BTS MV Theory: How it all fits together
So! This theory has a lot of parts, and lowkey I don’t know where to start, so I’m gonna dive head first.
1. In terms of the MV storyline (and not just about metaphors and themes), Jin is a time traveler. He’s not the only one capable of it, but for a majority of the MVs he’s the only one that’s able to.
2. Inside this narration, there are several worlds/universes that are capable of being jumped between (I’ll get into what these worlds are and the details of the boys’ storylines within these worlds later)
3. It all started with the story in I Need U and the prologue, which also happens to be the story mainly detailed in the Notes. The story is as follows:
The boys meet in high school, where they often hide out in an old classroom-turned storage room. Overtime they drift apart, that of which is related to their backstories.
Jin is at the school because it was his father’s alma mater, and is as such expected to perform well. Joon comes from a family/lifestyle of poverty. Jimin has moved schools a lot because of him having seizures (due to an incident where he was lost in the rain in a flower arboretum as a child). Taehyung comes from a family where his father is abusive towards him and his mother and sister. Yoongi isn’t there for a specific reason, but he grew up in a strict household (under his father’s thumb); a fire ended up burning his whole house and most of what was inside of it when he was a child. Hoseok doesn’t have a specific reason for being there either, but in his past as a child his mom took him to an amusement park and abandoned him there, which (understandably so) scarred him. Jungkook doesn’t really have a background, other than the fact that he relies heavily on the guys and his life is basically intertwined with theirs (I mean…life imitates art, am I right?)
The story goes that, first, Joon moves away (suspected because of the poverty in his family). Then, Jin tells the principle about the secret classroom, to which he goes and encounters Yoongi and Jungkook. Apparently Yoongi’s used to being roughed up by the teachers, but the principle slaps Jungkook and Yoongi retaliates, which results in him leaving (he claims in his notes he dropped out, but the rumor is he was expelled). After that, Jimin has a seizure and ends up being hospitalized by his parents. Jin transfers schools. Hoseok stops going after that, and soon Jungkook’s the only one left. At some point Taehyung had stopped as well, but that’s because he generally didn’t go much anyways (too focused on skipping, doing graffiti, etc.) At one point Joon comes back, but the boys have already drifted apart too much.
This is the original world (OG world, if you will). Basically, this is the “I Need U” world, in that the things that happen in that MV are the fates of everyone in that world (Hoseok overdoses on pills he doesn’t need (see: HYYH notes), Jungkook gets beat up by guys on the street (and ends up being hit by a car), Taehyung kills his father, Yoongi commits suicide by setting his room on fire, Joon becomes stuck in his job where people look down on him, and it’s a little unclear with Jimin, but I interpret it as him being stuck in the hospital and forever stuck in his memories of what happened that day (and never getting better, as evidenced by his aversion to water). In this world, Jin decides he wants to try to change things, and this is the first instance he attempts to do so, or the first world he does so in (that we know of….). As we’ll later find out, the night where Jungkook gets hit by a car is the night that ultimately ends up breaking the guys a part and is one of the main motivators for Jin to change worlds.
One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the MVs, or the biggest question I had, was whether Jin goes back in time or switches between universes. Lowkey, I think it’s both. In “I Need U”, Jin’s decision to change the past is symbolized by the burning of the flower petals, as well as him going into the fedal position. Both of these are symbolic of sacrificing something in order to get something else, which is a common theme in nearly every MV (See: Joon’s “Damien” quote about destroying worlds, the story of “Omelas”, and the story of the man in “Fake Love” (I’ll touch on these more later)). Basically, Jin had to sacrifice something each time he changes the past, whether that be pieces of himself or the other members. This is why, whenever he decides to change worlds, it shows him in the fedal position, something reminiscent of someone in pain.
In Jin’s short film “Awake”, his quote that Joon says at the beginning talks about “The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world”. Is this a coincidence? That Jin’s quote talks about having to destroy a world in order to be free/move on? No. Jin is the bird, and he has to destroy the previous world in order to go to the next one.
Going back to what I said earlier, I propose the idea that Jin is hopping between worlds (though, to him, it may just be him changing the past). What evidence do I have?
Honestly, calling it just “the blue room” is kinda misleading, because this room changes based off of what world the person is in.
In “Awake”, he’s inside of the blue room, which seems to be sorta a headquarters for him. Prior to this he’s stuck inside of a dining room and says “I have no dream”. Him going into the blue room (and thus accepting the job of skipping worlds in order to find the perfect one) represents this being his purpose (which? makes a lot of sense? He’s the oldest, so of course he would consider his dream/job to be looking after everyone). Inside the blue room, he has pieces from other worlds (other MVs): the paino, the lighter, the pictures of the boys.
When he decides to change worlds, he burns the petals (1 sign of changing worlds) and taps the water-like reflection (2nd sign of changing worlds).
When he walks in to the hallway, what do we see?
A picture of a large black bird with huge black wings. We know from later scenes of this hallway (namely in the Japenese Blood, sweat, and tears video) that this picture isn’t always there. So what does it signify?
The next world. The world that Jin’s going to, which happens to be the Blood, Sweat, and Tears universe. This universe also has it’s own blue room.
We see the blue room again in this MV: the room where Yoongi and Jimin are (remember, each universe has it’s own blue room, so they can vary, which is why this blue room looks different than Jin’s original blueroom). Prior to this, Jimin is seen holding an apple, something that, once eaten, allows you to travel between the worlds. The idea of the apple allowing this to happen as introduced in “Awake” when Jin is seen about to eat the apple before entering the blueroom.
Another instance of this room serving as a way between worlds is in the Japanese version of Blood, Sweat, and Tears, where Jimin runs down the same hallway, opens up one of the doors and ends up encountering the other Jimin. This MV actually reinforces the idea that the apple (THE apple) allows you to cross worlds. Sweater Jimin (the one pictures, with the hella cute rainbow sweater) puts an apple into a blender and eats it in this MV. After this happens, he’s seen running through the blue room halls, which is also only time Jimin is successful in traveling between worlds. We know this hallway links him to another universe, because what do we find behind door number 1?
Another Jimin and Yoongi. However, this Jimin still has the apple in his hand, meaning he wasn’t able to go through with world hopping like other Jimin did. Yoongi ends up protecting his Jimin by blocking his vision of seeing other Jimin (god damn that was way too many rhyming words). For all of the MVs, the apples represent knowledge, as in their knowledge of the other worlds and how to hop between them. Jimin’s already ate the apple, so he has knowledge of this and tries to leave his world, only to accidentally stumble across one where the other him hasn’t eaten the apple yet. In both, Yoongi blocks his vision as a way to try to protect him from the knowledge he has and to prevent him from changing things.
We see the blue room again in Euphoria, though this time the floors are different and it’s a hell of a lot darker, but rest assured this is either the same blue room or a variation of it (the blue room of another world). Here, Jin looks out on the world he has come to (see: the same window).
Spring Day introduces the concept of Jungkook being able to travel between worlds as well. When he finally finds all the boys in Omelas (I’ll explain that MV in a later post), they run towards another world to escape. How do we know they’re going towards another world?
They’re running through a hallway
or alley, but an alley is the hallway of this universe
After Spring Day, Jungkook is seemingly able to travel between worlds, but it’s not as easy for him. I get the vibe that he’s aware Jin is doing something, he just doesn’t know how to stop it/do it himself. The HYYH Notes at one point write about Jungkook having dreams about other universes, so it’s not a stretch that he’s somewhat aware of the world changes (see: Him having the premonition of him shooting the guys in Not Today and him being able to run around the house, along with standing outside the window that Jin closes in Fake Love).
However, the mistake that Jungkook made in Spring Day is the same one that Jimin made, and violates the number one rule of passing through worlds.
The most important rule about changing worlds is to never run into a you of another world. This only happens twice, first when Jimin finds himself in the Blood, Sweat, and Tears Japanese Version video, and the result is him being literally catapulted from the room and back into his own world.
When it happens to Jungkook, he’s forced again to stay in his own world. The Jungkook that makes it to the beach in the end of Spring Day is the Jungkook from the train (striped sweater), not the Jungkook that got all the guys together to leave Omelas (long, red and brown sweater). A possible reason behind this could be revoking the ability to travel between worlds? After this MV he’s no longer seen traveling between worlds, though he doesn’t lose the awareness that something is up. The way I think about it, him and Jimin both kinda want to turn back time to change things, but they don’t have the power/experience that Jin has, and thus are never successful in doing so and also why they continue making mistakes.
AKA the “I Need U” world. A common theme throughout the storyline that BTS does has to deal with sacrifice, and having to sacrifice something in order to get something else (See: Joon’s “Damien” quote about destroying worlds, the story of “Omelas”, and the story of the man in “Fake Love” (I’ll touch on these more later)). Basically, Jin’s sacrificing little pieces of himself to change things.
This is also why the HYYH notes are so muddled; it’s because Jin goes back in time several times to try to change things. However, my theory is that the universes are the following:
A universe where Jungkook attempts to commit suicide by jumping off of a roof; in this universe, the same things in OG verse occur as well except for him being hit by a car (the only thing Jin can manages to change in this world).
This universe is more of a prequal to the events of I Need U, as it shows all the good times that the guys had before everything went wrong (they’re spending a lot of time in the train car, which Joon mentions many times in the notes is where he stays).
In this universe Jin sacrificed himself and his presence in the boy’s lives in order for everything to go right, as evidence by the fact that he’s always watching the boys and never really participates with them.However, this isn’t enough, as stuff still goes wrong (Taehyung still jumps off the tower, Jungkook and Yoongi fight, and Jungkook still gets hit by the car at the end). He even builds a house of cards only for it to be knocked down, representing that he built the new world only for it to go wrong as well.
This MV is the first instance of Jungkook having premonitions and being aware of other worlds, as he seems to space out and be confused after his fight with Yoongi.
This world also introduces the concept of Yoongi/Jungkook (Yoongi in other worlds being protective of him), Taehyung/Namjoon (Namjoon being a mentor type to Taehyung), and Hoseok/Jimin (being there for each other in the hospital) having an importance for each other.
A difference in this world from the next is Hoseok ending up in the hospital with Jimin and Jin not being a part of the group, as well as Yoongi arguing with Jungkook.
4. Blood, Sweat, and Tears (Korean Version)
If you don’t want to read a whole analysis, the premise of this world is just that Jin realizes there is good and bad in the world and the boys part with their innocence. The difference in this one is Taehyung is the bad guy and starts the fight with everyone that ruins everything.
This world has by far the most symbolism and deepest metaphor. Overall, it tells the story of Lucifer being cast from grace, as well as deals with the concept of good and evil within a world, and within ourselves. On top of that, it also gives allusions to Demian.
Before getting into good v. evil, the MV references Demian a lot. Majorly, it references Abraxos, who is a God that represents a kind of middle between good and evil, as he has both aspects inside.
To begin with, the painting that Jin examines at the beginning of the MV is called “The Fall of the Rebel Angels”, and depicts the archangel Michael driving out fallen angels from heaven. It sets the tone for the MV about this idea of good versus evil, purity versus inpurity. Note that the two doors on either side of the door are black and white, representing the two choices.
The painting here behind Jungkook is “The Lament for Icarus”, which depicts Icarus dead after having fallen. For background, the story of Icarus is about a boy who, wishing to escape Crete where he and his father have been trapped in, is made wings out of feathers and wax. His father, who made the wings, tells him to not fly too high (for the sun will melt the wax) or too low (for the sea will cause the wings to get wet and destroy them). The story goes that, despite this warning, Icarus ends up flying too close to the sun, resulting in his wings melting and him drowning in the ocean below; though it’s noted that it’s Icarus’s own curiosity that causes him to fly too close. This particular story seems to impact him specifically, as his scenes are in front of this painting. He even floats at one point in front of it and is surrounded by feathers, reminiscent of Icarus’s wings melting. It’s also noteworthy that the scene at the beginning has the boys all sitting in front of the same painting.
Hoseok is a little harder to pinpoint, but his goal throughout the MV is to attempt to destroy Taehyung and thus destroy the threat of the knowledge getting out. We see him examining the arrow, which he lets loose on Tae.
When it hits, colors splatter (the same same colors we later see Jimin and the statue crying; these colors are the combination of good/evil, and could be representative of emotions both positive and negative).
In reference to Demain, Taehyung and Jin represent Demien and Sinclair (respectively) (Taehyung also takes the role of a fallen angel, he honestly has so many roles in this series).
In Demian, Sinclair learns about Abraxos from Demian, who tempts him to worship him instead of God, who he claims represents only the good in the world. Joon’s quote about someone being a tempter and tempting him towards a world he no longer wants to be a part is said by Sinclair in regards to Demian. Here, it’s as if Jin is saying it, with his tempter being Taehyung.
This scene where Taehyung falls off the balcony is in front of the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, which depicts Icarus’s fall from the sky and into the sea. This creates a juxtaposition between him and Jungkook, as while Jungkook is coerced and unknowingly finds knowledge/falls, Taehyung smirks at the camera and does so willingly. He already has the knowledge and invites the viewer (and Jin) to discover more, just as Demian did to Sinclair. In terms of innocence, this would mean Taehyung has willingly given his up.
In the end of the novel, Demian kisses Sinclair and says that he need not call him anymore, for he is within him. Metaphorically and in terms of this MV, this would mean that the knowledge of the worlds of good and evil are within him. This is why Jin kisses the statue at the end of the MV. He’s accepting the knowledge. As this statue represents Abraxos (note the white marble and black wings), Jin is acknowledging his presence. (note worthy that a kiss is also traditionally use to seal deals). The end end where Taehyung shows his wings represents that he is indeed a fallen angel, and has tempted Jin to strike a deal with Abraxos (remember the painting at the beginning of angels v. fallen angels?).
The whole MV is about knowledge, and being tempted by knowledge. The book of Genesis in the bible states that the apple in the garden of Eden represented the knowledge of both good and evil. By eating the apple, you are able to acquire this knowledge of the world.
At one point, Jimin and Yoongi are seen in their blue room, Jimin holding an apple and Yoongi holding a blindfold. By this point, Jimin has already eaten his apple and thus gained the knowledge. In response, Yoongi traps him in the blue room and blindfolds him in an attempt to save him from his newfound knowledge of the world.
On the other hand, Namjoon uses absinthe (the green drink and vapor) in order to avoid knowledge and muddle his brain (as absinthe is a known hallucinogenic and was extremely popular in the 18th century). He eventually gets Jungkook to drink it as well. The vapor version of the drink is seen throughout the room and eventually drifts into Yoongi and Jimin’s room (which is right above Joon and Jungkook’s), which is why Yoongi traps Jimin there.
In this scene, each boy appears to have an apple at the table in front of them (which resembles the last supper). However, when they toast, Jin hesitates to eat and appears conflicted, unsure of whether he wants to give his innocence up just yet. The quote that Namjoon says in this video is about being tempted to a world you no longer want to be a part of. As he says it, Jin releases a balloon. In terms of the whole loss of innocence concept, Jin letting go of the balloon represents him deciding to give up his innocence (in exchange for gaining knowledge).
Now that Jin has fully accept the knowledge of the evil in the world and given up his innocence, the world has become ruined. We can see this as he looks at the mirror, above which states “You still have to have Chaos inside you in order to be able to give birth to a dancing star”, which talks about there needing to be chaos in order for something new to be born. Given the previous concept of Jin being the one to create the new world, him finally looking in the mirror represents the world now being able to be changed (since he’s accepted the chaos). However, this knowledge that there is in fact chaos in the world, shatters the peaceful innocence of the BST world.
I admit I got a little carried away, I just really love this version
5. Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Japanese Version
In this world, Jimin refuses to let Yoongi protect/shield him from the knowledge of the world(s) and eats the apple, except this time he runs away and succeeds in passing between worlds.
Similar to the Korean version, Joon still acts as a mentor to Jungkook to tempt him with the knowledge, by having him drink the absinthe. We see at one point Jungkook tries to reject it/keep his innocence by throwing up the drink and Yoongi attempts to help him (Yoongi seems to have this pattern of trying to protect the boys’ innocence/knowledge of the evil in the world. Could have to do with the notes where Yoongi gets expelled by fighting the teacher for hitting Jungkook. Also him helping Jimin aligns with him helping him in the HYYH notes, where Yoongi goes with Jimin to the arboretum so he’s not alone).
In this world Jin ends up fighting Taehyung for real, leading to him running away. He ends up outside and looking at the roof; going along with the themes of the Korean version of this video, it’s depicting the moments before Taehyung falls. Instead of kissing him, in this video Jin fights him. He even whispers that he’s sorry as he does so, as he knows this will be what breaks up the group again, as this is what happened in the OG world. What’s interesting in this world though is it depicts Taehyung as more innocent and undeserving of everyone’s hate (in a way, the Korean version depicted him as the aggressor while the Japanese version depicts the opposite, a nod to how one person can be both and and good or at least have both parts within them).
He looks scared and winces when Hoseok throws the dart, and only gets the crazed look on his face after Jin fights him. In this world, perhaps Jin remembers what happened previously and, in an attempt to correct it, fights Taehyung, but it has the opposite effect as Taehyung wasn’t at all at fault for the bad ending in this world.
When Taehyung’s about to fall off the building, he looks more sad and alone than before (his shirt even says Lone Wolf, as he’s feeling a part from the boys).
Following the fight, when Taehyung goes outside, Jin realizes that it’s again time to switch worlds, as this was the end. Jungkook ends up getting infected (tempted) by the green vapor, and Hoseok fails to kill Taehyung again (and this time we know for sure it’s him who is trying to shoot Taehyung with an arrow, as he aims a dart at him in this MV)
(some parallelism: Taehyung emerges from silk sheets in Korean version as the fallen angel, wreaking havoc. Here, he emerges from the silk sheets a scared and lonely boy who looks over the city, similar to Jungkook in Euphoria)
The glass shattering at the end represents the destruction of this world (similar reasoning in the Korean version), as the glass turns to flowers and Jin is transported to yet another world, this time where he actually walks to Namjoon.
Note worthy: we’re nearing the end. Jin’s heart is being ripped out, and he can’t change the past too much more; his body can’t sustain it. As we see in the next few worlds, it’s mostly others that are changing and hopping worlds.
In the Spring Day MV, this world is also more metaphors and storyline than anything else. Given that this song was made in dedication to the tragedy, it doesn’t add a lot to the storyline, though it does focus on the idea of one person/one small thing being sacrificed for something much bigger.
It follows the story of Omelas, which is a utopia-style story about a world where everything is what one person wants it to be. Whatever they wish the world to be and whatever way they want to live, they are able to. However, in order to do so, one child must be kept in darkness and filth forever (for everyone else’s happiness) (side note: this song is very beautiful because of how much can be taken from it; wether it be missing someone you love or as a critique of a society that allows people to be “sacrificed” while they turn a blind eye is just amazing).
This theme aligns with Jin constantly tearing himself apart for the other, thus sacrificing himself over and over again. That’s why, in this world, it’s Jungkook that tries to change things instead of Jin. He sees the pain that Jin continues to go through and tries to change it (at the same time, the MV includes the boys leaving Omelas, because they refuse to allow someone to be sacrificed for their happiness). This also goes along with the idea that Jungkook has premonitions of other universes and retains some of his memories.
There’s actually two universes that goes along with the Spring Day world: the universe where the group is successful in leaving Omelas, and the world where they are not (striped sweater Jungkook on the train and long sweatered Jungkook that goes back for the guys)
This world doesn’t have a lot of plot, other than the fact that in this world Jungkook has a vision of him shooting the boys. Wether this be in connection to Spring Day and him feeling guilty for not having got them out of Omelas or him realizing that him being hit by the car is what causes the boys to ultimately go to their demise, it reinforces the idea that Jungkook has at least some memories of the other worlds. Or, this could be a whole separate universe that we haven’t learned about yet.
Jin goes to see Joon (and picks up the bills he drops the cigarette on in I Need U, maybe preventing a fire?), Yoongi calls Jungkook, thus saving him from jumping and Jungkook saves Yoongi from the fire, and Hoseok saves Taehyung from the fire. However, this leaves Jimin alone in the hospital, as Hoseok was previously keeping him company.
This world is supposedly the Utopia world, and has scenes where everyone’s a live and together, but it’s obvious this isn’t the case, as the “together” scenes are bathed in colors that’re just a little too bright. The boys realize that Jin is hiding something, and someone says the same thing Tae does in the notes (”Hyung, is that all? Aren’t there more things your hiding from us?”), except this time Jin is on the outs instead of Taehyung, which culminates in Jin taking his place and why Jin is the one to jump off the tower instead of Tae.
This world was supposedly the perfect world, but it was full of lies and unanswered questions, so they have to change it again.
A universe where Jungkook gets hit by the car still, but the boys are able to move on successfully with their lives. Hoseok and Jimin dance together, Yoongi starts playing piano again, Joon follows the girl with the hairbow, Taehyung has the girl who stole from the supermarket ,and Jin has the girl who dropped her diary (basically the love yourself videos). However, things begin to crumble in this universe as well. Yoongi finds out too late that Jungkook got hit by the car and gets drunk. Jimin hurts himself trying to live up to Hoseok’s shadow and ends up hurting the girl dancing with them, resulting in him feeling useless. Hoseok finds out the girl is leaving their studio. Joon leaves the girl without ever talking to her. Taehyung gets arrested, the girl Jungkook got close to leaves with no goodbye, and Jin’s girlfriend gets hit by a car (this happens August 30th, an important date for this universe). At this point, Jin changes worlds again.
Each girl in these universes represents something that the guys need to overcome. For example, Jin’s girl represents the one mistake he keeps trying to fix, which is Jungkook being hit by a car (the one event that sparks everything; I lowkey have a theory that Jin’s the one that hit him in the first place).
For the most part, I think that this universe is where the guys are adults now and learning from their mistakes. (it’s also a pre to the whole idea of not sacrificing yourself for another person, as Jin remarks near the end of his notes that he realized he had changed himself for the girl, but says it as a bad thing).
In the same way that Blood, Sweat, and Tears is a metaphor and not really a full story/universe, Fake Love is the same.
In this world, Jin is beginning to be strung out. He gets desperate to save this flower, which represents the boys and his ability to change worlds. I mentioned earlier that he’s getting close to the point where he can’t do it anymore, and this is evidenced even more in this MV. Instead of opening the curtains, which he usually does to look out over the world he’s jumped to, he closes them; he’s exhausted and doesn’t want to change anymore, but he’s so obsessed with the idea of changing his mistakes and finding the perfect world that it’s tearing him apart.
Jungkook plays more of a role in fixing things than Jin does, as he watches what happens to each guy and is able to run between rooms. As in the HYYH notes, he’s the last to join the boys in their decision to hide their true selves behind their masks (in the HYYH notes, he continues to go to school and doesn’t “crack” like the others do until the very end, when he gets hit by the car).
Each room is full of each guy’s nightmare, and the whole theme of this MV is about being trapped. For each guy, the thing that ends up haunting them in their previous lives is what ends up mocking them in this one, and by mocking I mean it ends up invading their perspective rooms (Yoongi: the fire/his guilt and hate, Hoseok: his mom/the snickers, Taehyung: the phones/him trying to reach out for help, Joon: himself/his inability to change his lifestyle from poverty, Jimin: the water/his past with the arboretum, Jin: the outside world/his inability to fix things, Jungkook: watching this happen to everyone and not being able to help).
In the end, Jungkook realizes he’s too late to change things in this world and to help the guys, so he joins them in being crushed. For someone that has premonitions, I can’t believe he wouldn’t know this was the outcome.
The very end shows him getting hit by the car because, again, this is the one mistake that can’t be changed. If I were to analyze it, I’d say that the actions of the others are indirectly the cause of this, as they were all that Jungkook had, so when they disappeared form his life he just kinda self-imploded, and it’s the one thing Jin can’t seem to change/get right.
10) Final World (Rainbow HYYH Notes)
This is the final world, and the one that I believe is the world where things go right. This one involves all of the HYYH notes that are rainbow colored. In this world the OG notes still happen, but Taehyung doesn’t kill his dad. Hoseok and everyone else break Jimin out of the hospital, where he moves in with Hoseok, Jin finds a journal from his dad in the classroom/storage room, which told about the mistakes he had made with his friends. In this world, Jin realizes that instead of going to change the past, he needs to learn about his mistakes and move forward. It also kinda has to do with Jin gaining the knowledge of good and bad in the world in the Blood, Sweat, and Tears MV. Also in this world, Joon admits that moving away changed nothing.
What we can learn from all of this is that Jin has hopped between A LOT of worlds, trying to shift and change things each time he does so, in search of a “perfect” world where everyone has a happy ending and no one gets hurt. Along the way though, he realizes this isn’t possible. A perfect world cannot exist, some things HAVE to go wrong (and this is where the butterfly effect comes in, as the little things he changes to fix one problem end up causing their own problems later).
As I said earlier, one of the things that motivates Jin to switch worlds is Jungkook getting hit by the car. I lowkey have a theory that Jin is the one that hit him, but it isn’t that heavily supported, so instead it’s more believable that Jin feels responsible. This isn’t a stretch either, as the reason Jungkook runs off and gets hit is because of all the fighting within the group, and one of the reasons that they’re fighting is because Jin gets in a fight with Tae (over Jin hiding things form them; if I were to guess what he’s hiding, I’d say one of the things is him inadvertently getting Yoongi in trouble with the school).
Eventually, Jin realizes that the perfect world is a utopia, something that’s amazing but also cannot exist without sacrificing something and because of this, it’s not worth it. Over the course of the series, he realizes that you can’t change the past, you can only change how you deal with the consequences. Jin realizes what he should’ve been doing was dealing with the consequences of the fight instead of trying to change events so that it never happened in the first place.
This goes along with the message that’s sent in the most recent songs and what I believe they’re going to do next, that you have to love yourself enough to face yourself and face what you’ve done. Yes you need to put yourself first, but you also need to be able to admit when you’ve done wrong and be able to look back and realize you fucked up.
Overall, this series has gone on for so long and I feel like it has even longer to go. Maybe we’ll finally get to watch a world where the boys are finally grown and no longer making the same mistakes; maybe they’ll all finally be happy with themselves and one another.
