#how do they have NO PHOTOCARDS together (just them) it's been NINE YEARS

[dreamaze]

is this really the only time the favorites have been a unit 😭

[taek-a-deep-breath]

The Whole EXO Storyline Theory

It’s been so long that I’ve done that and I’ve been away from Tumblr for so long, because of no comeback and a disinterest in the use of the app.

Let’s go and dive into yet another theory

It’s been so long that I’ve done that and I’ve been away from Tumblr for so long p, because of no comeback and a disinterest in the use of the app.

I think I’ll explain simply what I’ve been pondering for a while. I knew that EXO’s story wasn’t in a chronological order. I’ve been thinking about flash forward and flash black, and it didn’t add up until recently and just now I got the idea because of KoKoBop. Hearing it for the 900th time took a toll on me.

So you have to add History in the storyline -my storyline- for it to make sense.

Introduction:

HISTORY is the opening of the story of the 12 guardians and it’s simple to understand that it’s the story of EXO once they have their powers or are first formed into controlling their powers on EXOPlanet. The lyrics literally tell you that the story begins here, that’s why most of the theories are incomplete. You have to add HISTORY to EXO’s chronology to understand the process used to tell the story. It’s baby EXO #1.

I went round and round

And came back here to start again

Yeah, EXO-M, EXO-K

The future we are about to start, history - HISTORY

MAMA is the first eclipse that we are aware of, it reunites everyone wether EXO are in a world or another. It’s when EXO-K and EXO-M’s parallels universe collide and it’s when it’s also most dangerous for EXO as if they can reach each other, the RED FORCE can also reach all of them.

WOLF we have to thank the gods that SM released a drama because GROWL and WOLF eras are the most confusing pieces and made it difficult to finish this theory. The use of WOLF could not be about any wolf fantasy -even though I bet the Twilight show was the cause of it, the drama with Jongin as Edward is still iconic. But it seems to be more about that human would always go back to primary instinct even in the worst cases (death, violence, etc.) -at the end when Luhan uses his power in the most rough form and accidentally injures Kyungsoo. Well, we could go about Kyungsoo’s character and thinking that is the beginning of this grave and ambiguous character in EXO. I don’t know why but EXO are victims of amnesia, they don’t remember that they are aliens and they are here on Earth to save their own world. This is teenager EXO.

GROWL following the series of WOLF. Some begins to become aware of their differences others don’t. Well you know exactly who is maybe already aware, it’s mostly seen in GROWL’s choreography when at the bridge Luhan turns Jongin’s head toward the general direction of others, Jongin is already looking at another direction (Luhan and Jongin are always the first to know), maybe the future of EXO.

OVERDOSE they are rat labs, I’ll talk more a less about it after the resume.

CALL ME BABY I like to think that there is a ‘talon d’Achille’ in EXO and it’s right in the form of our great Do Kyungsoo the most enigmatic character. If Jongin is always first in the teasers because he opens the story of EXO, the place of Kyungsoo as the LAST one is not for naught.

LOVE ME RIGHT Same as OVERDOSE, they are experimented on.

MONSTER There’s is this embedded idea of treason.

LUCKY ONE joins the series of Overdose and Love Me Right.

LOTTO confirms the idea of Kyungsoo being an antagonist and will be confirmed in THE WAR.

KOKOBOP Like EXO said themselves it’s the idea of being babies and playing with your powers. This is rebirth. Babies EXO #2. I’ll just add about Kyungsoo that in EXO’s Version A photocard EXO are all embracing their powers apart from one, Kyungsoo who is pointing a gun at his power. Just to put in a place of my mind and your mind, he only acts like that on Earth so something may had happen or already happened in the MVs.

POWER Major prequel and brings light to what really happened on EXOPlanet.

Theories:

So I only used the main comebacks and resumed every EXO MVs. As of now I’ll explain my non-useful theory because why not and I love to suffer. You have to think throughout the whole theory it’s like you are stuck in a broken time machine or you are hit by amnesia.

Transcending time and space

I dream of an Eden’s morning

Let’s go, we are that kind of existence - HISTORY

Time lapse theory:

The story of EXO goes back and forth like you are in a time machine you can only go back or forward, but with the exact same time frame, like 2 and -2.

HISTORY is way back in time, it means its counterpart MAMA is way later in the storyline. It’s one of the most recent era of EXO. So at first I was thinking about scenes on Earth and EXOPlanet and it didn’t make sense, so I told myself if EXO had flashbacks of around 100 years ago, it’ll mean that we could have a snippet of 100 years after the point 0 and it made more sense. So if something happened 5 years before, we could get 5 after the point 0. But I don’t know the point 0, maybe when the powers are split and they are put into two parallels universe or because of the short time lapse between LOTTO and MONSTER, it always changes and that’s why we’re so confused with EXO storyline.

WOLF/GROWL are the counterpart of OVERDOSE, they are in the future and OVERDOSE can maybe be a snippet of the Red Force main and most used strategies into putting EXO in mazes. EXO have three MVs starring mazes, it means they spent a long time in them. So as the logic goes CALL ME BABY is the counterpart of LOVE ME RIGHT. As MONSTER is the counterpart of LOTTO, it is the most short time lapse between the two eras. Of course KOKOBOP is the counter part of POWER and gives a lot of intel on EXO managing their powers, but this insight is better for the other way of seeing EXO’s storyline.

Amnesia theory:

Imagine someone struck by amnesia. The only way for someone to regain their memories is with time or by being recalled familiar settings, objects, etc.

EXO are brought into memory of HISTORY with the euphoria of the first eclipse, they feel the same rushing feeling of when they had first their powers in MAMA. MAMA is the whole activation of their powers at the most pure form. When their powers rushed to them as they are in EXOPlanet and they were guided they used in full blast their powers, it means that MAMA is the time when EXO can use at its most pure form and powerful form, it means they have full control over them.

The trigger is then pulled during the WOLF/GROWL era. They are young teenagers stricken by amnesia and lost in a new world, darker than when they were younger and innocent. It’s how the reminiscence of OVERDOSE starts. Their most traumatic time is the first time they entered the maze.

CALL ME BABY or better PATHCODE is the trigger when they are in danger and they sense there’s something beginning to change. LOVE ME RIGHT is when they completely understand that they recall the memory of when they woke up from their slumber in the maze, when they truly understood that it was danger.

MONSTER and LOTTO -LOTTO is for me an MV that explains how EXO works, it points towards the presence of an antagonist *cough* Kyungsoo *cough* or someone that works on his own schedule- are when they breakthrough, when they understand the system, it’s all rage and violence. MONSTER and LOTTO were a confusing piece like WOLF and GROWL, the settings are pretty similar, it’s like a story divided or that the time lapse is really short between the two eras. It’s being prepared to go to war. Hence, why LUCKY ONE is the memory of getting away from the Red Force, as they are in real danger of loosing their lives.

KOKOBOP is telling what happened when the guys came on Earth and as the end of LUCKY ONE introduced they didn’t come back all pristine from this cruel maze that took away 3 powers. As I explained, POWER is then the memory that got triggered by KOKOBOP, as it’s innocence and full of curiosity, POWER is the exact contrary, it’s pure rampage, it’s THE WAR -hence why POWER is used is the cutest MV of EXO because it’s the most cruel and violent one. It’s basically the story of children who lost everything and have to fight to survive. It’s like in anime or comics when you show war in a less rebuttal way.

When they won against the Red Force, it was just after breaking from the maze and the experimental laboratory, they fight for their powers but also the 3 powers that lost their partners. It means when they are sent to Earth, the 3 other powers follow them. As EXO work in pairs, it means that the one that inherits the three powers are the remaining pair. It means Chanyeol, Sehun and Jongin. Hence, why we see the three of them lying on the ground at 0:09 in the MV of KoKoBop -number nine is a divine number in EXO’s storyline. As Jongin is always the first to be introduced and he is an opening, he is the first one to master Luhan’s power: Telekinesis. It’s with the help of Suho and Xiumin as they are the oldest and the most in sink pair as LUCKY ONE demonstrated near the end of the MV, they are the only ones that are connected to each other.

Kyungsoo and Chen are working on the side, maybe on understanding more how their power work together. I don’t know why Xiumin and Suho split up for Sehun and Chanyeol, maybe because of the affinity of their powers to the other. Xiumin is getting along well with Sehun, whereas Suho is having a hard time with a Chanyeol that seems to be the least cooperative -Suho drenched in water, being in a washing machine, Chanyeol being wild during the whole MV, etc.

I understand that Jongin was the first to understand how to use the powers of Luhan because of how their powers are not that farther apart. Sehun is the one that’ll have the most difficulty because of Tao’s power -Time Control- that is so far from his original power. But we see that he conquers it at the break dance of the song when he says ‘Break it down now’. And Chanyeol finally conquers the power -Flight- of Kris when he sends flying the basket ball.

Conclusion:

At the end of the day, I think that the best theory is the Amnesia theory and the time lapse theory is only an help in understanding the chronology. It goes well with story line and as you can see I put it in the order of the comebacks. Like we say everyday, the writers of EXO don’t do anything by coincidence. Please note that all the funky and aesthetic MVs of EXO points toward the most brutal eras of EXO -Love Me Right, Lucky One and Power- that may represent respectively, torture and major use of drugs, torture and experimental experiment, war and violence on innocents.