#also very much wanted to draw KDJ as “just a guy” as much as possible lol I hope that came through in this

[kiwiandmint]

Halloween at Kim Dokja’s Company ✨

[lizhly-writes]

Hello! Not sure if the ORV asks are still open, but - Isekaid!KNW blurting out something he shouldn't know and KDJ or YJH getting More Suspicious? (Since Transmigrated!KNW is basically also a Reader, just without all the actual buffs)

ASK FINALLY ANSWERED you get TWO scenes because i'm not happy with the first. two for the price of one what a DEAL

...

Kim Namwoon is not exactly the kind of character Kim Dokja imagined him to be. With a little bit of thought, that makes sense. It’s impossible for a reader to exactly picture what a writer wants to portray. There’s no such thing as perfect communication. There will always be some degree of deviation from the writer’s vision.

That said, somehow this current version of Kim Namwoon feels like too much deviation.

It’s not enough (yet) for Kim Dokja to say that Kim Namwoon is out of character. By and large, Kim Namwoon still acts and reacts very much like an edgy 19 year old whose first instinct when told to murder something was, in fact, to murder something. That’s — well, ‘normal’ may not be the correct word. Expected, perhaps.

But there’s something… off, about it. Something thought-out, something informed. Kim Namwoon certainly knows a lot about what’s going on, doesn't he? Sure, it’s possible that he’s just doing a very good job of remembering whatever scraps of information the dokkaebi and sponsors drop. Kim Dokja himself hasn’t been doing the best job at hiding what information he has, either.

It's certainly not impossible, but Kim Dokja doesn’t remember this. Was Kim Namwoon’s memory this good, before? Did he always pay so much attention to details like that?

And sometimes, Kim Namwoon says things — “maybe there’s some guy with an internet skill out there and I could just stand next to him for wifi” — “man, power that kid up enough, he could be a disaster” — “if a novel became real, then what do you think that —”

They’re not… right, exactly. But they’re very close to the truth.

It’s something to keep an eye on.

...

Kim Namwoon holds perfectly still, eyes narrowed, lips pressed tight. “Hey Ahjussi, are you accusing me of something?” he says, pencil still poised above his half-finished sketch — and that's another skill that Kim Dokja never saw mentioned in the novel, isn’t it?

In a novel as detailed as the Ways of Survival, it should have shown Kim Namwoon scavenging for pencil stubs, hissing at anything that dares to damage his leftover school notebooks. Yoo Joonghyuk, that man who spent three lifetimes with this teenager, shouldn’t have been surprised at all when he saw Kim Namwoon’s drawings and doodles.

If it was this alone, it would be a little odd, but nothing much to pay attention to. Maybe it’s a new hobby, or an old one recently picked up again, prompted by some dialogue change in this round. Maybe Kim Namwoon always had this kind of inclination, and Yoo Joonghyuk was only surprised by the timing of it. Combined with everything else, though…

“Am I accusing you of something?” Kim Dokja says lightly. “Is that what you think is going on here? It’s interesting you think so.”

Kim Namwoon narrows his eyes. “God. Just say what you’re thinking. Would it kill you to be straightforward? Wait, it totally would, wouldn’t it? Have you been straightforward about anything ever?”