#ORV IS A STORY ABOUT LOVE

[mhaynoot]

kdj initially brought all of kimcom together, but it is also him disappearing that left them estranged from each other but! but in the end writing about him, about them, that is what brought them together again!!

because it is him. it is always kdj. and because it is them too.

because writing and reading orv that is what saved yjh, that is what saved all of them. that is what let them return to normalcy. it is not forced ‘getting over it’ and moving on nor was it trying desperately to forfeit their lives to save his nor is it forgetting the story and giving up. it is writing, it is remembering. it is seeing tragedy in its whole and still loving the person at the centre of it - of loving someone unconditionally and of loving yourself too.

because it is love, it is unfailing love, it is continuing and choosing to love until the end, forever and always and kajsd i'm crying so hard. there is love in the world. all the great and small tragedies of the world and there is love in it.

'This is the story that Kim Dokja had given to them.'

The companions had regained their daily lives, and Yoo Joonghyuk came home, too.

This was the end of <Kim Dokja's Company>'s adventures. The conclusion that the person they all loved wished to see had finally been completed.

Like this part is right before the stories starting acting up again, when all they had is the “miracle disappearing right before their eyes” but still remaining strong and courageous because they had all grown enough to face that reality and live on, to love on anyways and it's just so beautiful I cry everytime I read it.

#orv spoiler #replying to comments makes me a littl ebitch about love #orv analysis #ITS ABOUT LOVE #ORV IS A STORY ABOUT LOVE #fk

[localapparently]

/ orv epilogue spoilers

Kim Dokja's Company

#orv spoilers #it's been a while since I picked up my pencil! #i just.. i felt so overwhelmed about them and digital painting wasnt helping #so i went BLARGRH on the paper #i don't think i've cried and loved a story this much #orv #omniscient reader fanart #omniscient reader #omniscient readers viewpoint #orv fanart #kim dokja #kdj #kimcom #kdjc #yoohankim #yhk #crit's art: orv

[24-compass-roses]

*sees subway* orv reference

*sees sunfish* orv reference

*sees lemon candy* orv reference

*sees a rlly ugly squid* orv reference

*sees character* orv reference

*sees reader* orv reference

*sees author* orv reference

*sees 49% 51%* orv reference

*sees sword and shield together* orv reference

*sees Korean guy in a white coat* orv reference

*sees Korean guy in a black coat* orv reference

*sees a constellation in the night sky* orv reference

*sees story* orv reference

*sees story based off another story* orv reference

*sees story based off another story that’s based off of multiple other stories because the thing about stories is they never really die, they just get retold and remade into other stories and the point of a story is to keep on telling it and telling it because it may save someone’s life someday* orv reference

*sees the incarnation of love itself, strong, raw, hurting, and absolutely desperate to reach one stupidly wonderful and wonderfully stupid person who so stubbornly refuses it each and every time because they don’t believe they deserve it despite a cacophony of voices loudly insisting that they DO, they do deserve it, and that maybe love isn’t something that’s earned through deserving at all but instead given and received* orv ref—

#orv #orv spoilers #omniscient reader #omniscient reader’s viewpoint #kdj #yjh #hsy #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #han sooyoung #ugly squid #sunfish #lemon candy #stories stories stories and love love love #that’s what it boils down to #and isn’t that lovely? there’s something lovely about it if you ask me #compass speaks

[rusquared]

the love is stored in the orv rant. if u even care.

#polycule that saved my life fr fr fr #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #han sooyoung #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #orv spoilers #orv fanart #my art #WHEEEEEEEEE #i wont think TOO much about how han sooyoung would feel about our love towards her story #but i did also rant for 30mins to a new friend about this story #so i think she would get so embarrassed she'd come and punch me #id in alt btw

[cfeather]

yjh’s birthdays in different world lines

#i just #that line in the 0th turn when yjh goes like "just because i'll forget about them doesn't mean they'll stop existing #and then he says i shall pray that you may continue to exist somewhere too #like HELLO #the fucking. love #it's enough to know that they're happy somewhere #that they still exist somewhere #AND LIKE. yjh the lonely pilgrim of the apocalypse whose birthdays had lost meaning to him #those birthdays were still being celebrated by the people who remembered and loved him #they definitely still existed somewhere #his story touched so many people #AAAARRRRGRGGGHHH #ORV #orv spoilers #yoo joonghyuk #my art #reposts from twitter

[void-and-virtue]

You go into reading ORV thinking it’s going to be a story.

You read it and it’s a story: it’s a story about a reader.

You read a little further and realize that it’s a story about stories: stories that make people as much as people make them.

You get to that point and you finally realize that it’s a con.

It’s a con: it’s been a con from the very first word, the longest, most visceral and excruciating con you’ve ever seen, yet somehow never saw coming—and you’re fuming but you’re also holding your breath because you can’t even be mad, it’s got you hook, line and sinker and you’d follow it beyond the end of the earth, you’ve already followed it beyond the end of the earth unknowingly and now you’re willing to go even further than that, willingly choosing it for yourself, because you need to see where this goes, you need to, because you care. You care.

Somewhere, you know with all the faith of a reader that Han Sooyoung is smiling.

#I will never be okay about this #conned into loving this broken world by making us see it through the eyes of the man who loved it more than anything #conned into loving him because the world and the people in it loved him back even when he couldn’t love himself #even when his own mind was crueler to him than anyone else could ever be #conned into loving him because god wants him to love himself so badly she’d damn the world for him to survive and we get it. we get it. #conned into loving yourself just a little bit more because how could you not after reading a story like that? #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #omniscient reader’s viewpoint spoilers #han sooyoung #kim dokja #hsy #orv hsy #kdj #orv kdj #doksoo

[freyadragonlord]

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint is just an endless circle of KDJ, YJH and HSY destroying themselves to save each other and I just........ please let them have their epilogue!!!

By the end they are going to be exhausted and broken down but if they could just be together, with the rest of their family! They are going to have holes and missing bits but each of them can remember what the others are missing, and be together whole like that.....

Just!!!

This is a story of endless love and devotion and sacrifice I want all of that to be rewarded, dammit!

#happy 200th Side Story chapter #*tapes together those 3 idiots with duck tape and kisses them on the head #fools #i love them #please be happy #every other chapter the characters have a great realisation about Everything and then they dont share #please tell me what's going on Hakhyun #orv #orv spoilers #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader's viewpoint spoilers #orv side story #side story spoilers #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #han sooyoung #lee hakhyun

[lazyrunawayphilosopher]

LMFAO source: woes of a male lead

#actually I don't wish orv was a bl personally #because that would cheapen the meaningful- ness of the story #orv meme #orv #orv is about love yes #but not romance or the romantic love #love which depends on interpretation or ambiguous love is best to describe orv

[caorl]

dokja sacrificing himself again during the arch of good x evil and hsy yjh and jhw losing it makes me feral orv SCREAMS nietzsche "that which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil" im going insane

#that man is the qorld i wish to save #orv positng of the day im going insane #ITS ALL ABOUT LOVE ORV IS A LOVE STORY EVERYTHING IS DONE BC AND OUT OF LOVE #orv #yoohankim #orv fandom svae me #orv spoilers

[yellowocaballero]

ORV Characters Ranked by Least to Most Likely to Commit White Collar Crime

You guys said you wanted my ORV takes, and I try not to say things unsolicited, so I'll drop the good meta-analysis and literary criticism that I'm known for. For comedy purposes please pretend that ORV is American.

Omniscent Reader's Viewpoint characters broken down by likelihood to commit white collar crime, least to most:

Lee Hyeonseong: he's convinced that he's never committed a crime in his life. Intentionally, of course not. Unintentionally, he takes shopping for groceries extremely seriously, and is sometimes so wrapped up in the fruit inspection experience that he'll leave without paying. Due to his innocent face, bulk, and sheer confidence, he's never caught. In an economically thrifty maneuver, KDJ always sends him on snack runs for parties and texts him math problems while he's there. He insists it's like couponing. It's not couponing.

Jeong Huiwon: similarly, of course she would never choose to commit a crime. Also similarly, when KDJ says, 'Hey, wanna commit a crime?' she always participates. Since the crime is normally targeted at rich people, KDJ can usually morally justify it to her. She calls this harm reduction. It's not harm reduction.

Lee Jihye: would love to commit a crime in theory, almost never in practice. She has an idealized image in her mind of the ideal high school experience and it involves grand theft auto. However, the worst she ever gets is breaking & entering and trespassing, mostly because she didn't stop to wonder if the building was abandoned or not. She can't even shoplift from Claire's.

Shin Yuseung: the kind of kid who sets the dissection frogs in the school laboratory free. Looks up illegal exotic animal trading on the deepweb and sighs in longing. But exotic pet trading isn't very Animal Rights of her, so she just leaks information to the CIA and busts the rings. Lee Gilyeong convinces her to track down shady sellers on Craigslist and bust their kneecaps. Neither of them view this as significantly different from the dissection frog liberation. KDJ gets her a rescued exotic cat for her birthday as a reward.

Lee Gilyeong: self-explanatory.

Han Suyeong: she's been pirating media since she was eleven and has never stopped. World-class expert in pirating everything. She's the unsung hero who rips the CDs and games and puts them online. Runs the pirating websites. Has never paid for a webnovel or manwha or manga in her life. Despite this, she insists that pirating books is immoral and that people should support small authors. The FBI knows she exists and has been trying to catch her for years. She brags about this constantly.

Yoo Sangah: has committed tax fraud before, will commit tax fraud tomorrow, is currently committing tax fraud. Embezzles her company's embezzlement. Insists that she's only committing victimless crimes, mainly because she doesn't view business executives as people. Her ability to evade the IRS is mythological and it's how KDJ got a crush on her.

Yoo Junghyeok: does not understand adult life well enough to knowingly commit any sort of white collar crime. He is this high on the list because he enables and helps KDJ in literally everything he does, especially using his clout as an influencer. This is because KDJ has convinced him that these things aren't crimes, and he doesn't understand adult life well enough to figure it out.

Kim Dokja: has done every white collar crime under the sun. I can't emphasize enough how much crime he does. He's currently blackmailing SYS's college tuition out of a US Senator. HSY makes the shell companies and launders so much money with him. Alternates between running a pyramid scheme and a ponzi scheme depending on the month. Started a cult that one time but we don't like to talk about that. Runs the betting ring for YJH's esports games. Fixes the games. YJH does not know he does this, but KDJ splits the profits and Yoo Mia also needs a college tuition so he decides not to think about it too hard. Big into crypto and runs every crypto scam you can possibly think of, which is normally where the the ponzi schemes come in. Steals YJH's identity often. Somehow everything he does is technically legal. The only crime he does not commit is pirating. Exclusively targets the wealthy and ultra-wealthy and has never stolen money from a poor person. Sugar daddies all of his friends and pays all college tuitions. Anonymously yet obviously sponsors huge amounts of money to YJH's Twitch streams, mostly in apology for the ID theft. Would really rather be living a quiet life in a big house with all of his friends, but that big house ain't gonna pay for itself.

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #kim dokja #yjh #kdj #orv is about capitalism and systems of power and how they should be broken #and destroying the narratives of the powerful designed to keep us complacent and infighting and bootlicking #fucking shame how nobody's written a leverage au #'why do people tell stories' hope and love and the human condition :) #but also in order to control people determine their futures determine their fates #and even if the story isn't true you can make it true #like the fbi planting coke in black neighborhoods. #also hugely the capitalist exploitation of the entertainment industry #the chinese sweatshop worker makes the idol merchendise for the tired overworked korean #who works for little pay and no credit and overtime in the outsourced korean animation studios #for american cartoons that depressed americans watch because it offers a sliver of joy in our lives #bc the americans are being exploited by fascists and oligarchs #the korean idol is exploited by their superiors and dehumanized by their fans #i should probably make alla that a. different post jklasdf #anyway that's why they do so much crime fuck the system

[mhaynoot]

so i went into orv with full shades on, didn’t even read the blurb or anything, I just saw the cover art, the bridge scene and some high school au art and was oh they’re so cute! tbh i literally saw images of the bridge scene so i don’t know how i completely missed the fact that there was a webtoon but i did and so i downloaded the epub version first and started reading with 0 expectations except maybe a shounen rivalry

ahh this is a power fantasy, first person, game cliches and all the action tropes of dungeons. i think this is similar to the other thing I was reading (solo levelling) oh huh so he’s a lazy office worker guy who only reads and is about to be laid off? not the worst backstory, i wonder what op power he’s going to get!

i was very very unquestioning of the story, i didn’t really think about much beyond trying to puzzle out surface level power stuff. like i was just fully trusting everything kdj's said in his internal narration. the protagonist is always right, yeah? he’s the omniscient reader’s viewpoint after all. just look at him explaining his acts of good with ulterior motives, look at him being cut throat and saying he's a villian.

"what a self aware protagonist!" i say obliviously.

hyprocrite he calls himself and i cheer.

orv plays into the genre tropes and cliches so well, i was completely blindsided by the gradual build up to all the revelations i just never expect for it to ever answer.

so in the beginning i’m casually rooting for him on as he beats up and outwits his abusive boss, his old bully, as every adversery bows before him in a very power fantasy way. his first death is a brush off, it is inconsiquential, he brushes it off, i say “ah this type of protagonist!”

actually lets talk about his first death for a bit. like kdj literally dies, but his own narration treats it as an inconsequential, small death. ignore it. don’t worry about it, look kdj isn’t worrying about it either! his fourth wall skill is negating the effects that’s why he’s so blase about it and that’s not totally concerning at all, don’t think too hard about it. this is just a power fantasy remember?

until the gaps between his actions and words started appearing even in my very guillable eyes.

I ask, “why do you want to save shin yoosung so much? wasn’t it just hypocrisy?”

kdj narrates:

The omniscience was a curse. Knowing someone's heart meant always deceiving someone.

my worldview starts shattering bit by bit and then the characters around him mourn each death and i startling start mourning too, grieving in a way i wasn’t able to understand for each death and each time he starts this painful cycle of violence and survival and salvation.

it takes a whole month to finish reading the novel. i laughed, cheered, smiled and cried so hard at so many different points reading. orv has become a part of me in a way i never expected.

i love this story.

#orv spoiler #orv #ha rants #i love this novel. it loves me too. it loves you too. #i wanted to analyse some joongdok scenes especially the beginning train scene and the dark castle revelation as well as the 1863rd worldlin #to show how unreliable his narration is and how good the narrative is at keeping his true thoughts and feelings buried #but this post is long enough honestly #i'll keep it in mind for another joongdok analysis #and keep this as a little rant about how much i love this story for ripping my sunglusses off

[fallen6253]

Probably gonna sound random, but

do you guys think story packs had a similar limit like blood packs? Cause that would be interesting.

I remember something like that being mentioned once or twice, but I wanted to discuss in more detail.

Instead of the blood type you're checking for, it's divided into genre, narrative, or the perspective it uses.

The question isn't a, b, ab, or o, it's 1st 2nd or 3rd person pov, or he needs a fantasy transfusion, coupled with a shot of historic narrative.

Imagine needing a nonfiction story pack and someone makes a joke saying they need a dose of reality.

story donations: are people more likely to donate a memory as a story, or would you more likely see people writing different stories to donate?

Again, I know Aileen mentioned something like this but I wanted to go into more detail about it.

#orv #orv headcannon #don't know anything about medical things #mostly ignorant about how blood transfusions work #but if the storypacks function like i interpreted they do #its pretty fun to mess around with #kim dokja #aileen makerfield #about the story packs #correct me if i'm wrong #or headcanon with me #dont be afraid to fall into madness #its lovely down here in the dark #god these tags are getting weird #ill stop now

[paleplumeria]

inspired by these fics x x

yjh as the knight that reincarnates every generation to battle. stuck in a cycle of death and rebirth, only wishing for a true end. (a devout worshipper though he has forgotten his god). and the god, distant yet familiar.

[id in alt]

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #kim dokja #orv kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #god i have so many feelings about world of zero #kim dokja sacrificing himself again and again #in the form of limbs and probability to see the story he loves #and then #being surprised that the story loves him back . kimcom repeating the scenarios #0th yjh regressing #orv spoilers #this is also vaguely inspired by zelda

[tweetsongs]

HE REACHED OUT. IS THE THING. HE REACHED FOR LOVE EVEN THOUGH HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. IT DIDN'T SAVE ANYONE (except for one person, once, in the beginning. except for those that loved him, and were saved by that love). IT DIDN'T FIX ANYTHING (but it did create everything. the story, the characters, the end of the world, the dream that remains despite it all). IT DIDN'T CHANGE THE ENDING (but for the hands that wrote it. every scar, every callus, every voice that came together and believed that it could turn out differently). BUT THE LOVE WAS THERE, IN THAT STORY, FOR THAT READER, AND IT MATTERED TO HIM, AND HE MATTERED TO THE WORLD.

#orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #hi hello yes im so normal right now why :) #it's about kdj being saved by a story. but no. he was saved by a person. small hands that created the world for him. #large hands that did not know yet what they were shaped to hold #so much love poured into words. into a story to tell a child that he is seen #it's about kdj and od both being seen. always. always. they wanted to be known. they were known. #the gentlest saddest cruelest gods in the universe screaming for help #not knowing how many hands were desperately trying to reach them

[rusquared]

imagine reading a novel about the apocalypse and how fiction can save your life in both an ordinary and extraordinary tragedy... and two years later watching the novel wrap up in the middle of a worldwide pandemic ??????????????

#god imagine being a korean reader who followed orv from the start #that's like. that's the WORST kind of mental illness. peak orv experience i almost envy them for it #'wow im learning so much from this novel about love and survival and stories and- there's a what spreading across the globe?' #also kdj is 9 years older than me that's horrifying #orv

[hearthomelesbian]

sasakure.uk ft. Hatsune Miku - Replica | Sing Shong - Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (Epilogue 3 - Author's Words) | CosMo@Bousou-P ft. Hatsune Miku - The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku | Sing Shong - Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (Epilogue 5 - The Eternity and Epilogue)

#i have been listening to my han sooyoung playlist lately. so there's that #hey ladies did you know that. uhhh. a story about a 'fake' who wanted to be 'real' and the 'real' that wanted to love it #the avatar skill was written into orv in order to cause me pain every day #dying badly. did you know about hatsune miku #orv #orv spoilers #han sooyoung #epilogue spoilers #long post #alt text