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This combo is just too good🥹

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He’s perfect🥹❤️

Full credit to: @vy2_xyz on twitter

I don’t even know if it’s allowed to be excited for Caleb’s main story anymore, even on this sub, but I can’t help it. It’s been over 520 days and I’ve missed the Colonel so much🥹

Is anyone else also excited?

Full video credit to: CalebBB🍎

Sorry lots of rambling incoming😅

When I first started watching the PV, I was so happy to see that we were finally getting Caleb piloting a plane. It has honestly been one of the things I wanted most for one of his cards. But when I reached this part of the video and saw that smile, I felt so much sadness because seeing him like that immediately made me think about how cruel the world has been to him.

Caleb is only 25, but life has already taken so much from him. His early childhood was robbed from him and so much of his earlier life has been marked by suffering, loss of control, and having to survive things no child should ever have to experience because of EVER. Then later on, he found someone he wanted to protect and even though his love and care for MC were his own choice, so much of his life still became centered around her safety and happiness.

That’s why his dream of becoming a pilot feels so important to me. It was something that truly belonged to him. Even though Caleb says he wanted to become a pilot for MC and grandma Josephine, we can see that his love for flying was something he had carried with him since childhood. He wanted to be in the sky because of the freedom it represented, the kind of freedom he never really had in his own life. That dream was his own and it mattered enough to him that he was willing to separate from MC and leave for Skyhaven to pursue it (we can all imagine how difficult that decision must have been for him).

Caleb worked so hard at the Aerospace Academy in Skyhaven. He almost died once, but even that did not make him give up. He kept pushing forward until he finally made it and started working at the DAA, but just when he finally reached the future he had fought so hard for, fate took it away from him. It almost feels like Caleb was destined to suffer. The bright future he had worked so hard for was stolen from him and he was dragged bac k into the same kind of suffering he had experienced as a kid.

That’s why this birthday PV hit me so hard. Seeing Caleb smile in such an innocent and boyish way while flying the T-93 (something he had dreamed about but thought wasn’t possible anymore) made the cruelty of his situation feel even more painful because this is where Caleb should be.

He should be flying freely in the sky inside the plane of his dreams as a DAA pilot, with the person he loves beside him. He should be allowed to simply exist as himself without trauma, danger, and suffering constantly following him. This version of Caleb feels like his purest self, the Caleb he could have been if the world had been kinder to him.

And what makes it even sadder is that in reality, almost everything in his life works against this happiness. I feel like choosing Caleb as a LI gives him the happy ending he deserves but in the main story, he still doesn’t have that. He’s still suffering, is in constant danger, and left on bad terms with the person he is going through all of this suffering for. So when I saw him smiling like that, I felt heartbroken for both Caleb the LI and Caleb in the main story.

BONUS: I really love how deeply Caleb’s MC loves her man and how clearly that love comes through in everything. I love that in so many of his cards, you can see how far she would go to give him anything and everything. She was willing to risk her life by going to the N109 Zone to get revenge for Caleb in the main story. She wanted to directly confront the fleet after learning what they did to him and she even put a chip inside herself just for the possibility of understanding Caleb more. Girl’s crazy about him haha

MC wants to protect Caleb from danger and also protect his happiness. Her love for him is so deep and she shows it through both big and small actions. I know a lot of people feel like MC can be a little spoiled with Caleb (and I do agree to a certain extent) but at the same time, she also spoils Caleb in her own way.

The fact that she remembered Caleb wanted to pilot a T-93 but never got the chance and then wanted to make that dream come true for him says so much about how she loves him.

In Spotlit Gaze, it’s really all about about MC wanting to find the things Caleb enjoys and wanting to make him happy. Caleb’s MC is not a MC who only receive love from the LI. From the very beginning she has always actively shown to him how much she cares for him. She respects him, cares about what he thinks and feels, and most importantly wants him to be happy.

That is why this PV feels so emotional to me becuase it also shows how deeply MC loves him by trying to give Caleb his dream bac k.