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I did manage to get started and did all of the Story Films, I’m hoping to do the HELLO saga MVs tomorrow.

I’m going on vacations on Saturday so I don’t know when the theory will be ready but I’m working on it

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I love disappearing for months on end in this account and then coming back like did you know Younghee is being tortured in the seventh circle of hell according to Dante while in comma as seen in Jungle because I didn’t until yesterday when I watched every single CIX MV in a row because... well, I don’t know why I did it, but I did

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The ONF Multiverse Theory

OMG?! Are your eyes right? Am I back with another kpop theory?

Yes. The answer is yes. It literally says Theory on the title, come on.

I’m sorry. Can you already sense this theory has driven me to madness? Because it has. If you thought MONSTA X’s time traveling shenanigans were complicated, oh boy… You’re in for a good one. Anyways for those of you who might not know me, my name is Orion, but you can call me Ori, and today I bring you my take on ONF’s story that they’ve developed through the MVs. Thought this would be a good time since they’re in the MS and won’t be putting out more confusing MVs to disprove my theory soon. 

If you like this theory, consider checking my other theories here. Also, I recommend you have a death counter at hand, you’ll need it. And now, let’s dive into the theory.

TW: So much Main Character Death.

Some things to consider 

Before we fully go into the theory, I want you to know and acknowledge that we’re going to be dealing with space-time travel, multiple universes, and the fact that Hyojin has like three different hairstyles per music video (I wish I were kidding). The videos are mostly chronological from ON/OFF to Why, and from then on, your guess is as good as mine. I also want you to know I have two possible alternatives for how to organize the story in the MVs, and I’ll be addressing both of them to the best of my abilities. I hope it’s not too confusing.

Universe 01: Opening the Gates to the Multiverse (ON/OFF to Why + New World)

ON/OFF starts our story with one of the most interesting settings I’ve seen in k-pop and yet it’s never addressed again: humans did a Wall-E and left Earth. Throughout the MV we get to see a sign in the Cinema Paradise movie theater that says “Now it’s over. The end of the world. Destroyed. Last day. Place where of it is gone. We still have hope.” This is accompanied by signs of a spaceship under the title of “Journey to space: You can go anywhere, dreams come true”.

[Picture: Screenshot from ON/OFF that shows the posters described previously.]

Basically, the Earth was coming to an end and humans decided to jump ship. On the spaceships, they fabricated androids that they sent back to Earth to heal it and send a signal back to them once they deemed the planet habitable again. Laun is the one to send the signal in the end, as we see him operating a machine. The signal is received (as shown by the “Upload Complete” and the “Signal Detected” screens) and humans make it back to Earth, symbolized by the Astronaut looking out the fancy window and the “meteorites” coming down to Earth which are spaceships.

[Picture: Four-picture collage. Top left picture shows Laun using the machine to send the signal. Top right sounds a screen displaying the phrase “Signal Detected”. Bottom left shows a meteorite falling. Bottom right shows an astronaut taking off their helmet.]

In Complete we see more symbols of sending messages, such as the flare Laun fires, or the smoke bomb E-tion is holding. Laun is also seen with a similar looking machine again, and we get to see the meteorites/spaceships falling to Earth once more.

We Must Love (WML) is where things start getting a bit complicated story-wise. We don’t have anything that points to this, but it’s probable that after coming back to Earth, they got the androids back and kept them at base while working on other things. At the same time, the company that created them starts working on something new: space-time travel. I believe that they decided to test it on Laun without telling him much of what it was about. The others figured it out and tried to stop it, but it was too late.

[Picture: Screenshot from We Must Love of Laun looking back at the members as they run towards him after he activates the time-traveling watch.]

Laun wakes up in the middle of a forest, with, at best, very spotty memories of who he was, at worse, he remembers absolutely nothing. He remakes his life. Meanwhile, the others make it their personal mission to find him. We know from the Making Film that U was actually left behind, probably because he was the second youngest at the time. J-Us was helping through hacking while the others were on the ground looking for him. E-tion manages to find him once but accidentally activates the watch before he gets close to him. Hyojin also finds him, but realizes they’re simply too late.

[Picture: Three picture collage. The first picture is of Laun waking up in a forest. The second picture is of E-tion looking at Laun through the train tracks after activating his watch. Thirs picture is of Hyojin encountering Laun in front of a Vietnamese train station.]

It is through J-Us’ hacking that we’re first introduced to the multiverse. If we look closely at the screen that displays Laun’s information, on the bottom it says “Address: South Korea, Earth, Universe 01”.  This immediately implies that there are more universes, so from now on I’ll be adding a tag before the names to specify which version of them I’m talking about, and those tags will correspond to the subtitles of each section, so in this case, it’ll be U1.

[Picture: Screenshot taken from We Must Love of J-Us looking up information on Laun. The information is displayed ona window screen, part of the information includes the “address” mentioned before.]

Now, here is where I have an issue with how the timeline progresses. Technically it would make absolute sense, plot-wise, for Beautiful Beautiful (BB) to happen after WML and before Why, though there are a few details that are contradictory. On one hand, no one has died yet, and J-Us’s plot of being arrested fits nicely. On the other hand, BB looks way too advanced to be happening at the same time as Why, and it looks way more similar to Goosebumps (GB), though we do see flying cars in Why. There’s also the fact that the development of the relationships of the characters makes no sense if we transition from BB to Why, and I know Why has to happen before Goosebumps (GB), so for now we’re not going to count BB as part of U1, but I’ll keep you updated if that changes.

So let’s continue with Why. New World’s (NW) lyrics are actually a great tool for explaining what’s happening in Why, and the Road to Kingdom performance also makes references to it. After losing Laun and realizing what the company was making them do, the rest of ONF feel it is unfair and decide to run away and create, almost literally, a new world. They probably get this information from the company, and decide to look for The Cube. 

[Picture: Screenshot taken from New World. The members stand behind The Cube, holding six keys towards it.]

We don’t know much about The Cube other than it is necessary for them to create the new world, it is probably what allows travel between universes (as opposed to space-time travel within the same universe), and you need six keys to unlock it. At the end of the video, we see that most of them are facing The Cube, so we can assume they managed to unlock it, but it is not without a price.

[Picture: Screenshot taken from Why. The Cube floats above a building in a small island, as comet-looking things fly off from it.]

One of the teasers, also called “signal clues” (#11), shows us a slightly blurry picture of Hyojin at the end of Why taking off the silver mask, with a very prominent word slapped over it: CLONING. In signal clue #9 we see pictures of all the members, but there’s two Hyojin pictures with an equal sign between them. The first one says Error, while the second one says Why along with Hyojin’s serial number. Yes, what I’m proposing here is that Hyojin was cloned, probably by the company, though maybe as a side effect of them using untested technology, and Clone!Hyojin (now known as C!Hyojin) became corrupted as part of the process went wrong.

[Picture: Blurry picture of C!Hyojin taking off the silver mask, overlayed by green text that says, among other things “cloning” in full capital letters.]

We know the technology they were using was unfinished because E-tion writes about it in signal clue #9 as well. We also know that E-tion is carrying with him a USB called “storage of ONF”, we don’t know for sure what it contains but it might be their original memories. This is what I managed to decipher from the text.

“We came to know the matter of illegal chips (...) (entered) the laboratory secretly, and tried to do Time Warp by (stealing?) illegal chips in an unfinished (state). And (...) warp repeatedly (because, …) (illegal) chips and felt (human) (before), he started (recording).”

[Picture: A sort of collage with pictures of all the members, including the two Hyojin pictures and the text described above.]

After C!Hyojin gets corrupted, we see him literally eliminate U1!Hyojin from existence. J-Us learns about this, and looks for him to confront him, and although we don’t see it happening, we have every reason to believe J-Us is dead too. For one, we never see him fire the gun against C!Hyojin, and most importantly, he gets surrounded by C!Hyojin’s minions, so I think it’s safe to assume he did not make it to the new world. 

[Picture: Two picture collage. The first picture is of U1!Hyojin coming undone while C!Hyojin takes the mask off in front of him. The second picture is of J-Us standing in front of C!Hyojin’s army of masked people.]

There’s a few other things and questions I have about Why that we don’t get an explanation. Why was Wyatt in a tube? Why were E-tion and U fighting? How did MK get all his advanced technology to work in that abandoned building? As for Wyatt, I think he was either captured and put there, or he put himself there to escape his misery and then was woken up by the others. E-tion and U were probably fighting because it’s possible that E-tion wanted to stop U from doing something dangerous, him being the baby and all, but U did not want to be treated like that. MK’s shenanigans are the fruit of k-pop lore magic. In any case, with 4/6 making it to the new world, we are done with Universe 01.

Death count:

Hyojin 1

J-Us 1

Interlude: Were ONF humans?

This is perhaps one of the most complicated questions to answer in the theory. We don’t get any clues that they could have been humans before being turned into androids until we see the text in signal clue #3, which I’ve copied to the best of my abilities here:

“They were originally (...) Humans made their memories digitalized as they evolved and then they got into Android like (...) such evolved case. But, they became Android, and (...) was only remaining in records but their feelings disappeared.

Meanwhile (...) hacker (...) came to know the secret too late, visited the vast (...) with the Multiverse like multiple universe and did hacking (...) to deliver the illegal chip online in order to look for them (...).

A person who first found its clue left the secret place (...) who maintained a close relationship to him. He wandered (...) in Multiverse (...) its trace. Two got together in the end, but there was not much time left to him.”

[Picture: Teaser from which the text detailed above was obtained.]

We also get a couple more references to it in BB and Popping. In the News program in BB we get a text that says “(...) machines and become the humanoid.”. In the Making Film for Popping, Wyatt says that the heart projected onto his chest is because he’s hesitant about choosing between being human or robot. So it is very, very likely that ONF voluntarily turned themselves into androids in order to be able to take care of Earth while humans returned, and then they were used by their company until they decided they didn’t want that anymore. It’s definitely a plot point that I feel should be explored more.

Universe 02: Parallel World - Dream (Sukhumvit Swimming)

In one of the social media teasers for Sukhumvit Swimming (SS), we see the phrase “Parallel World: dream”, so it is quite possible that everything happening in SS is a dream, and if so, it’s very likely a dream from the characters in Popping. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not a reality itself. I remember seeing a video of a person explaining that their dream-self had a separate memory of events that happened in their dreams, and while wild-sounding, I don’t see why the characters wouldn’t be able to dream of other dimensions. 

Even the director of Popping kind of confirms that Wyatt has nightmares about C!Hyojin about how he killed them all in other MVs, so it’s entirely possible one version of the boys might be dreaming about other versions of themselves. It also makes sense for this to happen, since The Cube is now active and all that.

[Picture: Social media teaser taken from instagram, the description contains the phrase “Parallel World: dream”, as stated before.]

We don’t have very clear context of what’s happening during SS, however, the visuals lead me to believe that this is what would have happened to Earth had the humans not left to try and save it. I like to imagine that in this universe, they stayed and brought upon the end of the world. Androids still got developed, but they got very different jobs. J-Us here is like a sheriff / policeman. I don’t remember the name of Wyatt’s cart but it’s like a space-time traveling taxi. E-tion was sent to explore other planets. Hyojin and MK went rogue, one holding people as time hostages while the other is a pirate. And U… well he’s in a party?

Through the video we see, mostly, very destroyed and rundown cities. In fact, towards the end we see Wyatt sitting in his little cart just watching everything being blown to smithereens. In another shot, we see E-tion contemplating the end of the world as spaceships fly away from Earth, so it’s very likely that U2’s Earth is as good as gone. 

[Picture: Two picture collage. The first picture has E-tion sitting on a small planet, facing the camera while behind him explosions go off over the Earth. The second picture features Wyatt sitting in his little cart while he watches over the very destroyed city.]

There’s also the very obvious storyline between Hyojin and J-Us. One being a criminal and the other law enforcement, they eventually end up facing each other, with J-Us emerging victorious at the cost of Hyojin’s life. There is one scene where we see Hyojin’s death being reversed,so I think it was just J-Us trying to find another solution that wasn’t killing him, yet they still end up like right at the beginning with the train, so I don’t think there was another solution. It’s almost a time loop, if you will.

[Picture: Screenshot taken from Sukhumvit Swimming. The camera is on the floor, we can see J-Us’s blurry boots in the front as Hyojin falls in the background, defeated.]

Now we’re faced with the glaring question of… why was everyone dead around J-Us at the end of the video while he held Hyojin? Well, remember this universe is parallel to another, it’s in the teasers. We don’t get to see how they die, other than Hyojin, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t dead. It’s very likely that they died at the end of the world, but despite the lack of information, we can’t ignore the obvious.

[Picture: Screenshot taken from Sukhumvit Swimmin of J-Us holding onto Hyojin’s body while the rest of the members lay around him.]

Death count:

Hyojin 2

J-Us 1

E-tion 1

Wyatt 1

MK 1

U 1

Universe 03: Back to the ice-age (Popping)

Popping is absolutely one of my favorite title tracks and also one of the MVs that makes me the saddest because of their fabulous acting (Hyojin’s expression as the debris and the missile head towards his spaceship???? Priceless). It’s also like, the one MV that can stand alone almost perfectly, and it’s the complementary dimension to the one in SS (the connection between the two was confirmed in the MV Making Film).

I fully believe most, if not all of them are human throughout this MV, except perhaps for U, who we see leaving the spaceship without a suit. We know the possibility of androids existed in this universe, because like mentioned before, Wyatt explains in the Making Film how he has a scene where he debates between remaining human and becoming an android, so it’s likely U chose to become an android. His code being the only one shown in the MV is a good supporting detail of this. 

[Picture: Screenshot taken from Popping. Wyatt is working on a computer and behind him is a door that features U’s code: YO-425-83.]

In this MV, all of them went to school together to become astronauts and do research at space stations. However, it is very likely that they either discovered something they shouldn’t have, or they became C!Hyojin’s target simply by existing (since it’s still unclear if C!Hyojin is employed by someone or not). Either way, the robot-cops we later see again in BB and GB come looking for them, and U decides to sacrifice himself to save the others. 

[Picture: Screenshot taken from Popping. U stands outside the space ship, holding a detonator as he is surrounded by the robocops from Beautiful Beautiful and Goosebumps.]

Meanwhile, the others are preparing to send J-Us and MK away with the information or whatever research they were doing, since they are targets now. J-Us makes it out alive and arrives at an ice planet. MK isn’t so lucky. As he’s preparing to leave, a missile destroys his spaceship, with another moving very rapidly towards where Hyojin, Wyatt and E-tion are left. The missile doesn’t collide with the main room, so they have a few more minutes of life until C!Hyojin arrives and finishes them off (as confirmed by the MV director of GB).

[Picture: Three picture collage. The first picture shows a missile coming towards MK’s space ship. The second picture shows Hyojin watching MK’s ship explode as a different missile heads towards him. The third picture shows C!Hyojin coming in through the same door U left before.]

J-Us is left alone on the ice planet with the camera MK used to record with. It’s unclear if the camera contained all the important information they were probably trying to protect or just the memories of their days together. Either way, J-Us is left looking longingly at the spaceship he arrived in, which, curiously enough, has the same logo we later see in GB.

[Picture: Screenshot taken from Popping of J-Us holding MK’s camera as he stands in the ice planet.]

Death count:

Hyojin 3

J-Us 1

E-tion 2

Wyatt 2

MK 2

U 2

Universe 04: The questionable one (Beautiful Beautiful & Goosebumps???)

Here is when you can start accusing me of just speaking nonsense because even I am not sure about this part of the theory. As I said before, BB could perfectly happen before Why, if it wasn’t for a few glaring details that just make it feel like too much of a reach. BB and GB have a very similar feel to them in terms of aesthetic and how advanced the society seems in both videos, so until proven otherwise, we’re going to assume they’re from the same universe.

There’s a few aspects that contribute to this point of the theory, for example the fact that they continue being chased, the existence of drones, the virtual city thing where the car was driving (which U is seen next to in GB so maybe he was driving it), and a few other details like that. So for now, we’ll assume it is the same Universe.

The entirety of BB is an operation to rescue J-Us from the police/government. In a social media teaser we discover he was arrested due to time travel, as it says “The time warp is possible, but the timeline has messed by past travels and classified as the first degree criminal.” Which is also part of the text we see in the news flashing through the MV. We have no idea why J-Us time traveled in this universe but I think it is not relevant for now.

[Picture: A teaser which includes several pictures of J-Us, with his code, SJ-777-77 on top of them. Under them is the text mentioned before and a bar code.]

All of ONF are a criminal hacking group, and they’re all wanted, but they manage to evade the police and rescue J-Us flawlessly. In the meantime, it seems like they were focused on hacking the entirety of the city to turn it into the City of ONF, which is why we see E-tion working on a machine that seems to be directly controlling The Cube. When he finishes, everything in the city is covered by the word “Beautiful”. 

[Picture: Three picture collage. The first picture features Hyojin and J-Us celebrating the latter’s rescue. The second picture is an organization map of ONF, it’s a bit blurry but it details their occupation as hackers. The third picture is E-tion standing in an alleyway with his fist raised towards The Cube covered in the word Beautiful.]

After this, they have naturally become the most wanted criminals, because why wouldn’t they. Unfortunately for them, C!Hyojin has also made it into this universe, and once again he goes directly for U4!Hyojin. We can’t fully confirm he’s dead, but we do see him falling to the nothingness after breaking through glass so it is very safe to assume that C!Hyojin just pushed him off a building.

[Picture: Two picture collage, the first picture shows U4!Hyojin falling from a broken window while the second picture shows C!Hyojin staring as glass flies around him.]

It would also be worth noting that U4!Wyatt is having dreams with C!Hyojin, as confirmed by the director in the MV Making. Another fun detail from this is that we get to see U2!E-tion again, as he looks to the camera with a drone right behind him. This might explain his death in SS. 

[Picture: Two picture collage. The first picture shows U4!Wyatt surrounded by 4 C!Hyojins holding guns at him. The second picture is U2!E-tion staring at the camera as a drone looms behind him.]

At the end of the music video, we see The Cube being connected to some sort of machine and turning orange. This is very important because before now, The Cube has always been by itself, floating in the sky and acting as a sort of door between universes. It being connected to something means that someone is probably trying to control its potential powers, and I would bet for C!Hyojin or whoever is behind him, if there is someone.

[Picture: Screenshot taken from Goosebumps of The Cube hooked unto a machine and turned orange.]

Death count:

Hyojin 4???

J-Us 1

E-tion 2

Wyatt 2

MK 2

U 2

Conclusions

I’m not sure there is a sensible way to conclude this theory because honestly, what even is going on? For now, I’ll try to summarize it in a few points:

There is a blood-thirsty clone of U1!Hyojin running around THROUGH universes killing as many versions as he can for a purpose we don’t know.

It seems that it is possible for one version to have access to memories of other versions.

Androids in this story are created by inserting memories of actual humans into robot bodies.

Someone or something might be trying to control The Cube for their own benefit.

As always, thank you so much for reading through this theory. If you would like to discuss it with me, or if you have questions, leave a comment or send me a DM or an ask. I’ll be sure to answer! And don’t forget to check my pinned for my other k-pop theories!

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Alright, I’ve got the basic outline of the theory... Now I just gotta... write it...

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Okay so task 1 out of 5 done! Next is to develop a basic timeline/storyline that I’ll use as a base to write the theory itself

I have a vague idea of where the story is heading, and I hope I’m right lol Otherwise it’s going to be very sad...

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TXT Universe Theory: The Dream Chapter

Hello and welcome back to another one of my theories! This theory will be quite long and will take into account everything in the first chapter of TXT’s story. I won’t be doing Minisode 1 or either of the Chaos Chapters yet cause it will give us all a headache if I do, so yes, there will be things missing. Believe me, I know, I’m just pretending like I don’t know anything for the sake of my mind XD Let’s dive into the theory!

The Protagonists

Name: Choi Yeonjun

Keywords: Promise, guilty, sleepless, apricity 

Association: Paranoid Park

Metamorphosis: Horns

Songs: Crown, Magic Island

Yeonjun is, perhaps, more relevant than his character wishes he was. Paranoid Park, the book (and perhaps also movie) he’s associated with, talks about a 16-year-old boy who accidentally kills a policeman and tries to cope with it while simultaneously hiding what he did. Yeonjun’s guilt can be seen almost everywhere. His Dream-Self grows horns during Nap of a Star, which are generally associated with evil and destruction, and in Crown he expresses his fear of being evil.

In the teasers for Magic Island he says “I think there’s someone else aside from us #itsmyfault”. And in the teasers for The Dream Chapter: Eternity he adds the hashtags #imscared #itwasjustajoke when revealing his association. He did something that makes him feel guilty. He possibly didn’t kill anyone (I mean, if anyone did, it’s most likely Beomgyu, but that’s not here nor there), but it hasn’t been revealed yet what he did do.

I associate Magic Island with him because it talks about promises and about the Odd Eye Cat, which I will talk about more in detail later, but suffice to say the Odd Eye Cat might have something against Yeonjun. There is a small chance that Yeonjun feels guilty about having forgotten their promise with the Star, since his word is promise. Everyone forgot, but maybe he’s more emotionally aware of it.

Name: Choi Soobin

Keywords: Tomorrow, invisible, understanding, apricity

Association: Le Doulos

Metamorphosis: Elongated ears

Songs: Eternally

Soobin is on the opposite side of the coin with Yeonjun. He too is aware about the promise with the Star, but in a very different way. He is perhaps what we would define as a traditional protagonist, as he can hear the voice of the Star well before anyone else can, even if he can’t remember the promise. The first time we see him perceiving the voice is in Magic Island, that is when he starts to feel separated from the group. He’s still unaware of it, but he knows something that the others don’t and that puts a wall between them. In the Magic Island teaser he uses the hashtag “#IThinkImTheOnlyOneWhosDifferent”, and in the Eternity concept photos he says “Why am I the only one having a hard time?” and “Everything is your fault”. He is also tagged as invisible, which alludes to the fact that he feels distanced from the others, and is also the only one to get no interactions on his posts. The fact that he’s blaming someone might be that he’s aware of the voice or that he knows someone in the group messed up.

Name: Choi Beomgyu

Keywords: Hope, unfair, relief, serenity

Association: The Catcher in the Rye

Metamorphosis: Spines on the back

Songs: ???

Beomgyu is an interesting if confusing character. Based on how he acts in the MVs, he seems to be rather headstrong and confident, much like the main character, Holden, of Catcher in the Rye, a story strongly related to growing up and leaving the innocence of childhood behind. Holden considers adults (and his life) to be quite unfair, doesn’t trust them, and wants to become a protector of the innocence of other children. However, much like Beomgyu, he’s rather headstrong and careless, moving forward without much consideration, which often gets him in trouble. These aspects can be seen reflected on the Magic Island Teaser, where he writes “What’s the problem? Let’s just do it. #rewind #hope #CantTrustAnyone, as well as the Port teasers from Eternity where he says things like “Who saw me that day?”, “We were all together then, right?” and “I don’t think this is the world I used to know” (which is tagged with “unfair”), and uses the hashtags #NothingToHide, #IsItMyFault?”. We do see him start the fire in both the Magic Island Teaser and MV, which might hint to the fact that he feels it’s unfair to blame him when they were all there, and he doesn’t actually believe himself to be at fault. He was just taking care of them.

Name: Kang Taehyun

Keywords: Clue, suspicious, breathe, serenity

Association: Philip Marlowe

Metamorphosis: Star eye

Songs: ???

Taehyun’s character is observant and prefers to stay on the sidelines to catch every detail before casting his judgement. In the Magic Island Teaser he says “There’s got to be a way out” with the hashtag #LetsThinkAboutIt, plus, in the Port Teasers from Eternity, he keeps a reasonable suspicion on his team members about who’s truly at fault and uses the hashtags #EverybodyLies and #IWantToKnowTheTruth. This ties in well with his associated character, Philip Marlowe, the private detective. Both characters keep a distance and analyze everything carefully, never resorting to violence. It is worth noting that he keeps Yeonjun’s teddy bear at the end of Run Away, which in the teasers is labelled as “clue”. Taehyun is always observing.

Name: Huening Kai

Keywords: Secret, lonely, longing, apricity

Association: Stand by me

Metamorphosis: Wings

Songs: Nap of a star

Huening Kai is perhaps one of the most complicated and mysterious characters in the story, since his role isn’t as established as the others. He’s constantly out of the loop about the situation that is happening, which is demonstrated by phrases like “What the hell is happening?” (Magic Island Teaser) and “What happened?” (‘Port’ Teasers) as well as the hashtags #OnTheSidelines and #IKnowNothing, as well as two of his keywords being secret and lonely. His associated media is also interesting, as Stand by me talks about a man remembering the trip he did with three of his friends when they were 12 to find the body of a missing boy. At the end of the movie, the main character Gordie, recalls his friends and comments on how much he’ll always miss them and how he’s never had friendships like that again. This raises the question if perhaps one of the boys would be the dead kid the others are trying to find. Kai being kept out of the loop could point to him being it, as he’s always trying to reach for them but can’t quite do it, however it could also be argued that either Yeonjun or Soobin could fill that space as well.

The Setting: The Real World vs The Dream World

Back on the very early BTS theories, a lot of us didn’t think time travel or time loops were the answer, but it turned out we were wrong. At first, when working on this theory, I wasn’t sure where I should draw the distinction between reality and fantasy. In the end, I’ve decided that everything is real but in different ways, and I’ve decided to make the distinction between the Real World and the Dream World; after all, this is called the Dream Chapter.

The Real World is, you guessed it, pretty much just our normal world. Nothing magical or physics-law-breaking to be seen here. The Dream World is, well, a world made of dreams. But remember I said everything is real (I know the names I gave the two realities contradict this, hit me up if you have better suggestions). Whatever happens in the Dream World is just as real as whatever happens in the Real World, it’s just in a different plane of existence. It might also be of interest to note that sometimes these worlds blend. 

So, if everything is real in the Dream World, what is real in the Real World? This is a complicated question because even our characters struggle telling reality apart from the dreams, especially because the dreams aren’t just dreams. The fires that occur in Run Away and Can’t You See Me are very much symbolic, but them jumping into the Dream World through the subway in Magic Island is real. The visions they have in Eternally aren’t happening in the Real World either. It’s just a matter of what is supported through other clues and pieces of evidence, which I’ll try to provide.

The Story

So, you know, what is like… happening? Everything is extremely confusing and it took me a while to understand that pretty much all videos are happening like, at the same time? As in, it’s the same event but from different perspectives and slightly different intervals of time. So let’s try to lay down a cohesive timeline.

It all starts with the events narrated in Nap of a Star. When they were children, the five of them (or well, maybe I should say six) met through the Dream world and became such good friends that they promised to meet there again. However, as it happens, they grew up and forgot about it, meeting once again many years later through the school and the company without remembering each other. 

While growing up, they have gone through many different things that have hurt and changed them, which manifested in their dream bodies as the “imperfections” that they all have. I believe these imperfections are tied to each of their characters: horns tend to represent evil, which ties in with Yeonjun feeling guilty and blaming himself for everything. Kai’s wings look angel-like, which fits his sweet personality who helps the “demon” (Yeonjun) and is always believing the best about his friends. Beomgyu is very defensive, which translates into his porcupine-like spines. Soobin is a good listener (plus he’s literally the first one to hear the Star’s voice) and Taehyun is good at observing the others. So these are all manifestations of how life has shaped them to be who they are now.

They become very good friends once again and get along well, nice! However, we know things are not perfect, and they have to confront a series of personal conflicts. Especially Yeonjun, who’s so overcome by the negativity in his life that he starts a fire that can’t be put out in Run Away. This fire is metaphorical, and represents all the pain and stress he’s been dealing with. So what do they do? They try to find an escape from all their troubles.

There’s two ways this could’ve happened: the first one is that they stumble with the Dream World by accident on the Run Away MV when they go in through the pool. This seems fitting because of their reactions. After that they research it and Soobin discovers that there’s a secret magical entrance at a train station, as we can see in the Sanctuary Photo Teasers from the Magic comeback in the official BigHit website. The other option is that this accidental discovery didn’t happen and they simply researched. This would turn their visit in Run Away into a “summary” of sorts of their first impression of the place.

[Translation:

Soobin: I saw how to find the hidden magic platform?

Soobin: When you close and open your eyes there, your dream becomes reality

Taehyun: Woah, cool

Taehyun: (not sure about this one) for real?

Soobin: Should we go together?]

Either way, they get there. Of course, as shown by the door being set on fire at the end of Run Away when Yeonjun looks at it, his worries aren’t entirely gone, but at least they’re under control now, or so it seems. This part of the video also ties in with the end of Nap of a Star. All of the children come together to help the “monster” and they reunite at the Dream World once again, awakening the Star.

After this, though, weird things begin to happen. Someone or something is trying to reach out to them, and causes them to have really strange dreams. This entity, presumably the Star as marked by the pieces of dialogue, even follows them to their practice room, and keeps begging them to remember them. Yes, I think the Practice Room Ghost and the Star are the same character (and I also think they represent MOA, in a way). 

[Translation: Remember my name.]

Here’s where the visions in Eternally come into play. The individual vision each of them has is, physically speaking, nothing more than that: a vision or dream. So they start having these visions, and some of them, especially Soobin who keeps hearing the Star’s voice, start doubting their reality. Plus, weird things start happening in their practice room, so no doubt they end up hearing about the Practice Room Ghost.

They have a conversation about it on the subway, and Soobin goes to mention he had a weird dream but then he backtracks. Obviously, he’s talking about the vision we see in Eternally, because he even says he always wakes up crying from it. In a split second, they decide to stop at the Magic Island using the method that Soobin found previously, and they go have fun there.

[Translation:

Yeonjun: Did you hear about the practice room’s mirror ghost?

Beomgyu: *sland for shivering* A ghost? Wow

Taehyun: I heard about it. There’s no ghosts, you’re just tired and saw wrong.

Soobin: I’ve had weird dreams lately *cries* Maybe it was because I’m tired...

Kai: Did you have a scary dream again?

Soobin: (deleted message) In the dream we...

Yeonjun: Ah, I shouldn’t have said anything.

Beomgyu: What’s scary about this? If there’s a real ghost let’s go and check at night *laughs*

Kai: Hyungs, stop talking about scary things please *cries*

Taehyun: Beomgyu hyung is joking about this too??

Yeonjun: Should we just go to Ttukseom?]

Naturally, things go wrong, what else were we expecting? Their antics end up setting the magic forest on fire, until they end up destroying the whole Dream World, and it leads us to the start of Eternally. One thing I believe to be very interesting is how, when they’re trapped in the storm, Soobin keeps touching his ears, Kai touches his chest like in Nap of a Star, and Beomgyu touches his shoulder. Yeonjun and Taehyun aren’t properly shown but they probably also touch the affected places.

I would argue that Can’t You See Me? is also just a reinterpretation of the conflict they’re going through, both within themselves but also as a group, because they did just destroy their secret place. This is pretty much where the current timeline ends. I’m a bit uncertain if they’re trapped in the Dream World or outside of it without being able to go back, because Taehyun does mention wanting to go back in the Port teasers, but he doesn’t specify where. I want to bet that they’re trapped in the Dream World but I do need to analyze the Chaos Chapter better to decide that.

The Practice Room Star

Yes, this is a play on words, as I fully believe that the Practice Room Ghost and the Star are both the same entity. When they were kids, they made a promise with the Star, but they’ve forgotten it with time, and now that they have reunited and found their way into the Dream World again, the Star wants them back. The Star is probably a very powerful being, since they are able to interfere with the Real World to reach to them, enough to make them confused about their own reality. Their bond seems to be stronger with Soobin, who’s even able to hear them reach out on occasion. It’s uncertain what exactly it is that they want.

The Visions (Eternally MV)

The night of the last day & Song of a Star (Soobin’s visions)

Eternally starts at the end of Magic Island, with the Dream World completely in ruins. Eternally happens before Magic Island, so this dream Soobin has at the beginning is nothing but a prophecy. In the dream, he is holding a book, which we also see Beomgyu with. I think this book is the one they got the information about the Dream World during the Magic era, since the cover is very similar to the symbols we can see in Run Away. 

I believe Song of a Star is the Star reaching out to him. He’s the first one to be able to hear the Star, as shown in Magic Island, and he also references the Star’s song in teachers. The kid he sees is probably the version of himself that first entered the Dream World as a kid (or maybe Kai lol), which might be why he wants to cry everytime he has that dream: it’s the nostalgia for a time he left behind.

Room No. 17 (Beomgyu’s vision)

While I’m not sure what the number 17 means yet, and my research on numerology yielded no results, this vision is particularly interesting to me. Through it we get to see Beomgyu’s more ‘brash’ nature as he defends the book that Soobin was seen holding previously. If that book is their key to the Dream World, then it makes a lot of sense that he’s trying to protect it. I’m not sure who the other person trying to stop him is, but it does kinda look like things didn’t go well for them after Beomgyu transformed. 

Girl of Eternity (Huening Kai’s vision)

Perhaps the strangest of names for visions, this clearly represents how the rest of the members keep moving far away from Kai and become unreachable to him. He mentions several times how he’s clueless about what’s going on and wants to understand, but the rest of them continue to keep him in the dark, so he feels a distance growing between them, which might increase in the future.

Moratorium of Rest (Taehyun’s vision)

Taehyun’s vision is perhaps the most shocking of all, as it shows us Yeonjun sitting on a chair and covered in spines and purple “paint”. Yeonjun is sitting in the middle of a field of all sorts of violets, and Taehyun tries calling him before realizing the condition Yeonjun is in.

Promise (Yeonjun’s vision)

Yeonjun shares the misfortune with Taehyun of seeing his lifeless corpse, except his vision is much less artistic about it. After finding his body, he sees a fire from the corner of his eye, and right next to it, you guessed it, the odd-eyed cat. His vision in particular finishes with the phrase “I thought it was salvation, then.” And here is where things turn south.

Yeonjun’s promise and the Odd-Eye Cat

I have a very strong reason to believe that Yeonjun is in danger of dying an awful death, and it’s only partially because of the visions. Since Nap of a Star, Yeonjun has been followed by the vigilant eyes of the Odd-Eye Cat almost religiously, and it usually never brings good situations with it. It’s bad enough that the neck cut in Nap of a Star is replicated in Taehyun’s vision, that Soobin sees Yeonjun all bloody in Eternally, and that both Yeonjun and Taehyun see the former dead, but there might be some external clues that hint towards Yeonjun’s upcoming demise.

In the official BigHit website for TxT’s discography, where we found out that Soobin researched and figured out the way to go into the Dream World, we can find a picture of Yeonjun reading a book. In English, this book is called The Alchemaster’s Apprentice. This book narrates the story of a black cat who sells its soul to a sort of wizard in exchange for food, since he’s starving to death. The wizard agrees to fatten the cat for a month, after which it will kill it and use its fat for magical purposes.

The cat in this book doesn’t have heterochromia, however I found out some pagan groups in Eastern Europe believe that a different colored eye was a witch’s eye, meaning that the eye has literally been swapped out with a witch’s. I fully believe that Yeonjun made a deal he shouldn’t have, and the Odd-Eye Cat has been sent by whoever made the deal with him to check on him. It might just be that Yeonjun’s time is going to run out very soon, and the visions are trying to warn everyone of that.

Conclusion

Magic exists and TxT might have bitten more than they can chew because they wanted to run away from the problems of real life (relatable). Now, the Star that they made a promise with is trying to reach them, and maybe warn them about something that’s coming. The fact is that they’re not safe, especially Yeonjun, and things might turn south very quickly very soon.

I’ll try to come back soon with the Minisode 1 + Chaos Chapter Theory update, but for now, if you liked this, please interact with the post and check out my other theories here!

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MONSTA X Time Travel Theory UPDATE: Kiss or Death

Hello! Ori here with a mini update for the Monsta X Time Travel Theory about the MV for Kiss or Death which was exclusively released on the Universe App. Do not ask me how I got my gifs and ss please lmao I honestly thought my previous post would be the last we would see of the Time Travel Theory but apparently I was wrong! CLICK HERE to read the original theory. 

This theory goes to @donnies-ace-girl​ who very nicely reached out to ask for my opinions! Thank you! It was certainly very interesting finding out my theory might not be dead after all. 

 Let’s get into this.

Picking up where we left it, Phase 7: Moving Forward (FANTASIA X & Kiss or Death)

In the last part of the theory I talked about how the Fantasia X clips were a bit weird ‘cause of the new tools they were acquiring for time travel, especially ‘cause we know Hyungwon can literally fabricate time traveling watches??? Plus why would they have different time-related powers anyway? But Kiss or Death fixes this by giving all of them a watch similar to the one Hyungwon has in Film D, because god forbid companies from being consistent.

[Pictures: The first image is a screenshot of Hyungwon’s clock from Film D.

The second picture is a screenshot of the clock the members hold in Kiss or Death.]

So, good, now all of Monsta X is armed with powerful watches that allow them to time-travel, and we know they are time-traveling cause they’re in a train, which has been associated with time-travel before. Plus, we’ve literally seen this train before! Both things in Film D. Ah, and we also literally see them appearing and disappearing which, I guess is a pretty big sign.

[Picture Descriptions: The first gif features the last few frames of Film D where all the members are sitting inside the train.

The second gif is the start of Kiss or Death: a train passes and then we see all the members posing in front of the camera.]

[Picture descriptions: The first picture features Shownu painting a train from Film D.

The second picture features a frame from Kiss or Death that contains a train very similar to the one painted by Shownu in the previous picture.]

[Picture description: A gif of members IM, Jooheon, Kihyun and Hyungwon teleporting inside the train.]

However, what’s most interesting about all of this is not all that but that I believe Monsta X is being chased. We see it in their nervous/stressed out attitudes as they run around the train, but also in the wanted posters hung behind IM. 

[Picture descriptions: Gif of Hyungwon looking around the train before spotting a figure at one end and running towards it.

Picture of IM standing in front of a board with a lot of wanted posters that feature dark images and watches.] 

Given the settings used in the MV, I’m willing to bet that they’re being chased by the same Time Travel Control Agency that continuously ruined Hyungwon’s plans to get his friends back in Dramarama. They might have managed to avoid them for a while, but it seems that they’re back and they’re not very happy with their time-travel shenanigans.

[Picture descriptions: Gif of time travel agent shooting Minhyuk and IM’s watch in Dramarama.

Gif of Shownu sitting in front of a screen that reads “Time Warm Detected” with a danger sign.]

I think there’s gonna be a world tour next year? So we might finally get a VCR connecting everything nicely like Monsta X is known to do. For now, all we can do is wait.

What about Love Killa and Gambler?

I wish I knew. They’re the reason I thought the Time-Travel Theory was as good as dead, but it seems like it isn’t. Maybe they were taking a break while deciding where to take the story forward? I’m not sure. You could argue that it’s them traveling to different timelines and doing big heists but… That’s just extremely out of character, honestly.

Conclusion

Monsta X continue refusing to be normal people and instead remove themselves from reality to freely travel across time and space. Now, they’re being chased by a very unhappy time travel regulation organization of sorts and things might get difficult. More at 7.

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The MONSTA X Time-Travel Theory (Originally the MONSTA X Universe Theory)

Hello everyone, and welcome to my new and improved MONSTA X Theory. You read the title right, this was originally called the MONSTA X Universe Theory, but unfortunately it can no longer have that name. I’ll explain why shortly. I posted this theory in February of last year, and since then, a lot of things have changed. My theory really only addressed until before Take 1, so it’s been 4 comebacks and one world tour since then, can you believe it? So yes, quite a few things have changed, and we’ll go over them.

What has changed?

Originally, the theory proposed that everything started in the Tresspass-The Clan timeline, that it was the original timeline and that everything went down from there. However, since Follow: Find You, this is no longer possible, as the Find You MV shows us the origin of Hyungwon’s abilties. Thus, the Tresspass-The Clan theory is now a stand alone. Technically I already wrote a theory on The Clan, although I didn’t address its connection to Tresspass, maybe I’ll do that in a separate “add-on” sort of post. Because of this, it can no longer be called a “Universe Theory”, as MONSTA X is not integrating all of their stories into one very convoluted timeline, but instead they have two separate stories (if later on they connect everything, I’m throwing the towel). That’s the main change, but this change provokes a bit of a butterfly effect, so let’s see how much the theory has changed.

The Story

Phase 1: The First Timeline - The Origin (We Are Here World Tour VCR, Take 1 & Take 2)

I know this is a weird place to start the theory, almost near the end, but it actually makes a lot of sense. These three videos serve a very similar purpose to what Beautiful did for The Clan, they explain the origin of their friendship. Now, things aren’t as dramatic as they’re shown in these three videos (at least I hope so, ‘cause things are gonna get very weird from a plot point of view if they are). The main point of narration is the We Are Here World Tour VCR, from now on abbreviated as WAR because it’s easy to remember like that, and because it fits the theme of the video (watch it here).

WAR introduces us to seven fine young men who have each committed a sin (two of which aren’t even actual sins, but I understand why they would change those two). Hyungwon and Pride, I.M and Envy, Kihyun and Loneliness, Jooheon and Greed, Wonho and Sloth, Shownu and Wrath, and Minhyuk and Agony. These sins are not actual crimes from a futuristic dystopia (although that would be a cool concept), these are just the personal struggles they are dealing with, the personal backgrounds that consume them.

Hyungwon is a rich kid that believes himself better than everyone. I.M is the local witch (?) who hates the rich kid. Kihyun is probably the only child that was forced by his parents to be perfect. Jooheon and Shownu are a very misguided pair of trouble-makers who’re friends with Wonho, who practices Taekwondo but can’t reach the standard he wants. Minhyuk lost someone important to him.

In the Special Film and the Previous Film called ‘ARE YOU THERE?’ they explain these personal struggles, how their situations make them fall into those sins, and how they’re looking for someone to save them. This salvation comes in the form of each other. In WAR they further explain their own sins and how being with each other saved them from drowning in them. Alligator represents the sins and them drowning in the swamp of their own despair. Shoot Out is them breaking away from their past and destroying these sins.

Phase 2: The First Timeline - The Trigger (Find You MV)

Originally I proposed that Hyungwon got his powers by entering that weird heart at the end of All In and Fighter. I’ve now been proved wrong. After they each overcome their past and become friends, Hyungwon’s family has an accident in which both of his parents die and he comes out badly wounded. After he recovers, he’s now living by himself and taking different medications to deal with the aftermath of the accident. The boys decide they cannot leave their friend like that and temporarily stay at his house.

While they’re sleeping, Hyungwon wakes up and visits his father’s study. He finds the damaged watch which sends him to an entirely different timeline. This is showcased by him suspended in the water, with images of Dramarama and Destroyer flashing by. There is a scientific theory that proposes that spacetime is actually a superfluid; I won’t go deep on this because I don’t fully understand it, but showing Hyungwon trapped in water is a good analogy to him being trapped in a different spacetime. This is also briefly shown in The Connect World Tour VCR, (from now on addressed as CWT), but we’ll talk about this one in more detail later.

Wonho wakes up first and notices Hyungwon isn’t there, so he wakes up the others and they try to retrace his steps. Unfortunately, Hyungwon is not part of that timeline anymore, he’s gone for good. This leads us into our second timeline.

Phase 3: The Second Timeline (The Code & The Connect World Tour VCR)

After Hyungwon jumps into spacetime, he becomes lost. Personally, I think there is a possibility that there were other timelines he visited first until he eventually learned to craft the watches himself, as we see in CWT (watch it here). Maybe he just watched this timeline fail a lot of times before he learned and decided to intervene. Either way, Hyungwon actively tries to reunite all of them by giving them the watches. He succeeds for a moment, but in this timeline there exists an agency that controls Time Travel, who frustrate his plans every single time.

It is important to know that in this timeline, the boys don’t all know each other and some of them don’t even exist in the same era. They don’t remember Hyungwon either. Personally I think not remembering Hyungwon might be because he removed his existence entirely by disappearing from his original timeline. There cannot be two of him, as that would cause problems, so instead he just completely seizes existing in all possible universes as he moves through them.

The rest of the boys still exist within the normal spacetime frame though, but they’re lost and ignorant to their true origin. They have forgotten each other and can’t remember yet. However, no matter how hard they try, this timeline is completely doomed because the agency is actively trying to frustrate Hyungwon’s efforts, even if they don’t have something against him specifically. So Hyungwon jumps into the water again, he must continue searching.

Phase 4: The Third Timeline (The Connect: Music Film D & The Connect World Tour VCR)

Destroyer is yet another timeline distinct to Dramarama. We know this because we see different pairings, completely different settings and completely different timelines. The Music Film D is divided in three stages: Part 1 The Code (a very obvious reference, this is already letting us know they’re connected), Part 2 Finding the road, and Part 3 Connected (clear reference to the current album).

D shows us the boys as geniuses, Minhyuk and Shownu are artists, Kihyun and Wonho are science (physics?) prodigies, and Jooheon and IM dominate technology. CWT gives us a bit more insight and shows us something very important: they have begun to remember each other and they have memories from their previous timeline. They want to find the person they were paired with in their first timeline, but more than that, they also have memories of Hyungwon’s intervention, even if they don’t remember him properly (because let’s remember Hyungwon removed himself entirely).

They know they have to find someone, and so they set out to do it. Through their own methods they all come to the revelation on how to find Hyungwon. Kihyun and Wonho do the math, Jooheon and Changkyun use technology, and I guess Minhyuk and Shownu have a vision which they paint? Not sure on that one to be honest, but they find the train station.

This could either be a real place in which every timeline and universe converge or just a metaphor for them figuring out how to do the same thing Hyungwon does, either explanation works.

Hyungwon is trapped in this train, which is another analogy, but this time for the (liminal) space between dimensions. He’s tired himself out trying to reunite the others, and this time they must come for him, and they do. They find each other, they remember, and they reunite once again. This time nothing can pull them apart.

Phase 5: Interlude (The Connect: Jealousy & The Connect World Tour VCR)

Jealousy doesn’t feed the plot itself but helps connect (pun not intended) and put everything else into place. Through different imagery, Jealousy illustrates how the different timelines push them together and then pull them apart, creating different pairings, but that despite this they still share things in common (the paper with numbers, the recorder, the glass of water). Another thing this video does is allude to Jooheon’s death in Dramarama through the use of os symbolism. In one scene, a paper with his symbol is being burned, while in yet another, the chair he’s seen sitting on throughout the video is being burned as well and then falls down to the abyss.

On the other hand, CWT creates a clear and obvious connection between Dramarama and D, revealing to us that they do have memories from other timelines. Another cool thing is that we get to see Hyungwon on the rooftop where they filmed Hero, released back in 2015. It also provides a clearer scene of Hyungwon crafting the watches himself and of him at the top of the Hero building. We can also see the last scene from Jealousy mirrored in the last few seconds of the VCR, which is something worth pointing out.

But, as the VCR says “when everything goes back to the beginning, someday, we will be connected again”. Where did things begin? That’s right, in Find You, so the next step is Follow.

Phase 6: The Third Timeline - Back to the Beginning (Follow)

If Monbebe has a war anthem, it is most definitely Follow, which is an amazing song. Unfortunately, Starship has decided to stop providing explicit story development on their MVs since Jealousy, so Follow doesn’t do much for the story itself. However, I have three important reasons to believe this is where the circle ends: all of the references to time, the quote from CWT,and the very last scene of the MV. Let’s go in order.

The most obvious reference is them standing on clocks painted on the floor, but that’s not the only one. We get to appreciate a few watches here and there, reminiscent of Hyungwon’s in D and Dramarama, and also see the movement of their shadows as a passage of time. The most important reference though, is the cover of the album. The title, “Follow” is solid and then becomes “liquid” as it moves down. This makes sense when you consider the other two points.

First of all, “when everything goes back to the beginning, someday, we will be connected again”. The beginning of the whole mess is Find You, part of the Follow album, there is no doubt about it, so why is Follow the end? Well, because of the last scene in the MV. I know it’s Shownu standing at the top of the stairs in front of the circle, and while it would be better if it was Hyungwon for the sake of this theory, we’ll just completely ignore that. That circle they’re walking towards is the train. ‘Follow’ in the cover becomes fluid because once they cross that circle or enter that train, they too remove themselves from existence like Hyungwon.

That’s not the only thing though. In D, Wonho solves the formula for time travel as X=4155102M, he does it again in Alligator and I believe it’s also briefly shown in WAR. Kihyun also travels back to 2015 in Dramarama to save Jooheon, and Hyungwon is standing on Hero’s rooftop, which was released back in 2015. Their debut date is their beginning, and they keep referencing it over and over because they’re trying to go back to the beginning in order to solve everything.

They went from Find You to Dramarama, to Destroyer and now they’re back at the beginning with Follow; they are connected again. They have different faces and personalities because they’re not the same people from the original timeline, but they managed to find each other and transcend spacetime to be together. So now, what happens next?

Phase 7: Moving Forward (FANTASIA X)

Here is where things get a little complicated, both in the story and in real life. With Wonho’s departure from the group (go support his solo debut), we now have an even number, which wouldn’t seem like a big deal if it wasn’t for the FANTASIA X Trailers. In each trailer we see that each one of the members now possesses a device which allows them to control time in one way or another.

Hyungwon and Shownu have keys, which when used to open anything will allow them to do spacetime travel (I would say only time but, well, I have no way to confirm this right now). Jooheon and I.M have this lighter-watches that when turned on, they allow them to stop time. Kihyun and Minhyuk have another very different set of keys that look like those in old toys or music boxes, which allow them to ‘rewind’ time when used.

Now, them getting powers is expected, since they also removed themselves from the “normal” existence and joined Hyungwon. I assume it is because of the even number that they gave Shownu the same powers as Hyungwon, but it makes it a little weird because Hyungwon has been special all this time. It also doesn’t make much sense that now Hyungwon is using a very different instrument. I want to believe that Wonho is supposed to be in Hyungwon’s place in the teaser, but it’s impossible to tell now.

Even ignoring all of that though, FANTASIA X overall just doesn’t make much sense with the theory. Sure, it’s still time related, which is like the biggest giveaway, but the boys still look lost and like they’re looking for something despite the fact that they already found each other. Maybe the Teasers could be their personal research into spacetime travel and their attempts to find Hyungwon, but I highly doubt so. I think it’ll make more sense after the next comeback or tour, since so far everything seems to come in threes (Dramarama, Destroyer and CWT, Shoot Out and Alligator and WAR, Follow:Find You, FANTASIA X and?).

Conclusions

Despite the fact that we can no longer call it a Universe Theory because it hasn’t been there since the start, I still think it is a story about them, about their struggles and how they’ve grown up. They’re each other’s friends and family, the value of X is their debut date because that is when they came into existence, they are each other’s dreams because they wanted to become artists and they did so by coming together into one group.

A lot of things have happened, but their friendship hasn’t changed. They got each other out of the swamp and helped each other overcome their difficulties in the hardest times. It is uncertain as to where the story will lead us next, in a way, I think this might be the start of a brand new story for MONSTA X. A direct consequence of the story they have carried out since The Code? Maybe, but probably very different and not exactly in the same storyline. It’s hard to know, but I’m excited about what they have in store for us nonetheless.

I hope you liked this theory, and be assured that I’ll add onto it as more things come out and new mysteries are to be solved. If you have any questions you can hit me up on my asks, Twitter (@soft_bluenicorn) or my CuriousCat (@soft_bluenicorn)! I’ll be glad to answer them ^^

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DREAMCATCHER’s Dystopia Theory

Hello everyone! I am back once again with a kpop theory. This time I bring to you my early Dreamcatcher Dystopia Theory. I say it’s early because to be fair, I have no idea how many parts this story is gonna have in total so I’m not sure how much they’ll add to it. The Nightmare series (I also had a theory for it but never finished writing it rip) was quite long and complex. I feel like the Dystopia series is a bit more straightforward, but we’ll see how it progresses. Without further ado, let’s dive into the theory.

The Setting and Symbolism

Our story is centered around a mythical tree known as the Tree of Language. I originally thought it was a mix of the Tree of life and the Babel Tower, but while it might have drawn inspiration from them, it actually has nothing to do with those myths. Instead, as explained through the Story Spoiler during D:TTOL (Dystopia: The Tree of Language) era and through several interviews, the tree bears white fruit when people say nice things, and black fruit when people say bad things.

In the Story Spoiler we’re also introduced to a young girl and an older woman. They symbolize the pass of time, and how people may become more negative due to life experiences. The girl symbolizes positive words, while the elder woman represents the negative words. The masks seen throughout the videos represent those who use anonymity to hurt others. So overall, we can see how the theme of this saga is set around negative words, and how they can bring about Dystopia to the victims of them.

The Story

The story itself isn’t quite clear yet, as we don’t have much to draw from. In the Z Interview, the members explained that they themselves are tree spirits in charge of protecting the Tree of Language. As we only have two videos for now, and so far Dreamcatcher is known to distribute the stories through quite a few albums, I will try to lay a basic ground for the plot.

The scenes we see in BOCA, where they are in a white structure with a tree in the middle surrounded by water, happen before D:TTOL. In the Making Film for BOCA it is specified that the Tree of Language shown in the MV is still growing, plus, the land around it still looks healthy and beautiful. Therefore, it seems appropriate to assume that those scenes with the tree in BOCA happen long before Scream. I think it would also be safe to assume that the Tree grows along with civilization, since it represents what people say.

In Scream, we can see that the tree is already pretty big and is bearing a lot of fruits. At the beginning of the video it reads: “One day suddenly the light did not come. People forgot how to say good things.” The girls are taking care of the Tree, but humanity is becoming more negative, to the point where the Tree cannot handle it and its core breaks in front of Gahyeon. The light is gone as well, which also serves to express the negative situation in which the world has settled.

BOCA once again starts with the “explosion” at the Tree of Language, and this time we see the girls moving around a modern-looking city. We also get to see these glitchy figures bearing masks who are chasing the girls. I believe the masks, besides standing for the people who hurt others, also stand for the evil and negativity behind these words. The girls are fighting these negative spirits, trying to restore the balance of the tree. They want to shut them up.

The Meaning

The girls explained through interviews, and I believe also in the Making Films, that they wanted to have a story based on our reality. They want to tackle the issue with negative comments that spread like fire nowadays, and that people say carelessly. They mentioned how they themselves receive a lot of these negative comments through social media (therefore the use of masks as a representation for negativity and anonymity).

They want to fight all of this negativity and provide strength to the people who have to confront these sorts of messages in their daily life. These songs and this saga overall are a call out to people who engage in this sort of behavior and a message of support to those who have to live through it. I feel like, beyond the more fantastical story they’re portraying through the videos, this message is more important, and I hope InSomnias and non-fans or casual fans alike can feel comforted by their music.

Conclusions: What is there to come?

I feel like this saga might be shorter because there isn’t a huge development story-wise. It might end up being a trilogy or a four-parts saga, although I can’t actually confirm that. They might also extend it if they feel like they want to continue talking about the issue.

Story-wise, I think the next step is to fight against the masks and maybe restore the tree, although I think it would be interesting if they “kept the realism” while also showing hope. By this I mean that it is impossible to get rid of all the negativity and stop all of the people who hurt others, but still, things can be done against them.

Overall, I really like the message they’re trying to convey and how they’ve grown in terms of storytelling. I think it’s amazing and I hope they continue to grow like this. I’ll add more onto the theory as the comebacks happen. If you have any comments or questions you can hit me up in my asks, on Twitter (@soft_bluenicorn) or my CuriousCat (@soft_bluenicorn)! I’ll be glad to answer them ^^

References

NoCut Interview

TEN Interview

Z Interview (It wouldn’t let me insert the link, sorry :c): https://7-dreamers.com/19-feb-2020-z-interview①-dreamcatcher-girl-group-but-beastly-well-show-off-a-wild-charm/

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I’ve decided I’m gonna post the Cravity theory until after the epilogue of season 2 of Hideout! So for now I’ve begun working on a theory for Dreamcatcher’s Dystopia series. Here’s my notes for The Tree of Language. We’re gonna dig into Lose Myself tomorrow~

It’s funny cause I do have a theory for the Nightmare series but I never finished it or posted it, oops.

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The Find You MV changes a fundamental part of my MONSTA X Universe Theory and I’m panicking

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The MONSTA X Universe Theory

Hello everyone, and welcome, to my most ambitious theory to this date, in which I attempt to convince you all that I am, in fact, not crazy and that all of MONSTA X’s comebacks can be put into one timeline whole universe. I’ve been working on this for months now, and to be honest I am exhausted, however I decided I needed to put this out before their comeback this next February 18. It’s going to be long, so tighten your seatbelts and pay attention, because we’re going to go deep with this one.

Let’s dive into the theory.

Basic Concepts

Like most companies and k-pop groups, Starship and MONSTA X didn’t to easy on us and introduced us to several interesting concepts like time and space travel and resurrection. You’ll need a basic understanding on how dimensions work for this theory to make sense, so I recommend you to watch this somewhat simple video about it because you’re probably going to need it.

They also make use of a lot of different symbolism, but I’ll explain those along the way because it’ll be easier to fit them with the rest of the theory like that. You might want to know a little about virtues and sins however since those will be mentioned!

The Setting

Before I go on explaining each of the phases of the MONSTA X Universe, I need to give you a bit of setting on how they are connected and why. There’s a vast quantity of in-verse connections but a lot of out-verse ones as well, so in each phase of the theory I’m going to explain each of the clues of both types and how everything ties together.

Almost all MONSTA X videos form part of a same universe that has been divided into several timelines, which can be distinguished by major events that happen inside the story. Not all videos are part of the plot, some of them are merely symbolic, and not all connections will seem obvious at first either, which is why out-verse clues are necessary to this theory as well, and let me tell you that “out-verse clues” is a very wide category.

In any case, now that I have cleared this up, it is time I start explaining the phases of the MONSTA X Universe and how everything ties up together, let’s go.

In-verse

Phase 1: The First Timeline - Origins (Tresspass & Rush)

Trespass and Rush might not seem tied to the theory at first, however, they are; even if they are not majorly relevant to the main events of the story. Both of these releases provide a background to what happens in The Clan, giving the boys’ friendship and origin and a point of comparison to when things start getting so bad they feel the need to go into war. They also show us they’ve been “problem” children from the start.

Phase 2: The First Timeline - The War (The Clan Part 1: Lost & The Clan Part 2: Guilty)

In my The Clan theory (which you can read here and here, and you’ll need to read it ‘cause I won’t go into much detail this time since it’s already there) I established that the boys were very close friends, even before Jooheon decided they needed to start a revolution and formed the X Clan. I believe that Trespass and Rush both happen before the events in All In, again, they’re not very relevant to the theory, but they provide a nice background to how things were before the war broke out.

Given the way they dared military officials and were clearly against the leadership of Hyungwon’s father, it wouldn’t be surprising that they went to jail a couple of times, hence Trespass. Rush is just them being dumb kids, like things should’ve always been. In any case, things start becoming worse and more difficult and Jooheon decides it’s time to start a war, so he forms the X Clan, discovers the magical flower (or the other way around), they make a pact and start the war.

During this war Hyungwon, Minhyuk and Shownu are all captured and rescued. Also, and a very important point, Hyungwon dies. I know in The Clan theory Gina and I said we weren’t sure, but I am completely certain he did die because it’s the only thing that makes him different from the others. Why? Because he’s the only one to be revived by the flower, he’s the only one that dies and comes back to life and frantically that defies the laws of nature. And that is what condemns them all.

We know the plant is magical because it heals their wounds and apparently is capable of reviving them and also of pulling them out of whatever spell Hyungwon and Minhyuk were in during their stay in the hospital. What if the flower can do other things as well? Yes, I am proposing that the flower was what gave Hyungwon his time-traveling abilities. Because the elixir made of the flower is literally what keeps his heart beating now.

Not only that, but the giant heart we see at the end of All In and of Fighter? I mentioned it was a symbol for their new beginning out of the war, but it might be more than just a new beginning. It’s a rift in time-space, the first one actually, and I’m willing to bet Hyungwon was the only one able to cross that door. That moment is the exact ending of our first timeline.

Phase 3: The First Timeline - Interlude (The Clan Part 2.5: Beautiful & Beautiful World Tour VCR)

I discovered the VCRs were important when I went to The Connect World Tour in Mexico and realized a bunch of things, which is what made me look for the VCR of the Beautiful World Tour (BWT from now on) and I was not disappointed. This VCR perfectly connects Trespass (Rush really isn’t that important I promise) and The Clan. You can watch it here.

In the VCR we can appreciate their lives before the war and before the government became rougher. We can also appreciate how they grew to be troublesome kids and even see a glimpse of Hyungwon’s family situation.

Beautiful is a bridge that ties in the symbolism and the stories of the boys in All In and Fighter. But it’s also a video that explains their past and personal fights, everything that made them join the X Clan in the first place (this is explained in more detail in the part 2 of my The Clan theory). Hence why in the BWT VCR the chapter order is Beautiful, Trespass and Lost. Beautiful explains their past, their personal lives; Trespass explains how they came together and became friends, their invasion into a new world; and Lost explains how they lost it all and decided to take action into their own hands. Lost is also the first part of The Clan trilogy, which would then lead to Guilty.

Phase 4: The Second Timeline (The Code)

Our first timeline ends the moment they reach the beating heart. Whether they all go in together or just Hyungwon goes, I don’t really know, but I have a strong reason to believe it was only Hyungwon the one who made it. Regardless, this is what clearly marks the end of our first timeline, because next time we get to see them, they’re leading completely different lives.

While Trespass and Rush hold no contradiction with The Clan, in Dramarama they don’t even know each other, and some of them do not even exist in the same time and space. Jooheon is dead in this timeline as well. Although this could heavily imply they have changed concepts and story, I believe the only way this can make sense is if this is a timeline that occurs after The Clan.

Hyungwon already has his strange time-space travel abilities, yet there’s no sign as to how he obtained them. And even more than that, if it’s clear they don’t remember each other, then why is Hyungwon trying to help them and giving them tools to meet each other (even if it doesn’t work in the end)? If he were just playing the Good Samaritan then surely he would at least give watches to other people right? Yet he doesn’t, we never see him doing it.

Our time-traveling hero has a clear mission here: getting them back together. He’s obviously struggling with this, as there seems to be some sort of agency that catches his activities and stops the people he’s helping? I don’t really think this agency is important to the story itself. It’s just another obstacle to their coming back together. In any case, this timeline is doomed.

Phase 5: The Third Timeline (The Connect: Music Film D)

Destroyer is yet another timeline distinct to Dramarama. We know this because we see different pairings, completely different settings and completely different timelines. Much like the BWT VCR, the Music Film D is divided in three stages: Part 1 The Code (a very obvious reference, this is already letting us know they’re connected), Part 2 Finding the road (if this doesn’t sound like Lost then I don’t know what does), and Part 3 Connected (clear reference to the current album.

D shows us the boys as geniuses, Minhyuk and Shownu are artists, Kihyun and Wonho are science (physics?) prodigies, and Jooheon and IM dominate technology. Through their own methods they all come to the revelation on how to find Hyungwon. Here’s the thing, why would they be looking for Hyungwon in the first place if they don’t know him? This is an entirely different timeline after all and it’s clear Hyungwon is too tired to keep making watches and keep trying to put them back together. He has already worn himself out.

The guys manage to figure it out and find the train station, which could either be a real place in which every timeline and universe converge or just a metaphor for them figuring out how to do the same thing Hyungwon does, either explanation works. They meet each other, they remember, and they go into the train, which marks our second main event in the theory.

Phase 6: Interlude (The Connect: Jealousy & The Connect World Tour VCR)

Jealousy is like Beautiful in the sense that it doesn’t feed the plot itself but helps connect (pun not intended)  and put everything else into place. Through different imagery, Jealousy illustrates how the different timelines push them together and then pull them apart, creating different pairings, but that despite this they still share things in common (the paper with numbers, the recorder, the glass of water).

Another thing this video does is allude to Jooheon’s death in Dramarama through the use of os symbolism. In one scene, a paper with his symbol is being burn, while in yet another, the chair he’s seen sitting on throughout the video is being burned as well and then falls down to the abyss.

On the other hand, The Connect World Tour VCR (CWT from now on, watch it here) functions like BWT’s, it creates a clear and obvious connection between Dramarama and D, revealing to us that they do have memories from other timelines. One thing worth pointing out about this is that they do not share memories of Hyungwon from the timelines shown in Dramarama and D, which means they can only have memories from him from The Clan, there’s literally no other way.

It also provides a clearer scene of Hyungwon crafting the watches himself and of him at the top of the Hero building (something I’ll address in more detail later). We can also see the last scene from Jealousy mirrored in the last few seconds of the VCR, which is something worth pointing out.

Phase 7: The Fourth Timeline? (Take 1 and Take 2)

The real question comes now, are Take 1 and Take 2 part of the MONSTA X universe? Despite the obvious change in theme, I have a lot of reasons to believe they do, part of them are in the Out-verse section that follows, so you should pay attention to that.

The most obvious reference I can think of that doesn’t leave room for question is Hyungwon in the Hero building and falling into the water. We saw this scene previously and we see it once again in the “Previous Film” that recently came out for We Are Here. This makes it clear that Take 1 and 2 are indeed connected to The Code - The Connect in a sense.

Plus, the use of symbolism to represent the sins and the characters is a very interesting reminder of other symbols that have been used since way back in The Clan. Finally, there’s also the narrations, which I will discuss soon in the out-verse. The only thing I am not sure of is if Take 1 and 2 form part of the universe from a plot point of view or only as interludes like Jealousy and Beautiful, we’ll probably have to pay a lot of attention to answer that question.

Out-verse

MONSTA X and May 14, 2015

The group’s name and their debut date are actually quite important in order to explain some of the symbolism used throughout their discography. As you might know, MONSTA means my star, and the ‘X’ represents the variable of a mysterious existence.

Back in Trespass, a number appears: M150514X. Any fan that knows remotely anything about MONSTA X knows this is their debut date, and it makes sense that it is in the video because it is, after all their debut video. However, we see something very similar after a while in D, when Kihyun solves the formula for time travel as X=4155102M which is basically the same number we see in Trespass, just backwards and with the numbers shifted slightly (full year still of only the last two numbers, and one number for the month).

This makes sense, because if X is the variable for a mysterious existence, then May 14, 2015 is the day that existence came to be, and I think it’s an amazing reference to make. Even in Dramarama we see Kihyun traveling back to 2015, the year everything began, even the story they are telling through these MVs, in and out of the plot.

References to Real Life

In Jealousy we see a very important reference that took me a long time to figure out. We see them sharing a paper that has a bunch of numbers in it, these numbers prove to be the members birthdays, which again ties up with the concept of existence, because those are the days they started existing.

Another very important thing about these numbers is that, ever since Jealousy, the comeback dates have been matching perfectly with this numbers. The Connect came out on March 26 and I.M was born on January 26, Take 1 came out on October 22 and Kihyun was born on November 22, and finally Take 2 is coming out on February 18 and Shownu was born on June 18. This is just further proof that Take 1 and 2 form part of the Universe.

The Logos and Individual Marks

MONSTA X have an easily recognizable logo that we’ve all seen at least once: a detailed and complex M and X combined on each other so that the inner lines come out longer on the bottom. This is their official logo and as such is present in all of their albums in some way or another (in the back of the photo cards, in the credits, somewhere), however it is not always the most visible.

As you might have noticed, for The Code and The Connect they had a ‘change’ of logo, which happened again with Take 1 and Take 2. Yes, their original logo is still present somewhere in the album (you can see that in unboxings) however it is not the main logo that takes the covers as it did with their previous releases.

I think the logos, in a sense, mark the belonging of one release into the series, as well as mark the important events in the story that change its course. First, we have the original logo that goes from Trespass all the way to The Clan Part 2.5: Beautiful, then it changes for The Code and The Connect, and then it once again morphs for Take 1 Are You There and Take 2 We Are Here.

These changes match with the two main events I have described so far. After they meet the heart in All In and Fighter the logo changes (let’s remember Beautiful works as a way of explaining their past and characters, so technically the story is contained within All In and Fighter only). And then, after they go through the train’s doors in D (same thing with Jealousy) it changes again. Yes, the logos for Take 1 and Take 2 are slightly different because the colors are inverted, it could be ‘cause of the choice of colors or maybe because they’re “two sides of the same coin”, either way the logo is pretty much the same.

Aside from marking the important changes in the Universe, I also think their logos are a symbols of their own. The first one is the original, it’s their identity and matches well with The Clan, it represents them and their union. The second is the loops they’re trapped in, the infinite repetition of timeline after timeline until they’re able to get back together. The third one is what we know as an impossible figure, it’s a shape that can’t exist in a tridimensional plane because it doesn’t make sense, just like how they’re are trapped and followed by their past mistakes and the sins they carry within them.

As for their individual marks. During The Clan they all have an X tattoo that looks just a bit different for each of them, this symbolizes their union as one team. However, after they break apart because of what happened, they start having individual symbols that are sometimes fused to each other. This is the case for The Code’s stylized initial and The Connect’s initials that were put as clocks. For Take 1 and 2, I think their symbols will be the deadly sin that identifies each of them, but we’ll see.

Album Titles

Although I don’t think the album titles are such an important element, I think it’s worth mentioning the structure they follow. For The Clan, The Code and The Connect they all have a repeating structure of ‘The’ and a word that starts with the letter C. Even inside The Clan we had 3 parts, and for the last two albums we’ve had Take 1 and Take 2, which makes me think there might be a Take 3, but do remember what I said earlier. (I remember reading something about a Take 4 because there’s four versions to each album).

Narration Elements

A lot of the MONSTA X videos that aren’t Music Videos contain in the a lot of narration, Take the VCRs and The Oaths for example. The way these narrations are structured mirror each other a lot, and we can even find some recurring elements between them.

Check these comparisons. The phrases under the same colors are related.

Shine Forever, Newton and Hero

Lastly, I feel the need to explain why I didn’t mention these three much. Newton is the easier one to explain: it is a commercial MV. That’s it, it’s obviously not part of anything because it was a commercial, and even if it were part of the universe I think it would lack relevance to it.

As for Hero, it is mostly just a dance video, but the place is clearly representative of something important since it has been using repeatedly in different eras, so I think it’s mostly just the location rather than anything else.

And finally, when it comes to Shine Forever, it just doesn’t fit anywhere. I desperately tried to tie it with everything else, especially after I saw the lights they used in Music Film D and the car crash in Dramarama, but it just doesn’t fit. Plus, it doesn’t fit within the logo theory, it doesn’t have the first logo anywhere visible and it doesn’t have any variation of the logos either that could explain it as a different timeline or setting, which is why I discarded it, which is a shame cause I love the song and MV.

Conclusions

Ever since the beginning, MONSTA X’s albums have been part of one sole universe that poses the journey of a group of seven boys trying to get back together after they get split apart, probably because of what Hyungwon did in All In. But not only that, this is also a story about them, about their struggles and how they’ve grown up. They’re each other’s friends and family, the value of X is their debut date because that is when they came into existence, they are each other’s dreams because they wanted to become artists and they did so by coming together into one group.

So far, we’ve seen the growth of their strong bond, the separation, the reencounter. But just like the narrations says, it is just not enough. D showed them reunited at last, but their sins follow them even beyond that, and their journey is not quite over. They could be the salvation of each other, or their doom.

I hope you liked this theory, and be assured that I’ll add onto it as more things come out and new mysteries are to be solved. If you have any questions you can hit me up on my Tumblr (@not-majestic-bluenicorn), Twitter (@soft_bluenicorn) or my CuriousCat (@soft_bluenicorn)! I’ll be glad to answer them ^^

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I need to update my Monsta X and Cravity theories hmm

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I am working on the PENTAGON theory and I certainly have no idea what I’m doing. c:

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I haven’t even finished the MX theory video but I had to write down my notes on Cravity cause it was driving me crazy.

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MONSTA X _ The Clan _ Theory Part 1

TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of suicide.

So Gina ( @of-crowns-and-roses ) and I have been working on this theory for like, almost three weeks now; it’s a series that has been bothering me for a long time and I decided to use this chance to introduce her to MONSTA X since she didn’t know much about them (given, she does know Hyungwon is the meme guy).

So, this theory will have two parts, the first one will explain the music videos of All In and Fighter, as well as the Oaths. We’ve put a lot of effort into this, watching the videos multiple times, then watching them again at 0.25x speed while taking screenshots and trying to order the videos to the best of our abilities. It is mostly my theory, but Gina helped a lot with keeping things organized, and noticing some details and things like that which I’m terrible at lol, this is not the first theory we’ve worked on, we’re actually working on a Dreamcatcher one but we want to wait for them to finish their current series.

With that said, let’s dive into the theory.

Timeline

We start with All In, first of all we have a group of seven friends that live in a small village that seems to have some sort of totalitarian government (as evidenced by the existence of full-armed guards on the streets).

Hyungwon (meme guy according to Gina) is the son of an important member of the government who doesn’t like to see him with his “troublesome” friends, however, Hyungwon is troublesome himself, as we can see him interacting with the police officers in a way that could be considered daring and even offensive.

There are four of the members that seem to have problems however: Kihyun has a limp, Hyungwon’s father is abusive (and Minhyuk doesn’t seem happy with that) and Shownu’s grandfather is dying.

They decide to ask for help to solve their problems, who do they go to? The X Clan.

Yes. Jooheon, Wonho and I.M. are already part of the X Clan when this happens.

Why are we saying this? When Gina and I were analyzing the videos, we noticed the lack of backstory for these three members, plus, it is interesting that they’re the ones helping the other members to do such crimes, because let’s face it, what Minhyuk and Shownu do are crimes.

Kihyun is the first one to join, although it is not showed we believe that they offered to cure him with the Mysterious Flower, which has been shown to have healing powers (as said by Minhyuk on the behind the scenes of All In); he accepts, is healed and joins the X Clan.

Next is probably Shownu (the order between him and Minhyuk/Hyungwon isn’t quite clear), in his case, the X Clan offers to help him get the money to save his grandfather and they rob a bank with a gun that Jooheon got, probably from the police officers. Why didn’t the X Clan offer him the Mysterious Flower to cure his grandfather? We’ll dig on that later.

Finally we have Minhyuk and Hyungwon. As we mentioned before, Hyungwon has an abusive father who doesn’t like to see him with his friends, we know said father hits him, and it’s on a special occasion where Hyungwon gets beaten that Minhyuk decides he’s having none of that. So he decides to ask for help to the X Clan to get his revenge and they burn down the building where Hyungwon’s father works.

What happens in the end? Shownu’s grandfather dies and he doesn’t get there in time, so he decides to burn the money he had stolen and drinks the liquid. This signifies him joining the X Clan.

On the other hand, while Minhyuk is out there taking his revenge, Hyungwon attempts to commit suicide and tries to drown himself in the bathtub (I fully believe he did kill himself but Gina says he didn’t because a simple flower can’t bring you back to life, so we’ll leave it at that).

When Minhyuk returns to him unconscious on the bathtub, he pours the liquid in and gets inside with Hyungwon; the liquid, which is made from the Mysterious Flower, heals Hyungwon and like that, they join the X Clan.

After that, the X Clan celebrates their initiation with a weird ritual that involves face paint and weird vapors I would personally not recommend getting close too (we do have a bit of a doubt in this part, ‘cause this scene is just incredibly random, but let’s just leave it here, it’s not even that important).

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