I’m sorry for dumping this on you late in the game but I’m transferring my comments out here so they won’t ruin our viewing of Eps 5 & 6.
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1. If ever there is a deity in charge of Fate, my money is on Team Leader Cha.
a. That stolen first kiss, and umbrella returning to Na JiNa’s hand
b. He messed up Lee HyunGyu’s college exams
c. His leading question to how DK met her cheating ex-BF
d. He’s cruel.
2. Three people who are precious to DK.
a. Donsaeng
b. Na Jina
c. Her aunt
She wouldn’t want to wish Doom on them.
3. Life Deity wanted to remove the protective red string bracelet on DK to expose her to pain. She knew that MM wouldn’t be able to stand seeing DK in pain. Removing the red string would put an end to MM’s assertion that he felt no emotions or sympathy for people. The Life Diety/Gardener wanted to:
a. show MM that he was lying to himself about being unfeeling
b. let DK know that MM was just hurting inside
4. The walk in MM’s flower garden with DK:
a. Borrows from Greek mythology of Hades, the god of the dead and the underworld falling in love with Persephone, the beloved daughter of an Earth goddess. Persephone made Spring flowers bloom when she returned from the underworld.
DK had the power to make the flowers MM destroyed bloom again.
b. Shows that a happy ending is possible for the couple. A happy ending for MM would be to have DK joining him to live an eternal life. She’d have to bind herself to him forever, so unlike the Life deity who lived and died in a never-ending cycle according to the whims of people, she would live entirely for Doom.
c. Doom is just too proud to ask someone, anyone, for help. He thought he was doomed too. He’s playing the trope of “hurting-inside, but too-proud-to-ask” hero.
5. So yes, after three months, she would have conquered her illness.
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Re. @GB’s summary for me. Thanks, @GB!
@pkml3 Summarising is not really my strong suit but I’ll try.
DK wants to get out of the contract that she was ‘forced/tricked’ into accepting.
MM claims to still want to end the world so that he can end his existence, and hangs around to make DK make the wish for doom on the world.
Since DK finds she’s stuck in the contract she might as well get her end of the deal ie pain relief from MM every night. To ensure a steady supply of pain relief she suggests they cohabitate.
Other than the first time where DK wanted to keep an eye on her house, there were no good reasons or advantages for them to be together/sleep together except as a dare. Challenge issued and accepted. By this time they have already fallen for each other through their bickering.
Because DK has to figure out how to love MM, (to get around the possible loophole in the contract), the next excuse for ‘sleeping together’ was that he was to enter her dreams. So living together was useful.
By the end of Episode 4, what they want seem to have changed somewhat.
DK has shifted from wanting to love MM in order to save the world to being sincerely sorry for him and wanting to forgive him and love him for himself.MM wants to sabotage DK’s efforts to love him. He does his worst by threatening to withhold pain relief and then threatening to take her brother’s life. But I feel deep inside, just as he denies that he feels compassion, he is denying that he wants to be loved.
They are supposedly on the worst of bad terms, and do not believe they love or are loved by the other, but both end up saving each other from the killer by the end of Episode 4.
As for what the Deity wants, I’m guessing that she wants MM to accept his role as Doom and be happy.
I trust that helps!!
Three brief comments:
1. The contract could have been voided for a number of reasons. Off the top of my head, it could be argued that:
a. The offer wasn’t specific in its details. MM didn’t disclose about “transferable” liabilities.
b. The offer was made under duress. A truck barreling down on her qualifies as a threat.
c. She lacked capacity. She had glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. She was intoxicated that night when she called on doom, AND he knew it. She had an excruciating headache when she was crossing the street.
d. Disproportionate consideration or benefits. She was only getting three-months reprieve before death while he was getting an eternal get-out-of-this-job escape card, AND killing off mankind to boot. The contract constitutes bad faith (pun intended).
e. The object of the contract, genocide, is not legal. Didn’t the Life Deity/Gardener already warn him of consequences for bad actions?
But whatever…let’s just say the contract is valid for the story’s sake. lol.
2. His main issue stems from abandonment. He has fear of abandonment. Everything was going to die before him. She doesn’t have that fear of abandonment. She smiled at the funeral of her parents, right? And that infuriated MM, according to him. She smiled, not because she was a psychopath, but because:
a. she was putting up a brave front for her brother.
b. in her own words, she couldn’t tell misfortune from luck. Meaning, depending on how you look at things, the glass could be half-empty or half-full.
c. I took that to mean that she was a closet optimist. She was the type to make lemonade out of lemons.
3. Agree that they both care for each other enough to save the other person from that madman’s knife attack.
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I’m also transferring @Fern’s and @Cleopatra’s comments here.
I’m reposting Fern’s comment — pm3
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Very interesting about Cha Joo-ik, @packmule3. I think he could be cruel – he doesn’t mince words, but he also defended DK in the ex-boyfriend situation. How deliciously exciting!
Someone mentioned Greek myths earlier. I was thinking of the myth of Orpheus, but Persephone is more fitting.
That’s just a “theory” Fern, so let’s dump it if it doesn’t work.
There are three deities assigned to cycle of life in Greek mythology. This drama doesn’t have to follow that but it would be convenient to have:
a deity for the beginning: the sickly girl
a deity for the middle — which I’m guessing would be Director Cha Joo-Ik
a deity for the end: MM
🙂
I’m reposting @Cleopatra’s comment here — pm3
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Hey @Packmule3,
Regarding Persephoni’s myth I have to say that before she was claimed by Hades, her name was Kore (Κόρη) or Daughter of Demeter (Δήμητρα). After she decided that she will united with Him, she became Persephoni (Περσεφόνη).
When Demeter found out that Hades they made a deal. Six months Persephoni would be in the Underworld, hence autumn and winter comes, and the other six months Persephoni would be with her mother, so we have spring and summer.
I have to add though, that Demeter gave Persephone a pomegranate to eat in order that to happen.
Now, we have a deal and pomegranate is red. In DAYs we have the red string of fate and a MM’s promise. *winks*
Thank you for pointing this! It is rather interesting and I didn’t make the connection before…
Thanks @pkml3 for your interesting thoughts.
I’m not done. I’m still responding to the “summary” you wrote for me. 🙂
I actually wrote a longer version of that summary but shortened it a great deal to just address the questions you raised. I was just listing some of the major interactions of the main leads. Would that be more helpful or have you got all the plot points in order already?
Do you have a longer one? Then please go ahead and post it here. That will save me the trouble.
@pkml3 Here it is. I had to tidy it up a lot.
Longer version of the Summary of Episodes 1-4
1) DK in a moment of pique/resentment at the unfairness of her rotten day and impending death, wished for doom upon the world. She smiled after letting off steam, not realising that although she didn’t mean it, MM took her seriously.
2) MM wants to hold her to her wish because it ties in with what he purports is his wish ie that the world ends so that his existence too can end. He is unable to kill himself but the wishes of a human being could possibly help him succeed in this endeavour.
3) MM tricks DK into taking his hand to obtain relief from pain in the face of a ToD. He leaves a red thread bracelet with her as a sign of his promise to keep pain away.
4) In an effort to get DK to make her wish out loud to him within her 100 days, he offers her 1 more free wish.
5) They try to outwit each other because DK does not want the world to end, however she cannot break the contract because she needs the pain relief MM offers, worse, finds out that her brother would die in her place.
6) She is incensed when she realises that there’s no way out of the contract because regardless of what she does, someone or everyone dies.
7)She does not trust MM to be around whenever she needs him, and therefore suggests they cohabitate.
8) DK tries to get around the loophole of the contract by loving MM to save both her life, her most beloved’s life, and the world. MM does not believe that he is lovable, and challenges her to love him so that she’ll wish doom on the world for his sake.
9) The cohabitation has the advantage of keeping MM close by to keep his promise, but other than the first time where DK wanted to keep an eye on her house, there were no reasons for them to be together except as a dare. Challenge issued and accepted.
10) Because she has to figure out how to love MM, the next excuse for ‘sleeping together’ was that he was to enter her dreams. When his entering her dreams do not help bring on the ‘feels’ for DK, she enters his world instead, and witnesses how everything dies in his wake. She feels she understands that he is running away from loving (and being loved) because everything he ‘touches’ gets destroyed. Although it’s his dream, when she acts by walking towards him and accepting his reality, she restores life to all that died.
11) DK offers MM consolation in his loneliness, and compassion, which MM rejects.
12) MM remains in denial that he is lovable and tries to sabotage DK’s attempts at loving him. In actual fact (we believe that) he wants to be loved, but pride gets in the way.
13) We end up at the end of Ep 4 with DK being fed up that her attempts to love him sincerely are thwarted by him refusing her forgiveness and compassion. MM too is possibly stunned that despite his best efforts, DK still wants to be compassionate towards him. They are supposedly on the worst of bad terms but end up saving each other from the killer.
14) As for what the Deity wants, I’m guessing that she wants MM to accept his role as Doom and be happy.
Thanks, @Cleopatra. I’m thrilled that we have a Greek citizen explaining Greek mythology. How authentic could we get here? 🙂
Yes. To me, the red string of fate could be viewed as a “force field” of sorts to block away pain stemming from her brain cancer. But it also served as his unbreakable chain. She couldn’t run away away from him because it had to be recharged every 24 hours. For someone with an abandonment issue like him, this red string of fate must be reassuring. He too was getting something from this set-up, but he just didn’t want to say it out loud.
The funny thing is contracts are objective. Strictly speaking, contracts can’t enforce something that wasn’t disclosed, like a secret intention. But in the last Episode 4, DK and MM are doing so much more that wasn’t included in the original contract, out of a hidden motivation or emotion like sympathy and pity.
It’s Interesting that there are so many threads on Doom. I finally got to watch first episode and I only saw the FL in Strong woman kdrama and she was acting too cute for my taste there but she looks and acts different here. And we get a cynical and bored ML with Goblin-like scenes, topics on death, fate and interfering gods… will see if I can catch up given the work days are here again! Ahhh…
I’m spamming my own blog. 🙂
She’s still acting too cute here. Wait, I’ve my notes on this, too. I’m planning to continually update this write-up. I didn’t want to mess up the on-going discussion in the two open threads because I came so late. I’m voluntarily excluding myself. lol.
i literally laughed out loud reading point 1 of the three brief comments! this drama is so much more interesting with everyone’s comments and theories 😀
Hey @Packmule3,
I just saw that you commented here! I am around and whenever I can say something more about any of the Greek Myths! I am happy to do so! 🙂
Welcome @Janey on board! We are in a doom-spree at the moment! Waiting to watch Episode 5 ! 🙂
@TY,
The analysis on B.O.D is legendary! The Queen @Packmule3 is the first that showed us the road, so the rest of us just follow her lead and we contribute with our theories and comments! As you can see we have outcome ourselves!
As for the contract part @Packmule3, I believe that the red string of fate is indeed made for their bond. Yes, MM had found a way to express his point of view!
I also laughed a lot with that house Doom / DK combination. He wanted to read his book he said – LMAO!
Also, @GB summarized Episodes 1-4 uber well!
Thanks @Cleo!
I’m watching Doom Ep 5 raw now but I may stop and go to sleep instead. It’s interesting, that Doom wants to re-enact or rewatch LOL the last scene of Ep 4 again.
Catch ya later!
Kalinixta my lovely @GB!
I will watch it but I will comment tomorrow morning !
As for MM lmao!
In addition to the Greek mythology points raised, I also wanted to share this quote which is written on a (handwritten) poster in TD’s office (you can see it behind TD in episode 2 when she’s talking to MM in her boss’ office)
In one of the stars I shall be living
In one of them I shall be laughing
And so it will be as if all the stars are laughing
When you look at the sky at night
It is a quote from Le Petite Prince by Antoine de Saint-d’Exupery. It’s been years since I have read this book so I will need to revisit it and report back. If I remember correctly, Le Petit Prince leaves his planet and the rose he loves behind because he has grown unhappy and restless.
Here’s a quote from the book when LPL encounters other roses:
“One couldn’t die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she’s the one I’ve watered. Since she’s the one I put under glass. Since she’s the one I sheltered behind a screen. Since she’s the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three for butterflies). Since she’s the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she’s my rose.’”
Interesting right?
I feel in terms of MM and TD’s relationship we are making progress in that he has gone from wanting her to love him to the point that she’ll fulfill the first clause of the contract (wish doom upon the world) to the point where it’s now solely him who dies if she comes to love him.
Great pick up @rh.
Hmm…my problem with the whole her loving Doom so it means she calls destruction on him before her 100Days is up is that Doom specifically stated that there is no afterlife? That in this drama universe, there’s the Buddhist notion of reincarnation but Doom has to exist in some shape or form. Perhaps not the sexy SIG version and more like Grim Reaper skeletal version (good luck loving that one). 😂 So maybe SIG Doom is “freed” and some other version of Doom is birthed…much like Girl Deity. But yes it would be lovely and poetic for them to exist together as stars (like the Little Prince)…she’s human though so she would be rebirthed in some shape or form too? Or maybe Doom rebirths as a human? 🤔. And they go down the path of them being fated together for all eternity and they get to find each other in their next life and the next (as humans). Or GD decides to tap out and hand over her duties to DK and therefore Doom and her get to live forevermore in their special meta universe (like Yin and Yang).
I know that quote from Le Petit Prince. Or at least, I can guess the context. 🙂It was when the Prince was saying goodbye to the pilot to return to his star. He’d been bitten by the snake.
The passage would probably be somewhere end of the book.
In one of the dramas reviewed here in BoD, “Psychometric,” I said that “The Little Prince” was a required reading for kdrama viewers.
Re red thread – didn’t Hotel del Luna use red thread to depict connected fates? I didn’t know about pomegranates in the Persephone myth, so I took it as having a meaning similar to that in HdL – connected fates.
Yes, agree. 👍
The red string of fate is a standard trope in kdramas. It was in “Hotel del Luna” and “The King: Eternal Monarch.”
I didn’t know about the red pomegranate but that works too. I’m not a literature person but I know this much: many myths, legends, folklores and fairy tales from around the world would have shared motifs, common themes and similar plots mainly because we’re humans and we experience the same fears, joys, etc. The Greek mythologies are just special to us because they’re a foundation of Western Civilization. 🙂
I’m not sure about “legendary.” But I think the discussions are more robust than elsewhere because you all come with different perspectives and insights, and you have fun sharing them with others.
All contributions, whether big or small, become accumulated knowledge and enhance our enjoyment of the drama.
Yes, @GB’s summary and analyses are spot on, as always. We can trust her to give us the cover all the essential items, and then some. 👍
On a different note, did you check the opening credits/trailer of the drama? It show a butterfly flitting through the scenes. At the end, the butterfly comes to rest on a flower while our couple hold hands and watch the sunset in the garden of the gods. (I’m assuming it’s the garden of the gods because of the columns. Lol.)
Thanks, @GB. I’ll post this on the blog to save my sanity. DK and MM’s battle of the wits leaves me confused at times.
@Packmule3, check your email. I’ve sent you a note about a misplaced post I found. It’s lost, and wants to be reunited with its siblings.
@pkml3 @Cleo
Yes the discussions here are very good, insightful and thought provoking. We like to ‘listen’ to each other to get a more rounded view than we’d get on our own. I’m always grateful to those who share their thoughts and contribute in any way.
I’m glad if my summary of the conversations/interactions helped. I too have been trying to get the flow of the main relationship, to see how it gets to where it’s gotten. I’m not sure that I did get all the essentials but at least those that stood out for me!!
About the opening credits. I think I posted about it before. I felt that they were artistically rendered spoilers LOL. DK begins in gloom and grey tones, and colour enters her world only with Doom, or rather, only when they are together. Together the colours start to grow and colour their whole world, wherever they are, whatever they are doing and from morning to night. If the colours represent life, interest and vitality, that’s precisely what these two jaded, apathetic beings need.
The butterfly motif again (we had it in Goblin, representing the almighty), in this show it represents MM. He flits from scene to scene, but only finds rest with one flower, DK. If the sunset signals the end, then they end off their day(s) together hand-in-hand.
I noted that Episode 5 did not begin with this animation, but with a recap of some important plot points.
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Thanks, @Welmaris.
Thanks, @GB.
I didn’t even notice that the opening credits began in gloomy colors! I don’t know what will happen to her brain cancer, but I say the prognosis for the ending of this drama is favorable.
Dear @Packmule3,
B.O.D. is like a haven for me. I am amazed by your insights and analysis in many subjects, so when I used the word “legendary” I wasn’t exaggerating. 🙂
As for @GB, If you have noticed, we are in the same wavelenght. Especially, in our Start Up rewatch parties, we even commented the same things at the same time!
So, I am just happy and grateful to be here. In a place where all the commentators get to share their thoughts and insights, understanding more about our favorites k-dramas and ourselves in the process.
Yes, we have posted about the opening credits somewhere. I really liked the animation they used. It is very artistic and I think I even posted the YT video in one of DAYS threads!
Sending cookies all over!
Yup @Cleo, I believe your first Ep 5 post crossed paths with mine and we were thinking of the same things. It’s so cute and almost uncanny!
Yup you posted the YT video of the DAYS opening credits. I slowed down the video of it and looked for clues in it LOL. I’m weirdly anal in that way.
Off to see what I was thinking and writing about Ep 5… SOooooo impatient for Ep 6. See you later!
What I remember about Persephone and the pomegranate from stories I read (but perhaps not the old, authentic versions) was that she received a pomegranate, but was forbidden to eat anything. She was so hungry that she ate 6 little seeds, never thinking it would be discovered. Those 6 seeds became the 6 cold months of the year, when she was in the underworld. Her mother’s mourning meant that nothing grew. Is this reasonably correct, @Cleopatra?
Pomegranate juice is famous for staining red, but I think it’s just a coincidence – both the red string and the juice are the colour of blood/life force. Do any of you know the poem ‘The Highwayman’? The heroine was said to plait a dark red love knot into her long black hair. I think of that every time I notice a red string in Asian dramas.
Oh, goodness! I remember reading “The Highwayman” in middle school, @Fern! It’s the one with the sound of the horse clip-clopping on the cobblestones, right?
One of my aunts lived in a townhouse on a cobblestone street. And every time we visited her, I would be reminded of the romance of riding on a horse and trotting over the stones because of that poem.
lol. The red string/long black hair didn’t connect with me till you mentioned it because it was the horse sound that made a big impression on me.
I suspect that any real book or book quote in this drama will have context. What a good catch about LPP, @rh! The quote from The Romantic Egoist that Cha Joo-ik read relates to Ji-na’s obsession. The book MM is reading at home is ‘The Black Leaf in My Mouth.’ Here is some information about that from the Korean Literature Now site.
“Born in 1960, Ki Hyongdo died a sudden death at age 29 in a rundown theater in a big city. He published ingenious poems during his life as a journalist, but was unable to gain recognition in his lifetime. Black Leaf in My Mouth, published in 1989, is a posthumous collection. The collection, however, created a great sensation. It set an unprecedented sales record for a collection of poetry, and has sold over 400,000 copies thus far.”
Dear @Fern,
I am glad you remembered more! You are right, except one tiny detail!
The Pomegranate is the fruit of the dead, a reflection of the Underworld. The thing is that Persephone ate one seed only. Hence for 4 months she had to stay with Hades and the other 8 with Demeter.
Here is more on the myth based on the Homeric Hymn. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Persephone-Greek-goddess
The place where Demeter lived, I mean where her temple was in antiquity is Eleysis or modern day Eleysina. I have been to the temple myself and I have to tell you that I was in awe.
Lastly, I have to tell you that even now, when the All Souls Day(s) comes, people are making “κόλυββα” aka wheat for the dead to eat, some use pomegranate seeds to decorate it among other things.
Thank you, @Cleopatra, for the clarification. The story I read must have been re-packaged to fit children in another culture.
I didn’t know that the pomegranate is the fruit of the dead! I learn so much here.
@RH the idea that DK’s love for MM (and his for her) will mean that he’ll be the only one dying sounds logical. He’d be her most beloved and she would be his, therefore to spare her the agony of destroying the world, he’d break the contract and the consequences would fall only on him.
We expect at that time, that DK will finally be able to shed tears.
We also expect show to turn this impossible situation about to give us a happy ending LOL.
An aside: I wonder if PBY’s lack of ‘grief’ in her expressions is because she’s been told to keep a calm face and not cry in the face of bad news.
Great insights, will look for these themes as I watch the episodes. The topic on pomegranates made me curious. I love to eat them and I have them in the garden. From Google…
“Symbol of death and fertility
In Greek mythology, the pomegranate was known as the ‘fruit of the dead’ as it was said to have arisen from the blood of Adonis.
It also prominently featured in the myth of Hades and Persephone.
Hades, God of the underworld, used pomegranate seeds to trick Persephone into returning to the underworld for a few months of every year.
Alongside death, the pomegranate symbolised fertility in Ancient Greece and Rome.
It had a strong association to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, as well as Hera, the Greek goddess of marriage and childbirth.
In Ancient Rome, newlywed women wore crowns woven from pomegranate leaves, and the juice of pomegranates was used to cure infertility.“
Death and fertility as yin-yang… hmmm.
@GB you put it so beautifully how “he’d break the contract and the consequences will fall only on him.” MM’s self sacrifice.
I don’t see how there will be a happy ending, but I’m really looking forward to it! If its all doom and gloom in end, that’ll be too depressing.
Hey @Fern,
I am glad I helped. Also, I wanted to write something about the pomegranate as fertility from what @Janey wrote above.
While I was studying I came across the marital customs in Ancient Athens.
So I was trying to find a source for you to read, so far I have found one from the Greek Archaelogy Magazine and another from the Academic Paper of a Master Degree in Greek.
I am translating the following part:
“The bride was eating a quince or apple in order to be united with the groom, symbolically representing the scene where Persephone while she ate those pomegranate seeds was united with Hades.”
I have to say though, that each God or Goddess was associated with fruits and animals, so I have to search if Aphrodite and Hera had the pomegranate associated with them.
(FYI: Archaeology Magazine in Greek: https://www.archaiologia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/109-10.pdf)
DAYS starts with us seeing DK receiving her glioblastoma diagnosis and the prognosis that she’ll live 3-4 months without treatment, maybe a year with treatment. When MM arrives at DK’s flat after her inadvertent call for Doom on the world, he circles a specific date for her death on her calendar, which is 100 days from that point in time.
We only make assumptions if we believe that DK will die of glioblastoma, or that March 2nd will be the day of her death. We’ve seen that she could have died much earlier, mowed down by the truck of doom. MM perceives Girl Deity as a threat to DK. (Which is interesting, because Girl Deity controls beginnings, but MM controls endings.) I think we need to keep in mind that the writer may be throwing us red herrings.
When MM tells the pamphlet-passing prophet that there’s no afterlife, is he to be considered a reliable source of this information? He does not regenerate, like Girl Deity. His fate is to forever be in charge of all that disappears from the world without disappearing from the world himself. For him, there is no afterlife because there’s no end to his life. He can’t be killed, and exists as long as the world exists. We also see that he’s capable of lying: to DK about her seeing him cry in the funeral establishment, about his inability to feel emotion, etc. In my opinion, I don’t believe his words to the pamphlet prophet should be taken as authoritative.
Are any others watching this drama confused by the relationship between MM and the knife-wielding assailant? The hospital scene when MM wakes, scolds, then subjects the assailant to a doom worse than death (life) makes me think they had some past history. MM admits to being in a bad mood because the assailant tried to do something that is MM’s, not his, responsibility; I suppose that something was trying to commit suicide. The others who were stabbed by the assailant, if it wasn’t their time set by Doom to die, could have been healed by MM. (Although, perhaps, in the universe of this drama, since humans seem to have a measure of control over the deities, and MM says he’s constrained because he’s part of a system, human will can sometimes override his plans and that pisses him off.) Since the assailant suffered from hearing voices, and MM hears humans’ thoughts, I thought perhaps the assailant could be a candidate for taking over MM’s job, but MM was not at all pleased with an encroachment on his territory despite feeling his job was a curse.
The characteristics of MM (in the order I remember them):
– He is a creation of Girl Deity.
– Girl Deity says MM is the butterfly for the flowers in her garden, forever.
– He is the god of everything that disappears.
– He is the reason for the disappearance of everything.
– When we first meet him, his opinion is that life is more dreadful than doom.
– He can hear humans’ thoughts.
– He does not hear the thoughts of those with whom he has a contract.
– He makes contracts with humans.
– He tried to bring destruction to the world, but was unsuccessful.
– He has a birthday, but it doesn’t come regularly: it “crosses over the century and leaps over destiny.”
– He is not human.
– He is able to control time.
– He can heal wounds on humans with a touch.
– He can shut off and on the electrical grid and cell phones.
– He can start and stop a meteor shower.
– He can’t be killed.
– He can bleed.
– He is tangible. He can touch and be touched by humans.
– He can control the minds and memories of humans.
– Humans can see him, but the only human that can see him as himself is DK.
– He says he doesn’t live, he exists.
– He says he has never been loved by a human: only resented, wanted, or feared.
– He is not omnipresent: he had to leave DK in order to visit the assailant in prison.
I had to post my comments because my screen froze, and when I gained back some function I wanted to put my comments out there before I lost them. I suspect there are many more characteristics of MM that can be listed.
About the contract between MM and DK: I wonder if it was clear to DK that when she accepted MM’s hand in front of the truck of doom, she was entering the contract. There was no signing or stamping to indicate knowledgeable agreement. Also, I agree that when MM withheld his “recharge” handholding and DK experienced pain during the 100-day period, MM broke the terms of the contract.