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Hello guys, I’m Caël and welcome to my Viedéo channel. Today I am going to answer your questions that were sent via @CâbléExplains and my personal Twitcher account @Caël_Boënnec. In this “Ask Me Anything” video I am also going to select some question from the live chat at the right-hand side of the screen and answer them. Thanks to Câblé Magazine for letting me organize this on my own channel and promoting it there!

First off, Éleonore @ellen_degenerates asks, “Who are you?”

I hope that is said in a nice tone, haha. My name is Caël Boënnec, I’m 23 and I’m originally from Redon in Bethany. Komz bethoneg a ran… (pauses) oh my god the chatbox is lighting up. People don’t think I’m 23 (laughs).

@Pauline557 says in chat “BABYFACE!”

(laughs) Yep, I do get that comment a lot. Before I became… uh… somewhat well-known, I frequently get “carded”. Last time I got carded was two months ago: the salesperson at the Les Galleries department store asked for ID when I was buying a knife set as a housewarming gift. Fun times. Apparently babyface runs in the family. My uncles say they used to experience that too.

Speaking of my fam, @melon_musk asked on Twitcher “Rumour has it that you are the heir to Interflix. Is it true?”

Just because I’m Bethanian, doesn’t mean that I am the heir to the most famous Bethanian company. But uhhh… yes, I do come from that family (chuckles). My mother’s side, the Kegelins, started and still own Interflix, one the world's largest video-on-demand streaming service. I’m not technically the heir, as the company is held in trust for the family. My uncle Thibault is the one who’s really into the company right now. Uncle Thibault is the older brother of my mum, hence we don’t share the same surname. He’s a cool uncle.

“Why are you working?” asks @justins_costumes in the chat.

Why wouldn’t I be working? (chuckles) It’s not as if I’m swimming in money. I'm not a trust fund baby. My parents live modestly and taught us to do the same. My dad used to work at an Interflix store. In the eighties and nineties, Interflix used to be a video rental store, where you physically borrow tapes and DVDs of movies and shows… just like borrowing books from a library. Interflix was my dad’s day job, while he had a side hustle of acting minor roles in TV and theater. My dad eventually became the manager of an Interflix branch in Redon and that’s when he met my mum, who was being trained in the family business in the 1990s. He made it clear that he wasn’t interested in my mum’s money and said that if they get married, they would live within their means. They maintained that principle in their married life and taught it to us.

On Twitcher, @larry_the_cable_guy asks “How did you get your job at the magazine?”

I studied Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Bethany, and I interned at Câblé Magazine after graduation. Câblé is a Santonian general-interest online magazine, although it has its focus on technology and digital life. At that time of my internship, Câblé was looking for Bethanian-speaking staff so they could have a Bethanian-language section of the website. I think, I guess, they liked me enough? The arrangement is kinda unusual – I’m not technically their employee, I’m a self-employed contractor. Now, before you call the Ministry of Labour, this arrangement was mutually agreed upon. They give me projects and ask me what I need. For example, the explainer videos.

See, each explainer video gets recorded in three versions: Santonian, Bethanian, and Mercanti. I do all three versions. They send me the questions that I would answer and they send resources for researching the content and even filming resources. Sometimes I do filming at their office in Saintes or I do it myself at home in Redon. I do the translations myself because some stuff don’t translate well by machine. Then Câblé gives me editing and publication support. Câblé and I share control and copyright over the content we create, same with the profits.

Câblé and I have future projects in the pipeline which I hope will take off and you guys would watch!

“Did you expect to become viral”? asks @monkeyfox on Twitcher.

Honestly, I didn’t. I thought I was just putting together and narrating explainer videos for some of the burning questions that people have wondered about but can’t find satisfactory answers to. Like, why is it called ‘handegg’ in Saintonge?

My first video was “What is Bethanian?” wherein I explained to the wider Santonian and global audience about the existence of my people and my language. It took off about one week after it was posted. Paradoxically, it gained a lot of traction within the Bethanian corner of the internet. And then soon afterwards the next videos were gaining thousands to tens of thousands of views – and increasing.

I feel incredibly blessed with this success and I want to thank everybody for helping me reach this. I’m glad people are enjoying our content and deriving knowledge from it.

“What do you like most about working at Câblé?” asks @happy_hour_15.

I like that Câblé gives me a lot of creative freedom. Like I said, they give their creatives a lot of leeway when it comes to making stuff. The copyright issues and profit-sharing are also very favourable to creators. I consider myself lucky I got in.

Okay, off to another line of questioning here, @milly_cha was asking if I had done my National Service. Could be related because people don’t think I’m 24, they ask if I had done my National Service? And at twitcher @judy_man asks “Are you the same Boënnec guy at the 271e CG Boëme?? An Adj. Boënnec?”

YES!! Yes, I am that Boënnec guy. I don’t know what your name is, but I will DM you afterwards. For the rest of the audience, the “271e CG Boëme” is the 271st Boëme Cyberguard Battalion. It’s a National Guard unit from my home department, the Boëme. The Cyberguard is the National Guard equivalent of the Royal Santonian Cyber Force. I’m a reservist in the Santonian military.

I did my National Service straight out of high school. Being some sort of a computer and gaming nerd, I tried out at the newly-formed cyberguard unit within the reserve militia of the Boëme. I finished with the rank of Adjutant. Then I then went to university afterwards.

I feel that @judy_man is probably someone I met while in service. Drop me a line and maybe we can meet each other here in Redon!

@santonianness asks “Your name does not sound Santonian. What is the origin of your name?”

My name Caël is from the Bethanian language. This could be the subject of a video! The patron saint of my hometown is named Saint Caël. The Redon Cathedral is dedicated to Saint Caël, an obscure saint who worked as a Messianist missionary from the area. Saint Caël was martyred by headhunters during the 6th century in what is now Iteria. His shrunken head is actually a venerated relic in the Cathedral!

Also, the royal island off the coast of Redon is dedicated to him, the “royal town” of Mont-Saint-Caël.

“What do you do in your free time?” asks @amala_aries over in Twitcher.

I’m a geeky nerd, really. I love playing video games. #NotAnAd but I love Antinomy games. Not a promotion. Fists of Iron 4 is my favourite. And yes, I had picked up Kyle de Spycker.

I’m also into sports manager games, so Football Manager and Ice Hockey Manager are some of my most-played games too.

Speaking of sports, @its_theotime asks “What sport do you play? I think I have seen you play ice hockey.”

Yes, @its_theotime, I am – or was – a frustrated ice hockey player. That’s like literally the few times where nepotism failed me, ha! Just kidding. Anyway, my Uncle Thibault was one of the founders and sponsors of the Requins de Saint-Océan ice hockey team. It was created partly to give Prydanian refugees and lower-income Santonians opportunities to play ice hockey. Ice hockey is very popular in Prydania, and during the 2000s and 2010s, a lot of Prydanian refugees arrived in Saintonge.

Uncle Thibault got me into the then-amateur team where I learned to play ice hockey. I think it’s because they also needed Santonians in the group to help the Pyrdanians integrate. Also as a warm body on the ice, I guess. I was a plug! (laughs) Seriously, those Prydanian kids were way better than me. I was just an amateur player within the Requins system. The Requins had a semi-professional team at the top; I had never reached that level. Now they’re going professional, and I’ll be rooting for them. Also, that logo is sick.

Anyway, I went back to ice hockey in university, where I tried out and made it to the University of Bethany’s ice hockey team. I was a Stoat! That’s our team name.

I also dabbled in handegg, but I liked ice hockey more.

In the chat, @austin_matthieux asks, “What hockey position do you play?”

I was a right-handed defensive defenceman. But like I said, I wasn’t as good as the others. I was at most a bottom-pair defenceman. Even on the Stoat team. I think I got a place because right-handed defencemen are a rare species of ice hockey player!

Anyway, I still do play amateurly and join in some pickup games or so. It’s also where I can still practice my rudimentary Prydanian, which I learned from hanging around Prydanian children. Half of my vocabulary is probably cuss words though!

@luxy asks in Twitcher, “Are you single?”

Heh. I actually am single. Not looking for anyone now though, I want to become financially stable first before I get into relationships and build a family.

On Twitcher, @love_facials asks “What is your skincare routine?”

Uhhh… I don’t have a skincare routine? I just wash my face with soap twice a day. Omg the comment section is blowing up again… “brag about being naturally blessed with beautiful skin...” Hey, I’m not bragging! I’m just saying I wash my face twice a day and that’s it. I’m a guy and I am totally ignorant of skincare routines haha.

@barbae says in chat, “Not even shaving and post-shave routine?”

Well… you see… I’m one of those guys with a natural inability to grow a full beard. Not even a moustache. Nuh-uh. I just cannot get one. So instead of a half-baked beard I just go clean-shaven. But because my facial hear grows reeeeally slowly I only have to shave like every three days or so. Five o’clock shadow more like three-day shadow. When I do shave, I just wash my face afterwards. Nothing fancy.

@gudrun_ramzi asks on Twitcher, “What is your favourite food?”

Oh I love Kyle’s sausages. Stick ‘em in buns, mmmm. For those not in the know, Kyle’s sausages are a specialty of my home province of Bethany. It’s very thick and juicy and yummy!

It also brings some sort of nostalgia to me. Back to my childhood and to my hometown. Kyle’s sausages in buns are a staple beach food in eastern Bethany. Having one makes me feel right at home or feel like I’m on the beach.

“How about more specific – cheese?” says @aiden_cheese on the chat.

For cheese… I like Douvres cheese. Doesn’t go well with Kyle’s sausages though, but I put Douvres in my salads and pasta.

On Twitcher, @Kirsten_Cinema asks “What is your favourite movie?”

I tend to have a recency bias when it comes to these things. I love movies that have historical content and social significance. Uhh… can I have three? Three films come to mind. I might inadvertently include spoilers, so apologies in advance.

First is Les Possessions de Lesprée, set in the 17th century and takes place in a fictional town of Lesprée. The town suffers a mass hysteria due to demonic possessions. It’s not a scary movie per se, but there are some scary scenes. It’s neither a parody nor a comedy, but is a tongue-in-cheek critique of relevant current social issues while set in the past. It’s a deep movie, and sometimes you don’t be able to immediately recognise the meaning and thoughts and ideas it wants to impart.

Second is La Messe Noire, which is – surprise! – another historical-themed movie. In this case it is a semi-fictionalised account of the Black Mass in the Black Cathedral of Loudun (yes it indeed happen historically) during the Santonian Revolution. Not to be a spoiler – since it is indeed history – the Black Mass happened with the anticlerical (and some say Satanist) Duke of the Sologne forced the Bishop of Loudun to re-enact, mockingly, the Stations of the Cross and ended up with the bishop being crucified in front of the Black Cathedral of Loudun. Then the Duke of the Sologne desecrated the cathedral by presiding over a “Black Mass”, with details too graphic to be included – my channel might get banned! It’s a 2012 film, but I was only able to watch it a few years ago because it had a “Restricted” rating due to its graphic nature. It scores highly because of its cinematography and production.

And to round up my top three it’s Penn-ar-Bed, which is a Bethanian-language film set in the 19th century about Bethanian seafarers and the women back home waiting for them. I won’t spoil it because I want you guys to watch it! Even though the language in the film is Bethanian, it has Santonian subtitles.

On chat, @flixative asks, “Since you’re the Interflix heir, and you can’t be unbiased…”

Hey I just said that I am not THE Interflix heir! But yeah, okay I won’t be biased…

“…what is your most recommended non-Interflix series?”

This one’s easy. Definitely La Reine Reticente. Good story, good production value.

There are still a lot of questions, but we’re running out of time. We’ll reserve that in the next AMA! If you’re still with me, thank you very much for listening! If you like my content, please subscribe to my channel. I very much appreciate it!

(In costume) Hi guys! I am here on the set of Petit Royaume or Rouantelezh Vihan, a show that I serendipitously got cast in! This clip won’t be up until the last episode of me airs! Hope this new adventure goes well!

Hi guys! Caël here! People have been nagging me to discuss and make a video about my uh… thing on TV that aired the previous month. Today I will be answering the questions people had been bombarding me on Twitcher and on my Viedéo.

People were wondering if I appeared in the Interflix series Petit Royaume. Petit Royaume is a Bethanian-language period drama which is also being aired by Saintonge Télévisions (STV) over at STV 7, its cultural channel. Its original Bethanian title is Rouantelezh Vihan, and the dialogue is in Bethanian. For STV purposes, it is subtitled in Santonian.

When it was aired last month, I was inundated by messages asking me if it was me who played who played Fañch, Count of Lanester, in Petit Royaume.

The answer is, yes, it was me that you saw on TV. Heh, the chatbox is blowing up…!

@amala_aries says in all caps NEPOTISM!!!

Hahahaha, kinda. You guys know that my uncle helps run Interflix. But it’s not Uncle Thibault that brought me in. Uncle Thibault was even surprised I ended up on one of those Interflix series! It was my dad’s fault!

In the chatbox, @whorepresents asks How did you get the role?

Yes, I am about to get there. It was an accident. I promise! It was not intended. I didn’t want to be an actor – yet! I blame my dad.

You see, my dad has a side hustle as an actor in Bethanian-language theatre. So HunvreGweled, one of Interflix’s studios, was making a period drama set in in 18th century Bethany. They had a casting call in multiple Bethanian cities and were specifically looking for Bethanian-speaking actors. Petit Royaume had an ensemble cast, and the cast list runs in the hundreds. My dad also had a bit role as a monk.

So what happened was, four months ago, they were filming a scene in Mont-Saint-Caël just outside Redon. Two actors unfortunately got sick and dropped out at the last minute. They searched for replacements. This being a big production, a lot of theatre and film people in Redon were already involved, so baseline, there were few other available people. Since everybody else suitable on the set had appeared in episodes that had already been aired, they couldn’t re-cast any of them. They needed new guys. They had an emergency casting call in Redon, looking for two actors to fill those roles.

They were looking for Bethanian-speaking guys in my age range who have some experience in the entertainment industry and was willing to film in front of the camera. My dad called me on the phone and told me to try out the casting call. I guess they were that desperate! They needed two guys!

And there were only three of us there at the final audition. They only needed two, but they got all three of us some roles. They just assigned the roles. I was told that I will be the Count of Lanester. Arthur Couic, the series’ director, told me it was only a bit role and would be just for a few episodes. Little did I know that ‘bit role’ is gonna explode! I think my character appeared in just four episodes.

“I hated you!” says @ambrentendu.

Thank youuuu!! I was initially bothered by the viewers’ hostile reaction, but my dad, the director, and the scriptwriter all told me that it was the mark of a good villain-playing actor to get the audience to hate me. Their words, not mine.

So you see – SPOILER ALERT! – the Count of Lanester was a villainous character in Petit Royaume. In the story, he was the illegitimate son of the Petty King of Bethany. He gets married off to the daughter of the Petty King of Domnonée to seal an alliance between the two kingdoms. He was sent to Domnonée and settled in the town of Douvres, which was the dowry and wedding gift to the couple. The first scene we filmed – and the one where they needed an emergency casting call – was the marriage of the Count of Lanester to Nolwenn, Lady of Douvres, daughter of the Petty King of Domnonée. In character, Nolwenn didn’t even know who was she getting married to until she got to the altar! I guess that also applies to the actor who had to play the groom!

Unfortunately, the character of the Count of Lanester was an abusive pompous b~stard. Literally an example of the nobles that the Santonians revolted against during the Santonian Revolution.

“Was it hard playing such a role?” asks @candide_redon.

Yes! I was not prepared! It felt totally out of character for me. Thank gosh my dad was there coaching me. He was a stage dad, literally! Haha. I felt that the casting director also deliberately chose me for the role for nefarious purposes. During the audition, she told me, “You look like someone who people won’t suspect to be that evil!” I just laughed her comment off. But jeez, the character was that evil. I only knew that they will kill the character off immediately – I didn’t expect they would stretch that wickedness to four episodes!

Says @whine-et-dine on the chatbox, “I think I know the answer to this, what was the most difficult scene to film?”

I only filmed a few scenes! I think I know what you are referring to. It’s my answer too. The r~pe scene. Again – SPOILERS! – the Count of Lanester r~pes his new wife the day after their wedding. That scene was so difficult to do. And before you ask! NO! There was no real s~x involved! It was simulated, they got creative with the camera angles and the lighting and the sheets and stuff.

Although I gotta say, everything I did was difficult to some degree. Like the Count’s cruelty to his subjects. The scene where the Count of Lanester whips his servants… ugh, that was difficult too. That wasn’t fake. I really had to hit my fellow actors. They were cool with it. It needed two takes. Nolan, the actor who played the servant, told me after the first take: “Don’t fake it. Hit me for real. Or else we’ll be retaking this scene over and over. Instead of just one big hit, you’ll have to hit me multiple times if we keep on re-taking. Do it and get it over with.” Thank gosh Arthur was satisfied after the second take.

Another scene was when the Count of Lanester screams obscenities inside the Cathedral of Douvres. He was trying to display dominance over the Bishop of Douvres. As a good catholique boy, it was challenging for me to yell cuss words at a priest inside a church!

@counterlife asks “To the opposite, what was the easiest scene?”

The death scene, haha! Was so easy, just lie there, pretend to be dead. The preceding scene was difficult, but the end was fun.

“You deserved to die!” says @ambrentendu.

Awww, still hating on me? Whyyy? It’s not me, it’s just a character! I’m not like that in real life, I promise!

Anyway – MORE SPOILERS – the Countess of Douvres manages to kill the Count of Douvres after another drunken attempt to r~pe her. Like in the other scenes, a lot of the hitting, action, and others weren’t fake. Gaëlle Le Coz, who plays Nolwenn, didn’t hold back! I had bruises and scratches afterward! She slammed me around the room and threw things at me. She smashed that prop vase on my head. She tore out some of my hair.

Afterwards, Gaëlle apologised for the violence but the director was happy at the result. We did not have to do a lot of retakes for that sequence. Gosh, I’d be so battered if there were a lot of retakes! So Gaëlle and I did our best to avoid re-takes!

The most challenging part of that scene was when Nolwenn slaps Fañch’s corpse to confirm that he was dead. And me, being dead, MUST NOT react. Not even a flinch. Man, it was hard not to react to a slap!

“How was the experience?” asks @elisabethany in the chat.

Not gonna do it again! Haha. Just kidding. If I’m gonna act again, I hope it won’t be those evil characters again! To this day I am still getting angry comments on my social media pages!

Aside from those, the support and feedback I got was so amazing, I might be encouraged to audition next time!

“Why didn’t you tell us you landed a role in a TV series?” asks @finbar_rabnif in the chat.

I was made to sign an agreement that I can’t talk about my roles and spoilers until after the scene had aired on STV. So I could only talk about it now! But I filmed this video’s intro segment on the first scene’s set after I got the role!

Also, you guys figured it out quick anyway! There were lots of folks posting gifs of “Caël’s Evil Twin” and tagging my Twitcher account! And then there’s the “Slap to confirm death” meme! Sooo mean!! Haha, just kidding.

@furnesss says in the chatbox, “It didn’t look like it was your first role…”

Thank you for the compliment, @furnesss, but this really was my first big acting gig.

“… did you have training on acting?”

No, I did not have formal acting training. Even though my dad was a theatre actor, I wasn’t a theatre kid. My only sorta training was that my parents enrolled me in an acting workshop as a summer class during middle school – that’s it. It was mostly on-the-fly coaching from my dad and the director. Katell, the casting director, also helped me much.

“What is the best tip you got?” asks @ryan_c.

There’s this one thing that I learned from my dad and the venerable Gabriel-Gaël Guermeur, who played the Bishop of Douvres. Something they called “character separation”.

The scene was the Count and Countess of Douvres were attending a private Mass officiated by the Bishop of Douvres. The bishop delivered a homily that was a veiled attack at the Count’s behaviour, and so the Count became angry. The script had it that the Count interrupted the Mass and threw a tantrum. Like I said earlier, as a good catholique boy, it was hard for me to do that. I had difficulty spewing obscenities and screaming insults while at Mass inside the cathedral. It was embarrassing as they had to re-take because of me!

During the break, Monsieur Guermeur took me aside and told me that I am not my character. At that moment while filming, it was not Caël Boënnec who was there, but Count Fañch of Lanester. It won’t be Caël who is shouting and making a scandal, but Fañch. “Like a demonic possession?” I asked Monsieur Guermeur. He laughed at my analogy.

It might sound like schizophrenic, but being the geek that I am, I think the better analogy would be familiar to tabletop gamers and roleplayers: “In-Character” vs “Out-of-Character” separation. Your character in the game isn’t necessarily reflecting of you as a person. Being able to separate the two is a critical and basic skill in these activities. Hence you might hear me saying that the bad guy you saw on TV was not me!

Having some sort of experience with roleplaying and tabletop gaming, I think that might have helped me separate myself from Fañch. My dad and Katell helped me de-role afterwards. I don’t want to bring Fañch home with me, Gaëlle said he was terrifying!

@l_archer asks “Do you have any other acting projects?”

No, I don’t have any coming up. Acting is not my main career… yet! I’ll stick to making Viedéos and explainer videos for now. But I’d be happy to pick up any casting calls!

Alright, I think that's it! If you’re still with me, thank you very much for listening! If you like my content, please subscribe to my channel. I very much appreciate it!

Caël (amusingly his character has the same name) was the son of a rich, widely-hated, cutthroat industrialist in Béthanie named Ronan. (Incidentally played by Caël’s real-life father too!) Ronan was a single father to his only son Caël, a college student. Ronan and Caël were polar opposites: Ronan was ruthless, heartless, and greedy; Caël was polite, kind, and generous. With Ronan being an absentee father and Caël loathing his father’s behaviour, their relationship was distant and perfunctory.

After volunteering at an orphanage’s charity event, Caël gets kidnapped by a group of left-wing Picardists. (Hence the screengrab.) They demanded a ransom from Ronan, which Ronan reluctantly pays. The kidnappers then had a second demand: that Ronan show himself to the group, apologise for his mistreatment of workers, and stay in captivity for one month in exchange for Caël. Ronan thought it was too much and pressured the police to act. Not satisfied with Ronan’s response, the kidnappers shot Caël and buried his body in a grave in the forest. The kidnappers pretended that Caël was still alive. The police, unaware that Caël was dead, were still trying to look for him.

The episode then cuts to Lancou, who was watching the news on TV about Caël’s kidnapping when he was interrupted by a distraught Azaëlle. Azaëlle was one of Lancou’s immortal employees; she was a fallen angel who had recently been thrown out of heaven and stripped of most of her angel powers. Azaëlle was disgraced because she had used her angel powers to ‘excessively influence’ and ‘inappropriately meddle’ in the mortal human world. Finding herself on earth, Azaëlle sought refuge with Lancou and his merry band of psychopomps ten years ago.

When Lancou asked Azaëlle why she was upset, Azaëlle revealed her past to Lancou. Azaëlle used to work as a guardian angel, and one of her wards was Caël. Caël was the main reason why Azaëlle lost her powers – she had been excessively protecting Caël and had been his mother figure while he growing up. This explained Caël’s massively different personality from Ronan’s. Caël’s mother died when he was a baby. Caël’s mother went to heaven and met Azaëlle. Azaëlle promised that she would look after Caël. Now Caël was dead and his soul was nowhere to be found.

Azaëlle was on ‘human duties’ (working as a trucker in Lancou’s mortal, on-earth business) at the time that Caël died. She only learned that Caël had died when Titou, the guy on ‘immortal duties’ (ferrying souls to heaven or hell) told her that he had ferried Caël’s soul to heaven but was rejected by Saint Peter because Caël’s name was not on “The Book”. Hell did not accept Caël either: Satan wanted Ronan, not Caël. Caël returned to earth as a lost, wandering spirit. Azaëlle wanted Lancou to help her former ward and bring justice to him. First, they must find Caël’s soul.

Lancou, Azaëlle, and Titou went to the place where Titou fetched Caël’s soul – the grave in the forest. Lancou devised a way to get the police and Morvan’s crime scene investigators to easily find Caël’s grave by leaving clues leading to the place.

Afterwards, the three psychopomps searched for Caël’s wandering soul. They found Caël, sad and crying, inside the home of his girlfriend, Eryl. Eryl, too had been crying and worried about Caël, but they could not communicate, separated by the dimensions of the living and the dead.

Titou assumed his immortal form and appeared to Caël, coaxing him to come outside to the other psychopomps. Caël recognised Azaëlle (his “imaginary friend” from childhood) and had a brief happy reunion moment. Caël asked why Azaëlle was gone for a long time. Azaëlle dodged the question and instead nudged Caël to give Lancou information about his death. Lancou would then feed the information to Tifenn Morvan so his murder could be solved.

The story arc is two episodes long, and S5E11 ends here.

In Episode 12, presumably, Caël had told info about his death to Lancou, who passed it to Morvan. (Whole story is revealed towards the end.) Meanwhile, Caël had two problems: what will happen to Eryl, the love of his life; and why was he stuck on earth.

Lancou told Caël that he was stuck on earth because his name was still not written on “The Book” – meaning it wasn’t his time to die or he had unfinished business. Titou mused that Caël probably had not yet fulfilled his mission: he himself enunciated his unfinished business. Caël asked how he could fulfil it when he’s already dead. Lancou said that sometimes it takes days to years before someone knows. Lancou invited Caël to join them while he was waiting. As he was no immortal, Caël could not assume any form and communicated to the living via Azaëlle. Azaëlle assumed various human forms to send coded messages from Caël to Eryl. Meanwhile, Azaëlle finally told Caël the reason why she disappeared. This made Caël feel guilty, but Azaëlle assured him that she believed her sacrifice was well worth it, given the good change Caël had brought into the world.

Over at SSJML, Tifenn Morvan was under pressure to solve the case, with Ronan being a prominent public figure. Lancou fed Morvan the subtle clues to help her solve the case. This being the premise of the show, Morvan knew where the information was coming from. The police finally locate Caël’s grave and Ronan explodes in fury and anguish.

It then emerged that Caël’s kidnappers were merely posing as a group of left-wing Picardists in order to drain public sympathy away from Ronan. The clues left by Lancou led to the true mastermind of Caël’s kidnapping and murder: Ronan’s gold-digger trophy wife, Lila. Caël not only objected to his father’s relationship with Lila, but Caël was also an obstacle to Lila getting Ronan’s entire wealth. With Caël dead, Lila would inherit Ronan’s estate once she succeeds in killing Ronan. Lila could then live a luxurious life with her beau Efflam, who headed the gang of kidnappers.

Lila was arrested and jailed, and Ronan filed for a dissolution of their marriage. At Caël’s funeral, as tributes came in, Ronan saw that the most valuable part of his life – his son – was gone. Ronan realised the gravity of his mistakes, rued the destructive path in life that he treaded, and resolved right then to become better. He started sponsoring the charity events that Caël used to volunteer in. He became less concerned about profit, and more about the well-being of his workers and the community. He set up charitable foundations and became more active in Church.

Two weeks later, Ronan visited Caël’s grave at the cemetery. Ronan found Eryl crying as she laid flowers on Caël’s grave. Ronan had a vague recollection that she was Caël’s high school sweetheart, whom he disapproved of because her family was not wealthy. Surprised to find Ronan there, Eryl started to leave but Ronan asked her to stay. Ronan and Eryl had an earnest talk. Eryl said that she loved Caël not for his potential wealth, but because of his character and personality. Ronan admitted that he threatened to disinherit Caël if he did not stay away from Eryl, but Caël stood his ground. Eryl said she knew that, that Caël was ready to leave all his riches behind for love. Ronan apologised to Eryl for trying to pry them apart. Ronan hugged Eryl, and then noticed her baby bump. He asked if she was pregnant. Eryl said yes and that she had been planning to tell Caël on the day he disappeared.

Caël’s soul, accompanied by Azaëlle, had been watching his father and girlfriend as they hugged and cried at his grave. Caël’s soul approached them and he hugged them both. After a while, Caël felt an inexplicable force drawing him into Eryl. Throwing an inquisitive glance at Azaëlle, the guardian angel told Caël that he will be reborn in five months – as Eryl’s son. When Caël had gone into Eryl’s body, Eryl felt the baby’s quickening.

While leaving the cemetery, Azaëlle was surprised to see Archangel Michael coming down towards her. Michael told Azaëlle that she was being recalled to heaven and her angel powers would be restored. Michael told Azaëlle that they had to suspend her temporarily because she was interfering too much with God’s will – to make Ronan change his ways, using Caël. Now that Caël had fulfilled his mission regarding Ronan, Caël would have to be reborn to take care of Eryl – and Azaëlle will be the reborn Caël’s guardian angel.

30 Dec 2024 • 13:12
Dad: I got the role I have auditioned for!
Caël: Congrats dad! I’m sure you’ll do great!
Dad: Thank you son.
Caël: Is this the afternoon drama?
Dad: Yes. Will be playing a deadbeat dad.
Caël: Haha so out-of-character for you.
Dad: They were also excited when they learned you were my son.
Caël: oh haha
Dad: One of the episodes includes a flashback, and they have a role for a younger version of my character. They would like you to play it.
Caël: Really? When’s the audition?
Dad: No need to audition. They told me that if you agree, they will give the role to you. They have seen your work on Lancou and Petit Royaume and they are impressed.
Caël: Sure tell them to give me the possible dates for filming and I’ll try to squeeze it into my schedule.
Dad: Great! Thanks son.
Caël: Thanks for the job too!