My first thought was that the boys died and meet again in heaven as they had been sent there because even in their unfortunate situations they still tried to help each other and it would be considered a good deed. BUT watching the MV more times and paying more attention to it, it looks like jin saved them — which is totally the opposite of what my first thoughts were. In the beginning of the MV we can see Jin and a dead dove and all these dead people on the ground, as if they lost a battle. Then we see Jungkook running away of what looks like a maze (maybe the door in the waterfall” that Jungkook entered in Fake Love takes him to that maze), then we see Jimin and a bunch of instruments that could be a representation of the people who are dead. Taehyung is shown with a girl blindfolded and she probably can’t see. And we have Namjoon and an ark and animals, like a representation of Noah’s Ark — people didn’t believed that a flood was gonna happen just like Noah believed and made something to help the situation, AND a lot of people didn’t believed in BTS’s in the beginning of their career and now they see that they were idiots for that and try to make things better and have them in their programs or have some relation with them.
The next scene with Jin, he is in a room full of cages and the one he bought with the dead dove of the beginning. He covers it and suddenly it moves, like the dove inside it was alive. To me that's the moment that shows that Jin went back in time to save them and he succeed, cause that time the dove resurrected.
Yoongi is shown in a room full of kids and it looks like a kind of cult to me, and the aesthetic of it is really different compared to the previews scenes: the colors, the light, the black clothes — and in that moment it looks kinda lost in the storyline but it makes sense with some future scenes.
Back with Taehyung and the girl, they are in front of the wall of the maze and the door is opening, then he decides to get the blindfold out of the girl and she can see what is happening. The door opening is probably a sign that things changed and that’s why Taehyung helped the girl going forward because he knew that her future has changed too. To me Tae has these direct interaction with the girl because besides Jin, that can go back to the past and change the future, he is the only one who can remember parts of the past despite Jin making changes and sense that something changed. To me Jin can turn back time and interfere and Taehyung is the only one who can remember the past even with the modifications that Jin does (one experiences a deja vu and the other a jamais vu) — to me they have some kind of connection or are even the same person (gonna write about it too maybe?).
When Jungkook comes to a lake he is handcuffed with thorns — then it goes back to the scene with the boys, Jin frees the dove that was reborn — and when back to Jungkook he was free too, as if the dove were a representation of Jungkook — with that it’s possible that Jungkook died after he ran away but came back because of Jin. Okay lake scene, as Jungkook now has his hands free, he catches a conch and he makes a song with it, that can be interpreted as a call (some people found it to be a reference to the book "Lord of the Flies").
We have the scene of the dance break, all the boys are together now with other people (probably the ones that were dead in the beginning), the mood gets darker in this part and they all are wearing cloaks, it looks like a ritual and Jungkook is holding the conch that he used to call everyone to this place — this scene can be related to the book “Lord of the Flies” and with the end of the Fake Love MV extended ver. but now they don’t need to wear masks anymore because they aren’t afraid to show who they are and face their shadows, in the end of Fake Love a wall falls on them but now, in ON, they are opening the gates, BTS are not tied to something that happened in the past or what someone said about them, the rumors and the prejudice, they finally recognized themselves as artists and found a inner piece related to all their past as seven.
Said all that, we come to the last part were all seven are together with an army, and everything that was lost and dead come backs to life, it's basically "the sun after the storm", they had so many hardships in their career but they outcame them as seven and when they are climbing the mountain seven doves appear together — that mountain to me represents the path they went till their actual success, from a tinny group from a small company, that was looked down by so many to this respected and inspiring group of seven that are writing their own story besides anything that people try to impose and say, they have their own identities and visions of the world and what can be better and how make it better through art.
From seven boys that started with one dream (debut) and went step by step to achieve it no matter what and then started to dream more even with fears and doubts if the seven were together they could do it and they did it - teamwork makes the dream work - and I think that's a tiny little thing that i could see in the mv and song that makes me remember Namjoon saying that ON is a love letter to their career.
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