"Who Wants To See Alberu Getting Into A Race?!"

Actually, this is something that makes the novel attractive in the first place. After all, in every isekai I’ve read, the protagonist already knows everything.

While there are plot twists and all, usually they’ve already read the entire novel, played the complete game, etc.

TCF is special in that regard ♡( ◡‿◡ )

Cale does not know everything

Why did anyone think he did?

[Note: There will be SPOILERS about the first part of TCF so if you haven't finished the first part or you don't want spoilers, I suggest you don't continue. Thanks!]

When I first read the novel, the most common mistake new readers often make was they all thought that Cale is omniscient. Yeah, I saw the comments. There were a lot.

I think, once again, it's because of how in most KR novels and manhwa, the main character usually knows the whole story of a novel they read or a game they played before they transmigrate to another world. They don't have all the details but it's more than what Kim Rok Soo knows.

Because that's the thing. The difference is that Kim Rok Soo doesn't know the whole story. In fact, he only read up until five volumes of "The Birth of a Hero" before he transmigrated in another world.

He, like us, doesn't know how the story ends.

I might be getting repetitive but the reason why I love TCF is because the author, Yoo Ryeo Han, doesn't share everything to us right off the bat.

They never info dump us with the whole story about how OG Cale actually made a deal with the God of Death, about Kim Rok Soo's past as an ability user, about Choi Jung Soo, and about the existence of the White Star. Instead, all these plot points are gradually revealed later in the story.

And I honestly prefer it like this. This way, we can only guess what will happen next. It's not a boring story but a mysterious one because there's something we won't expect.

The story starts with Kim Rok Soo opening his eyes in another world.

We are never completely told what Kim Rok Soo read before he transmigrated. The most he tells us is a summary and a few details here and there at the start of the novel.

We only find out more by experiencing it through Cale's point of view. We read his thoughts about the novel. And we follow him in his journey around the Eastern and Western continents.

But as mentioned at the beginning, he doesn't know how The Birth of a Hero ends. His knowledge stops at the end of volume five. Everything else depends on him.

But even before the war happens, there are already some hints that Cale doesn't actually have all the information he needs. He is not fully equipped with everything about the book. He, like us, is in the dark about certain factors that can affect his goals.

Indestructible Shield

When the shield was first mentioned, Cale questioned why no one took it.

'No wonder nobody ended up taking control of it. But then why would the author mention something that could be useful but was never actually taken by anybody?’

- Chapter 11: Picked It Up

It's odd because it's found in the territory where Choi Han appears in the beginning of the story. Yet from volume one to volume five, not a single soul knew of its existence.

It's the first ancient power he gets that he finds out because he read the book and he's the only one who knows about it. He doesn't know why it's there nor does he question it any further. His only goal was to get it.

It's only when the Glutton Priestess told him about her past that he finally gets the bigger picture.

The fact that this tidbit was shrugged off by Cale, and probably some readers, as something unimportant only to find out later in the story about its huge connection to the original White Star is just insane. And it's the reason why the books he read aren't informative at all. Because why did it leave out this piece of information if they want him to use it to save their world?

He didn't even know a single thing about the current White Star at the start of the story and here is a random ancient power sitting prettily in the Henituse territory that actually has a connection to the same guy Cale Barrow wants to imitate. He was utterly clueless like the rest of us.

I'm not gonna lie, I was shaking my head by how dumbfounded I was when I first read the novel. I was questioning everything I read in the early chapters, thinking if there's something else that I didn't notice (there were a lot actually).

The fact that the author gives us only a little info about the tree where the shield was found and its connection to the other ancient powers only solidified my respect by how good the author is at hiding this plot until the big reveal.

The Wolf Tribe

‘The novel didn’t say which of the divine items they brought.’

If Cale knew what the divine item was, he would be able to get one step closer to the identity of the secret organization. Unfortunately, the novel only described how the Wolf Tribe became weak because of the divine item. He had no way to determine the identity of the secret organization.

- Chapter 32: You

When Cale sends Choi Han to find Rosalyn and Lock, Choi Han returns with Lock who was about to transform into his berserk mode.

Later, Choi Han explains what happened and Cale realizes that a lot of things changed compared to what happened in the book. For one, Lock did not hide and fought back against Arm. Another is instead of assassins, the ones that appeared are official members.

For some, including me, this can be excused because of Cale's actions. He's a new variable to the story and thus, he ends up changing a lot of scenarios that happened in the story.

But, thinking about it, this is the only thing that is completely different from what happened in the books. Everything else is the same aside from when Cale is actively doing something like becoming a guardian to three kids or getting the ancient powers that originally belongs to someone else. Unless Cale acts, nothing actually changes.

There's the bombing at the plaza that also changed but that can still be excused as Cale ruining Arm's movements early on and them revising their plans.

Lock however, is not influenced by Cale. He could've stayed hidden just like in the book but in this case, he didn't. Arm could've sent assassins but they didn't. There is no reason for them to change from assassins to official members. Plus, instead of killing all of them, the wolf children survived.

This is not because of Cale.

So...does that mean that the book he read is not completely reliable?

Pretty much, yeah. Which already answers the question if he knows everything like a cliche main character does. No, he doesn't know everything. And the books he read can be taken as a guidebook but an incomplete one with a few mistakes here and there.

Let me remind you that this happened before the war started and there's already something Cale doesn't know or expect.

[Side note: I only realized this whole bit about the Wolf Tribe while reading a freaking reaction fic. If I had not read that fic, I wouldn't even realize how weird this one is. Am I dumb? Don't answer that.]

White Star

Another reason why Cale is not omniscient even though he looks and acts like it, is because he didn't find out about the White Star until the war against Arm and the Indomitable Alliance.

This man is like a god to his followers and allies and not a single person in Cale's group and even outside of it knows about him. Not even Ron, who has his whole family annihilated and later loses his arm in the process, knows about him.

Again, the five volumes of The Birth of a Hero never mentions this elusive White Star. The only reason he knows about this guy is through interrogation and torture. So when he finally appears in the Mogoru Empire, all Cale felt was anger and fear.

Because this unexpected factor is dangerous.

Cale knows they're completely unprepared to face this new player in the game. Eruhaben, an ancient dragon, was getting his ass kicked by this man who suddenly appeared out of nowhere and the dragon even told them to run. What everyone considers a very strong existence in this world is telling them that there's no hope in defeating him.

And the most shocking out of all this is that Cale never expected how the White Star knows that Cale and Choi Han have their "time warped for them". He knows something about Cale just by looking at him.

So the books by this point are basically useless and he has to rely on himself and others to plan ahead of time. He works extremely hard for it.

He has to dig information using his Record to find out about White Star. He has to talk to the World Tree to get the weapon to use against the White Star. He has to talk to Sheritt to know more about the White Star and his curse. And he has to find out from OG Cale himself on how to finally kill the White Star.

It took the whole book to finally defeat him.

And none of these are mentioned in the books he read.

So Cale, in conclusion, does not know everything like what some readers once complained about. He has some pieces of the puzzle but it's like if he needs a hundred pieces to complete the puzzle and he only has ten, then he's never gonna complete it.

He knew about the first five volumes and the rest were just him and his allies' hard work. It's pretty much why he's so stressed in the whole book, zooming around the two continents just to look for the White Star's weakness while also juggling different problems like more wars or the God of Despair or finding the earth attribute the White Star needs.

So yeah. Don't judge a book by the first few chapters and expect to know everything.

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Alberu better give him his slacker life when this story ends.

Nelan Barrow and the God of Death really made him work for it.

I'm not gonna lie, I want someone (Cale) to kidnap Choi Jung Gun and interrogate him about why the heck he didn't explain the important bits in his "guidebook" and why the whole thing about the wolf tribe became different from what was written. He could've at least mentioned what the secret organization's name is but he left it to Cale instead. It's just the name, CJG. Why are you hiding it? Is Choi Han in the books really that slow or what? If you want someone to save your world, at least send more information like the name of the secret organization. You talked about the Indestructible Shield's location but can't spell Arm? Shame on you, CJG.

If it wasn't KRS that was transmigrated and it's just a random normal person, that person would've died even before meeting the White Star.

Or maybe Nelan Barrow just wants to be an author like Yoo Ryeo Han and be all mysterious about it.

I think it was something that happened to all of us, after all I discovered TCF thanks to a gacha club video ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

BigBang! BigBang! BigBang! (((o(*°▽°*)o)))

TCF/LCF BigBang Interest Check

So I've realized that my previous post(s) may have not reached a wider audience of TCF/LCF fandom and frankly, those methods may not have been the wisest to gauge how many people would be interested in a BigBang so I have decided to do an Interest Check to see how many people would be interested or would participate in the event as an artist or a writer and at what direction they would want it to go.

Kindly fill this form if you are at all interested.

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TCF/LCF BigBang Interest Check

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Remember, I may not proceed with organizing the event if enough interest is not shown.

Villains who deserve redemption (✧ω✧) (Part 3: Fog Cat Tribe)

Here is the reason for my question a while ago (Many thanks to @blueteller for answering it for me ♡(>ᴗ•))

Of course I am not referring to the uncle of our treasures, he could die and no one will care, I am referring to all those who were trapped in the coup d'état within the tribe, the non-combatants who did not take sides during the coup.

Just think about the wasted potential, what happened to them? where were you? were there more mutants among them? (¬ _ ¬)?

And just think about their abilities, they said Ohn and Hong were rarer than dragons because of them, so the tribe has more abilities than fog and poison.

In order of rarity I think these are the fog cat tribe's native abilities:

FogPoisonVenom (Because they are not the same)Acid

It's a real shame that more attention wasn't given to them in the book, you just have to think about the possibilities. ⸜(*ˊᵕˋ*)⸝

Alberu: Are you sure they will be okay? Cale: The children are going to be fine, the one you have to worry about is the lunatic. Alberu:??? Cale: Hopefully he'll be alive when we get back.

Clopeh: Children, people will criticize your dreams. 'You can’t just secretly film every single battle of Cale-nim and broadcast it to the world'. 'Being a devoted Cale-nim follower is not a real job'. 'Stop trying to register Caleism as an actual religion'.

Clopeh: Ignore them. Be real. Be yourself. Start a Cale-nim cult.

On, Hong, Raon, Lock and all the wolf children:...........

On: Who though it was a good idea to let him babysit us today?

Ok, who wants to make an OC named Bob? because I want to (・∀・)ﾉ

THE BOBS

The number of times "Bob" is said:

Informant Bob: 44

Hunter Bobe: 43

Fisherman Bob: 26

Adventurer Bob: 24

Merchant Bob: 14

Alberu wins!! As expected of the one and only sun

But Cale loses...

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Fisherman Bob (Toonka) - A fisherman from a small seaside village who went out to fish and somehow ended up shipwrecked; rescued by Lady Amiru (ch 53)

“Mr. Bob, this is young master Cale Henituse.” - Amiru

‘Bob?’ - Cale

“Nice to meet you. My name is Bob.” - Toonka

“Bob is from the Whipper Kingdom” - Amiru

“And Bob.” - Amiru

“Bob, a warrior like you should understand what I mean, right?” - Cale

“Bob.” - Cale

“Bob.” - Cale

“His name was Bob?” - Choi Han

“How do you know about Bob?” - Cale

“Ah, that Bob guy from before is Toonka.” - Cale

“Bob is an alias.” - Cale

“Bob.” - Cale

– Ah, Bob! - Raon

– Toonka! Bob! He’s like that idiot! - Raon

+11 in the narration

Adventurer Bob - A beginner adventurer who starts his journey from Hope and Adventure Loving Inn (ch 272)

“Hahahaha! Thank you for the exaggerated compliment. Well, my name is Bob! I will definitely be famous in the future!” - Bob

“Mr. Bob, I hope this is the start of an amazing adventure for you.” - Cale

“It’s okay, Mr. Bob. Only luck will follow you on your journey. You don’t have to worry.” - Cale

“You can do it, Mr. Bob.” - Cale

+20 in the narration

Merchant Bob (Cale)- The rich merchant who took down the infamous red snake of Nake Mountain (ch 461)

“Mr. Bob, a feeble person like you going there will instantly be bewitched and die.” - Bobe

“Mr. Bob, I don’t know what it’s for, but don’t go to that cursed mountain! Hmm?” - Bobe

“Aigoo. I, Bobe, want to help you, Mr. Bob, especially since we have such similar names.” - Bobe

“Aigoo, who cares if we are Bobe and Bob!” - Bobe

“Mr. Bob, thank you very much.” - Bobe

+9 in the narration

Hunter Bobe - An experienced hunter who knew the fog-covered Nake Mountain well (ch 461)

“Aigoo. I, Bobe, want to help you, Mr. Bob, especially since we have such similar names.” - Bobe

“Yes sir, senior Bobe.” - Cale

“Aigoo, who cares if we are Bobe and Bob!” - Bobe

“Mr. Bobe.” - Cale

“Can you deploy some mercenaries around Mr. Bobe and Nake Mountain?” - Cale

+38 in the narration

Informant Bob (Alberu) (also acts as the loyal servant of Young Master Naru) - A quarter Dark Elf who is a sworn brother of Cale Henituse and Alberu Crossman; the crown prince’s proxy and also the person in charge of the crown prince’s information network (ch 541)

“My name is Bob and I am his highness, the crown prince’s proxy and also the person in charge of the crown prince’s information network.” - Alberu

‘…What’s with his name?! Why is it Bob?!’ - Cale

“This is Bob hyung, one of my close hyungs.” - Cale

“You can consider Bob hyung to represent the will of his highness, the crown prince.” - Cale

“Bob hyung is pretty antsy too.” - Cale

“Our Bob hyung has been like his highness the crown prince’s twin brother since they were young.” - Cale

Had the two of them and this Bob person who lived in the shadows created this sworn brotherhood between the three of them? - Fredo

‘But it is shocking that this Bob is quarter Dark Elf.’ - Fredo

“Raon-nim, I’m Bob.” - Alberu

“Ah, right! Nice to meet you, Bob!” - Raon

“Bob hyung, are you not going to eat?” - Cale

“My name is Bob and I am young master Naru-nim’s servant and informant.” - Alberu

“Bob.” - Fredo

+31 in the narration

KRS: *Gremlin Mode On* LSH: *Holding KRS like a little child* Look at this cuteness… ( ◕▿◕ )

I know I have previously said how I want Cale to use his combat skills he learned as Kim Rok Soo but now I have a different idea. I want Cale to pull out the skills he had to have had as 20 year old Kim Rok Soo. The skills I speak of are being a downright feral gremlin. I want him to claw at eyes and bite. Because he had to have survived as tiny 20 year old Rok Soo somehow and it wouldn't have been with his combat prowess or strength. I mean im sure he had to fight for food before shelters were found and he had to have been attacked on his own by monsters so I just imagine he went for the eyes and throat instantly. Lee Soo Hyuk would think of it as very funny and cute

Is it possible to die of tenderness?

Because I'm dying of tenderness (xωx)⌒☆

Cale as Naru

I don't know if I like it or not, but at least now I can stop dying of frustration every time I read "Alver" (￣▽￣)

TCF headcanon !

I've had this HC for maybe over 2 years now n I've never heard of anyone talking about it here so:

I've always called Alberu Alberu in my head but when I read the manhua, it changed his name to alver so I made this up in my mind to make sense of that.

Alver: name he uses in public, this is what he goes by when he's doing prince stuff. It's formal and it's probably what his father/brothers refer to him as

Alberu: name he uses almost exclusively when he's in his bark elf from. It's the name his mother gave him at birth. I'd imagine this being the name the people closest to him call him! (Like cale, Tasha, choi Han ect.)

Got this because so many people around me have a name in their traditional language and another English name, so it just got stuck in my mind lol

(o_ _)ﾉ彡☆

White Star and Cale's relationship summed up