Bangtan Universe Theory and Comments

MIXED THEORY PART ONE

- It’s my opinion, it maybe right or wrong. 

On Bangtan’s music video since day one is eventually part of the HYYH plotline. NO MORE DREAMS, who tackles about the youths who try to understand the adults but at the same time trying to do what they want. N.O, is about adults who force their desire and try to control the younger ones. BOY IN LUV, looks like where the boys experience the love for the first time in their life, but in my point of view, Jungkook was the first and most experience it for the first time. Now let’s all take a look at Danger MV where it tackles and shows a rage of a boy who just rejected or cheated by a girl he loves and War of Hormones where the boy is back in track and still head over heels to the girl.

         Now let’s include their Concert teasers and VCRs. I don’t know I was confused at first THE RED BULLET TOUR was considered as an EPISODE I while BTS BEGINS was EPISODE II, then the WINGS TOUR was their last part of the trilogy and yes the whole plot inside this trilogy is also part of the HYYH or in short the whole BTS songs and message. Like argh it blows my mind while doing this. Anyway, let's get back in track. I re-watched all of their VCR in the said tours. I don’t know if the title just messed up because if we follow the release date and the title itself, it will really confuse. Nevertheless, if we will follow the storyline it makes sense despite of its title and date releases. THE RED BULLET TOUR shows the boys being rebelled and mad followed by THE BTS BEGINS where they show how the boys meet each other for the very first time and there’s a part of their VCR and teasers, that you can see SeokJin is still living in the word ‘be a good kid’ where he wears an earphone to listen to the principal. You can also picture out the room that the boys used to hang out that mention in the webtoon save me and the HYYH NOTES 1. While the WINGS TOUR is different but also includes in the plotline, I will tackle it later because it is one of the high lightened part.

         After THE BTS BEGINS, BTS finally revealed the MV of I NEED U and the era or new chapter, HYYH begins. But there’s a twist, we all thought I NEED U was the beginning of their whole plot line. I also thought that but it’s not. I NEED U is one of the main part and one of the upside down of the story along with HYYH on stage: PROLOGUE where we can see the consequence and result of their life’s situation but at the same time they are refusing to see it. RUN and FIRE MV also show that the boys trying to find the feeling of being home with each other. EPILOGUE: YOUNG FOREVER, shows the boys finding it’s way out to the maze that represents their youth or their life situation.  

Between the release of RUN and YOUNG FOREVER MV, I NEED U AND RUN JAPANESE MV released and still the scene inside those MV are play a big role.

After party effect shows in the SAVE ME MV, the message of these songs tackles how the boys finally waking up and the realization hits them that they need to save each other and themselves.

         WINGS era came through, I can say that we can consider this as the most high lighten part. The WINGS Short Film from number one to seven, BEGINS, LIE, STIGMA, FIRST LOVE, REFLECTION, MAMA and AWAKE. We are all confused when they release this short films, there’s a lot of theory roaming around and mine was this: If we dissect all of their meaning and consider it part of the whole story line. This a self-reflected, it means that those messages inside is a part of themselves, words they cannot express, they show those scene to seek personal understanding. I will explain it as an individual point of view.

BEGINS: is about his love for his six Hyungs as Jungkook himself and it also his character inside the storyline.

LIE, the trauma of JIMIN that he witnessed when he was a kid inside the Grass Flower Arboretum. Where that crime take away his innocence that’s why he doesn’t want blood on his body just like his part at Highlight Reel.  

STIGMA, Taehyung’s innocent and torment words inside about his abusive relationship with his father.

FIRST LOVE, a deep meaning of attachment of Yoongi in his mother’s piano. There is also a part of him that he blame himself from what happened to his mother.

REFLECTION, Namjoon being stuck inside the container. We also saw how he wanted to answer the phone, he knew Taehyung was calling him. In the storyline, we saw how they are really closed to each other. Namjoon is a big part of Taehyung’s life.  

MAMA as Hoseok’s background story it’s about him seeking for attention. If you are going to read Hoseok’s notes in HYYH, he said that he was faking the narcolepsy and its true he has Munchausen syndrome. (According to webdmd, Munchausen syndrome is a factitious disorder, a mental disorder in which a person repeatedly and deliberately acts as if he or she has a physical or mental illness when he or she is not really sick. Munchausen syndrome is considered a mental illness because it is associated with severe emotional difficulties.) He did this to seek more attention, he is craving from it as he grows up inside the orphanage.

AWAKE, SeokJin played an important role here. At the beginning of the short film we can see him wearing an earphone again and this time he refused to listen to it, grabs the apple and drop it on the floor and his well-known camera is in there too. (I don’t want to tackle the symbolism here, I will explain it later on.) SeokJin was trying to show the effect to him the moment he centered himself to be a good kid. (I just explain this as an individual meaning of the short film not the meaning of the song. I will explain the partnering later on.)

Spoiler ahead for those who haven't read the book or the notes. 

Seven boys meet inside the abandoned room inside their school building.

SeokJin trying to live his life and the word ‘be a good kid’ become the center of it. 

Yoongi who still can’t get away from the scene of the burned house and the piano of his mother. 

Hoseok, a boy who grows up in the orphanage when his mother left him with a chocolate bar in a carousel, and now a man who also grow up with a mask trying to hide his pain and asking for attention. 

Namjoon, who only thinks about his family’s poverty and his father’s health condition. A man who hastily grow up and become the breadwinner of his family. 

Jimin, a very fragile boy who suffered seizure and traumatized on the crime he witnesses inside the Grass Flower Arboretum when he was a kid. 

Taehyung, grow up with a pain caused by his father who abused him and his sister, a pain that has a desire of killing.