Secretive Plotter

The Secretive Plotter is a hidden channel watcher later revealed as the Great Plot, one of the five greatest Outer Gods. He originates in Yoo Joonghyuk's original history of 1,863 regressions, but he is not interchangeable with the familiar Yoo Joonghyuk whom Kim Dokja accompanies. The novel connects their histories through the altered 1863rd turn while preserving the familiar regressor's third-turn/1864th-turn chronology as a textual paradox, leaving two related people with different memories, relationships, and conclusions.

Biography

The watcher who should not exist

Secretive Plotter first appears among the four constellations offering to sponsor Kim Dokja. Dokja dismisses the plain modifier because it contains no famous proper noun and because no such constellation appears in Three Ways to Survive a Ruined World. The stranger nevertheless remains in Bihyung's channel, sending unusually large donations and reacting most keenly when Dokja changes a route the original novel had treated as fixed. What looks like a spectator's amusement is really an old regressor studying an impossible variable: a reader making a Yoo Joonghyuk live through events the Plotter has never experienced. (Chapters 7, 40, 77, 90, and 97)

His watching becomes direct intervention when the Indescribable Distance consumes the 73rd Demon Realm. Dokja calls for an Outer World Covenant, and Plotter removes him from stopped time to negotiate outside the Star Stream. He cannot destroy the calamity outright, but he severs one manifested finger and spends the resulting Probability to issue evacuation scenarios to roughly one hundred thousand inhabitants. The rescue is not charity. In return, he transports Dokja to the original 1863rd world-line and later reveals the personal scenario's condition: kill that turn's Yoo Joonghyuk. Assistance, testing, and coercion are inseparable in the relationship he establishes. (Chapters 282–287)

The covenant and the divided 1863rd turn

The 1863rd Yoo Joonghyuk whom Dokja meets is exhausted enough to want a final death, while that world's Han Sooyoung—herself contracted to Plotter—has organized a conclusion around his destruction. Plotter's scenario forces Dokja to decide whether the regressor is merely a protagonist whose death can send the reader home. Dokja instead delays the objective, allows him his first unguarded sleep, and participates in a plan that splits the regressor into two avatar histories. One history dies; the altered one regresses again. The episode proves that a contract's literal condition cannot determine the moral meaning of the life placed inside it. (Chapters 287–298)

This split is the essential boundary around Plotter's identity. The Yoo Joonghyuk who lived the original 1,863-turn cycle eventually passed outside the recognized stories and became Secretive Plotter. Kim Dokja explains the altered 1863rd turn as feeding into the continuity of his familiar companion, but Yoo Joonghyuk's attribute reverts to the third turn and he describes the 1864th-turn memories as a temporary overlay; Han Sooyoung calls the result a textual paradox rather than a logically settled chronology. The two still share an origin, combat instincts, and fragments of memory without becoming disposable copies. Plotter knows the old regression record, while the current Yoo Joonghyuk possesses friendships and Giant Stories that never existed in it. (Chapters 417–418 and 454)

The Great Plot of abandoned worlds

After the Great War of Saints and Demons, Plotter finally descends in a human symbolic body. Wearing a white Infinite Dimension Space Coat and carrying the Splitting the Sky Sword, he overwhelms the black-coated current Yoo Joonghyuk and abducts Dokja into N'Gai's Forest. The forest contains Outer Gods formed from histories the Star Stream discarded, as well as numbered “kkoma Yoo Joonghyuks.” These miniature dependents received bounded portions of Plotter's memories; they guard the forest, manage his channel messages, and preserve distinct temperaments attached to different regression numbers. They are memory-bodies, not a comic replacement for the people lost in those turns. (Chapters 414–420)

Plotter brings Dokja there to confront what a reader's desired conclusion excludes. The Nameless Ones contain fragments of dead companions and failed world-lines that never became recognized Stories. When they demand to be understood, Plotter tells them that the Star Stream has already classified them as Terror and Chaos and will never let them shine as actors. He does not say this from contempt: he chose their side after reaching an ending in which Constellations defeated them and still found no salvation. Dokja's answer—that he cannot wholly understand them but can tell their stories—creates the possibility of a route outside Plotter's expected final war. (Chapters 421–423)

Two Yoo Joonghyuks and the 999th survivors

Journey to the West Remake brings another group into the conflict: four survivors of the 999th regression turn. The Living Flame is that turn's Uriel, the King of Silver Heart is Lee Hyunsung, the Master of the Sunken Island is Lee Jihye, and the Monarch of the Great Abyss is Kim Namwoon. They are independent Outer God Kings who survived after their Yoo Joonghyuk sacrificed himself—not Plotter's numbered kkomas. Plotter's aggregate history includes the 999th turn, so they recognize in him the leader they lost, but they have their own bodies, motives, and authority. Their first reunion is violent because surviving grief has not produced automatic agreement. (Chapters 421, 444, and 452–454)

The 999th Uriel attacks Plotter, then seals rather than kills him after recognizing that Regression would only generate another world-line. Kim Dokja's Company takes the sealed Plotter back to Earth. There, his composure breaks when Yoo Mia innocently asks whether he wants help escaping, exposing a familial attachment that 1,863 turns did not extinguish. Later, when the current Yoo Joonghyuk needs strength to protect his companions, Plotter presses a boy-like hand to his forehead and transfers the enormous Story of the old regressions. The recipient experiences those memories as borrowed history rather than losing his present self, proving that inheritance need not become absorption. (Chapters 452, 457, and 473)

Ending the Oldest Dream without killing the child

Plotter's declared objective is to cross the Final Wall and kill the being responsible for regression. He calls the Oldest Dream his parent and mortal enemy: the source that imagined the universe, made him repeat the scenarios, and abandoned every failed world-line. He fights nebulae and the Dokkaebi King with the accumulated emptiness of 1,863 lives, while the four 999th-turn survivors travel toward the same target. Revenge is neither a passing mood nor a misunderstanding that one conversation can cure; it is the purpose that kept him moving through an otherwise unbearable eternity. (Chapters 421, 452, 494, and 511)

Beyond the Wall, however, the Oldest Dream is a traumatized child Kim Dokja whose imagination operates without his conscious control. Plotter and the four survivors examine the child's short human tragedy. After the 999th Lee Jihye asks whether he can relinquish the revenge for which he came, Plotter admits how often he wanted to die and how difficult continuing had been. Then he tells the child to open his eyes while Uriel and Lee Hyunsung embrace him and Lee Jihye and Kim Namwoon hold his hands. They end the role by waking and taking away the boy, not by making one more abandoned life pay for everyone else's desired world. (Chapter 515)

Plotter's last words to Dokja recall the first scenario: its condition never required the participants to kill human beings. That reminder transforms Dokja's promise to “finish the Oldest Dream” from an execution into release. Plotter reaches his end as Oldest Dream, escapes Character status with the 999th survivors, and disappears into a story the existing system does not narrate. The child they carry is distinct from the adult Dokja who later assumes the vacant dreaming role to keep the world moving. Plotter's conclusion therefore belongs to the five Outer Gods and the child they choose to protect, not to a reunion with Kim Dokja's Company. (Chapters 515–516)

Appearance and personality

Before his revelation, Plotter is intentionally faceless. His modifier appears in channel messages, but he does not present a recognizable symbolic body at constellation gatherings. During the Outer World Covenant he manifests as a man-shaped shadow with a sharply intelligible voice and an unnaturally white mouth opening inside bottomless darkness. The contrast fits his position: he can communicate more clearly than most Outer Gods, yet the Star Stream still cannot comfortably categorize the existence speaking. His mere Status makes Dokja tremble before any attack occurs. (Chapters 282–283)

His later symbolic body mirrors Yoo Joonghyuk's height, build, eyes, and features. The visible distinctions are a long scar across one cheek, an exact white Infinite Dimension Space Coat instead of the familiar black coat, and eyes that alternate between depthless darkness and the gold of Sage's Eye. He carries the Splitting the Sky Sword and can appear as an adult swordsman, a smaller injured body, or a cold boy-like hand emerging from Outer God darkness. The human form is not proof that the cosmic body is false; both are ways an aggregate of Stories becomes legible inside a scenario. (Chapters 414–415, 452, and 473)

Plotter is severe, suspicious, and frequently sardonic. He prefers tests with hidden conditions to reassurances, because 1,863 regressions have made spoken promises almost worthless to him. His faint smiles are unsettling rather than warm, and he is willing to abduct, threaten, or expose a person's memories to force an answer. Yet the same character spends a finger to evacuate strangers, shelters beings the Star Stream treats as waste, and allows his kkomas to care for a guest. His cruelty has an argument behind it; he wants people who claim to value a story to confront every life their ending would discard.

His emotional restraint should not be mistaken for emptiness. Rage at the Oldest Dream, grief for innumerable companions, agitation before Yoo Mia, and discomfort when his kkomas disagree all break through the controlled exterior. His last decision does not make those feelings vanish. It shows that he can acknowledge a powerless child without declaring the regressions insignificant. The faint smile Dokja sees at their separation is liberation precisely because it follows, rather than denies, the history that made such an expression almost impossible. (Chapters 421–423, 457, and 515–516)

Abilities, attributes, and stories

Great Plot and Outer God King Status

Plotter is one of the five greatest Outer Gods and rules N'Gai's Forest. His accumulated Stories produce crushing Status, cosmic darkness, telekinetic pressure, and spatial distortion. He can freeze a region's time, open portals between remote scenario areas, cross world-lines, seize high-status targets, and make lesser Outer Gods kneel through presence alone. In full battle, the emptiness accumulated across regression expands through the battlefield and lets him contend with Myth-grade constellations, Outer God Kings, and the Dokkaebi King. This authority is native to his position outside the Star Stream rather than equipment granted by a nebula. (Chapters 282–283, 414, 422, and 494)

That scale is not unlimited. A descent into an ordinary world-line produces violent Probability backlash, while Hounds Chasing After the Abyss pursue travelers whose distortions violate the world's angles and causal order. The 999th Uriel can restrain a weakened Plotter in the Dragon of Revelation's Sealing Sphere, and breaking it would expose him to those hounds. Comparable Outer God Kings can injure him, and even N'Gai's Forest begins collapsing when too many great Stories collide. He can bend the scenario's boundaries, but he cannot erase every cost or force the Final Wall to yield by raw Status alone. (Chapters 414, 452, and 457)

Regression, swordsmanship, and perception

Plotter retains the skills Yoo Joonghyuk developed through the original 1,863 regressions. His Sage's Eye perfectly blocks the current Yoo Joonghyuk's Sage's Eye; his Splitting the Sky Sword carries a lonely Sword Song and Breaking the Sky Swordsmanship refined over uncountable battles. He anticipates the familiar regressor's feints because they share tactical habits, and the accumulated Giant Stories behind each strike create a gap that early Transcendence cannot bridge. Regression itself remains active at an unknown level, so ordinary death would continue the cycle rather than guarantee his removal. (Chapters 414–415 and 452)

Experience is also his central limitation. Plotter knows old outcomes, not every Story created in the altered world-line. The current Yoo Joonghyuk can surprise him through relationships and choices that never existed in the original record, and too many contradictory Stories make Plotter's incarnated body unstable under Probability. Regression protects continuity while condemning him to further repetition; it is a prison, not convenient resurrection. His strongest development is therefore selective transmission: he can let another Yoo Joonghyuk use the old history without insisting that the borrower become its endpoint. (Chapters 414, 424, 454, and 473)

Kkoma dependents and memory transmission

The numbered kkoma Yoo Joonghyuks are dependents to whom Plotter gave portions of his memories. Each wears a number corresponding to a regression history, carries miniature versions of familiar weapons, and retains a bounded personality. They guard the forest, fight hostile Outer Gods, monitor Dokja, cook, and even take turns operating the device that sends Secretive Plotter's indirect messages. Number 999 accompanies Dokja through Journey to the West Remake and openly criticizes the Great Plot's hopelessness. This plurality explains why earlier channel messages can sound like different moods without turning Plotter into a simple collective hive. (Chapters 416–424)

These dependents must remain separate from the 999th-turn companions. A kkoma is a memory-bearing miniature manifestation; the Living Flame, King of Silver Heart, Master of the Sunken Island, and Monarch of the Great Abyss are full survivors with their own Stories. Plotter's larger memory transfer to the current Yoo Joonghyuk follows the same principle at much greater scale: it causes overwhelming pain and grants access to the old regressions, but the recipient later describes the experience as watching someone else's history. Shared memory creates resonance, not automatic identity. (Chapters 444, 454, and 473)

Outer World Covenants and personal scenarios

As an existence beyond the system's normal categories, Plotter can form Outer World Covenants and issue personal scenarios the Star Stream struggles to reconstruct. The bargain exchanges a concrete intervention for an obligation. He moves the 73rd Demon Realm's population by distributing individual evacuation scenarios, uses a portal and another Outer God to carry Dokja across time and world-lines, and sets the death of the 1863rd Yoo Joonghyuk as the return condition. A separate covenant promises the 1863rd Han Sooyoung help completing her desired world if she tells him what he wants to know. (Chapters 282–291)

The contracts require assent and exact payment; they do not make Plotter omnipotent or make the contractor his subordinate. His rescue consumes part of his manifested body and enormous Probability. More importantly, he cannot control the interpretation of an objective once another person acts within it. Dokja fulfills the final promise by ending the Oldest Dream's condition without killing the child, just as he approaches the earlier order to kill Yoo Joonghyuk through the regressor's own choices. Plotter's most coercive ability ultimately becomes evidence that words do not exhaust the person bound by them. (Chapters 283, 288, and 515)

Power progression

Relationships

• Kim Dokja: Plotter begins as an unseen reader of Dokja's channel, becomes a coercive contractor and philosophical accuser, and ends as a collaborator whose demand is transformed by Dokja's ethics. Their central conflict is whether a reader can claim to love a story while accepting discarded lives as necessary text.

• Yoo Joonghyuk: They share an origin but not one continuous present. Plotter comes from the original 1,863-turn history. Kim Dokja links the altered 1863rd branch to the familiar Yoo Joonghyuk, while Yoo Joonghyuk and Han Sooyoung preserve the third-turn/1864th-turn relation as a textual paradox rather than a resolved chronology. Their mirrored skills expose kinship, while their different companions and Giant Stories protect their separate personhood.

• Oldest Dream: Plotter spends an eternity pursuing the creator he intends to kill. When the target proves to be a powerless child, he and the four 999th survivors wake and carry him into a new story, ending the role without making the victim disappear.

• The 999th-turn survivors: Uriel, Lee Hyunsung, Lee Jihye, and Kim Namwoon are companions from a failed regression who became Outer God Kings. They attack, seal, challenge, and finally accompany Plotter; their collective choice at the child is not reducible to Plotter's command.

• The kkoma Yoo Joonghyuks: His numbered memory dependents protect N'Gai's Forest and expose emotional positions Plotter suppresses. Number 999's care for Dokja and refusal of fatalism make him an especially important internal counterpoint.

• Yoo Mia: Her innocent concern destabilizes both Yoo Joonghyuks. Plotter's visible agitation shows that regression has transformed his familial attachment without erasing it.

• Biyoo: She is connected to the regression paradox and the world-line routes Plotter has crossed. His history helps establish the later passage beyond fixed scenarios, but his conclusion is to leave with the child rather than join Biyoo's continuing company.

Items

Plotter's defining sword in direct combat is the Splitting the Sky Sword, manifested from the regression history he carries. His white Infinite Dimension Space Coat visually distinguishes his symbolic body from the familiar Yoo Joonghyuk's black coat. Both are expressions of his accumulated Stories; the local generated item inventory assigns him no separate catalog article.