Update On LOTM Progress

Update on LOTM progress

I finally got to the miserable wretches part. It hits hard. Please. Please no one die after this. (Wishful thinking)

I’ve got this thing rotting in my gallery for two weeks or something. I should make a collection of “ORV animatic ideas that I sketched out / made a small part of but didn’t put my mind into finishing it.”

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.

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.

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god