Seolhyuk

Seolhyuk is the het ship between Lee Seolhwa and Yoo Joonghyuk from the Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint fandom.

Canon
Seolhwa and Joonghyuk are members from the Kim Dokja's Company. Their present relationship in general are very close friends with a strong trust on each other. Although their relationship was primarly introduced as only friends, Kim Dokja also mentions about both actually being a couple, as they had been married in the 0th regression and had a child in the second one in particular.

In the original timeline, 0th round, before Yoo Joonghyuk began his regressions, Lee Seolhwa was part of his party, as she was recruited by him and lately becoming one of Yoo Joonghyuk's few reliable companions. They had successfully completed all the scenarios together and killed the Dokkaebi King. Once the scenarios were over completely, both set about rebuilding their world. Seven years after the scenarios were over, both eventually got married, with everyone attending the wedding. Both did not intend to have children together, and instead focused on the orphans at the facility they had established. After Yoo Joonghyuk died and regressed for the first time 25 years later after the scenarios were over, it is presumed that Lee Seolhwa continued her life peacefully despite of now being alone, raising the children at the orphanage.

In the second regression in particular, both became lovers and had a child together. Unfortunately, though, Lee Seolhwa and her child perished soon after. Multiple regressions later, Yoo Joonghyuk was shown either unwilling or unable to recruit Lee Seolhwa again. As a result of her continuing possession, she later became known as the Poisoner, acting as one of the 10 antagonists from Ways of Survival.

In the third regression, however, Yoo Joonghyuk attempted to find Lee Seolhwa and convice her to join his group, however, he failed due to Antinus' possession of Lee Seolhwa, and she inflicted her stigma "Thousand Spirits Posion" upon him.

During the main scenario 5 (which is when they first meet Seolhwa), Kim Dokja recognizes that she is possessed, and uses the Guam Divine Doctor's artifacts to nullify his sponsored incarnation's stigmas and defeat her, tearing Antinus out of Lee Seolhwa's body. Lee Seolhwa then awakens dazed and confused, and is told by Kim Dokja that he was sent by Yoo Joonghyuk himself to help her, although had ordered him to kill her which made Kim Dokja warn Yoo Joonghyuk that the action itself would make him unhappy, and later thought about how if he killed Lee Seolhwa, Yoo Joonghyuk would eventually collapse. Lee Seolhwa later joins the Kim Dokja's Company, and so, reuniting both together with a different relationship from past regressions.

Moments

 * In the webtoon, when Kim Dokja dies for the second time, the last images he could see were Yoo Joonghyuk calling Lee Seolhwa desperately as she's seen running towards both in an attempt to save Dokja, although it was already too late.

Children
Unnamed child
 * Nothing much is mentioned about the child both Yoo Joonghyuk and Seolhwa had, not even appearance. However, it is said that, along with Lee Seolhwa, both had perished during the second regression.

Fanon
It is considered being a rarepair although it's well-liked by those who could actually see Yoo Joonghyuk having a happy life with Lee Seolhwa after clearing all of the scenarios in the 0th round. However, the ship tends to be overshadowed by Joongdok, which is way more popular than Seolhyuk due to this first actually having more developing than Seolhyuk itself. However, for those who don't actually like Joongdok, it's due for them viewing the ship as a brotp because of Kim Dokja considering Yoo Joonghyuk as his father, brother, and friend. Seolhwa being Yoo Joonghyuk's light and made him feel alive for the first time it's also a reason of why it's shipped, and due to this concept, it is used in some fan fictions. The fact that Lee Seolhwa also uses to take intiative in the relationship has been in the shippers' concept for their works too, also the fact that she's considered as a "girlboss" while Yoo Joonghyuk as a "malewife".

In fan fictions, Kim Dokja tends to be a wingman to the pairing, and that he enjoyed every time they interacted in the novel. But in other part, Joonghyuk and Seolhwa are also considered as ex's, due of both not having a real romance together or either Lee Seolhwa put her career first and didn't have time for romance. That's why in some fan works, their relationship tends to be tagged as "Past Joonghyuk/Seolhwa". Though, they remain in good terms, with Yoo Joonghyuk oftenly relying on her to heal his injuries if needed. The ship can be also interpreted as platonic too, due to both canonically splitting together as Yoo Joonghyuk regressed only to see [Kim Dokja], and Seolhwa tends to support Joonghyuk's relationship with Dokja.

Seolhwa tends to also be paired up with other people (rare cases too, as Seolhwa doesn't have a real develop with anyone else besides with Yoo Joonghyuk), like Kim Dokja, Jung Heewon or even Han Sooyoung. For those who like viewing Seolhwa together with both Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk, it can be considered as a polyship. In another cases, Kim Dokja is interpreted as Lee Seolhwa's love rival, not too common though. Also, due to Yoo Joonghyuk's canonical past marriage with Seolhwa, and his close companionship with Kim Dokja, it was a reason to interpret Yoo Joonghyuk as bisexual or gay. There were people joking about Yoo Joonghyuk's taste too in people, and as referred in the novel as "snowy white hair" and "red lips" for Seolhwa, not to mention kindness and also paleness, which Kim Dokja have too.

On AO3, it has 44+ works created in romantic's side, while it has 12+ in gen.

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 * SeolDokHyuk refers to the ship between the two and Kim Dokja