KDJ: [ has war flashbacks about the 46th scenario ]
happy birthday YJH!!! here's a joongdok comic just for you, drawn in around 2 hrs (why am i still awake)🥰🎉💕
#HappyJoongHyeokDay_2022
#HappyYJHday0803
#오늘의_주인공은_너야_중혁아
#8
월의기적_유중혁_생일축하해
#중독 #중혁독자
in an idol au where yjh and kdj are both idols and kdj's fans vehemently argue that kdj is way hotter, kdj himself would go on vlive just to explain that, "No, you don't understand. I wear make-up usually. I do skincare. I know I'm good-looking, but that guy wakes up like that."
every time i read the webtoon i just keep thinking "damn, they really made dokja look way cooler than he should be" like??? this guy is a certified awkward nerd and yet here he is...looking unnecessarily pretty
kim dokja is that dad who says he's not that good with kids but has an entire horde of kids from kindergarten who want him to read them his fave story because he does the voices and gets really in-character
👤: Is he also a teacher?
🧑🏫: Ah no, he's a parent!
👤: ???
lmao but what if...idol au where joonghyuk is an idol, kdj is a simple fanboy, and they get a connection when yma makes friends with kdj bc FINALLY there is someone who understands that there's more to yjh than his face
yjh doesn't know how to feel about all this...
joongdok no-scenario au where YJH overhears KDJ playing That Climbing Game and wonders what the hell is going on only to find that he's just groaning every time he falls 😭
YJH: Do you even realize how you sound right now.
KDJ: No—ah! Ahh, ah, ah, ugh!! Joonghyuk-ah!! Stop!
YJH:
ngl it's hilarious to imagine socially awkward kim dokja actually gaining the guts to flirt with a hot person (i.e. yoo joonghyuk) because hsy AND ysa promised they'd get him a limited edition, signed copy of one of his favorite novels from one of his favorite authors
i am never going to stop laughing at how some constellations saw the growing number of women in kdj's group and went "oh he's building a harem" and the entire story just went "a harem of BESTIES 🤩💖✨"
ngl kim dokja lightly talking abt his mom being a murderer to YSA is so relatable in the sense that sometimes, u have ur trauma and ur so used to it that ur kind of just "haha it is what it is! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" while your friends are just "yo that's fucked up..."
i love kim dokja bc he might look cool sometimes but the reality is that he's really only as cool as when he knows what he's doing with the scenarios
outside of TWSA he's just. "nah we're completely different genres...please don't speak to me"
i still stand by my belief that kim dokja is average pretty
he doesn't make an impactful first impression, and he's not the kind of face u dedicate artworks to @ first sight, but u get used to him after a while & BAM you suddenly realize "wait why do i love him so much, fuck—"
reading ep 110 of the ORV webtoon and crying on the inside because Sangah feels safer drinking four bottles of soju in the middle of an apocalypse with people she only just met than before the apocalypse started and she was just going to company gatherings
i just want you all to know that i only remembered to save this file once i was already done with the whole thing
i almost burst into tears LMAO 😭😂
#orv
#joongdok
Caelus: [being delusional]
LMAO this was actually a request for Blade and Dan Heng not getting along, and I ended up...putting Caelus in...bc he's my fave HAHAHAHA
you can interpret it as BladeCae and DanCae ! (。•̀ᴗ-)✧
ngl KDJ isn't technically completely dense for thinking YJH is OOC or a little off his rocker for treating him as an important companion bc i too would be utterly bewildered if my favorite character, who is usually a jerk to strangers, suddenly thinks i'm of some significance
one very funny thing i love about orv is how there are so many women in the main group but it's almost unanimously decided that the best fit for kim dokja is yoo joonghyuk
orv novel spoilers ??
ngl im laughing at the image of SP taking one look at astronaut YJH floating around in space and being like "my god. get your shit together" right before going back home to focus with doting on OD like the very VISUAL of it....it's hilarious to me
cackling at the idea of lee seolhwa & kim dokja being friends and having the same taste in men but when they both end up liking yjh they BOTH try to set each other up with the man instead of actually getting the man themselves
do u ever just think abt how willing kim dokja was to let kim namwoon die from the very first scenario
and then the eventual realization that he hated KNW so much bc he saw himself in him......hahahaha.....
do u ever just do leg day and think "oh this workout is fine" and then u walk down the stairs and think "oh no"
here's kim dokja going through physical therapy with lee seolhwa as inspired by that💜 ahaha 💀
still laughing at how dokja made dionysus stutter when he said "The goddesses who ripped apart homosexuals?" after the man tried to tempt him to his side with olympus' goddesses LIKE ???? OF ALL THE THINGS TO SAY???? LMAO
no but see the thing about kim dokja is
THE THING ABOUT KIM DOKJA IS
he's just some guy, yes, he's an ordinary man who loves reading and doesn't socialize pre-scenario and he's kind of a loser BUT THE THING IS
kim dokja loves with his whole heart, sincere and unfaltering, and—
listening to poor unfortunate souls and laughing at the concept of ursula!HSY kicking merman!KDJ out of the ocean bc she wants him to have a life instead of pestering her for stories on her victims—AHEM, clients—but the only thing he does there is look for more stories
no-scenario au where everyone thinks joongdok are dating because yjh is extremely blatant about providing kdj with food (and attention), and yjh doesn't just Do That for anyone
meanwhile, kdj is weirded out abt receiving so much from yjh, but free food is free food, so...
one more thing i love about orv is how everyone could've easily fallen into the traps of stereotypes—YJH as the cold-blooded OP protag, KDJ as the self-sacrificing, noble, underdog MC, YSA as the pretty & talented yet helpless-in-the-face-of-danger female lead—
but they didn't.
god how could i forget metatron trying to shame yoo joonghyuk into putting on a shirt bc the angels were starting to Sin bc of him, and yoo joonghyuk genuinely not giving a single fuck in response
speaking of SP
[SPOILER !!!]
i can't believe we still take YJH seriously even with the knowledge that he considers wearing a sheet over his head as a valid disguise. and he uses kkomas to cope with his long existence. have we considered that YJH is actually a funny guy
lee hyunsung in an idol au would be the kind of idol where men assume "oh women like him bc he's big and shit" but when you ask his fans, they're all "HE'S THE CUTEST!!!! have you seen his smile??? i feel healed just from seeing his face, and i'm sure he'd give the nicest hugs💖"
i love kim dokja's fourth wall for being such an important character all on its(?) own, bc dang. daaaang. it really makes you wonder how he'd even survive if he didn't have that to mute his feelings through the entirety of orv
still emotional over joongdok like. fuck. imagine finding each other annoying and a lil too much but still thinking "i want to live out the rest of my life with you by my side. i want to see you happy, more than anything. i would rewrite the universe just for your happy ending"
the thing that i love about joongdok is that they're both unhinged
and somehow, the guy with explicit murderous intent is the more reasonable one of the two of them
childhood friends AU joongdok would be so funny if they grow up together for long enough that KDJ is so, so late in realizing that hey, his childhood friend might actually be really hot, and when he DOES realize it, it's all he talks about
my favorite brand of joongdok is canon joongdok, where everyone has the impression that they're married/have a history together, and neither of them will confirm nor deny their actual relationship bc they just can't be assed to explain things properly
kim dokja is that dad who says he's not that good with kids but has an entire horde of kids from kindergarten who want him to read them his fave story because he does the voices and gets really in-character
👤: Is he also a teacher?
🧑🏫: Ah no, he's a parent!
👤: ???
i love the canon fact that despite all of yjh's strength, intelligence, raw skill at anything and everything, charisma, etc etc
at the end of the day, he's practically powerless in the face of kim dokja's stubbornness.
have i ever mentioned how much i love how cruel kim dokja can be, because i do
he's not the kind of man to immediately resort to physical violence, but he'll most definitely break your heart or spirit with a few words. bc he's observant, because he's used to only having words.
another thing i find very important about ORV is that, regardless of kimcom's efforts to keep kim dokja, (by the end of the novel) they don't actually force the man himself to stay as they do try their best to convince him to /make the choice/ to find them again, and stay.
orv novel spoilers ig??
the thing that gets me about yoo joonghyuk is the fact that he went into regression willingly the first time, completely forgot about why he started regressing as a consequence of acquiring said stigma, but given how he remembered a bit of the 0th turn—
i like to think that in the idol au kdj's peers were always teasing him abt his average looks so he kind of takes it to heart—not in the sad way, but in the "fine bitch i'm going to enhance my appeal in other ways" so when he debuts, turns out, his fanservice skills are a lil OP
orv spoiler ????
if we think about the ORV webtoon as the published work of HSY and the rest of KimCom to get KDJ back, I would just like to know who finalized the idea of putting the pretty filter on Kim Dokja
laughing and also crying because in-universe, YJH is the person who experiences the process of falling in love with KDJ (not necessarily in the romantic sense) while KDJ doesn't have that same moment bc he's already always loved YJH nearly all his life ahaha rip
i love dokja bc he's a funny lil man who feels awkward and ashamed abt yoo sangah reading the embarrassing bits of his life story, while also being the kind of man who uses strangers as meat shields and shamelessly going "oops"
laughing at the concept of childhood friends au where kid!yjh's features looked strange on his face bc they were too distinct and his body hadn't grown into them yet, but kdj always thought he looked cute like that
i like to think that YJH and KDJ have different attractiveness levels in that YJH is just a "slap in the face" kind of attractive you can't ignore, while KDJ is a plain-faced guy with a face you get used to until you belatedly realize "shit, he's kinda attractive?? fuck??"
kim dokja would've loved open-world games given the opportunity to play them as a kid... getting to explore a seemingly vast universe with his own hands... getting to know people through them...a story that won't end unless you let it...cries
one of the funniest things to me in the orv novel is lhs straight up stealing from the military the moment he regressed LMAODBDJSJ how did we go from a man who only lived by enforced rules to a man who'd so shamelessly break the law 😂😂
"I'd die for you but I'm not sticking my [redacted] anywhere in you—"
"It's strange that you presume I'll be on the receiving end."
"I don't think any human being could handle your [redacted] in the first place, so why not?"
"...how do you know that."
joongdok au where writer!kdj uses YJH as his muse for whenever he writes in the romance for his collaborative works with HSY
HSY: I'm pretty sure you've been single since birth, so how and where do you get these cheesy but effective lines?
KDJ: Ah, I got this from Joonghyukie.
you know what. i love kim dokja's awkwardness around lee seolhwa. he just doesn't know what to do with her. he feels bad for even thinking of her as "just" YJH's past lover, even while knowing she's an amazing doctor. everyone else he's interacted with just fine, but her? nope
here's a little something inspired by Dr. Ratio and Owlbert's thread of competitiveness !! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
thanks to
@JordanPaulHaro
and
@billdozer777
for being so inspirational and making my day with their posts!! 😆💜💜
the idea that they're a thing is so established bc of multiple factors:
1. that rumor (read: fact) getting blown out of proportion about YJH running back to the palace with a (half-)naked KDJ in his arms, saying he'll "take responsibility"
2. YJH's odd tolerance levels for KDJ
i love kim dokja but the very concept of him having defined abs makes me laugh because........i can't imagine it
Lee Jihye completely destroyed that image when she said, "By the way, were you this small? Your shoulders look similar to mine?"
i love reigen and dokja, the way they're both so similar and yet not is so funny
dokja has lopsided morals bc he's been through some shit BUT he still does what he can for his loved ones, while reigen acts like he has no morals but actually has solid morals on v specific things
ngl, I'm still processing the fact that YJH genuinely considered taking away all of KDJ's life and death rights because he didn't want him to go off and die again. like. wow. "I don't care if I'm seen as a traitor by everyone else—you're not allowed to die. I won't let you."
orv novel spoilers ???
i'm still emotional about SP and OD finding each other because auGhghghfhjk after all of SP's pain and "why is it not me, but you?"...
it was all just because he was ALWAYS meant for the child who lived for him, lived through him, loved through him
the many sports anime I've watched: find your dream! work hard for it! never give up!
me: eh
ORV (specifically, KDJ): I mostly managed to survive through life because of a novel I love.
me: it's time for me to find my calling—
even more childe emotes for my 1 day 1 tartaglia challenge!! i tried drawing him in the ZZZ sticker style!!
again, please feel free to use them!!
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concept: aroace joongdok ending up living together with the rest of kimcom post-epilogue, with dokja never knowing how to deal when people genuinely think he has a romantic thing going on with joonghyuk
it's funny at first, entertaining enough at times, but as it goes on...
lies on the floor thinking of the possibility that yoo joonghyuk thinks of kim dokja's eyes as being starry in quality bc that's how his eyes look whenever their gazes meet
bc why wouldn't KDJ's gaze be starry when looking at the biggest existence in his 28(+) years of life?
i just...love the concept of kim dokja knowingly providing fanservice. yoo joonghyuk only needs to show his face without doing much else but the idea of kim dokja making an EFFORT to appeal to the audience...suspenders, leather gloves, moe sleeves.......
my favorite shipping dynamic is FL being an unapologetic villainess who ruins people's lives while ML is an unapologetic simp in the background going "okay i'll hold your purse baby💖also here if you need any of my resources to commit a crime!! love you honey🥰💖"
"Joonghyuk-ah, you could've just confessed to me properly instead of giving stupidly vague hints...and you know Sooyoungie just likes pissing you off, right?"
"........"
#joongdok
#orv
"What does it mean when...the person you're interested in uses you as a reference for his romance stories but he still won't date you."
Han Sooyoung cackles. "Maybe that means you're not date-worthy?? You're just fun as a love interest in fiction."
"......"
decades will pass and I'll still stand by my belief that ORV is the best story because how does one top a piece of fiction that goes beyond the realm of fantasy and reaches out to me as a reader, a person, someone who wants to love and be loved?
cries into my hands bc lmao,, imagine childhood friends joongdok?? and kdj seeing idols performing for the first time on the screen...seeing the confidence they exude and being like, "wow...they're so cool, maybe i can learn their choreo a little..?" and yjh catches him at it
wheezing.... joongdok au where joonghyuk finds out dokja writes stories using him as a male lead reference (meaning, dokja "understands" that his actions / words toward him are romantic) and having enough of a crisis to seek advice because—