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Head in my hands. Now I'm just thinking about the scene where YJH and KDJ are fighting to the death and really putting things into context for myself.
Despite all of his anger and outrage and devastation over his perception that Yoo Joonghyuk genuinely killed Han Sooyoung, Kim Dokja still can't bring himself to make the final blow. Yoo Joonghyuk means too much to him. Shipping aside, there's far too much meaning in Yoo Joonghyuk's very existence to Kim Dokja. That's his everything. Kim Dokja is literally willing to sacrifice everything for that man. And no matter what sins he's done or committed, he can't bring himself to kill him.
And in his despair, he gives up. Of course Han Sooyoung's Predictive Plagiarism never shows Kim Dokja killing Yoo Joonghyuk. She only predicts that Yoo Joonghyuk might kill Kim Dokja. And that's because Kim Dokja can't kill him. So even if he wins, he'll lose.
Between the guilt from the Fruit of Good and Evil, the 4th Wall struggling to keep pace with the reality that "fiction" just killed the "only other real person" right in front of him, and the loss of his best friend and the betrayal of the person he loves the most, he's pretty much shattered.
Yet he still wants to comfort and apologize to Yoo Joonghyuk one last time. Right before he's about to be killed by the person who means everything to him, he remembers a silly little detail: he'd never actually introduced himself to Yoo Joonghyuk. In this dramatic fight where Yoo Joonghyuk's demands of Kim Dokja to look at him (not as a character, but as a living, breathing person. Not as the symbol of the story he loves. Not as The Regressor. Just "Yoo Joonghyuk") Kim Dokja did everything to bat away the truth right before him. But when he gives up at the end, he knows there's nothing he can fix. They're both "too far gone".
So, he decides to fix the very first, tiny mistake he made right at the beginning of their relationship as two human beings: He introduces himself. And Yoo Joonghyuk returns it right before striking him down.
Obviously Kim Dokja's perception of the fight is different from the reality, as we learn after he's knocked out, but like. The heartbreak in context just likes to hit a second or third time when I reread that scene or really thinking about it.
First Dokja, then Sangha....
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Donāt go āround making deals with devilsā¦
Very niche observation for people that have played ISAT and read ORV. Siffrin is like if Kim Dokja and yoo joonghyuk had a kid and they got their parents āworst traitsā while loop is the Secretive Plotter. just try and tell me Iām wrong
Also to that one ISAT fan from the discord who recommended ORV to me you are a real one
Just like how Jesus died for peoples sins Kim dokja and his slutty little waist died many times so no other character would be objectified.
I hate this bastard so much he has ruined my life he has irreparably changed its course, I have never in my entire life read a novel and felt like this, not a single book has made me suffer like this. I hate Kim Dokja. In the last hundred pages that I have left to read of the novel, I pray that he will come back. Please. Don't end like this. You never even got to see your children graduate, you never got to be the first reader of her story. I am more than sure that you would've loved it. God, god, when does it end?
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don't you just love it when they doom infinite timelines for the person they love?
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Kim Dokja is my favourite hopeless romantic. Not because he's utterly smitten but is too shy to make a move. No, it's because he knows he's hopeless but strives to show his affection by sacrificing himself, over and over again. After all, it was his mother's way of showing her love. Kim Dokja knows it's hopeless, but he can only hope that his countless of sacrifices will bring happiness to his companions. Won't they appreciate it once they're safe. They will....right?
My Roman empire is that despite Kim Dokja being a loving and caring man at the core, he cannot muster up any love for himself as a whole. We, the readers, aka Kim Dokja fragments, can love him through all his faults. But Kim Dokja as a whole can never love himself. No matter how much his companions and the readers do.
Yoo Joonghyuk canonically having a weak pullout game will never not be funny because I know for a fact that child he had in the 2nd round was NOT planned-
Anyways we should all thank Kim Dokja for irritating a guy so much, that he distracts him from getting another child. Joonghyuk being a father terrifies me because a mini version of him is enough reason for me to become an Eunuch and a Vestal Virgin from Rome at the same time.
I hate how the 4th wall told Kim Dokja that he isn't Yoo Joonghyuk no matter how many times he's said it because at least there is always a Yoo Joonghyuk in every universe. But there's barely even fragments of Kim Dokja in his own universe....
I think that Kim Dokja being the most opposed to Yoo Joonghyuk's regression depression makes sense because Kim Dokja was the reason that Yoo Joonghyuk stopped taking regression for granted. Kim Dokja made Yoo Joonghyuk realize that the people in his previous regressions were actual human beings that had lives too. Unfortunately, Joonghyuk only realized this because Kim Dokja was the one thing no amount of regressing to the past could ever bring him back. Through Kim Dokja, Yoo Joonghyuk learned in the most heartbreaking way that while he gets to regress, other people truly only have 1 chance. It's just a tragedy that Kim Dokja barely even gets to live at all...
Yoo Joonghyuk was the reason Kim Dokja found reason to live but Kim Dokja was the reason Yoo Joonghyuk finally stopped regressing because he realized that he should move forward. Too bad that not even beating all the scenarios can Joonghyuk move forward with the star he found light in.
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