#tcf prompt

[calethescammer]

One of my favourite brain rotting tcf ideas is Cale having some tremor disorder. Basically, he has hands that randomly tremble without any reason.

It may be genetic to him, or he developed it as Cale because of not eating his meals properly and inevitably developing some vitamin deficiency.

Now comes the best part.

Imagine Cale, perhaps in some really gruesome battle, with blood of enemies and allies mixed around him. Imagine his family seeing Cale's stoic face, wondering how a person so young can be so brave, and then they see his hands shaking under his raven coat, even as they're curled tightly into a fist.

Imagine Cale looking at Jour's portrait, admiring her beauty and her alike face with his own. But then his family sees him, his gaze fixated on his mother's image and his hands trembling slightly.

Imagine him, standing at the forefront of some battle with his shields raised, with his hands trembling uncontrollably, even though he is not straining himself. The people protected under him can only tear up at his selflessness.

Imagine Cale after attacking the enemies with a wave of firebolts, but his hands again started shaking badly, even if he has them covered under his sleeves. His family misunderstands that as Cale hiding his pain.

Imagine Cale, resting on a couch after some battle, and when Raon, On and Hong excitedly climb upon his lap, he only smiles slightly and pats them with his trembling hands. The kids then worriedly inform Ron of this and Cale recieves sweet lemon tea for a whole week.

Imagine Cale talking about territory matters with Alberu, and Alberu is once again amazed by his dongsaeng's witty and almost experienced approaches to problems like war. But then he sees Cale's hands shaking while holding the tea cup, and he realises how absolutely not normal it is to not be nervous in such a situation. (Alberu later pledges to himself to give Cale the slacker life he always wished for.)

Just imagine Cale in any situation with trembling hands and it literally creates the most hilarious misunderstandings with some really wonderful angst.

#I'm absolutely gonna write this in whole later #it also helps you realise how much Cale is used to stuff that he shouldn't be used to #and the fact that no one in his family questions it. and just. goes along with it. #its really funny till you realise how traumatised this guy is #genuinely one of my most favourite brainrots to daydream about #trash of the count's family #lout of the count’s family #cale henituse #tcf #lcf #tcf novel #tcf prompt #kim rok soo

[kuroishuuha]

TCF prompt - Hello Old Friend

Where KRS instead of ending up as Cale gets sent to the time of the Ancient White Star and basically has an Ancient Power (Record)

His power is basically Knowledge where he basically stores knowledge in perfect recollection

He eventually does what the other AP did and stores his power/dies and his AP becomes stores along with this imprint (in this case maybe he stores it as a book in a library or something and as an AP he absorbs all the knowledge in the library)

1,000 years later, Choi Jung Soo gets sent to the TCF/BoaH world and starts meeting all the characters

One day he happens upon a peculiar book and opens it

He then hears a very familiar voice

#trash of the count's family #lout of the count’s family #tcf #kim rok soo #kim roksu #KRS #choi jung soo #cjs #choi jungsoo #fic idea #tcf prompt #cale henituse

[bludendrobium]

Tcf/lcf Prompt | time cryptid Thames’

{Ps. I haven’t read part 2 yet and I skimmed some parts that I deemed boring and/or was spoiled cause reading 700+ worth of chapters is too tiring and mentally straining}

You know on how people/characters with time related abilities/experience are cryptic or quirky af?

Like I guess if you know the future or keep on regressing it would probably put a mental strain on u or smth. Maybe that’s why I don’t think anyone with a time related ability is sane and would be a little bit unhinge in some way. They would probably be morally dubious/grey at best especially if they experienced death too [regression via death].

So if the Thames Household studies time and the Annual Tree has been passed around[?] in the bloodline, would the Thames’ experience the effects of some type of distortion??

If I remember correctly [I kinda skimmed that part cuz I got lazy and impatient] transmigration is one they haven’t studied deeply. They know more about reincarnation, regression[?] and one lifers [I think they called tribulators? Idk] so it probably means they found a way to study them.

I think that either they found a person that experienced a time anomaly to help with their studies[which is unlikely], or the Thames’ managed to keep on experiencing those time anomalies and documented it themselves for their descendant's to study those said records/journals. I personally think it’s that latter tbh.

If their bloodline does keep on experiencing this sort of thing would they have some eventual adaptation to it? Considering the mind would fracture under pressure due to the maybe frequent time distortion what would it be like? Maybe like Dokja’s [ F O U T H W A L L ]??

Anyways back to the Thames’ being cryptids.

I really like this idea that the Thames are cryptid af. I mean look at the current family;

Cale’s uncle is who knows where. We just know he exist somewhat.

Jour Thames’ consciousness that was on the ap resembles of ‘that quirky girl in high school’ (tho she probly is).

krsCale (who’s technically a Thames via transmigration) is just obsessed with his ‘Slacker Life’ <which will never happen> and money.

ogCale literally pretended to be trash just so that his brother can inherit instead of just asking.

{I know it’s bc of the extended Henitsue’s but he’s a child cut him some slack. Why does the child have to adjust instead of the adults?!?}

Speaking of the cryptids topic. What if the Thames’ got mistaken for a fae or something? Those in the Thames bloodline are ethereally beautiful/pretty that there is a chance that they might get mistaken for a mythical creature. [or maybe there are jk ]

{lmao it reminded at the amount of times cale got mistaken for a dragon}

Personality wise

I kinda want the Thames’ to wear elegantly tailored clothes but with the occasional steampunk clockwork design or accessories here and there like a watermark. Like if Cale would wear a simple yet elegantly pleated tunic and simple pants he would obliged to wear either an hour glass earring or necklace. Or integrating it in the design of the outfit somewhat.

Anyways this is just my ADHD brain rot running wild and need an outlet thank u for listening for my Ted talk :)

#tcf fic idea #tcf prompt #lcf prompt #lcf au #lcf cale #lcf og!cale #lcf Thames Family #cryptid Thames au #just a lcf Thames au brainrot #I want more Thames au concepts #especially if it divulging the study of time #a fae cale if something I actually wanna see honestly #this au also stemmed from my obsessions of time related stuff #like things like time travel [especially fix it’s] #reincarnation #time regression #and dimension travel #and seers #I like seers #really just anything that has to deal with time ang fate #and also exploring the butterfly effect #I just really like ‘what if’s’

[creator-savannah]

Just wanted to say that once I remember and write down my OG!Cale finds out that someone transmigrates into his body through Jour/Drew's Diary AU it's over for y'all.

#trash of the count's family #tcf #it was angsty as fuck and made me tear up when I was daydreaming abt it #og cale #og! cale #og! cale henituse #og cale henituse #og!cale henituse #og!cale #lcf #lout of count's family #tcf au #tcf prompt

[rexiiiiiiiiii]

TUMBLR PLEASE WHERE ARW MY SILLY TCF PROMPTS GIVE IT BACK TO ME OMG

#tcf prompt #tcf #the trash of the count's family #help #please #prompt #Tumblr #fyp

[nerdpoe]

Cale, when he was being placed back into his body after the GoD test, found himself in a weird empty place.

The only thing in it is a pedestal, and on that pedestal is an intricate, golden pocketwatch.

It's open, and has far too many hands. He can see the gears inside it, and even though none of the seventeen hands are moving, the gears are. If he looks closer at the gears, he can start to see...something.

It looked like space. Like a galaxy, hidden in between the gears.

He pokes around it for a bit, but nothing happens. It just sits there, looking shiny and expensive.

He had no idea what this thing was, but...it was probably worth a lot. If it wasn't, the kids would like it.

He reaches out, grabs it, and wakes up in his body, surrounded by shields and people telling him not to move.

Except the next time he tries to use Instant, time freezes all around him; and his body has no ill effects. In fact, he can feel not only his time, but every single version of himself at all points in time.

The drawback comes after he stops using the power; every orifice that can bleed, does, and he faints from blood loss so intense that his regeneration Power can't keep up.

He calls a meeting with Jack and Cage later, to find out what the fuck happened.

She takes one look at him and dives for the bar. Jack takes a longer look and joins her.

"You crazy bastard," Cage says between swigs, refusing to look at Cale.

"How did you steal a god's power?" Jack asks, voice high pitched as he shakily pours himself a glass of wine.

#tcf #lcf #trash of the counts family #lout of the counts family #cale henituse #story prompt #cale accidentally stole the powers meant for a god of time #the god of despair didn't try to return his soul to his body #he tried to ditch him in a void #but that void wasn't a void #blood loss tw #blood tw

[ringoahiru]

KRS!Cale headcanon (?):

Cale likes to eat flowers. Not vegetables, but flowers.

Beacrox: Young master, what are you doing?

Cale: *chewing happily* Eating a flower?

Beacrox: ... And why are you eating that?

Cale: ... Because it tastes good?

Beacrox: *is concerned but is also interested*

Back when he was Kim Rok Soo, when he still worked in a restaurant, he learned that some flowers are edible, some of them are even nutritious. So he tried them and started to like some of it. In the end, he bought books about flowers and tasted every flowers that he could possibly came across.

In the apocalypse, foods are really hard to find. So Kim Rok Soo suggested to his teammates that they should grow some flowers alongside with the vegetables. And they liked it a lot.

Even when he became Cale Henituse, he still has the habit of eating a flower when he comes across a type of flowers that he had never seen before. After he got the Vitality of the Heart, Cale is not even scared of being poison by flowers anymore.

Imagine everyone's face when they saw their young master just randomly picked up a flower and started eating it like it was nothing-

Cale's favourite flower (to eat) is dandelions. Because the petals have a mild honey flavor when it's still young, and also every parts of the dandelion are edible.

#why did i suddenly think of this #eating flowers is not common #cale henituse #tcf cale #tcf beacrox #beacrox molan #lcf #lout of the count’s family #tcf #trash of the count's family #headcanon #fanfic prompt

[caleism-1]

Add to this however you like

I can even get a picture of Miss Lemon for you (ignore the Ms unless you want to cause more chaos and make that a Mrs so that Mr lemon can come in too)

#tcf #cale henituse #Miss lemon #lcf #prompt #add whatever you want

[mypromptlair]

TCF Prompt 26

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Archie may be a chaotic lil shit, but he's the Whale Tribe's lil shit. Especially to three certain possessive Royals. And he's just about to learn how much. Archie doesn't do regrets often, but actually letting himself be injured and captured for this mission to do an inside job without telling anyone, prolly wasn't one of the best idea's he has had.

Really...he thought at watching Paseton's tight smile and the dead enemy in his hand, made him start to sweat a little, so much for the prince being the 'sane' one of the family...

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Whale tribe shenanigan's(no KRS, takes place after WS or in-between battles, etc)

Archie being a competent captain..until he does things without telling anyone...again.

Archie being a lil shit and gremlin to everyone and everything

Paseton being a bamf and can be just as scary as his sister

Archie been training Paseton after his attk from the mermaids.

Shickler unofficially adopting Archie without his knowledge or consent

Witira ready to throw hands...and does so, much to Archie's dismay(and fear).

#fic prompt #prompt #tcf #tcf archie #tcf witira #tcf paseton #tcf shickler #tcf whale tribe #tcf mermaids #tcf other whale tribes? #tcf hurt archie #tcf bamf paseton #tcf whale tribe politics #Archie is a good captain #tcf level misunderstandings #protective whale tribe #loyalty #loyal subordinates

[fanfiction-artist-prototype]

TCF fic idea, titled: “Cale-nim, what the fuck?”

A classic 5 things + 1 fic, but it’s just Cale being his usual self but everyone obviously misunderstands.

HOWEVER, the twist is that Choi Han’s generational gap actually means something in this. Choi Han was Choi Jung Soo’s great uncle, which means he’s the generation before Cale and CGS’s right? So there are some things he wouldn’t know, some advances in society and technology he wouldn’t get, especially as he was a teen when he got sent to the Forest of Darkness.

So like... smartphones I VHEMENTLY believe are as foreign to Choi Han as they would be to say Beacrox or Deruth. And I understand why we all just kind of go ‘oh Cale and Choi Han had the same experience in Korea’ because it makes things uncomplicated but also... Choi Han was a teenager living in the countryside a generation before City dwelling KRS.

They lived VERY different lives and then you have to equate for the apocalypse so it’s just Cale doing absolutely normal stuff to HIM, but nobody understands what he’s doing and turn to Choi Han; because if Ron doesn’t understand then Choi Han does because he and the young master are close, but nope. He’s just as lost and that’s when it really becomes weird.

They’re all totally innocuous things to Cale though, like for example he asks Rosalyn and Eruhaben to make Iodine tablets and then uses them when they’re traveling to clean the water if they’re camping out - much to the horror and subsequent confusion of all but Choi Han because the Young Master not only came up with, but asked someone to replicate and felt the need to come up with a way to make his DRINKING water safe?

But then you have Cale asking Raon to help him ‘rewire’ the communication orbs to the point that breaking into Alberu’s room is an easier task than using the device without Cale’s explicit presence and permission. How? He just figured that if magical devices work like technology then he could ‘mod’ his like you would a phone. And he just starts explaining how it would do this and that, that it would mean each orb is unique to each person and literally unusable to anyone else  which would be an unparalleled advance in secret communications. And of course he talks about all this theoretical magic, all this metaphysical framework of a magic structure he can’t even touch but can mentally map out how it works to an explicit degree and then without being able to use magic can figure out how to break how magic is supposed to work, without actually breaking it?

And he says that it makes sense like “There were things similar in the sealed God’s test, right Choi Han?” and Choi Han who has never seen anything more advanced than a flip phone in his life is just like “Uhh no? WTF Cale-nim?”

Just stuff like that.

#TCF #Trash of the Count's Family #TCF FIC #Trash of the Count's Family fic #fic prompt

[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.

#and the fact that he seemed hesitant in his explanations worried his fam further #that hesitation was because he felt as if he was lying #he tries to shake off such thoughts but Record makes it worse #AHHHHH I want to write this so bad 😭😭😭 #personally love those misunderstandings where they aren't really misunderstandings but still are #trash of the count's family #lout of the count’s family #tcf #lcf #cale henituse #tcf prompt #lcf prompt #tcf angst #kim rok soo #tcf novel #writing

[kuroishuuha]

LCF prompt - Here I am, Once Again and Again and Again

SPOILERS MAY BE PRESENT - BEWARE (If you have not read up to Part 2 of the novel)

Time travel/time loop/reincarnation

KRS!Cale realizes he is stuck in some sort of time loop.

Cale wakes up and realizes he is once again KRS. At first he thinks that it is another test, but as time passes, he realizes he has somehow travelled back in time.

He tries to change things but it ends up the same way. CJS and LSH die and he is terrified because he doesn’t know if he will still be able to meet them again.

Once again, he ends up waking up as Cale and deals with the utter nonsense that is White Star and the Hunters.

He then wakes up again as KRS.

Something is wrong and he doesn’t know what.

Meanwhile, his friends and family from across all the loops are getting feral when they realize their human/liege/dongsaeng has vanished. 

#kim rok soo #Kim Roksu #lout of the count’s family #lcf #alberu #alver #choi jungsoo #choi jung soo #lee soo hyuk #lee soohyuk #Cale Henituse #time travel #time loop #prompt #lcf prompt #trash of the count's family #tcf

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

Spoilers for Cales past and a ss of a few paragraphs of chapter 695

Cale hates when people sacrifice themselves. He hates when they push themselves too hard, especially for him.

Because that’s what happened with Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo, isn’t it?

Cale was supposed to die. They sacrificed themselves for him, and he lived, and now he gets visibly upset when people try to do things that are similar.

What does he think about when he sees people work themselves till they faint? It’s stupid. Not just because it’s not healthy, but because it’s sacrificial. He hates martyrs. He hates it when they’re his friends.

Cale has a weird complex, right? Sacrificing himself left and right, fainting, but not allowing anyone else to do the same? Hypocrite, right?

(Chapter 695)

This is weird, isn’t it? This complete lack of awareness is concerning! It’s almost as if he’s oblivious to the fact that he does the same thing all of the time!

To everyone else, yes, this situation with the crown Prince fainting after using all of his mana is a perfect parallel to Cale using his ancient powers too much and going into a coma.

But Cale doesn’t see his actions in the same light! He really isn’t trying to sacrifice himself 90% of the time! The collateral damage (fainting, bleeding, pain) is usually not part of his prediction, and if it is, it’s more than he expected.

His intentions and thoughts are always about keeping his friends safe, and he’s okay with coughing up a bit of blood to do that! Just a bit, maybe enough that it will look scary but it won’t hurt him in the long run and that’s okay.

If he faints? It wasn’t planned, so it’s not really sacrifice. Maybe a little but he’s selfish enough already, it’s the least he can do, honestly.

When Cale puts himself in danger it’s for selfish reasons. Self-declared selfishness, but that’s how he sees it.

Cale doesn’t sacrifice himself. Everything he does is because he chose to! He chose to. If it doesn’t hurt too bad, he doesn’t consider it as doing much at all. The level of pain he experiences in every situation is his way of determining how much he’s ‘accomplished against his will’ (sacrificed).

Not only that but there are circumstances he must be in to even consider it of consequence to other people. If it doesn’t happen while someone’s in danger, it doesn’t really matter, does it? He doesn’t understand why someone would be asking about his well-being. He doesn’t plan to let anything that happens affect his plans, so there’s no reason for them to worry.

If he’s not on a battlefield, all of the effort he puts in?

(ancient powers) (strengthening his friends) (being in pain and pushing through it) (planning and strategizing) (so, so much more)

It doesn’t count. He is familiar with meticulously and extensively optimizing his time, because as KRS, monsters attack indiscriminately. Being prepared and working hard to be strong is nothing when compared to the battle soon to come, therefore, it doesn’t count as “work.” It’s what is expected. It is the basic standard for what is required to survive.

Where everyone sees Cale working nonstop for weeks and months and years, it’s a normal weekend for him. Those days outside of battle don’t count. He worked like that for 15 years, so much stress is easy for him.

But- why doesn’t he recognize that he pushes himself until he faints? There’s a threshold that he passes where he faints, but he still keeps crossing it?

Well, because he’s the protagonist and- often, our only source of information for what happens in this world- narratively, he tends to stay awake and only faints when the battle is coming to a close, or has just closed. If the battle ends, his presence isn’t of vital importance, so it’s fine if he was unconscious for a little bit. Other times it’s involuntary and a result of his body’s terrible condition or outside forces.

He doesn’t recognize his fainting as sacrificial because as long as the battle ends on a good note and he’s still able to think and plan relatively soon after he wakes up, he hasn’t sacrificed much other than time. He also has Vitality of the Heart, which lets him feel rejuvenated after a ‘nap.’

You see, Cale Henituse is interesting. He doesn’t know how to distinguish being selfish and selfless because being selfless is, in itself, an act of selfishness. When Cale (from the perspective of his friends) ruins his health and runs from battle to battle without resting or thinking about his friends concern— it’s pretty selfish of him.

While everyone else considers him selfless, he thinks of himself as doing the “obvious” amount of work and being selfish too. That much work is expected of him, so it isn’t selfless. It’s all for his own gain, because when everything is over, he’ll be the one going away to slack off in a forest. Ha!He’s seven steps ahead of everyone (and on the verge of collapse).

How trashy.

So to answer the question? Cale doesn’t notice his own sacrifices because he feels that:

1) his intentions remain solely selfish, so fainting and coughing up blood is just something he needs to do to get closer towards his goal.

2) anything that occurs outside of battle does not count as sacrifice because it does not affect how his plans will pan out, and everything he does is just a normal amount of work for him.

3) fainting is not on his list of to-dos, it happens without his consent- constantly- and it is very annoying because it’s an unpredictable variable, but thankfully it happens when the battle is almost over/already over so it’s not really fainting. It’s like taking a nap! Involuntarily, but at least it’s sort of convenient.

4) being overly selfless is selfish, and selfish = bad, so Cale is a Bad Person and Complete Trash. Look at Cale, selfishly wanting his friends and his homeland to be safe so that he can retire. Bastard!

So, turns out his inability to realize the irony of his statements is because of the traumatizing 16 years of mental conditioning where pushing himself over the edge is normal and expected, spurred on by his socially isolated past that led to a lack of empathy and emotional awareness, and his two closest friends sacrificing themselves for him after his ability couldn’t predict the situation accurately enough.

Wow, it was the trauma all along…

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{>>>O=

^^^ my attempts at fish

Anyway, here is a compilation of my favorite Cale moments :D find it under the cut :3 they’re angsty :v spoilers ofc

Chapter 258 ^

Chapter 259 ^

Chapter 303 ^

Chapter 420 ^

Chapter 560 ^

Chapter 584 ^

Chapter 656 ^

#yes that one ss of chapter 695 prompted all of this analysis #i reread the Alberu fainting scene and was determined to find the reason #ah I’m so glad I’ve managed to boil it down like this #it frustrated me so much when he seemed so oblivious but it makes sense #character analysis #!!! #I love to look at my blorbos and tell them their problems #tcf #tcf spoilers #trash of the counts family #trash of the count’s family spoilers #lcf spoilers #lout of the count’s family spoilers #cale henituse #kim rok soo #not a reblog

[soosthesoul]

choiver fic idea where they're training and alberu's feeling a little more demotivated than usual because will he ever get stronger? what if he's just wasting time here? what if he was meant for the administration and not for the battlefield?

but he doesn't allow himself to get down like that because he wouldn't have survived a Day in his family if he did. it's just... being around choi han makes him feel oddly vulnerable

"hey, instructor-nim, let's set rewards for when we win this time."

choi han would normally argue, saying there's no reward he could possibly need, nor think of, but seeing how desperate alberu is, he thinks he can at least try and think of something. and so he changes his perspective. instead of asking for something he would want to receive, why not for something alberu wouldn't want to give?

"call me hyung, then."

alberu's absolutely shellshocked to his core because huh?? but alright, no negotiating conditions, that was a rule. but... did choi han liked being called hyung? (alberu heavily misinterprets)

admittedly, it's a little harder than he'd originally expected, calling someone so informally yet respectfully. being the first born, he's never been anyone's dongsaeng, but he supposes choi han has lived much longer in roan than he has, as opposed to cale who was still Most Definitely 5 years younger than him in this world.

and so he abandons his petty pride and takes a deep breath. "one more round, ...hyung."

choi han and alberu just stand there staring at each other for a few minutes because ok choi han didn't know what he was expecting but it certainly wasn't to feel some sort of way. and alberu's stood there feeling like nothing more than a pouty sulking child and now he's not just vulnerable but he FEELS it too!!!

cue this little battle going on between them and choi han feeling naturally inclined to spoiling his crown prince more like the good hyung he is and alberu being more inclined to calling choi han hyung bc choi han actually looks happy whenever he does? and alberu has never found out what action exactly made his instructor happy besides spending time with each other.

and also... it feels nice... being spoiled for once- no, for the first time, as far as he can remember- to allow himself to be selfish and irrational, needy, sulking, choi han is learning so much about alberu it's dangerous, but alberu doesn't find it in himself to care.

ofc it all changes in drasticity when choi han Forgets to respond to anything besides hyung and so when alberu's calling him in front of their friends and choi han doesn't realise it, alberu goes through 21 stages of mortification after he realises he's said hyung out of reflex to catch choi han's attention and it's in that usual whiny pleading voice of his.

and the way choi han responds with the most attentive and affectionate gaze, everyone is just stood there suddenly feeling All Too Much like third wheels and alberu feels like his face is caught on fire.

choi han picks up on this, obviously, because damn the chois and their impeccable sense of detection!! and he cups alberu's cheeks before measuring his temperature with his own forehead, with the little actions he's gotten used to, being more touchy to make alberu feel more spoiled, and he pulls away in shock.

"your highness, you have a fev-"

"i don't - i don't have a fever."

"your temperature is burning!"

needless to say, alberu Realises things™, and cale can already feel his few short days of peace getting disrupted by his panicked hyung-nim asking him for help.

#trash of the count's family #tcf #lout of the count’s family #lcf #tcf alberu #tcf choi han #tcf choiver #fic prompt #im spreading my choiver agenda because i can #when i tell you im a SUCKER for knight×royalty

[chickenfeetmoonpuppy]

Cale, slumping on Alberu's bed: I really really want to kill that white raddish and his little dogs.

Alberu, sitting at his desk full of papers: Cale, there's children here.

Raon, flying around: Yes! Let's kill that 'raddish' and everyone that hurt you!

On & Hong: *nods*

Alberu: *sweats*

Cale: But I'm drunk!

Alberu: You literally haven't consumed anything since yesterday morning.

Cale: I'M METAPHORICALLY DRUNK!!

Cale: Also, are you stalking me? HOW DID YOU KNOW.

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ignore how ooc this is.

btw this is a reference to the Webtoon; The Raven and The Reaper by Katrinci (go check it out! It's Horror btw)

#fanfic #fanfic rec #fanfic reccomendation #fanfic reccomendations #fanfic recs #prompt #tcf #tcf cale #the trash of the count's family #Cale Henituse #alberu crossman #tcf raon #On & Hong

[butterfirefly]

@cat-tyy I have. no idea what I just wrote. Enjoy.

“AAAAH!”

“Zion. Zion! Let’s calm do—oof.”

“Zion-ssi, I think—‘ack!’—it would be best if you—‘Did you just bite me?!’—both just stayed still—‘Get away from me!’ ‘I can’t!’—for a moment,” Eugis finishes weakly.

She glances to their right where Serpens is fretting over them (one more than the other, actually, but that’s not the point), looking very much like a weeping angel.

“Do you want me to calm your mind, Zion?” he offers tearfully, his palm alight with divine power.

“No. Just get him away from me!”

“I told you, he can’t,” Humanus interjects, fending off Zion’s pinwheeling arms. “He’d have to slice us up first.”

Zion pauses in his assault against the crown prince and takes a moment to absorb his words. He then turns to Serpens with conviction.

“Will you be able to do that painlessly if you used a divine blade?”

Serpens begins to sob.

Eugis watches Zion hug him as best as he can and silently brings her hands together, asking the goddess Luxmea if she could perhaps break the spell presently so they could all be rescued from their current predicament.

You see, at the moment, Zion and Humanus are—quite literally—attached at the hip.

It all began with Humanus bragging about his tree house.

“It was our favorite hangout back when we were little,” he said around a mouthful of cookies.

“Really,” Zion said doubtfully.

“Yeah. We used to play there all the time.” They both turned towards Serpens.

Serpens took a sip of his tea and placed it back on the table without a sound. “We did.”

“Can we go see it?” Zion and Eugis asked in tandem, the former asking Serpens and the latter asking the actual owner.

Humanus clapped his hands excitedly. “Sure! Let’s go right now.”

“Ahem,” Winston cleared his throat. “Sunbae, I believe you said you were ‘swamped with work’ today.”

“It’s fine, it’s fine,” Zion said with a flippant wave of his hand, already pushing Serpens towards the door. “I’ll just do it later.”

Winston mutely held his gaze, and Eugis once again found herself marveling at how Zion could brush off the pressure coming from the 7 foot-tall knight without breaking a sweat.

“Let’s go!” he cheered, and on they went.

They arrived at the base of a magnificent tree behind the crown prince’s palace. The sight of it sent a pang to Eugis’s heart, the towering trees of her own kingdom brought to the forefront of her mind. Dozens of feet above the ground, a tree house sat snugly between thick branches, looking well-maintained and not at all like it had been abandoned for a decade.

“Is this sturdy enough for Winston and me?” Zion asked, inspecting the rope ladder that hung before them.

“Pretty sure it can handle Winston’s weight,” Humanus said with a quizzical tilt of his brow. “But why do you say it like that?”

“What, you expect me to climb this myself?”

“Uh, yeah? Serpens and I did it all the time when we were kids.”

Zion stared at him incredulously, then began pointing at all of them starting with Humanus. “Divine power.” At Serpens. “Divine power.”

“Elf!” Eugis said helpfully once it was her turn, earning an appreciative nod from her friend.

“Muscle,” he continued, pointing at Winston’s scowling face. Then at himself. “Puny human.”

“It’s just a ladder,” Humanus said, unmoved.

Zion took a deep breath, and Eugis hurriedly grabbed him in a bridal carry before he could start insulting his future king. “We’re off first~”

And with the help of her wind spirit, the two of them shot up in the air towards the open doorway of the tree house, Zion screaming all the while and clutching at her neck hard enough to tickle (he was puny like that).

By the time the rest of them had reached the tree house, Zion had regained his wits and was back to being his jovial, energetic self.

“Look at all this stuff!”

“I know, right?” Humanus said, dragging Zion towards a rocking horse bedecked with jewels. “Here, this was one of my favorites.” As was typical, he failed to notice the mildly disgusted look Zion threw his way when he caught sight of the colorful gems and missed his muttered “Rich people”.

Serpens, not wanting to be outdone, quickly searched for other toys to present to him. Winston opted to pretend to stand guard near the entrance, resignedly looking on as his illustrious master tried to get Zion off the rocking horse by tempting him with a miniature holy sword.

Eugis took it all in with a contented smile. With a happy sigh, she calmly walked around the spacious room, studying each item and wondering which of them Serpens could have genuinely enjoyed. She gravitated towards a shelf full of books, running her fingers against their spines and picturing a young Serpens reading them (prolific her imagination though may be, she couldn’t quite bring herself to imagine Humanus ever cracking open a book outside of his princely classes). Picking a book at random—a tome bound by warm brown leather, the color of Zion’s eyes—she perched on the windowsill and began to read.

It was several minutes later when the outside world filtered into her senses.

“Serpens, what’s this for?” Zion asked, holding a nondescript key in his palm.

“Um... I’m afraid I don’t know.”

He turned to Humanus next. “Your Highness?”

“Hmm?”

Zion held the key towards him and repeated the question.

“Huh...” Humanus said, pondering for a moment, taking it from Zion’s hand and turning it this way and that, before giving it back with a shrug. “Dunno.”

“But this is yours, isn’t it? It was in your toy chest.”

“Must be, yeah.”

Zion clicked his tongue.

“Did you just—”

“Never mind, Your Highness. I’ll figure it out myself.”

Contrary to his words, Zion immediately asked for Serpens’s help, and together they began to look about the room searching for its lock. Eugis joined them soon after—

“Perhaps it’s for a secret door that leads to the heart of the castle, but His Majesty the king had thought you unprepared for such knowledge so he asked a mighty wizard to wipe it from your memory!”

—and Winston saw it his duty to help his master as well. They scoured every inch of the tree house, leaving no furniture or stuffed animal unturned.

Finally, after nearly a quarter of an hour, Humanus let out a triumphant shout, holding something up as he sat on the floor.

“Found it!”

“Don’t be so proud, Your Highness, you were supposed to know to begin with.”

Humanus threw Zion a hurt look. “At least congratulate me...”

“Yes, yes,” Zion said obediently, already sidling up to him to see it for himself. “Congratulations, Your Highness. You’re very smart. Good job remembering what you forgot.”

“...”

Eugis approached them and stood over them to find the keyhole... in the middle of a toy knight’s chest.

“What the heck is that?” Zion asked as he knelt next to him, resting a hand on his shoulder for balance and looking at the strange doll askance.

“It’s a doll I commissioned,” Humanus explained unhelpfully—Zion’s distrustful gaze turned to him. “Why are you suddenly looking at me like that?”

“... Anyway, is it a wind-up toy or something?”

“A what?”

“Never mind. Just put the key in the keyhole already.”

Zion handed the key over to him, and the three of them—Serpens had joined Eugis to stand over the two, and Winston had gone back to his station next to the doorway—watched in rapt attention as Humanus slotted it into the keyhole and gave it a single twist. There was a soft click, and for a short, awkward moment nothing happened, and Eugis was left wondering if the crown prince of the kingdom had somehow commissioned a fraud.

But then a blinding light swallowed Humanus and Zion whole, and she could do nothing but cry in alarm as the two disappeared in a flash of green.

The brilliant light disappeared as quickly as it came, and an unbelievable sight revealed itself before her.

Eugis stared in abject horror.

Serpens started mewling.

Humanus screamed so loudly Euges’s ears folded against her head of their own accord.

And Zion stared down at his—and now Humanus’s—body and was only able to let out a soft “what the fu-” before he promptly fainted.

Eugis must’ve dissociated for a bit, because she can’t recall what happened while he was passed out. But now Zion’s awake, and Eugis is lucid again, and all she can do as they wait for the magic scroll to expire is to prevent her friend from committing regicide.

She gently encloses his wrists in her grasp to stop him from pulling at Humanus’s luscious goldfish locks again.

“It was supposed to be a prank, but Serpens never asked what the key was for and after awhile I just forgot!”

“You forgot you commissioned a doll to be booby trapped with a merging scroll?!” Zion all but shrieks, his voice reaching new decibels and causing Humanus to hold up a glowing hand against the ear closest to him. “Get on your knees!”

“What?” Humanus asks in bewilderment, then repeats it a second time with more fervor when Serpens—as if on instinct—folds his legs beneath him and raises both arms above his head, his angelic face full of contrition.

Eugis lets go of Zion with a sigh and watches him comfort the now crying Serpens. She’s quite certain elves don’t get migraines—she hasn’t had one herself despite having lived for hundreds of years—so the building ache behind her eyes must be a side effect from the scroll’s magic. Right?

#thanks for the prompt! <3 I wasn't expecting anyone to suggest the webnovel of my life ToT afraid I can't write tcf since it's been years :( #for anyone who might read this but haven't yet read duke please repent: trust me. this level of crack is equal/less than what's canon #and yes. zion rivelon is a rude potty-mouthed little troll of a guy and we love him for it #this is the first thing I've written in MONTHS and it's deranged and I had fun so yay!!! #duke please repent #the duke's redemption #bff writes