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Absolutely 👏 cooked 👏 with 👏 this👏 OP

I love Cale so much. He's not being a jerk by not realizes the affects the has on the people around him. Everything you've listed is 100% accurate and it's insane to me!

Then when you think of the fact to survive in this world he's rationalized SO much of his own feeling and thoughts. Like, I remember he sometimes gets the ick when people are super worried about him:

'Why are they worried I'm totally uninjured, everything healed. There is no issue? '

In his mind not only does he think that he's not really someone deserving of any of other's affection but he thinks because his pain is miniscule and fleeting it really doesn't matter.

He doesn't like to be hurt or in pain but for Cale/KRS it's all a calculated risk. So he doesn't see any of it the same way as others.

At most, he'll be like "yeah I know the blood on my clothes is pretty gross"

To us we get the private knowledge he's a funky guy that's for complex thoughts and feelings but we also have to decipher his puzzle. The dude lies to himself so much or because we're reading from his perspective, we get his misinterpretation of something. It's a mixed bag with him.

He's so silly I love him. I need to get caught back up on the current ark. I know my homeboy is about to go to the Murim. That's where I took my break.

Plus story wise, it's a lot more interesting and nuanced to have uncommunicated things. Not everyone is completely eloquent and perfect at conveying their thoughts and feelings. The series would become a lot less interesting if Cale stopped being a gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss.

You know most of the time people get angry at Cale because he can't for the life of him communicate things as they are, specifically regarding his health and seems to be unable to register his family worries for him.

And to that I said, of fucking course, his whole life on earth was horrible and he didn't develop emotionally because let's do a quick recap:

His parents died.

His abusive uncle took him in

He ended up in an orphanage.

When he was twenty the world collapsed.

He was bullied because he didn't have abilities.

Then the shelter he was in was destroyed

Once again he was alone until he met with LSH and CJS and let's not forget he was already 20 something.

Not long after they died as well.

Then he closed off with everyone because he didn't want to get attached just to lose them again.

He woke up in a novel

GoD confirmed he was supposed to die not CJS nor LSH.

He had to face his past again due to SG test.

...Well you get my point by now he was a little too busy surviving for him to actually develop self worth, most of his life he learned he wasn't someone who deserves affection or care and unfortunately no one said otherwise and if they did they die leaving him worse than before.

So it is no wonder he keeps things to himself all the time, after all why would others worry about him it makes no sense? At least from his pov.

That's why he is so detached at the beginning, still he can't help but try fixing things because it is the only action he knows

Surviving and saving others is so deeply engrained in him that unknowingly he keeps getting in a bigger mess. He got attached against his best efforts and gives more than he can take because he is not used to getting, the people who ever gave him anything always ended up dying before he could understand being emotional or plainly having emotions is normal.