would u consider orv a tragedy ? feel like i see many sad moments 🥲

Hmm that's a good question. If you're asking is it a tragedy and should you read it, the short answer is no it's all just action & adventure with a hopeful ending so yes you should read it. But the long answer is: i think at the heart of it, it truly is a tragedy in so many ways - the whole story is essentially built upon countless tragedies that ultimately lead to a satisfying ending, but only in the long way round.

I'd even say that's one of its main themes: how many tragedies can you bear to live through on your way to the end? how many tragedies can you rightfully cause just to reach the desired ending? Even the ending itself is up for interpretation - it definitely holds a hopeful tone, and the whole narrative (an incredibly meta one, as you'll see) plays out in such a way that the ending only exists in the form you want it to be. Which I choose to believe is a happy ending, but even in the most optimistic interpretation, the epilogue itself is shrouded in a kind of desperation that you can't escape from.

It's definitely a tragedy to see the world destroyed in countless timelines. Is it also a tragedy to live through the apocalypse and willingly choose to sacrifice your happy ending just to go through it all again for just one person, who may be lost forever? Is it a tragedy to gain your happy ending with almost no effort, only to throw it all down the drain on the off-chance of meeting someone you have never seen in the flesh before, thereby arguably initiating the entire chain of tragedies in uncountable branching timelines? And is it a tragedy to inadvertently conceive this very tragedy-filled universe with your own hands, and be forced by the narrative to repeat the cycle for all eternity?

I don't know. I think the novel itself is asking those questions too. But also: yes it's a tragedy but it's also a comedy and it's also a tragicomedy it's a drama it's just an isekai it's a romance it's a satire it's a fable it's a homeric epic it's a metanarrative. I don't know what else to tell you. Anyway this was just propaganda for you all to read orv