After reading orv, I become suspicious of unique characters when entering a fantasy novel they read but never knew who the author is so based on your amazing theory, what if the author is MC herself? When you said ‘as her coping mechanism’ what really, what if she wrote the story herself and imagined a fantasy world where everyone loved her, maybe that’s why the original MC in that novel suddenly gets no love but was okay with it because she too got attached to her.
As for the question when or how did she wrote it between the timeline and now foreshadowing. Honestly, even reading orv did not made me expect that ‘SHE’ is the author all along and there was even no flashback of her writing the novel so it me the same with this one where another timeline or some phenomenon happened where MC wrote the story during the years of her miserable in her og family
The “hourglass” the clock, the little girl of Modern ML infront of the clock with drawings of the characters
I wonder if she drew them since she was young. Like a coping mechanism? She did say her parents were shit since she was young. It would also make sense the brothers look kinda similar too. It is her ideal family she wanted. The fantasy story a little girl would want to be in from a miserable life
I wonder who the “us” is tho. Who is the author of the actual webcomic she read before she regressed? I wonder if its like, her childhood friend from modern world, or even someone from current life that made it so she “remembers”. The good old the future to the past kinda plot twist? Im looking forward to whats gonna happen