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normal high schooler behavior

/ orv epilogue spoilers

cw blood, self injury

However, one thing is certain: you who are currently reading these words-

o god who avenges, shine forth

I dont know if anyone's talked about this yet, but Lee Sookyung is such a thematically significant character for someone who doesn't get to be physically fighting alongside the main party most of the time

Of course, as Kim Dokja's mom, she definitely matters to the story, but I think it's so important that she's the reason that Kim Dokja loves stories. Lee Sookyung loves reading just as much as her son does, to the extent that she literally wanted to name him "reader." She showed him how to interact with stories, that stories are primarily a medium of empathy, and when she went to jail, she inadvertently was responsible for making Kim Dokja's life revolve around stories (specifically her fabricated story and the comfort story that Kim Dokja had to rely on as a reason to live). And maybe that doesn't seem like much, but Lee Sookyung's characterization makes it clear that humans' love of stories is hereditary. The first time we come to love stories is often the first time we get told one by our parents. Our ancestors pass down the stories that matter the most to us, and our parents influence the stories that we end up deciding to tell. Lee Sookyung is also the first person to show Kim Dokja the true power of being a reader, a writer, and a protagonist. After she taught him that books are beloved windows into other people's worlds, she then went on to show him the power of controlling the narrative by writing and starring in the book that kind of destroyed his life, but isn't that also the power that Kim Dokja goes on to use to destroy the Star Stream? By taking a story he knew, he inserted himself to change its trajectory, just like his mother took the story that she witnessed and inserted herself to protect her son.

And then there's also the way that Lee Sookyung helps Kim Dokja understand that people are stories that you only really get a small piece of. It's a major theme that people are stories made up of not only the actions they take themselves, but also the meaning that they hold to other people. To Kim Dokja, Lee Sookyung's story is that of a failed mother and a source of trauma, but to the Wanderers, her story is that of an inspiring leader and dear friend. The scene where he realizes that he alone isn't enough to tell her story in full, and that it's necessary for her friends and other loved ones to cooperate to put together a more complete picture of who she was as a person was honestly so beautiful and poignant. And it becomes even more that when this concept of a person's character being made up of who they are to a variety of people becomes the crux of The Kim Dokja Company's most significant attempt to bring Kim Dokja back in full. Just like when Lee Sookyung was dying and needed to have all kinds of people she knew to piece together her story, Kim Dokja ultimately needs all his friends and loved ones to do the same for him. And these parallels are so clear and intentional that I still can't help but want to articulate how clearly conveyed the themes of ORV were. They rarely ever drop a theme that they introduce, and they reinforce the significance of those themes with increasing strength every time. Every theme and piece of the puzzle has multitudes to it when you look at it for even a few extra seconds, and I think that's why this webnovel will continue to linger in my mind for way too long

“I, someone of no redeeming quality, could be loved by the others.”

anyways i did this orv collab with the amazing @ catcaked on instagram!!! i love her sm!! 💕

It’s so pretty W(`0`)W

The moon will sing - The crane wives 🌙☀️

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hello!!!! my ORV dolls, HSY and SP are finally out of the oven!! 🥳🥳 i'll also be bringing back my joongdok dolls!

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WIP of buggy the clown🫣

I thought I was gonna be a hater of the live action OP especially because I love buggy so much and I was really unsure about his look in the trailer, but oh my god I actually really liked it.

Like I didn’t think luffy could be played in live action without being cringy or losing the spirit of his character but Iñaki Godoy was such a good luffy I was honestly so happily surprised

Eden has forsaken me, from now on I will wield my own salvation

Cw: Eye strain

PLEASE

hehehehe more orv animation wip

Commission for dearest @leejihye of something nice for a change <33

Thinking about Yoo Jonghyuk searching for his purpose for centuries. Thinking about how the one thing he could never figure out was why he existed. Thinking about how it haunted him, about how he began to resent his creator, as well as the one who put him through all this torment. He suffered hell over and over and eventually all he cared about was taking revenge on the one who caused it.

Then thinking about Secretive Plotter, finding that person. That mythical being that did this to him. And him discovering that in the end, the God who profitted off of his suffering was nothing but a child, just trying to survive. Thinking about sp taking one look at that child, and realizing that all the hell he had gone through was for the purpose of saving him, of bringing him the smallest bit of happiness. And thinking about how quickly sp forgave him. Centuries of rage and torment and it took him so little time to come to the conclusion that he could never hate this child, who just needed a reason to live.

He was created for one purpose. One reader. And in the end... he couldn't hate the one who had loved his story with all his heart.

I did a little birthday painting for my friend of her as a Pokémon trainer! Her favorite Pokémon in gengar, personally I would call myself a trapinch stan but that might just mean I need to do one of these paintings for myself

Reposting this cuz I'm messing around with the formatting of this post

Companions (animation WIP)