Dreamer

i’m a bit late with this

orv said if anyone's allowed to infodump periodically in a story as a narrator it should be the guy who "ummm ackshually"s every five seconds. it has to be in character

writing in a journal just isn’t the same as getting attention online for being insane

everyone is waiting for you kim dokja!

Yoo Joonghyuk being broken by everything having gone so well. It's never explicitly stated, but it's very heavily implied that someone always dies from Yoo Joonghyuk's team by the time the Seoul Dome is broken. Either that, or something terrible in general happens (Seoul being wrecked, etc).

In Kim Dokja's round, he had everyone. They were alive. Nobody was seriously hurt. Everything was going so well. This man who appeared in this round only was creating miracles, even if Yoo Joonghyuk doesn't like the self-sacrificing stuff (because he's realized he's come to care about Kim Dokja a lot. Enough so that he doesn't want to have to continue the scenarios without him, and the only reason he's willing to do so is because Kim Dokja told him that he had to. And Yoo Joonghyuk is good about following through on what his companions ask of him, even if he pretends he won't, and that's putting aside how deeply Kim Dokja's words impacted him) but Kim Dokja's actions had created the best story for them yet.

And then, seemingly at random, the Outer God descends and destroys everything and everyone.

It's like an unfair glitch in a game destroying all of your progress. Everything you had worked for, gone in an instant. But it's worse because he loved and cared for all of them. And the final straw was his worst fear coming true: Kim Dokja does not exist in this round. He doesn't exist in the next one either. He can't find him, and he can't do the things that Kim Dokja did. He never knew the man's plan. He lost his guiding star. Kim Dokja was the one person who had understood him, and that was someone he had been looking for for so long. Between the two things, he was broken, and desperate, and made many, many more mistakes than he would have.

It's a bad ending, plain and simple. And though the story doesn't say it, end game readers who understand the context also know that that Yoo Joonghyuk would be doomed to never reaching the end of the story and never getting the answers he wants. Because the man who had the key to reaching the epilogue was taken away by the cruel twist of the Star Stream.

i have been! reading orv!

secretive plotter is so down bad for kim dokja from the beginning its so funny. other constellations messages are like [prisoner of the golden headband thinks your battle looked cool] or [demon-like judge of fire thinks you were brave!] and then sp's are like [secretive plotter thinks your plots are like sooo cool] [secretive plotter is sharing a wink with you over your tactics] [secretive plotter's eyes are shining watching you] [secretive plotter thinks you should dump that loser yoo joonghyuk] [secretive plotter wants to slob on that knob like corn on the cob] brother get UP!!!!!

Shin Yoosung³

I can't believe I decided to read orv on a whim because I just wanted a good manhwa with no romance subplot and here I am knees deep into the novel questioning my whole life because whatever these mfs have got going on is much more nastier and visceral than any romance

tfw you have homoerotic subtext with someone of the opposite gender. queerbait but it's not... queer...?