Alright this may sound dumb, but a reverse roles au where kdj is the protagonist and yjh is the reader.

This takes place in ways of survival canon and it just happens that in one of yjh's regressions he randomly starts reading a very old, long, discontinued webnovel from before the apocalypse, and it's about a rendom normal dude from earth who got transmigrated and now is trying to live in a very cliché romantic book.

And it's set in a work setup, and it's called something extremely dumb like " 1000 ways to survive as a side character in an embarrassing book". Each chapter is a way to survive according to the mc, the problem is that it ended at the 851st chapter. This becomes a comfort series for yjh.

Somehow yjh ends up In said webnovel. And with nothing to do he decides that might as well help this dumbass of an mc .

And then enters a very concerned kdj wondering what is this tall handsome man that he could write literal paragraphs about his beauty doing following and randomly helping him out. And this was definitely not in the book. Meanwhile yjh is feeling very proud of himself.

Kdj w a really affectionate reader 🥹 like being way too over complimentary and loves to touch him

kim dokja deserves the world fr

Kim Dokja x reader

summary(pre apocalypse): after work hours, kim dokja is still at the office, working. he sighs, 'I wish [name] was here right now...' he thought. Well...

How unfortunate for Kim Dokja to be working after his work hours, and how unfortunate he was to not be able to see the love of his life sooner. As he was typing on his computer and looking at his papers, a sudden figure jumped on him and covered his eyes. "Guess who!" You smiled as your warm hands covered his face. "[n-name]? What are you doing here?" He peeled your hands off his face and held them softly. Even after being with you for so long, 'affection' was still hard to accept. I mean, being alone all your life and your name sound like the word 'alone'... you really were a miracle in his life.

"I made some warm food when I got home from work after you texted me you'd be home late." You smiled at him. He was a bit flustered, usually not working late to miss dinner with you. "Sorry..." he muttered shyly.

"No no! You're perfectly fine love, I can't even begin to count how many times we've had to cancel dates because of my work..." You sighed in defeat guiltily. "I suppose I feel guilty about it... I want to spend more time with you!.."

You? Want to be with him? Really? Did you mean it? "You want to spend more time with me?.." He flushed and covered his face. He felt so spoiled with your affection. Did he really deserve it? "Yes of course! I would do anything for you!" You smiled, taking his hands away from his face and holding his face to look at you. "You mean the world to me, Kim Dokja." You gave him a peck on the lips and smiled.

"Anyhow, you should eat...It's 8pm, the foods going to get cold!" He took out the food and opened it. Inside it was murim dumplings with chicken broth. "[name]... It's delicious but...why is it so cold?" He asked.

"Ahahaha...So I may have uhm..got lost. This building is huuuuuge!" You made a motion and waved your arms back, then suddenly attacking him in a hug after he set the food down. "Ack- [name]! You're going to spill the broth!" He set aside the food and sighed, eventually giving in and hugging you back. You sit back up in a swivel chair next to him and sighed dreamily. "You're so handsome..." You rest your face on your hands and stared at him.

Embarrassed and shy, even though there was only him and a few other people working this late, he used his sleeve to try and cover his face while he ate. "Why do you always say the weirdest things..." He mumbled.

"Its because I love you to the moon and backkk!" You laughed. The night ended with the two of you cuddling up to sleep.

Hey! Have you ever listened to "The Hearse" by Matt Maeson? I could ramble for hours about it's ORV-like qualities but I can't decide whether it's more Yoo Joonghyuk or Kim Dokja.

Right now I'm leaning towards Kim Dokja because "I am the man we both couldn't stand/ I can't wash off the dirt from my hands/ What was it like to feel in love?" which seems to match his well buried self-hatred pretty well and the chorus "I will never go backwards/ I will never be free/ I will never run faster/ will you sink down to me?"

BUT the alternate chorus "I will never go backwards/ I will never be seen/ In the wake of disaster/ will you sink down to me?" feels more Yoo Joonghyuk coded because of his regressions (especially since he's never truly "going backwards" when he regresses, he continues on while everything seemingly rewinds). The lyrics could either be "I will never be seen in the wake of disaster" or "In the wake of disaster will you sink down to me?" And I think that dual-meaning perfectly encapsulates YJH regressing vs KDJ calming him down from regression depression.

Okay maybe I'm thinking this is a Yoo Joonghyuk song now.

Sorry for filling your inbox with my rambling about song lyrics! All I meant to send was:

hehe look this song reminds me of orv and it's called hearse

Anyways have a lovely day! Your art is amazing as always bye

OHH i never heard it!! and AHHH what a nice listen huh

I MEAN. do we need to differentiate the two. both are good!!

also please bear with me, i thrive on outsourcing the smart interpretation job to people looking at my art usually my craft is easy just slap pixels on the canvas hehe

BUT if you allow me to be a devil's advocate for a bit you can completely make it out to be Kim Dokja, who doesn't seem too eager to go backwards or be seen. constantly trying to escape his own story and being it's character in the eyes of relatives/coworkers and such. he is also not. at the height of his no matter how capable he is during the scenarios, running himself into one bear trap after another. his house is also built on sand, the faulty foundation that is his mother's way of loving by taking the blame and bearing the weight alone. he is also much more of a driver of a hearse than yjh is, a reader keeping the story's engine going and taking the coffin to it's destination that is the story's perfect ending hahehe come on sink down to him, his house' foundation is not just sand, it's quicksand and he is half-buried already

ANYWAY the beauty of it's duality! one coin, two sides etc etc they are so intertvined that you can't exclude one to interprete the other all the smart words that i'm guessing apply