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I love kim dokja for the sole purpose that he feels human. He achieves things not so easily, yet still manages. He makes mistakes like a human will do, unlike the typical main character who can get everything so easily (not that thered anything wrong with that, just overused). Sure, kdj succeeds at certain stuff in the novel, just like him being able to pretend to be yjh, capturing the flags, destroying the throne, but it wasnt very easy for him. The only advantage he got was the fact that he already knew the story, he knew the consequences. And even then, even if he still knew everything he knew deep within that at some point he cannot achieve "everything" because he is not the protagonist in the story. Which, wr can see when he tried to learn the way of the wind and failing (im only at that part of novel 2 so idk what happens after that). Thats what i mean when i said he feels human. We can put ourselves to the perspective of the reader, and he struggles, tries, succeeds, fails. Hes not perfect, and thats what makes him perfect in my opinion. Hes both selfless and selfish. Despite saying and talking about his companions as "useful" for the future, he still cares about them, a lil bit too much than he puts it to be. He sacrifices himself for them, which can be considered both selfless and selfish. Selfess in a way that he sacrificed himself, selfish in a way that he didnt consider what his comrades thought about that. I haven't read a lot about kim dokja yet, but i know for a fact that i liked him. Not in a romantic or platonic way, but rather in an admiring stance. i will forever gush about him with a burning passion. he is the light in the darkness, the happiness in sorrow, the hope in nothingness. For others he is fiction, for me he is the way of life itself.
2026-05-05 14:29:47