#Pro Gamer Yoo Joonghyuk

[caleism-1]

Summary:

Kim Dokja thought his life was finally peaceful. He was even content just to be able to look at Yoo Joonghyuk’s stupidly handsome face from afar while working at the esports company.

Then, he knocks the pro gamer unconscious at a sponsorship event live on Twitch.

“You walk into the company’s break room, see the constipated bastard, and then proceed to throw up all over his clothes?” Han Sooyoung laughs at Kim Dokja as he groans and slides down the wall into a fetal position.

“How was I supposed to know the kimbap in my fridge was rotten?” Kim Dokja covers his face with his hands.

“Dokja, I bought you that kimbap a month ago.”

“I was starving.”

“No, you were a thirsty fanboy. It was a limited edition Yoo Joonghyuk kimbap I bought for you as a joke that you refused to eat until now because ‘I can’t bear to rip his face on the packaging on accident.’ Like, bitch, I know you’re thirsty for the man, but that’s just a whole new level.”

[salarymanwaka]

[10kiaoi]

Pro-gamer

[echoed-salvation]

I don't know if this is a bad case of fanon brain or what but I don't understand why I've seen some people genuinely say that yoo joonghyuk was a streamer pre-scenarios as if it's a canon fact? I know it's a popular role he's given in fanfiction and various other alternate universes but orv only ever says he was a "pro gamer" - which I'd assume refers to him having a career in esports (correct me if I'm wrong though). With canon yjh being the way he is, the idea of him being a streamer is frankly pretty hilarious to me 😭

[rlaehrwk21]

born to be a gamer, forced to repeat the cycle in an unending timeloop

[theofficialuriel]

Biyoo is Gen Alpha. She thinks Yoo Joonghyuk has “L Rizz”

[nekomim1]

Yu Junghyuk transgender. Yu Junghyuk she/her pronoun user.

[orphiclovers]

-Yoo Joonghyuk, pro gamer

[scripturienting]

listen anyone other than yjh would’ve objectively done so much worse. we should be glad our protagonist just resorted to homelessness and domestic terrorism — and this is after like 1000+ regressions

man what are you doing

[offlineallthetime]

I personally headcanon to Yoo Joonghyuk being such a big loser. Like sure he's the protagonist but Kim Dokja has just been glazing him so much.

Keep in mind Yoo Joonghyuk literally used to be a gamer. I'm willing to bet he literally says, "This is what they call a pro gamer move." in his mind before inevitably dying and regressing.

Young Kim Dokja who was (sadly) friendless thought this was cool and decided to say it out loud once which earned him the cringed looks of everyone around him.

So yeah, Loser Kim Dokja came to be because of Loser Yoo Joonghyuk.

[tls12lessthan3]

never before has this type of self-insert fantasy ever sold me on a main character's powers like omniscient reader's viewpoint does. normally when the main character recieves some kind of insanely powerful skill due to their previously useless/cringe/lame/etc hobby or career i have a reaction of like. ok sure. yoo joonghyuk was a pro gamer so now in the star stream he has a pro gamer attribute that lets him fight like he's playing a video game. ok sure! not exactly difficult to grasp.

but kim dokja's skills are so clearly not just based in his favourite hobby but like. reflective of his entrenched ideas about himself and the world. there's a moment in chapter 2 where yoo sangah sees that kim dokja is feeling down about not getting his contract renewed (unlike her, who as a Heroine would obviously be better than him and be recognized for her talents), so she offers to send him a link to her language learning app in an attempt to connect with him and cheer him up. and this immediately sends kim dokja into intense dissasociation because he interprets it as her trying to make him like her - a protagonist, a hard worker, someone of value, all of which can be summed up in this case as an active 'Character' and all of which kim dokja has strictly barred himself from. he sees it as yoo sangah trying to pull him from his place in the story as just a reader who lets things happen to him into a proper character role and this is something his mind rejects almost violently. and its like oh! hello fourth wall! i see you! cause thats exactly what the fourth wall does! it protects him from becoming a 'Character' and therefore having to get hurt as characters (people who try hard, interact with the world, and thereby impact it) do by rejecting any notion of him being an actual part of the story, rather than the useless bystander he's always characterised himself as. which is what he's doing here. this dissasociation and that dissasociation are so clearly linked.

and its just one example i can see of how kim dokjas neuroses and issues are so clearly displayed to the reader (disguised as the typical eye-rolling self-deprecation we expect from these sort of self-inserts, almost on par with isekai fl's who proclaim they will never attract the attention of the ml). and then they go on to so clearly build his skills in a way that makes you go oh yeah i guess i get it on a first read and make you want to chew glass on a second. the way his abilities aren't just deus ex machinas he gets as a reader and instead so clearly foreshadowed in and influenced by his psyche........ough. did you guys know this book is good actually.

[orvreader51]

I love how Yoo Joonghyuk pushes Kim Dokja away as he is about to state their nebula name, Kim Dokja Company

Like bro has better naming skills or something. Lived for tens and tens of thousands of years and the best you could come up with was SECRETIVE PLOTTER!?!

That’s like a Reddit username made by a 12-year-old who just watched Death Note. You were a pro-gamer, c'mon my dude, what kind of lame-ass name is this even The Abyssal Black Flame Dragon sounds better 😭😭

[hyukiiez]

this just gave me a fanfic idea hold on

we can go anywhere

[princessshikky]

Yoo Joonghyuk dumping his barely-reacquired job as a pro-gamer and trying to get into that arc because he simply doesn't know how to live peacefully in this new world, not after literal millenia of fighting...

But also, Yoo Joonghyuk, who was created with a sole purpose of keeping Kim Dokja alive, not knowing how to live now that this one person is gone from his life, is confronting his creator, asking "How do I go on? You made me to never give up, so how do I do that when my sole reason for existence is no more?"

Just. This book. The layers.

[fandom-flight]

Yooooo I just realized. Yoo Joonghyuk was a pro gamer. He played video games as his job, and Kim Dokja was a game company QA!!!! Yoo Joonghyuk's job was playing games for spectacle, and Kim Dokja's job was testing games out and evaluating them for bugs. Even their pre-star stream careers parallel their protagonist/reader dynamics and sets up their foils as "the one who does" and "the one who observes"

[fellina018]

[ORV] What if 1 - sugar daddy KDJ spoil his fav streamer YJH

What if... Kim Dokja is a young, successful businessman—calm, mysterious, and absurdly rich. But behind the tailored suits and boardroom meetings, he’s actually the crown prince of Underworld (UW), the most powerful mafia syndicate in the world.

And then there’s Yoo Joonghyuk. Pro gamer by day, popular streamer by night. Stoic, sharp-tongued, and so painfully hot when he's focused mid-match. Naturally, Dokja is his #1 fan—and one of his top-tier donors. No one knows that the username dropping thousands of dollars during late-night streams belongs to the Kim Dokja himself.

Now imagine: a slow burn sugar daddy AU where the mafia prince can't help but spoil his favorite streamer... and maybe catches feelings along the way.

YJH: “Why do you always donate so much?” KDJ (deadpan): “I like your... gaming skills.” (internal screaming intensifies)