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What has always stood out to me about Jimin and Jungkook isn’t simply that they care for each other. Every member of BTS loves one another deeply, and that much has never been in question.

What fascinates me is the quality of their attention.

There is a difference between affection and fixation. Between fondness and fascination.

When Jimin and Jungkook look at each other, there are moments where the world seems to narrow. The noise fades. The cameras disappear. The members around them cease to be the center of their focus. For a brief second, it feels as though there are only two people in the room.

Not because they love the others any less.

But because the look itself is different.

It is not the playful glance exchanged between friends. It is not the proud smile of teammates celebrating a shared achievement. It is something quieter and, because of that, far more difficult to articulate.

It is recognition.

The kind that comes from knowing someone so thoroughly that entire conversations seem to take place without a single word being spoken.

Their eyes often appear to meet with an almost startling immediacy as if each instinctively knows where the other’s attention will land. And when they do lock eyes, there is frequently a pause. A lingering. A moment where neither seems particularly eager to look away.

That is what captures my attention.

Not the grand gestures.

Not the fan edits.

Not the endless debates.

The pauses.

Because pauses are honest.

People can control their words. They can manage their image. They can perform for an audience. But those fleeting moments when someone’s entire expression softens upon seeing a particular person are much harder to manufacture.

Over the years, I’ve noticed that Jimin and Jungkook often seem to look at one another not as though they are simply seeing a bandmate, but as though they are seeing someone whose presence alone brings comfort, familiarity, and joy.

And perhaps that’s why their eye contact feels so powerful.

It doesn’t seem to be searching for attention.

It seems to be finding home.

Whether others see it or not is beside the point.

What makes it compelling is that admiration of this depth rarely needs words. It reveals itself in the smallest moments the lingering glance, the unconscious smile, the way two people can look at each other in a crowded room and, for a heartbeat, make everything else disappear.

I am reaching a point in my Jikook journey where I genuinely need someone to explain the laws of human interaction to me because every time I attempt to be rational, objective, balanced, and intellectually honest, I end up accidentally becoming even more convinced that these two are not operating under the standard “brothers/bandmates/best friends” framework.

And before anyone says it:

Yes. I know. I know the word.

Delulu.

I have heard it. I have embraced it. I have embroidered it onto a decorative throw pillow and placed it prominently in my living room.

But at what point does one stop being delusional and start being a confused anthropologist observing a phenomenon for which existing vocabulary seems insufficient?

Because every single time I sit down and tell myself, “Okay. Be normal. These are just two men who have worked together for years,” I inevitably end up staring at another compilation, another interaction, another moment of inexplicable emotional gravity between them and thinking:

Respectfully,

What exactly is everyone else’s definition of “just friends”?

Where are these friendships?

Who has them?

Can they be located geographically?

Because if there is apparently a thriving population of platonic male friends who behave with this level of emotional intimacy, physical magnetism, mutual fixation, attentiveness, fondness, comfort, and what can only be described as gravitational pull toward one another, then I seem to have somehow missed an entire branch of sociology.

What I am saying is that every attempt to explain them as “nothing unusual” somehow requires more mental gymnastics than the alternative.

I no longer feel obligated to explain why people see something there.

I need someone to explain why people don’t.

And no, before anyone starts drafting think pieces, I am fully aware that affection exists. I am aware that friendship exists. I am aware that cultural differences exist. I am aware that men are capable of emotional closeness.

In fact, I strongly support all of those things, but there comes a point where my brain begins conducting comparative analysis.

Because when I look at ordinary friendships and then look at whatever those two have going on, the difference is not quantitative, It is qualitative.

And every time I tell myself I am reading too much into it, another interaction emerges from the archives like a peer-reviewed rebuttal.

At this point I feel less like a shipper and more like a defense attorney whose client keeps producing additional evidence.

The prosecution rests.

The defense rests.

The jury is exhausted.

The evidence locker is overflowing.

Meanwhile I am sitting here attempting to write a reasonable conclusion and arriving only at:

Your Honor, I would like to submit Exhibit 7,842 and also whatever the hell that eye contact was.

Perhaps they are simply extraordinarily close.

Perhaps they are soulmates in the broadest possible human sense.

Perhaps they are best friends.

Perhaps they are something else entirely.

The truth is that none of us actually know.

What I do know is that every time someone confidently says, “They’re obviously just brothers,” my immediate response is:

My friend.

My cherished companion.

My fellow traveler.

I am begging you to introduce me to siblings who behave like this.

Not because I wish to argue.

Not because I wish to fight.

But because I have questions.

Many questions.

Academic questions.

Questions that deserve funding.

Until then, I will continue existing in the strange intellectual space between skepticism and conviction, where every attempt to become less delulu somehow results in becoming more delulu.

A tragic condition.

A fascinating condition.

A condition from which I currently have no desire to recover.

I personally believe Jikook have been an item for quite a number of years, and yet I routinely find myself sitting in the corner of my room conducting a full internal cross examination of my own beliefs.

Like girl.

Be serious.

Touch grass.

Open a window.

Read a book.

And so I do.

I approach the subject with all the rigor of a skeptical academic determined to dismantle a questionable thesis.

I review the evidence.

I consider alternative explanations.

I challenge my assumptions.

I actively try to debunk myself.

And somehow, every single time, I emerge from the investigation less skeptical than when I started.

Which frankly feels like a design flaw.

At this point my relationship with Jikook is not even shipping anymore. It is an ongoing intellectual exercise in which I attempt to prove myself wrong and then accidentally write a stronger argument for the opposite conclusion.

The thing is, I am fully aware that I do not know these people.

None of us do.

I am aware that edited clips exist.

I am aware that friendships can be affectionate.

I am aware that emotional closeness does not automatically equal romance.

I know all of this.

I truly do.

And yet.

AND YET.

Every time I confidently announce that I am being delulu, another part of my brain immediately responds:

“Okay, but are we sure?”

That is the problem.

The certainty with which I call myself delulu is directly proportional to how unconvinced I am that I’m actually wrong.

It’s a very inefficient system.

I keep waiting for the moment where everything suddenly clicks and I go, “Ah yes, of course. They are obviously just bandmates. Mystery solved.”

Instead, years later, I am still staring into the void like a conspiracy theorist whose corkboard has become self-aware.

Not because I need them to be together.

Not because I think I know their lives.

But because every attempt to explain away my observations somehow requires more effort than simply accepting that I have questions.

A lot of questions.

Far too many questions for people who allegedly occupy the category of “nothing to see here.”

So yes, perhaps I am delulu.

But if I am, then why has my most successful method of becoming less delulu consistently resulted in becoming more delulu?

That seems scientifically significant.

Anyway, thank you for attending this completely unnecessary rant.

I have spent an embarrassing amount of my free time trying to disprove my own opinions.

The investigation remains ongoing.

The jury is still out.

The evidence board is still hanging on the wall.

And I, unfortunately, remain unconvinced by my own attempts at skepticism.

Thank you for tuning in to this episode of:

“Am I Delulu, Or Am I Just Observant?”

Can we talk about something that has been quietly unfolding for almost a decade?

Because at some point, the conversation stops being about coincidence and starts becoming about artistic inspiration.

The fascinating thing about Jungkook and Jimin is not simply that they are close. It is not even that they have spent most of their formative years together. It is that throughout the years, if you trace Jungkook’s creative language his photography, his videography, his casual recordings, his behind-the-scenes moments there is one recurring presence that seems to appear over and over again:

Jimin

And no, this is not about reducing either of them to a single relationship. Both are extraordinary artists in their own right. Jimin is not defined by Jungkook, and Jungkook is not defined by Jimin.

What makes it interesting is the concept of a muse itself.

Historically, a muse is not merely a romantic figure. A muse is someone whose existence sparks creation. Someone whose presence becomes woven into an artist’s perspective. Someone who repeatedly appears in the work because they occupy a meaningful space in the artist’s emotional and creative landscape.

Think about the great artists, writers, composers, and filmmakers throughout history. The muse is rarely announced. They are revealed through patterns.

And when you look at Jungkook’s artistic journey, the pattern is impossible to ignore.

For years, Jungkook has pointed his camera toward Jimin.

For years, he has captured him in moments both grand and ordinary.

Not because he had to.

Not because anyone asked him to.

But because artists instinctively document what fascinates them.

What moves them.

What catches their eye.

What they find beautiful.

There is a reason photographers return to certain subjects again and again. There is a reason painters fill sketchbooks with the same face. There is a reason filmmakers frame particular people differently.

Artistic attention is one of the purest forms of attention.

And Jungkook has been paying attention to Jimin for nearly ten years.

That, to me, is the truly remarkable part.

The consistency.

The longevity.

The fact that through changing eras, changing hairstyles, changing concepts, changing cities, changing stages, and changing versions of themselves, that creative focus never seems to disappear.

A decade is a long time.

People change.

Friendships evolve.

Lives move in different directions.

Yet somehow, across years that have transformed both of them from teenagers into global artists, there remains this recurring thread.

Jimin appears.

In the frame.

In the memories.

In the creative output.

In the stories.

In the details.

And perhaps that is why so many people find their dynamic compelling.

Not because it fits neatly into any label.

But because there is something profoundly human about witnessing one person become a constant source of inspiration for another.

In an age where attention spans last seconds, there is something almost poetic about a decade-long fascination.

A decade of noticing.

A decade of documenting.

A decade of creating with the same person repeatedly finding their way into the art.

Whether through photographs, videos, performances, memories, or quiet moments that most people would overlook, there is an undeniable narrative there.

The narrative of an artist who never seems to run out of reasons to look.

And honestly, we as an audience have been eating this content up for years.

Because who wouldn’t?

There is something undeniably beautiful about watching someone be seen so consistently.

And if we’re being fair, Jimin gives us plenty to appreciate too. His artistry, his presence, his emotional intelligence as a performer, the way he carries himself on and off stage it’s easy to understand why he continuously captures attention, not just from fans, but seemingly from the people around him as well.

Now, before someone starts drafting a think piece in my mentions: this is simply my interpretation of a pattern I’ve noticed over the years. I am not claiming insider knowledge. I am not claiming confirmation of anything. This is an observation, an opinion, and a reflection on artistic inspiration.

Frankly, it is a little funny that enjoying patterns in art now requires a disclaimer at all.

But here we are.

What I see is an artist who, for nearly a decade, has repeatedly found himself drawn to the same subject.

What I see is creative admiration.

What I see is attention.

What I see is inspiration.

And after ten years of photographs, videos, memories, performances, and moments that keep adding to the same story, I can’t help but think that if the definition of a muse is someone who continually inspires creation, then Jimin has occupied that role in Jungkook’s artistic universe for a very, very long time.

The muse discourse may never end.

And honestly?

I hope it doesn’t.

Because ten years later, we’re all still watching.

And Jungkook still seems to be looking.

No one is asking you to ship them. No one is forcing you to see what others see. But pretending there hasn’t been a decade of undeniable closeness, affection, trust, and consistency between Jimin and Jungkook feels more like willful blindness than objectivity.

What many of us see isn’t based on one clip, one glance, or one edited compilation. It’s based on years of interactions, patterns, and moments that have remained remarkably consistent through every era of BTS. The comfort. The loyalty. The way they seem to gravitate toward each other no matter where they are or who they’re with.

And if you don’t see it? That’s perfectly fine.

But some people act as though supporting Jikook is a crime while simultaneously twisting themselves into knots trying to dismiss things that happen right in front of the camera. Not every smile has a hidden explanation. Not every touch is fan service. Sometimes people are simply exactly as close as they appear to be.

Whether you view them as best friends, soulmates, or something more, their bond is undeniably special. That’s what Jikook supporters celebrate not hate, not competition, not narratives built on tearing others down.

I see what I see. You see what you see.

To each their own.

But after all these years, I’m still going to appreciate one of the most beautiful and enduring connections I’ve ever witnessed.