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a voice came to me in a dream saying that i could make a life and death companions playlists using only kpop songs. and that voice? was kim dokja.
*flashing warning for Killing Me
TRACKLIST BELOW THE CUT
Illusion | aespa
Follow me, come and get illusion
Swallow it all at once, delicious
Irresistible bait, hook up
Feeding on attention and growing up
Did I pick this song just because it had the word dokkaebi in it? Maybe. But you can't deny it's a starstream bop.
Deep | Hyo
Hiding sharp teeth, tension with you
I predict eyes to eyes, explore it with you
Oh you can take it? Won't be easy, you'll see
Like the waves I'll hit you, whip up the water, deeper into me
This was the last song I added, but "two sharks circling each other in the water as a metaphor for a relationship" is SO early joongdok.
Camo | BoA
Hey baby, in the darkness with all the lights off
I've hidden my shadow, I can't be tied down
To some place tonight, my face has changed
My heart is moving, but my camouflage will hide it
I still don't know, yeah, my own heart
The thick colors of the camouflage cover up the new world that'll surprise me
The dowager queen of kpop delivers a Kim Dokja song through and through.
Drunk-Dazed | ENHYPEN
I feel it, my head's in a daze daze daze
I'm addicted, I replay-play-play
The way you want it, go as far as you can to reach it
Trapped in the carnival wow wow
[slaps Yoo Joonghyuk] this boy can fit so much timeloop trauma inside him
Want | Taemin
(Hot, Hot) Teasing you slowly
(Hot, hot) Making you fall for me without limit
(Hot, hot) Waking you up from the silence underneath your deep sea
(Hot, hot) Will leave you wanting more, thirsting for more
I can't do a kpop themed shipping playlist and NOT include the King of Hoe Anthems himself.
Devil By the Window | TXT
Waste, waste away in the gutter with me
No, I can't tell what is fake in my reality
I see the waves, see the waves wash over me
Oh, stay, you can stay when you're tempted to leave
Deja Vu | Dreamcatcher
Me deleting Lucifer by SHINee from the playlist because the lyrics don't fit: OTL
Me when I find another kpop song about Devils that's also way gayer: 😈
So now, I'm holding this pain
Like you, who has thrown everything away
Each day gets clearer
Endlessly before me, oh deja vu
Oh deja vu, oh deja vu,
Oh deja vu, so I've fallen now
Till the day I run out of breath, I can't let you go again
Because we'll spend every moment together
Don't get any further away from me
This is the only surviving entry from when this was 100% a joke playlist and not partially serious.
Psycho | Red Velvet
You got me feeling like a psycho, psycho
People keep telling us
As we fight like it's our last but then we get along
They don't get it, it's so funny
Dysfunctional relationship anthem.
Killing Me | Chungha
Forgotten again these days
The time has stopped
When does it end? Try to pretend
I'm used to it by now
Something just fell apart
What fell is the broken heart
Future is trapped and has collapsed
Everything is because of you
Is is really a joongdok playlist without at least one depressed breakup song?
Fiction | Highlight (formerly Beast)
Like this again (fiction in fiction)
I can't end it (fiction in fiction)
I am writing the story that will never end in my heart
I will hold onto you (fiction in fiction)
I won't let you go (fiction in fiction)
I'm in the story of you and i that hasn't ended still, even today in fiction
I know Kim Dokja is the reader and not the writer but I couldn't NOT.
Heroine | Sunmi
In this drama of just us two
The true hero was you, baby
Yeah today you're being you
Like a brilliant hero
Just do as you have always done
Even if that's playing the villain
Even if that makes me sad
You've got to be yourself
Even if that hurts me, even if it's a sad ending
The show must go on
This is the first song I added, honestly. Perfect for them.
What Can I Do | Day6
What am I to you?
Do you even have feelings for me?
Every time I meet you, you change
Feels like I know you, but then I don't
You meet all the people in the world but you have no time to give me?
You're too much, why do you drive me so crazy?
I found this on a list of the gayest kpop songs.
Star | Loona
You're in my mind when I'm asleep
I'm seeing stars sink in these dreams
I don't wanna spend these hours with nobody else
I'm in your mind, you're my dreams
I'm freaking out I don't wanna leave
But so selfishly I want you and nobody else
I debated between Voice (Korean version) and Star (English version) but then I realized Star has lines that can be read as the possession thing so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Untouchable | Everglow
Tell me now, tell me now you want me
Your feeling can be seen clearly like mine
You and I are like one, we're so alike
Talk about, talk about us, I want you
My feeling can be seen clearly like yours
Whatever people say, we're untouchable
Battle couple anthem.
Feel Special | Twice
You make me feel special
No matter how the world brings me down
Even when hurtful words stab me
I smile again cause you're there
That's what you do
One moment I feel like I'm nothing at all
Like no one would notice if I were gone
But then when I hear you calling me, I feel loved
I feel so special
When I realized I could put this song on this playlist I cackled.
Fairy of Shampoo | TXT
I don't feel lonely when I see you
Even if I'm with my sad heart
It just disappears far away
Dear, you are my fairy of shampoo
From this moment on, I will love you
This song is so fucking funny. Me and the woman from a shampoo commercial I have a parasocial relationship with.
Survive the Night | The Boyz
A crying child pouring starlight
I got lost in the night
I'm still lost there
Though I realize it all
I have to get out of here, warning warning warning
Towards you running running running
Small fragments and intersecting sensations
only faint traces remember you
I endure the dawn without you again, oh yeah
[pours one out for Kim Dokja's entire personal timeline]
Into the New World | Girls Generation
I love you, just like this
The longed end of wandering
I leave behind this world's unending sadness
In the many unknowable paths I follow a dim light
It's something we'll do together to the end
Into my new world
Joongdok can have a protest song about reaching the end of the scenarios together. As a treat.
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02. [orv][sl] jindok
text version of two twitter posts. jinwoo/dokja. inspired by shweezyliz 😊
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He'd seen something strange, in the barren gap between dimensions. Something that shouldn't have been there, but had somehow come close enough to the void that Jinwoo could see it as though he was looking through a film: a train, winding endlessly among the stars, and on that train was a person. More accurately, a child.
It wasn't that Jinwoo didn't already have his hands full trying to save his own world. It was just— the kid had looked so sad, and he was just a kid, right? Jinwoo couldn't have just left him there.
And, he admitted, he had been curious. There had never been anything new in the gap until the sudden appearance of this train. Jinwoo had to know.
So it was that two years after his disappearance, Jinwoo returned to Earth plus one kid (who was not a kid at all, he had been informed, but an adult who had clearly eaten the same wrong food that Jinwoo himself ate before deciding to become the most unsung hero in history) and minus an all-important bottom line. But that was Kim Dokja's problem.
"Dokja-hyung," said Jinwoo, resting his chin on top of Dokja's head. Even returned to his teenage self, he was still significantly taller than Dokja, whose teenage body was so skinny and pale it made Jinwoo worry. "Why are you so bad at this?"
Dokja squirmed under Jinwoo's weight, but ultimately gave up. His pencil continued scratching in the English workbook. "I was an average student," he said, very politely, "and I didn't spend all my time on the train studying."
"I didn’t spend all my time studying either," Jinwoo pointed out.
Dokja refused to entertain Jinwoo's eminently valid point, and continued to focus on his homework like he was an actual student. Jinwoo regretted setting Dokka up with a proper high school identity instead of throwing him to the GED sharks like Jinwoo himself.
"Igrit," Jinwoo sighed.
[Yes, my liege.]
"Can you help Dokja with his homework?"
"It's fine, I don't need help," began Dokja, before Igrit said anything, but Jinwoo wrapped his arms around Dokja's waist and squeezed him until he stopped.
"But I just want to help you," said Jinwoo, seriously. Dokja's ears flushed red.
In the shadows, his subjects were cheering him on louder than they'd ever cheered him on before. Jinwoo felt a burst of gratitude that Dokja couldn't hear them. They were happy for him, he knew— happy that after losing Haein to sealed memories and his own mismatched mental age, Jinwoo could still find someone to share a life with.
It was too early to bring that up now, though.
He put his head on Dokja's shoulder instead, listening to his shallow breathing. "Can't I?" Jinwoo asked.
After a long silence, during which Beru had to be bodily restrained to stay in the shadows, Dokja gave him the slightest nod. "If you want," he said, quiet as a mouse, and Jinwoo's lips curled in satisfaction.
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In the mornings, Jinwoo goes next door to make breakfast so that Dokja will eat something instead of subsisting on air for the whole day ("It's just that I didn’t need to eat on the train," he will say, placatingly, trying to avoid Jinwoo's gimlet stare, but Jinwoo has built up an immunity to Dokja's sad eyes now and refuses to let it slide). No matter what he cooks, Dokja eats like a bird; Jinwoo is still searching for the perfect meal.
This morning, because he's feeling particularly energetic, he's taking the time to steam fresh dumplings in the tiny one-person steamer that Dokja had bought and then never used.
[My liege,] says Beru, hesitantly.
"What?" Jinwoo puts the last of the dumplings in the steamer and closes it triumphantly, running a hand through his sweaty fringe.
[Sir Dokja has awakened, but he seems… not in the best of moods.]
Jinwoo opens the fridge, narrows his eyes at its sad contents, picks out a lone ginger root from the vegetable drawer. "He gets moods sometimes, you know that. Just let him come to me."
[As you command.]
It doesn't take long before Dokja finds his way to the kitchen and stops at the entranceway, rubbing his feet together. Jinwoo, still holding the knife he's using to julienne the ginger, turns and waves at him.
"You look like a serial killer," says Dokja, a little absent-mindedly.
"I could be," Jinwoo replies, smiling. Dokja doesn't seem to think the millions of dead in his shadow count as his victims, but Dokja has a weird morality scale that Jinwoo won't pretend to understand.
At first Jinwoo thinks Dokja is just sleepy, but even when the dumplings are done and plated Dokja is staring at nothing, the oddest expression on his face. It takes Jinwoo a moment to place it, but when he recognises it he's immediately disconcerted— it's eerily reminiscent of the way Dokja had looked on the train, back when he was still trapped on it and Jinwoo was still fighting the unending war in between worlds.
"Hyung," Jinwoo says, not quite as sharply as he means to. He makes a gesture to Igrit, who shifts away to guard the perimeter. "What are you thinking?"
For a long moment, Dokja doesn't answer him, only his eyes moving to stare at Jinwoo instead of the middle distance. Jinwoo lets him stare, and he looks his fill too.
Dokja is very different from Haein. Haein is the type of woman who looks strong from the get-go: beautiful but still perfectly capable of kicking a man in the groin and walking away without a hair out of place. She had woken up like that too, Jinwoo remembers fondly— even with sleep clouding her eyes and no makeup on, she had looked like a dream. A just-awakened Dokja is all messy hair and wrinkles from the pillow, darkness under his eyes and skin dry as a desert. Tired and somewhat fragile. He doesn't look like the kind of person one would trust to carry an entire world on his back.
But then, Jinwoo hadn't looked like that in the beginning either.
"You remind me of him, sometimes," Dokja says at last, breaking the silence.
"Him?" Jinwoo doesn't know his name, but he knows instinctively who Dokja is talking about. He must be Dokja's Haein.
"Someone I liked to watch over," Dokja answers. Then he smiles wryly. "The protagonist of the world I came from."
"Tell me I'm more handsome," Jinwoo says, lightly, ignoring the immediate shouts of praise from Beru. "Or I'll get jealous." Jinwoo receives a proper smile at that, and his heart settles.
"On the Yoo Joonghyuk beauty scale, I'm afraid you can't even slap his face once," Dokja tells him, a thread of melancholy hidden in his teasing voice. "But you're definitely taller, at least—"
"I'm jealous," Jinwoo interrupts, and rounds the table to drape himself on Dokja's body. "Hyung is so mean. Isn't this the part where you say I'm the most handsome in your eyes?" Jinwoo can feel Dokja's heart beating where his lips are pressed to warm skin. It's not quite a kiss— they aren't quite there yet— but maybe, after today, they can be.
Yoo Joonghyuk. Jinwoo rolls the name in his mind and remembers it well.
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