#kdj has the fourth wall numbing everything

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Kim Dokja's [Fourth Wall]

Since my post about the [Fourth Wall] offsetting happiness for Kim Dokja is blowing up, here's a theory I had for the skill.

The [Fourth Wall] is a metaphor for depression.

*SPOILERS BELOW*

It numbs you from everything you experience in reality, be it pleasure or especially your pain. Until you feel nothing at all.

There is a scene where KDJ has a hard time being able to grieve his mother because of the skill, and for anyone who has experienced grief, you may understand that there is a certain numbness that follows that just makes it hard for you to even cry. Like it hasn't hit you yet, but for KDJ it will never hit him, because 'that' is a 'skill' that he doesn't turn off.

This wall supports him in his most self-destructive behaviours more than anything in the worldview does. It will call him an idiot while doing it, but the [Fourth Wall] is ultimately KDJ's biggest enabler in his 'self-sacrificial' bullshit.

Depression closes you off from the world. It is a reaction and a result of the negativity that is experienced mentally. It's a wall to hide behind when the world becomes too much to bear, and that wall stays standing even during the good times because mental health in reality isn't something you can just turn on and off.

The [Fourth Wall] can consume Kim Dokja. We've seen it almost happen.

Kim Dokja's special abilities are literally dissociating and depression lol.

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In case you didn't run into my previous post, here's Chapter 433:

⸢Kim Dok-Ja watched all these happen with a quiet smile.⸥

[‘The 4th Wall’ is gradually getting thicker.]

⸢As if, he was looking at a spectacle happening in the distance.⸥