#secretive plotter

[rlaehrwk21]

they are canceling me for the way i deal with grief. also, for the infinite number of destroyed universes

[hehearse]

[lunarwednesday]

Happy birthday Kim Dokja! Thank you for your story.

the text is the poem "If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking" by Emily Dickinson

[ohjjno]

why him not me

[miilkcandies]

studies to test out some new brushes

[psapraca]

puppet of the oldest dream

[dakumomo]

Our protagonist’s day 🎉!!!

[yunnuna]

But when I send my heart your way It bounces off the walls you made

Mood song: Ricochet by Starset

[areuwu]

Kim Dokja’s Love!

A repost from my twitter!

For the full story, you can purchase the full pdf on my ko-fi!

🔗 https://ko-fi.com/s/efa4ec9d2

[dakynai]

He got a smartphone

[orphiclovers]

Support group for people whose other halves were stolen away by Kim Dokja

[707kuroyuki]

CYBERPUNK

[hehearse]

[00a-calabi]

Puppet of the Oldest Dream

[illeoust]

[echoed-salvation]

One thing I love about orv is that it initially bait and switches you by convincing you early on that the constellations are the "big bad" of the story - voyeuristic beings that gain enjoyment off the suffering of others - until the reveal that they are also going through their own scenarios. This mirrors how us as the readers are going through our own lives and our own struggles yet we consume media highlighting the experiences of others. We root for these characters, we follow their journeys, we see ourselves in them. And yet we're not villains - we're just surviving. We're escaping the struggles of our own lives by indulging in these worlds created by human imagination. Similarly, many of the constellations in orv do not have malicious intentions despite living off stories - uriel cares greatly for the incarnations she supports (as the "fangirl" archetype) and sun wukong and abfd also greatly support kimcom throughout their journey.

This is further solidified in the reveal of the oldest dream. Despite unintentionally creating worldlines through his imagination, the younger kim dokja was never a villain or "monster". He was simply a child who sook to escape the tragedies of his life through a webnovel. He depended on that novel to survive. And that was in no way the sin he thought it was - not even secretive plotter who had gone through countless regressions and witnessed the despair of the universe could hold it against him. Nor han sooyoung, nor yoo joonghyuk of the 1864th round, nor yoo sangah, nor anyone else in kimcom. No one thought dokja needed to atone for anything - they loved him and cared for him even when he couldn't love himself.

Just like kim dokja and just like the constellations, we are readers seeking an escape from the struggles of reality. And we too are loved - regardless of whether we know it or understand why.