#park jinsang also

[orphiclovers]

POV: You're a hitman sent to kill some pro gamer and make it look like an accident but these are the lunatics you're up against

[lunailly-blog]

Any new songs ur listening to right now?, I’ve been trying to find new music to listen to!

I’ve been listening to lofi stuff so if you want to check them out; 

- jinsang (Kona park, girl at the bus stop, warm tea)

- tomppabeats (being in love with you, monday loop)

- burbank (sorry i like you, your name makes me happy)

also if you’re into kpop; 

- offonoff (bath, moon, in the car)

- g.soul (bad habit, circles, tequila)

- moonmoon (paint, contrail)

RnB; 

- kehlani (honey, personal, heebiejeebies)

- post malone (go flex, fall apart)

- amine (spice girl, veggies, wedding crashers)

- childish gambino (pop theives, IV sweatpants)

- sik-k (get that money)

its a pretty basic list, but if you want more feel free to msg me I’ll be more than happy to give you more x

[orphiclovers]

Yoo Joonghyuk's timeline (approx.)

The scenarios start when he is 28 years old. We know this from the first time Kim Dokja activates Character Summary, so at least that's for certain.

And we actually get his POV of the first time he went through the first scenario. Here's what World Of Zero has to say for himself.

There's a couple of things here. When he talks about 'discord between teamates and director's high-handedness' he's talking about events of Yoo Mia side story, which he said happened 'years ago'.

Since then, he has stopped going out of the house, so, become a shut-in, and is 'staying under the radar'. Presumably, he's not working as a pro-gamer anymore.

One other thing he mentions is that his sister was left to him when he was 'on the fast track to success'. More on that later.

Here he quickly summarizes his whole pre-scenarios life, skipping some details. All of this is expanded on in yoo mia side story, but it's nice to have corroboration from the main story.

Onto Yoo Mia Side story. Let's say it happened 3 years before the start of the scenarios for simplicity's sake, since that's an amount of time that could be described as 'years ago' while also not so long ago that the media would have forgotten him completely. So Yoo Joonghyuk would be 25 years old in Yoo Mia side story.

He had been on Team Ash for 3 years total at this point, since he was 22 years old. A year into his gaming career with Ash, at 23, he got a big break and became famous.

This must be around when he got Yoo Mia left at his door.

If she wasn't a newborn, she was still very young. I think if she was 1 year old at the time, she would be 3 years old in Yoo Mia side story and 6 years old at the start of scenarios, which makes sense to me. She already knows how to talk in Yoo Mia side story, but her sentences are quite simple and she baby-talks a lot, which would match the development of a 3 year old. Kang Woohyun seems to think her language skills are lacking for her age, but that's probably because she (is implied to have) some kind of speech impediment.

(This would mean post timeskip, she's the youngest transcendent in history at 9 or 10 years old. Also, she calls Gilyoung and Yoosung 'oppa' and 'eonni', meaning they are older than her. If they at 11 years old and she is 6, that tracks.)

One thing that makes no sense is that Yoo Joonghyuk says she's 'about 68 cm tall'. That's the height of a 10 month old baby, which she definitely isn't, as she walks and talks and eats solid foods. I'll assume Yoo Joonghyuk is just bad at judging heights and leave it at that.

Back to Yoo Joonghyuk.

Here he is reminiscing on meeting Park Jinsang 3 years ago at 22 years old.

Before that, he was at his first 'workplace' - Director Kim's camp. This is his earliest memory, as Zero tells us, the 'illegal work site' he conveniently spawned in.

He worked there for an unknown amount of time until Park Jinsang took him away. Probably somewhere between a couple of months and 4 years, since the impact it left on him leads me to believe it wasn't less than a month and it couldn't have been much before he was 18, since Zero says this and he's probably right.

Yoo Mia side story Yoo Joonghyuk says it a little differently, that he 'doesn't remember when he started living alone.'

I interpret this as his first memory is still spawning at Director Kim's camp, but he just assumes there must have been something before that, as he's younger and less shrewd than Zero and hasn't accepted the supernatural nature of his amnesia.

Okay, there's one more thing and then this damn post can be over.

Yoo Joonghyuk at one point calls his past with Park Jinsang his 'teenage years' when he would have been over 20 at that point. If this isn't a translation error, I think Yoo Joonghyuk is being hyperbolic here in that it feels like 'teen years' to him as it's his earliest memories and he was a lot more naive back then. It's the only way I can figure it all making sense in a cohesive way...

Aaaaand that's it! Yoo Joonghyuk's life from around 18 to 28 years in reverse chronological order :P

[orphiclovers]

i read yoo mia side story (thanks for your translation btw) and is an explanation ever given for why sys and lsh just show up? they are from the 1864th turn post scenarios timeline right? did everyone in kimcom just gain the ability to go to different timelines on their quest to find kdj?

im confused but like are you really reading orv if you have no clue whats going on

AFAIK there's no explanation, you just have to take it at face value. Yes, I personally think they're both at least post-1865th turn. Can kimcom hop timelines? I don't know, maybe in the main side story. which I haven't read, so someone who has could answer that better.

For me, I don't find it necessary to know how precisely they got there. They're otherworldly spectral presences in Yoo Joonghyuk's life, appearing and disappearing from it just as quickly, with no explanaiton, and they can be that to reader's too.

Honestly, you could interpret them as Yoo Joonghyuk's hallucinations. If you take yoo mia side story on it's own, it seems that way. He's having a mental health crisis and then they appear to protect him and save him from all the bad stuff in his life in a wish fulfillment fantasy. No one remembers their existence after they're gone, except for Yoo Joonghyuk. At the very end, he even asks himself 'did that really happen?' but decides that it doesn't matter if they were real or not, and remembered them for quite a while afterwards.

But okay. If you DON'T take it on it's own, there's also hints from the little snippets of dialogue we get from sys and lsh

So what this is implying is that kimcom does not know they are here and that they sneaked off to come here for some reason.

This was after the alley scene. They did not mean to interfere in Yoo Joonghyuk's life at first but couldn't stop themselves after seeing how pathetic he was.

And they are primarily searching for story fragments (of yjh?) but got sidetracked beating up 'the manager and the coach' Kang Woohyun and Park Jinsang. 'very interesting' is code for 'I took care of them wink wink'.

Shin Yoosung also says 'as expected uncle -- is here...' She's not talking about Yoo Joonghyuk, and not KWH or PJS either, so I have no idea who she's referring to. Another time traveler who's interfering in events?

So you get some context, but not a lot.

[orphiclovers]

It's really nice to see pre scenarios yjh in the side story. I love his interaction and conversation with sys. Also sys questioning about the dumplings

I agree very strongly, anon. shin yoosung & yoo joonghyuk is actually one of my favourite platonic dynamics in orv, they’re so underrated.

As is only right for Kim Dokja’s incarnation, Shin Yoosung sees Yoo Joonghyuk as an injured feral cat that you have to approach carefully and not make sudden movements around. Remember that main story scene where she smears ointment on his face while he holds very still? that's what I'm talking about!!!

Yoo mia side story!YJH especially, is at his most ‘poor little meow meow’ —SYS treats him accordingly.

She literally tries to feed him multiple times, unsuccessfully. Defends him online from haters. Has beef with Park Jinsang every time they are in the same room, that YJH notices only vaguely, but that I am constantly thinking about.

She (or Seolhwa, but I think it being SYS is funnier) literally beats up Park Jinsang for being mean to YJH. Also beats up Park Jinsang’s henchmen. In general, just anyone who looks at YJH the wrong way gets kicked in the teeth by tiny little girl SYS.

When YJH thinks, “whoah, I can't fight that many people…” but SYS is like “don't worry I’ll deal with them!” and then she does. thats my favourite moment from the side story.