#twsb!orv au

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ORV x TWSB novel swap AU!

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Whenever I pass your orv x twsb art I can’t help but giggle because Dokja and Jesse are complete opposites and the way they’d act in each other’s places is so funny to me

I can imagine priest Dokja being the smarmiest little schemer (affectionate) and at some point just taking over politically

Meanwhile Jesse would have absolutely zero clue about what’s going on at any given moment and I think that’s funny

I GET YOU I LAUGH ABOUT IT SM TOO LMAO

Schemer Priest KDJ is exactly what I imagine he'd get up to—imagine Just A Guy with the purest ether imaginable but the way he smiles makes you feel like he'd scam you and your money for a single confession. He wears all white and should probably look saintly, but he mostly passes off as a sketchy cult leader. It's hilarious to me and KDJ should probably be grateful that the confessionals have screens between the Priest and Penitent boxes so that no one can feel suspicious of his smile (though his tone of voice, no matter how benevolent he speaks, would probably also just naturally arouse suspicion in some people LMAOOOOOO). But I do believe he'd be able to handle himself quite nicely after his transmigration—after all, "Kim Dokja" has had plenty of experience with rumours and preconceptions about his character. In his new life, at the very least, he can go through it with magical priestly abilities. Time to secure himself a leisurely life and avoid death!! (He's not gonna succeed.)

As for Yeseo, it's my personal headcanon that in an ORV/Star Stream AU, he would have left home for work that day after accidentally grabbing Eunseo's phone instead of his, hence why he'd even be able to have a .txt file of the original QPB story at all hahahahahah. You could also imagine an alternative AU where he goes in absolutely blind regarding the future, where he only has vague and biased memories from what little Eunseo has told him of the scenarios ahead wkwkwkkw. And though I portrayed Cédric as YJH in both that piece and my orv!twsb AU fic, the true YJH is Ham Ga-in Christelle haha, and I believe that her being the protagonist would greatly shape the atmosphere and tone of the following events. Chris, Cédric (who I like to compare to Lee Seolhwa LMAO), and their other companions would take good care of our Yeseo, and vice-versa!

Anyway yeah hahaha!! KDJ and JYS are such antithesis and their stories reflect that too (and yet, also share surprising amounts of themes and values despite such vastly different original tonal atmospheres), which is why AUs of each others' world work so well, in their own funny ways.

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Dokja in the TWSB au is definitely all “the only reason Jonghyuk hasn’t killed me is because I’m his walking ether battery” meanwhile Jonghyuk is pining his ass off

(Dokja spends a lot of time researching resurrection once he gets access to research materials as a last ditch for if he can’t avoid his death)

Omg, now I’m wondering about Dokja’s kids in the au

What are Yoosoung and Gilyoung and Biyoo doing? I can’t imagine Dokja without his kids

(Also the imagine of Jonghyuk going to talk to Dokja only to find multiple children who are not happy to see him hilarious)

((I’m glad you like talking aus! I have so many scrambled thoughts and I love sharing them))

THAT FIRST PART IS SO TRUE WKWKKWKWKKW

Ohhhh and imo the kids would def be Juliette Palace attendants!! The webtoon (season 1 at least) made the attendants out to be older than they actually are, but in reality Prince Jesse who is a hostage was actually served by a bunch children (with Ganael is the oldest of them at 16 years of age!). So Biyoo, Yoosung, and Gilyoung would def fit really nicely into those roles haha (Biyoo can actually fit even better in another role [see: Lynn and Cerise] but idk how far into TWSB you are for those spoilers wkwkkw)

AND YES OMG.... I love the trope of KDJ and his overprotective kids who are wary abt the sooty bastard that keeps lingering around (LMAO)

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Dokja’s biggest gripe with being a political hostage in the TWSB au is that he doesn’t have access to a book or story at any given moment

(Dokja can handle a lot of things, he can’t talk and scheme his way through politics and pain really is nothing to him but he is and always will be a reader first and foremost, depriving him of stories is like starving him)

SO TRUE THO

His attendants at the very least (Yoosung, Gilyoung, etc) could take pity him haha, so even if he doesn't have permission to enter the Imperial Library he could still have some books delivered to his room! Still, it would be nicer for him if he could actually step into a library and freely indulge in his unique novel tastes without having anyone to judge him (LMAO)

Hang in there Kim Dokja.......

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Is see your TWSB!ORV au and all I can think of is Kim Dokja in the backless clothes you draw Yeseo on occasion

And I think he’d look so good in them, especially considering how damn small his waist is

(I wanna see people loose their mind over how pretty Dokja is)

HE WOULD LOOK SO GOOD

Webtoon KDJ has such an eye-catching waist so putting him in Yeseo's backless shirts would suit him really really nicely. He's too pretty for someone who is "just-a-guy"..... I see a lot of fics that describe him as "plain looking but is prettier the more you pay attention to him" and I think this would be rendered null the second you put him in a backless shirt.

His charm points would skyrocket, I fear... Whatever opinion anyone has on his face will be overshadowed by the appeal of his exposed and emphasized waist and back........ YJH might throw a fit, or heck, pull a Cédric and develop a new unique back fixation LMAOOO

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You can’t tell me the first thing priest Dokja does when transmigrated to TWSB isn’t locking himself in the royal library and refuses to come out

(Crown prince YJH and Priest KDJ is the funniest image, and obviously HSY is in the background causing problems)

Meanwhile poor Yeseo is on the verge of a panic attack in ORV

(Yeseo trying to parse through his sisters tear filled rambles about her favorite book and therefore being the weirdest prophet know to man while Cedric and Christelle are just there wondering what is up with him)

OOOHHH KDJ locking himself in the Imperial library would be so KDJ of him to do HAHA, tho the main obstacle for that is to first get permission from the Crown 🥲 which, sadly for him.... would mean cozying up in some way to either whoever is the Cardinal and/or Empress/Emperor in this AU (it could range from Persephone and Hades, to Namgung Minyoung, or to even Kyrgios [but I think he fits Johann's role more], etc etc)

((Unsurprisingly I'm gonna go off on a tangent bc anything TWSB related makes my Freak™ show—)) (I JUST LOVE SOOKYM'S WORLDBUILDING SM.... IM SORRY I CANT HELP IT.....) 😭😭😭😭 but libraries—or rather books—actually have a rather important part to play in TWSB, or at least, in showcasing a noble family's strength, power, and prestige. In the Divine Kingdom of Venetiaan, the general populace has an incredibly purposefully low education and literacy rate (due to Queen Lilianne's plan of using the population's dumbification to manipulate their blind curated religious beliefs into having them conscript for her war), so owning books is seen as a symbol of wealth and high education, and the more wealthy a family is, the bigger they would represent that in their family's library. The Riester Empire is different in that education of the common folk is NOT something that they purposefully deprive them of (in fact, we've actually seen the Imperial Family invest in academies for different sorts of talents/skills that could accept even commoners as students), but the significance and importance of books and libraries is something both countries share!

ANYWAY, small tangent over wkdjdkd But all that is to say, a diplomatic hostage like Jesse Venetiaan (and KDJ in this AU) would not have casual permission to use something as precious as the Imperial Library sadly :')...... Which is unfortunate for our Reader bc in a lot of Fantasy AUs the library is a place that KDJ commonly escapes to WKWKKWKWK (IT'S ONE OF MY FAV TROPES NGL...... 😫😭 library lurker KDJ who eventually catches the eye of [usually Crown Prince or Duke of the North] YJH who is entranced by the peaceful figure KDJ makes, backlit from the light of the window and focused on whatever trashy novel he's reading......)

But assuming KDJ knows his chatacter's original fate in the original story (dying during the Riester-Venetiaan war), just like he does in ORV, I bet he would be the type to know exactly what to do and what to avoid, and how to achieve the perfect most "ideal" ending for the story. He's a scheming lil bastard and I trust his survival abilities (well..... until he dies. but he'll come back like the rat he is LMAO...) But considering his personality (at least with The Audacity that the Fourth Wall allows him to have), I think he'd head straight to scheming his way into the good graces of people that he could benefit from (and gaining access to the Imperial Library for some good reads def feels like an essential benefit wkwkwkk) with as much liberties as his complex position as a diplomatic hostage could allow him.

AND OHHHHHHHH YEAH..... POOR JUNG YESEO...... It's such a sad sad SAD image to think about, but also....the though of him frantically trying to organize hundreds of chapters of a repetitive regression scenario story VIA his little sister's tear-filled incoherent hyperfixated ramblings is. kinda funny in a very mean way (LMAO). CedChris would ask him/wonder if he's actually a prophet but when compared to /actual/ prophets like Camille Bacary, they'll kinda look at his sweating face and go "🤨😐 right... prophet huh....". Though it should be said that Yeseo is actually crazy smart when he wants to be/when the situation requires it, so I trust he could do his best to help his companions in an apocalypse with any valuable information he has absorbed thru osmosis via his sister. (And in the case of the "Acciddentally-took-Eunseo's-phone" scenario—canonically, Yeseo managed to get through all 302 chapters of QPB's part 1 in a few days, but it was mostly skimming haha but you can assume he'd be somewhat of a quick reader....... though the stress of scenarios would definitely make him a zombie over Eunseo's phone.) But regardless, considering the personalities of these kids, I still feel like an orv!TWSB(or rather QPB) would be more lighthearted(as lighthearted as it can be) to reflect its targeted Reader: Eunseo! Think of an Action Fantasy Regression novel with a persevering main character like Ham Ga-in Christelle who gets through difficulties with as much stubbornness and cheer as she can (though this would naturally dim throughout regressions, but the core of her character is still important). Idk how far into TWSB you are so I don't want to say much wkdjkdkd but yeah..... KDJ's relationship with TWSA and Eunseo's with QPB are SO similar and yet so different, and that difference can partly be traced back to the type of people they are, which is reflected in the type of genre their favourite respective novels are (which also reflects on the characters in said story too) TT

HAA.......... Somehow, I think I end up writing way too much in response to my Asks sometimes, but ANYWAY WKFJKDDKDKD

Thank you Anon for feeding into these AU thoughts, they're always fun to think about and hear what others have to say!!!!!! 🥹 SORRY THAT I KEPT GOING OFF TRACK. CERTIFIED TWSB YAPPER HERE....... 🥲

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Does TWSB in ORV mean Yeseo becomes a demon king?

HE DOES

There's more about my take on orv!TWSB AU lore in my fic and if you havent read it, essentially the idea is that—in line with original QPB canon—og!Jesse(Losna) decided to sacrifice himself for Ga-in Christelle and their companions, thus becoming the Demon King so that they could all advance in the scenarios.

So when Yeseo "transmigrates" (here his 4th wall censorship gives him Losna's appearance instead of just blurring his face haha), he will naturally also follow a similar storyline! "Demon King of Serenity" sounds really cool for a moniker too :')

((AND SOME SPOILERS for TWSB 301+))

Also imagine the aftermath of TWSB 301 but Demon King Selection...... Cédric going near berserk after Yeseo passes, Chris having to fight him back into clarity despite her own grief, Johann recovering his liege's corpse but there are only ashes, angst and angst and more angst..... IT HURRTTS

I still also firmly believe that KDJ and Eunseo are pivotal in shaping the atmosphere of their respective favourite novels (and by extension the type of main character that features it) so an orv!QPB universe shouldn't be this angsty in hindsight, but we all know TWSB wasn't all sunshine either WKFJDKKD so this amount of angst is still fitting.

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Cedchris trying to figure out what is up with Yeseo in the ORV au because he’s most definitely not a prophet but he also absolutely knows things he probably shouldn’t and it’s the most random assortment of things that hardly connect at all

(For the he has his sisters phone version everyone keeps trying to figure out why he’s constantly hunched over the thing despite the internet not working anymore)

THE IMAGE OF HIM FRANTICALLY HUNCHED OVER EUNSEO'S PHONE WHILE TRYING TO DECIPHER HER MESS (AFFECTIONATE) OF A FAV NOVEL IS ALWAYS FUNNY TO ME LMAO. I like to think when certain events happen he scurries away to a corner for a moment before reappearing like ☝️🤓 "suddenly, I have a solution!" and when ppl question how he came up with some of his plans he just coughs and says some vague, sage words. His attitude makes him seem silly but the truth is, his plans wouldn't have worked out as well as they did if he weren't smart to begin with, so his companions just accept his quirks. (Sometimes it's easy to forget how crafty this guy can get.... his BoyFail Halo is rlly so strong lmao it overpowers his Law Student golden finger brain)

Oh even funnier is people wondering if he (the most un-prophet-like guy ever) IS a prophet, until they meet an actual prophet (Camille Bacary) and they get even MORE confused bc the prophet can suddenly No Longer Prophet when he's around Yeseo. An enigma.... the silliest enigma around.

Stay strong Jung Yeseo...! (Fake it till you make it 😩✊️)

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The Omniscient— ....Third Wheel?

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(not-so) omniscient third wheel

Pairing: Cédric Riester/Jesse Venetiaan | Jung Yeseo

9.8k words (oneshot series). ORV/Star Stream Scenarios AU (not a crossover), Modern Setting, Regressor!Cédric, Spoiler Friendly!

SUMMARY:

Congratulations on winning SRWAQ's raffle.

SENDER: Brigit <brigit@naver.com>

Date: March 18, XX:XX

Jung Yeseo-ssi,

Thank you for entering "How to Survive in a Ruined World After Quitting My Job"'s celebratory raffle.

Attached below is your prize. I hope you will find it useful.

I am also happy to announce that Part 2 will soon begin. Whatever happens, worry not. Just know that you, who is reading this, will survive.

The Modern Apocalyptic Romance-Fantasy webnovel, "How to Survive in a Ruined World After Quitting My Job", that Yeseo's younger sister adores has become reality.

With only the knowledge that his sister has imparted on him, Yeseo is determined to survive till the end of the scenarios so that he may hopefully return back to his actual universe upon reaching the ending.

(What Jung Yeseo doesn't expect is to have become his sister's favourite character, "Jesse Venetiaan"—not to mention, his immediate and unexpected encounter with the male lead, Cédric Riester, right at the very start.)

... The regressor seems to be very different from what Eunseo has told him???

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I JUST SAW THIS REBLOG NOTE AND IM CRYING LMFAOAUAHRHFJJDGFKKDJ

ORV x TWSB novel swap AU!

When the Reader Strikes Back

Omniscient Third Wheel's Viewpoint