#anyway. these blue highlights have been super working for me i think I shall continue to play with it

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It's scientific!

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[Translation] Tsukihana Kagura Cast Presentation: Asahanada (QUELL)

This is probably the last unit I post in person, the rest (VazzRock and infinit0) will be drafted and scheduled for automatic posting while I’ll be suffering through the hell named ‘final exams’. So officially, I’ll be going in hiatus for somewhere between 2-4 weeks (the first two weeks will be for the actual exams, the third will be free, the 4th for make-up exams if any). 

After I’m done with tsukihana kagura, prepare to see SolidS CDs on your timelines. Anyway, many thanks to Ryota for helping me proof this.

Please don’t repost/retranslate/reuse my translations. Likes and reblogs are appreciated.

Nation: the affiliated country’s name Flower name: the name as a dancer Dance technique: the name of each person’s characteristic dance Dance props: the name of the tool used while dancing (there are cases when none are used)

Izumi Shu

“From a land that is as pure as water, the origin of Asahanada’s dance is an offering to the Dragon God.”

Nation: Asahanada ※chief

Flower name: Suika (Fire and Water)

Dance technique: Saikau (Spring Rain)

Dance props: Folding Fan / Inscription: [Kiryu] (Dragon’s Prayer)

This young man was born into a family whose members have been priests for generations. His country’s object of worship is a Dragon God whom they’ve been guarding in nature.

On the day he was born, the country was blessed with a sunshower, considered to be good omen, and subsequently a rainbow covered the sky. As everyone was convinced he was ‘the child of the Dragon God’, Shu was raised with great care.

During his journeys throughout the continent, which were part of his training as priest, he met Shiki from ‘Akane’, Takaaki from ‘Kikyo’, and Rei and Roa from ‘Mokuran’ and have been inseparable since then.

His dance is a prayer and a wish. Today, he sings and dances once more with wishes from different people enveloped in the music.

Horimiya Eichi

“Let’s pray and dance for our benign Dragon God! May this peace also continue from now on and forever!”

Nation: Asahanada 

Flower name: Mizuhara (Flowing Water)

Dance technique: Suiten Ippeki (Blue Horizon*)

Dance props: Fox Mask / Inscription: [Shinko] (Dragon Fox)

As his job required him to live in the residence of the priests, coincidentally Shu’s house too, it was discovered by accident that his dance and Shu’s dance have good affinity, and, thus, the two were designated to perform together for the Dragon God since then.

Due to his unconstrained dance’s peculiar qualities, he was allowed to select any noble weapon that appeased him. That’s how he became the master of the fox mask ‘Shinko’.

Since Issei and Ichiru’s appearance in his life, his days became even more lively and fun.

Interview with Izumi Shu (QUELL)

Q. Please tell us about the highlights of this stage play and your impressions or story behind your partnered dance.

We come from a religious nation. Eichi and I discuss what sort of expressions we should make so as to portray a solemn atmosphere without adding too much realism.

Eichi’s always expressive so seeing him make a blank expression and show intensity is something to look forward to. Of course, I know because I dance beside him. … Oh, it seems like I just raised the hurdle higher for him, huh? (laughs) 

Q. In Tsukihana, all 12 nations have their own specialties, but if you could come up with a new specialty for your own country, what would it be?

A super premium sake made out of nothing but rice. We’ll name it ‘Asahanada’.

Q. Lastly, leave a short message for the fans.

Although it doesn’t last for long, there’s a conversation scene in the play part featuring Ren from SOARA, Ayumu from ROCK DOWN and me. Quite the unusual combination if you ask me (laughs). These unusual combinations are one of its charm points. Please look forward to it.

Interview with Horimiya Eichi (QUELL)

Q. Please tell us about the highlights of this stage play and your impressions or story behind your partnered dance.

The choreography dedicated to the Dragon God is not that different from the choreography for the ‘Tsukihana Festival’, so check both of them out, you might find them interesting. While the Dragon God’s dance feels like dancing to the sky, through the ‘Tsukihana Festival’s dance it seems we’re giving praise to the flowers blooming on the ground. May this dance filled with prayers and wishes reach you!

Q. In Tsukihana, all 12 nations have their own specialties, but if you could come up with a new specialty for your own country, what would it be?

All sorts of onigiri

Asahanada is the country of rice!

Q. Lastly, leave a short message for the fans.

The drama part, the action, and then the dancing. There are so many things to do, half of my head feels like it’s about to burst (laughs), and I work in the practice room every day to the point my sweat is running on the skin. I’ll give it my all!

Kuga Issei

“Asahanada’s first flower shall dance now. ”

Nation: Asahanada

Flower name: Miboshi (Water Star*)

Dance technique: Suikou Setten (Moonglade)

Dance props: No props

He’s the oldest of the twins, with his mother being a musician and his father a ‘Flower Dancer’. The two of them have been aiming to become ‘Flower Dancers’ ever since they were little.

He is someone who intends to look for the meaning behind the natural phenomena that occur in Asahanada since it is a nation that is deeply religious and devoted to the Dragon God.

He and his younger brother, Ichiru, have aimed to become Flower Dancers and then they were given the opportunity to join Shu's group. Because of that, he thinks of rainy days as a wonderful blessing that lead to them meeting Shu and Eichi.

Soon after, he intruded on Shu and Eichi's ritual dance after being so fascinated, and was invited to come to Shu's estate.

Kuga Ichiru

“Asahanada’s second flower, ready to dance!”

Nation: Asahanada

Flower name: Mizuru (Water Current*)

Dance technique: Suiten Houfutsu (Dim Horizon*)

Dance props: No props

He’s a young boy whose dream is to become a ‘Flower Dance’ together with his older twin, Issei.

In order to become candidates and be part of Asahanada's ‘Flower Dancers’, he had to pass a highly specialized test first.

However, while praying to get a passing score, he and his brother were caught in a shower.

In this country, it represents a symbol of luck. As a consequence, they moved into Shu's residence for work, and ever since have been practicing there every day.

Issei’s dance is graceful and beautiful. His is vigorous and resolute. When the two of them dance, the view is nothing but breathtaking.

Interview with Kuga Issei (QUELL)

Q. Please tell us about the highlights of this stage play and your impressions or story behind your partnered dance.

When the two of us are dancing, we can see Shu and Eichi giving us these looong looks in the mirror and they’re close to bursting out laughing. Seriously, we’re not children anymore.

Instead, we want everyone to look back on our triumphs as we enjoy ourselves in rehearsals, too.

Q. In Tsukihana, all 12 nations have their own specialties, but if you could come up with a new specialty for your own country, what would it be?

Rice crackers, Japanese sake.

Q. Lastly, leave a short message for the fans.

‘Tsukihana Kagura’, the story of the twelve countries. Have you already listened to our theme song? I try to listen to one song every day before going to sleep. I guess I want everyone to hurry and meet the people in this story, too? We'll be in your care.

Interview with Kuga Ichiru (QUELL)

Q. Please tell us about the highlights of this stage play and your impressions or story behind your partnered dance.

The performance is getting closer! "I'll study!" I say, but I really do learn while watching the others dance! 

There are people who are good at doing turns, people who are good at using their props, and all that.

I've been talking with Issei about how much we've been learning, too. It's good that we get to see people who we rarely interact with dance on top of a joint stage. Shun from Procella and his dancing, for example! It was really pretty! I wanna see him dance more~

Q. In Tsukihana, all 12 nations have their own specialties, but if you could come up with a new specialty for your own country, what would it be?

A ramen dish with local flavours

Q. Lastly, leave a short message for the fans.

There are as many units as there are countries, but our nation is No.1! …… As you can tell, we’re training very hard! There’s just a little left until the performance! I’m looking forward to meeting everyone!

T/N: (this one really needs some explanations)

Eichi’s dance technique is titled “水天���碧 (Suiten Ippeki)”. Suiten means ‘water and sky’ and Ippeki is... hard to explain, you could call it ‘the farthest place your eyes can distinguish, and it’s blue all over’. Ryota and me tried to keep all these names short (max 3 words). So we shortened ‘ippeki’ to ‘blue horizon’, but keep in mind it’s a sea horizon because of the ‘suiten’ part.

Issei’s flower name is “水星 (Miboshi)”. While the kanji can also mean ‘Mercury’ (the planet), we decided to go for a literal translation (’Water Star’) because tsukipro decided, for some reason, to reference Issei’s name a bit (壱星/Issei, with 壱=one and 星=star) //you can see ‘star’ in both names

Same goes for Ichiru’s flower name, “水流 (Mizuru)”. The word does indeed mean ‘water current’, but they’re again hinting towards the kanji used in Ichiru’s name, 壱=one and 流=current

Ichiru’s dance technique is titled “水天彷彿 (Suiten Houfutsu)“. Suiten means ‘water and sky’ and Houfutsu is ‘shade’ or ‘dim’. We combined them and got ‘dim horizon’ (again, keep in mind this is a sea horizon)

I didn’t mark that in the post, but Issei’s dance technique also gave us a bit of a headache. “水光接天 (Suikou Setten)“. Suikou means ‘water and light’, meanwhile Setsu means ‘touch/contact’ and Ten is ‘sky/heaven’. According to dictionaries, the entire thing means ‘The reflection of the moonlight, which shines on a river surface and spreads until the sky’. [Here’s a picture]. Anyway, apparently English calls that verbosity ‘moonglade’. We learn new words with tsukipro.... and apparently Chinese too.

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EXO Theory Pt.7 - We Got That Power!

This is now so late up, and it’s because I’ve had so many different things going wrong, mainly my laptop being a piece of crap, but I finally wrote this out and I really hope this doesn’t crash again haha. Also I actually just kept changing my mind about what I thought, and that was pretty annoying so I kept putting this off. Anyway, let’s explore EXO’s new MV, Power, shall we?

<<– First Part  |  <- Previous Part |   * Theory Masterpost

Sequence of Events

MAMA/History/What Is Love - Miracles in December - Romantic Universe - KoKoBop - MAMA 2016 VCR - (Parallel Universe) - Lucky One - Overdose - Love Me Right - Wolf/Growl - Lotto - Coming Over  -  Pathcodes/Call Me Baby - Monster  - Sing For You  - For Life - Parallel Universe  - RF_05 - Power - The Eclipse - MAMA 2016 Performance 

Every time I’ve written this post up I’ve started from the beginning of the MV’s narration, but, as I’m getting quite bored of this, I’m going to now start at the end, with the clip of Baekhyun in the water.

As well as being ridiculously pretty, Baekhyun is pretty important to my theory of the EXO story, as well as obviously in this music video. The ending where he parachutes to ‘Earth’? and is in the water as he is here, is interesting, mostly because (as I’m sure we’re all aware) links nicely to the EXO graphic novel that was included with the album.

I don’t have the album (sadly I’m poor) and I wouldn’t be able to buy as many albums as necessary to complete the novel anyway, but some people are nice enough to scan in online so I’ve read it from here (x) and come to some lovely conclusions haha.

So at the beginning of this comic we see a flash-forward it would seem of Baek falling just as in the MV and saying ‘It could have been wrong from the beginning. I guess it went to my head.’ which is telling us that something’s gone wrong, and it seems to have been Baekhyun’s fault, something made him too egotistical or sure of himself? Well this doesn’t line up very well with what we see of him in the music video - he saves the day almost, right? Well maybe not. Hehe, I’ll come back to this later on.

Throughout the comic we see the members (only 8 sadly, I really don’t see why they couldn’t have added Lay to the comic at least?!) working together to infiltrate some trucks? I’m gonna be honest, I am quite confused about parts of this comic But they’re working together, D.O and Baek at the helm of the operation, with the other members seemingly carrying out tasks that they’re told to do (or so they should be, doesn’t seem like anyone really listens.. which isn’t surprising)!

Now as I’m sure you’re aware, the members in the comic book are seen wearing the same clothes as in their Pathcode teasers.

Originally I put the Power MV right after the Pathcodes, but as I kept writing this out it made less and less sense to me, so I moved it to where I had originally intended to put it, just before the Eclipse. The events in the comic, where it is flashbacking, is clearly set within the Pathcode era and so the question becomes how do they get together and what is it they’re exactly doing here?

Well, in the Pathcodes we see all the members separated and getting signs throughout about something ominous happening. I spoke about this I think in the last part? And in Baekhyun’s especially there’s the moment when he removes an earphone and hears someone say the words ‘Someone’s looking for you’. I just went through all my posts and I actually have never spoken about Baek’s Pathcode properly I don’t think? That’s crazy. Anyway, I love Baek’s Pathcode, it’s the most interesting (other than Soo’s maybe) imo. So in his Pathcode, he hears this creepy voice. There are a few possibilities as to who’s talking to him. Remember, in my theory Pathcodes are a bit complicated because the members think they’ve escaped, but they realise towards the end that they haven’t. 

They realise this because of Kyungsoo. (Forgive me if I have gone over this before, but I can’t really remember and I tried skimming my posts and couldn’t see anything that really went over this part of my theory!) In many of the Pathcodes, the members see an image, an allusion, to light disappearing and they get scared. We see it in Tao’s, Sehun’s, Chen’s, Chanyeol’s, Kai’s and Lay’s. And in Xiumin’s we see him get a message in the TV Screen by an image that looks like a wolf:

I think I wrote about this in Part 6? that I think Soo really worries about the Wolf part of the story because he got betrayed and hurt in it my another Guardian (Luhan).

So the wolf image that I think D.O is sending Xiu here is significant, as it’s a symbol of betrayal with him, and is signalling back to a time when the members were truly divided.

I wasn’t sure whether to include this here, but I might do so. Back when I started writing these theories and was trying to figure out the initial order of the MVs (back when Monster and Lucky One had just come out), the Wolf MV was really frustrating to me. Obviously the actual video is kind of not important, but the movie thing that came with it (and Growl) kind of had a story. Part of it is just a cheap Twilight rip off, I get that, but I thought there had to me more because it otherwise didn’t make sense. So I started researching wolves generally: their symbology, their associations in dreams, the mythology around them, and I came across the fire wolves/dogs (Bulgae) in Korean mythology. They sounded really cool and they had this description regarding eclipses:

Now this is kind of a common theme in many cultures around the world, like the Vikings, but it’s kind of interesting that Wolf could also be linked to an eclipse, the most symbolic thing in EXO’s mythology now. You know, it could just be coincidence, but I dunno.

Anyway, so the message Xiumin receives could also be alluding to the eclipse as well as having a deeper meaning (which is possible as XiuSoo have a strong connection imo!)

Suho doesn’t get a warning lol because he’s too trapped, he just gets trapped by his own power. Baekhyun gets the voice, that is probably Soo, but then he reacts by also making it darker.

And ends up getting trapped also.

So now the question really becomes how do the Pathcodes relate to the comic? Do the contents of Pathcode come after or before that in the comic flashback? Well one way i think to really know is through Kyungsoo himself, who unlike the other members, gets three changes of clothes in his PC teaser.

Firstly he gets the blue and black jumper.

This is the first one we see I think, as it’s the one I believe he’s wearing when we see him awake at the very beginning of the teaser. 

Then we have the black suit when he’s in the car.

This is the one that corresponds to the change of time from 09.00 to 09.01 in Colorado, which is important as it’s the same time (when accounting for time zone differences) as the first member’s teaser, Kai.

And then thirdly, we have the outfit Soo is wearing in the new graphic novel pages, and the one he was wearing when he looked through the looking glass (hello, Alice) and sees the other members Pathcodes!

I used to think that these were taking place over different days, but after the Power MV and the Parallel Universes teaser, as well as this idea from kaizzi, I started to think that maybe these are three different versions of Kyungsoo. And this makes so much more sense, and honestly has rejuvenated a lot of my faith in this theory that I briefly doubted when I saw Power and the comic tbh. So, firstly I want to talk about this Red-Shirt-Kyungsoo™ universe.

In the comic book we see Baekhyun say ‘Or maybe // Something has been wrong from the beginning’. This could be applicable to either the Pathcodes or the end of Power, or even both. I mean, at this point, the timeline’s so messed up by the revelation of these Parallel Universes, not to mention that two of the powers, Tao’s and Kai’s, involved bending time and space, that is anything even linear in this story anymore? God knows, and so I sure don’t! But, personally, I took it to be referring to the Pathcodes as the beginning, because I do believe they mark the ‘beginning’ of a new sequence; ‘The Betrayal’. 

I think the Pathcode teasers come after the events we have yet to see in this graphic novel series. It said ‘To be continued’ so hopefully we’ll see more of this story with the members tracking down these trucks or whatever and potentially see exactly what Baekhyun is referring to when he says ‘it went to [his] head’. And so when Kyungsoo is looking through this door, I don’t think he’s seeing a parallel universe, he’s seeing the one that Red-Shirt-Kyungsoo™ is actually in, and is communicating with the members to be wary of Baekhyun, and warning them they’re still in the Dream. (Yes, I do think it’s still a dream state, even with the Parallel Universes... we can have both things happening simultaneously, I really do think so!). And so that’s basically my theory for Red-Shirt-Kyungsoo™ world. 

Next I’ll speak more about Suited-and-Booted-Kyungsoo™ and the theory with Kai!

I think I’ve spoken endlessly about the significance of cars, and how who’s driving them is important, so I won’t go into it again. But the fact that this is taking place (imo) at the exact time as Kai’s Pathcode is the more important fact here.

At the end of Kai’s Pathcode we see him teleport away. This is the first time since MAMA in my sequence of events that Kai uses teleportation, his power. Now, the reason I think this is super significant, I went over in detail in my MAMA 2016 part (x) but basically Kai has been hiding his real power from the Red Forces since the beginning because this ability is the key to travelling between the worlds/planes and capturing the Heart of the Tree of Life. There are two MVs in particular that really highlight this avoidance. KoKoBop and Lucky One.

I’ve spoken about Lucky One before, but basically the only power we don’t see evidenced is Kai’s. Instead, he has a lil’ dance. 

Very nice.

And then in KoKoBop, we still don’t see Kai use his power. I know this might be a little controversial but hear me out.

I think in KoKoBop we see Kai using some ex-member powers.

Like, since when is Kai’s ability levitation? It’s not. This is closer linked to Kris’ power imo.

And this may be a little out there, but I kind of always thought the car moving by itself was similar to Luhan’s power, telekinesis. At least, it’s nothing to do with teleportation.

KKB is set right after Romantic Universe in my theory, and at the end of RomUni we see Kai driving the car that had previously been squashed. Now I took this to kind of mean Kai taking some control and choosing to hide his power, or sacrifice it, even. So in KKB I think he’s being kind of cheeky by referencing a number of powers that aren’t his, especially by reading the ‘Space Movement’ book that’s pictured above - that can be linked to his power, yes, but also to the movement between universes/worlds, and to a lesser extent Tao’s power which would also be connected to space-time travel.

(Also, small sidenote, but I also see no real evidence for Sehun using his powers in this MV, and I think the link to Chen’s is very tedious. I don’t really have reasons for this, but I think it’s kind of weird. Especially as Sehun and Chen later become counterparts. But I don’t want to really delve into any of this right now just pointing it out as I never got around to properly finishing my KKB theories!)

So yeah, Kai using teleportation in Pathcode is kind of a big deal. And what triggers it is even more important. Right before he teleports he gets this flashback to Overdose: 

We see here, a glimpse of himself at the edge of the maze, Tao looking at his own reflection, D.O getting the box of sand, then the sand falling upwards (in reverse) and Chen witnessing light dimming.

Light dimming. Yep, I’m going there. This is a very specific set of images. It’s showing they’re still trapped, that time isn’t moving how they think, they might be in a different world (reflection world) and D.O receiving the box. As well as the light going out which I’m sure I’ve mentioned more than enough what I think that means. So, pretty deep. And then he teleports. But where to? To the one who sent him the image.

And this is why Kai’s power’s so important, because he can travel between worlds. And he travels here to meet Soo in a different plane, but the same time, because Kai can’t really control time, right, that’s Tao’s power.

And now the most interesting of Soo’s outfits imo, the Blue-Stripe-Turtlenecks-Why-Is-Soo-Always-In-A-Turtleneck-OMG-I-Hate-Them™ one. So this is the one we see (I think at least, I’m gonna say so) him waking up in.

Why is this so significant? Because I kind of think that in this parallel plane Kyungsoo is actually waking up here. He’s escaping the dream. At least the Red Forces dream, and that’s why he’s able to finally open his mind.

And we immediately see him surrounded by nature, greenery and trees, and we get this image in a sequence shortly after.

Which is showing half a dried up tree. In this Blue-Stripe-Soo™ outfit I think we see one version of Kyungsoo escape and start to think about the half of the Tree he’s meant to be guarding. And I think it’s here that he might fully realise that it’s Baekhyun. Before this moment we have a few instance of Soo paying attention to Baek because he might not trust him, and he probably had an inkling. But D.O’s not impervious to the RF even if he has more power than the others in resisting that kind of stuff, he couldn’t think about it clearly until now. This is what I think. And then he decides to take action.

Here we see a representation of Soo’s meddling. I used to think the 3 marbles in his hand were him, Kai and Xiu, and I kind of still think that. But another part of me is thinking it might be a bit different. 

So, the yellow I think could be the planets aligning, and the red the two worlds that they originally landed on (the two that look alike and have the same ground... you know the narration by now). The green in Soo’s hand, are the three Kyungsoo’s we meet in this teaser. Blue, Red and Suit, who are now directly affecting the situations. I mean, they kind of have been, but up until this point I think it’s always been that Kyungsoo has been just observing. Now meeting Kai, being in command (kind of) in the comic, and actually escaping in one of the realities, this is direct action. This is important.

I mean this is a theory I literally just thought of, but it’s pretty neat imo.

But let’s go back to the comic now. Baek says ‘it went to my head’. I think this is referring to him knowing that he is the Heart. I think it’s pretty clear in the Power MV that he knows his power is now important. I mean, we get this fucking wonderful clip that made me pretty much die.

Like, sorry, but I called this haha. Bitch he’s the sun, ahaha.

Anyway, no, but he is important as hell! And he knows this. But when does he realise? Some time after Pathcode, what he considers the ‘beginning’, as that’s where Baekhyun flashbacks to. 

I’m not sure where to really begin theorising with this information, but there are two things I’m sure of when Baek’s referring to himself messing up. Firstly, I think the message (the voice) he gets in his PC teaser is so vague compared to a lot of the others, and so much more spookier, that I’m sure it’s even more important. Like, ‘someone’s looking for you’ could be the RF or it could be his members. He doesn’t know, I don’t know, nobody does. Sure, he acts scared after this fact, but maybe that was even a mistake, maybe him letting the little light flecks surround him at the end was a mistake. I dunno.

The other thing I’m sure of is that it’s connected to him finding out he’s the Heart. I’m now so convinced of this theory, everything that is released honestly strengthens this so much it can’t not be true at this point. So it has to have something to do with this MV and this ending. It’s too significant that Baek hides his power (with EXO-L aww) and can release the others. And that he falls to the water at the end.

Going back to that, I kind of love this ending because it’s so vague almost. I think I have a theory about this, I won’t go into it in too much detail because it’s kind of out there. But it’s linked to the dream state. Yes, I think they’re still in it during Power, and in fact when Baek falls at the end I think it’s him falling to a deeper kind of level of the dream (think Inception), This is all I really have so far without going into a billion MVs and I wanna talk some more about the meat of the Power MV.

For the most part, this MV is self explanatory. But there’s some interesting parts. I’ll be going backwards though because I’m liking this. 

Right before the Baek falling bit, we have this amazing (!!!!!) sequence.

(This gif takes all justice away from the clip TT)

Obviously this is just so awesome. I’m a really big fan of EXO’s Powers and it’s just so cool to look at. I even really like that Chen’s lightning is orange for some reason? Hehe, but it’s just so cool. But the importance is with Chanyeol here, I think, because as you can see in the gif he’s at the front of the group for this part. For some reason, I’m really stuck on this idea even though I think it’s kind of unlikely. But I kind of think this is linked to the beginning of the MV:

Yeah, I think the end of the MV is them blowing up the door at the beginning. I know this sounds crazy, but I just don’t think it’s that crazy. For mainly this reason.

The little light on the end of this thingy is red here.

But in the next scene it’s orange.

Chanyeol has a red eye for some reason in this MV? I think the first arm thing with the red light is Chanyeol. I really don’t know. But I’m so stuck on this idea. Like why else would he just have a red eye in the video? And it wouldn’t be the first time that an EXO MV has finished as it started:

At the start of RomUni we see the car get crushed, and at the end it gets uncrushed.

In Sing For You we see members disappear at the start, and reappear at the end.

Overdose begins and ends with Kai (or Lu) within a maze, never able to get out.

I mean, come on, it’s not too much of a stretch, right?

=)

But that’s what I think, that the members might even be stuck in a loop of fighting the RF, and even getting their powers back. A theme of the MV in my opnion was the members and the RF restarting over and over again until they ‘won’. Especially during the part (I can’t gif it it’s too long) when the members keep adding one by one to shoot at the robot, before Chen like saves the day pretty much.

Speaking of Chen, what a bamf in this MV. By far my fave in here. I don’t really get it, but boy, he really does have that power.

Another person I wanna talk about is Sehun. I feel like out of everyone Sehun is the one I have the least ideas about when it comes to this story. I’m not entirely sure what his role is, ever tbh, but he kind of did some stuff here. Mainly, shooting at D.O.

He’s also on a walkie talkie of some kind so I wonder who he’s talking to. But I think this is important because, like I mentioned in part 6 (x), this is the only real time that we are seeing Soo vulnerable. And it’s not just once. It’s twice we see him fall scared like this, and he also has that scratch on his face (that switches sides sometimes haha). This is just so unlike how he is in the rest of the story.

But then we also see him leading an attack on the RF robot.

Like I dunno. Soo confuses me in this MV.

Because there’s also these two things:

We see Soo and Sehun’s orbs highfiving? And we also see the EXO-L kittie playing with Soo and Chanyeol’s orbs? 

Sehun who (probably accidentally I will admit) fires at another member, and Chanyeol who has a red eye, reminiscent of the RF and also Kris/Lu in the Wolf Drama vid. And Soo who’s out of character for the most part. I’m half convinced this whole MV is a simulation of sorts, much like KoKoBop. This is the simulation of the First War on EXO Planet, and the Red Forces keep losing, so they keep restarting. By this point in the story I think all the members are kind of aware what’s going on with them being trapped, and the war ongoing, so I think they’re just messing around. Acting different than they usually would to kind of purposefully mess up the sim. If the RF can’t predict how they’re going to act, the RF can’t win.

Except that at the end, Baek leaves them. Hmm...

But let’s finish where we started cos I think that’s all I really have to say about the actual MV (other than I really like it, and the song, but the stage is soooo good it might be my fav title after LMR now!). Let’s go back to Baek.

I’m very excited to read more of the comic, I think that holds so much potential story that could be explained better than in the MVs! And I want to know what happens next. The possibilities are just endless. I’m not sure I have my theories right, you know, but it’s just so fun to ponder and make little connections and try and link it altogether. I’m also really hopeful that Lay will return to the story. I know I haven’t really spoken about him, but I’m still kind of convinced he’s gone to a different world (I wrote about this here (x)), and that’s why he’s absent here. He’s too vital to keep missing out of the story!

Anyway, this got soo long, I spent the whole day pretty much writing this and getting kind of confused. Thanks to everyone who sent such lovely messages asking to read this and motivating me to write it! And thanks for reading this far if you did, it’s nice to know I’m not just babbling to myself haha! Bye for now though! ^^

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