#artms lore

“Are you living in the real world?”

“You who have found us, the white token of promise shall come to your door”

“The wings of a white angel upon your head and stain your eyes red”

“You who resemble us, let our kiss flow as blue blood through your veins”

“When reality and illusion become one, blue blood shall stain the entire city”

“With the setting sun behind us, we shall become one and dance in the hidden park between the buildings”

It follows on from the virtual angel MV. The 5 girls who were obsessed fans or actually devotees I think they were termed? who went "missing" in this MV, were actually turned into noise/static/TV energy. Choerry had been researching their disappearance and came to that conclusion after communing with the static. Haseul I think was also able to enter this space and commune with the static? But then Heejin was shocked to notice the one of the missing/transformed devotees was actually alive and at Club ARTMS. So, that's one plotline.

Then jinsoul shoots her mother - Artemis - and is rebuked by God for such an act, struck down by lightning. This links back to the intro drawings where the disabled girl wants to seek revenge on her mother for giving her false hope. If it wasn't clear, the 5 ARTMS members were spawned from Artemis, so that's mom. This THEN links onto the emails that were shared beforehand about how Club Icarus is for "broken" people, who've had their dreams crushed. The... DJ(?)/email sender/"A" writes about how both they ("A"), the reader and "she" (referred to as verified beauty?) had dreams about what was depicted in the intro. Is Jinsoul/ARTMS members the verified beauty? Anyway, this also links to Haseul and friends being shot out of the sky by the 4 men. Metaphor for losing your wings and being crushed by oppressors.

Plotlines I didn't get either: wtf the kimlip doing man she really just stood there.

Also I didn't get why it started with a person jumping from a building and choerry watching but I just realised now - "I'll be there when your wings break", choerry watched feeling helpless and confused as she was certainly there but couldn't stop their death. Not in Choerry form anyway. I think that's another devotee (they just probably couldn't get all 5 devotee actors back lol). Even though they clearly hit the ground and lost their physical body, they became part of the noise instead. But thats not really Choerry's power so much as... ARTMS? Or Artemis?

they’ve referenced the odd eyes and Haseul’s plane in promotional material, but that hasn’t come up in Birth, Virtual Angel, Icarus, etc. (unless maybe the plane Choerry saw in Icarus is that same one? Which would also kind of go with Choerry moving Haseul’s yellow truck in Air Force One, but that’s for another day)

“Whoever turns the clockwork and beholds the silver token shall become the key”

“That breaks the egg”

“In which the goddess sleeps”

“This is our call” (I think, it’s a little hard to make out)

“From the great egg, a goddess like a nightmare shall awaken”

“Behold, read, and move”

“These words shall become a revelation for you”

Haseul confirmed that she’s in this house by the window waiting for the other four girls (hence the five total plates on the table)

Kim Lip confirmed that the plant heads and shooting stars are in fact the five girls

Heejin also confirmed that the Being of Light is the essence of ARTMS

Kim Lip said that perhaps Heejin was really searching for the Being and wanted to find her

Okay so we saw that polygon/unicorn woman being split into five parts (legs, arms, and torso/head) did those five parts become shooting stars that became the five girls? The stars landed and grew out of the ground to become ARTMS? At the end, we see the girls sitting with the being of light standing behind them. Is that the spirit of the unicorn woman that gathered them? To bring all her parts back together?

It’s also interesting that when Jinsoul was faced with the Being, it was beaming light at her and Jinsoul seemed entranced by it. Yet when Heejin was faced with it, she looked distraught and almost like she failed, maybe to get away from it.