#999 yjh

[nutler--kleinja]

i love how orv has everything but happiness, like mpreg? we got it. trans rep? we got it. genderfluid rep? we got it. furries? we got it. self insert au? we got it. celebrity au? we got it. ancient dieties? we got it. genderbend au? we got it. dumpling shapeshifting? we got it. corossovers? we got it. alpha dynamics? we got it. reaction au? we got it.(eh close enough sp exists)

happiness? dont got it

[within-ur-intro-verse]

Was KDJ really expected to know how to express his love for others any other way than self-sacrifice when:

The first person he ever loved (his mother) sacrificed her freedom and a significant portion of her life to protect him.

His favorite iteration of his favorite character (999th regression YJH) lived his whole life sacrificing life and limb to make sure his comrades survived the scenarios.

Not exactly the best role models on how to show your love and appreciation for your companions in a safe, healthy way.

[nblemons]

my love for 999 knows no bounds

[the-multi-geek]

Little doodle I did of 999!Yoo joonghyuk x Kim Dokja because I was listening to Too Sweet by Hozier on repeat and I thought of em so so much-

[runningoncaffeine]

I was having a horrible fucking day and I thought of 999YJH

I can see why he was Kim Dokja’s fav turn. I would have loved him too

This man had regressed nine hundred ninety nine times and he reached the end, he went through the hundred scenarios, sacrificing himself over and over again and he reached the end, the final wall

Only to realise that he couldn’t go on any further and pushed his companions further, regressing for the hundredth time. Regressing one more time, knowing full well that he would have to repeat the same he’ll over again, meet his companions again, no one remembering him, knowing that he could fail the next time as well, knowing that there was a chance that he could be stuck in this hell for eternity

And he moved on to the thousandth round

Tenacious can’t begin to describe this man’s perseverance! Just how strong would a human be to get as far as he had gotten? No wonder KimDokja loved the protagonist, no wonder he worshipped the man.

Yoo Joonghyuk who was tougher in mind and nobler in soul than any other creature in this universe

[koifoxes]

headcanons

[lunarwednesday]

[ The Living Flame ]

[orphiclovers]

Can we talk about the fact that 999th turns’ Lee Hyunsung successfully Secretive Plotter’d himself. Like he became an Outer God and then pretended to be his own past self’s sponsor for a while and nothing bad happened. rip to SP but he's built different 

[foolbehavior]

Another year, another wistful yjh looking up

[akagi0021]

?!

[ssunfish]

i think the orv fandom needs to think about yjh being an ethereal dead wife more. 👉999th yjh. wdym you died and had a group of people chasing after you for thousands of years to the point they would willingly destroy countless lives and worlds for you. do we count sp living with 999 and all the other kklomas in n'gai forest as an evil witch keeping the princess (prince) locked away in a palace.

all im saying is that the possibility is there

[radio-zephyr]

【Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief 】

tragedy of the 999th round

id in alt :D turn up brightness/click for quality, and as always, rambles below the cut :] v

i love 999th round's characters, they are all so very dear to me. In this piece I really wanted to focus in on 999yjh and uriel, specifically that moment where yjh is wasting away from the outer god contract, and uriel is cradling his crumbling body, begging him to stay awake and unable to do anything to stop his decay. The pose inspo originally came from this photo: (disclaimer that if this photo has any really troubling connotations im not aware of, please let me know!)

i wanted to take this and make the pose a bit more desperate, mournful, tragic. the original already has such a feeling of tragedy, quietness, tenderness that i wanted to preserve, and i tried to show it in the way uriel has interlaced her fingers through yjh's hand, cradling it and lifting it so carefully as she hunches over his body, her other hand gripping his shoulder and refusing to let go.

Uriel herself is missing her wings. I wanted to show her powerlessness in the face of these circumstances. It doesn't matter who she is, what she has accomplished, in this moment there is nothing she can do to save him. The halo is frazzled, breaking apart-what can uriel do? what will she do now that yjh's gone? how could she ever let the person she loves go？

And yjh- the blankeness of his face - I wanted to have a feeling of desolation- so close yet so far, brought to ruin by his own convictions, sacrificing himself over and over for his companions, culminating here-here, where he cannot go on, wasting away. The bright starburst over his heart-he is about to regress, doomed again to his hell of eternity.

The eyes weren't originally planned, but i had to include secretive plotter somehow, just because i love how he, in his attempt to get 999th yjh to succeed, realized that he was the one who had doomed himself. Idk, something something going back in time to try and fix things doesn't work, that horror at the realization that you were doomed from the start, that you were the cause, etc. So I had to include him somehow, desperately gazing down upon the scene.

Overall I wanted to capture a feeling of the tragedy and tenderness of 999th round's yjh and uriel's relationship, this devastating moment caught in an almost gossamer thread of time, where everything is picture perfect, like a painting commemorating those final feelings. Not sure if that's what i achieved, but i'm pretty happy with the result :D

And i'm just realizing, but the colors look different on mobile vs desktop :0 its a bit washed out on desktop..hm.

Closeups (of the parts I really liked) :3 (as you can tell i spent a lot of time on the clothes. they were really fun to do :0 i think i'm starting to really figure out how i like to shade them :D)

And here’s a fun alternate version I did for fun v

[dreadark]

thinking about kim namwoon again… but 1863

in that round, he’s introduced wearing han sooyoung’s white coat (making kim dokja think he’s the leader for like half a second, which is hilarious. could you imagine)

it’s… cute?? he looks up to her so much that he tries mimicking her

I wonder if kim namwoon in the other rounds would steal yoo joonghyuk’s black coat the same way (rather... would yoo joonghyuk let him...)

and, well, dressing up in someone else’s clothes…

…you know

on that note, kim dokja’s advice to kim namwoon in 1863 is to just act more like yoo joonghyuk

the only way he can be liked is by becoming someone other than himself, huh

[harley-style]

imagine 999th regression being the canon beginning of orv. imagine yjh dying. and then regressing. but kim dokja and the rest of the others are there. technically speaking, they CAN clear the scenarios without yjh, but kim dokja is least happy about it.

but what can he do? 999!yjh is as sacrificial as he is. so of course, he dies, bc dokja's too slow.

so what happens is everyone moves on. the world moves on. kdj has to also, because life has always been particularly shitty to him. life on earth was hell but twsa was his silver lining. in this brand new universe worldline, his light dies, but he still has his family.

losing yjh takes a toll on them. kdj is their heart, but yjh is equally so. they grow weary, tired. they keep going, most of all kdj, because he doesn't have yjh's "second chances"

and oh, does kdj begin to hate that word. hate yjh's stigma. his sponsor.

through his grief, kdj becomes a lot less happy. he resembles his mother a lot more, in temperament. he sheds the white coat and dons yjh's black coat. he gets stronger. all of them do, because yjh isn't there to cover their asses anymore.

hsy, donning the white coat, the only one of them who remains optimistic about their chances (in her special hsy way), finds a way to break the narrative.

they become outer gods, much to SP's displeasure bc somehow he's lost control of everything and gdi kim dokja can you sit still for five minutes)

999!kimcom travels the worldlines to find their yjh and like. look. they find him. but they also find the most ancient dream.

yjh and kdj fight and my god its a beautiful disaster. hsy takes advantage of their monkey brains and steals MAD away, kdj is not pleased. yjh insists they let MAD live because he doesnt want kdj to die.

bitterly, kdj responds "you should have thought of that before you went and left us," with a wry smile, the fucking hypocrite. but well, its not like he's sacrificed himself in a while.

i dont really have anything more to add here this was just a "what if yjh succeeds regressing but the worldline is still intact bc kdj exists"

[monobytee]

Happy Birthday, Yoo Joonghyuk 🐟🎉

[rusquared]

Average day in the SP household