Kim Dokja/Relationships

This page lists all notable relationships Kim Dokja has with other characters.

## Relationships

### Yoo Joonghyuk

Yoo Joonghyuk was the protagonist that helped Kim Dokja survive during his childhood, with Dokja constantly repeating 'I am Yoo Joonghyuk' during his adolescence. To Kim Dokja, as he grew up Yoo Joonghyuk acted as his father, brother, and best friend. In the world of the apocalypse, they became Life and Death Companions and cleared many scenarios together. While outwardly rude and insulting to each other, Kim Dokja considers Yoo Joonghyuk to be the coolest person he knows and looks up to him greatly.

At the start of the novel, they started off in a rocky relationship due to Dokja being an anomaly in Joonghyuks 3rd regression. However, while continuously insulting Yoo Joonghyuk with insults such as "emo bastard" and "sunfish bastard," Kim Dokja still looks out for him, such as when he tries to save Yoo Joonghyuk's previous lover Lee Seolhwa when she is infected with a parasite. Yoo Joonghyuk also finds Kim Dokja to be reliable after Kim Dokja breaks the Absolute Throne, going to him for help. As the story progresses, they learn to trust in each other so much that when Dokja formulates a plan that involves sacrificing himself, Joonghyuk is immediately the one to notice what he is planning and although vexed and irritated, follows the plan to take care of the aftermath.

Despite being the sole reader of Yoo Joonghyuk's story for over 10 years, as Kim Dokja changes the events of the 3rd regression further, his understanding of Yoo Joonghyuk ends up decreasing to the point where 999th Yoo Joonghyuk criticizes Kim Dokja for thinking he can understand Yoo Joonghyuk solely through reading him.

### Han Sooyoung

His relationship with Han Sooyoung was initially hostile, with Han Sooyoung leading the prophets and changing the storyline, they later became closer. In the beginning Kim Dokja repeatedly makes jabs at the fact that Han Sooyoung plagiarized his favorite novel, to which she repeatedly insists she did not. Eventually, Han Sooyoung joins <Kim Dokja's Company>. They regularly banter and insult each other, but as they fight alongside each other they come to genuinely appreciate each other's strengths and weaknesses.

When Han Sooyoung ends up as Yuri di Aristel and is trapped in the scenario for decades, Kim Dokja feels immense guilt and believes that he should have sacrificed himself if it meant Han Sooyoung wouldn't have to suffer such a fate. Kim Dokja is shown to have great faith and trust in Han Sooyoung, with him initially choosing to stay in the 1863rd turn because he knows Han Sooyoung will be able to look after everyone for him back in the 3rd turn.

As with almost all of his other companions, Kim Dokja also struggles to understand how his actions impact Han Sooyoung. As a result of spending time with Kim Dokja, Han Sooyoung ends up caring about him deeply, even about the parts of him that Kim Dokja didn't think his companions cared about, such as his obsession with "Ways of Survival." She notices very quickly that the 49% version of Kim Dokja seems off, and leads the group through the scenarios again in order to save him. The 1863rd Han Sooyoung is also willing to write "Ways of Survival" to save Kim Dokja as a teenager, even though she knows that the story she writes will become reality and claim millions of lives in several years.

Persephone once suggested her as a matchmaking candidate for Kim Dokja, but he refused.

### Yoo Sangah

Before the apocalypse, Yoo Sangah and Kim Dokja both worked at Minosoft and were hired at the same time, though they worked in different departments. Yoo Sangah had done things that Kim Dokja turned a blind eye to, such as putting chili flakes in the coffee of her managers. During the apocalypse, Kim Dokja had saved her life by absorbing her into the 4th wall temporarily, and she is a member of their nebula.

She is repeatedly shown to be very kind to Kim Dokja, such as when he tells her about his trauma with his mother. After telling her about his trauma, Kim Dokja immediately tries to take back his words by claiming that it was all a joke. Yoo Sangah knows that he was telling the truth and takes his hand, comforting him in silence.

While Yoo Sangah dwells inside Kim Dokja's 4th wall, she becomes a librarian charged with sorting through and reading his stories. Through this, she gains a very strong understanding of the type of person Kim Dokja is.

### Lee Hyunsung

Kim Dokja admires Lee Hyunsung and trusts him to be an open-minded and kind man, considering him to be an "older brother" figure in his adolescence. He supports Lee Hyunsung and helps his attributes bloom, making him stronger. He encourages Lee Hyunsung when the latter feels dispirited or unconfident. Lee Hyunsung acts as Kim Dokja's shield.

### Jung Heewon

Though not knowing who she was originally as she died early on in all 1863 turns of the original "Ways of Survival," Kim Dokja saved her in the 3rd turn from a bunch of rapists and they became close allies. Jung Heewon immediately inserted herself into Kim Dokja's group without hesitation, proving to be a powerful ally. With a strong devotion to upholding her own justice, she acts as Kim Dokja's sword.

Jung Heewon regularly makes fun of Kim Dokja, behaving dramatically and punching him on the shoulder when they interact. She cares about him greatly, as demonstrated by when she jumped into the Indescribable Distance to save him along with Yoo Joonghyuk and Han Sooyoung.

### Lee Gilyoung

Lee Gilyoung is a boy not in "Ways of Survival" that Kim Dokja saved in the subway. He commonly calls him 'hyung'. Lee Gilyoung is often seen hugging Kim Dokja's leg and likes to show off his bugs to Kim Dokja. When Yoo Joonghyuk initially asked him to join his party, Lee Gilyoung flat-out refused him, instead staying with Kim Dokja.

He looks up greatly to Kim Dokja and is willing to kill for him without hesitation. He cried often for Kim Dokja when the latter died. Kim Dokja readily protects Lee Gilyoung when possible and nurtures the boy throughout their journey.

### Shin Yoosung

Shin Yoosung is Kim Dokja's incarnation, who he signs a contract with during the 5th Senario. She commonly calls him 'ahjussi'. He helps her attribute grow and actively refuses to kill her despite knowing it would stop the 5th catastrophe. Shin Yoosung cares about him and competes with Lee Gilyoung for his attention constantly.

### Biyoo

Biyoo is Dokja's child hatched from a Dokkaebi egg. In order to save Shin Yoosung of the 41st regression's soul, Dokja went through extensive measures in order to revive her.

### Lee Jihye

Lee Jihye frequently refers to Kim Dokja as 'ahjussi.' She respects him initially for standing up to Yoo Joonghyuk, enough to not want to see him die in the beginning scenarios. To Kim Dokja's exasperation, she sometimes thinks that Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk have something going on between them, such as when she misunderstood Kim Dokja's words in the Cinema Dungeon to the point where she assumes they have a child together. As a result, this has made Uriel like the girl.

Kim Dokja respects Lee Jihye's abilities and apparently had a crush on her when he was in high school while reading TWSA. Her guilt and disgust with herself over how she killed her best friend resonate with Kim Dokja, as he too finds himself disgusting for using the people around him constantly. However, he encourages Lee Jihye to live in spite of that guilt.

### Lee Sookyung

Lee Sookyung is Kim Dokja's mother, who Dokja initially resented due to incidents before the apocalypse, where Sookyung wrote a book about their lives, causing Dokja to be ridiculed as the son of a murderer. However, he still saved her from death later on. Their relationship has been improving by a little.

### Han Myungoh

Han Myungoh is Kim Dokja's ex-boss at the gaming company he worked at before Dokkaebbi's appeared. Kim Dokja and Han Myungoh disliked each other at the very beginning. Han Myungoh was cursed by Asmodeus and was forced to go to the Demon Realm and have Asmodeus's child. After Han Myungoh gave birth to a child, his character changed. After reuniting with Kim Dokja at the 73rd Demon Realm, Kim Dokja realized his change and both started showing mutual respect to each other. Han Myungoh helped Kim Dokja in the future scenarios.

### Yoo Mia

To Kim Dokja's dismay, she constantly refers to Kim Dokja as an 'ugly squid ahjussi' and insults him every chance she gets, making sure to emphasize that she finds him ugly. However, she does note that her older brother seems happy whenever he speaks about Kim Dokja.

### Uriel

Uriel has become one of Kim Dokja's greatest constellation supports, and Dokja is grateful for her support. Other constellations have mocked her as 'having a crush on the Demon King of Salvation', making Uriel angry. In a conversation with Jung Heewon, Uriel told her that she was shy when it came to meeting Dokja, much like a fangirl would be. She has been the first to stand by him against other Constellations.

Uriel has an immense liking to Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk's "comradeship", so much so that anything that involves the two bickering leads to her sponsoring them with numerous coins. It is stated during Kim Dokja's stay in the 1863rd turn that this is because their relationship reminds Uriel of her bond with Gabriel.

### Secretive Plotter

One of the constellations that supported Bihyung's channels and followed through Kim Dokja's adventure. He was also the Outer God with whom Kim Dokja made a covenant with to save his comrades from being eaten by Indescribable Distance in 73rd demon world. He appears to be curious and attached to Kim Dokja after watching him create a world line that doesn't exist anywhere else, seen from how he continued to observe Kim Dokja's story and later, saved and kidnapped him when he was almost eaten by Indescribable Distance again during the Great War of Saints and Demons arc.

### Sun Wukong

Sun Wukong took great interest in Kim Dokja at the beginning of the scenarios, and followed him around, constantly supporting him, Kim Dokja appreciated his help. Later, Kim Dokja helped Sun Wukong achieve a new constellation status. They are allies.

During the Great War of Saints and Demons, Dokja became the fifth body of Sun Wukong.