#i like lhs a lot. a LOT of orv adults also have this common thread with kdj of finding ordinary life difficult/unsatisfying

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Post structuralist anon here TYSM that was a very interesting perspective, I also don't know much abt post structuralism tbh, its a new thing I discovered while rereading Orv and looking at meta posts lol. Anyways you mentioned LHS in the post too 👀 can you elaborate cuz ngl it's kinda hard to think of any meta abt him. You don't have to answer this rn!

sure!

i was talking about how orv adults frequently have very gendered arcs, and lhs is a standout example imo. yjh and ysa have the more overtly Gendered Fictional Role stuff (male action hero and female heroine respectively) but lhs has a comparatively more grounded arc that deals with real life highly gendered stuff. his entire thing is that he's a soldier. and not just that he's a soldier, but that he was drafted and could not figure out a better place to exist outside the military. despite the military being a source of trauma for him, despite it crushing any individuality he could have, he still felt like he could not act as an agent of his own destiny without someone giving him orders. when you consider that in south korea the military draft is mandatory for men, that's a really highly gendered background!

#narrates #i like lhs a lot. a LOT of orv adults also have this common thread with kdj of finding ordinary life difficult/unsatisfying #and i think lhs is the most extreme example of it besides kdj and maybe yjh. he is just severely ill equipped to live in ordinary society #its smth i find very relatable particularly with his need for structure #the military is an objectively awful place but its also the only place where he can find that structure #where other people can give him a purpose #so he sticks around! kdj says in his narration that there are a lot of guys like that #who get drafted and since they don't do well in regular society they just kinda stick around in the military #for lhs because he is so lacking in a backbone and a sense of direction he becomes the soldier who turns a blind eye to injustice #because he cannot stand up to his superiors and cannot imagine living without that structure where he does not have to think for himself #he buries his sense of justice due to that! and that makes him just a very interesting character #anyway this is super long. enjoy? #orv