Finally finished ORV and I love that it doesn’t condemn fiction as a coping mechanism, Dokja’s love of stories results in him being able to save his companions and stop Joonghyuk from regressing in the third turn, Kim Dokja’s Company writes a story based on their experiences to process their grief and move on, ORV only takes issue with people who merely consume stories, people like the constellations who read or watch a story as is and engage no further, forgetting it as soon as they’re done with it and not engaging any deeper, I could write probably pages upon pages about how the text analyses fiction as a coping tool, and how it uses regression as a metaphor for anxiously replaying the past to think of all the ways you could’ve done better, but I don’t have the time
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