#dont mind me just overanalyzing orv for the millionth time

[gay-panic-at-the-disco]

This scene made me realize something I should have far too long ago.

The real reason Kim Dokja wanted to be Yoo Jonghyuk so bad in his youth was not because Yoo Jonghyuk's escapades and feats in WOS gave Dokja the strength to endure the torment at the hands of his bullies, like Jonghyuk did with the Constellations. While it was part of the reason, there was something else bigger they both had in common.

Both Kim Dokja and Yoo Jonghyuk have lost their lives for the sake of other people's entertainment. Kim Dokja with his mother's book and Yoo Jonghyuk with the Star Stream. But while Yoo Jonghyuk continued fighting for everything he lost for over centuries worth of lives, Kim Dokja squandered his life away trying to fly under the radar and protect himself from those prying into his life.

The Fourth Wall's censor works in a way that it makes Kim Dokja look exceedingly average and easy to forget. The censor works like this because this was exactly what Dokja wished for the most before the Scenarios started. He wanted his life back and it would only be possible if he was entirely forgotten altogether.

The Scenarios were, in a way, a new start for both Dokja and Jonghyuk. It was at this point that Dokja finally felt like he was in control, despite all the danger and death, and he finally has the power he's always needed to right the wrongs in his life. Kim Dokja takes the narrative into his own hands and he works so hard to write better ending for it, because he finally has a chance at saving Yoo Jonghyuk. And in saving Yoo Jonghyuk, he finds his own salvation and is freed from the shackles his mother placed on him.