#romh

[marimondart]

Ruler of My Heart (Sua ver)

[uwibbit]

🌕 when our darknesses overlap, let me take it all away ✨

[bringmebrightness]

i was pausing a frame of Round 5 to use as a pose reference and

this blank, maybe even disdainful or bored expression, right after we're shown luka's fans going wild and before the line "Make me your God, I can give you everything"

for some of the song he's acting interested and trying to act charming (mimicking sua either intentionally or unintentionally), and at other points he's blank and distant again

man...

[beanmaster-pika]

I think if he ever actually said this the whole sect would faint from shock (not ship)

[music2keepsane]

Ruler of My Heart - Hyuna Vers. Alien Stage

[htegiantpeach]

emerld srstrai.... my wife emerald sustry.......

[sqwigeon]

another one for the pmmm x alnst crossover

[ochiody]

OHH MY GOD HYUNA. RJKWNSNJBGBHVJM

[crustyfloor]

hehehenenehreneenh

Ruler of my heart is a song about obsession, devotion, in almost the religious sense as you look up to the person as a god in your life, your only person.

There is hesitance in Mizi and Luka's ruler of my heart as Mizi is still grieving Sua, just on the cusp of breaking, and Luka is manipulating her into falling into his whims, directly pressing on that wound. In Sua's version of Ruler of My Heart, she is Mizi's god. The song expresses her etherealness in the way she sings.

But in HyunA's version of Ruler of My Heart, she sounds more wistful and distracted like she's reminiscing. Her tone isn't strong like her personality, she sings softly and deeply like a murmur, in the solace of her own mind she doesn't feel as free as she is. She still feels stuck in the past. Luka still lingers in her mind even after all these years, in this song, too, his voice lingers in the background just barely as if he’s haunting her. HyunA sings ROMH with such an air of disinterest, yet she breaks at certain moments when it's so obvious she's thinking about Hyunwoo, her only person.

She's also thinking about Luka. HyunA is obviously mad at Luka, mad might not even be a strong enough word for just how angry she was, he's the reason she lost her brother after all, how could he take him from her and dare to try and take his place, as if he could be her everything like hyunwoo was, as if he could heal her. She wishes she would've never met him at all, but while singing, she sounds melancholic because that day, she didn't just lose her brother. She lost Luka too.

The anniversary covers feel like foreshadowing for each of the characters' stories, so in Round 7 I think there will be a moment to address this lingering ache, but I'm not sure just how it will play out...probably not anything good (due to my doubts)

NOW IM SO EXCITED TO HEAR THEIR VOICES EDITED TOGETHER I WILL DIE

[atrophiedemotion]

if alien stage does anniversary covers again i gotta speak this into existence,, ivantill ruler of my heart cover?...

[chiisana-lion]

they had to kill sua in the first round bc they knew she'd outcunt luka if it ever had to come to that point

[l-0puko]

just rewatched the alnst prologue and was like. huh. i knew there was something familiar about the latest poster

[frill-s]

Mount Hua's Divine Dragon. That's what Cheong Myeong's title became after the contest between Zhongnan and Mount Hua. I never thought about who gave CM his first title. I just assumed it manifested into existence.

And then later in the novel, Jin Geumryong refers to CM as the Divine Dragon. CM is confused because has a new title that has been used more commonly. Jin Geumryong is so nonchalant as he says that he bestowed the name "Divine Dragon" to CM so of course he's going to keep referring to CM as Divine Dragon.

So there was a reason he was dubbed as the Divine Dragon, right? He beat Jin Geumryong, whose namesake was dragon. How did I miss that? Were there clues I overlooked? I just never thought about how he got the title, other than it was because he defeated the second-grade Zhongnan disciples.

[bringmebrightness]

Thinking about the biological elements in the stage decor in Round 5

[beanmaster-pika]

She’s so the favorite

[kitsquared]

We desperately need Mizi's original solo song