Was Getting Tired Of My Artstyle So I Drew Dokja Eating A Burger

orv bookmark draws, pt. 4: conversations - chps 216 and 370 [parts 1 - 2 - 3]

Major ORV Epilog spoilers!!

A short comic based on a song quote that reminded me of Han Sooyoung :]

- The Front Bottoms "Be Nice to Me"

where could he run to? its not like he has a warm home to escape to. its not like he has a life to look forward to, so its better that he dies anyway. wouldn't he be doing a favour to his younger self? wont it be a kind of, salvation?

rereading early orv is like. wow kdj is so detached from the rest of his companions. he still believes ysa's close to him because she's nice to everyone and he counts as everyone. he still talks about the end of the scenarios as if he expects a peaceful, happy ending to this story because he hasn't planned it out yet. he still judges yjh as if he were only a character he would utilize to get to that end. and every time i feel uncomfortable reading kdj be so heartless i remember that he hates himself exactly because of this in the later scenarios

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anyway. the image in the fandom of han sooyoung as a terminally online person obsessed with stalking her haters that comes from her online arguments with kim dokja kinda confuses me because like. none of the hate comments on sssss grade infinite regressor ever mattered to han sooyoung except for kim dokja's. just like none of the compliments ever mattered to her. it was a soulless work she churned out due to convenient inspiration and monetary need. she wouldn't care about kim dokja's comments, either, except that they are contrasted so strongly by his love for another work. a work dripping with earnestness and love, and which gets both return in abundance. sure, she has her pride - its her hard work after all, and she's annoyed when her blind date talks it down, and she's irritated when people mock it. but by and large han sooyoung does not give a fuck about her haters, she's literally just obsessed with kim dokja. its envy that makes her act like that!

another difference between early scenario kdj and late scenario kdj. i feel like this is very similar to his meeting with the outer gods in ngai's forest but his reaction here is so different. he is interacting with a removal slave in the horizon of the scenario btw

genuinely cant stop thinking about that doksoo post by the way. what if you met this guy and he was everything you wanted in a reader. he treasured that webnovel the way you were desperate for but he never liked yours. and then youre thrown together by circumstance and you fall in love with him and he promises to read your work every single chapter and then he gives you 49% of himself and doesnt even include the part that loves reading. and then you discover that when you split yourself in two, yeah that other part of yourself? she loved him too. she loved him so much she wrote for him for thirteen years and that work you were so jealous of was your own and it was that quest that even made you a writer and every single part of yourself seems to come back to loving him. what would you even do

Are you any different?

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