Jikook’s Relationship is so Special Because it is Theirs.
So, I wanted talk about something that happened recently.
I don’t normally talk about this, but I recently got a message sent to my ask box the day of the Munich Day 1 concert. Now upon reading the Anon’s message, I instantly assumed they were a troll. And I won’t lie, I was prepared to send back a snarky message as a reply. 😈 But I stopped myself and ultimately deleted the message without replying at all. I didn’t want to waste time on a troll OR unintentionally be rude in the small chance the person was serious. 🤷🏾♀️
Basically their message said that they thought Jikook were acting “off” at Munich day 1 and they said they felt the same about London Day 2. They said Jikook ‘felt closer’ a few months ago compared to now and they’ve had “fewer” interactions recently. And they ended their message saying that they ‘felt bad’ for fans at the Munich D-1 concert who wanted to see “fun engagements between the two”. 🤔
And ya’ll let’s pause, because that London Day 2 comment was the real reason I assumed they were a troll because....LONDON DAY TWO???? 🤨 They thought Jikook were “off” on freaking LONDON DAY TWO???????????????????
The London Day Two where this, this, and this happened????? 🤨
How on earth could anyone say they were ‘acting off’???? If that’s "off" what the hell does it look like when they’re "ON" 😵💫
The other thing that confused me was that they sent me that message mere hours after the day one concert had ended. We had barely seen any fancams by then, and they’d already decided that Jimin and Jungkook weren’t really interacting in their opinion and feeling bad for fans who “wanted more fun engagement”. 🤔
That last part REALLY irked me, and I’ll get to that.
I found it very ironic for them to say Jimin and Jungkook "felt closer" a few months back compared to now, considering I made a post all the way back at the beginning of the tour when people were saying they "felt distant" then.
Ya'll, what is happening? Maybe I'm the one who's off here??? 🤪
BUT I always like to give the benefit of the doubt, and I guess perhaps I am a ‘biased’ party so I said, “Lemme wait for Munich day 2 and see if MAYBE I can get where this person is coming from”. 🤷🏾♀️
And then of course this happened.
The moment of Jimin and Jungkook touching their own chests and then touching each others. A completely random, unprompted moment that they just did in between songs for no explainable reason. As I mentioned in my other post, it’s clear that this is something important and special to them. Technically we don’t really know what this means, but I think it’s clear that this is some gesture of affection/endearment toward each other.
I’ve seen many interpret it as “your heart is mine”. Again, I don't know what it truly means to them, but what I do know is that seeing it softens my heart and causes tears to well up into my eyeballs 🥹
This moment is so important to me for so many reasons. One, I am pretty sure, as expected, we didn’t even know this moment between Jimin and Jungkook even happened until several hours after the concert ended. This wasn’t something that happened on the big screen, because Jimin and Jungkook are rarely ever shown on the big screen together.
The only reason we know this moment happened is because fans filmed it.
Reason two for its importance is because Jungkook and Jimin have done this before and it’s never been done in a way where they are bringing attention to it.
Here are some previous times they’ve done this and most of it is concert footage captured by fans.
And I won’t lie, I did have that moment where I started thinking to myself that it’s bizarre that Jikook is considered “fanservice” by the fandom, but the fandom approved ships are “real” even though Jimin and Jungkook’s moments are almost always private and away from staff cameras, while most of the ‘moments’ between other pairings that the fandom loves to fawn over ARE in front of staff cameras. 🤔
Interactions between Jimin and Jungkook always feel natural and, more importantly, intimate because they are usually focusing on each other; not a camera and not even the concert crowd. It’s not something the cameramen or members are going out of their way to bring attention to and if not for fans simply choosing to record them, we’d never know these things happened.
And just to hammer this point home, here are some other similar moments.
Now in these clips there are instances were there is more direct focus on Jimin and Jungkook. But I also wanted to note that in addition to doing this intimate gesture quite frequently over the years, it’s almost always random. Jungkook pointing at the heart on his jacket then pointing to Jimin behind him in the Butter promotion clip toward the end STILL gets me to this day. 🤯 No idea how he got away with that and you still have clowns trying to convince you that he doesn’t love Jimin.
But the main thing for me was that it was so unexpected and random. It wasn’t the focus of the moment, it wasn’t to get any sort of reaction from the other members, including Jimin himself. Jungkook did that because he wanted to.
The randomness is what speaks volumes to me. Because when I saw the moment on Munich D-2, there was actually a piece of me that said “I wonder why they did that” or “What caused that interaction”. And of course there was no cause other than the fact that they just wanted to send that message of endearment to each other in the middle of a concert, as they’ve done in years past.
The same way all of their other intimate moments happen because they wanted them to happen. Think about everything we’ve seen from the concerts so far, almost none of the most talked about moments between Jungkook and Jimin happened on the big screens.
In fact, the only moments that have happened on the big screen as of the writing of this post that I can think of are...
Jungkook showing Jimin the yellow heart (but Jimin is cropped on the big screen and you’d only know Jungkook was showing it to him through fan cams)
The No More Dream Abs moment (where tbh, I don’t think they even realized they were on the screen at the time)
JK blowing kiss to Jimin during Dynamite London D-2 (where Jimin is cropped on the big screen and you need fancams to show who the kiss was directed toward)
Meanwhile many of the other things the fandom talks about are moments that occurred the moment a camera showed up. But Jikook is fanservice even though we need literal fancams to see their moments??????? 🤨
In all of these instances, they weren’t doing these things for the crowd to see, it was just for them.
And that's why Anon's comment about fans looking for "fun engagements between the two" annoyed me. Because Jimin and Jungkook don't do what they do with each other for fans. It's for them.
And bringing this back to the Anon, I don’t know if they will ever read this. But just in case they do, I hope they realize that Jimin and Jungkook’s bond is unbelievably precious and REAL. Because their moments aren’t for us, they are for them. Even if they happen to be filmed, they are STILL just for the two of them. No one should ever feel bad that fans don’t get to see them “having fun engagements” because Jikook moments aren’t content for us. They are moments for the two of them that they allow us to be apart of and we should be happy to see.
I find it kind of sad that some people are hyper-fixated on counting the Jikookery at concerts or other events. Jikook isn’t some sports match to be scored after every little thing. We should be happy to see anything and everything they do, especially with the knowledge that what they do together highlights their love for EACH OTHER.
It’s not for us. It never will be for us. Their relationship is theirs and I am so so grateful to be able to experience being a part of it from afar. 😊
That's all I wanted to say. Now I'm going to bed 🤪
