I am suddenly very interested in reading someone’s fanfiction in which:
Kim Dokja’s Fourth Wall goes into overdrive when he has a panic attack, blurring him so much that he’s either entirely invisible or only a hazy distortion in the air
He endures this a couple of times alone when no one is looking for him
When he panics during an important moment, though, the others notice his absence and look for him
And one of two things happens: either 1) KimCom finds him and is able to protect him well enough for him to come back and be loved on, or 2) only Han Sooyoung finds him, and she uses her writer’s mind to comfort him, tie him back to reality, and help him reconnect with his sense of self rather than dissociating by describing what he looks like, piece by piece, painting a picture of him with her words as if he were a character (just like he tries to be when he copes alone), until he’s there, on his knees in front of her, tear tracks staining the corners of his eyes
I think it’s pretty clear which of those two scenarios I find more compelling, but I think the other could be fleshed out enough to hit pretty hard, too
Basically I want Kim Dokja to feel seen and real and like a meaningful part of the physical world
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KDJ!! ORV dump 👊👊👊
You know for all intents and purposes it was a mercy that Kim Dokja’s body was expelled after his death in the tenth main scenaio
Because how much more fucked would it had been if his corpse was left.
Like he’s died before, Dokja has left corpses before and came back alive. The time limits have changed in the past and his revival has been delayed before.
How long do you think the company would’ve held onto his corpse? How long would they hold off on that funeral?
Would they notice a difference when Dokja’s body went into rigor mortis?
Has his corpse went into rigor mortis before? Because if so they still may hold onto hope.
Would they wait for decomposition to start?
Would they set him up in the usual coffin and check in on it? You know, just in case?
How long would it take the others to get Dokja’s body out of Yoo Joonghyuk’s arms?
And so, stuck on the infernal train, he reads, and he reads, and he reads, until he can read no more. But how should he be permitted to stop? The only way he could stop is if he were no longer able. The only way he could stop is if he could no longer see the words on the page. The only way he could stop is if he no longer see.
reblog with a spoiler for your wip with zero context. no context allowed.
Hey, random writing tip: Instead of having something be a ridiculously unlikely coincidence, you can make the thing happen due to who this particular character is as a person. Instead of getting stuck on "there's no logical reason to why that would happen", try to bend it into a case of "something like this would never happen to anybody but this specific fucker." Something that makes your reader chuckle and roll their eyes, going "well of course you would."
Why would the timid shy nerd be at a huge sketchy downtown black market bazaar? Well, she's got this beetle colony she's raising that needs a very specific kind of leaf for nest material, and there only place to get it is this one guy at the bazaar that sells that stuff. Why would the most femininely flamboyant guy ever known just happen to have downright encyclopedic knowledge about professional boxing? Well, there was this one time when he was down bad for this guy who was an aspiring professional boxer...
I know it sounds stupidly obvious when written out like this, but when you're up close to your writing, it's hard to see the forest for the trees. Some time ago I finished reading a book, where the whole plot hinges on character A, who is 100% certain that character B is dead, personally getting up and coming down from the top rooms of a castle, to the gates, at 3 am, to come look at some drunk who claims to be this guy who died 17 years ago. Why would A do that, if he's sure that B is dead?
Because he's a Warrior Guy from a culture of Loyalty And Honour, and hearing that someone's got the audacity to go about claiming to be his long-lost brother in battle, there is no other option than to immediately personally go down there to beat the ever-loving shit out of this guy. Who then turns out to actually be character B, after all.
we failed
Fave yoohankim dynamic is always when kdj doesn’t know he’s in a polycule and yoohan is just. aggressively shoving him into the triangle like shhh it’s okay guys nobody tell him, he wouldn’t know to run if he isn’t aware.
Kimco is all in on it and they take turns beating sp with a stick to keep him away. That’s their OT3 no one ruin this for them!!!
when I read this part of ch 371 this was exactly how I pictured it in my mind
fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOUFUCK YOU FUCK
I'm tweaking out so bad rn y'all have no idea I'm literally punching the walls and ripping up the pillows and shit
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A KimCom pantheon and their domains according to Dream Brain:
Han Donghoon: shadows
Lee Gilyoung: insects
Lee Seolhwa: healing
Jung Heewon: retribution and also fire
Yoo Sangah: beauty and also thread/weaving
Kim Dokja: illusions
Yoo Joonghyuk: sword
Any Pronouns, Agender Aromantic, ORV fan 💚On AO3 as WishingToBeAnonymous
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