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hunxi-after-hours · 2 months ago

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ORV question! I started reading the webtoon and it mentioned KDJ having his face censored; was this in the novel too and I just forgot somehow? Why censor my beautiful baby boy :(

hey! yes, without getting too into it, kim dokja's face, to a certain extent, cannot be properly perceived. why is this? what's going on? well wouldn't we all like to know

#for what it's worth it is rather subtle in the novel! much like much of kdj's unreliability as a narrator #and the sneaky things the novel as a whole is doing with worldbuilding genre reception and playing tropes against reader expectation #kdj's facelessness is something that initially manifests in throwaway comments #then elevated into an ongoing bit (“hyung the face isn't everything”)#and then it's not until the end that you think back and go. oh. OH. OH SHIT THAT WAS THERE FROM THE BEGINNING HUH #I know I made the mistake of brushing off a lot of detail when I was reading orv #for a multitude of reasons that we don't need to unpack right now. but genuinely sing-shong hid a lot of details/threads/clues from ch. 1 #it's kind of upsetting sdlfkjsldfksdj #all your stories belong to us

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