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episode 3, three days
if you understand this reference, then I love you
(skipping episode 2 for now, because I couldn't let this idea go,, alternative version of this piece will be posted tomorrow)
just something about 13 year old hsy giving up her entire teenage years and most of her 20s just to write a story for one person and one person only. just to give him something to look forward to, to give him something to prevent him from killing himself. something about 1863 hsy deciding she does not want to live in the perfect world she so painstakingly created, but instead going back to the first world to prevent twsa from being written so that the whole tragedy never takes place, only to write that very text herself after seeing kdj attempt suicide. about hsy giving all the 'characters' some similarities to dokja, and writing them as people who were accepted and loved not despite their flaws, but because of them. her telling kdj through the story that it was not his fault, it never was. trying to make him feel all the love and care kimcom had for him. something about sooyoung never once blaming dokja for anything at all. han sooyoung who sacrificed half her life to keep dokja alive. han sooyoung who let the world be destroyed just to keep dokja alive. han sooyoung who was always the first one to act for dokja in kimcom. han sooyoung who chose to play the role of the 'bad person' in order to let dokja move ahead in the scenarios as he planned. han sooyoung who cared so much for kdj she was ready to go on a never ending journey across worlds for him. han sooyoung who wrote orv just to make all the oldest dreams dream of an alive, healthy, happy kim dokja. han sooyoung who wrote not one, but two stories only for dokja. han sooyoung who wrote a 3149 chapters novel which was bad by her standards only to give dokja a reason to live. han sooyoung who so desperately wanted dokja to be happy, there was nothing else she could do but do what she does best, write. han sooyoung who loved kim dokja as a writer loving their reader, but also so much more. just, something about han sooyoung and everything she did for kdj.
does nobody wonder that kimcom will die of old age before ever seeing kim dokja again
Orv is insane, I'm a quarter through the novel and i should've started it earlier it's amazing
what if they were the only two people in all the world who could understand each other but the intervention of space and time made it impossible for them to ever both know that at the same time. what if they needed to twist space and time, cause and effect, and build bridges out of a story, just to cross that impossible gap. and even then they couldn't hold each other. what then
The first scenario of ORV has always fascinated me. "Kill another person to survive." It might be the most common plot point in apocalyptic stories.. Pretty much all of them feature some discussion of morality and how to define it, good and evil, played out by deeply morally grey characters who have to make a choice to kill.
But ORV is a story about stories.
The Star Stream is trying to tell 'the story of an apocalypse' and it does! But in the most crude and unpolished way.
It's almost cynical. 'We are telling an apocalypse story, what's a common plot beat in apocalypse stories? 'No one is innocent and everyone has killed to survive'. Okay, let's make it a literal requirement for everyone to have killed someone to proceed.'
It's robotic, taking a story beat and stripping it down to it's bare essentials, then forcing the incarnations to adapt to it or die.
But the thing is. That's what all writing is. ORV just pulls back the curtain, exposing the internal circutry that makes a story work. Orv doesn't lie to you about the inherent artifice of it all.
The scenarios are perfect little plot arcs, designed to test the limits and reveal the strenghs and weaknesses of incarnations - 'the characters' of the story. It's not some cruel torture, it's literally just the act of storytelling. Writing 101 is put characters through hardship to reveal certain qualities in them or to make them go through character development.
Only difference is that writers usually camouflage the 'scenarios' they give their characters until the circumstances seem 'realistic' and like they happened on their own, like the author isn't forcing their reality to bend this way at all.
Oh, one character didn't lock the door in time due and got bitten by a zombie. And so inevitably this other character has to make the choice to kill them or not. There's as many explanaitions as the author can cook up as to what lead the characters to this moment. How the zombies got there, why these two were in the same vicinity, etc etc.
But, it's all set dressing the author has added to make the audience forget that this is too a 'scenario' given to the characters to test them. There's a time limit and a description and a reward and a penalty for failure, but all of these are cleverly hidden. The time limit can be until the last helicopter leaves in 10 minutes. The unspoken penalty is death. The author arranged how the characters find out some or all of this information in convienient ways.
Star Stream just lays it all out in front you you, straight up. States 'Kill another incarnation or have them kill you' and doesn't attempt to justify the circumstances, because of course, the real reason all this is happening is because the story demands it.
It's a universe that does not hide the author's hand in every tiny little event that happens.
So this too is the question "What if the characters knew they were in a story?" asked yet again. Every single being in the ORV universe knows they are in a story. The system itself makes it obvious - you can look at your own character sheet, you obtain 'stories' when you do something impressive but are constrained by 'probability' and what the audience finds interesting. You're body is literally made up of words written about you're life!
That's why the worldbuilding is so cohesive and so so good. All of it is telling you 'the world is a novel.'
interlude of our dreams
My piece for @orvstorytimebb / #ORVStorytime big bang. A post-canon YHK comic, adapted from @dokjaphd's fanfiction of the same name: Also posted on Twitter and AO3.
2024
The veil makes him look like a whore and I fucking love it.
Yes the ORV fanart somehow managed to gaslight everyone that Han Dooyoung wears a purple hoodie that has never been mentioned once in the novel.
But remember guys, TCF fanart somehow managed to convince everyone that Alberu wears a veil to cover his face when he's in his true dark elf apparance, when in reality he actually just wore a mask
I forgot i was working on this a year ago, now it’s a WIP I’m never going to finish.
“Third eye” by Florence + the Machine reminds me so much of ORV that its physically painful.
“ Don't make a shadow of yourself, always shutting out the light Caught in your own creation Look up, look up! It tore you open ” !!!!!!!
“ You don't have to be a ghost here amongst the living You are flesh and blood And you deserve to be loved, and you deserve what you are given “!!!!!!!
“ 'Cause your pain is a tribute The only thing you let hold you Wear it now like a mantle Always there to remind you “ !!!!!!!!
“ 'Cause there's a hole where your heart lies And I can see it with my third eye And though my touch, it magnifies You pull away, you don't know why “!!!!!!!!!
“ I'm the same, I'm the same, I'm trying to change That original lifeline I am the same, I'm the same, I'm trying to change Original lifeline I am the same, I'm the same, I'm trying to change That original lifeline I am the same, I'm the same, I'm trying to change Original lifeline “
IM NEVER EVER GETTING OVER THIS
lil jonghyuk sketch i made whilst binging thewizardliz's videos 🤘🏼🤘🏼 hes my babygirl
the two banes of my existence crossing over 💔💔💔
CURE
you know the character is peak when their eyes are like:
maladaptive wishing...
i swore to myself i wouldnt draw fanart for orv until i caught up , but i couldnt help but draw teenage kdj.. 🥲 i dont rlly like how it came out, but wtvrs, it's fanart..
shout out to that one twt trend going around rn
my boyfriend's oc, karobia & kim dokja the omniscient reader guy. somethings wrong w me
GUISJCJAB ISNCJ 😭😭😭
/ orv 1863 arc spoilers, a bit of eye contact cw on fourth image?
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happy halloween guys