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waitineedaname · 1 day ago

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when I started orv I expected it to be a story where lots of main characters die, like i was coming at it as someone who's read homestuck, I fully expected a lot of major character death, I expected no one from that first subway car to survive. and then as I kept reading, it really struck me just how many people survived and how aside from kim dokja dying a dozen times, no one in the main party has died, and now I've realized that is extremely intentional. this is a story where a lot of people are supposed to die, it's a story that's supposed to force repeated sacrifice, and kim dokja looked at that story and went "absolutely the fuck not, that's not the story I want to tell" and pulled that burden of sacrifice onto himself over and over because he refuses to be part of a story where his friends die

#orv liveblog #im sure this is obvious to everyone who has read it before #but im not even 60% into my first read lol these revelations are really exciting to me #like i went into this with my expectations as a reader #just like kdj did #except kdj is using his knowledge as a reader to challenge those expectations #every time he reiterates that his goal is to reach the end of the story without losing anyone im highlighting it akdbdjdhd #i joked about him being the meme of the soldier shielding the sleeping child #where it's him shielding everyone from major character death by dying repeatedly #but like. that is literally what's happening #this is a story that demands a lot of death #and so he sacrifices himself over and over so his friends won't die #even though that makes them more upset in the long run #it's just.... ough i am getting so fucked up by the story being told here

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