Amazing how all the scamming MCs (Cale, Dokja, Gongja, Yoojin, Kiyoung, etc) have a normal type of smile that us considered their scammer smile

And than there's Lloyd

Which protagonist are you? The cool, unfeeling, emotionally repressed, muscular, perfect hair (usually black), super handsome, and ridiculously OP protagonist?

Or are you the scammer, obsessed with money, my little pathetic meow meow, cunning, grabbable waist, average/pretty boy, scammer smile, and lowkey kinda weak/at the same time powerful, loser protagonist?

They make me insane <3

Cale Henituse: *pretends to be Jesus*

Kim Dokja: *pretends to be the devil*

Lee Kiyoung: *pretends to be Jesus but is the devil*

Kim Gongja: *is Jesus*

Lloyd Frontera: Can you guys not?

congrats on the marriage dumbass i have a headache

this was supposed to be a quick haha doodle and yet it turned into a whole two day activity (sigh) so on main blog it goes

(this is obviously a reference to that classic mushroom tumblr textpost but i dont have the original so i cant link it sorry but you know the one hsakdj)

anyway this is a scene of Kim Gongja from SSS-Class Suicide Hunter (SSS급 자살헌터) and his epic speedrun strats. fun fact this is actually my first manhwa that i decided to check out because Mayhem rly likes to read them mahwas and i finally caved in to all the coaxing hskfhk.

but hey this one is super fun actually so if an incredible amount of dying and rewinding time as a solution to minor problems doesnt bother you then hey you can give it a try aha jk unless

separatedly under cut

His husband and her wife 🫶

RAVIEL X GONGJA IS PEAK!!! (also pls let us decide on a shipname plsplspls)

sometimes i remember that kim gongja is actually unhinged. it just comes back to me.

like. considered the power he has, one could think "oh, became like that because he died many times and/or is traumatised from seeing everyone around him die so many times etc."

and he probably is traumatised. but. he's unhinged in the first chapter.

like. he gets killed. comes back to life through some one in a billion luck. and his immediate reaction is to go "i will definitely kill the guy who killed me" and then he kills himself four thousand and ninety times to do that.

and it's the second chapter so you think "ok what the hell you're already unhinged that much what the fuck will it be once you've been put through the horrors by the story"

They're on a date your honor!!!!!

They are enjoying themselves!!!!

Look how smug he is!!!!!

Aaahhhhhh they're so married

Im dead! I'm so happy!!!! Bc they are!!! It's love!!!!

Seriously if I ever fall in love I want it to be like that

SSS-Class Suicide Hunter

Screaming ÍNSANE hes such a babygirl a real malewife

Cale and Dokja are in two different sides of the self-sacrificing bastards spectrum. Yujin is there in between the other two. Gongja has breached out and no one has any idea what he’s doing anymore. Lloyd is closer to Cale but is also getting closer to Gongja.

I don’t know about Kiyoung, Hajin and Jesse/Yeseo yet as I haven’t read the manhwas or novels. As for Moondae I read too little to make an assumption

I don't remember if it's been talked about before but I think there's this small misunderstanding where people assume Cale is just...shorter than most male characters in TCF? Which is technically true since he is the second shortest male character among the confirmed character heights, but still...He isn't as short as people think (NOTE: Cale is 177cm).

I'm assuming it's because of his physical age, but I feel like the personalities of characters also take part in it.

An example of it would be Eruhaben, a 1000 years old ancient dragon that's known to be incredibly powerful, wise, and elegant. Yeah, him. You'd expect him to be taller than a lot of the main cast due to his image. But he's only 1cm taller than Cale.

What about our commander's generous hyung-nim, our shining sun Crown Prince Alberu? He's also only 2cm taller than Cale. He's also 1cm taller than Eruhaben.

Even if you consider the protagonists of other stories, Cale is usually taller than them. Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) is 1cm shorter than Cale. Kim Gong-ja (SSS Class Suicide Hunter) and Han Yoojin (The S-Ranks That I Raised) are both 2cm shorter than Cale. There's not much height difference between them but all characters are (physically) older than Cale.

I can understand why there is a misunderstanding though. Cale has an image of being "physically weak, very thin and pale, always coughing up blood and fainting due to self-sacrificing tendencies, and is fussed over by overprotective strong people of almost every race in the world". Not even counting his physical age, his own image makes it hard to imagine him as some big/tall guy despite being a hero and commander. So imagining Cale as shorter than Eruhaben (self-declared father figure) and Alberu (self-declared hyung) just, makes sense???

every time i think about the heavenly demon arc i think about how kim gongja does all the bows for the heavenly demon. i think about how he got there and how every feeling is sincere. every feeling is raw, and he bows more for each thing he doesn't yet understand.

he bows 336 times for poison. he bows 189 times for illness. he bows 510 times for blunt impact.

kim gongja only needs to bow once for death by fire and death by self.

his neck only aches at the end of it, and that wrecks me every time.

I still can't believe there are so many of them 〒▽〒

So fucking glad to see someone talk about SSS Class revival hunter 😭 I lived it so much and I feel like no one ever mentions it against more popular titles like ORV or even The Lout of the counts family, so I'm so glad to come here and see your amazing takes :>

Thank you for the ask which lets me talk about SSSCRH (the version I read was titled 'Suicide Hunter', which tbh I like more - no beating around the bush).

It's hard to draw an accurate comparison since I'm going off just the webtoon for SSSCRH, while I'm going off both the webtoon and the webnovel for ORV. And I love ORV, ORV is my media blorbo right now, it hydraulic presses my brain, I am writing ORV fanfic - it's, like, funner to enjoy. But SSSRH is just better. In the vast majority of ways it is is better. It's better than the holy trinity by a wide margin. TW talk of suicide obviously.

I can't believe I'm saying this but you need a basic understanding of Buddhism in order to understand SSSCRH. It's not about Gongja's suicides - he doesn't suicide from depression or lack of self-esteem. SSSCRH is about suffering in the Buddhist sense - dukkha. I don't want to make this an essay, so I might reblog this with more information, but extremely shortly:

The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism is the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. You've heard that Buddhists say 'life is suffering'. To put it one way that doesn't require defining a lot of words: the cause of suffering is experiencing the world as we percieve it instead of how it truly is. Suffering isn't just being miserable and in pain, and life isn't suffering because life sucks and global warming exists and people voted for Trump. Life is suffering because we can experience beautiful and joyful moments in this world, but we do not exist in the moment of that happiness or place our ego/'self' between us and that happiness. Living in that moment, accepting the moment as it is unconditionally, is freedom from suffering. The Buddha tries to free people from suffering through teaching Buddhism.

"What does this have to do with the webnovel and manwha about a guy murdering himself thousands of times" it has everything to do with it. Because SSSCRH is about suffering, and it is about using suffering as a tool in order to experience a world unfiltered by ego and break down the artificial boundaries between human beings. Suffering in SSSCRH is not a bad thing. Gongja has the unique capability to (reincarnate.) experience a person's suffering in unity with them, which dissolves the delusion of separation between people and puts us in touch with the reality of oneness.

The Murim arc was fucking insane because Gongja pulls a Big Bodhisattva Move and walks through the suffering of the world in order to achieve full understanding of the human experience. He takes all of the suffering of the world into himself and is liberated. You can tell it's Buddhist because death was not presented as a bad thing - death was an aspect of a happy ending for the Heavenly Demon lady, because she was finishing her life according to her own joy, and because her teachings were passed on she did not truly die.

But the purpose of embracing suffering is to discover the ability to fully embrace life, and that's where Heavenly Demon's teachings were incomplete - as the ghost dude said, Gongja hasn't even experienced his own full life and the infinite capability for his own happiness. You can only feel the depths of sadness when you've felt the depths of happiness. Sadness deserves its place in the world and it can strengthen you, but so does happiness.

Gongja is attention-seeking, envious, and unbelievably petty. When he drills down into his own desires and why he wants the things he wants, you see that he has a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong - he realizes he doesn't want to be famous, he wants to be acknowledged, but on an even deeper level he is desperate for love and to be loved. Everything he does is to experience love, and as such he learns to love others. His love for the Flamey Asshole was purely parasocial and ego-filled, with no concern for who he was as a human. Throughout the manwha, he grows to care for people as they truly are and pierce through any delusions or misleading outward appearances. He has released all attachment to life and death, and as such does not fear death, and as such has taken a step on the road towards becoming a Boddhisatva who frees others from the cycle of samsara, and as a result has learned sick sword techniques and is sooo good at beating people up.

I think the only other thing I want to mention here because otherwise this is an essay: in almost every time loop/regression story, only the final regression matters. In stories with dungeon monsters and NPCs, only the humans matter. The regressor exists in a space where there are no consequences for their actions, so they act terribly and do whatever because none of it matters. In Groundhog Day Bill Murray acts like an asshole because he can. That's not the case here. Everything Gongja does matters. The NPCs are fake, but Gongja never treats them as anything less than real people who deserve life. Once he understands a person's life he never treats them as unimportant. No loop is thrown away and no person or life is disregarded. His choices matter, the way he treats others matters, and Gongja never treats anybody as if they don't matter except for himself.

That was not short. There is a lot more. The female characters are so good and so rich. From a craft perspective it is excellently paced and has a wonderful sense of set-up/payoff and balances tone and maintains a lot of momentum, which is really hard in a time loop story. You have to do a few very specific things to write OP characters well and SSSCRH does it very well. There's more to say from a craft perspective and it's hard to judge accurately from a webtoon but it's good. I was so strangely struck the entire time about how sincere and genuine it was, how it said what it said with no trace of irony of confusion, and I think that's what stuck with me the most.

TL;DR: SSS Class Revival Hunter is good for a lot of very normal reasons, such as excellent pacing and set-up/pay off and characters, but it's also so sincerely and genuinely Buddhist that it blew my tits clean off.