Spoilers For Part 2

unfortunately, I will write this fic and I am writing this fic are two very different things

my favorite old man, the love of my life, the apple of my eye, the reason i get up in the morning and what keeps me going throughout the day

Another shapeshifter au but it's gunwoo, and the people in his neighborhood keep asking him to babysit their odd pets?!?

(An au set where he's around 30 and moves to a rural area and likes his job and starts up photography again.)

There's a cheeky red haired cat that follows him around a lot, and likes to sit in his lap and on his shoulders. (There was one time he was walking home late and a cat leaped from the wall onto his back, almost knocking him over and giving him a heart attack. He didn't get down until he was bribed with food, and it was quickly apparent that food bribery was a mistake~)

For some reason unknown to gunwoo this has led to him being asked by various neighbours to look after their pets, including: a piano-playing rabbit (yes, that rabbit from the internet), a very shy deer (apparently not a pet but it lives in their back yard? Which is also apparently a full on forest??) (though gunwoo has never experienced anything like it when the deer finally approached him); an actual bird of prey (which was strangely polite), a hamster (which apparently likes watching YouTube), and then there was that one time he played Go with a bear (an actual bear).

Alternative version of og cale and og choi han's first meeting

The Soos are all different brands of scary.

Lee Soo Hyuk comes off as a chill person at first, but he's scary when he gets serious.

Choi Jung Soo has that golden retriever vibe to him, but he does a complete 180 when things get serious.

Kim Rok Soo appears lonesome and lowkey depressed on first impression, but he's literally the most unhinged of them all.

Him and the babies as chibis 🥹💖

Cale needed that evil god's test. Not only to fight despair, but also for his mental health.

He needed to see that there was a world where "Kim Rok Soo" was not left to survive alone. He needed to see all his "what ifs" happen. He needed to resolve all the regrets of "Kim Rok Soo" to fully live as Cale Henituse. Because even if it wasn't his world, he now knows that a "Kim Rok Soo" was happy, surrounded by people he loves, people who would survive with him.

That is how he can loosen the shackles of fear of being alone again as Cale. "We will all survive" is not just a random mantra for him. He needs it to be true. He has had so much loss and grief in his life.

Even if he doesn't really say so, that grief was what kept him going. To "not waste" the sacrifices of all those who saved him, he kept surviving. But that is also why he's reckless despite "valuing" his life.

I think, subconsciously, he thinks that if he can save more people, then that would be a good "payment" for those who saved him. His "slacker life" is basically world peace. 🤭

Back to the point... The test showed him Kim Rok Soo and everyone he cares for survive, so now he has more courage and less doubt to face WS because he wants a life like Parallel KRS', as Cale Henituse.

it gets better

(credit to @ink-the-artist for the borzoi art <3 )

getting to know me for ~5 months or so then on month 6 things start to slowly click for you that ive clearly been trying to manufacture situations where you get struck by lightning