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Chairs and Benches: A Ridiculous Loonaverse Theory

Something I noticed in some of Loona's promo stuff is their use of chairs to establish each member's place in the group. Like when YYXY debuted with an intro of them sitting on chairs and looking at eight more that were vacant...

... or the Cinema Theory intro where First Girl Heejin expectantly looks at eleven vacant chairs...

... then the whole group's debut stage where the chairs are finally filled because they're complete.

Back when I noticed this, I just thought, "Oh hey! What a neat way to remind us that there are twelve members in the whole group to hype up the debut."

But then my friend watched the mv for Around You and went "What's up with all the chairs in Hyunjin's house? She's just putting random stuff on them too instead of just putting them on a table..."

So I got to thinking, if the chairs were used to represent the absence of a member -- or just a person -- in the lore, then all the chairs in Hyunjin's place could be there to symbolize her character's notable loneliness. She's very aware that there are people missing in her life, and she wants them to be filled, so she puts random things on them, whether it's her potted plants or some crate or her clothes.

Then at the end of Around You's short film version, she finally meets Heejin, as they're seated on matching benches that are meant to be shared with another person.

Well, not quite matching. For some reason Heejin's bench looks to be newly painted blue, as if it was specifically done just for that video. Could just be because Heejin's thing is all about living a much more vivid and colorful world, and she's bringing that to Hyunjin too, but eh--

ANYWAY. Their meet cute looks familiar though, right?

Something something cinematic parallels...

Just like 2jin, Yves and Vivi's first meeting involves them sitting on matching benches. If a vacant chair is used to represent a missing person, then maybe matching benches are used to represent girls who are meant to share their lives together?

(I am cringing as I type that, god--)

There's another instance where I spotted matching benches; Haseul in The Carol, waiting for Heejin and Hyunjin to find her.

It always gets a bemused giggle out of me whenever I remember that this is Haseul's B-Side love song but the only likely romance we can see is 2jin's. There hasn't been any love interest explicitly shown for Haseul, which is why she's seated on her bench alone, just waiting. But it's not like her match doesn't exist, or isn't there. Another bench stands beside hers, peaking a tiny bit into the frame. The "white snow" she's waiting for will be there soon, she just hasn't been introduced yet.

Then lo and behold, seven more girls later, Haseul finds Chuu covered in snow, just a little bit after her shopping spree in The Carol

In conclusion: Matching benches are the Loonaverse equivalent of soulmate marks lmfao

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