"Yoo Joonghyuk notices the tears almost immediately. He startles somewhat, then goes very still," LMAO yjh being startled by the concept of People Crying is so funny and awkwardly cute and wholesome. really a man who endured an eternity of suffering grows up to be the Babiest Retired Protagonist........... jungdok deserve each other!!!!
"Yoo Joonghyuk does not reach over to dry his tears" again it's little details like this that really bring out the shiniest characterization. yjh is just not a man of Comfort, at least not in the conventional way, but he knows how to meet kdj's needs nonetheless by reading novels to a Reader...... just wow the jungdok chemistry in this fic is so sexy & poignant at the same time. really feels like i'm reading an Epilogue indeed. + absolutely love in general when a bookworm MC's dumb jock love interest takes up the hobby of reading books to them. to a reader that's the biggest I Love You ever 😭😭😭 why is yjh so perfect by being a dumb oaf who can't deal with Feelings the normal healthy adult way so he resorts to the grandest small gestures instead. truly the best ML for a Reader.
"the metallic glint of a chain has his eyes widening again in surprise." I LOVE IT WHEN THE ULTIMATE JUNGDOK SYMBOL SHOWS UP IN A FIC THANK YOUUUUUU i am just nodding along to the descriptions of kdj calling it a piece of himself IT REALLY IS A CANON TOKEN OF LOVE and im glad orv said gay rights
“Your mother returned it to me.” BEAUTIFUL CONCLUSION to the disapproving mother-in-law sidequest.
but really yjh developing a Coping Habit of checking their watch is squeamishly redolent of a spouse fiddling with their wedding ring and ugh yjh really just went and married kdj in his head eons ago. i love this former-terrorist husband you wrote him so soft and perfect......
“Stop thinking,” Yoo Joonghyuk tells him. “You’re bad at it.” MARRIED COUPLE BANTER!!111!11oneone
“Stay here.” encapsulating jungdok dynamic in 2 words U ARE QUITE THE MASTER OF WORDS love that yjh commands this from a bed-ridden man because when the man is KDJ, all paranoias are valid, including alien-abduction (No) ugh lover their passive aggressive banter so much they haven't even BEGUN yet any inklings of a relationship and here they are acting 'professionally married for 50 years'
"Which, by the way, he made very clear by issuing a warning for no one else to come up—” LMAO OFC YJH has to threatens people away because he must be soft with kdj and no one shall get in his way!!!!
“He told you that he was coming? All of you? When?”
“In the group chat,” Han Sooyoung supplies, 100% believe hsy is the mastermind who trained a stubborn mule like yjh to Participate in Social Functions in the name of Kim Dokja
"Kim Dokja half-heartedly bumps his feet in an attempt to dislodge her, but she easily overpowers him and presses down harder in retaliation." meanwhile HANKIM SIBLINGS!!! BEAUTIFUL I LOVE THEM SO MUCH kdj deserves to be lovingly terrorized by his gremlin BFF
“Could you be any more whipped?” mutters Han Sooyoung. ofc hsy the professional lesbian third wheel calling 2 idiot gays out. she is the real MVP of jungdok
"so I choose to ignore it.” kdj really choosing play ignorant dumbass at Every Turn of gay events...... this is why yjh plans to unload all his gay unto him while he's still bedridden and can't physically walk away from it 🤐
“About my identity as the sponsor behind the great tragedy of his life, maybe?” ah yes kdj's biggest Guilt Kink rears up its head after all. can't be a jungdok fic without Guilt Kink i love that he's still stuck in stage 4 guilt meanwhile yjh already got over it by the time he went to space to be a prophet spreading Kim Dokja's Holy Word lmao. again love the dynamic of Idiot1 Pining Away in supposed unrequited love for 82429 years while Idiot2 has already signed both their names on a marriage form, got it notarized, framed, photocopied 99 times, wears a wedding ring (or watch) on his person, etc.
"The words make something inside Kim Dokja’s mind shutter however, and she must see it in his eyes, because her face screws up into something complicated." just... GOD SIBLING TELEPATHY I LOVE THIS!!!!
"It was that short science fiction webnovel; the political fantasy was well done, though I found the protagonist to be rather lacking—” and ofc kdj just easily slips into his comfort zone of Reader Babble and only hsy can bring it out of him. i love that kdj finally found a friend he can nerd out with even if she busts his balls for his tastes hahaha the BEST kind of friendship
“You think Yoo Sangah-ssi is,” and Kim Dokja can’t help the way that his lips tug slightly upwards when he repeats, “a goddess?” ABSOLUTELY YELLING AT KDJ SHIPPING SANGSU!!! SANGSU SUPREMACY 🎌
"Han Sooyoung, still spitting abuse, and suddenly Kim Dokja can’t imagine loving her any more than he does right then." kdj so fucking SOFT with his terrible asshole friends means the world to me. why is this man so beautiful!!! just why!!! how!!!!! 😭💗💗 lines like these make my heart ache just the raw love this one local tragic MC is capable of... everyone in kimcom is encircled by the halo of his love in this fic and it's just the warmest image in my head. soft glow effect on photoshop set to 99% opacity and u get kdj's heart. 💖
" the similarities that he’s always noticed between Han Sooyoung and Yoo Joonghyuk " this scene is all hankim BFFs and yet the yoohan siblings drum BEATS SO STRONGLY THROUGHOUT!!! this really is such a beautiful post-epilogue for the Chaotic yuhankim Triumvirate........ that definitely is a strong point of this fic among many, how organic the relationship dynamics are here sewn into the fabric of a conlusive piece seamlessly. but especially how you managed to draw out the yuhankim with 1/3rd of them not even being in-scene. LOVELY
"Han Sooyoung’s mouth falls open, and she looks at Kim Dokja as though she’s seeing him for the first time." THE WORDS SHE'S BEEN WAITING FOR HER WHOLE LIFE truly kdj may be the biggest Willyfully Ignorant dumbass but he always knows the right words to say. no wonder even yjh falls for him.
god i just have so much praise for hankim scene it was wrought so excellently in such radiant intimacy that only two BFFs4Lyf can have. their natural back & forth and how hsy despite being bulldozed by the quiet force of kdj's love just snaps back into rhythm and carries on the raillery without making things awkward again the only way BFFs can. i would like to hug this fic to death thank you. + that smooth transition like a torch being passed from hsy to yjh there with the cute sibling banter between them as well. i LOVE that ofc the fav thing they love to squabble over is kdj lmao!! yjh is too easy he's that whipped! (lovingly death grips his wedding watch......)
"the ridiculousness of the situation makes him feel much younger than his twenty-one-thousand-something years." THIS EXACTLY. yuhan there to just relieve kdj of his Burden the only way *clenches fist* best friends can!!!!! I LOVE YUHANKIM SO MUCH YOU WROTE THEM SO WELL THANK YOU THANK YOU
"Kim Dokja hopes that his hair isn’t sticking up strangely in the back or anything." loverboy kdj feeling self-conscious before his crush EEEEEEE BABY
"observe Kim Dokja’s flowers with an uncharacteristic idleness" ah the thing of beauty that is yjh without Stress
"Yoo Joonghyuk has changed the least." something v sweet about kdj finding him familiar after all these years apart... naively unaware about the absolute literal Daddy charadev yjh goes through in outer space, with spitfire daughter biyu there to raise for 100+ years.......... KDJ IS NOT PREPARED FOR POST-EP HAPPILY(?) MARRIED FATHER YJH and i love you for depicting that
“Oh,” Kim Dokja says, tone deceitfully even. You’re so handsome. “Your hair.” my god the sweetest way of a long-lost spouse reuniting with their husband going "Oh. You've changed." THE SHEER BLEEDING LOVE IN THIS LINE!!! kdj just sounding knocked off his feet I LOVE how perfectly portrayed it. really such skillful writing i can sing about for days
“At first,” Yoo Joonghyuk begins, “I only knew for certain that you had hit me in the back of my head.” yjh despite beautifully mellowing out into a happily married daddy silver fox...... still bears baby grudges. THE DUALITY OF MAN.
“Now, I think I know enough.” amazing... underneath all that Sunfish Stress was hiding a smooth mf. kdj is about to be Destroyed (in a pg13 way) by this man.
" it was true that Kim Dokja indeed had a certain preoccupation with Yoo Joonghyuk’s happiness in that round, falling short only to one other." ofc this has been kdj's #1 wish after 13 years of loving the same man's neverending story..... but love especially that this wish thrums strongly in the rounds where kdj is involved. like wow!! essentially going "do i make you happy" KDJ THE SOFTEST GAY 👐💝🤗
"How fortunate I am to have been wrong, Kim Dokja reflects, looking back at this round’s Yoo Joonghyuk with sad eyes, how fortunate, and how undeserving." my god i am crying how can one reader be in so much love with one protagonist I FEEL LIKE A SINGLE DAD WITH A KDJ-SHAPED HOLE IN MY HEART....
“that I want to be by your side far more than I have ever cared about being happy.” THERE IT IS!! THE 0TH GAYNESS INHERITED AND REVAMPED OVER 1864 LIVES!!!!!!!1
"what you do to me is exactly how I’m meant to be.” yjh the tortured Grimdark protagonist, after meeting kdj, turns into the most exquisite Romance ML ever and this is the only charadev i'll accept!!!! CANON
"the two women dressed as an angel-devil pair floating above his shoulders, " BREATHES HEAVILY sangsu... supremacy.........
"Yoo Joonghyuk curls his fingertips into the back of Kim Dokja’s hand, and, emboldened, Kim Dokja continues" love how the smallest gesture from yjh sends kdj to 1000% truly kdj is the most whipped husband....
"more like a rant on Yoo Joonghyuk’s idiosyncrasies than ardent words of love" it's BOTH!! sobs kdj going full fanboy mode for his #1 hero slash husband..... while yjh is out there sprinkling their not-relationship with teeny gestures kdj is out here Reading out a list of reasons to love yjh like this is the goodreads comment section. truly a Reader's way of confessional theatrics..... WHY IS KDJ SO PRESHUS 😭😭😭💞💞💞💞💞💞
"but I actually really hate that about you.” kdj (and yjh) really is the embodiment of 'love and hate are 2 sides of the same coin' i love kdj being mushy in love with just that crackle of bratty pettiness that makes him so endearing after all. no wonder yjh just jumps him (same)
"The initial press is shocking in its gentleness, " world's most emotionally constipated man wakes up and chooses Gentleness and this is what we call gay charadev!!!! man is a gay legend 🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈
"After ensuring Kim Dokja’s lack of resistance, Yoo Joonghyuk covers him more completely, pouring himself into the ensuing kiss with a more characteristic, bruising force." and i appreciate the ferocious follow-up to that gentle preamble because yjh is still yjh. INCREDIBLE CHARACTER MOMENT can't believe u made kissing sound IC....... what a talent ❤❤❤😍
"like Kim Dokja is something that cuts away at the skin but impossible to go even two seconds without." this fic really is a whole jungdok.docx but lines like these encapsulate riotously their dynamic and i love how you keep doing it repeatedly throughout this fic without a hint of redundancy. again SUCH TALENT
"he doesn’t know how he’s going to keep his hands off of Yoo Joonghyuk ever again." kdj... soft and whipped and THIRSTY in one devotional package of Reader wow truly the perfect man
" Kim Dokja’s heart is pounding as though it means to leap out of his chest and find a new home within Yoo Joonghyuk" such an adorable line MY GOD THIS IS SWEETEST KISS SCENE I'VE EVER READ IN A WORK OF FICTION kdj really giving his whole heart away to yjh!! (FURIOUSLY RUBBING THE WEDDING WATCH)
"His hand is bigger in Yoo Joonghyuk’s hair than Lee Seolhwa’s had been, but he’s surprised to find that it doesn’t look wrong there either." kdj peacefully accepting his gayness THIS IS TRULY THE BEST CONCLUSION TO A 551 CHAPTERS OF A READER'S GALAXY LOVE.......
"she’ll probably be asking to see the ring on Kim Dokja’s finger the next time she sees him." i am 100% hsy-brand certain that yjh already has marriage forms signed and ready under his mattress (no) but really this fic is a whole thesis on how inevitable jungdok happy ending is after the epilogue.
"really isn’t something that Kim Dokja should be thinking about right now, only minutes after their first kiss." i am just HELLISH SCREECHING at the sheer whipped energy of one fictional man... i am glad jungdok is happy and gay. +kdj's mind spiraling over watch symbolism in the middle of making out is peak kdj I LOVE THIS KDJ SO MUCH!!!!! your kdj voice is flawless i must say
"Kim Dokja’s not sure what the fixation there is about, but doesn’t mind as long as Yoo Joonghyuk is comfortable." 5 mins into his first relationship and he's already enabling his lover's neck kink. kdj will ofc be perpetually foggy to the universe of love that yjh swims in drawing kdj's name over and over in the stars but kdj doesn't even know how whipped HE is for yjh and i love that. when ur love for ur SO is too profound for ur own brain to process........ even the bed is breaking under their weight of Gay
"the person in his arms is someone who was created solely for him." I LOVE HOW THIS FIC WRAPS UP WITH ORV'S ULTIMATE JUNGDOK THEME OF READER-PROTAG
"“and, I think I’d like it if you came along with me, too.” 5 minutes and kdj's planning long-term honeymoon. man has been ready to get hitched for 20k+ years. amazing. a reader meant to love 1 protagonist the rest of his life......
"same familiarity one would open up an old and dearly beloved novel." again such a beautiful allusion to relationship dynamics i keep fawning over how eloquently you reinforce their brand of love at the perfect moments like slow, blooming buds of realization.
“Tomorrow,” he says quietly, his lips grazing Kim Dokja’s jaw when he speaks into the skin there, “I will buy you a new phone.” again this man can't stop being Smooth now that he's Officially Married and happy........
wow ok i began reading this with my morning coffee and it is already lunch time, my slow reader ass only has time to leave behind disjointed bits of frothing that my mind is too love-mushed to construct into even a skeleton of a well-ordered essay this fic deserves. i have major respect for people who write canonverse, first of all, and post-epilogue writers BLOW MY BRAIN the sheer challenge of tying the orv ending to a fic you wrote yourself is amazing and you did it with such seamless grace if i ever drag a friend into orv hell this is one of those fics i am going to shove into their face as post-epilogue therapy. just WOW this is practically canon how well it relates back to canon. all the canon dynamics you weaved into this fic so BEAUTIFULLY DONE with such studied care i can tell this came from a place of profound post-epilogue deluge of Feels™ haha. such a raw and robust piece of art!!! i would like to hang this masterpiece in museums thank you.
i love the sedulous way kdj aligns everything to his spotty and tragedy-twisted logic in his own adorable effort to make sense of the deluge of love he's showered with suddenly after 20k+ years of watching behind a screen, having never fully manifested into the picture, where only the 'better half, commercially successful, bestseller' 49% did make it to the picture of heroes he sees them all to be, the salvation to his ugly pathetic 1-star 51% story....... all of 100% loves all 100% of them including yuhan Terribleness and i am just melted into a puddle of goo over the softest man in history that is kdj.
definitely had to reach for tissues at some places (basically every heartful bit of kdj dialogue) because i love kdj and a fic that celebrates kdj (and his tenderly budding happiness at last with his hubby & family) with so much raw love and compassion just makes me clutch my heart to keep it from melting through my fingers
thank you sooooo much for writing this fic izumokun-meowhyeoknim.......... this truly is the happy ending everyone wished for in ORV.
(wow after breaking up this comment into chunks i am truly feeling sorry for ur inbox.... DAD IS SORR)
the double take i did earlier today seeing that my inbox had Three messages in it, only to open it up and see Your username and go “ah yes one of my favorite fic writers for orv. wait but i haven’t left a comment yet on their newest fic. wait this is my fic. WAIT THEY’RE ALL…?” needless to say i had to put my phone down and mentally prepare myself to read a multiple-thousand word comment on something i wrote last year by someone who i admire greatly because otherwise i think i would have pulled something.
but anyways. wow. Wow. i do NOT know how to respond to this other than say that i think you just changed my life a little. not like, dramatically, but i’m not the same man who i was when i woke up this morning. seriously.
FIRSTABLY, reading your comment made me feel like a fucking genius. it did! this, however, is Not the case. this fic was born from me rotating post-epilogue snippets within the privacy of my mind palace for months after finishing the novel before eventually opening up a gdoc and seeing how long it would take for me to get jd to kiss the stupid out of each other starting from where chapter 551 left off. the fact that i ended up with something of a jd dissertation was merely a fluke. nonetheless your overwhelmingly thorough praise had me going “wow, maybe i really Did do something there,” but rest assured i made sure to deflate my ego a hair before attempting to reply to you.
unfortunately i’m no alpha chad such as yourself and am incapable of responding to your comment in full, but i do want to say that i’m very happy to hear this fic could hit home for a kdj stan, if only because i am an unrepentant yjh fanboy and i fear that this is painfully obvious by the way this fic is written in particular. i don’t think my reputation will ever fully recover from how hard i projected my silver fox yjh fetish on kdj here, but your comment alone made the social suicide feel almost worth it.
and there are no words in any human language that fully express my gratitude, and only saying thank you feels incredibly lame, but i’m afraid you’re just going to have to forgive me for that. so: thank you, for reading and commenting, you’ve made more than just my day or week.
(for the record, i am tickled PINK by you always referring to me as “izumo-kun” even though he’s not my icon anymore. i remember being so pleasantly surprised the first time you recognized not only me but what my icon was from because awairo emaki is legitimately one of my favorite bl mangas of all time despite its short and sweet nature. ((and i strongly advise for you to keep your hands to yourself in any of our future interactions lest i finally go in to shake your hand and dislocate both of our wrists.))
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