He lied, lyingly, like a liar.
he sits like this in important executive meetings
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omniscient reader is genuinely so masterfully done because i have never seen a first person viewpoint story manage to obfuscate it's main character so well and in such a thematically relevant way.
like. it's not just this, but we're so used to third person viewpoints being used in books, y'know? so of course we don't know exactly what the characters are thinking at all times. we only get to see that in specific moments where the author chooses to show us the characters thoughts.
but kim dokja is the viewpoint for the vast majority of the novel, we are literally sitting there in his mind reading his thoughts on every single thing, and we still don't know what the fuck he's planning. sure we can infer it, there's plenty of flawlessly done set-up and foreshadowing orv from a writing perspective.
but kim dokja never tells us anything. not really. not without hiding behind seven proxies. we learn about him but we never truly know him.
If you asked Akutagawa what his pronouns are he would say some shit like If you wish to gain the Privelege of Referring to Me you must first Prove Yourself in Battle and then he would stab you a lot
love as an act of consumption in omniscient reader's viewpoint... the obvious example of kdj consuming twsa to survive, but also 1863rd hsy letting herself and the world be consumed because she loves kdj and wants to keep him alive. lsy offering her own story to the masses because she (incorrectly) thought it would help dokja. dokja only understanding her and deciding to try and have a relationship with her when shes consumed by fourth wall. od offering up body parts to help yjh. persephone, who becomes dokjas mother, introducing the concept of stories being sustanence. 999 being the lifetime where yjh decided to live for others, and hes also the kkoma who cooks dumplings for kdj. i just love how orv compares stories to food as something that not only keeps us alive but can have flavor and texture and be a comfort. and then theres the underlaying irony of yjh, the character controlled by the story, being a chef. he prepares the sustanence for others. but he also loves food and takes pride in it. he becomes his own person and he cooks for himself. can anyone hear me its dark in here.
sasuke driving gaara to class at their shitty liberal arts school
ORV reels you in with the "What if all my useless interests were suddenly SUPER important in real life and I was better than everyone for investing all that time in them" isekai power fantasy and then when you're invested pulls a bait and switch like "Actually they WERE always useful and necessary! They are what kept you going through life all this time! Even if that was the only way they ever served you, it still was not a waste of time because the only thing that matters is that they helped you survive"
Every morning my man texts me “goodmorning BEAUTIFUL” and i reply with a 4 paragraph blow-by-blow account of my dream where we were seahorse fathers but we couldnt find a surrogate mother so we illegally traded seahorse bitcoin for preserved seahorse eggs and held them inside our stomachs for days and days to simulate the sweet fullness of paternal gravidity and then the seahorse CIA found us and we died in a shootout with law enforcement in downtown los angeles. for seahorses