like father like daughter
When your newest hyperfixation has no merch desperate time call for desperate measures
do you think that kdj's past (od's future) happened because od imagined kdj's life to be like that? failing school, getting into a third rate college, eventually going to the military... because he never believed he could have a decent, happier life in "reality". that even his best self could live only during the scenarios, never in the mundanity of a normal, non-apocalyptic world.
imagine kim dokja trying to get into a car and accidentally knocking his head against the top of it. now imagine him getting caught in the rain without an umbrella. now imagine him spending too long finding the right webnovel to read while he eats and his food going cold.
i think ysa missed dokja the most in the epilogues after yoohan. their main bond that formed during and because of their ordinary lives before the scenarios, all of that erased and filtered out from him…… the guy sitting in the closet while you poured black pepper in the company's coffee machine is gone. you are alone with your memories and no one else remembers the things you did at work when you were at your worst. you turn around to glance at the past once again only to find that theres no one there anymore.
Happy birthday Kim Dokja!
I'd like to think that Lee Sookyung is happy to see that her son's birthday is celebrated by more people than just them two now
I've heard someone say kim dokja's ■■ parallels his name first introduced in the novel. I cant remember who anymore, or what exactly they wrote, but I do have some ideas of my own:
"Kim Dokja": an only child "Kim Dokja": a reader. His ■■ consists of two: Eternity and Epilogue.
Eternity, where he gets to be a lonely child in a subway. He is forever on this subway, forever strong; independent; self sufficient. He is the 'only child'.
And on this subway, he gets to spectate and see what every reader longs to see at the end of a beloved story: the characters live happily after years of tragedy, settling down as they maintain their found family dynamics for the rest of their lives. He is the 'reader'.
Epilogue, where this time, instead of watching the characters leave him to his own cold world, he goes on towards this new ending with them. He is no longer the 'reader', but instead a 'character' in the story with all the people he has ever loved. He has a new family now, one with his two lovely mothers, a dependable older brother to lean on (swk), not to mention the entirety of kim com & the other occasional constellations there to fill up their big house with chatter and laughter and warmth. He is definitely no longer an 'only child'.
To become 49% percent is to become someone who is neither a reader, nor an only child. To become 49% is to no longer be "Kim Dokja".