#orv notebook

[virgilattack28]

I'm laughing so hard rn.

I was reading Omniscient Readers Viewpoint a couple months ago and wrote notes along the way so I can character analyze later with evidence and recently got time to get back into it. (I also used emojis to find the character paragraphs easier and certain subjects)

Look

His description????? I'm crying.

That combat nun looks hot.

[dietmimo]

Nothing like a good smack to check the quality of a good hard notebook ✨

[itzmee-07]

Here's a random sketch I did in my notebook! It's mostly just me experimenting with a new shading style (ˉ▽ˉ；)...

bUT also I really wanted to draw these two!! My obsession with ORV hasn't toned down at all it's been like two months help ლ(╹◡╹ლ) (On a side note, neither has my sudden obsession with these cute emoticons!) So here's a scene that would've probably never happened in the original novel lol

ORV and all its characters belong to singshong/ sing n song Art belongs to me :)

[lazyleafeon]

i put a lot more time into my piece for the serenity zine than I usually do, so ive been wanting to make a write up with more details about what i was intending + stuff thats easy to miss (full piece without the character names can be seen here)

[ID: a drawing centered on a young kim dokja writing in a notebook, surrounded by paper cut outs of ways of survival characters. there are names next to the cut outs to clarify which characters are which. End ID]

1: text on the characters

the text on all of the characters are all quotes from orv. for characters from specific rounds, the text is specifically linked to those rounds (ex: 1863 uriel has text from when kdj is thinking about how gabriel isn't aware of her own betrayal of eden). Where i could, i tried to find text that paralled kdj somehow (sp with changing the 999th worldline, and 41 sys with her resentment towards yjh paralleling kdj's towards lsk for leaving him behind.).

for characters that aren't from specific worldlines (or where i couldn't find text i wanted to use that related to their worldlines) , the text either centers something i feel is central to orv (ex jhy talking about the final wall is used in both of her cut outs), kdjs perception of the character or thoughts of them from wos (ex lsh and his line about not really knowing her), or something about the character that parallels kdj (bihyungs cut outs are both about his ending of sacrificing himself, yma is about yjh leaving in the epilogue and her belief he won't come back (which works doubly as yjh leaving as kdj often did, and yma being left behind by her guardian)).

there is also sunfish yjh. who only says "the sunfish" because of the constraints of being a tiny piece of paper. The full quote is "Maybe I had been lucky until now. I might be the 'sunfish' rather than yoo joonghyuk" from chapter 38.

i don't think everything like, perfectly follows these categories, but that was the intent for the most part. One intentional exception is that the yjh near the bottom of the drawing has the text: "I want to read this story for a little bit longer"

if you want to read all the text, I have it up on a doc here. (you can also ask me about thoughts behind specific quotes if you want to know why i chose them)

2: amount of characters + visual details

there are 2 versions of each character for the most part, with 4 exceptions: kdj (3), yjh (6, counting the sunfish but not the kkoma), and na bori and knw only having 1.

the reason there's only one na bori is because her fate is, for the most part, set before her story can be changed by yjh. there is only 1 of her in all of the characters memories, outside of the 1865 worldline (though given we see knw after kdj kills him, its not out of the question there isn't a worldline where she reappears.)

for kim namwoon, its part because of kdj's hatred for him as someone he sees himself in, and part because kdj in orv like. replaces knw pretty directly by killing him and trying to become yjh's companion. so in kdjs notes and doodles based on wos, knw is here only as an outergod king, where kdj is unaware of him.

the outer god kings all have at least one element that sets them apart from the other cut outs: sp has his crumpled paper cloak, knw's cut out is in the shape of dragons near the edges, uriel is on fire, lhs is partially tin foil, and ljh has a water stain and some of her paper is peeling off into water. this represents them being unbound from the worldlines, but since they're still bound to the story they're still made of paper.

anna croft (near uriel) is intentionally a little more 3D than the other characters, since she has memories from past worldlines. she's supposed to seem like shes going against the tide.

1863 uriel is also a bit of an exception, though not intentionally, since her halo looks better as a separate piece of paper, and i wanted her to have flames too... it fits because shes a constellation and seeing the story from a somewhat outside perspective but is still a part of it, but it wasn't intentional.

near the edges of the piece towards the right, some characters outlines start to become faded, and the paper cut out outlines become more irregular. the outer god kings are exempt because they've managed to keep their sense of self to an extent outside of the worldline.

some of kdjs books are from his library in orv.

the text for all characters is slightly cut off (i tried to make it so most of the quotes are missing some texts so you can't actually read them in full). this is both because they're cut out of a larger page, and because kdj can't actually learn everything about the characters once he meets them by reading them because you can't read people like that. so some of the text is out of view because the characters are viewed as characters to kdj and not "real" yet, so kdj doesn't see their full stories.

some concept art + one of the earliest digital sketches i have. all of my works in progress have a billion notes left on them so i know not to forget something when i get back to them:

[drawing of yjh made of paper, and an earlier sketch of the overall piece]

i sort of wish i kept the paper style of this yjh, but it wasn't meant to be....

3. final thoughts........

this really is the most... orv piece i've ever done (?), in a lot of ways. there is nothing that makes you feel more like kdj like searching up orv quotes from memory and then scrolling through the epub on your phone to find what you want. i even ended up explaining it to my mom and having to show her what a sunfish was.

there are things i would change about it if i did it now (i would probably erase the outline from adult kdjs cut out and emphasize his shadow falling on it instead), and things i didn't get to do that would've made it more like what i envisioned (ideally i would've reread all of orv to find quotes. and i didn't do that).

It's personal to me in ways that are kind of silly. I used to doodle a lot of paper cut out creatures in high school, which helped a lot with getting the sort of paper movement down here. and of course the handwriting is just my own, so i had to actually rewrite the quotes i found. it's probably the most ambitious piece i've drawn yet composition wise, and i don't think ive spent so long on a single illustration besides art studies for school. It feels like a love letter to everything orv means to me.

if you've read this far, thank you :)! i don't normally go into this much depth about my thought process, but there's a lot here i don't expect people to pick up that i wanted to get into

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

people always talk about this op protagonist isn’t really op dont worry but like. Kim Dokja from orv really really isn’t and I love it.

He isn’t the only one with future knowledge in fact the concept of the story he’s in is the protagonist gets to try this over and over and has future knowledge. His brand was just making power charts in his notebook during class.

None of his actual skills are useful they’re all ones he borrowed from other people. He relies frequently on trying to manipulate people into what he wants and he does this with identity theft and being kinda bitchy so that everyone wants to kill him but can’t bc he’s too suicidal so that feels kinda messed up to do and makes you feel sorry for him.

His most powerful skill is that he’s really really good at derealization and depersonalization. He isn’t even in charge of that skill it ate his mom and makes him look ugly.

Character of all time.

[gothic--vampyre]

Writing my novel in 40 days: Day 1

･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°˖˚‧༉❀˚₊‧ Plotting ‧₊˚❀༉‧˚˖°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

Info dumped from every single document and notebook I wrote in. I'm finding that writing in a notebook is good for my patience and attention.

There's a bunch of tropes and ideas I wrote on Day -1. I'll use the 3 Act Structure to put everything in place tomorrow.

Character sheets and world names are pending. I'm kinda confused and overwhelmed as to how to do it. Tumblr writing tips posts are my only hope.

✩.˚♪˚⋆.✮.⋆♪🎧ྀི၊⋆ Music⋆၊🎧ྀི♪⋆.✮.⋆˚♪˚.✩

Played ORV playlist while working. Safe to say that my darlings are going to suffer quite a bit.

I've always tried to make the enemies to lovers aspect of the books slowburn, as opposed to what my hormones want lol. Sad boi music is definitely helping there, and it's adding to my beloved angst.

Some will be together through the storm, some will not. Some will die holding each other and some will forever be separated by duty.

And my favourite child: Grudges.

Grudges will be held. Grudges will destroy love.

[butterfirefly]

20 questions for fic writers

Tagged by @sctir Thank you, Wei! 💙

1) how many works do you have on ao3?

7 at the moment.

2) what's your total ao3 word count?

It's at... 11,383.

3) what are your top five fics by kudos?

Brother See, Brother Do -> Prophecy -> Grab It With Both Hands [Rewritten] -> The End. -> — (the em dash is the actual title in case anyone's confused).

4) what fandoms do you write for?

sctir and orv, mostly, but I have written for dpr and bllk. I've been trying to write the codependent brothersTM too, but I keep chickening out because I might mischaracterize them and get hunted for sport by the fandom.

5) do you respond to comments? why or why not?

I used to respond to them as much as I could, but I became unable to reply after I posted Brother See, Brother Do. I don't know, anxiety got me being weird again.

6) what's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Prophecy, I think. Or is it —? Not sure.

7) what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

They're very close friends, Your Honor. It's basically a crack fic. Tbf though the whole novel reads like one.

8) do you get hate on fics?

Not really? There was a series of comments in my original posting of giwbh from one reader about one of the antagonists that might have been expressed a bit strongly, but I don't think they were trying to be hateful at all.

9) do you write smut?

Nope. Can't stand the stuff [insert every disclaimer in the world about this being just a personal preference].

10) do you write crossovers?

Yup. giwbh is a crossover between sctir and orv.

11) have you ever had a fic stolen?

No...?

12) have you ever had a fic translated?

No. I got an offer once, but at that time I declined.

13) have you ever cowritten a fic before?

No, but!!! I'd love to try one day, if ever an opportunity arises and my mental health allows it. I imagine it'd be lots of fun.

14) what's your all time favorite ship?

Can it be a brotp instead? :D It's the Han brothers, followed closely by the Winchester brothers (no you do not see a pattern wdym).

15) what's the wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

GRAB IT WITH BOTH HANDS PLEEEEAAAAAAASE LET ME FINISH IT I BEG. I've given up on Eternally already I can't give up on this too but maybe I already have idkhelp

16) what are your writing strengths?

Angst. Does that count?

17) what are your writing weaknesses?

Finishing a wip OTL

But really. I have trouble sticking with any long-term project. Unfortunately for everyone, I also like writing multi-chap fics, so here we are.

18) thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I think it's cool, doubly so when the author doesn't include the translation immediately and you have to wait with anticipation till they reveal it and the significance of it whams you in the face, although I can also see how it might be a bit... cumbersome? when done awkwardly. Really it depends, I guess.

19) first fandom you wrote for?

Online? ORV. In a torn notebook paper at age 13? Ben 10.

20) favourite fic you've ever written?

It's a tie between Prophecy and Brother See, Brother Do.

Tagging anyone who wants to join!

[orviposition]

orv poetry is jealous hsy stalking twsa's comment section just to dislike kdj's comments vs sp having a notebook filled with all the comments kdj left on twsa and reading them from time to time. a bunch of losers

[hehearse]

god dammit #1 for orv got shown already. im getting out a notebook

:"D sorry... it got snatched from you!

[loosingmoreletters]

for the ask game? your current favorite ship, and meeting on a train ride au

this couldn’t ever be anything but an ORV fic

Kim Dokja didn’t want to feel uncharitable, but the last thing he needed right now was his train getting delayed because someone had decided to end their life in such an inconvenient way. There were neater solutions to it, though he supposed jumping in front of a train was at least more effective than jumping out of a window.

But honestly, Kim Dokja couldn’t care less. He just wanted to go home and, well, figure out what he was supposed to do with the rest of his life. Maybe he should just read Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse again? Even if the novel had disappeared from the website, Kim Dokja had copied and saved a version on it on his laptop at home. He had left the author many comments, been its only true commenter. It was a story written just for him, he could allow himself this indulgence, especially if he would pay for the novel in the future.

And then, finally, an announcement rang out.

Telling all passengers on the train. Telling all passengers on the train. E-Everyone run away… Run…!

What?

The moment the announcement was finished, the inside of the carriage became a mess, people standing up and screaming. Kim Dokja checked his phone, wondering if there was some other news appearing, yet he saw nothing but the usual weather forecast, the random game apps he had downloaded. And then the time switched from 6:59 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

At once, the darkness grew heavier, oppressing, the weight of the world bearing down on him as slowly a figure emerged.

[The free service of planetary system 8612 has been terminated.]

[The main scenario has started.]

Familiar words rang out and Kim Dokja held his breath as a scene he’d only ever pictured in his head and drawn clumsily in school notebooks blurred into reality. A small fluffy creature floated above their heads and it proclaimed horrors Kim Dokja had seen as his salvation for over a decade. As people needlessly pestered the dokkaebi, Kim Dokja sat still. This was just like his novel. A train, a monster—

Kim Dokja raised his head, searching for the number of the train carriage. Which one had he boarded?

[3707]

Oh.

This story could only have one ending, could it? And it wasn’t one he was meant to see.

The subway became a bloodbath before the main scenario even started. Had Kim Dokja not read this story before, would he have reacted the same way? Would he be smeared against the glass windows now, dead before the story even really began?

Kim Dokja calmly put his phone in his pocket. Only he knew the future and if he was lucky enough, had proven himself faithful enough to his reason for living, then maybe he’d be allowed to live past the prologue.

A small window emerged in front of everyone’s blank eyes.

[The main scenario has arrived!]

The dokkaebi smiled bloodthirstily before it bowed. [I look forward to an interesting story.]

The next moment, the screaming started again. Kim Dokja turned to the left, the very end of the carriage, from where the people were starting to drop like flies. No question then where the protagonist was. Kim Dokja turned to his right. He hadn’t noticed it before, but the person next to him, they hadn’t moved at all either, had they?

There sat a boy, probably not even middle school aged, holding a box of grasshoppers. Wirely, Kim Dokja thought that he’d need the power boost to face the protagonist.

“Let me,” he told the boy and took the box from him. He opened it just so to get a single one out and pressed it into the boy’s hand. “Now squeeze.”

The boy did as told on reflex, his widening a moment later. With that, Kim Dokja had done his part, repaid the debt he owed the kid. Another particularly gruesome scream and a glance towards the left told him he didn’t have much time. Quickly he reached within the box, squishing all the insects and eggs inside.

[You have killed a living thing.]

[100 coins have been earned as additional compensation.]

Rapidly, the notifications rang out, and just as quickly, Kim Dokja invested them, and that not a moment too late as the last person standing between him and the protagonist was easily tossed aside.

Kim Dokja grimaced and pushed the kid behind him.

Yoo Joonghyuk stared at him with cold narrow eyes, as if searching for something. “Unusual.”

Somehow, Kim Dokja couldn’t keep from grinning. “Did that not happen in your last regression?”

It was only thanks to his added speed that Kim Dokja evaded Yoo Joonghyuk reaching for him. Yoo Joonghyuk might have killed more people than anyone else on this train, but it was Kim Dokja who’d win the trophy for mass murder, having killed the most living beings.

“What do you know?”

“More than you,” Kim Dokja replied. “I can definitely lead you to the end of scenarios. Make me your companion, Yoo Joonghyuk. You won’t regret it.”

The protagonist’s eyes widened.

Yes, Kim Dokja thought. This is what I stayed alive for.

[reiyuine]

Intro Post

Hi ^^

I'm rei, or I also sometimes go by qys/QiuYue/ShenQiuYue.

Art blog is @rei-qys where I post drawings/sketches and other writing if I ever get round to it lol (no reblogs on there so it looks much cleaner cos this blog is a MESS).

i will probably rarely post things and reblog A LOT, but hey, who says that won't ever change.

If you want to know more about me, check under the cut :))))

My other accounts: - Discord (qy_s337625) - Instagram (s.qiuyue195242) - AO3 (Rei_YuiNe)

Um. I draw (both digital and traditional but I only draw digital fanarts and yh, traditional are all like more serious pieces so no uploading those ^^) and I write... sometimes. Although they might be shit (writing and drawings) please don't steal because morals and what's even the point. So, those will be the main things I post about.

In terms of tags, I'll use #gallery (rei's version) for art and #notebook (rei's version) for writing. If I'm just shitposting, well that will be under #bullshit (rei's version).

I am in a lot of fandoms, some more so than others: - LOTM (I'm still reading the original so all I know currently is Ting Gen arc. LeoKlein tho ^^) - QQGK (Which I have finished, and yes I ship 154 and 922 - 91 not 19) - GHG (Still reading original as well lol) - The Evil Ring - Little Mushroom (Or like whatever its called in English - Wrong but stil right or smth) - BSD (keeping up with updates although its kinda faded a little) - No Home (OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGO MGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG) - Your Throne - Blue Lock (Nagireo hehehehe, and you know who else? You know WHO ELSE??? Sae Itoshi, maaaaaan) - The Way to Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother (omg Deon though AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH) - The Villainess is a Marionette (If evil why hot, iykwim) - Genshin Impact (although I stopped playing since Fontaine came out, but I've been keeping up with characters, plot line and art stuff cos the fanartists are so fucking talented) - HSR (never played it but RATIORINE like pls) - ALNST - Husky and his White Cat Shizun - TCF - ORV - Other manhuas/manhwas/mangas/games/etc that I am also in but can't list off the top of my head. I will add to the list when I do remember.

Of course, also into various classical and modern literature (after all, where else do I find inspiration for my writing). Being an art student as well (sigh), of course, modern and classical art is also an interest of mine, so come talk to me about anything related :DDDD

Shoutout to @yuinerei @ilyfynn @theembergazer heehee, love u all. If you do happen to read up to here, go check them out cos they're my freaky little guys ^^

[pttucker]

"That's right. It'll be like we're presenting him with the source of imagination. So that they can dream about this world's conclusion." Han Sooyoung studied the faces of her companions one at a time and continued on. "No one will get hurt this way. No one born in other world-lines will get harmed. All we have to do is to make those guys read a certain story, that's it." Countless Kim Dokjas scattered throughout many world-lines would all be imagining it. Those born with various appearances, living in various environments. There was no meaning in meeting them or bringing them here. The only thing the companions could hope for in this situation was a miracle. A miracle that could bring back Kim Dokja they all remembered. It was fine even if it was all a delusion, a lie – if only he could imagine their happiness… If only all those countless 'Kim Dokjas' imagined the one single universe…

Jung Heewon asked her. "…What can we help you with?" Rather than a verbal reply, Han Sooyoung placed her notebook PC on the hospital room's desk and accessed a certain text file, one that they were intimately familiar with. A novel with its title still left as "no subject". Han Sooyoung slowly, so very slowly, began typing the title of the novel.

It's happening!!!

Okay, so not only did Sooyoung write TWSA specifically so Dokja would read it, now she's writing ORV specifically so Dokja will read it.

AHHHHHHH!

It's all so circular and so meta.

Literally writing ORV from within ORV.

No wonder so much of the novel was dedicated to talking about the characters making their own story. It wasn't just the characters from TWSA coming alive or Dokja "writing" the ending of TWSA as he lived it with everyone else, it was literally also building up to this very moment.

[giyuutodoroki]

Orv shenanigans

Han Sooyoung, bored: "Y/n, let's play a game. Write the name of the ugliest person here in the notebook."

Y/n(joonghyuk's sister): "Sure!" *writes* *closes the notebook* *turns around* *sprints in that direction*

Dokja:

Joonghyuk: ? *opens the notebook*

Joonghyuk: *chases after you*

Dokja: "Wait, this says my name." *flips the page* "Oh."

[lazyleafeon]

[image description: A drawing of teenaged kim dokja, sitting on a pile of books and writing happily in a notebook. He's surrounded by life-sized notebook-paper cut outs of ways of survival characters, with the five outer god kings being drawn with more detail so that they stand out in the crowd. kim dokja himself has paper demon horns and wings, and behind him is his older self in actual demon king form. Each paper cut out has faint text written over it. End ID.]

my piece for the serenity orv zine, which you can get here for free. one of the most complex pieces ive ever drawn

[yellowocaballero]

for the fic title ask meme, what about the FKFSJDFKFKF (idk if i got the keyboard smash right? but it starts with F and is all caps). also i hope fire emblem is treating you well (aka helping you recover from orv brain crushing)

Always fascinated when ppl seem to remember what happened on the last episode of Meg??? I think people read my posts or something that's so fucked up.

Anyway, let's see what that fic is, I have no fucking clue. I don't know what any of these fics are at all. There's no coding and I've made no attempt to remember. Things have been so weird lately.

Oh, cool, it was the ACTUAL orv fic that I'm planning on posting once I finish ljaslkdf.

The plot of this one is very easy to describe. It's an AU where KDJ and HSY are childhood friends, who posted notebook sketches of YJH wearing Kingdom Hearts inspired sexy outfits with way too many belts on DeviantArt when they were 15.

It's also an AU where Kim Dokja's other favorite character in Ways of Survival is Han Sooyoung, the hip teenage sidekick and best friend and Mary Sue of Ways of Survival.

See? Simple.

[hearthomelesbian]

for the orv ask game: 5 and 12!

if you could ask the authors any question, what would you ask them?

"The lines of the face had changed, but it was still Yoo Joonghyuk. No, it was even more than before." <- hey what did you mean by this

are you more of a reader, writer or protagonist?

this one is so hard!! as a kid i wanted to be a writer soooo bad... i wrote a novel in a notebook and told everyone i was gonna be an author when i grew up and was convinced i was gonna be just like the eragon author and publish a book at 15. and i still love creating characters! plot less so...

although i don't write as much anymore, i think i still have to settle on writer? it just feels right. i do love to yap also