#this makes me want to write an indepth post aout Cass and Kim Dokja

[z-nightshade]

Hello. I've arrizen with more orv x op. Specifically Kim Dokja.

When Dokja first meets Luffy, he's shocked. Sure the shock is mitigated by the Fourth Wall but it's still shocking to see that:

1. He's being suitcase-carried by an obviously burnt Yoo Joonghyuk (from the lightning strike) along with another teenager.

2. The cool, calm, collected, strong, lucky, dumbass swordsman calls the scrawny shit his Captain. Like Zoro was supposed to be the protagonist, wasn't he???

3. He's smiling. Smiling. This bitch almost got executed, but he's smiling?!

Safe to say, Dokja keeps his distance. He's scared of what he can't understand.

He's just waiting for the other shoe to drop. And waiting. And waiting. And waiting. The shoe never drops.

Luffy is as simple as he looks.

When the realisation hits, it's a lot more comforting than he'd want to admit.

Luffy on the other hand doesn't quite understand Kim Dokja either. Luffy understands that Yoo Joonghyuk and Han Sooyoung care a lot about him, he knows Kim Dokja is super strong, but he also knows that every expression, every smile that he puts on is a lie.

Luffy hates that of course. No crewmate of his should ever feel like they gotta lie like this.

Luffy also picks up on the fact that Kim Dokja is to his Companions, what Cass is to the crew. Or more specifically, what Cass would be if Luffy wasn't there or was different, so he treats Dokja like how he treated Cass early on. Being a clingy bastard, incessantly asking him to show off what makes him him.

He includes Kim Dokja as much as he possibly can and with Cass tag teaming on this too, by the end of the first month Kim Dokja was far too deep into the trap that is unconditional love to get out, even when he does eventually realise.

Kim Dokja was very biased when he assumed Zoro would be the protagonist of the book they ended up in. That's obvious enough, seeing as his favourite protagonist of all time is pretty similar to Zoro, even if it's only surface level.

Zoro is steady, Zoro is calm, Zoro is snarky, Zoro is also an insane bastard with a dream greater than his ability to get lost.

So of course he approached. Kim Dokja found it was easy to talk to this kid. Zoro was succinct in his words, sometimes joked, offered sass to the conversation so while Dokja was carrying the conversation, he didn't feel forced to do so. Like with a certain Sunfish bastard—

When Zoro's role as "protagonist" was rendered false, not much changed in his opinion of him. Well, maybe only a little, maybe a little bit of respect that such a strong guy would give up being the Captain. It's unusual to see someone strong settle for second.

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THIRD???

When Dokja found that out he thankfully had already met Cass. Who was already introduced as an "Oracle". And was privy to the ensuing conversation of "I'm not an Oracle, I just know shit I'm not supposed to know".

Of course, Kim Dokja got to the bottom of it by using the Character Profiles. All of them had one, surprisingly, including Cass. Cass who apparently has the attributes:

• [Bloodbound Oracle of the Sun]

• [Dead at Denny's] and

• [Fates little meow-meow]

Kim Dokja would never let himself wonder about the third. But it answered why Cass had modern and future knowledge, they had been isekaied.

Kim Dokja wouldn't have been able to comprehend how Zoro was third otherwise.

Nami, at first is strictly his business partner. He needed to know what the local currency was like, and he admittedly liked having money. He'd scammed people before so it wasn't difficult. In fact it was convenient to fall into a routine of scamming rich people and marines on every island they stepped on.

It was nice to worry about how much money they had than about how much they didn't.

After Whisky Peak, it's hard not to see them planning together, or counting budgets (or pretending to do that while they have their own conversations).

Kim Dokja would underestimate how attached he'd be, and it is yet another pitfall down the slippery slope of wanting to live.

Sanji would dislike him at first. Kim Dokja doesn't eat well, Kim Dokja avoids any discussion that needs to be had about food, all his dietary preferences are told to him by Yoo Joonghyuk, he bullies Sooyoung-swan how dare he!

But Sanji comes to see that Nami is smiling a lot more (even if it is that money-hungry smile of hers). He sees how much Luffy and Cass and Yoo Joonghyuk seem to hover in his vicinity, how even Zoro has started sleeping less just to talk to someone. Sanji notices how loved and loving Kim Dokja is and Sanji also notices how little Kim Dokja cares about himself.

Sanji starts putting small notes in Dokja's pirate lunchbox "Eat well", a smiley face, maybe some errands to keep Dokja on his toes.

He starts talking to him more, doesn't let him drop the conversation as smoothly as he often does.

Kim Dokja is the least scary of the trio to Usopp. He doesn't have a permanent, menacing scowl like Joonghyuk, or an evil grin like Sooyoung. Compared to those two Kim Dokja's expressions are surprisingly lackluster.

So Usopp does what he does best and tells stories. Sure are they framed as his own courageous exploits? Yes, but they're still stories, and Kim Dokja is a reader at heart.

Kim Dokja listens. He doesn't have exaggerated reactions like Luffy or Chopper, doesn't roll his eyes like Nami sometimes does.

Even after Usopp warms up to the other two, Kim Dokja will remain the one he goes to when he wants to tell his stories.

When Chopper first meets Kim Dokja, he thinks Kim Dokja is weird. He always has such a distant look, that only slightly falters when talking to his crew.

Kureha thinks he's stupid. She is concerned, he doesn't have enough fat on his bones and too much muscle. She gives Sanji and Yoo Joonghyuk a proper diet to help with that.

Once Chopper becomes part of the crew, he's met with the biggest challenge he'll ever face. How to make Kim Dokja not only not kill himself, but to not want to kill himself.

Chopper is Kim Dokja's doctor. Maybe even the first one to care.

When Kim Dokja meets Robin, he feels as if he's found a kindred spirit, a fellow reader, another person with a past they refuse to disclose. Kim Dokja doesn't have a problem with that.

Robin is like him, but she's also not. They complement each other, but they aren't the same.

Kim Dokja knows that Nico Robin is not like Miss All Sunday, that role was a mask, not her true self.

And Robin knows that Kim Dokja is hiding himself from everyone on board. She doesn't push, she doesn't prod. She waits and enjoys the fact that he does the same.

They uncover each other's personalities by just being there, by just existing. And it is refreshing for both of them

In Skypeia, he spends most of his time with her.

They talk and they study and they find the Poneglyph together and they meet Enel together.

Dokja is the closest to Robin than any of the other Strawhats.

Until Water 7.

Until Enies Lobby.

Never have the words "I want to die" saddened him so much. Never have the words "I want to live" shaken him in such a way. When Nico Robin said "Take me away from her, take me with you." He listened.

*claps hands* More Omniscient Oracle's Odyssey!

No one ever meets Luffy without their worldview changing just a little. It's just a fact of the world and Kim Dokja is no exception to that

But besides that, he's just a really simple guy

Kim Dokja is to his companions what Cass would be if they had something like the Fourth Wall themself. Something to keep the lines between fiction and reality separate and clear cut. Cass ends up disregarding that line early on, throwing it out. Kim Dokja clings to it

So Luffy and Cass really just have to tag team bully him with so much love and affection he has the give for a moment. And it would only get easier from there

Zoro is also a simple guy. But he's simple in a way Kim Dokja understands. A typical web novel protagonist than Luffy, who is very much a shonen protagonist.

Zoro is familiar to Dokja in that way, and Dokja prefers that far more to dealing with the unfamiliar

I also find it incredibly funny that Kim Dokja attributes Zoro not being First Mate to Cass, when in reality, if Cass wasn't there, there wouldn't be a First Mate

When Kim Dokja uses [Character Profile] on Cass, he probably sees more than just that. Probably including things Cass doesn't even know yet

Other things Kim Dokja would be privy to would be; Cass birth name before being isekai's, the fact that Cass actually has prophetic powers without the isekai knowledge and there'd probably be a couple more attributes that will not be discussed for spoiler reasons

Also love Cass being called Fate's little meow meow. It's great

Part of me wants Kim Dokja to talk to Cass, isekai to reverse isekai protag, but he won't. Because he's Kim Dokja. Which means that Cass will be the one who eventually has to do so instead (which will sure as shit be a doozy)

Nami and Kim Dokja are in charge of the money. It was something that Cass was more than happy to hand over

The two have their fun scamming people and getting money because they both like it. And they both have Cass's more than substantial savings to fall back on as well, which Cass is more than happy to hand over

Getting sent to One Piece/An Oracle's Odyssey is a very slippery slope for Kim Dokja me thinks, because for all the cast are "characters" they are not from any story Kim Dokja has read. He has no preconceived expectations and it makes it very easy to view them as real people compared to everyone else

Sanji 🤝 Cass 🤝 Kim Dokja

Being weird about food and self destructive w/ daddy issues

Sanji takes a hot second to warm up to him but once he does, he starts treating him like Cass, at least in regards to food.

(I love how treating Kim Dokja like Cass is the Strawhats go to for dealing with Kim Dokja. Really highlights how similar the two can be)

That is to say, he makes sure Kim Dokja eats enough and always attends meals and doesn't let him skip out

After all, no one goes hungry with Sanji in the kitchen

Usopp gets entrapped with Kim Dokja's 'normal guy' charms and Kim Dokja gets entrapped by Usopp's stories

Because, really, the way to Kim Dokja's heart is stories and he's always down to listen no matter how they are framed

Poor Chopper having to deal with Kim Dokja's suicidal tendencies

Good thing he's not alone in the matter

And Robin.

She's similar enough that Kim Dokja understand her, but different enough that she doesn't get his scorn like Cass does in the beginning. This allows them a quiet sort of friendship and understanding they don't get with anyone else

It's nice

And then Kim Dokja witnesses her 'I want to live' speech and there is no way he's walking away from there unshaken