier, thanks to the little dragon who exclaiming "that weird human who helped me is here!!". He laughs his ass off when he realizes the "weird human" who had found the cave this small dragon was in, trashed the place, and then set the dragon free, thus getting Venion in trouble, had been his most quiet sibling. He considers half a second if Rok Soo had for some reason decided to join the succession battle, only to discard it right away. He had never had the will to move a finger for anything that came from their father, and he'd rather steal from the marquis than ran errands for him. Besides, his expression during the banquet said just how much he didn't want to be there.

Still, OgCale does not know these two had barely seen each other in their lives nor that Rok Soo didn't intent for Venion to be unable to attend the banquet just so Rok Soo could protect Taylor. So, yeah, he thinks they're the same.

OgCale inside: what do I see~ another mother hen with a protective streak about his sibling! Also, aren't all Stan children from different mothers? But Rok Soo still cares for him enough to travel all the way to a place that's being aimed by terrorists with bombs just to make sure he's safe. He must not care about blood or legitimity, then. And he said he doesn't want his father's title. Which means— we must have the same values! *Excited*

Rok Soo inside: This poor guy... He said he wants to pass the heir position to his brother. And yet he's here. Is it because he's the oldest? No wonder he acts as he does. He must be trying to avoid inheriting the count's title. As I thought a simple, lazy slackung life would be better than nobility. Still, to think Cale Henituse would share the same dream as me... *Emotional*

Outside, both of them, seriously: *shake hands* let's work together.

Rok Soo: for the sake of our objective. (Slacker life)

OgCale: for the sake of our objective. (Siblings)

They find out way later on. Everyone else finds out first.

Also—

Rok Soo, talking with Alberu after succesfully preventing the attack: before explaining further, my associated should be arriving soon.

Alberu: your associated? Could you tell me what kind of person they are?

Rok Soo, after a long pause: a weirdo.

OgCale, squatting in the border of the window like a ninja from Naruto: Just so you know, that doesn't offend me.

Alberu, who wasn't expecting someone to enter through the closed window: Fuck.

OgCale, a dramatic little shit: *fake gasp* You haven't even courted me, and you want to have sexual relationships with me? Your highness, how bold~ I'll have to decline. I don't think my father would approve.

Rok Soo: See? He's a weirdo.

Alberu: He is a little strange— Hold on, did you just reject me?

OgCale: That's what you're focusing on? Not the purposeful misinterpretation of your words, nor my marvellous acting, or, y'know the problem at hand?

Rok Soo: Or how a young master with supposedly no special skills broke in?

Alberu: The rejection surprised me.

OgCale: *snorts* anyways—

Also, as a recurrent joke, Rok Soo keeps hiding in his friends' places and pretending he's totally not that missing Stan. He pretends to be:

• Four different servants called Bob and when asked all of them give excuses about why they look alike

• Eric's distant cousin (very distant). Amiru came up with this one. Gilbert added the very distant part, saying he was "a second cousin twice removed from his mom's side". Eric facepalmed.

• Jour's ghost. They panicked. Bassen said "ghost!" while Hans said "the countess". OgCale then burts in tears on the spot to play it off. It was a really convincing act but he got hugged afterwards because 1) the children were there and they hadn't know OgCale's mom was dead before this, 2) the actuation was too good, and 3) for some reason, he couldn't stop crying.

• A hallucination.

• The crazy blood mage's half brother. He actually bought it.

• A decoration.

• A plant. Duke Freedo respalded him.

But then I remembered LCF already has dragons and Idk how that would fit in here.

He wouldn't do anything with that. He'd just have them there, quietly in a folder titled "the -verse pt7"

And then he'd sent one by accident to a group chat (the one with Rok Soo's face badly covering Gru's, the nose still sticking up behind his head, and his children as the three little girls) and never explain. When someone brings it up, he pretends he doesn't know what they're talking about. Someone tries to show him the image and he says he doesn't have his glasses with him. He doesn't need glasses.

I mean either in a normal modern AU or for a winx x lcf crossover.

Like, yeah, he'd wear his friend's clothes if asked. He'd also cosplay as a fairy if asked.

He would laugh so hard at Teruhashi's attempts to "better" Saiki's day and her whole thing never working on Saiki because Saiki does not want someone so popular near him. He would laugh because of course this guy would guess what's going on in both of their heads.

And, anyways, that train thought turned into how the Teruhashi-OgCale dynamic would be like. Like, self-aware perfect prettiest girl who everyone idolizes and literally has a shiny aura visible to the normal eye and guy who can see through anyone's shit, canonically choses to act like trash but whose real self is classy af. Teruhashi purposefully behaves like everyone thinks a perfect girl would act like, living in everyone's expectations. OgCale purposefully acts like a lout, making everyone think less of him so his family doesn't have to deal with shit. She strives to always behave like a gentle girl, a good person even when she's screaming inside. He's way kinder than anyone would think and hides that fact, acting as if he was a bad person. He's also way too smart and canonically can guess what people (krs, the misunderstanding king) think, that's how good he's a reading people. Hence, he'd probably guess what both Teruhashi and Saiki are thinking.

He'd laugh so hard at the Teruhashi-Saiki interactions. He'd try not to laugh at them because it'd be strange if he suddenly burst laughing whenever they interact— it'd also interrupt them, which is the real reason he doesn't burst laughing whenever Teruhashi/Saiki interact. Saiki knows he knows and that he finds the whole situation funny. He has tried to use him as distraction to hide from Teruhashi before (only succeeded from time to time). Allen and Kaidou, who have seen OgCale try not to laugh an end up shaking from barely contained laughter whenever Teruhashi and Saiki interact, do not know what's going on but suspect OgCale knows something the rest of them don't. Nendo just believes OgCale likes to laugh.

Then, that, that would be a different OgCale.

Brunette OgCale Henituse would had had a whole list of different problems and issues.

Like, "we may look like a proper family from the outside. But I know I don't really fit" and struggling to recognize when he is a part of a group/family.

Or feeling like he doesn't have anything to remember his mother for. Wishing he had at least taken her red hair. (Which Heniroksoo may share but Heniroksoo at least is a fully grown up person. Kid!OgCale? Yeah, I don't think a grieving kid would had dealt with it well)

Or accidentally dying/staining his hair red and only realizing then how much he does look like his mom. And proceeding to crash out because he wasn't ready to see his dead mother in the mirror right now.

Or having others forgetting Jour even existed and calling Violan his mother and him struggling between not correcting them because it could be seen as "not accepting Violan as his father's wife/the countess" and therefore a stain in Violan's reputation and correcting them because, damn it, why no one but him seems to remember his mother existed?

Or wearing more red to compensate the lack of a more obvious connection to his mom and how that would affect the image people have of him. Most people would assume he likes catchy stuff or that is his favorite color, but red, besides love and passion, can also be associated with blood and violence. Which, if he still went through the trash act route, could be used in his favor, but is still a fucked up thing for a kid/teenager who lives surrounded by rumours/public opinion.

Or OgCale himself feeling guilty for moving on. He doesn't have a constant glaringly obvious physical reminder, so maybe he could move on from his mother's death less hardly than OgCale, but oh boy, wouldn't he feel absolutely horrible for doing so every time he realizes?

And then they see Cale motherfucking Henituse, one of the sons from one of the (if not most) richest families, grab the poisoned cup of tea and drink it all.

And this person, whoever it is, almost has a heart attack because 'oh no, someone drank the poison. They're going to die.' and also 'the someone from a hella rich family drank poison. We're all dead'. Except...

Nothing happens. Cale Henituse seems perfectly fine. Minus the slight blush and yet a little paler than normal lips, he doesn't seem bothered at all.

At one point, Kim Rok Soo, a guy known for both his heroic tendencies and being prone to getting hurt, asks that Henituse guy if he can have some of his tea.

OgCale: No.

Rok Soo: *glares st him suspiciously* is there something wrong with your tea?

OgCale, quickly finishing the rest of it: yes, it's done. There's no more of it. Do you want a refill?

Rok Soo: ...and more cakes.

OgCale: and more cakes, naturally.

Jung Soo: did someone seriously sneak poison here?

Soo Hyuk: in the hypothetical situation that someone did, they would have to be really stupid. If someone were to be as stupid as to do such a thing, I would, hypothetically, beat them up with a wooden sword and a fork.

Jung Soo: if such a stupid person existed and caused Rok Soo's cousin to get poisoned, I would, hypothetically of course, lend you a sword of my family's ancestors to do so.

Soo Hyuk: good.