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...Only for the real Yoo Joonghyuk to stumble upon this scene. At first he'd hesitate and keep watching, thinking to himself, Kim Dokja couldn't possibly mistake that Avatar to actually be him right? (he would know that its HSY's avatar since he has sage's eyes) Only for the two's flirting to get progressively more... heated? Its when Yoo Joonghyuk notices Kim Dokja starting to actually get flustered (ears going red with Han Sooyoung's whispering) and the slight grind on his thigh--

Yoo Joonghyuk takes aim. He shoots with a gun he'd procured from a background character and shoots himself (Han Sooyoung) in the head with a loud bang. Kim Dokja is obviously shaken by this with Han Sooyoung (his #1 author and co-conspirator) in the form of Yoo Joonghyuk (his #1 brainrot and Will To Live) getting shot dead. definite mental damage. but anyway,

Sketch commissions 🫶

(Sayeon and Ryujin from Hand Jumper, Arlecchino from Genshin and Zani from Wuthering Waves)

"You're in a subway car, and at the end of the car there is a door, and beyond that door there is a Demon King. You must slay the Demon King. If you don't, it will be the end of the world."

First of all I think many people are thinking of TWSA as something separate and existing without the influence of ORV. Thinking of ORV outside of its paradox is making it a diservice. The importance of TWSA being written for kim dokja without his knowledge as the story progresses is that han sooyoung wrote it because she met kim dokja. Because she cared for him because she spent time with him because theyre the ones who are most similar to each other because of thier knowledge of this entire world existing because of a novel (even before the knowledge of thier importance to its existence) and therefore kim dokja found himself being able to be openly vulnerable with her. Its Because of this connection that han sooyoung writes it for him, that makes the cycle continue.

Han sooyoung has issues seeing yoo joonghyuk as his own person in the same way as kim dokja but her feelings are different. First of all, they have a complicated relationship but yoo joonghyuk trusts her and han sooyoung knows she can trust him because she has been living with his existance in her head, even if it was before she had 1863rd's memories they had been connected from the beggining. Her trust in him because she wrote him exists because she trusted him before she wrote him. Her guilt over using him for the continued existance of kim dokja isnt as deep-seated as kim dokjas because she knows yoo joonghyuk wouldnt mind being used like that, because she KNOWS him before she writes him.

Does Kim Dokja not regret not being able to tell her how much it means to him the second he finds out? does he not miss her? does he not wish he could continue reading, not because he wants another story but because he wishes to be closer to her? I dont think this is necessarly reading too much into their relationship or , as someone put it, "making han sooyoung a character she isn't". I think kim dokja cannot be the kim dokja we know, at the end of the novel, with all his knowledge and all his guilt and all his openess, if it weren't for han sooyoung and ther connection

han sooyoung is the only one who understand yoo joonghyuks grief over loosing kim dokja. Theyre the only ones who feel it in the same way, the only ones who can understand each other right at the end. does yoo joonghyuk not continue living despite almost giving up once again right at the end because of han sooyoung's novel? because of her support? because they're the two people who feel closest and who understand the most the way they feel the loss of kim dokja? does him thanking her, knowing she doesnt want his thanks, knowing she didnt do it for him really, not mean anything? she saved him and she saved kim dokja too