#star stream

For a story about stories, the most powerful being has to be a story, so allow me to introduce unto y'all the being that has been omnipresent throughout the novel:

Behold, [The Star Stream].

"But... momentaryl0ss the Star Stream shut down when they completed the 100th Main Scenario didn't it?"

Yup, you're 100% right. And also 100% wrong.

What shut down was <The Star Stream>, this is the giant story that runs the narratives of verse and gives it its main scenarios and everything else, this is very similar to the other giant stories like <Kaizenix Archipelago>, <Torch That Swallowed The Myth>, etc. except for the fact that <The Star Stream> is technically a supergiant story that's hosting all the other stories within it and has had many names over the near infinite time it's lived.

[The Star Stream] on the other hand...

It isn't a story. It's quite literally the story, it itself is the entirety of the ORV verse and all of TWSA too. In short, it is the multiverse. And it's also 100% alive, sapient and somehow both malicious and not like how cosmic/eldritch beings beyond our understanding often are.

What am I basing this off of?

That's the difficult part 😅, because there's many small hints and the most major one being dropped when the 1863rd HSY travels to the original worldline to become tls123. It gives off a very cosmic dread vibe when HSY is staring at the computer and realizes that she's the one responsible for everything and despite knowing this, she also knows her decision won't change.

That's when she receives this message.

[The 'Star Stream' is smiling at you.]

She hasn't written anything and yet, it's active. ORV is a story in a bootstrap paradox and [The Star Stream] is the paradox itself.

Y'all see what I'm tryna say here? Look at it from a cosmic horror perspective, a girl travels through universes and time to save someone and realizes that to save that certain someone she'll have to doom a near infinite amount of people and subject one person to untold suffering, a 'hell of eternity' but that's not the worst part.

Because the worst part is that she has no choice in this matter at all.

Her will is already fixed and so her action won't change at all, she could of course, just not write it and hence end this whole cycle of suffering but both her and [The Star Stream] know that she loves Kim Dokja too much for that to happen.

It's a very amusing and horrific situation.

Oldest Dream reads Han Yoojin's story, wants/wishes - no, dreams - having a big brother like Yoojin, and goes yoink! To Pre-reg Yoojin just after his leg gets broken. Claiming Yoojin as his older brother.

Child Kim Dokja wakes up to an older brother by 5 years named Kim Yoojin who frees him from his relatives after waking up from a coma caused by their abusive father. Dokja is so happy, his brother is back, his brother is alive, Kim Yoojin wants him despite everything. His hyung.

Kim Yoojin feels like something is wrong. But he has a younger brother who needs him, desperately, has secured a job as a veterinarian after online college, thanks to getting his inheritance back, suing his relatives and the school for their treatment of Dokja and hacking into private companies and governments. He's secured a safe path for Dokja to getting to live a nice, safe, picket fence life and helping Dokja heal from his torment. So, despite the feeling of wrongness, Kim Yoojin learns to ignore it, learns to embrace this new beginning and raise his little brother Kim Dokja. Learns how to work with the scars of his broken - broken by that bastard father of theirs, no it was Hunters, what's a Hunter? It was their horrible abusive father. He was just neglectful wasn't he? - leg, healed but weaker now, wielding a cane to keep his pain at bay on good days and keep his balance on bad days.

The Depraved, upon finding their Chosen in the Star Stream world, fund him desperately, trying to find a way to get him back and help him remember. To be his constellation to claim him back. Unfortunately, The Oldest Dream clings only tighter to his new brother who has helped him learn how to not only survive but live and thrive in a peaceful world, a big brother who had sheltered him and cared for him in a way Oldest Dream had never experienced in all his other lifetimes. He isn't letting go. Kim Dokja shows The Ways of Survival to Kim Yoojin who reads it with him - now his brother not only will survive but thrive, his brother who understood the story to not just be a story but a guide. Kim Dokja - Oldest Dream - Kim Dokja hugs Kim Yoojin on his bad days (some bad days because of his leg, others because he had to put an animal down during his job), cuddling close to him and ignoring the pings of his phone signaling a chapter update.