#⁽ ✧ ⁾ ⠀ ⠀ 𝙶𝙸𝙰𝙽𝚃 𝚂𝚃𝙾𝚁𝚈 ╱ reader’s viewpoint.
𝚂𝚄𝙱 𝚂𝙲𝙴𝙽𝙰𝚁𝙸𝙾 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙴𝙳. ✧ @redemptioninterlude ╱ SOOKHEE MIN ✧ ❝ sometimes life deals you a bad hand, but you can still play your cards right and win ❞
it’s one of the rare days that they’re afforded downtime. even this is suspicious to him , eyes glancing back to the lingering dokkaebi when things are too silent. any hour now , he’s expecting a new sub scenario. things have steadily been diverging from the structure of events from ways of survival. he has to be prepared for anything if he intends to read the end with his current companions in tow.
sookhee was different. he wasn’t trusting of her initially , and he can’t be sure he totally is now. she’s proven to be an extraordinary member of the nebula regardless. times like these are given to personal training and bettering relationships. the latter proves to be more difficult than the former. to her credit , she’s trying more than he is.
“ a bad hand is an understatement. ” when he was alone , dokja wallowed. he cursed every deity he could name and went to bed empty of tears. unproductive and barely cathartic. slicing dragons to shreds gives him an easier way to deal with emotions. in a way , he’s thankful for the apocalypse. “ but i’d say i’ve been playing my cards correctly. i’ll win. are you doubting my capabilities ? trust me or not , we’re going to be the ones to see the end. ”
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𝚂𝚄𝙱 𝚂𝙲𝙴𝙽𝙰𝚁𝙸𝙾 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙴𝙳. ✧ @antigoddex ╱ ? ✧ ❝ somebody forked up… ❞
“ shirt , you think ? ” gaze lands on the scenario window that floats in his periphery. he scans over the text , frowning at the details. it was a hidden scenario , one that wasn’t even shown to him until it was too late to complete. he pivots to the ever present dokkaebi and flips the creature off — only his pointer finger lifts instead of his middle. “ fork you , bench , ” he spits. the penalty makes a mockery of his nebula , of which [ redacted ] is obviously included. he turns to xem , offering a short smile. “ it could always be worse. at least the penalty wasn’t death. we can deal with this for a week. let’s try to finish the next scenario properly. ”
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𝚂𝚄𝙱 𝚂𝙲𝙴𝙽𝙰𝚁𝙸𝙾 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙴𝙳. ✧ @fatewoven ╱ YOO JOONGHYUK ✧ ❝ don’t act like you know me ❞
[ THE EXCLUSIVE SKILL ‘OMNISCIENT READER’S VIEWPOINT’ HAS BEEN ACTIVATED ]
[ THE EXCLUSIVE SKILL ‘OMNISCIENT READER’S VIEWPOINT’ IS CANCELLED ]
wait —
[ YOUR COMPLEX UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PERSON IS INSUFFICIENT ]
what ?
the rest of the scenario goes smoothly — or as smoothly as it can go when it feels like yoo joonghyuk is fighting against him rather than with him. he saves his annoyance for afterwards , wiping the blood dripping from his mouth onto the sleeve of his coat as he approaches the regressor. a plethora of things he wants to yell at him swirl around in his head , but he’s beat to the punch.
his jaw drops. really , actually drops. he has to remind himself to close it before one of gilyoung’s six legged friends does something funny. reading three thousand one hundred forty nine chapters chronicling the adventures of someone’s life should give dokja all the information he needs. and so far in the scenarios , it has. at the end of the day , he’s a character — one that dokja knows like the back of his hand. so why didn’t his skill work earlier ?
“ i know you better than you probably know yourself. ” it’s an arrogant statement , but he stands by every word. after all , dokja spent thirteen years pretending to be him when he needed strength the most. of course , he knows him. like himself , yoo joonghyuk has never been understood and never will be. that in itself is paradoxical , but thirteen years of defending the actions of the man that stood in front of him to internet strangers should qualify him as someone who knows him. “ there’s nothing i don’t know. ” he probably still thinks he’s a prophet , so this isn’t a stretch.
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𝚂𝚄𝙱 𝚂𝙲𝙴𝙽𝙰𝚁𝙸𝙾 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙴𝙳. ✧ @antigoddex ╱ ? ✧ ❝ you’ve lost - you've lost a lot of blood. ❞
“ i know. ” truth be told , dokja can’t feel anything at all. a glance down shows the reason why : an injury bad enough that not even lee seolhwa would be able to help him now. “ i’m going to die. ” there’s a lack of surprise and concern in his voice. he’s familiar with death and dying , he’s not scared. “ you should kill me , you’ll get the coins. ” dokja wishes there was pain , at least it would feel more real. at least it would feel like he was dying for a reason that wasn’t getting too cocky with yoo joonghyuk and the disaster. he bought them time and he knew dokja would return shortly. it isn’t all for nothing , he tries to remind himself. “ kill me , before i die. ” let my death mean more than my life did.
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𝚂𝚄𝙱 𝚂𝙲𝙴𝙽𝙰𝚁𝙸𝙾 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙴𝙳. ✧ @kusatta ╱ LEE SOLHWA ✧ ❝ i feel like i’ve failed you ❞
“ why do you think that ? ” the casualties were expected. despite how many plans he made , there was no way to pass the scenario without losing people. luck must have been on his side , because his companions remain standing despite everything. “ you did everything in your power , right ? that’s more than enough. don’t lose sleep over things out of your control. ”
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