Dokyung Shin

* Usual
* Zone

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**Dokyung Shin** is a minor character in season 2 of ***"Hanlim Gym (Webtoon)."*** He is the Ulsan Champion of PVP.

## Appearance

He has brown and spiky hair that was long that hides his face. He wears a red tee. He looks quite normal; often crying but when he uses his zone, his face became creepy and twisted.

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## Background

Dokyung was born a psychopath where he couldn't cry. Thus he couldn't understand the reason to cry but when he finds a dying swallow, he understand and begin to cry. However, he began to savor and enjoy the feelings of crying and wants to keep doing it. Thus, he killed some animals and store it in the refrigerator to cry about in which his parents found out.

## Plot Overview

### The Championship Begins: Round 1

He was briefly seen in round 1 with Kangyoon Ji.

### The Culling of Players: Round 2

Was seen attending the championship meeting and is irritated by Juyeong's taunt.

### The Quarter Finals: Round 5

Dokyung cries and provokes Suho's parent's death. During the fight, his body take in so much frequent blows but he didn't have the opporunity to release it. Thus, his body couldn't handle the pressure and implodes. A gush of blood pours out of him as his body and muscles are torn. Whether this killed or severely wounded him is currently unknown.

## Relationships

**Family**

* Unnamed Parents - They care for him and is concern that he couldn't cry. When they find out he can, they were happy but it was short lived as they were horrified to see him killing animals to cry.

**Enemies**

* Suho Kang - his opponent during the quarter-finals. It seemed that Dokyung had a major advantage over Suho as he could even repel Suho's Origin. However, in the end, Suho found a way around Dokyung's natural abilities and defeated him.
* Juyeong Choi - though not much of their interaction is revealed, it is clear through the interactions on the private cruise ship that not just Dokyung, but all other champions seems to have an antagonistic attitude towards Juyeong (the Gwangju Champion), due to his arrogant, provocative demeanor.

**Others**

* Other PVP Champions - his interactions with the other champions is not very clear and not much had been shown.

## Abilities

**Elasto Myodermia** - A ficitious and rare skin condition where the skin is increidbly elastic. The skin and muscle fibers contain are 10 times stronger and concentrated. This allows any impact from a hit be held for a brief moment and is redirected into Dokyung's fist. Finally, he launches back the amount of force to his opponent. In other words, a counter.

**Zone** - Dokyung apparently also knows how to use Zone as he activates it in his battle against Suho. His face turns very freaky looking. Zone enhances Dokyung's original ability, enabling him to fully absorb Suho's Origin and reflect it. It basically seems to be the exact same ability but with greater capacity to store energy. However, that very ability was what ended up in his loss against Suho, as when the stored energy is not released in time, it basically implodes.

## Trivia

* He is one of the few characters to be in Super String and blue String
* Considering he is a PVP player, then his age must be below either 19 or 20 years old.
* In his first technically appearance in ep. 13, although his outfit is rather the same, he has a temper instead of always crying in his actual appearance. However, this could be part of his personality as his appearance is rather short.
* Technically, despite how gorey and violent PVP is, Dokyung's fighting style is the first in that PVP outright says it was sickening and the audience were horrified.
* There are many criticisms that his fighting style is unrealisitic. As it is more something out of a shonen manga. Even if the webtoon also belongs to Super String, it cannot be explain through supernatural means as it is part of Blue String too.
	+ Although Elasto Myodermia is fictious, there are skin conditions that does exhibit extreme elasticity of the skin. Such as "hyperelastic skin" or "Elastoderma."

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## References

1. ↑ https://www.quora.com/Does-high-school-in-South-Korea-start-when-you-are-around-13-14-and-end-when-you-are-17-18-or-are-the-ages-different
2. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%8B%A0%EB%8F%84%EA%B2%BD#s-5