I’m on chapter 260 right now! But now that you say that makes me slightly nervous for Kim Soleum 😰😭 Please the poor boy just wants to retire
(Also I have seen that Minecraft arg video it’s one of my favorites actually! It was done so well it gave me goosebumps like GDIGS 😰)
no because my friend told me it wasn't very scary and I stayed up all night thinking about it 😟😟 also for the yellow color as a part of kse's design I'm not sure if you missed it but (208 + SPOILERS) it's because as 130666, he has yellow glowing eyes :')
half praying for kse's retirement but I also love watching him go into ghost stories 🙏 something interesting I just remembered is the ascetic in a box darkness? where the cult people torture themselves for 28 years in order to try and appease "ireum" who desires individual suffering above all,, and idk it kinda parallels because basically all of the novel is just kse suffering but it's so fun to read 😭
There’s the theory of Kim Soleum being Ireum with their similarities of having knowledge over the ghost stories and such. But then I started to get into reading other ghost stories (and maybe this is already a big fan cannon amongst the fandom;-;) kind of came to realize that maybe Kim Soleum is often associated with the color yellow to reference the King in Yellow (another kind of entity that has unimaginable knowledge that could make someone insane)
oh this is such an interesting idea!! that does actually kind of line up with KSE since he like you said holds "unimaginable knowledge",, and with the thing for ireum I think it's mentioned several times that those who hear the "truth" or "knowledge" go insane!! so that connects really well :))
(speaking of the king in yellow have you seen that one Minecraft ARG based off of it? with the crossroads haha just a random thought 😭 )
also I'm wondering how far you've read in the novel so far? the yellow is actually significant for another reason later on but I'm not sure if you know lol, if you haven't caught up to at least 208(end of part 1) I recommend trying to stay off the fandom for a bit so you don't get spoiled ^^