#jikook chemistry

[keeperoftinyarmy]

How are there still arguments about jikook in 2024 when they literally enlisted together?

It is not being a shipper to admit that JK and JM are the closest in the group.

And that past theory that it’s “just for the cameras”, is totally debunked. You don’t do buddy enlistment with your bandmate that you “pretend” to hang out with.

I can see this is going to be an ongoing issue because people will be struggling with jikook having their own Disney+ show. I already see an increase in the “company content” comments.

Yet they seem to totally be missing the point. They are private citizens right now…and private citizens jikook…chose to be together. The company had nothing to do with it.

(Can’t wait for that company content on 8/8 💜)

[mimikoolover]

the press release for are you sure sounds like it was written by a jikooker😂not them even linking to gcf in tokyo😭so basically we all know what happened right, they came across things like kayaking that jungkook would have been over the moon about and he got jimin to do them while jimin kept asking are you sure?😭😭

on a more serious note i wonder if they will talk about the military since it was mentioned in the press release. but it’s a funny concept isn’t it, them doing all this after deciding to enlist together lol usually the story would go they had so much fun and ~chemistry on their trips that they decided to go to the military together so this is almost backwards😭😂anyway i cannot wait to see what they got up to🥹

[last-blue-hours]

I’m here for all 12 seasons of the travel show~

[juliapark13]

~Jikook’s chemistry~

Jungkook and Jimin have the best chemistry I’ve ever seen.

Since the beginning.

They have the best chemistry in everything they do.

In singing.

When they sing together it’s M A G I C. Heartbeat bridge is unreal.

In dancing.

They are the best dancing duo.

MMA 2020 was A R T. It was history.

And when you know what trained ballerinas said…

credit: Wingzie: Live reactions to Jikook at MMA 2020

They fit so well together.

They have so much in common. Hometown, favourite number, they are all-nighter friends, they have same work ethics, they are both perfectionists, they like working out together, they like getting tattoos,…

Like they said they clicked.

They are perfect for each other.

Moreover they are the happiest together.

And they live in their own world.

Noone and no other duo can ever be on their level.

They will be forever UNMATCHED.

No wonder everyone is jealous of them, obsessed with them and everyone wants what they have. ☺️💜💛

[beautifulpersonpeach]

Hi BPP, i noticed in one of your asks about Jikook, you mentioned paying attention to their Vlives and i swear to you that one of the biggest reasons i think Jikook are not just platonic is because of their Lives especially the ones when it’s just two of them. There is this different air around them and you can literally always feel how thick the air is with tension.

I know this might sound a little delulu but i 100% trust my guts when it comes to certain things. I’m usually not very great at catching things at first glance but when someone else catches those things and brings them to my attention, I’m exceptionally good at paying more attention and catching those things many people will miss. There is nothing in the world that can convince me that Jimin wasn’t with Jk in his room during that famous “naked bread Live” where Tae surprised Jk in his room. There is also Hobi’s Live from 2016 where Armys kept asking for Jimin and Hobi went to Jimin’s room and it was clear that they were hiding something or someone. Now this one is debatable as to who it was in Jimin’s room but there was 100% someone there with him as we could literally see a shadow pass by in the tv screen. Another Live that was very telling was the New Jersey Live of May 2019. That Live where Jk started a live and later panned to Jimin. That Live is a goldmine and minus all the analysis, anybody who has a little bit of a brain could immediately tell that something fishy was going on with Jikook. I always laugh when tkkrs also use that exact same Live as proof that taekook were sharing a room because of that statement Tae made about “weren’t we sharing a room”, i mean he came into the room and the first question he asked was, “whose room is this” he literally didn’t even know it was Jk’s room in the first place lol and if they were indeed sharing a room, why the hell will he feel the need to ask Jk “weren’t we sharing a room” outta nowhere? If you live in the same house as someone, do u just wake up outta the blue and ask them “aren’t we living in the same house?” How does it even make sense? If you paid attention you would notice that, just b4 tae said that, there was a cough sound that came from maybe the bathroom or something and Jk immediately asked Tae to stay put while he went to the bathroom and while he was there, you could hear him mumble something offscreen and that is when Tae said that. I always thought maybe tae said that to cover things up or he was just being his chaotic adorable self idk but that Live pretty michconfirmed alot of things for me. Not forgetting how Jk was literally kicking tae outta the room lol.

Almost all of the lives with Jimin and Jk in them pretty much give them away and the lives are my biggest reason for thinking Jikook are/were more than friends. I honestly can’t tell what kind if relationship they have with each other these days but nothing can convince me that those two have always just been platonic. Even if they have never actually dated each other or been in a relationship, i know that they have felt sexual attraction towards eo and have probably acted on it. I mean lets be serious here, why else do you think Jk would visit Jimin’s room multiple times a day, goes there really late at night and remains in there for abt 4 hours at a time “doing nothing” as Jimin said? Especially when he has 5 other hyungs he could visit and hang out with when he is bored. We know he is really close to Tae too so why wouldn’t he even spend some of that time hanging out with him? What is so interesting about any room Jimin is in that he has continued to be obsessed with those rooms for years BPP? Since b4 their debut, we they have always liked spending their nights together. Jk would pile clothes on his bed to go sleep in Jimin’s bed, when Jihope were roomates, it was the same time taekook shared their big living space together yet we found out from Jimin and Hobi that Jk came into their room every single night to sleep there. The one time staff hid cameras in their hotels rooms without telling them, what happened? Didn’t we all see Jimin and Jk getting into Jk’s hotel room together even though all the other members got into their rooms together? Let’s not even talk about Hobi’s bday Live in 2019 when Jimin had to come back to get Jk cuz it seemed like he couldn’t get into his room without him or how during the Live itself he mentioned telling Jk he wouldn’t be able to get which suggested that they were together in the same room before joining the Live.

I dunno combing through footage of all these years, it is crystal clear that there was/is something up with those two. They are just too sus.

Sorry for the extremely long ask.

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I agree.

[dgtn]

One of my most favorite Jikook lives of all time….

These 2 always make me laugh… 😂. I swear to you they could be in a cardboard box 📦 and have a good time! (Minds out of the gutter please 😏😏😏).

So of course hindsight is always 20/20 and yes I watched this a gazillion times (yes that is a real number….in my mind 😂)…moving on! It was pretty obvious right from the start that our sweet JK was on a mission and had a plan. What was the plan you ask? To fluster the master of cool calm and collected himself, a one Park Jimin. Not an easy task but if anyone can do it’s JK! Was he successful in his task??? Simply put….hell yes he was!!

Now I’m pretty sure it took a lot of practice, time, and effort to ensure he could deliver his lines flawlessly and it sounds like he may have had some help … 😏😏😏. So at only a minute and a half in we get:

🐰: do you smell something burning?

🐥: sorry? Nope .

🐰: my heart is burning.

At this point Jimin busts out laughing and gets all shy as he realizes what is going down … 😏

🐥: what happened to you?

🐰: Because of Jin!

🐥: what happened to you ? I told you not to learn those things!

🐰: it’s so hard for me too! You don’t like it when I’m trying to look cute, huh?

🐥: Your voice is weird!

🐰: it’s so hard for me! I was born like this!

So flirt level during this whole live was off the charts IMO. And don’t tell me Jimin didn’t love every minute of this interaction….that boy could not wipe the smile from his face! His man was flirting with him BIG TIME!!!!

So we had JK flustering Jimin then we have Jimin flustering JK talking about the mole under his nose and how it got there 😂😂😂.

🐰: I don’t know why I got this but…

🐥: I think I know. I think you have it because you always pick your nose. So the scar turned into a mole.

Really Jimin…really 😂😂😂. Well JK, that’s what you get for making your man blush on a live!!!

I sincerely hope they are still like this when they are in their 60’s and 70’s 🥰.

The vibe of this whole live was just so so playful and fun. And this is what I love about Jikook lives. Their chemistry is just undeniable….even for those who want to deny it. They just adore each other to pieces. Even in their recent lives when they weren’t physically hanging out with each other they still manage to flirt and make each other blush…

I hope y’all enjoyed this trip down memory lane with me! I love these 2 to pieces and can’t wait to see them interacting together again on a vlive…soon 🥰🥰🥰

Jikook … 💛💜🌈

[seoul-bros]

Washington Post recommends AYS?

"Their real-deal chemistry and wide-eyed delight at life's little pleasures combine to give you a show so soothing, it's the perfect end to a dreary day"

Jikook are reaching a whole new audience with Are You Sure?

Post Date: 23/11/2024

[heartofbusan]

The Shape of Time

Jikook's relationship is a reflection of their stacked history, drawing from their personal experiences and their daily encounters of over a decade.

I talked (ranted!?) before about how the mundane elements of their trip was the centre focus of the first two episodes. Just two guys driving, talking, playfighting, stroking, hiking, boating, shopping, cooking, eating, pooping 😔✊🏽 and sleeping together. Rinse. Repeat. Their chemistry is the glue that holds AYS all together. Their relationship has been years in the making, leading to that dynamic that only they know.

Jimin knows a Jungkook only he knows. Jungkook knows a Jimin only JK knows.

They know the special nuances their voices take on when one of them is tired, joking or serious, or teasing. They know. And it's not for us to judge from afar. We're lucky we even get to watch.

I love the idea of stacked history. Their rainy day fight stacked along with their first encounter: "I thought he was my hyung," 🥺 .. the late night dance practices and the sleeping outside, confessions shared. Their first Tokyo trip and so many more moments we know nothing about. Their relationship is like a stone tower built with the best rocks. A couple of lager ones to make it tall and sturdy, the smaller ones to fill in the gaps. But each one is needed to create a strong tower: balance.

[lay1306]

Listen, I always try to be very mindful of keeping my wild fandom mind and reality properly separated and not become ACTUALLY insane about a ship, but as a 30 year old queer I feel like I must say that there is no way that what jikook are doing isn't an actual gradual soft launch. As someone who has the tiniest bit of actual life experience now, I just don't see how their dynamic and chemistry could NOT be read as romantic. Are they coworkers? yes. Are they best friends? yes. But it's pretty obvious there something even deeper going on there and it's honestly just denial at this point to think otherwise.

And it all comes back to the whole fandom thing again. So many people try to deny it by making whole ass essays about how they interacted with x y and z that one time. I need y'all to remember they're actual people and real people are capable of incredibly complex relationships with more than one person at once. They have friends that aren't each other, they have confidants that aren't each other. And if anything, all those interactions just make an even more stark of a contrast as to how THEIR relationship is different than all the ones they have with other people.

[naneun-no]

On “Insecure Jikookers”…

Alright. I might lose followers for this and that’s very okay; curate your timeline and protect your peace babes. But for YEARS, every time the phrase “insecure jikooker” has come up on my feed my eyelid has done a little twitchy twitch 🤨🤨

And I have always ignored it, because I’ve never wanted to be out here policing ppl’s language and we are literally supposed to be having fun and celebrating love, like for me that’s the whole point, but —

I’ve been seeing the phrase popping up again surrounding the release of AYS and I just gotta say it.

You guys the term seems so culty 😬🥲

Like I think I get the origin (maybe)? It probably started when some of the early jikook bloggers (if you are one I salute you, I am not worthy, trust me this is NOT a dig at anyone, jikook bloggers are by and large cool and kind af 🙇‍♀️) would get these sketchy asks that were antis or cultists in disguise just casting aspersions on jikook’s bond or being blatantly homophobic and/or in general being rude little anonymous internet gremlins. Or maybe it was people who did want to believe that jikook was real but kept nagging and begging for reassurance at every turn, which I can totally see becoming annoying as hell and prompting people to start using the term.

But it feels like it’s used now as like a catchall for anyone who expresses any doubt or asks any critical questions? Even like… reasonable ones? And I used to see a lot of “hey believe what you want to believe but this is what I believe” but now it seems like the sentiment around jikooker communities has by and large become “if you don’t believe you’re an idiotic dumb person who has never known love — you’re either a rival shipper in disguise or WORSE (dun dun dunnnnn) an Insecure Jikooker — and we don’t want people like you around.”

And idk it just feels weird for a community that has always seemed to kind of pride itself on being the “rational, fact-based” ship… like we LOVE to be smug about how jikook don’t need edits to be obvious, don’t need slo-mo zooms with red circles and arrows because their chemistry and fondness and affection is just plain to see in basic footage. We’re the levelheaded ones 😌.

But doesn’t that mean that we should always be encouraging critical thinking, and if someone comes to a different conclusion than us, so be it? Like it or not, none of us have foolproof confirmation that jikook are anything more than very close friends. That’s literally all we know. The rest is our best guess based on vibes, anecdotes, dot-connecting, subtext and body language observation, experience, perception (!!This is a big one because confirmation bias is real!!), and suspicion. That’s literally it.

Look maybe I’m just projecting 😅 but when you criticize people for expressing reasonable doubt over something that is literally not confirmed, it’s just a little too religious fundamentalist for me! (This is why I was a bad Christian, because I always raised my hand and asked questions the Sunday school teacher didn’t like.)

Feel free to ignore me. I never want to come across as pushy or trying to stir up anything, it’s just a phrase that grinds my gears and I’m sort of hoping I’m not alone in that… but if I am, so be it! 🤣 would love to hear people’s thoughts because maybe I’m missing something.

(P.S. If you’re a troll who spams jikook blog inboxes this is not me defending you. You’re still annoying and you need a better hobby. Have you tried yoga? Snowboarding? Fly fishing? Filming food vlogs and/or painting? You should try cooking. You should stop being an anonymous internet troll stomping on everyone’s proverbial sandcastles and instead write a poem. K bye ✌️ )

[akookminsupporter]

Our "expectations" are pretty normal.

I cannot speak for all Jikookers because, as I have always said, we are not a monolith. However, I am certain that many, like myself, do not expect to see anything different from what we are accustomed to in original content. The only difference this time is that it will be on steroids. We do not expect to see anything sexual; we do not expect to see Jimin and Jungkook kissing; we do not expect conversations about their 20-year marital life or their 50 children. We do not expect a "confirmation" of their romantic relationship. I do not understand why many believe that is what we expect to see and why those are the reasons we are excited to watch the series.

I and many Jikookers hope to see Jimin and Jungkook being happy and enjoying the little things. We hope to see them relaxed, enjoying day-to-day life, and enjoying each other’s company. We are excited because it will just be the two of them. Instead of minutes of Jikook jikooking within hours of content, it will be hours of Jikook jikooking. We hope to see a reaffirmation of their beautiful friendship. We hope to see a reaffirmation of their chemistry. We hope to see a reaffirmation that Jimin and Jungkook are essentially the same person. We hope to laugh at their antics. We hope to be as happy as they seem to have been during all those adventures because for us, or for many of us, Jimin and Jungkook together are synonymous with happiness.

Therefore, our expectations are normal. At least for me, I do not expect to see anything different from Jimin and Jungkook being Jimin and Jungkook together. My only expectation is to see Jikook jikooking.

[last-blue-hours]

I’m gobbling up the 3D jungkook x Who jimin edits like a starving man.

[kanmom51]

https://www.tumblr.com/kanmom51/712812388735418368/is-letter-a-song-for-army-the-baby-jm-never?source=share

I was going through this particular post and felt emotional...

Jm really calls jk baby isn't it?? We saw in the show too...things are slowly falling back to places just like many had doubts like why would the two bandmates supposed friends or the worst "not good mates, hate eachother so much to breathein the same place" travel to countries shooting a show in their last moment of freedom instead of laying happily beside their supposed gf or bf right.

They did tell us indirectly that they are together in their life without saying anything...just like everytime they did...

Hey there. :)

This is the post you linked:

Just read it again and ok then, what can I say, I am impressed. Quite the talented writer whoever wrote that one.😜

But seriously, am I a fortune teller or what? This was way before we even dreamt of a Jikook travel show giving us 9 hours more or less of authentic Jikook interactions. I'm not going to say uncensored, because there was clearly some censorship going on, at times on their part (awareness of cameras) and at times from the editors. But man, even with all of that, now that we are on the other side of this show you need to be really daft not to see they are telling us they are a couple. And if the show didn't convince us, well, this HAD to:

Oh, and JM calling JK baby... lol.

You know, like he did while talking to him in Letter...

Admit it.

You weren't surprised, right?

Only surprise was that once again it was allowed in.

But then again, purposefully so.

I know many are calling it a soft launch and well maybe you can call it that. But I would rather not label it. I will just sit here and enjoy what they have given us, which is so so much.

In this show we basically got first and foremost JM and JK telling us and showing us that they are, without a doubt, the closest duo in the group of 7. This comes on the tail of a couple of years where oh so many were claiming and reveling in what they thought was an apparent distance between the two. Apparent to those that for some reason think that these young superstars live their private lives for us to fully see. I guess (more so hope) that those ideas were laid to rest. And that for once and for all people finally realize that the two actually have a private life that we are not fully aware of. That the two spend time together even if we don't hear about it. That the two were and still are super close - intimately close.

And that takes me to my next point. It's not that the show revealed something that we weren't aware of when it comes to the level of intimacy between the two of them. It's not that they hadn't told us all of this over the years. It's that people were unwilling to hear it or see it and with the show we got to see it, 9 hours worth of it. Them on their own and them with their good friend that insisted on joining and was for most part allowing them to do their own thing. Not only did Tae's presence not disprove Jikook's closeness and intimacy (something many were hoping for), it actually highlighted it. It highlighted just how different, how much MORE JM and JK are with each other as opposed to either of them with Tae. Even when the three were spending time together (and I say even because much of the time Tae just left them to do their own thing or even if he was with them).

So yes, this was them allowing us to see just a little bit more of THEM. Together. The playfulness, the chemistry (again, something we were "warned" about in the promos - their known chemistry...), the way they just flow with each other, JK clearly being JM's cook (we get that in words and actions) and so much more.

I am not a fortuneteller and as such I can only write in hopes and wishes. I do hope and wish that this is them setting a new reality for the fandom. Yes the fandom should have caught on by now just how close they are. They basically never hid it, even if at times they pulled back with what we were shown (for many many reasons, some personal some towing the company line). But I am really hoping that post AYS Jikook will indeed be louder in the sense that they will allow us to continue and see THEM without the pullback we got at times. Because Army will accept THEM and embrace THEM. That the Jikook we get post military will be able to mention one another and it will be a new normal, not an eyebrow raising event. That JK won't have to say he'll get his toiletries and go over to shower at JM's because they will be living together in JK's new mansion. That they wouldn't have to hide it because people would finally accept them for who they are and who they love.

[not-goldy]

Do you think Jikook's bond (whatever it is) is a goldmine to HYBE and they are trying to profit off it?

Thanks for such an intelligent question, having had one such mentally stimulating ask in a while.

Is Hybe overtly exploiting the chemistry that BTS has and that each pair has within the band, absolutely. I mean that bit should be so easy to wrap your head around.

Romance, bromance is one of the top selling genres of all time. The idea of BTS having a super strong fated bond between them is so commercially viable literal movies and songs have been written about them. 7 dates, bullet proof, and their recent Kdrama series etc to be exact.

And ships sell. I've said this since day one. The commercial viability of ships is just an offshoot of the commercial viability of bands as discussed above.

So yes, within that context, Hybe definitely would gravitate towards the two members with the most chemistry, who also happen to be two of the most liked members of the group, two of the most popular members and the most influential members of the group.

You don't go to war with your weakest soldiers.

Jikook is a very strong ship. We all know that.

They've had the most running in the group with some of the ships rising and falling over the years in terms of chemistry and popularity.

There's a lot to do with a pair like that. Reality shows, travel shows, documentaries, memoirs, tell all, cooking shows.

I watch a lot of reality TV and it's not hard to see how Jikook would fit right into that realm.

If BTS was love Island 🏝 Jikook would get their own spinoff after the season ended.

Fans love them, they get the most votes, the camera adores them and producers have so much they wanna do with them.

Am I making sense???

Going off with the Love Island analogy, just because Jikook are fan favorite, and the crew likes to follow them every where with a camera, and they are getting a spin off show of just the two of them don't necessarily mean their bond is fake that they are only existing for fan service or that the company is exploiting them.

There's just so much to do with them. They are fun entertaining adorable and a pleasure to work with.

So to answer your question I'll say yes and no.

Yes, they definitely a Goldmine for hybe in as far as content production goes.

No because they get to kill two birds with one stone. They can make money off of them, but also they create a safe space for Jikook to have that longevity to explore and nurture their relationship. They love being together. They love doing what they do. Hybe simply allows them to live their dreams and relationship much longer.

I've always said, if any queer pair in kpop were real you'd find them in a ship because ships would be their perfect cover for it. And we've seen jikook use this card very often to get out of trouble. Everything they do would be chalked down to fan service no matter how egregious they were. It can be invalidating and frustrating but In a way, it's also safe for them that way.

If I got paid to cozy up to my girlfriend, travel the world with her, eat as much as we can, hike, experience all and any culture- yall could call us anything you want I'm taking that offer🤣🤣🤣🤣

But we gotta give credit where credit is due because to me it's Jungkook that lay the foundation for all of this to be possible when he put of his first GCF with Jimin and later Jimin lay on top of him on a couch talking bout how they ought to do it again and how he would even model for him if filming is what he wanted to do.

I think they gave Hybe the idea of what it can do with them.

You can tell these things are things they both naturally want to do and have already done. During Run, they come up with a team name, they work well together, during rehearsals they stay behind and work on their routines tweaking it a bit, they come up with cooking shows to do, stay up all night doing nothing.

They are by themselves very creative and adventurous.

So like I said, I don't think this is hybe mining them but more so amplifying and giving them the production value to do what they already have been doing which they love, fans love and the company loves.

I'm sure if any other pair had this same organic pull towards eachother and wanted to be around eachother all the time too hybe would be just as curious and invested in them but as it turns out there isn't.

We are not stupid, we see them. And we see how some members act like they can't wait to get out of set when others keep it going even after they yell cut.

We see them all.

[goldenhickeysandramen]

Chemistry overdose

What the toxics call discomfort in jikook, I call it..

"CHEMISTRY OVERDOSE"

Sometimes the chemistry between them is so overflowing that the reaction of both or one of them is unexpected, or even a bit harsh.

That's why, when one gets too bold, the other one backs off (to take control), or simply stands still smiling (as if nothing has happened)

Sometimes they behave a bit clumsy too

(btw these were the holy trinity of the "uncomfortable" vlives)

Sometimes they are shy... they can't help it

But if after so many years of watching them interact and their reactions, the conclusion is that this is discomfort - rather than an excess of chemistry between them ….

PLEASE LET THE DISCOMFORT TAKE OVER ME!

I WANT A LIFE FULL OF DISCOMFORT!

🧎‍♀️