#the oldest dream

[lunarwednesday]

Happy birthday Kim Dokja! Thank you for your story.

the text is the poem "If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking" by Emily Dickinson

#orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #kim dokja #han sooyoung #yoo joonghyuk #kdj #yjh #hsy #1863 hsy #the oldest dream #secretive plotter #i can't believe honkai star rail is what led me to this poem #but life is a comedy #and also i have some slight disagreements with what the poem implies but it was orv-coded to me so my hands just moved on their own

[kath-trashh]

thought too hard and cried a little bit

#my art #orv #orv spoilers #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kdj #orv kdj #kim dokja #the oldest dream #demon king of salvation #orv fanart

[melanchoise]

first parent teacher meeting

#orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #yoo joonghyuk #kim dokja #the oldest dream #secretive plotter #lee jihye #lee hyunsung #kim namwoon #uriel orv #demon like judge of fire #orv spoiler #orv spoilers

[aslyran]

[ID: ORV fanart. 2D, not shaded Yoo Joonghyuk, Han Sooyoung, Lee Jihye, Kim Namwoon, and Anna Croft stand on a theater stage, Joonghyuk in the center. The backdrop is a dark forest that tears open to show the Oldest Dream, who is huge, the people on stage the size of dolls compared to him. He watches the scene, his eyes shining and smiling. He reaches out with one hand to Yoo Joonghyuk. The colors of the stage are dark blues and greens, contrasting the Dream, who is drawn in warm orange tones. There's a plaque above the stage that says "The Oldest Dream" in caps. /end ID

The people i liked were living stories in a place where I didn’t exist.

#ARGSDFFDFF KIM DOKJA YOU FOOL #he can see a bit of himself in everyone of these stories #and in who he cant (yjh); he tries to become #in a sense #he imagines a story in which every little part of himself is something others must overcome and undesrtand #they can’t advance if they don’t either understand eachoter ( and by proxy kdj) better #to relate he must put a bit of him in there but he cant help but also see himself as an obstacle #anyways #the oldest dream #oldest dream #kim dokja #omniscient reader's viewpoint #fanart #kdj fanart #orv kdj #orv

[buqbite]

Oldest Dream(s) for @yhkweek day 1

#HEY ITS LIKE SEP 1ST 6PM HERE SORRY #I saw that hsy's day already started and went FUCK SHIT FUCK so.. here I am #orv spoilers #orv #omniscient readers viewpoint #kim dokja #orv kdj #the oldest dream #yhkweek #Im gonna be making these into sets. yjh and hsy have the same color palette #my art #<- almost forgot abt that lol

[generallypredisposedtoviolence]

i am Struggling drawing yoo joonghyuk. girl help

also the pose from the first page is inspired from somewhere from a prior art post from someone but i cant find it ;-; does anyone know

thank you for ID @princess-of-purple-prose!!!!

[ID: A black and white Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint comic. It starts with Kim Dokja looking at the mirror, where the Oldest Dream looks back, bandaged and with eyes staring out from shadow. Narration says, "You see him sometimes. You can't help it."

Oldest Dream's hand reaches out from the mirror as it continues, "It's the only time you've seen your face in sharp clarity." The words "your face" obscure Dokja's actual face, and Dokja leans in so the hand lightly touches his cheek. "Is it the same for the others too?"

We see Yoo Joonghyuk and Han Sooyoung placing a hand over Dokja's heart. The two are standing with their backs to the viewer, while Dokja faces forward but is completely faceless. "Are you even what they want - need - have - love? (Can you be?)"

A black panel containing a demon-horn headband, a folded white coat, and a cellphone says, "You are no longer anything you claimed to be."

The next page shows Dokja standing against black panels, simply rendered as a faceless white figure that gets smaller and smaller along with the panels. At the very bottom, a speech bubble says, "Kim Dokja."

The last page is the first with color. Dokja is staring blank-faced ahead, with Sooyoung and Joonghyuk close to him. Sooyoung gently holds Dokja by the arm and says with a tender smile, "Back with us?" Joonghyuk stands at his back, sadly leaning his head to Dokja's with a hand on Dokja's shoulder. Color bleeds into Dokja's skin and clothes where they touch him.

Dokja's expression turns surprised as color filters into his face, and narration says, "You forget, sometimes." Dokja, now fully in color, smiles tenderly back. "But they love you through it, despite it all." End ID]

#orv #yoohankim #yoo joonghyuk #han sooyoung #kim dokja #the oldest dream #comic #my art

[c11tto]

i hope i can reach you one day.

#secretive plotter #the oldest dream #orv #SPOD #its technically #joongdok #omniscient reader's viewpoint

[hauntthenarrative]

Haunting the Narrative Round 1

Haunting the narrative means that the character’s absence heavily impacts the plot. They’re not present when their influence is most strongly felt, whether they’re alive or dead!

#polls #round 1 #haunting the narrative tournament #the scum villain's self saving system #scum villain's self saving system #scum villain #svsss #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader viewpoint #omniscient reader #shen jiu #original shen qingqiu #the oldest dream #most ancient dream #the scum villain's self saving system spoilers #scum villain spoilers #svsss spoilers #omniscient reader's viewpoint spoilers #omniscient reader spoilers

[somniumartz]

We are companions separated by life and death.

Inspired by the painting of romeo and juliet.

#digital painting #art #ORV #orv art #orv manhwa #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kim dokja's company #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #jongdok #classical painting #49 51 #secretive plotter #the oldest dream #the demon king salvation #uriel orv

[randomgarbagecan]

lyrics from the song Bernadette by IAMX

i also posted it on instagram here :)

#orv #orv spoilers #kim dokja #han sooyoung #kdj #hsy #myart #the oldest dream #oldest dream #the most ancient dream #most ancient dream #demon king of salvation #i am going FERALLLL #RAHHHHHHHH #biting and chewing drywall because of them

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

"I'm not a main character. Rather, I always envy the main character."

#happy birthday yoo joonghyuk #ig lmao #orv #omniscient reader #omniscient reader's viewpoint #i love making od a freak #if you havent noticed #kim dokja #kdj #orv spoilers #yjh #yoo joonghyuk #the oldest dream #bard draws

[lunarwednesday]

I can't wait to read your story

#orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #kim dokja #kdj #the oldest dream #orv fanart #fanart #found the star + chart design on the hardback cover of orv! #betelgeuse by yuuri is taking over my brain rn

[kath-trashh]

[it was a habit he had since his school days. in important moments of his life or in moments when his self-esteem fell, kim dokja would say, “i am yoo joonghyuk.”]

#my art #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #orv fanart #kdj #hsy #yjh #orv yjh #orv hsy #orv kdj #the oldest dream #the most ancient dream #demon king of salvation #kim dokja #han sooyoung #yoo joonghyuk #orv spoilers

[melanchoise]

i think they deserve this happy life

#orv novel #orv spoilers #orv spoiler #<-- BEＣＡＲＥＦＵＬ #orv #orv fanart #omniscient reader's viewpoint #uriel orv #lee jihye #demon like judge of fire #lee hyunsung #kim namwoon #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #secretive plotter #the oldest dream #the most ancient dream #!!! #anyways found family #can you TELL how much i love them #anyways gonna die for a few weeks while i finish the orv animatic

[just-a-fragment]

Still mulling over how to word this properly but ough all I'm thinking about recently is how good the OD reveal is. When reading the novel, most of us already have had a clue about who YJH's sponsor is, who the "Most Ancient Dream" is, what lovecraftian being out there could possibly be the worst one even compared to the other outer gods/constellations we meet, what monster is cruel enough to impose the suffering of thousands of lives, and hundreds of worlds. Then we get to the reveal, and its just...a child. A child who doesn't believe in his own happiness. A child who only experienced love through his mother's sacrifice

Aside from how well executed, and heartbreaking it is, the OD reveal is just chef's kiss because it's perfectly interwoven in the narrative, and in the overarching tone of the novel. One of the best things about orv is how it seemingly goes about very adult narratives with an almost childlike wonder/curiousity. How ORV recontexualizes traditional myths is reminiscent of like how your grandparents used to tell stories, it's subversive not in the usual way where the author does a whole 360 on a story's genre, but in a way that really does a deep dive on the themes/motifs/characters.

Like the nice girl didn't turn cruel despite everything!! But why is she nice? what comples her? what made her be so genuine, yet so snarky so resolute yet so tender?

The OD reveal is so so good because truly, who else could this novel be for? other than a child god. A being that's supposed to be omnipotent but negligent of the suffering he has caused. The Oldest Dream being a literal child works so well for us readers and for the narrative.

Like the OD reveal was obviously meant to be this meta-narrative commentary on consumerism but because orv's storytelling is reader friendly in a way, this doesn't come across as pretentious unlike other stories that deal with meta elements. ORV doesn't try to be this new-age classic, It doesn't force you to analyze it, analyze the text. It's simply just a gentle reminder about what stories are truly like, all it asks you is to read it, whether you see this work as a masterpiece or you just wanted to read for the sake of it. And then when you've done just that, maybe you'll see how even a "shitty" story managed to save a child's life

#orv #orv spoilers #omniscent reader's viewpoint #orv analysis #OD #the oldest dream #most ancient dream

[buqbite]

Leftovers

#He took all that pain and misery and stored it inside himself #and then shut that out. There's no influence from the outside world because hes just whats left over anyways #orv #omniscient readers viewpoint #orv spoilers #the oldest dream #demon king of salvation #kim dokja #orv kdj #my doodles