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ive been enjoying doing these short comics :D scene from ch 387
nov :
#aofi art#orv#omniscient reader#omniscient reader's viewpoint#yhk#yoohankim#yoo joonghyuk#yjh#han sooyoung#hsy#kim dokja#kdj#also !!! orv reading update im at ch 487 :D#id prob be finishing it in 3 more days woooo
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just read the side story set in the 3 year period that kdj got sent to the 1863rd turn and sangsoo r gonna be the death of me istg
#orv#orv spoilers#han sooyoung#yoo sangah#sangsoo#they miss kdj so much. i hope they tie him up for months after he comes back after ch 551
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clown to clown conversation, clown to clown communication
[ID: digital doodle shitpost of kim dokja, han sooyoung, and yoo joonghyuk from omniscient reader’s viewpoint. They are wearing rainbow clown wigs and have red clown noses. The drawing is a redraw of the clown to clown communication meme. kdj and yjh are facing each other, hsy is enjoying the clown show in front of her. ]
#orv#omniscient reader's viewpoint#kim dokja#han sooyoung#yoo joonghyuk#pls no spoilers im only around ch 110 at this point#rowo
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hsy : im gonna help u out let me do it
lhh : the same way you did yjh?
#oh god 💀#this is just the gist of their convo in ch 610#LHH U BETTER RUN#I like how lhh mentions hsy is stronger than she was in orv and that’s bc she’s THE WRITER.#orv#orv side story#lee hakhyun#omniscient reader’s viewpoint#orv spoilers#han sooyoung
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Chapters: 4/?
Fandom: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk, Han Sooyoung/Jung Heewon, Anna Croft/Yoo Joonghyuk
Characters: Kim Dokja, Yoo Joonghyuk, Han Sooyoung, Jung Heewon, Lee Jihye (Omniscient Reader), Anna Croft (Omniscient Reader), Yoo Mia, Biyoo (Omniscient Reader), Nirvana Moebius
Additional Tags: Background Relationships, background Sooyoung and Heewon, Slow Burn, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Past nirvana moebius/yoo joonghyuk, Past Rape/Non-con, no beta we die like kim dokja
Summary:
Yoo Joonghyuk’s life has always been a balancing act. From living on his own, to becoming a surrogate parent to his newly discovered sister, agreeing to take over the family business in exchange for financial stability, or marrying someone he no longer loves.
Joonghyuk finds refuge in small cafe and a stranger with glittering eyes, but this daydream is on shaky ground. Specters from his past, and a terrifying night he’s determined to forget, threaten him and those he loves. Caught in the gaze of Seoul’s newest serial killer, what path can he take to reach his happy ending?
#joongdok#dokjoong#omniscient reader's viewpoint#kim dokja#yoo joonghyuk#han sooyoung#jung heewon#i totally didn’t forget to announce ch 3 on tumblr#fanfic
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/ orv novel spoilers until up to ch 468
Wherever one will be, the other will rush over to protect them
Ok.! Time to go insane about shin yoosung (I love Lee gilyoung too but I need to talk about shin yoosung otherwise I will explode.)
every so often at least thrice a week I think about how attached yoosung is to dokja it just turns my heart inside out. Like she really just started off thinking she was better off dead, and no one wanted her, and then han sooyoung shows up and threatens to kill her and she thinks "oh. I kind of deserve it." and what does dokja do? He protects and saves and nurtures her. Which is already very heartwarming right?
And then she learns about this future self of her from the 41st round, gets 41st sys' memories of pain and feeling neglected by 41yjh, literally everyone wants to kill her, and also her future self is this monstrous beast who's wreaking havoc, the man (yjh) whom her future self decides to stake thousands of years on wants to kill her as well, and future self has already killed herself like once. And so this is like a whole ass onion of layers that are reinforcing her mentality that she's unneeded and she should die and everyone wants her dead and the world is better off with her dead, right? And WHAT DOES DOKJA DO. WHAT DOES DOKJA DO. HE
1. Protects her immediately, putting himself between her and yjh's sword
2. "yoo Joonghyuk if you hurt her I won't forgive you"
3. Protects her future self (who has done terrible things and was also forsaken by the person she struggled so desperately to help)
4. Due to trust in dokja, this causes kimcom to all protect future sys as well without hesitation
5. Gets pissed on behalf of scenario enforcement upon 41sys and promptly uses a good chunk of his riches to beat up the dokkaebi
6. (sys isn't aware of this but I'll add it anyway) saves 41sys soul from the dead and reincarnates her into a baby which he raises with care
LIKE HE SAVES HER, SAVES HER AGAIN, SAVES HER FUTURE SELF, BRINGS HER FUTURE SELF BACK TO LIFE, LIKE I'm overwhelmed. Can you tell? He said "you are needed, I won't let you die" in like 20 different languages, and I just. I cannot even begin to fathom how much that meant to shin yoosung, she's so young yet she told dokja he could kill her, omg her and gilyoung r rlly besties for lifers because why are they both fucked up, please.
What am I even talking about it's almost 7am
#I'll add alt text when I wake up#Orv#Orv spoilers#orvfanart#omniscient reader fanart#omniscient readers viewpoint#omniscient reader#kim dokja#kdj#Shin yoosung#Lee gilyoung#Sys#Lgy#Biyoo#crit's art: orv
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"The act of understanding someone started off with admitting that you didn't know anything about that person."
- CH. 539
[ID: Blue-toned Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint fanart of Kim Dokja emerging from huge book pages. He is in his Demon King form, his face is shadowed, and he is clutching his throat. Han Sooyoung and Yoo Joonghyuk, much smaller than Dokja, stand on the rippling pages and look up at him. End ID]
(ID by princess-of-purple-rose)
#needed an emo sentence for an emo drawing#I think about those three a lot. a lot. And there's a lot of that thought put in here#orv#omniscient readers viewpoint#kim dokja#orv kdj#yoo joonghyuk#orv yjh#han sooyoung#orv hsy#orv spoilers#yoohankim#yhk#my art#ok so.#Its like. there is so much impossibly deep sadness in this story#At the core of this story. Because kdj is the sole reader of this story#the enemy of the story and in the end it swallows him up and he becomes it. The ramifications of his boundless misery are world ending#And so much of him wants to become it and die alone. It feels like beating the final boss a bit doesnt it#But they won't let him. Theyll travel the snow field n travel the pages and text and the story again and again to reach him#And its so much greater than them and its so lonely and suffocating#But what else is there than to show that you wont give up on loving this person? That they are at the center of it all? The most powerful#yet powerless at the same time#I need to go the fuck to bed
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“When I closed my eyes, the overview of the entire universe would get drawn inside my head. Han Sooyoung wrote the story. Yoo Joonghyuk lived that story. And, I read that very story. And that’s how this world barely managed to reach its completion.”
- Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint ch. 536
8/8/2022
#omniscient reader's viewpoint#orv#han sooyoung#yoo joonghyuk#kim dokja#my artwork#fanart#my one orv fanart in a sea of genshin
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ORV Quotes Tournament - Winner!
⸢There are three ways to survive in a ruined world.⸥
⸢I’ve forgotten a few by now. However, one thing’s for certain.⸥
⸢And that is, the you reading these words will get to survive.⸥
⸢This story is for just that one reader.⸥
- Ch 551: The Eternity and Epilogue (Complete), Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint by SingShong
After many long weeks, this little tournament has come to a close! Thank you again for all the quotes you submitted, and the feelings you shared about this story. In an act of narrative beauty, this tournament has ended with Han Sooyoung's final words to us. This story has always been for just that one reader. Thank you, readers!
#tourney admin getting sentimental? not unusual#thank you everyone! this was a little idea of mine that turned into something quite fun#with some great twists along the way (tmyf)#thank u for sticking along for the ride! find me on my main if u ever wanna talk :)#orv quotes tournament#orv spoilers#orv novel spoilers#orv epilogue spoilers
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ORV - Ch 379
I recalled her book tucked away within my inner pocket and raised my voice. “....Just like you said, I do not know Han Su-Yeong.”
“Indeed, you’ve finally acknowledged it.”
“That is why I definitely can’t let her go.”
“What was that??”
“You see, I haven’t heard the conclusion of this story from her yet.”
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What would be the end of the scenario that Han Su-Yeong wanted?
Han Su-Yeong didn’t tell me the correct answer. As if she was telling me to use my own imagination for something like that.
Singnsong's foreshadowing, BUT HERES THE THING.
Han Sooyoung actually tells him straight up, a few chapters after this quote. "Wtf do you mean, 'imagine your own ending', I wanted us to GET MARRIED."
In a novel written by HSY, her missing ending is supposed to be marriage.
My hypothesis is that the ending of 'Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World' and 'ORV' ends in Kim Dokja getting married. :)
In this essay, I will...
#omniscient reader's viewpoint#kim dokja#orv#married to who#han sooyoung#yoo joonghyuk#orv spoilers#This is straight up from the author#its marriage your honor
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ORV ask game !
(3), (7) and (14) ?
already answered 14!
3. do you have a favourite quote?
"You are this universe's most powerless existance, aren't you"
ch 515
Yoo Joonghyuk slowly opened his mouth.
"I want to die."
It was a clear voice but there was a voice only clear to me.
「 I want to live. 」
ch 297
⸢If this story can really save you…⸥
If you regained just a little of your memories and remember us just one more time…
…Then I’ll keep writing the epilogue for you until the end of the time, for eternity.
ch 551
AND OBVIOUSLY many many more but these are ones i remember constantly.... for many many reasons. man even remembering them kind of brought tears to my eyes a bit
7. conversely, whats a headcanon that youre just pulling out of your ass but you love anyway?
EVERYONE KNOWS ITS ZWEIHANDER UNBROKEN FAITH i will take that thing to my grave i think kim dokja should have a huge very unpractical sword i mean its supposedly a ceremonial sword in the end so it doenst need to be practical does it. Im just saying it would be cool and funny so it should be real. We have enough normal boring shortswords, claymores, broadswords, rapiers and longswords in all stories so i think kim dokja should get the unpractical option.
I also like to think that han sooyoung and yoo joonghyuk share many small ticks because creator and creation can never be too different but they keep fighting over who had it first because this is how they bond
#ask game#i think a lot of people has that last one but i think its so cute to imagine tem doing small things similarly...it brings a smile to my fac#orv spoilers
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Continuing with my screaming for the 1863rd round, so SPOILERS + this one is a little long
Ch 288:
Kdj petting yjh's head ahhhhesophjeapgsh
Good, it's the least he deserved after kdj broke his spirit in the last chapter
And Gabriel being reminded of herself and Uriel?? Pls tell me more, I'm listening
Pffff, I didn't expect this XD yjh completely obediently eating the soil lmaoooooo
Oh, but you don’t have the heart to kill your favourite protagonist, do you? You don’t have the heart to kill the person you’ve come to know and love
*vibrating in my seat* *sees the next chapter* awwwww it was just knw
Ch 290:
Han Sooyoung my queeeeeeeeennnnn
Doksoo’s back and forth is fun as always
Uriel, my love! I wasn’t expecting her to appear ahhhhhhh
Ch 291:
Ohhh, is this what the Forth Wall did? Giving flashes of memories to yjh? Sneaky sneaky if that is true.
But!!! Yjh saying Uriel's name softly, "like a child first learning to speak"... ahhhhhhh them!!!
Ch 292:
NOOOOOOOOOO I didn’t expect to be crying for both yjh and Uriel in this arc, you can’t do this ;-;
And oh sweetie… A world where Uriel isn’t a friend is so strange after spending so much time with the 3rd round Uriel.
1863rd hsy’s 'Predictive Plagiarism' sounds really interesting. And combined with her Avatar ability, she sure is terrifying
Once again I can hear my heart shattering. A world in which the ending is possible without sacrifices. Except one. One single sacrifice that nobody of this world would mourn. Only the original protagonist and no one else (Yoo Mia isn't here. She is gone, isn't she ;-;). I’m just (╥╯^╰╥) 1863rd hsy may not need yjh to reach the end but I want him to. Can’t you let him get away with it, at least once? Can’t he too, reach the end with everyone else? But even if he does, will it be worth it? In a world he has no one by his side, in a world he isn’t wanted? Oh Yoo Joonghyuk…
Hsy’s last words in this chapter feel so final, so unforgiving. The only feeling they induce is quiet despair (it wasn’t supposed to end like that)
Ch 293:
YES TELL HER SWEETIE
Okay, not the time for this but six-winged kdj sounds so hot…
Kim Dokja saved her,,,, It’s not his Uriel. Her fury against Yoo Joonghyuk is justified, he said,,, And yet, he didn’t have the heart to let her die… I’m just *ugly sobbing noises* (╥╯^╰╥)
Ahhh being surrounded by the people who look exactly like his colleagues, friends, and yet standing amidst strangers. It’s such a lonely feeling, the 1863rd round. I wonder, is this how yjh has always felt each regression?
Kim Dokja sounds so tired here. “What’s new about this story”, you wonder as you gaze at the broken protagonist. What’s so different about this world, when in the end, it ends the same. Someone has to die for everyone else to reach the end. But that’s the same as every other round, isn’t it? (╥╯^╰╥)
“They could never be the original” – I’m dying oahgsohsapoegg KIM DOKJAAAAAAA
The original always holds a special place in a person’s heart… Maybe they don’t like the way the story was handled or the way it ended or some of the characters’ actions… Maybe they liked a lot of things and disliked an equal amount of them… But still, it’s the original. It’s the thing you fell in love with, the thing that gave you something to hold on to, something to cherish… Of course a reproduction could never surpass the original...
I can’t believe that he’s wormed his way into their group already… Actually, no. I can believe that. It’s Kim Dokja after all XD
He fought all alone,,,,
*Shaking 1863 hsy upside down* What do you mean he promised to die! What do you meannnnnn
TELL ME WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT YOU CRYPTIC BASTARDS-
Ch 294
wheeze Poor lhs
He’s thinking about his kids!!! He wants to go back, even if he doesn’t admit it ;-;
Look at him praising yjh even now awwww
…. Kim Dokja… He really should stop being so mean with knw, poor guy
I’m having too many emotions rn helloooo. They are his friends! He cares! He wants to go back!!!! Ahhhh
Oh no. Oh no. I have one (1) fear
*screams into the void* I shouldn’t read this while sober *I say and drink a whole cup of tea ‘cause I’m sick rn* Honestly though, this part... Kim Dokja's desperation, effort, love, his resolution... I think this part will stay with me for a long long time...
It's just… this whole part to the end of the chapter. Kim Dokja tried. He tried so hard. He gave his best. He knows how this story is supposed to end. And once again, just like with 41st sys, he tried his best. He tried to find a way to change the ending. I love him so much. God, I love him so much (╥╯^╰╥)
“It was an effort that perhaps no one would understand” *screams* *insert crying gif here*
ALSO ALSO, KDJ’S EYES BEING COMPARED TO STARS… AHHHHH
Yoo Joonghyuk listened. He listened. I can’t even explain how much this means to me, nor the way my heart is shattered on the floor right now (╥╯^╰╥) It was a story he didn’t know. It was a story written by someone who wished, from the bottom of his heart, for Yoo Joonghyuk’s happiness ahhhhhhhhh
This arc will be the death of me ahhhhh
#orv#orv spoilers#moon reacts to orv#kim dokja#1863rd round spoilers#i didn't expect the end of chapter 294 to hit me so hard#how am I supposed to go to my exam tomorrow and function as a normal human being when they say#that a quiet resolution burned in Kim Dokja's eyes and his back was weary as he gradually fell asleep while looking for a way to save yjh??
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singshong will be taking a one-day break so there will be no chapter sunday! i'll see you for the next ch on monday instead :)
649
shin yoosung opens her eyes. everything's dark. did something go wrong? what happened to ahjussi? a message appears.
[the connection is disconnected.]
she takes off the connection goggles on her head, as lgy does the same, shouting at her that she overused her powers and broke the connection. they argue. is it because of sys overusing her abilites? lgy sending out too many messages? actually, why is his modifier a complete ripoff of secretive plotter? lgy gets really mad at that. they continue fighting until seolhwa's voice comes from a speaker in the access room. she'll fix it, so stop fighting and go outside. the device is incomplete, so both of them connecting at the same time is probably what broke it.
so, they're connecting through something like a vr headset? interesting
and what about sangah? she's still connected, in another room. wearing the goggles, she's been connected for 36 hours straight, watching as a constellation. on her screen is the scenery of the ruined national palace museum, where a beautiful incarnation was ordering others around.. and han sooyoung secretly searching around. unlike them, who have connected through some kind of connection goggles, she entered directly by sending an avatar. she had told them not to come along, but they couldn't just sit around and do nothing. so ysa and lgy have signed sponsor contracts with incarnations, and sys possessed herself.
kim dokja's company, when given the choice between a world where kim dokja exists and one where he doesn't, chose the latter option. they all thought it was a trap. in the same way he stayed on the subway, he's still away from them. maybe he had thought they wouldn't have made this choice, as the two children look out at the unfinished white landscape outside, like someone had just imagined it. a world that the oldest dream had never dreamed of...
it's been 6 months. a lot has happened. kimcom has launched another plan to get their squid back. yoo sangah, using the mandala's guardian's power, used her threads to search for the pieces of kim dokja's soul scattered throughout the worldlines. but there were way too many, so they decided to start with the fragments that hadn't been reborn yet. all of these fragments were pieces of kim dokja's story.
yoo sangah says. even if they collect all these fragments, it won't bring back the kim dokja they knew.
collecting someone's footprints doesn't bring back the person who made the footprints. they all knew this. but lee jihye's reply,
"but if we don't do this, there's nothing left for us."
even if this is just how they mourn him, even if the kim dokja they know will never come back. like the days they waited for yjh in space, they wanted to continue their hope. so they continued.
as the fragments collected, it began to move somewhere like it was being attracted to something. following it, they found a worldline. the 41st turn, the one that wasn't recorded in ways of survival, like the 0th turn
maybe kim dokja was there.
lgy asks, can they find him? sys says they can, she's already found one.
"that's not hyung."
"then who is ahjussi?"
shin yoosung and lee gilyoung, they 'know' kim dokja. his likes, dislikes, the foods he can't eat, his height, weight, age, the smile he makes when he sees them. maybe the kim dokja she knows doesn't exist anymore. but, when someone asks 'who is kim dokja', shin yoosung already knows lgy's answer.
"hyung is someone who loves stories."
and then they start arguing on if kdj likes sys or lgy's story better. during this, shin yoosung thought. in this world, conflict becomes a story. and stories are kim dokja's favourite. and since kim dokja loves stories, he must be watching them now. no matter what he looks like, as long as he's looking at this story.
shin yoosung will surely regain her star.
lee seolhwa's voice was heard through the complex's broadcast.
"he's back."
there's no way. kim dokja can't be back. so that means... someone grabs the mic.
"gather around. i have something to say."
yoo joonghyuk has returned.
#chapter tldr: sao??#side story lb#orv side story#orv spoilers#649#i cut out a few parts of this ch for brevity's sake but there's a part where sys thinks that they're better suited for the scenarios#even though she had gone back to a time she didn't want to be in#she still felt alive in the scenarios#maybe this is just who they are now
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orv main story epilogue spoilers under cut
ch 517 (epilogue 1 - i)
i'm screaming into my fist as i write this. the moment kdj said yjh had a pale face... my heart dropped... no way...
and it was. orz (the 0th turn that wasn't even written but only briefly mentioned in flashbacks...)
get me out of here... i'm going to cry good bye
ch 518 (epilogue 1 - ii)
SCREAMING. oldest dream wasn't yjh's sponsor until the 3rd turn...
yeah okay... i know who it would be then...
and abfd being one of the constellations he could choose??
DKOS *thumps fist* i'm done. i'm done bye
the yjh glare is always there when kdj is present hahaha
ch 519 (epilogue 1 - iii)
HAHAHA yjh was really about to choose abfd
and he called kdj's modifier arrogant aksjdhfjskd
OH MY GOD
hsy my hsy my sooyoungie
they were so happy ToT can't even have half a chapter of bliss
she was testing him... oh my god...
ch 520 (epilogue 1 - iv) wo ai ni :hearthands:
okay here come the tears
han sooyoung... i want to give you the biggest hug ever
i don't even know how to explain what i'm feeling anymore
i just love this story and i love kimcom so much
ch 521 (epilogue 1 - v)
WHAT
okay i had a feeling sangah knew something
the confrontation... han sooyoung ;-;
fricking what. what the heck was that at the end
??? i'm scared. what (is this when he falls into the coma...)
ch 522 (epilogue 1 - vi)
GROUP REGRESSION.
GROUP REGRESSION??
GROUP REGRESSION
the kids talking to kdj :')
i'm punching my pillow (figuratively)
ch 523 (epilogue 1 - vii)
"Kim Dokja's world couldn't be found anywhere now." okay??? thanks so much... i will be so normal about this...
kdj telling bihyung he's here to repay his debt... you hear my heart breaking? yeah that's what that cracking sound was
jung heewon is still alive and with the original main team huhuhuhu
yoo mia is here too!!
fudge biscuits... kdj is literally disappearing... for good?? (edit: okay so his fingers regenerate, but they'll always be smaller than before)
he's sacrificing himself to "personally write the story that didn't exist in the original"
"eventually, yoo joonghyuk of the 0th turn had reached the final pages of the scenarios." <- this is hitting me so hard. ough
ch 524 (epilogue 1 - viii)
pacheonmaeng is such a fitting name -> 破天盟 literally translated is breaking sky alliance
*slams hands on table* WHAT ARE THESE TRANSITIONS BETWEEN DKOS AND-
oh wait no it's still 0th turn yjh, just a timeskip...
i'm so unwell
yjh has grey hair!! this man is getting old?? (edit: omg "life lived to its fullest" attribute... he won't live long...)
he married lee seolhwa *wipes tears*
wait- no- yjh don't say that...
he got to see his protagonist, his hero, his saviour, his role model grow old *sobs*
ch 525 (epilogue 1 - ix)
wow i'm full on sobbing now
he asked those questions in the end... he's perfectly happy but curious about who this mysterious constellation is
and since dkos can't pass on fourth wall to him, he has to regress... he has to regress 1864 times in order to meet kdj
the kdj from the beginning of orv :')
"just because i will forget about them, that doesn't mean they'll suddenly stop existing."
"they definitely continue to live in this world."
OTL i'm not recovering from this woo
"tell me, you fool. if i continue to regress, will i ever get to meet you again?" OH
oh...
oh
the quote is from this context????
omg this quote that has plagued me for so long. it's from this chapter. this scene.
HA. he remembers now?? his memories came back. i repeat, his 0th turn memories returned!!!
this group regression... will they ever find him...
#i'll probably reblog this whenever i add something to this post#watch me break down over the epilogues#thank you for coming along this ride#( ys.txt )
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Pairing: Han Sooyoung & Kim Dokja, Han Sooyoung/Kim Dokja
Rating: G
Word count: 1,416
Summary:
Han Sooyoung refused to call it grieving, because it technically wasn’t grieving if he wasn’t dead for good.
Tags: Grief/Mourning, Quote: What is grief if not love persevering? (WandaVision), Character Study, Introspection, Angst, Canon Compliant, MAJOR SPOILERS UP TO Ch 545, stage 1-3 of the 5 stages of grief, loss and longing
#orv fic#orv spoilers#han sooyoung#doksoo#hi i wrote a short hsy grief fic if anyone wants to read#still working on the kdj birthday fic
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Ghost Stories Postmortem!!!
It’s me, FieryGaze!!! Now that Chapter 13 is out and posted and my brain has freed up about 75% of its RAM, I wanted to make a post just to reflect on the journey, drop some fun facts, & explain the intent behind some of my choices. Here they are in no particular order.
Spoilers beware, obviously. I'm going to be talking about the whole fic here.
Episode Titles
Each episode title refers to two things at once – the monster or challenge the group is facing, plus one other important thematic element. “The Demon King” is the simplest one, referring both to the actual Demon King and then to Kim Dokja gaining that power for himself. The others are a little more open to interpretation, but were chosen with the intention of referring to 2 specific things.
Constant reappearance of the number “Thirteen”?
I’d like to say there was a lot of thought behind this, but there wasn’t. I just went “ooo, unlucky number” and ended up repeating it as often as possible. 13 years since KDJ and HSY met; 13 years spent in the spirit world chasing the Endless Cycle; 13 loops before KDJ met YJH. It was a lucky coincidence that the chapter count also happened to be 13 (I’d initially planned for twelve, and everything that happened in Unseen World was supposed to be squished into the end of Infinite Loop Part II. When I realized that was absolutely NOT going to give me enough space to resolve everything, I was delighted to realize that I could make the chapter count 13 and have it be thematically relevant and Not just a case of poor planning).
Lee Seolhwa also states that the number 7 is significant for certain spirits. I just think it’s fun that the total chapter count ended up as 13 and the total Episode count as 7.
Perspective and Tense Changes
From the beginning, the use of first person was actually a bit of a false flag—it’s meant to represent the ghost of Kim Dokja, trapped in the loop, imagining himself as the living version of himself going on these adventures. Kim Dokja as the narrator states this outright.
It was about time I stopped pretending that “I” was really this person called Kim Dokja.
(Ch. 11)
Maybe I pretended for a while, for a long while, that it was really “me” who was fighting at your side. (Ch. 13)
The first person narration also tends to flip between present and past tense, especially in later chapters when Ghost!KDJ begins using second person to refer to Han Sooyoung and Yoo Joonghyuk, but also when he’s making general observations about the world. It’s not technically grammatically correct, but I was trying to grant a small step of separation between him and the other characters, whose perspectives are written more strictly in third person past tense.
The final monologue is also in present tense, unmooring it from the sequence of events of the story, hopefully making it feel a little more dreamlike/internal. I feel like I’m allowed to mess with tenses this much only because it’s an orv fic and I’m not afraid to get meta.
I also used present tense during almost all of chapter 10. I wanted it to feel like a whole separate fic-within-a-fic, and a lot of fanfic is written in present tense, so I was deliberately evoking that (including See You Yesterday, undeniably a MAJOR inspiration for this chapter). I also wanted to provide a sense of immediacy—Yoo Joonghyuk truly believes that what he’s experiencing in the dream is really happening to him, right now—that I could pull back on once he realized he was dreaming, returning to past tense and the main flow of the larger story.
As a side note, by the time I finally finished chipping away at chapter 10 I thought it was awful, so I was surprised and delighted when it became everyone’s favourite chapter, lmao. This is probably why people have beta readers, to get a little bit out of their own heads. Anyway, the positive response to that chapter really brightened my week.
… My favourite scenes 😊
The first scene I really had a blast with was probably the possession scene—what can I say, you don’t make a “Paranormal investigation AU” without wanting to play with a few of its standard tropes. That’s when I realized I could happily keep writing this fic for as long as it took to finish it (I initially planned for 2 months. It became 4.)
I also had such a fun time writing all of “Blank Message”, from the kids bullying poor Dokja to what amounts to me basically just drawing hearts around Yoo Joonghyuk’s name as he fails to use technology but also gets to be the most specialest boy in the world. That episode practically wrote itself, honestly. I accidentally wrote like 12,000 words of it in my phone notes app because I kept having ideas at work and had little else to do during our slow season.
My actual favourite scene, though, might be Yoo Joonghyuk cooking in Han Sooyoung’s kitchen in Ch. 12? I just thought it was sweet. Maneuvering those two into a position where they could be emotionally vulnerable with each other was a challenge. My notes for that section are funny to me, I’m just struggling to get to the heart of the scene and yelling at them to please be emotionally vulnerable.
... There was like 500 more words of this.
I can’t help but feel the yoohan corner of yoohankim got a little neglected in this fic, but it’s because they had so many unresolved issues that I couldn’t just leap ahead to the romance angle without first addressing them… and by then the fic was kinda over. Please understand, however, that they love and understand each other deeply despite (because of??) being the way they are. Maybe I’ll explore that more in future stories. Who could say.
Most challenging part to write?
Wrong Room Part II, Forgotten Boy Part II, and the first bit of Devourer of Dreams Part II before Kim Dokja showed up (it was way easier to write once he was there because the joongdok dynamic really pulled the plot along).
All three of these had significant rewrites and Forgotten Boy Part II took me like… an entire week to figure out. The Part II’s tended to be tricky because that’s when I was making all the setup from Part I pay off, but I wanted it to be engaging and exciting and not feel too paint-by-numbers. I learned a lot writing these!
What was Yoo Joonghyuk saying at the end of Blank Message that got censored?
“▪▪ ▪▪▪ ▪▪▪▪▪▪ ▪▪▪ ▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪ ▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪ ▪▪ ▪▪▪▪▪”
“Do you really not remember…”
Well, maybe you can intuit the rest from context clues (what Mia was saying just beforehand).
There was a bunch of other censoring when Kim Dokja was trying to explain to Yoo Joonghyuk where all his special knowledge of the time loop came from, but I didn’t actually note it down as it was all pretty much able to be inferred, like “the loop is actually based on a book series”.
There’s certainly more to find, but that’s all I have to say for now!
I fun with foreshadowing, but I’m not going to call out anything specific, because I think it adds to reread value. There’s an especially mean bit of “foreshadowing” in one part that had me absolutely cackling. Let me know if you find it.
Anyway!
I had no plans to put so much time and effort into writing fanfic this year, and yet here I am with 120,000 words in four months, which is… FAR AND ABOVE my normal writing pace, especially lately. What can I say? Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint is a really special story and I don’t have any friends who have read it, which put my brain into an absolute pressure-cooker for which the only release could be writing orv a novel-length love letter.
I’m seriously thankful for everyone who read the story and left so many emphatic, excited, and kind comments. The readers absolutely transformed this experience from something I was plodding away at by myself just to see if I could do it into something I was really excited to share with others, and as a result I put a lot more effort and care into the story.
I do have a few other ideas for this AU—for which the seeds are actually already planted in the story—but, as I mentioned in my author’s note, I desperately need to take a fanfic break for a while. I can’t promise if/when I’ll get back to it, but I would definitely like to at some point.
IN ANY CASE, FOR THE LAST TIME ON THIS ADVENTURE….
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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