ORV X TMA AU Where Kim Dokja Is This New Head Archivist Who Reads Statements Because He Enjoys Horror

ORV x TMA AU where Kim Dokja is this new head archivist who reads statements because he enjoys horror stories and has mass denial and skepticism just so he can keep enjoying the statements as fiction while Yoo Joonghyuk is the tired exasperated closed off assistant who’s the one doing 90% of the job and is like “Dokja, this thing is actually real can we pay attention ffs” and Han Sooyoung is this Stranger but also a bit of an eye Avatar who’s lived hundreds of years and discovers that the Fears are the ones driving this universe’ existence so she starts an institute to keep records of all the Fears, and then this one archivist comes along that’s really bad at his job and then she finds out Dokja is like the ultimate eye avatar who refuses to eat fresh statements so he’s fucking dying, so she makes a plan for Archivist Dokja kickstart the voyeuristic apocalypse to keep himself alive but she doesn’t want him to be lonely so she makes a clone of herself that’s basically Gertrude and Yoo Joonghyuk in her plans somehow got the memo and he now has to convince Dokja to not throw himself into every dangerous situation possible.

The other avatars wants to start their own apocalypse too so they’re tryna kill Dokja even though he’s like “???? tf do you mean apocalypse” Sangah as Sasha gets Not-Sangah’ed later on, Hyunsung dies mid story trying to protect the archival gang during a desolation ritual, Heewon is Daisy who constantly contemplates her sense of justice and is simultaneously trying to put Dokja in a coffin and befriend him. Jihye is her junior who looks up to Heewon a lot but has to watch her sister slash mentor figure’s humanity deteriorate. Hayoung is Melanie who at first didn’t join the institute but then did later on even though Dokja warned her and now feels very pissy. Seolhwa is Georgie who’s the mom friend, also Joonghyuk’s ex and now friend and they still talk a lot like “damn this job” “yeah that sounds bad wanna start a horror podcast with me”. Gilyoung is a random corruption child avatar and Yoosung is a hunt avatar that Dokja decides to adopt because he can. Pildu and the others are here too, idk where but they’re here.

TMA ships don’t apply here properly.

Been KDJ this Jarchivist that so shout out to my first reader figure Alexandra Marie Bailey, thank Chris Colfer for carrying my love to read in my childhood that somehow spiraled into my love for a British eldritch horror podcast and a Korean reverse isekai webnovel

Bonus : all three of them got saved by a writer (well one of them was a poet but eh)

I remember thinking Alex was very relatable as a kid but now growing up I realize I’m more like Conner lmao, love the Bailey twins. Don’t think I’ve ever posted a TLOS post on here but yeah it was my first fantasy fiction and I still absolutely adore it till this day. Pleasantly surprised to see tons of posts about it on tumblr

We r all ceaselessly watching in here and the symbolism and underlying messages are like well cooked steaks

love as an act of consumption in omniscient reader's viewpoint... the obvious example of kdj consuming twsa to survive, but also 1863rd hsy letting herself and the world be consumed because she loves kdj and wants to keep him alive. lsy offering her own story to the masses because she (incorrectly) thought it would help dokja. dokja only understanding her and deciding to try and have a relationship with her when shes consumed by fourth wall. od offering up body parts to help yjh. persephone, who becomes dokjas mother, introducing the concept of stories being sustanence. 999 being the lifetime where yjh decided to live for others, and hes also the kkoma who cooks dumplings for kdj. i just love how orv compares stories to food as something that not only keeps us alive but can have flavor and texture and be a comfort. and then theres the underlaying irony of yjh, the character controlled by the story, being a chef. he prepares the sustanence for others. but he also loves food and takes pride in it. he becomes his own person and he cooks for himself. can anyone hear me its dark in here.

Constantly moving cycle theory (Bendy)

Here’s a Bendy theory. There’s something I wonder about a lot about the ink realm/cycle, which is its deterioration that spans across the games. In batim, the cycle was straightforward. Think a film reel constantly playing. It just kept looping, that was it. No one can break apart from the script (well I guess except the weird mysterious yellow messages that still has an ambiguous meaning). In batdr, Wilson can forcefully hop dimensions, stop it, mess with it etc etc, and by the end of it, when Audrey receives the book, she outright said that the cycle is leaking into the real world. So, say there’s like, a space between the cycle and the real world. And from the looks of it, a hole is gradually opening in between them.

Why? How? It definitely kickstarted from when Wilson began to hop dimensions, or at least after batim’s (god knows how many)’th cycle.

What if the Cycle was supposed to remain a cycle?

The Cycle runs on its own rules, what if one of them is that [it must be stimulating]. If we take Joey’s creation of the cycle in FTB as a reference for canon, he built this world like some mind-fucking hellscape memory lane, and the cycle idea was added later. All in all, he was going to add some kind of script to it later. The ink world operates that way, a story that starts, and ends, and starts again, with a definite storyline and script. But when someone deters off that script, stops time from moving forward, everything becomes stagnant, and begins to crumble. Maybe it’s built like something that should always be used/moving, and if it doesn’t, it’ll speed up the deterioration process. Maybe, it’s like a record that’s always meant to be playing, and if it stops, it’ll begin to break apart. That’ll add an interesting stake to Audrey. That trying to make the cycle better for everyone comes at a price— which is the ink world slowly eating into the real world. She needs to pick between keeping everyone inside or bringing everything out, including the horrors the real world may not be able to handle.

Hey what if in the future when ORV has an anime and all that stuff and we get one of those limited time pop up cafes and one of the menus is a fried squid donut that if you split it apart there’d be ketchup inside to reference the entire 73rd DK arc…

And maybe with every order you get a small blurb from ORV on your bill where you can put it on a wall with all the other orders to form the entire story of ORV like how HSY did in the epilogue (and if you don’t know/forgot where you can interact with other ORV readers to put it up on the wall)…

Of course we’d also have Murim dumplings, chicken broth and a tomato salad bowl on the menu.

I can imagine a drink for OD as a butterfly pea tea that can change from blue to purple with lemon juice. It’d have like a pinch of edible glitter in it to look like stars.. Then SP’s drink is just a glass of wine lmao.

You know what else would be cute too? Posters on the wall that looks like we’re watching the kkomas cooking. And if you ask the waiter about the food they’ll just say [number] is cooking slowly because [that one Kkoma I forgot the number of] is off-duty today.

Also a section of the cafe is a small reading corner with ORV volumes to read but it’s designed to look like the inside of a subway because why not.

op I wrote an actual fanfic one shot of the third one, might post it somewhere

Hello world

Today I am thinking about doksoo selfcest. :)

1863rd HSY creates an avatar of KDJ. "It doesn't matter if it's a version of him that doesn't remember me, I just want to see him again."

It's late at night in her office and she pretends to ramble to him about her own "evil" thoughts and ideas. She pretends he's a soundboard to all of them.

The avatar doesn't say anything. But he does move according to her wants and desires. His body is a perfect replica of how she remembered him to be.

It's not enough. She decides, that if there really is a wish at the end of the scenarios, she would wish to meet him for real.

Epilogue HSY uses Predictive Plagiarism to plagiarize the KDJ memories she obtained while drafting Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. She puts all of those memories in an avatar.

He is an utterly convincing KDJ.

She keeps him a secret, because she knows its wrong. YJK discovers him anyways. YJK and her get into a really bad fight over this.

51% KDJ can max out any skill all by himself in the subway with his OD probability abuse. He uses the bookmarked Avatar skill to create a HSY to join him on the subway.

He is so, so lonely.

He thanks her profusely for writing that novel. Because he knows its 'not her', he finally gives himself permission to act as shameless as he wants to, because there was no more fear of a friendship to ruin, and no one else in the subway to judge him for his actions.