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    Cale Henituse died a hero—peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, finally ready to embrace the slacker life. So waking up on a freezing sidewalk in Seoul as starving teen Cha Roksoo, with a crying little sister and no mother in sight? Yeah. He’s pissed.

    This isn’t Earth 1. Or Earth 2. And it’s definitely not the afterlife. It’s just hell. Again.

    Things get worse when he realizes his sister is Cha Siyeon, the real-world counterpart of Penelope Eckhart, the doomed villainess from the game “Daughter of the Duke: Love Project!”—a game she played right before they both got sucked in. Now? They're trapped inside it. Siyeon as Penelope. Cale as her unplanned, unwanted older brother. Thanks, God of Death. Sincerely, go die.

    The plot doesn’t know he exists. The goddamn Ekhart family is watching them like hawks. And now there’s a pest named Vinter clinging to his sister, and a bastard crown prince breathing down his neck.

    But Cale’s got goals: protect his sister, scam his way through nobility, and maybe—finally—kill a god.
    Mostly though?

    He just wants his damn slacker life back.

    (slacker-life-chan please don't leave me!)

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    23 Jul 2025

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    Cal could see the outlines of AAT’s to his left and right, and the turrets that droids were manning, launching blaster bolts rapid-fire through the air.

    He was standing at the back of a Separatist army, in the middle of a warzone.

    Except that wasn’t possible. It couldn’t be. The war was over. The Empire had risen from the mutilated corpse of the Republic, crushing the galaxy beneath its heel and murdering countless innocents in the process. Cal couldn’t be here because the Empire had already won.

     

    On an impromptu expedition to an uninhabited planet -- born from hidden notes written by Eno Cordova -- Cal is thrown back into a life he thought had died, and forced to meet figures he has only known in his nightmares.

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    05 Oct 2024

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    "The Egocentric Temporal Order (ETO) bias is the finding that self-initiated action-events are perceived as having occurred prior to simultaneous externally triggered events."

    Or: Time is a polite fiction that only matters if you're paying attention, and Anakin is neither polite nor paying attention.

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    15 Jan 2024