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i think post-epilogue when kim dokja now has to for the first time in years exist without the fourth wall and for the first time in well over a decade has to move through life without the metaphorical fourth wall of twsa he has a lot of trouble regulating his emotions. han sooyoung makes a stupid joke and he starts laughing until he can't breathe. the kids buy him worlds best dad mugs and he bursts into tears and can't stop. he reads a book with a stupid ending and has to go for a walk around the neighbourhood so he doesn't punch a wall. stuff like that as kim dokja relearns how to experience the world firsthand
one thing i enjoy about orv is how morally grey kim dokja is, especially in the beginning. during the beginning of the novel kim dokja seems to have almost no empathy for the people around him, and his number one priority is progressing the scenarios with himself being a secondary priority and saving others coming later. he does undeniable good, like saving jung heewon and caring for lee gilyoung - and he does some much more questionable things, like selling his food for coins knowing that it will disappear soon and people need the coins to survive.
this part of orv gets ignored a lot and chalked up to kim dokja's self-hatred, which i disagree with. yes he hates himself and yes he's an unreliable narrator who paints his actions in a worse light because of it but sometimes he just does objectively bad things. and it's interesting when he does! particularly in the beginning, he is focused completely on self-preservation and often steps on others in the process. his actions force you to ask questions like how responsible is kim dokja for those deaths on the subway car, or at that first subway station? is he obligated to try and save the people around him? how strong is that obligation? is it right of him to use his future knowledge the way he does, to decide who lives and dies? they're fairly basic questions, and orv doesn't particularly insist on answering them, but i enjoyed thinking about them nonetheless. the fact is kim dokja was often cruel, to strangers and his companions both, if different types. and you lose these questions when you ignore that. and thats not even to discuss the parallels between his exploitation of yoo joonghyuk's story and the way constellations gobble up incarnations while enjoying their pain. even if yoo joonghyuk eventually decides he considers it worth it, kim dokja still subsisted off of a living being's immeasurable pain for years, and that's a fucked up thing!
and to ignore kim dokja's less-than-moral actions also ignores kim dokja's character arc! kim dokja feels guilt at the end of orv for actions he wouldn't have thought twice about at the beginning and that is because he has changed and matured over the course of the novel and pretending he was always that way erases that. and i dont see why you would want to!! his journey towards seeing his companions as human and learning to care about the 'extras' he previously discarded and coming to understand the damage he inflicts with his self-sacrifice is interesting to watch and discuss. i've seen the stark contrast in empathy from early kim dokja to later kim dokja chalked up to sinshong not being quite sure how to write him yet and while i think that may have played a role i also think they did a good job of building and showing these changes through arcs like the demon world arc, the fruit of good and evil arc and the journey to the west arc
i think i lost my point somehwere but in summary kim dokja does some fucked up shit and some of it is basic edgelord apocalypse murder and some of it is genuinely interesting to contemplate and all of it is important to his character
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Do y’all know where the phrase “eat the rich” comes from or do you just repeat it cause you heard it elsewhere?
It’s not a bad thing, I just saw someone say “we never said who would eat the rich” and realized a lot of y’all might not have heard the full quote
It’s from Rousseau and it’s “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich"
And, well, there’s a lot of people with nothing to eat…
got chased by a skeleton but when they caught me they just gave me a kiss and hug. turns out it was an xoskeleton.
ok i may or may not enjoy drawing the Splatoon style hair wise
I did it some months ago but I like them 🫠
yellow my beloved!!!!!!!
let's get ready to enter the year of the dragon! 🐉🐲💫
treasured rival
laaate but happy birthday crys! ⭐
kanto dexholders!
thought this was a cute idea yellow with poliwag :-D
Pokémon Special being Iconic
Here's one of my favs
Baby-Doll Eyes in the manga is legit incredible
he could do this all day with him
morning scribbly to get in the mindset
pokemon is such a large fanbase we all like the same core thing but the difference between the different niches is insane. like put a gamecanon, pokespe, vgc and anipoke fan at a table together and it would be like putting 4 long lost relatives together like i know we’re technically family but who tf are you and what language are you attempting to speak to me in lol
hiiiiiiiiiiii……. 🚦(WIP)
grub is so back baby
Together till the very end
Secret life - post session 6 ( Wither vs Warden)
After the gruelling hard task, Grian feels insecure about his place in the team with Cleo and Etho. As the yellow, he is a liability, especially knowing his track record. Cleo and Etho work together wonderfully, is there even a need keeping him around ?
why did he do that
his ass finally got fired (and rehired)
For context, Grian was doing wordle
doublelife! desertduo realness
Desertduo designs to celebrate season 3 >w<
i wanna make a post one day explaining this in full detail but tldr headcanon each soulbound pair has a connecting accessory that signifies the other/their relationship >Grian’s soulbound accessory is a pair of handcuffs (which in game is represented by the fishing rod that he uses on scar in session 1). He can grab a hold of things with the free side of the cuff but cannot remove the handcuffs from his person >and Scar’s soulbound accessory is the key that connects to the Grian’s handcuffs (not represented by anything but he wears it like a necklace)
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