wait so...they created clones in d9 and hyunjin met the wrong ones after choosing the wrong path in yellow wood. he experienced the side effects and he knew there was something off which explains his fight with seungmin in side effects, and he got picked up by these fake mthfkers

at the end of side effects and continued on with them. he went through double knot knowing he was with the wrong people but never knowing the right direction to go in to find the real skz

when he gets to astronaut he finally hears chan and it’s got something to do with the glowy blue fucking orb shit

he follows chan’s voice, and he finds the *base of operations* (temporary name) of whoever is trying to track skz down. in here he finds symbols from miroh, side effects was a simulation, all props from their previous mvs

this scene also mirrors chan’s scene from chronosaurus mv. did chan find the way out all the way back then?

hyunjin comes across more clones. maybe faulty ones? only, hyunjin recognises something about jeongin’s clone that tells him maybe it’s the real jeongin after all. hyunjin knows it’s jeongin. but he gets distracted, and leaves.

also haven’t there been theories for so many comebacks that felix and jisung are ‘glitches in the system’? what’s up with this man bc i sure couldn’t tell you

so anyway, hyunjin finally meets up with chan and all is well...only it’s not, because HYUNJIN FUCKING LEFT THE REAL JEONGIN BEHIND

also this in both double knot and astronaut (both AFTER side effects, when hyunjin parted with fake skz) kinda hints at that theory

if all the clones have the barcodes and that’s how you can tell they’re the fake ones??!! YALL ARE WE FINALLY GETTING SOMEWHERE https://twitter.com/happyhanjisung/status/1194647951613841408?s=21