#says the DEMON KING OF SALVATION. like damn its 'sacrifice's will is a stigma that didn't really suit me' all over again | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

pttucker · 6 months

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The most important thing was to buy enough time. Enough time for the Constellations to reorganise themselves, for those damn stars to reform the nebulas befitting their lofty titles. [Damage to your Incarnation Body is critical!] [Indescribable existence's Status is eating into your 'Context of Modifier'.] [Unity between Stories is weakening.] [< Star Stream > is stunned by your extraordinary achievement.] [Your own Giant Story is waking up.] I heard something faintly resembling a song from afar. It was a melody I heard a long time ago. I wasn't sure whether that was my mother's, from my companions, or from someone else. Except that, as I listened to that faint song… [Story, 'Life and Death Companions', is continuing with its storytelling.] …I realized that I didn't want to die.

Okay, no but seriously, IS THE FACT THAT HE'S DEMON KING OF SALVATION MAKING HIM SUICIDAL???

Like, he was already willing to sacrifice himself for his companions, that's literally why he got the Modifier in the first place, but is it ever-so-subtly making it worse? Like, he was offered the chance to back down and save all his companions while doing it by the Great Dokkaebis but took this route instead while very likely knowing that there was a high probability that he would have to die to make it happen. (Hence why his stigma has been active this entire time and not just at the moment of his actual sacrifice.)

Ugh it's so hard to tell because on one hand it makes perfect sense that Dokja can feel his companions trying to save him, especially Joonghyuk, due to the Life and Death Companions story, not to mention everything else, and Shin Yoosung, his Incarnation. Can feel them reaching out to him and finally realize that maybe he actually wants to live with them and not just die for them.

But at the same time this passage specifically says that the Context of his Modifier is being destroyed and that his stories are being pulled apart immediately before he has this big revelation that maybe he doesn't want to die. So it's really making me think that he's being influenced by his own Modifier/stories and the instant they begin to detangle from him, he's suddenly all "oh maybe this doesn't actually have to be my default plan."

#orv novel chapter 408 #orv spoilers #orv liveblog #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #kdj

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immortal-tale · 2 years

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Another post, another proof of joongdok (and also the love Kim Dokja receives from his companions)

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Yu Jung-Hyeok’s voice resounded out from behind me. “Dodge it!!”

It seemed that Yu Jung-Hyeok had realised something was off. This shockwave was definitely on another realm compared to the previous two.

I finished making up my mind and was about to step forward, but then, Jeong Hui-Won stood in my way.

“Hui-Won-ssi.”

“Please shut up. I knew something like this would happen.”

Her back, turned towards me, didn’t show any movement – as if she knew what I was trying to do. Yi Hyeon-Seong’s giant frame was still dangling on her back. I saw his sleeping face, having fallen into the steel-like slumber in order to protect someone.

I opened my lips again. “Hui-Won-ssi. If someone must risk their life, then….”

“Don’t even try it. I’ll really go crazy if you do.”

[Fable, ‘Demon King of Salvation’, has begun its storytelling.]

[Great Fable, ‘Demon World’s Spring’, has begun its storytelling.]

As if resonating with her emotions, the two Fables began telling their stories. They were acquired through experiencing similar circumstances.

[Stigma, ‘Sacrifice’s Will Lv.8’, is currently active.]

And this Stigma was acquired by going through similar situations, too. I was aware of how much this Stigma hurt Jeong Hui-Won.

Even then, I still had to say it. “If that wave isn’t stopped here, Hyeon-Seong-ssi will die.”

I had to become more callous than anyone.

“There is a way to stop that. If you were me, Hui-Won-ssi, what would you have done?”

“I don’t want to hear it, so please!”

Jeong Hui-Won turned around, her eyes red with tears.

“Yes, you do have a way! I know already! You’re someone like that, Dok-Ja-ssi! You always have a damn, stinking plan that only you know, and when you use it, you’ll end up dying!”

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