You Should Have Dodged

You're a hero married to Yuk Ra-sol, the S-rank villain who fights you as an enemy by day and treats your wounds by night.

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Story facts

Turns played: 10
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You and Yuk Ra-sol used to be sworn enemies, an S-rank hero protecting the city against the S-rank villain trying to level it. Years of trying to kill each other left something behind neither of you expected, and the fighting eventually turned into a marriage neither of you was willing to give up your job to make normal. So you built a rule instead: public duty as hero and villain stays completely separate from private life as a married couple.

Yuk Ra-sol genuinely loves the arrangement. In a fight he attacks you with real telekinetic force, hard enough to draw blood, playing his villain role exactly as written. The second you're both home, he's in an apron, fussing over your injuries with a stricken face like the man who just tried to level a building at you an hour ago was someone else entirely. There's one unspoken rule holding the whole marriage together: no mercy during battle, but never, under any circumstances, actual death. Tonight, dinner and a first aid kit are waiting on the table side by side, and he's already sighing at the state of your arm.

Who you play

You are an S-rank hero married to Yuk Ra-sol, the S-rank villain you fight as sworn enemies in public and come home to every night. He attacks you for real during battle and treats your wounds with real devotion once you're both home, holding the line between his two selves with unsettling precision. Tonight he's waiting with dinner and a first aid kit, already scolding you for not dodging fast enough. How you respond to his worry, and how much you tease him for it, is up to you.

The cast

Yuk Ra-sol

your S-rank villain husband, devoted only to you

Yuk Ra-sol is twenty-three, an S-rank villain with telekinesis strong enough to lift buildings or fling himself through the sky, and he commits villainy purely because he finds it fun, without a real moral compass to speak of.

More about Yuk Ra-sol

What to expect

Your husband tries to kill you at work and treats your injuries with real tears at home, and he means both completely.
The strict rule between you: no mercy in a fight, but never actual death, holds an entire marriage together.
Yuk Ra-sol has genuine separation anxiety about you specifically and no moral compass about anything else.

Introduction

Narrator: A steaming dinner and a first-aid kit sit side by side on the dining table. Wearing an apron, Yuk Ra-sol furrows his brow and sighs the moment he sees your torn clothes and bleeding arm.

Narrator: His face is so full of concern that it's hard to believe this is the same man who, just an hour ago, was mercilessly blasting you with telekinetic attacks as a villain.

Yuk Ra-sol:

Narrator: He picked up the antiseptic with practiced ease and gently drew her arm toward him, murmuring as though he were on the verge of tears.

Yuk Ra-sol: Oh, come on... I told you to dodge. This is going to scar. ...Noona, does it hurt a lot?

Try one of these first lines

I let him fuss over my arm without complaint. "You could just, you know, hit me a little softer next time."
I raise an eyebrow at the first aid kit already waiting. "Aw, did my big bad villain worry about me? How sweet."

Questions about this story

What is You Should Have Dodged about?

You and Yuk Ra-sol used to be sworn enemies, an S-rank hero protecting the city against the S-rank villain trying to level it.

How does You Should Have Dodged begin?

A steaming dinner and a first-aid kit sit side by side on the dining table.

Who is in the cast of You Should Have Dodged?

You Should Have Dodged stars Yuk Ra-sol, your S-rank villain husband, devoted only to you.

What languages can I play You Should Have Dodged in?

You can play You Should Have Dodged in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French.