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Cale has so much trauma that the only way his allies can truly help him is if they ignore him when he tries to stop them.
A hardened war-veteran who has self-sacrificing issues and a deep desire to protect everyone he can regardless of consequences? No problem, just ignore everything stupid he says.
Cale:wait no I need to go fight
Allies: shhhh no you don’t, take a nap, we will handle it
Cale:but-
Allies: no buts. It’ll all be okay
Cale:*ptsd intensifies*
Literally when the sealed gods temple started to create the equivalent of a nuclear bomb, Cale was like “wow, good thing I stabbed myself earlier and I feel GREAT so I’m going to try to block this with my shield that gives me major backlash” and everyone else just had to be like “GUYS HES DOING IT AGAIN QUICK PULL OUT THE SHIELDS”
And then Cale was like “why is everyone doing this? I’ll be fine?” And they’re all like “GET ALL SHARP OBJECTS AWAY FROM HIM- FUCK WHY IS HE DOING THIS-? HE JUST STABBED HIMSELF HAS HE NOT DONE ENOUGH???”
And Cale is like “guys, I promise I can help” and he’s like a baby who’s just silverware privileges revoked because a fork and an outlet got involved so everyone is like “anyone hear anything? Nope didn’t think so. Cale go sit in the corner”
And honestly they’re not wrong for it-
Later edit;
Cale:I am such a bad person. I use everyone around me for my own benefit, so I don’t know why you guys are still here
Allies:yes, yes, of course Cale-nim. Now let’s get you to bed before your sense of self-responsibility shows up