#Dodam miru

[tooselfaware]

Dodam Finds the Human Bastard

"Did you forget me?" Dodam whispered as he watched a red-haired youth named Cale drinking alone in his room and staring out the window.

Dodam was quite sure it was the human that was inside the evil bastard that set him free. It was him. But it was not. He wanted to ask the bastard with the sword about "Cale" but he didn't want to give him the same hope he felt.

This Cale always threw bottles and caused a ruckus but never hurt anyone. And when he was alone, like now, his eyes were always sad. Dodam didn't like that. Why is Cale sad? Didn't he say that money is everything? This Cale had lots of money and servants. Why is he still sad?

He is great and mighty. He will figure it out. If he forgot the great Dodam Miru, then he'll just have to make him remember. He tried to think of what made the Cale he knew happy.

Cale Henituse woke up groggy after drinking until he fell asleep. He felt something was... different in his room. He saw an apple pie on the desk beside his bed. It was still warm.

On a tree outside, blue reptilian eyes were visible, waiting. The blue eyes looked proud when he saw the sad weak drunkard Cale smile as he ate the apple pie.

[anrisimps]

Dodam being obsessed over Cale and trying to fight Raon for him, leading to lots of crying, kicking and screaming, involving a lot of blowing things up. And then at last Cale does manage to pacify him but that doesn't mean he is going back with dodam

Dodam was going to be alone - so alone, just like always. This human was a bleak ray of sunlight, a beacon of hope in his dark and miserable life, someone Dodam thought of as his but as it turned out, the terrible bastard ( who wasn't so terrible anymore) was not his at all, he belonged to another version of himself who seemed to be living a life completely different compared to his own.Where Dodam had barely met this human for weeks, Raon had him for years

They looked close, so close as if there was no space for dodam in the human's heart. He wondered briefly if he should be glad that he wasn't named Raon just like this dragon whom he loathed so much, with every fiber of his being for stealing the terrible bastard away from him, for stealing all the love, affection and warmth that could've been dodam's had it not been for Raon.

When Dodam leaves, he does so with a resolute expression as if he never had any hopes of taking Cale back with him. He smiled despite all the storms raging inside him bcoz that made the weak bastard happy. He smiled when dodam smiled and it was the second  most beautiful thing the little dragon had seen since he had been freed from his cage

He wanted the weak bastard to hug him one last time, before he went back. Dodam craved the warmth that was freely showered over his other self without restraint. But he did not ask for a hug. He knew he would never end up leaving if he was engulfed in that warmth once again.

He won't be able to part with it, with his weak and not- so wicked bastard, with his (Raon called him papa...did that make the human his papa too?) 

So he didn't look back as he went. Didnt look back at his other self, surely gloating at his victory, didnt look back at his papa terrible bastard or his siblings or Choi Han and disappeared in a whirl of dust. No one would miss him here.They already had one black dragon, who was so much more powerful than himself. Fighting with him just drove the fact home that Dodam was a weakling, nowhere near as strong as his other self.

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He finds a krs who hadn't read tboah and is freshly grieving the death of his hyungs in his world. Dodam doesn't know how he knows, but he is 100% sure that this person was his terrible bastard, his human, his- Well, they could establish relations later on. 

Dodam also knows this human is even more fragile than his terrible bastard and the thought calms him down. Somewhat. Now both of them, Dodam and this human, were similar. So weak yet bullheaded enough to not give up. Dodam saw how the weak human maneuvered his way through life, lying and scamming like the terrible bastard and yet not so proficient like his other self. Dodam felt secure in the knowledge that they could learn and grow up together. That this human wont leave him like the other one. This human wouldn't have any expectations from Dodam either. He hadn't met Raon and the thought brought him unexpected joy. Both of them had flaws but they also had each other. 

+1 Dodam falling in love with red bcoz of Cale and then reverting back to his "black is the best" belief bcoz now both him and his papa have black coloring. And choi han too. Dodam thinks he has a real family now. 

+2 Dodam and Rok Soo running away after a failed attempt at scamming with hordes of people after them with pitchforks and swords lmfao. They aren't as adept as their other selves at this scamming business but they vowed to get better at it.

(Choi Han left them alone for 10 mins. And later, when he came back, he had to fight hordes of people who were after his husband and child-)

[blueteller]

Behold~! My Dodam Miru fanart! 🙌

I actually kinda like how it turned out! My first time drawing a dragon in detail! I'm so happy

[thehopelessslacker]

Hope you enjoy it.^^

[soosthesoul]

hello it's me again, cale and gang jumping from one dimension to another to eradicate the hunters that messed up their crown prince's home made me think of something.

so, remember when cale was taking his trials in the sealed god's temple, where he met an alternate universe's alver, choi han, and dodam miru? and you remember how raon kept mumbling dodam's name to himself over and over again?

further, let's talk for a minute about how raon's attribute is the present, and we don't really know what this 'present' means yet.

here i propose to you, it's tied in with the fact that he knows the existence of himself in other universes. but op, that doesn't make sense! raon would be overpowered and would essentially know everything about every single universe? doesn't that essentially make him god?

Yes, but hear me out, his original fate was death. the only reason he survived in two of the universes meant for him, was because cale had intervened, broke him out of venion's filthy dungeon.

and you remember how it was that he'd died? that's right, he went crazy, and was shown to be in his full growth phase. my theory is that he'd reached the first growth phase in venion's dungeon, then connected with the minds of all other raons trapped in the same scenario (or different scenarios that would lead up to his eventual doom), and overwhelmed with that knowledge, quickly grows into his second and third phase and finally goes insane from the amount of grief and sorrow coursing through his veins.

now, with that aside. i was wondering, dodam under the protective choi han's wing, perhaps he grows into his first phase too! yes, i'm speculating that cale's "trial" where he met dodam, alver and choi han may not have been a simple illusion. so anyway, dodam grows into his first phase, and he .. connects with raon, sparking raon's second growth phase oughgygdh

okay, but why did i mention the dimension hopping? weellll~ if you recall, a character named ahn roh man was briefly introduced, and the dimension he was in seemed to be a mix of roan and korea. what i'm saying is that it's not entirely impossible for cale and gang to hopcon into dodam's universe, and just relive all that chaos again.

perhaps this opens room to chaos or angst or gives them answers to something they never knew they needed, perhaps this opens room to something else, perhaps the og!cale of that universe decides to intervene again, who knows! but it opens up a whole new world full of possibilities.

(on a side note, here's to me hoping they hopcon into sgt's korea too.. that'd be so... argh... can you imagine?)

[ariesimping]

Dragon collector/namer

[teriri-sayes]

Reactions to The Incomprehensible's Chapter 329

Brief summary: Cale's group enters Neo's lair. DHB finally gets a name!

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FINALLY! What we are all waiting for is here! Cale finally gave DHB his name! 😭😭😭

DHB's new name is...

EDEN MIRU (이든 미르)

I'm sure a lot of us were expecting a pure Korean word for his name, right? But 'Eden'??? There's actually an explanation for that.

Let's first read an excerpt of Cale's thoughts:

What should I name the Dragon Half-Blood? I tried to think of names with good meanings, like Raon or Dodam. I thought about words that are pretty or cool among the pure Korean words. But does it matter to the Dragon Half-Blood? Raon and Dodam. The two dragons were named with the hopes of the children growing up. But what would be the point of saying them to a Dragon Half-Blood? To be cool? To be happy? To have fun? What's the point of telling the Dragon Half-Blood to be something? Identity. Identity is what bothered this guy. That's why he's constantly searching for his place. "Whether you're a Dragon Half-Blood. Whether you're my enemy. Whether you're a bone dragon." The Dragon Half-Blood came to Cale in various forms. Cale wanted to speak to the one who had lived for nearly a thousand years, the one who hadn't found himself for so long. "Whatever you are, you are you." Whether (Eden). A word used to list two or more things that make no difference which one is chosen. Whether you're a Dragon Half-Blood. Whether you're an enemy or not. Whether you're anything. "To me, you are you, to us, you are you. There is no difference."

이든 is pronounced as "ideun" in Korean. According to the Naver Korean-English dictionary, it is a postpositional particle used when it does not matter which one is chosen. Thus, it can be translated in English as the word "whether".

Interestingly, when the Hebrew word "Eden" is translated into Korean, it uses ideun 이든 too.

Cale also uses some clever wordplay here. If you add the Korean word for "what (무엇)" to the word "whether (이든)", it becomes "whatever/anything (무엇이든)". So Cale tells Eden that he can become anything because it did not matter to them who he was. Eden was just Eden to them. 🥰🥰🥰

This Kakao comment by user Cale-ah was touching: 🥰🥰🥰

Raon Miru. I made this with the hope that you will live happily and joyfully. These are letters and words just for you. Dodam Miru. Dodam means don't get sick, have fun, and grow up safely. You will grow up well in the future. Eden Miru. Whatever you are, you are you and you can be anything. So let's live.

So what does Eden look like now? When he registered into the game, he became an NPC, fully bound to the game world. He took the form of a dragon egg! His eggshell had beautiful patterns of platinum and black with a little of purple mixed in between. And his game title was:

[Eden Miru]

[Status: Pre-Hatching (Recovery Rate: 30%)]

[Title: Half-Human, Half-Dragon with Light and Time]

Whoa!!! Eden seemed to have absorbed Neo's Time attribute. He now had two attributes, Light and Time. And he was also a true Dragon Half-Blood now, being a half-human and a half-dragon! 😭😭😭

Ending Remarks

It's a good day today because we finally have DHB's naming scene. As for what happens next chapter, I'm not sure. It can be more explanation about Eden's new status, or a wrap-up of what happened to Aipotu. Perhaps an explanation about the 1st Evil that was suddenly mentioned in today's chapter too.

[corvidaes-crow]

A Dissection of Names

TL;DR: CQL shows affection through name-calling and attention hogging, ORV does that too but also focuses on names and how they define you, LCF looks at names with attributes as gifts vs titles, and Turning touches on names as burdens instead.

I watched The Untamed/CQL (and read MDZS) as one of my earliest introductions into East Asian fiction. I found myself turning over in my head how its story was affected by the censorship of queer relationships in its medium, as well as the ways Wei Ying and Lan Zhan conveyed affection for each other in the place of explicit expression. And one of those main forms of expression is through calling each other's names and holding each other's attention. Instead of the physical aspects of a romantic and/or sexual relationship, here is a subtextual way to express affection that is private, tender, and laden with meaning. In terms of the significance of names that I learnt from repeated "Wei Ying" and "Wei Wuxian!" calling, with a multitude of inflections and unspoken meanings, when one of the main characters' dialogue is almost exclusively a name, then names must carry a huge amount of significance.

And then I read ORV, by extent ORV fics (in general major character traits/canon speech habits become very prominent in fics), and Yoo Joonghyuk says, "Kim Dokja," like it's one of the only phrases he knows. So solidified my understanding that names are Important. Specifically, to say someone's name and have them pay attention. Who needs pet names when you can taste each syllable of who someone is on your tongue? But with ORV it's not that simple. ORV adds another layer to the name game. 'Dokja' being both 'reader' and 'only child' is briefly touched on in the early part of the novel. Later, it focuses on the first nature to build on the YooHanKim triumvirate of Reader, Writer, Protagonist. And titles get added to the mix - . Who is Yoo Joonghyuk if not the Protagonist? What is Kim Dokja if not a Reader? What else can Han Sooyoung be, when the only thing she can do is write? Titles are tokens of identity, simplified for efficient distribution. It's economic - an easy way to judge someone, or a convenient place to start to know them.

And sometimes titles are names too. In LCF, the two souls involved in a world/body swap give up their names freely - eagerly, almost. The motif of 'names' as attached to the theme 'identity' is narrowed to names as given by others. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but if any flower by the name 'rose' smells as sweet, then what? The scent must be indelible in the letters of the name. If a name and its corresponding attributes are shared between different entities, it is more fittingly called a 'title'. At the beginning of TCF, in KRS!Cale's early interactions with the Henituse family, Cale Henituse is not a son, nor a master, not a villainous heir - he is the inhabitant of a body with a title. 'Cale Henituse' is a mere title, with the attributes of selfishness and asocial behaviour and unreasonable temper. A mere title - because the person behind the name is gone. The person using that name exists unknown by the people that call him it, and acts accordingly to its attributes. 'Cale Henituse,' as other people know him, is a mix of concept and preconceived conclusion. When Cale reveals the swap, those that knew 'Cale Henituse' before the switch must now re-identify Cale as a separate entity. They must go through their memories and make a clean cut in their mental timelines of 'Cale Henituse's Change and Improvement,' where previously they have either explained away or skipped over the incongruencies because any other reason is 'impossible'.

Meanwhile, the purer form of gifted names comes as 'Raon Miru' (and 'Dodam Miru', for another example). Raon's name is a gift that actively shapes his identity. We see its effects clearly in his demeanour and sense of self, more so because of his young age - "the great and mighty Raon Miru!" is an untouchable, revered, free Dragon. As Cale gave the name after a period of careful thought, and as he continues to respect, acknowledge and dote on Raon, the once-trapped Dragon toddler in the cave can happily associate 'Raon Miru' with 'loved'.

Turning depicts a more unpleasant experience with gifted names, though they are also given out of respect and/or love. Surnames and given names are bestowed with little to no consultation of the one who must now live with that name. Yuder accepts his last name 'Ail' ambivalently, as it is one of many surnames given out that day. It is meaningless except that its existence marks him as more than a random lower-class citizen. On the other hand, Kishiar la Orr's gift of the name 'Yudrein' in the first timeline becomes a burden that Yuder is all too happy to abandon. It haunted him in the form of the rumours that he renamed himself as a result of his ego, or the misconception that a man he resents gave it to him as "an honourable gift and source of pride," as bestowed names are normally perceived. Sometimes you are given a name that is not yours and you do not know what to do with it, but it is what someone has chosen for you and they meant well by it, so you wear it every day until you get used to hearing it and thinking of yourself. You do not grow into it. It does not grow on you. It will never fit you. By now, you are too tired to fight it. Names are gifted with affection. Sometimes they are only received out of obligation.

Or maybe any name on you can feel right, as long as someone calls it with a complete, complex understanding of you.

[peculiarphantomphoenix]

Dodam: I'm gonna kill people

Raon: Yes

Cale: No

Dodam & Raon: No

[mewritingblog]

Raon and Dodam needing their (emotional support) human is so cute:

Raon Miru: I will protect this weak human because he is weak. This human needs to be with me because he is weaker than a piece of wet paper.

Dodam Miru: I will keep an eye on this terrible human because he is a terrible bastard. This human needs to be with me because he is a bastard and will work for me.

[overboardfan]

I just start to see Kotaro lives alone and every time I see that lil 4 year boy living alone and trying to be strong reminds me of Raon, but after a while the image of Raon was substitute and Dodam appear in my mind.

I hope we can see more about Dodam in Part 2 of TCF, and I hope he don't live alone and have a good life with Choi Han.

[peculiarphantomphoenix]

Is there a Raon Miru meets Dodam Miru fic out there???

please...i must know...if there could be dozens of tboah cast meets tcf cast fic out there then surely this isn't much of a reach?

[blueteller]

Aipotu arc is nearing! U think we can see dodam again? Its quite unlikely but thinking about the possibility makes me squeal!!!

[Beware Spoilers for TCF Part 2!]

I don't know if Aipotu is going to be our next destination... it's quite possible, but at the same time, the "World of Dragons" sounds more like a "Final Dungeon" kind of deal. However, I do hope that we get to see Dodam and OG Cale!KRS before we get to the final Hunter family. I'm definitely very impatient to see them both once more!

[murasaki-cha]

Thoughts on Raon’s attribute

So his attribute is Present right? But we don’t know exactly what it does.

Well I’m reading some parts of the novel and I think it’s related to different/alternate timelines. There have been hints throughout the novel most of them during the Sealed God’s temple arc.

When Cale first used Instant here’s how Raon felt:

“It felt as if the entire world had stopped. It had not actually stopped, but it made him feel as if it had. It was because there was someone who seemed to be moving in a different timeline. Our young Dragon saw it. In that very short period of time… In that ‘instant’… He saw someone shooting forward as if he was made of light. That person was his human.”

Cale is supposed to be moving at superhuman speed here. Like he’s on a completely different world/dimension/timeline from everyone else. Yet Raon could see him. He saw him move, albeit with difficulty, yet he still saw him.

During the Sealed God’s temple tests Raon was the only one “feeling” what was happening inside.

He felt Cale using his powers during the sloth test:

“Goldie gramps! The human, something is weird! I keep sensing the human’s powers in that yellow piece!”

The chubby front paw was pointing at the yellow piece.

“The Super Rock, fiery thunderbolt, water, and shield! The human seems to be in a big fight right now!”

And he remembered the name Dodam:

“Do-, right, Dodam!”

“What is that?”

“I don’t know either! I just keep hearing Dodam!”

Now we don’t know if the worlds from the tests were different timelines, but I don’t believe that they were another set of worlds like Earth 3, Earth 2, Earth, 1. So they’re either alternate timelines or dimensions.

And this whole thing starts making sense when you read Present’s description:

"Present": the moment when things can change among many possibilities which allow unlimited growth.

And Eruhaben also said that during Raon’s first growth phase the moment his plate shattered the whole world became his plate. So his abilities are uncontainable and unlimited.

So yeah based on this information we can hypothesis that Raon can AT LEAST see through other timelines. How far his powers could go is not sure. He could perhaps enter different timelines or bring other people from other timelines into this timeline. He could go as far as to erase or create timelines. The possibilities are endless with Raon’s attribute.

I’m excited about what we’ll learn about Present on part 2. It’s weird, unique, complex and exciting. I don’t know if this theory has been done before but what are your thoughts on this?

[ariesimping]

Raon Miru: Who are you?

Dodam Miru: I am you but cuter.

Raon: I am cuter!

Dodam: I am!

Cale, Gang and Fandom: Toothless... Where are you...

[srdjl]

Uloga respiratora u lečenju bolesti pluća

(objavljeno 13. aprila 2020.)

Sada kada smo utemeljili normalnu funkciju pluća i disanja (ko je propustio ima na mom profilu) da vam napišem malo o poremećajima disanja i gde tu respirator ima ulogu (pošto je neodgovornim izjavama nekih lekara u javnosti upotreba respiratora dobila negativnu konotaciju).

Kao što već napisah poremećaj disanja može nastati na mnogo nivoa. Dobra stvar je da je normalna funkcija disanja višestruko manja od maksimalne, što znači da kada postoji veća potreba organizma za kiseonikom (npr. tokom trčanja) zdrav organizam to lako i ostvari.

Ovo istovremeno znači i da kada organizam nije zdrav, već postoji određeni nivo oštećenja na nekom od pomenutih nivoa, organizam to može da kompenzuje, do određene mere. Ljudi čak žive i nekoliko decenija sa samo jednim plućnim krilom. Ne mogu da istrče maraton, ali mogu da žive.

Zbog svega toga bolesti koje utiču na proces disanja uglavnom nisu (direktno) životno ugrožavajuće. Zapušen ti je nos? OK, disaćeš na usta. Imaš hronični bronhitis od pušenja? OK, sviraće ti u grudima, kašljaćeš kao blesav, nećeš igrati fudbal ali možeš da teraš tako ihahaj.

Imaš bakterijsku upalu pluća? OK, ona je gotovo uvek jednostrana, uzimaćeš antibiotike, a funkcija disanja (u miru) ti ni u jednom momentu neće biti kompromitovana jer će drugo plućno krilo sve to lako nadomestiti.

Nekada, međutim, problem bude toliki da se ne može kompenzovati.

Virusne upale pluća (ne samo kod COVID-19) ponekad dovedu do takvog stanja. Nije to samo do virusa, ima tu uvek i dodatnih faktora, ali suština je da u plućima nedovoljno kiseonika prođe u krv, a organizam to ne može da nadomesti. U takvim situacijama se uključi oksigenoterapija.

Kao što već pomenuh, u vazduhu koji udišemo kiseonik je 21%. Oksigenoterapija digne taj procenat na 30%, 50%, a moguće je dati i veći procenat preko odgovarajuće maske. To kod mnogih bude dovoljno da se premosti period dok se organizam izbori sa infekcijom i njenim posledicama.

Uloga mehaničke ventilacije je u situacijama kada protok vazduha u disajnim putevima nije adekvatan. Respiratori samo to i rade - omogućuju da vazduh (sa dodatim kiseonikom u potrebnoj koncentraciji) u dovoljnoj količini dođe iz spoljne sredine do alveola. I ništa više od toga.

Gde je onda njihova uloga u lečenju COVID-19? Kod teških upala pluća dolazi do ispunjenosti alveola upalnom tečnošću a zatim i do kolapsa samih alveola. U takvim situacijama udahnuti vazduh ne može doći do membrane preko koje kiseonik prelazi u krv, a ugljen-dioksid izlazi.

Tada možete pacijentu dati i 100% kiseonik da udiše, neće imati nikakvog efekta jer on prosto ne može doći do kapilara. I to kliničar i registruje - aplicira visok % kiseonika i uprkos tome u krvi zasićenost O2 ostaje niska. To je momenat za uključivanje mehaničke ventilacije.

Uz pomoć respiratora otvore se alveole, i kiseonik dođe do membrane između alveola i kapilara. Na žalost, to nije dovoljno da bi je i prošao, jer pomenuh već, taj proces je pasivan. Ukoliko je membrana oštećena, zadebljala usled upale, ništa ne može kiseonik "progurati" kroz nju.

Međutim uz primenu većeg procenta kiseonika koji onda ipak prođe tu membranu u nekoj meri i mehaničke ventilacije koja održava proces disanja adekvatnim, moguće je postići zadovoljavajuću oksigenaciju krvi koja je pokazatelj efikasnosti rada respiratora u očuvanju funkcije pluća.

Zašto onda ljudi ipak umiru i kada su na respiratoru? Ljudi umiru ne zbog respiratora nego uprkos njemu. Respiratori nisu svemogući i pritisci i volumeni sa kojima rade imaju gornje granice kako bi se izbegla oštećenja pluća. Nekada to jednostavno nije dovoljno.

Bolesti zbog kojih ljudi završe na respiratoru imaju efekat na ceo organizam a ne samo na pluća. Takođe mnogi od njih imaju hronične bolesti drugih organa. Smrtni ishod je često ne zbog nemogućnosti održavanja adekvatne funkcije pluća već zbog otkazivanja drugih vitalnih organa.

Da zaključim - kada pročitate da je "smrtnost na respiratoru 50%" treba da znate da bi smrtnost bez respiratora kod tih pacijenata verovatno bila 100%. Priključivanje pacijenta na respirator je sve samo ne rutinska stvar. Kada do toga dođe znajte da nije bilo drugih opcija.

Dodatak: Naleteh na sjajnu ilustraciju ovog o čemu sam pisao, pa da je dodam na niz. Na prvoj slici normalna alveola oko koje ide kapilar, kiseonik lako prolazi kroz membranu. Na drugoj kolabirana alveola ispunjena tečnošću usled inflamacije pa kiseonik ne može da prođe do kapilara.