Hey Stormblessed! You said that everyone's been sending you asks about Jikook and their living together based around a clip in ON:E. What clip would that be? Have a great day ๐ฅฐ๐
Hello sweetie! Congrats, I'm using your ask to answer your question, along with everyone else's question about why I'm 99% sure that Jimin and Jungkook live together. I'll leave the 1% open for reasonable doubt, but if I'm honest, I really don't have any. I'll also address the more specifics in some of the other anons questions. Soooo if you sent in an anon ask about the whole living situation, this post is for you!
To start, the MOTS ONE DVD moment that continues to be referenced and that I'm pretty sure sparked this wave of asks is this one:
And this was the follow up moment when Joon joined the conversation:
So to talk about this moment in particular. Yoongi was teasing Jimin about watching No More Dream. JK then piped up to interupt the teasing saying "I watched this video too a while ago." He continues by saying "I was at home with hyung." The subtitles say him, but he actually said hyung. "We were talking about the old days, then hyung turned the video on all of a sudden, so that's how." The continuation is Joon jumping in and asking what's up and what they were talking about, only for JK to say nothing and RM to say that was a lie (JK saying nothing because he was obviously sharing a story.)
Now some people seemed confused because he just said "hyung" which he has 6 hyungs. Lol but I mean context would lead us to the obvious and only conclusion that the hyung in question this time would be Jimin, since Jimin was being teased about watching their old videos, JK was explaining how *they* ended up watching those old videos. So basically this was JK just casually talking about him and Jimin at home. Singular. Together. Not Jimin's home, not my home. Just... home. So we will use this as my first example for reasons I'm confident KM live together.
And for my next example, I'll just use the other big ONE DVD moment, the hickeygate moment: Now let's just think logically. No other member or staff knew this story yet and it had just happened the night before this was filmed. So they weren't at the dorms, they weren't on set or at the company. They were alone. They were tipsy and JK had picked Jimin up and was spinning him around refusing to put him down. You really think they could/would be doing that anywhere in public without it being filmed and recorded and everywhere on the internet within 5 minutes? Nah, they were at HOME.
You would like MORE examples? Sure, I have so many! All the times they are together late at night when no other member is around, off camera. Or the life goes on MV where JK wanted to be as realistic as possible and put him and JM sharing a room and teased JM about his morning breath. Or all the times they have joked about waiting for each other and how one can't leave until the other days so they can finally go home.
JK wishing he could stay longer visiting Hobi's MV set but says he needs to leave. JK said I as in just him. But Jimin went "we have things to do" JKs personal statement involves both of them, they both need to leave together for these things they need to do.
When Jimin said the most enjoyable thing he does is wake up and see Jungkookie. Yeah, that implies that JK is the first thing he sees in the morning, you know like they share a bedroom together in their own home and can greet each other good morning as soon as they open their eyes after waking up for the day.
When JM was project Manger for BE and told everyone to email him their proposals and everything they were working on since he was going to be the liason between the team and the company. That way he can type up all their notes neatly and send it over. And JK just said "I'll just need to tell them to you, right?" Implying why would he need to email his thoughts to Jimin when he can just tell him what they are if you know, they are sharing a living space or something.
Jimin being intimately aware of what JK snores like and how annoying it would be to share a room with him when Hobi says he will be JKs roommate during ITS, needing to remind the others, remember Jungkook snores and it's loud. Like he gets the reminder of his snoring often. Or the way he knew how long Jungkooks showers were these days when none of the other members knew and were surprised by that info.
When JK was telling us what he was doing over their short break back in February and that he spent it working out. Only for Jimin to correct him and tease him about it, saying no you did not. Lol while none of the other members knew thus either. It's almost like KM share a living space so they know when the other goes to work out or when they skip.
How during Festa 2021 JK was telling us how he sings Karoke all over his house. And Jimin then chimed in with a "Yes, he does it constantly and he did this even before the pandemic" which correlates back to the times where he talked about how he listens to JK sing for 8 hours every day in their car, at home, while eating, all the time during rehearsals in 2019.
Or how they consistently wait for each other when leaving places so that they leave together, which is a choice they make themselves. And it's not just JK waiting, Jimin sits and waits for him often too
Not to mention JKs joke about Jimins shower habits, the way that Jimin knew exactly what JKs morning alarm sounded like even though he told us about how he changes it very very frequently because it keeps him on his toes. The way that they were full of exasperated fondness arguing over how to arrange the room during the Ikea run episode like they were rehashing old arguments and have done this before. Like potentially setting up their own place together. Or when Jimin asked JK if he was getting ingredients for home during RUN. Or how when we DO see them getting in and out of cars, 90% of the time they share a car. And more and more and more....
Which transitions me nicely into answering other questions about how can they live together. Such as the car riding. I had a couple asking about maybe they just lived together temporarily because we haven't seen them car sharing lately. To which I ask, please name me all the times we have seen BTS get in or out of cars in 2021? Because I can think of 3, maybe 4, times. Plus the 2 selca/video moments Jimin posted of him in the car with RM and once with Jin. And then we have the most recent Kookie selca from the car (but we cant tell if he was in that car alone or not). So let's count those all together and say we have seen car rides from BTS a total of 6 times. 6 times in 9.5 months. Do you REALLY think BTS have only ridden in cars 6 times this year? Pandemic changes how often people see them doing things because of lockdown, it also changed how private they are about things. And even with that, we saw a manager taking both of their belongings to the same car after You Quiz filming. In June we saw during Lee Hyun's behind the scenes videos that KM left the company together before everyone else did. We have them leaving together to go home together from the 777 challenge run episode where JK waited hours to leave only with Jimin, that was also Feb 2021. In March they were filmed from afar arriving to the news station together from the same car and leaving together as well. So if we add the 4 times that we do have confirmation that KM left or arrived together from filming inside the building, not just the cars, that puts us at 10 recorded car rides, and they have shared at least 40% of them. Plus 2 of the 4 car rides we have seen where we didn't see them ride together, we didn't actually see what cars they got into. So maybe they did, maybe they didn't. And again, I promise you, they have been in the car more than 10 times this year lol we just haven't seen it. And at least 30% of all our car ride footage comes from behind the scenes content that simply hasn't been released yet this year. So i wouldn't say they aren't sharing. 40% is a fairly large number for such a small sample size.
Next let's talk about their real estate purchases I guess since I had plenty of people ask about that as well. First, buying a house does not mean you are living in it. Especially when you are as rich as they are, it's a good investment financially. Good reminder that multiple members own multiple buildings, including having purchased homes for their families as well. Jimin in 2018 purchased an apartment complex as an investment thay was getting rebuilt. And now he has purchased a luxury apartment in the same complex as Namjoon, paid in cash. JK purchased his apartment, upgraded it, and he later bought a house in Itaewon. Now in 2019 and 2020, Jimin couldn't live in his purchased apartments because it wasn't livable. And it seemed like they both probably lived in JKs apartment, it was in the same complex as Hobi's apartment and those 3 often talked about only seeing each other during down times and would often car share together to official schedules, probably because they were coming from the same place. Recent news has said that JK gifted his apartment to his brother. Months ago, it was rumored that JK sold his apartment, I figure there was confusion in the turn over and that he actually gave that apartment up to his brother a long time ago and K media assumed that since it was not being lived in a ownership paperwork was appearing to be transfered around, that the apartment got sold. His house in Itaewon has been reportedly been being rented out for the past year or so and I haven't heard any news of that changing. So JK all of a sudden has no place to live and Jimin now does? Yeah, pretty sure they just moved. And if in behind content of 2021 as it comes out as we see NamKookMin car rides like we used to see 3J ones. Well, that will say all that it needs to for me personally. But regardless, they don't live in the dorms anymore, it's very clear. And if JK gave his apartment away and is renting out his home, where else would he be living? That combined with all the above verbal hints, I think it's fairly obvious where he is living.
And lastly why people say Karmy talk about how they know Jikook live together. Yes, I have seen the proof. No I didn't save it nor will I share it. The Twitter thread of them talking about it got deleted for a reason, nor was it ever supposed to make it over to the I army side of Twitter in the first place I think. Basically it boils down to the districts they have been spotted in doing everyday life stuff, meaning the same district. The district that Jimin's apsrtment is also in. Not to mention that their voting district is the same as well as most recently the footage of them at the health clinic that got shared, you take those tests at the health clinic based on the district you live in, and they were there together. And JMs apartment, JKs apartment and JKs house are all 3 in 3 seperate districts. So it's easy to draw the obvious conclusion. They shared some photo proof, but it got deleted because their addresses and voting information is private information. Them living their private lives is private information. Notice how k army fans tend to only post photos of BTS when they are out doing public things, such as eating out, ice skating, museums. And they only post those things days after that event occurred. You don't think they don't see these guys do random normal person things on occasion too? For the most part K army is very protective of the boys and keep things like their location when spotted very locked down and to themselves. Like one K army heard them filming the Jimmy Fallen butter performance, filmed all the lights going and you could hear them singing, and then sat on that footage for almost 3 months before posting it. Not to mention, it is often joked about how Jikook is Korea's "open secret." But again, it's good to be wary of things when no proof is able to be given, so even if you take all the k army rumors with a grain of salt, i think everyone else in this post makes it fairly obvious that they live together, just them, and have for a long time now. Not in the dorms or with other members, but just them in their own place.
But this is just my personal opinion based off all this information. Here is a bunch, you can easily go find more examples of times they have hinted at living together too. And I would encourage you to form your own opinions of course. But you all wanted to know why jikookers and myself are convinced they live together, well this is basically why! Lol Hope this helped and everyone who sent in an ask over this topic sees this post! ๐
