#kingdom excalibur

[snoos-tattoos]

We need to talk about Excalibur era Dann.

[married-2-the-music]

The Kingdom: K-pop Discography Deep Dive

The Kingdom (formerly known as Kingdom) is a group built around the idea that each member represents a different well-known king from a different country; in order, King Arthur of Britain, Emperor Chiyou of China, Emperor Ivan (the Terrible) of Russia, King Dann of Korea, King Louis XIV of France, Emperor Jinmu of Japan, and King Jahangir of India. Chiyou left for personal reasons in 2022, and an…

[candescentkpop]

Jahan

Kingdom: Excalibur

Kingdom Part 19 / ?

[elitehanitje]

"A profound lack of urgency on behalf of Orange Cassidy." - Excalibur

[fr4gtpgaming]

Collab with @meleeprowess @kingofcaptura @6ixgatsu and Liberty 🙌🏽

[songweaver]

[ultimate-sword-showdown]

Round 2, Match 5: Excalibur vs. Oathkeeper and Oblivion

Excalibur

From: Soul Eater

Wielder: No one, for long Excalibur is an 800+ year old sword and is the most powerful weapon in the world. He grants the wielder wings of light, the ability to teleport, and the ability to cut through anything. However, he also happens to have an extremely annoying personality, to the point that any potential wielder quickly discards him once their tolerance for him has inevitably run dry. Anyone who is able to utilize him long enough to accomplish something noteworthy is praised as a “hero” or “king” purely by virtue of being one of the few individuals with a will strong enough to withstand Excalibur’s insufferable personality.

Oathkeeper and Oblivion

From: Kingdom Hearts

Wielder: Roxas

Roxas’ origin as Sora’s nobody allows him to uniquely dual-wield keyblades, whereas Sora could only wield one of these at a time. The teeth of Oathkeeper and Oblivion represent the kanji for “light” and “dark,” respectively. Oathkeeper represents Sora’s memories of Kairi, while Oblivion represents his memories of Riku.

[marx-soul]

you sure about that riku?

[musellanea]

KINGDOM: History of Kingdom End Credit

An edit to conclude the History of Kingdom 👑

[haven-anyone-would-yearn-for]

unfortunately, Link is not the king of the Britons

[fstbmp-a]

Now that Super Sonic can just make Chaos Constructs, nothing's stopping me from just replicating Excalibur form--

[snoos-tattoos]

KINGDOM - 'Excalibur'

This will forever be one of my favorite kpop mvs. The visuals, the music, the cinematography, the concept in general... I will never shut up about Excalibur.

music video

mv making film #1

mv making film #2

[candescentkpop]

Mujin

Kingdom: Excalibur

Kingdom Part 18 / ?

[queer-ragnelle]

everyone go read the vulgate cycle and watch excalibur (1981) this instant

knights are sooooooo good in horror settings like. blind following and unconditional loyalty to their liege. mistaking evil for divinity. unwavering faith to a corrupted cause. corruption in general (whether they’re the target or an accessory). so many good options…… *chefs kiss*

[fallenblackstar]

Flip that Coin theories

I have a bunch of different situations thought for the lore focused on what we saw in Flip that Coin's MV and I'll be putting them all together here as they're not long enough to put in separate posts + I feel it'll be better to connect all in that way.

The points I'll be covering here are:

The coin is a magical artifact

The coin was placed on purpose

Transition between worlds

Possible connection of the virus with LLTK

[The links send you to my respective tweets talking about these points]

Heads up that tweets don't have much information compared to this blog, as they were made during comeback era, and some even before the MV release, so now I'm connecting more dots as we have much more information and time to process what we received.

Without further ado, let's start digging into this:

The coin is a magical artifact

I remember that during the countdown for FtC comeback Louis said we should pay atention to the coin.

At first I thought it was because coins have two sides, and that pretty much applies to them in the lore right now. They hinted a lot to this before the release of FtC and also we have been knowing about different worlds since HOK7 albums dropped, with the lore in the final pages.

But as we were given more information, I started to think it had a deeper meaning and that probably the coin we're talking about is magical.

And what does the coin do? Well, is the key to travel between worlds. I could get this answer after we got the MV, seeing how we saw them jumping between worlds after flipping the coin. Louis and Hwon (we will see Hwon's case in the next point) used the coin and seemingly traveled to a different world than the initial one.

We also see Dann stopping Hwon from flipping the coin at the end, which is basically him stopping Hwon from jumping to another world.

And with this I can jump to the next point:

The coin was placed on purpose

At first I thought it was Louis the hooded guy at the start, that drops the coin, but it turned out to be Dann. This still works tho, as my point is that hooded Dann left the coin for the other Dann to find it.

Dann brings the coin to the group and Louis picks it up, as if he knows what to do with it, he then flips it and jumps to another world, finding hooded Louis there.

That coin was probably the way the hooded kings used to get in contact with the other kings.

And for what? That's still not very clear, I can't really say which group is the antagonist here because it can go both ways, especially with that last scene with hooded Dann and regular Mujin.

But both worlds may have a reason to contact each other, thus the coin.

And while we are still in the topic, let's go to the next point:

The transition between worlds

After some time watching the MV I started to think that maybe the underwater scene can represent the transition between worlds after using the coin.

This scene is placed between Hwon flipping the coin in the second chorus and him catching it at the end of the bridge. Is a curious thing to do when the coin is the key/portal between worlds and during this scene we see how both Hwon can see each other, kinda like swapping places in that underwater limbo.

At the start I thought that maybe this underwater scene was something specific for Hwon's character so at first I didn't have this thought, until I discovered they had other kings in mind to do this, in case Hwon couldn't do the scene.

So, knowing they tell us a lot with who does or says what, I came to think that this scene in particular is something general of the world and it will have the same purpose/effect/meaning regardless of the king. And they chose Hwon to represent it here first.

Let's imagine the case Hwon couldn't do the scene, then Ivan was the next one in line to do it, which means that whether is Hwon, Ivan, Mujin or anyone, the scene serves its purpose, and being placed between the flip of the coin, just makes me think that this is the limbo they cross when they travel between worlds with the coin.

These three points are linked by the coin. Now let's jump to the last one that tackles a different matter presented in the MV:

The virus and his connection to a previous installment

At the end of FtC MV we have a short scene of hooded Dann entering a dark, almost empty room, where regular Mujin is sitting in silence in the armchair, watching TV.

We can hear for a moment the TV, giving a news report of a virus that spreads through blood.

What this virus does is not clear as far as I know, but when I saw LLTK MV after discussing lore stuff with a friend, I noticed something in particular:

There´s a short sequence of blood dripping that then changes to DNA.

This is probably the first hint we were given about this virus, why would you put a sequence of blood and DNA? And it makes more sense with FtC's last scene with the news about a virus.

It gives the "zombie apocalypse" vibes, but what if it is in a uncoventional way? Not the typical zombies but immortal people.

We know Louis is immortal, is something they tell us in LLTK, so what if the virus is the cause of immortality? In that case, did Louis bring the virus? Or even deeper, its origin is tied to Louis or is he another victin of said virus?

These are questions that I'm afraid we won't have answers soon, and we will need to wait for them to drop more information in future installments. But I have a feeling that the virus could be related to immortality. What is still a mystery is their full effects, why is it such a concern to be on the news, who brought it and why, what is the purpose of it.

So, what do you think? I'd love to hear opinions on these, I love to discuss theories and that stuff.

If you arrived here, thank you so much for reading!

[cowboymantis]

First Kingdom fanart :)

I need to get back to drawing more, I barely do it these days 😭