#tasty tasty metanarrative aspects

[randomidiocyncrazies]

the meta narrative aspect of ORV is fascinating [SPOILERS UP TO CH 70]

i’m only on CH 70, but even in early chapters there is an emphasis on story and storytelling that is intriguing—the MC is literally a ‘reader’, streamers bear a ‘storyteller’s oath’, and the characters’ are watched by higher beings who derive entertainment through their actions (i.e. the audience of a narrative)

with the revelation of the mechanism behind the Absolute King scenario, the relationship between the constellations and the incarnations is explicitly spelled out as a myth-making process, and I suspect KDJ’s end goal is to destroy the somewhat parasitic relationship between constellations and incarnations?

the fact that half-hearted readers can become ‘characters’ once their future knowledge from engaging with the original text has run out also raises some interesting implications. It doesn’t happen to all ‘real world people’ as evidenced by YSA and LGY, presumably because they didn’t know they were in the world of a novel (they have no reason to perceive themselves as characters of a fictional world). 

I’m not quite sure why it happened to the former prophets or what this means yet, but maybe knowing that the world was originally fictional actually made them more vulnerable/unable to pull away from the ‘story’ aspect of it? but they dropped WoS early on, meaning that they weren’t invested in the narrative... so why did they internalize the setting enough to become characters themselves?