So what is your stance on jikook? What's your story with the ship? Did you use to ship them romantically and stopped because of the dating rumors or were you always a skeptic ? Mind to share? Because from your answers it sounds like you shipped them but you weren't the delulu kind is that right?
Will try to make it as short as I can.
So, I entered the fandom for JM, then got into JK because of their close bond. Got to know there's shipping in K-pop and that it's a part of K-pop and all. I also found them during one of my lowest points. I've watched 3–4 analysis videos, like almost all shippers do, but they were only those VLive analysis videos from Mizgator, and in all these years, those were the only analysis videos I ever watched about Jikook. I personally don't like watching analysis videos, edited videos, and stuff like that, so I never went that route. I watch raw clips without any BG music and all, and that's just what I have watched. I had been in another shipping fandom right before that (my ship did turn out to be true, though), so I know what BG music can do to a video, how these supposedly media works, and how these so-called media take shit from Twitter and put it right there as if it's some sort of fact and all. So, I was aware of these things.
As I said, I'm JM-biased, so I do say that JM has a soft spot for JK. JM is, in general, a very sweet and caring human, but he does favor JK more than others. Maybe it's because JK is younger, and when JM met JK, he was barely 15–16 years old. So, you know how JM is with younger people. He takes it as his responsibility to take care of them.
Anyways, so yeah, I got into Jikook because of their close bond. As I said, I did notice JM loving JK more and how loud he was about his love for JK (the love doesn't have to be romantic).
JK, in their early years, may have been a brat, but over the years he got soft with JM, and I did see him treating JM gently too. Idk, it could simply be because JM himself is so gentle that you can't help but be just as gentle with him. That's how we are IRL too, right? Being a shipper means you ship X person with Y, so I can't really say if I was a shipper or not. Like, yes, I enjoyed all their moments together, but the thing about me was that I never thought they were dating at all. Never once in all these years did I ever think that they're secretly dating or anything. All I did was enjoy their moments together, and when people would say they're in an RS, my mind would always go, "Oh, but they wouldn't do this or that if they were in an RS with each other." People here say that I'm a bitter ex because they don't act the way I want them to be, when the truth is I have always questioned things from the start. I never went with what other shippers said about XYZ moments. I have always seen things from my own perspective and have always stuck with what I feel and think about the moment, which is also why many theories and assumptions were too much for me because I simply couldn't agree with them.
Then started their solo era, and I think y'all know how things have been during that time. I won't lie, during late 2022 itself I started feeling that JM and JK weren't hanging out as much as they used to. I have also shared these things with other JKKrs, but no one took it seriously, and then we had JKK themselves admitting it in AYS1. And I think since then it's been a downfall of what I used to feel.
A lot happened in between, like JK probably back-hugging a woman at his house (I believed that was him), then later last year we had other videos of him with a woman, then the whole Daeun thing. Like, I already never believed JKK dated, so after all these incidents, would I have any other reason to believe they're dating? No.
Plus, I'm someone who pays attention to small details where, you know, I see how much they currently know about each other to understand how much they're into each other's lives. It used to be like they knew a lot about each other, probably because they were attached at the hips, but for the past couple of years, or say since the solo era, it isn't like that. So that's also something that stuck with me.
What I feel about them now is that they're still close to the point that they can enlist together as companions despite not being in touch for some time, that Jimin can still easily tell what's on JK's mind just by his breathing (as said by him), that they care for each other the same, that they will still do anything for each other, that they're still soft for each other, and that they still have the same physical closeness. What changed, I think, is that they don't hang out as much as they used to before the solo era. And some things, like priorities and interests, could be different, so maybe that's why. I think that's the only thing that changed.
Anyways, now if you ask me why I have this blog and why I do this rather than just leaving, it's just that I wanted to share some things that I never got the chance to express well before, so I'm just doing it now. The day I feel I'm done expressing all my thoughts, or the day I feel I don't want to continue this anymore, I'll simply leave.
Despite whatever I feel about them now, I'm always defensive when it comes to JKK because I still feel like I want to answer when someone compares them with other duos based on what content they're getting. Like, you're not gonna say they're not close because they're not hanging out together. I'll defend their bond till I can.
That's it.













