[Coldsaturn]

see subject line.

BUT.

I think he might be The One.

He's your brother. Sort of. Yes. Possibly no. Brother-shaped. Best friend, protector, comfort object. He leaves. You give him a gift to remember you by. You leave. He comes back sometimes. So do you. You miss him. He comes home again and then he's just... gone.

That's as far as I am in the story, but THEN I SAW THIS when I was trying to look up stuff for the game AND I AM WILDLY IN AWE. Did they... did they suicide-pact? Is that what that was? We can't do this anymore, and we can't escape, so let's just go together? In some other world or time or maybe this is where it all ends up no matter what?

Well, that's right up my emotional alley, ffs.

Caleeeeebbbbb!!!
Ok here's our first of many issues: translations. Or cultural differences. You pretty much have the choice to pick up your own favorite interpretation, but just for the sake of clarity: he's MC's adoptive brother. In all the Asian versions he's called "big brother" but in the western version he's MC's "childhood friend"
You can pretty much decide which version to consider, because if we go by the original version, it's still not considered incest by them since they're not blood related and adoption can have different connotations compared to our adoption. So what ends up happening is that you have someone you grew up with and are very close to, and on the western side you have someone you grew up with and are very close to. So you can call him "brother" in chinese/japanese/korean or "childhood friend" in english and it's the same, right? More or less. What gets entirely lost in translation is the fact that as MC's big brother, Caleb feels he's responsible for taking care of her. That's his entire role in life. And as much as I'm a sucker for childhood-friends-to-lovers tropes, childhood pals don't bring the same sense of "it's me and you against the world, I'm your family, I'm all that you have and you're all that I have, no man will ever care for you as I do" etc. There will be a few translated lines he'll say that to me felt jarring until I replaced his (temporary) friendzone box from "child pal" to "brother"
So it might be obvious by now which translation I go for lol but the choice is yours.

And yes starcrossed lovers suicide pact! His myth is so good and so juicy! If you watch the whole myth story (it's on youtube and it doesn't give you spoilers for the main storyline since myths are either past or future/alternative future timelines), the context is even better.

(I haven't checked your other posts yet but we might need a topic where we can keep track of which chapter you're on because I don't want to spoil anything and at the same time I want to know your reactions as you find out more about the story!)