you guys are also so quick to label mains asking for main story updates as โmale centeredโ when youโre out here loud & proud spreading misinformation and delusions for a cancelled MALE character
calebโs tits are not big because itโs muscle, but because he carries milk in them in case if there was a famine heโd have the ability to feed mc itโs biologically wired in him me thinks
MC dozing off with her stomach out, and Caleb carefully straightening her clothes and kissing her forehead.. while the bulge in his gray sweatpants grows bigger by the second
dare i say if any other li mains had fo wait 600 days for a ms update they would've been angry too ๐ญ but because it's caleb mains who had to wait and caleb is already the punching bag of this fandom bc of his trope people dont gaf and acting like waiting that long is okay
i love this exchange because caleb never rejects the idea of them being siblings. even when mc brings up that they aren't biologically related, he brushes it aside completely. whether they're related by blood or not, he still sees them as brother and sister
โCaleb wants to move away from the brother role!โ
NO HE DOES NOT. ๐ญ
In the original version of Homecoming Wings, Caleb has a very obvious love-hate relationship with being her brother. And I want to be clear: he genuinely loves and values that role. The resentment only starts growing because being her brother also puts a limit on how much more he can be to her.
But despite that, itโs a role he could never actually let go of. If anything, he clings to it because itโs the one thing that gives him a place in her life. Itโs basically โIf Iโm not her brother, then what am I to her?โ ๐ญ
So the brother role becomes both his safety and his restriction. A lifeline he clings to, even as it bruises and burns him.
But caleb will never take an L, he uses the role to his advantage to tie Mc down.
Itโs literally โIโm your brother, listen to me.โ He uses that role to tie MC down, but he also holds onto it because itโs a bond he genuinely treasures.
And look at the ending of Homecoming Wings. He tells her about the collar with a bell, saying he put it on the cat so it couldnโt escape without making noise. MC gets โIs this your protection?โ or โFine, Iโll let you do what you want.โ And in the other version, that second option is โFine, youโre my brother. Iโll let you do what you want.โ ๐ญ
That is NOT Caleb abandoning the brother role. It shows that even with all the conflict surrounding it, he still wants to be her brother.
The real progression is that he eventually realizes he doesn't have to choose. MC is willing to accept him as both her brother and lover. So the very thing that once felt restrictive no longer has to be a limitation.
He can keep the role he loves, keep that bond he could never let go of, and still become more to her.
Thatโs the point. Caleb doesn't need to abandon being her brother to become her lover. He can finally love being her brother without feeling trapped by it, because now he knows he can be both. ๐โโ๏ธ
He's from the same womb, same cosmic dust, same supernova, same stem, same genetic material, that guy is another half of me, okay? He's my precious family, my guardian, and my one and only love. Neither role invalidates/diminishes the other.