#working title is Straw Stream Survival Guide btw

[z-nightshade]

This is me asking about your ideas

I'd love to hear them, and I'm sure others would too

Okay!

So this fic was stars two SIOCs (which aren't actually self inserts at all)

There is Jee Eun-U and Woo Ha-Jun (names subject to change but I will be using them for the sake of this post)

Jee Eun-U uses the characters 智 (jee) meaning wisdom, 恩  (eun) meaning kindness, mercy or charity and 祐 (u) meaning divine intervention or protection

Woo Ha-Jun uses 우 (woo) meaning house or universe, 夏 (ha) meaning summer and 准 (jun) meaning approve or permit

Now! The basic premise is this

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint was written to convince Kim Dokja he deserves a happy ending and to return to his companions. In this story what happens is that enough Kim Dokja fragments dream up a chance, a chance for a happy ending, a chance for Kim Dokja to stay

This manifests in the Most Ancient Drea, rewinding the clock back on the 1864 worldline and grabbing two ORV readers and plopping them into it isekai style with the task of convincing Kim Dokja that he shouldn't stay on the train damning him to an eternity of loneliness actually

These two readers, of course, becoming Jee Eun-U and Woo Ha-Jun

For the stuff that isn't quite as fleshed out yet

Characterization

Jee Eun-U and Woo Ha-Jun are meant to resemble what would come out if you put YooHanKim in a blender and two human beings came out

Personailty wise, Jee Eun-U resembles a more emotionally open and less repressed Yoo Joonghyuk while Woo Ha-Jun is a more openly aggressive and less cunning Han Sooyoung

Sorta

Eun-U in their first life spent most of it in the hospital where they eventually died. This led them to fall into a deep depression. It was them finding ORV that brought some sort of meaning and feeling back into their life.

ORV was to them what TWSA was to Kim Dokja

They are they quiet type and have problems emoting because they, you know, spent an entire lifetime basically in a sterile hospital, but they know ORV front to back from the amount of times they read it

They are the one who wants to save the world at large on top of Kim Dokja, because the world of ORV is beloved to them. Every part of it. They are the one who is making the plans and using their meta knowledge to it's fullest extent.

In contrast, Woo Ha-Jun had a very normal, if detached life. He was very apathetic towards others, with exceptions for those he deemed his.

He picked up ORV and read it, enjoyed the story and it's characters, but it wasn't life changing for him

He cares very specifically about making sure Dokja and Eun-U are okay and he couldn't care less about anything else. He's chatty and smiley but doesn't actually care about what's happening to people

He's more than happy being the brawns to Eun-U's brains (not that he isn't smart) and bringing them back to reality (as he likes to say) or being the bad guy when he feels it is necessary

More Plot Like Stuff

So, Eun-U and Ha-Jun meet when they are young and start plotting and theorizing about what to do

Ha-Jun just wants to find Dokja and make sure he doesn't do something stupid meanwhile Eun-U wants to try and make the apocolypse as easy to deal with as possible

In the end Eun-U wins the argument because Dokja's happy ending is getting Joonghyuk's happy ending which means saving the world

They decide to do this by getting Ha-Jun famous, you know, for the influence, with Eun-U acting as his manager

They end up meeting Kim Dokja and befriending him during middle school (or the Korean equivalent) and go from there

By the time the apocolypse rolls around, Ha-Jun is suitably famous (with Eun-U and Dokja being famous by proxy bc Ha-Jun won't shut up about them) and Dokja knows he is unconditionally loved by at least two people

Lastly some more fun things!

Eun-U and Ha-Jun, because their new lives were made by Most Ancient Dream, are extremely protagonisty in nature

They are both extremely attractive (with Eun-U, the most Joonghyuk-like, being drop dead gorgeous)

Ha-Jun, and later Dokja, start calling Eun-U Angle Face as a joke and it sticks

Ha-Jun has his fingers in every part of the world he can get them into (or rather, what Eun-U can get him into). He does streaming, modeling, acting, activism. If you can name it, he's probably done it

Eun-U whenever they show up as Ha-Jun's manager to things keeps getting mistaken for the talent so they started wearing a mask because the poorly socialized bean doesn't know how to deal with people

Dokja is extremely confused as to how he got Ha-Jun and Eun-U to be friends with him but after about a decade and a half, he's aware enough that's he's stuck with them

Eun-U is actually two years younger than Ha-Jun and Dokja, skipping two grades

Eun-U has a side hustle that they dragged Dokja into as an editor, leading to the two meeting Han Sooyoung pre-apocalypse

I could go on about this for a while, so please! If you have anymore questions, ask! For when the scenarios start, Eun-U and Han-Jun's dynamic with the characters, their possible powers, anything!