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it IS super funny that orv starts out like "hoo hee i'm just a normal self-inserty power fantasy protagonist! my name is literally 'reader!' just an office worker turned action hero you can project onto slash look up to 🥰" and then very quickly shows that 1. no the fuck he isn't and 2. the story is a detailed interrogation of the nature of self-insert escapist power fantasy. and then the endgame twist that hits you like an emotional freight train is that orv is, in fact, actually very much a self-insert story about how you 🫵 are deeply loved and your survival matters so much that this book was written just to help you find reasons to live. idiot.

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Yjh lost a bet to hsy

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Development 👍

Inspired by @jomeimei421 numerous analysis on kdjs self sacrificing ass 🫡

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The ORV sidestory according to my timeline (I have not read the sidestory).

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drawing them pookies to forget about the disastrous live action in the making 😭 make an animated series wtffff!!! solo leveling got that y not orv

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Not them acting like the mother-in-law and the (soon to be) son-in-law who don't get along.

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Last Kiss

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they are married

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magical girl kdj.. does this mean anything

yes. that. anyway,

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ive talked about this before but it is truly crazy that yoo jonghyuk was a famous gamer pre apocalypse. imagine youre in an apocalypse scenario, traumatized out of your mind, having just committed at least one murder, surrounded by monsters and gods you can barely comprehend. imagine youve finally got your hands on a pretty decent weapon that you hope can keep you alive after an arduos trial, and for once things are looking up. now imagine jerma from twitch shows up, holds a sword to your neck and tells you to give him your weapon or hes gonna fucking kill you. imagine after that you run into him again and hes having a gay as hell moment with the most average looking guy ever, who youve heard through the grapevine might be the most powerful king and/or his boyfriend. we were robbed of his fans reactions actually

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/ orv novel ch 491 spoilers

ah yes. the 5 walls of orv

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old webtoon redraw

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kim dokja is everything. he's just some guy. he's the kindest person in the world. he's Jesus Christ. he's also Sun Wukong somehow. he's the personification of love as a force that powers reality. he died for our sins. he's a demon. he's an angel. he's suicidal. he's the more important being in the universe. he could be anyone. he's an inconceivable existence that expands along countless of world lines. he's a nerd. he's a concept. he's just some strings of text badly tied together. he's also the prince of the greek underworld. he was bullied in high school. he's an analogy for all the suffering in the world and also everything that is human and worth saving (but there's nothing in this reality that is not worth saving and everything deserves to be loved). he's a god. he's the sacrificial lamb. he's a yaoi man. he's an eldricth horror. he's ugly. he's your friend and also he's you. he's a very complicated anti-suicide metaphor. he's adorable. he's repressed and depressed. he has ptsd. he's the father of various human and non human entities and also the son of various human and non human entities. he's an office worker. he's simultaneously loved and hated by all the universe. he's a gary stu. he's bisexual. he's a murderer and also the most tragic victim of the irrepressible machine of universal suffering. he's a lover. he's a fox boy. he likes isekai novels.

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The best kind of ship

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orv is horrible in that you fully trust the narrator. even by the end, you know kim dokja is a liar to both himself and therein his readers. but you still choose to believe his words. you choose to love him because he is so fundamentally wounded by the narrative. it's hard not to fall for a narrator of whom you know has no capacity to love himself, despite being love's incarnate.

it's just because he believes in readers that the readers believe him.

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at some point in life you realize the best way to solve a love triangle is to make them polyamorous and you never look back

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Epilogue