Physical
5'9" / 176cm, looks like he doesn't eat enough. His hair and eyes are black. Always has dark circles under his eyes and appears exhausted. He's pale, has long eyelashes, has scars on his hands and body, plus some burn scars as well. He flips back and forth from having a neutral expression to smiling. When he transforms into a Demon King, he grows horns on his head and two large, black, feathered wings on his back.
His shard is located in the center of his chest, above his sternum.
Personality
shitty, awful, would win biggest self-loathing award, voted most likely to perish while young and depressed
❖ Background ❖
!! SPOILERS for the entirety of the webnovel !!
( content warning: child abuse, domestic abuse, alcoholism, school bullying, suicide attempt, suicidal thoughts. )
Kim Dokja grew up in an abusive home. His father regularly beat his mother and would do the same to Dokja who was only a young child at the time. His mother would try her best to protect him, instilling in him a love of stories and books that he could escape to, but it wasn't enough. One day, late in the evening, his father was drunk as he usually was and started swinging a kitchen knife at his mother, threatening to kill her. Dokja stepped out of his room at the commotion and watched as his mother threw herself at his father, causing him to drop the knife.
Dokja picked up the knife, and in the next moment, his father slipped and impaled himself on the knife, bleeding to death not long after. Shocked by the event, Dokja lost his mind, and when he came to, his mother rewrote the "story" and took on all the blame, turning the evidence on herself, and convincing her child that she had been the one to murder his father.
Just like that, Dokja lost both his parents that night as his mother was taken away by the authorities.
His distant family members grudgingly took him in, but they were cold toward Dokja and ignored him, leaving him to fend for himself.
And then his life became a million times worse when his mother published a best-selling book about the murder she had committed. Dokja's life no longer became his own as he was tossed under the public's scrutinizing gaze. He was hounded by both reporters and common people who had read the book, and alienated from and bullied by his classmates who called him the son of a murderer.
When it became too difficult to bear, when he was only a middle schooler, Dokja threw himself out of the third story window of his classroom.
He survived the attempt, but landed himself in the hospital. There, he found himself alone once more and used the hospital's computer to turn to his usual webnovels for an escape. It was on that fateful day that he encountered "Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World." He was immediately drawn to the first chapter for inexplicable reasons and hooked from then on. He decided to live in order to read the chapter uploads, using Ways of Survival as a reason to stay alive, and grew attached to the regressor protagonist, Yoo Joonghyuk, who never gave up and kept fighting in each and every regression.
❖ Permissions ❖
Out of Character
Writing Style: brackets! i can write prose, but it will take longer for me as i question everything i know about the english language.
Backtagging: yes please! i may try to wrap things up if the thread goes on for longer than 2-3 weeks just so we can start new things!
Threadhopping: ask me and the other party.
Offensive Subjects: please warn for trypophobia!
In Character
Physical Violence: yes! dokja is used to fighting and he will fight back.
Death/Dissipation: let's talk about it.
Physical Affection: go for it, he will react differently depending on the person.
Shipping/Sex: i'm very much open to it but it would require lots of development (dokja has a million issues) and slowburn.
Mental/Communion: yes! but let's talk about this.
Offensive Subjects: the occasional suicidal thought.