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A review by kimdokjaa
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint Epilogue by singNsong
5.0
⸢If this story can really save you…
If you regained just a little of your memories and remember us just one more time…
Then I'll keep writing the epilogue for you until the end of the time, for eternity.⸥
this was, hands down, one of the most satisfying conclusions to any piece of media i've ever experienced. every reveal was handled exceptionally, and the meta aspect of this was insane.
a huge portion of that is due to yoohankim- they simply reach levels of soulmatism that is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. there are a billion things i could go on about but it really just comes down to every iteration of the three of them being in this loop of using their life to save the others, and not existing without the other two. i love the three of them to such an insane amount that i cannot imagine there was a time before i read orv where they didn't take up this much of my heart and soul. idc if you view their relationship as romantic, platonic, or a secret third thing, but it does all of their characters such a disservice not to examine the endless bounds of their love for eachother. they know it's doomed. they know there's less than a 1% chance of them being reunited in the way they all want. they know it'll take a lifetime of pain to secure that chance. and they'll do it anyways
on that note, joongdok is truly the doomed yaoi of all time. i'm not going to go into the entirety of their dynamic's progression throughout orv because it would take me a lifetime, but
i am so eternally grateful to have stumbled upon this book. it is one of those stories that is so all-encompassing and compelling that when you finish it you feel like you lived a whole extra life. it has over a million words, and i would eagerly read that many more. hell i honestly might have to learn korean just to read this as intended. kim dokja i will hold this piece of you in my heart with love for the rest of my life <3
If you regained just a little of your memories and remember us just one more time…
Then I'll keep writing the epilogue for you until the end of the time, for eternity.⸥
this was, hands down, one of the most satisfying conclusions to any piece of media i've ever experienced. every reveal was handled exceptionally, and the meta aspect of this was insane.
Spoiler
what do you mean what hsy & yjh want is for US to experience kdj's story. you should have seen the scream i let out when biyoo said "This time, the married couple writers over there look to be good candidates." god and "Now, they could carry on knowing that some people were reading their story in the distant, far-flung other side of the universe." what do you mean knowing we're reading orv is the reason kimcom can carry on. what do you mean parts of the oldest dream came into us when kdj scattereda huge portion of that is due to yoohankim- they simply reach levels of soulmatism that is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. there are a billion things i could go on about but it really just comes down to every iteration of the three of them being in this loop of using their life to save the others, and not existing without the other two.
Spoiler
1863 hsy spending her entire remaining life force writing twsa, knowing she was dooming the world to the star stream but doing it anyways so kdj could endure his suicide attempt. hsy starting everything by saving suicidal kdj with yjh's story, and ending it by saving dying yjh with kdj's.on that note, joongdok is truly the doomed yaoi of all time. i'm not going to go into the entirety of their dynamic's progression throughout orv because it would take me a lifetime, but
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ending volume 5 with kdj trying to kill himself the second he found out he was the oldest dream, and yjh immediately grabbing his sword with his hand, even though destroying the oldest dream had been his longest wish?? and then secretive plotter finding out his thousands of years of pain and regression was all to help one little kid get through his life, and immediately finding contentment in that. god. i mean his ■■ being oldest dream??? and then starting off the epilogue with 1864 yjh finally getting the ending where he doesn't lose any of his original companions, and immediately planning to regress to find the missing parts of kdj. and then the reveal that yjh started regressing in the first place, in part, to meet kdj???? when the tell me, you fool & i pray you continue to exist somewhere too lines came out my chest hurt so bad i had to go sit in the grass and reconnect with nature. then finally ending the novel with yjh immediately offering to become the oldest dream in kdj's place, to his reaction to returning to the train and seeing kdj had scattered, to never being able to move on and trying to steal the arc, to spending a lifetime visiting the worldlines for the smallest hope the smallest portions of kdj would read it, to surviving in that trip by reading kdj's story, just like kdj had survived his childhood reading yjh's... i just don't have the words for it.i am so eternally grateful to have stumbled upon this book. it is one of those stories that is so all-encompassing and compelling that when you finish it you feel like you lived a whole extra life. it has over a million words, and i would eagerly read that many more. hell i honestly might have to learn korean just to read this as