#me and toon linking up at the function to yap about color theory: 😈🤝😈

[ivanttakethis]

Follow up to my previous post on Alien Stage outfits and color theory.

That post focused on characters whose color schemes shifted over time: Mizi, Ivan, and Till.

This post focuses on characters we only see wearing one color: Hyuna and Luka.

Also inspired by @nottoonedin tags on that post.

While black represented stability and the status quo for Mizi and Ivan, Hyuna only ever wearing black falls more in line with what the color black represents for Till: suppression.

Even though Hyuna is no longer physically suppressed by the aliens, we know that mentally she’s still deeply affected by the trauma of her childhood under the control of the aliens.

We see glimpses of this inner turmoil during All-In:

Hyunwoo died a gruesome death at a very young age. Hyuna saw the bloody scene and her brother’s dead body in the aftermath.

On top of that, someone who was close to both her and her brother was involved in the incident that led to his death.

Whether Luka killed Hyunwoo on purpose or by accident, we don’t know. And neither does Hyuna.

That’s going to fuck someone up pretty badly.

Till is being suppressed externally, but I think Hyuna is suppressing herself internally.

Rather than confronting the horrific experiences she dealt with and witnessed as a child, she pours all of herself into other things so she doesn’t have to think about it.

But that pain is still there. She can’t run from it forever.

I don’t think Luka will let her.

Speaking of Luka, we only ever see him wearing white.

It’s his signature look, both during his winning season of Alien Stage and in this current one.

White for Luka represents him taking back some control over his life from the aliens, at least while performing.

Though unlike Mizi and Ivan (and Sua), he doesn’t use this control to rebel. He uses it to manipulate his opponents.

Except he goes too far in Round 5. He loses his control over Mizi and nearly pays for it with his life.

He lost control of the stage — his domain — probably for the first time.

And then seeing Hyuna after all of that? I’m sure it rattled him to some degree.

I have to wonder if Round 5 is meant to set up Luka’s eventual unraveling.

We know he’s wearing white again in Round 7.

Will he finally lose internal control of himself and act out like Mizi and Ivan did?

Will he be the next character in white the instigate a major shift in the story?

Either way, I think we can expect to see some sort of confrontation between Luka and Hyuna at some point.

Their color schemes are diametrically opposed to one another. Yin and Yang, one cannot exist without the other, and so on.

I’m probably (re: definitely) reading too much into this, but the eclipse imagery behind Luka in this art makes me think only one of them will come out of this alive…