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Thinking of Han Yoojin's Baby Count For Reasons of omegaverse poll and also the reveal of the above image as part of the merch with the upcoming Taiwan physical set

Spoilers, since we are talking all the kids till end of novel and beyond.

By my count, we are looking at 10 at the absolute minimum to like anywhere like 20+ or more.

Anyway, no wonder we don't have any art with the entire baby parade in one image!

Humanoid-form or speech having kids (5 to 9)

3 babies he grew in his body and gave birth to (GBS trio) 1 child that he adopted (Yerim) 2 kids that he is raising that he didn't give birth to but is related to / somehow kinda responsible for creating at the same time (Yoohyun + SPOILER) 1 child by marriage to parenting partner who is also sibling to one his kids and also kinda related to him sorta (SPOILER) 1 foster child - IDK if Noah really fits here, but maaaybe? Foster kid who stayed with Yoojin for a little while before gaining the strength to stand on his own feet and moved out while staying in touch, building his own separate group of friends and family. Riette certainly canonically counts both Noah and Bellare as their joint kids, lmao. Though I feel she's lost custody of Bellare completely by now. She dropped B off at Yoojin's almost as soon as B was born, I don't think B has any connection to Riette anymore at all) 2 eggs incubated (Irin, Sanho) - Again, they could be said to have been raised more by Yoohyun and Yerim. But at the same time, I would consider them both more like their familiars instead, they seem to have been born at the level of maturity of their contractors. So they don't really feel like Yoojin's kids entirely. Irin and Sanho are the same sort of being - but one of them looks like a lizard and one of them looks like a tiny mermaid, but I put them under this category because both of them can talk like humans fluently.

The kids with only no humanoid forms or linguistic ability as of now* (4 to 8)

*as of now because as per canon at least 4 of these kids have strong potential to eventually grow up to either gain humanoid forms and/or linguistic ability 3 monster babies who are full-time living at home with dad (Peace, Chirpie, Bellare) 1 monster baby who has grown up and has now become independent and flown the nest unlike the rest of the house-bound appa's kids (Blue) -> Yoo Grace/Eunhye. Yoojin and Myeongwoo's child option seems to be winning in my Eunhye poll. She clearly is sentient/sapient, but she lives inside an item 99% of the time, and also is actually responsible for taking care of Yoojin instead of the other way round entirely, so unf she often doesn't entirely feel Yoojin's-kid-like in the context of the work to me. @Port4shippers mentioned her feeling like YMW and Shalos' kid and I kinda like that idea. She's a child in the Han home, but as a working apprentice/intern sent there with an important job to do by her dad. -> Horang-ie and Mareu both feel a bit more pet/mount like than kid-like. They largely stay at home with them most of the time but still don't feel as integrated into the larger family and as close to Yoojin as any of the others, instead they have a different Yoojin-kid they are more attached to. I think Mareu, being a water dragon has limitations in her being able to be around with the family all the time. Also Horang-ie definitely feels like they have a crush on Peace, so like... neighborhood orphan child Yoojin took in, and is fostering, who clearly has has a giant crush on handsome oppa (gn) Peace. Sidenote: Lehanahi's egg is like… grandbaby. So Yoojin does already have One (1) Grand-eggbaby. Or maybe a baby who ended up having to be brought up by older sibling because of absent parent. Yoojin truly dropped the ball on this one, Bellare had to do the hard work of incubating this egg and ended up growing up too soon, ending their carefree days of playing around with Chirpie. I really need Yoojin to take more responsibility for this little guy. Please, a tiny itsy bitsy cutie naga baby would be so adorable.)

Joint Custody and Foster Kids (3 to innumerable)

1 monster baby with legal joint custody (Song-ie) 2 monster babies raised but now fostered out (Sorok, Comet) -> I guess all the ones he is raising specifically for other guilds like Vare-nim the Pegasus, the Liefnil, the Buffalo monster and the two Unicorns, and the wolves, the monsters he is raising for BurnCave Guild etc etc are more like brief foster kids.

@saurberry pointed out one could very well also count another SPOILER here due to complicated reasons aka Sigma. He's definitely kinda sorta somehow part of the family through various ways of being related eventually and Yoojin for sure thinks of him as a kid.

What trivia and hobbies do you remember that you've never done? When you see people on the street, do you remember knowing them in another life? At your comrades funerals, do you look at guests and remember raising them and being raised by them, do you remember standing across from them at the altar, the way they like their coffee or their smile when they're truly happy? Do you have memories of looking at them and thinking, my parents, my partner, my child?

Han Yoojin, how do you remember where you begin and others end?

Propaganda under cut:

Propaganda under cut:

He has a skill that emits a 'grass-like' scent.

His scent smells 'tasty'

Sung Hyunjae from The S-Classes That I Raised

Additional Propaganda #1: SHJ is like if you thought you were getting a SXY, but then it is soon found out that within the cold SXY exterior, he's actually TLJ - the super-powerful shameless malewife with tragic backstory. he even gets the sad widower wandering hours in the pre-reg timeline. if you like TLJ, read SCTIR! ✌️

*Mod Comment: SXY and TLJ refers to Su Xiyan & Tianlang-jun from SVSSS, respectively

Additional Propaganda #2: Sung Hyunjae has some of the best banter in the series, and is super dependable when Han Yoojin needs help outside his brother's guild. He can threaten someone with a smile on his face and total someone's car just because he finds it annoying. Before he met Han Yoojin he was super bored and now he's determined to hang around him because he's his main source of entertainment- and he's willing to pull out all the stops to protect him even though he's one of the biggest threats to Han Yoojin's safety. Sung Hyunjae even lets himself get threatened into things by the much weaker character simply because he finds it funny.

Additional Propaganda #3:

Okay propaganda time for the blond menace (affectionate): world's first ever emotionally unavailable detached avoidant who'd also romantic and possessive world's most sensitive alpha male poor little meow meow despite being the world's best cook, he'll just eat bread (NO CORNERS) if he's on his own, because life is boring. he doesn't get angry in traffic jams, because life is already so boring getting caught in traffic jams makes no difference despite being the hottest man alive with the reputation of the world's biggest bisexual playboy (his code name in the US is literally Zeus and not just because of his lightning powers), he is a 39-year old virgin He is the world's Strongest Man and his hobbies include fishing, knitting, cooking He also loves being Domestic TM and roleplaying with his Partner and he never realized this until he met Han Yoojin in his own words he was 'always domestic, just didn't have a family before' :ded: despite having everything, he keeps stealing his partner's spatula from the kitchen he got married to his dear partner and the novel isn't even BL he won't let Han Yoojin forget he is Han Yoojin's 61st Wife. The number keeps going up and down, but he is always the Last Wife TM. he thinks Han Yoojin deserves to be the top of the world and have the whole world at his feet and keeps trying to make that happen world's best boss and also he made a 19 year old British teen his heir and successor because she saw him and immediately asked him if he was a dragon

Xie Lian from Heaven Official’s Blessing (TGCF)

No propaganda submitted - Add additional propaganda via the ask box or in the text of the reblogs!

Popular Danmei Character Tourney Submission: I know he’s gonna be submitted a bunch but he is THEE love of my life. Love the facade of silly goofy grandfather barely hiding The Horrors. He occupies about 95% of my brain space 24/7 what a little freak

Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (ORV)

Kim Dokja’s solution was always the third answer. He was a person who always thought of the third situation. That was who Kim Dokja was. Thus, Lee Hyunsung believed in him.

However…

–Lee Hyunsung-ssi. This time there was no third method.

Of course, I had a third method. I just had to wait for the right time.

- Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, Chapter 138

Kim Dokja is a manipulator. He commits identity fraud on the regular & dies multiple times. He’s anti-capitalist. He’s Jesus, in a way. He wants to see the epilogue of his choosing. He read a web novel with 3,000+ chapters for over 10 years. He’s also God, in a way. He lets his old boss kill a creature knowing it would mark him by a dangerous demon king.

Additional Propaganda: Kim Dokja is THEE reader-insert of all time. His name literally means "reader". He has a skill that makes his appearance blurry and indistinct to the people around him (parody of Y/N features? lol). The same skill also makes it so he experiences the apocalypse as if he was still reading the novel, despite now being an active participant. The protagonist that KDJ read about for the past 13 years has a bond with him that is exclusive to just the two of them (Life and Death Companions) even though the protagonist in the novel lived through 1863+ versions of this apocalypse.

Han Yoohyun from The S-Classes That I Raised

Additional Propaganda #1: he's basically the element of fire born with a human body. he believes his older brother (who also raised him) molded him into a creature that can pass for human but not perfectly and he is correct. he's my own younger brother. the greatest act of love he can give to his brother is to eat him and then kill himself and then burn the world as he burns but he won't do it because he knows his brother wants to live. the day his brother dies (hopefully far into the future) he is killing himself. he's an angel. he has killed hundreds. the only romantic partner he approves for his older brother is their monster pet cat. he was jealous of the cat at the beginning bc he had to share his older brother's attention. he is alive and he is also dead. he is living happily with his brother but also his body was stolen without even a funeral. he should inherit the world

Additional Propaganda #2: he is besties with a little lizard, what more could you want?

bonus: hyj felt guilty for lashing out on shj (who, by the way, is all for it)

What Han Yoojin's life is actually like:

Sung Hyunjae from The S-Classes That I Raised

Additional Propaganda #1: SHJ is like if you thought you were getting a SXY, but then it is soon found out that within the cold SXY exterior, he's actually TLJ - the super-powerful shameless malewife with tragic backstory. he even gets the sad widower wandering hours in the pre-reg timeline. if you like TLJ, read SCTIR! ✌️

*Mod Comment: SXY and TLJ refers to Su Xiyan & Tianlang-jun from SVSSS, respectively

Additional Propaganda #2: Sung Hyunjae has some of the best banter in the series, and is super dependable when Han Yoojin needs help outside his brother's guild. He can threaten someone with a smile on his face and total someone's car just because he finds it annoying. Before he met Han Yoojin he was super bored and now he's determined to hang around him because he's his main source of entertainment- and he's willing to pull out all the stops to protect him even though he's one of the biggest threats to Han Yoojin's safety. Sung Hyunjae even lets himself get threatened into things by the much weaker character simply because he finds it funny.

Additional Propaganda #3:

Okay propaganda time for the blond menace (affectionate): world's first ever emotionally unavailable detached avoidant who'd also romantic and possessive world's most sensitive alpha male poor little meow meow despite being the world's best cook, he'll just eat bread (NO CORNERS) if he's on his own, because life is boring. he doesn't get angry in traffic jams, because life is already so boring getting caught in traffic jams makes no difference despite being the hottest man alive with the reputation of the world's biggest bisexual playboy (his code name in the US is literally Zeus and not just because of his lightning powers), he is a 39-year old virgin He is the world's Strongest Man and his hobbies include fishing, knitting, cooking He also loves being Domestic TM and roleplaying with his Partner and he never realized this until he met Han Yoojin in his own words he was 'always domestic, just didn't have a family before' :ded: despite having everything, he keeps stealing his partner's spatula from the kitchen he got married to his dear partner and the novel isn't even BL he won't let Han Yoojin forget he is Han Yoojin's 61st Wife. The number keeps going up and down, but he is always the Last Wife TM. he thinks Han Yoojin deserves to be the top of the world and have the whole world at his feet and keeps trying to make that happen world's best boss and also he made a 19 year old British teen his heir and successor because she saw him and immediately asked him if he was a dragon

Shang Qinghua (Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky) from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System

Popular Danmei Character Tournament Submission: He’s just a little guy. A little birthday boy. He has committed no crimes. It’s his birthday 🥺

MXTX Side Character Tournament Submission: He's a sidekick and he's so sidelined that despite creating the universe he's treated as an afterthought - doubly a side character! But also? So relateable. He would absolutely have been on tumblr in his first life, he gets so excited about his blorbo who treats him terribly (until they finally get a happy ending in the extras - also! he has to wait for the extras to get his happy ending! very side-character of him). He holds the fascinating position of being mostly irrelevant to the story and yet without him the themes would totally fail. He deserves a win on something for once, okay?

This blog is used solely for posting about the ORV Retranslation Project that some fans are working on.

Please read the full FAQ before sending requests to access the retranslation.

Q: What is the ORV Retranslation Project?

The web novel Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint currently has a few available translations in English, the main ones of which are official ones done by Izepress (though incomplete at this time 8/5/25), and the old official one (that has been complete for years). There are other English fan translations versions being TL'd and posted that are incomplete at this time as well. While we are grateful for any and all of them, both main translations fail on a couple fronts that leave us feeling like English audiences are missing out on an authetic ORV experience. But most importantly, we want to make one clean, consistent, and complete version of ORV the likes of which we have yet to find in other English translations. As such, we have taken it upon ourselves to retranslate ORV by going back to the Korean raws to do the hard work ourselves.

Q: What does retranslating it do?

We are attempting to keep as close as we can to the original text of ORV and maintain its core feeling with as little changes to it as possible. We want the authors' intent and artistry to come through. The main established official translation (the only English version of ORV that is complete that we know of, not Izepress's) appears to be mostly machine translated (MTL) and loses the "voice" and personality. It is also full of so many grammar mistakes that it is difficult to read, and it turns many people off from ever trying to read ORV because of it. At best, it is difficult to read. At worst, it is completely wrong (and even adds or removes lines from the actual text.)

The latter half of this completed version is a translation done (we believe) by someone who translated it themselves that seems to have taken some creative liberty with the story that does not maintain accuracy that changes the "voice" and characterization, and appears rather far into the novel (it starts more than halfway through it, requiring someone to read 362 chapters before they get there). It also comes with its own share of flaws that we feel we can improve upon. This is the version we use as a reference, for transparency. As far as we are aware, this is the version originally from webnovel that is now on archive.org.

The official English by Izepress has changed a lot of the "voice" of the story and localized it quite a bit (in ways that are too subtle to put into words, but build up to a completely different tone and feeling when you compare it to the original) so we feel it does not capture the story well either. This is not to dissuade people from reading it, but we feel it misses a lot of the "true" ORV and wish to try our hand at creating a version that feels closer to the original text in tone, as well as keep the interesting historical context and characterizations lost in the official's translation processes.

Basically, all of the English translations of the Main Story we have found so far have either localized too much, have grammatical and/or translation flaws that hinder the reading, is kind of a mess in one way or another or some combination of the three. Our team had already planned to create a version for ourselves, but we have decided to share it with the fandom as well.

We understand it's not possible to capture everything due to nobody on our team being native speakers and because some nuance will always be lost in translation, but we plan to do our best.

Q: Is it the full novel? Is it the ebook or the original?

We will be making the novel available by volume (There are a total of 22 for the Main Story. Not confirmed for the Side Story) when we finish retranslating and cleaning up our edits. We are retranslating the original version, not the ebook version. If you want the ebook version, please purchase it from official sources.

However, our version will contain some ebook edits within it where applicable. So, it is not "purely" the original. The parts we take from the ebook will not change the integrity of the original and will be minimal, for the most part, and with rare exception.

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Q: Does it have the official art from BlackBox in the documents?

Yes, the official art by Blackbox from the novels is located throughout each volume at the end of each applicable chapter. For example, the art of Lee Hyunsung opening the doors in Volume 1 is located at the end of the chapter where this scene occurs. We have only included the art that is officially in the Korean volumes.

Q: Will there be footnotes or end notes?

There are footnotes throughout every volume for various purposes including definitions, lore/historical backgrounds and information of famous figures, notes about jokes or sections that cannot be translated but we want readers to know about, and we have also included the original Authors' notes from SingNSong. The footnotes will also have links to the sources (usually wikipedia) wherever applicable for credit, and so people can look into it more themselves if they are curious for more information beyond what we put since we don't want the notes to get too long. These are explained in the Editor's Notes at the beginning of the volumes.

Q: What is the difference between the "standardized" spelling and the "old" spelling of the characters' names (ie "Yu Junghyeok" vs "Yoo Joonghyuk")?

Most of the existing fandom who has read the old English official translation of ORV are used to the versions of the names that RainbowTurtle originally used in their translation. These spellings are not standardized, meaning, though they are spelled correct phonetically, these are not how the names should actually be spelled. For example, "Yoo Joonghyuk" should actually be standardized as "Yu Junghyeok". The (new) Official English by IzePress uses these versions.

However, because these versions of the names have been used in the Western fandom for so long, these are the versions that most fans know and use. New fans who are entering the fandom may be confused by the difference in spelling.

Our Project has a copy of each of the available volumes for fans, both new and old, to choose whether they want to read ORV with the "old" spelling or the standardized ones for their reading pleasure. If you are reading the "old" version, each first instance of a major/relevant character's name will have a footnote to show you what the standardized version is. Please feel free to download and save whichever version you would like as both are available in the Drive.

Q: Are you going to be translating the ORV Side Story or the extra content stories?

Please see this post.

Edit: Orviposition appears to have deleted her tumblr but is still active on other social media. If we hear updates about where and how to access the Side Story, we'll update this.

Q: Is there ever going to be an epub version?

The short answer is: Not now.

The longer answer is: Our team has collectively decided, due to numerous reasons, to wait until we finish retranslating ORV in full before we create an epub version of the final full novel (or, possibly, for each Part instead. We haven't decided yet). This is because we go back to edit the documents often, which causes us to have to recreate a new epub each time, and epubs take up time for our team to make that we could devote toward getting a new volume out. Please have patience with us, as we will do our best to create an epub further down the line.

Until then, anyone and everyone are welcome to create their own. The documents are available for download in any format you'd like.

Q: Can we use your retranslation to create a fan translation of ORV into a different language?

Please see this post.

Q: Can you list all of the volumes and chapters for us?

Please see this post.

Q: What is the progress so far? What's available to read in the Drive?

Part I

Volume 1: Completed and Posted 8/5/25

Volume 2: Completed and Posted 10/17/25

Volume 3: Completed and Posted 12/6/25

Volume 4: Competed and Posted 1/3/26

Volume 5: Completed and Posted 2/(15)/26