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SPOILER WARNING FOR ORV UP TO CHAPTER 540 in threads with Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk
SPOILER WARNING FOR ORV UP TO CHAPTER 540 in threads with Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk
SPOILER WARNING FOR ORV UP TO CHAPTER 540 in threads with Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk
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But it's fine, she is thankfully safe from any prying eyes (and minds) as she gazes longingly at her desk and thinks of a sad gay who is no longer here. (The sad gay population truly struggling in these trying times...except not really, because there are still so many sad gays left.)
Sad Gay Number 3 (because Dokja is Sad Gay Number 2) is currently piling the non-yaois into a box for easy transport later, though he looks up as soon as HSY comes back downstairs, hands pausing and nose wrinkling at her sudden announcement. ]
Do you know how to cook?
[ Not that she needs to know how to cook to run a restaurant but like. Surely she should know something about food??? Do either HSY or Dokja know anything about cooking tbh when YJH has been feeding them this entire time. ]
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Sooyoung stops posing like a bad kdrama villain and starts on the next empty box, piling books in without rhyme or reason. She'll make Dokja organize them later, as is the duty of the Sad Gay Number 2. If she were more honest, then she'd admit that she just wants to keep him busy. Better to keep that empty head of his occupied, instead of lingering in the dark corners of his mind, especially without the Fourth Wall to occupy him.]
Just basic stuff. Like gutting a fish, or roasting the monster of the day. [foraging, boiling water, etc.] I stopped being picky during the apocalypse.
[some of the books jut out awkwardly from their pile in the box. Sooyoung commits the gravest of book sins and starts bending spines and folding pages back to make room.]
Plus, there was that time when all I could eat were Stories.
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Although.... ]
Stories?
[ His eyes go reflexively to the books in his hands, the sudden image of HSY just chowing down on one of them filling his mind. Surely that can't be what she means.....? Then again, he knows a dude who eats glass so like, please explain before he really just assumes she eats books for a living. ]
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Sooyoung looks up at him, and it's like she can read
bracket textminds, because she immediately prods one of his muscle-y biceps with a soft paperback,]It's not what you're thinking.
[she takes a moment to think about it........ hmmmmm]
Actually, the concept's basically the same... Has Kim Dokja ever mentioned Constellations to you?
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Anyway, it's really funny that Sooyoung would think they're close enough that Dokja would just tell him random shit like this. (Denial is a river in Egypt....except Egypt doesn't exist in GBF.) Eustace just looks at the paperback stabbing his arm, and then back up at Sooyoung. ]
I'm guessing you don't mean the stars in the sky.
[ That capital C, man, he can hear it. ]
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Stars can be Constellations too. Anything that has its own story can become one. The simplest example would be gods from myths or famous historical figures, those with well-known stories. But even if they were human once, they're another being entirely once they become a Constellation. So naturally, there has to be a change in diet too.
[she stops poking Eustace with the paperback,]
That's what I meant when I said I used to eat Stories. As a Constellation, I couldn't just eat regular food anymore. Kim Dokja was the same.
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There are plenty of inhuman creatures in the skydoms, and even a few select humans who become inhuman over the course of their lifetimes, but nothing quite so extreme as this, to the point where their diets and lifestyles warp completely. Although: ]
Used to?
[ Are they both back to normal now? ]
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[There's a lot about being a Constellation that Sooyoung doesn't miss, but the power that came with it isn't one of them. Why else would she have put herself through all of that, if she didn't think the end result would be worth it? But whatever, she can handle being a newbie again, she's done it before.
That doesn't stop her from grumbling though, but at least she's working while complaining.]
We've got demons and other weirdos here too -- so why the hell am I nerfed?! I can't do a tenth of what I could before either -- and I still can't! The level up system here is shit -- 'you can get stronger if you devote yourself to the cause` my ass...! How do they even judge that? Do I have to kill people and announce that it's all for Meridian while stabbing them or something?
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Have you tried doing that yet?
[ The stabbing people thing, that is. He's not actually serious about it, but given that he knows as much as she does, it's not like he has any better ideas. ]
You've read stories. [ Zillions of them, apparently. ] How do these things usually go in those?
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She thinks on Eustace's question, mentally rifling through every isekai webnovel she's read for .2 seconds to recall the usual plot regression....]
Are you saying that I should act like a protagonist?
[She's not Dokja with a main character complex, thank you very much. Neither is she like YJH, imagine choosing to act like an edgelord.... couldn't be her (it is her)]
They usually end up getting attached to their new world. It's easy to get stronger if you're fighting for the sake of your friends.
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Anyway, I think Sooyoung should get to do a little murder while on autopilot hiatus, as a treat, ideally in the name of Meridian but also just because is fine. Maybe Eustace doesn't think so, because he's not exactly an advocate of unnecessary death and murder, but who cares what he thinks.
What he thinks right now though is: ]
Why not?
[ It's not exactly as though they have a wealth of ideas to work from right now and while he thinks trying to act like a hero is honestly kind of stupid, there are plenty of people in Meridian who do exactly that and seem to vibe just fine. ]
You want your powers back, don't you? [ He would, if he were her. ] Find a reason, any reason, and stick to it. Aren't you and Dokja [ hmmmmmm what was the word again ] companions? He said he wanted to move forward. You can't exactly help him much the way you are now.
[ Maybe it's a little mean to say so bluntly, but he's never had a very good bedside manner. ]