ORV fandom making "he just dies all the time" KDJ's whole personality when we have YJH, who actually has a problematic relationship with death...
During scenarios KDJ only dies to achieve something. To save someone, to fulfill a condition, or to outmaneuver the story. His death is the final move in a plan, it's the button he presses after exhausting every other option. It solves something because he made it solve something. People like to downplay those moments because they're reading it from the outside, but if you were actually in those situations, you'd probably make the same call (if you were clever enough to figure out how to get back, which is another thing people like to downplay about his character). KDJ also spends time preparing his companions for his absence when he knows it'll be the outcome of his plan. He makes sure they'll be okay without him.
YJH's deaths are different though. He doesn't die to fix a specific problem. He dies to escape, to try again because he couldn't make this round work, but he never learns because the trauma just keeps stacking. His deaths are an admission of failure, a way to abandon the timeline and all the people in it and start over. It doesn't solve anything. It just leaves everyone else to deal with the aftermath of him being gone, which is textbook suicidal behavior.
Super ironic that the guy the fandom made into the "he likes to die cuz why not lol" actually uses death as a controlled and meaningful tool, and the guy who genuinely treats his own life as disposable and has killed himself more times than anyone can count barely gets talked about in this aspect (because it's not as funny I guess?? or just because this fandom obviously doesn't like him as much??). Meanwhile the "sunfish" nickname is right there in the text, constantly and directly pointing back to YJH's self-destructive tendencies.
The fact that people miss that while making KDJ the dramatic suicidal one is impressively unimpressive.
I've noticed people don't take death seriously at all here, but even then, KDJ gets way more attention for it than YJH ever does.
