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due to the #Eternally mv dropping, i would like to say a group of people and i have come up with a theory that may be plausible that explains the entire tdc series! it would be greatly appreciated if you read through! #EternallyWithTXT #EternallyMV @TXT_members @TXT_bighit
TW // BLOOD AND DEATH.
if you are sensitive to these topics, i do not advise you read through! this is simply a theory and you should take care of your own health first!
if you are sensitive to these topics, i do not advise you read through! this is simply a theory and you should take care of your own health first!
before we begin, i would like to say a huge thank you to the +u theorists gc! @yjflwr, @yuuhwas, @sunniwoo, @Nekoman77434518, @txtiIy, @junifruity, @aninoami, and @atzgummi!
rea and i would not be able to decode half of the story as fast as we did without your help!
rea and i would not be able to decode half of the story as fast as we did without your help!
— THE TIMELINE.
from many observations, we have concluded that the timeline is backwards! there are several key details that can support a backwards timeline as well!
from many observations, we have concluded that the timeline is backwards! there are several key details that can support a backwards timeline as well!
something important to notice is the train tracks in magic island and eternally. a train can be seen in the distance in eternally. this means we are currently in the future with the magic island timeline. this will make sense when i delve into the mvs.
the burns on yeonjun’s hand as well can help out! in magic island, yeonjun had burnt his hand trying to fuel the fire. in run away, yeonjun has the same burn way before his book is even set on fire. the placing of the burn isn’t the same, but it could be plausible.
remember that magic island released after run away! so if the timeline were to be backwards, magic island happened first and then run away. it makes perfect sense as to why yeonjun randomly had the burn as well!
so our timeline would be:
1. eternally
2. cysm
3. magic island
4. run away
5. noas
6. crown
1. eternally
2. cysm
3. magic island
4. run away
5. noas
6. crown
you may be wondering where angel or devil, puma, cat & dog, and our summer is. in the +u gc’s personal opinion, there is no links to the plotline that will push the story. aod could represent hueningkai’s internal struggle with choosing good and evil, but i’m not 100%.
the timeline is basically: eternity, magic, and then star. eternity and magic is reality, while star isna dramatic reenactment with all of the answers. i’ll explain this later!
— THE ROLES.
now, the roles will make zero sense to you until later on, but i feel like you will need to know them first to understand the reason behind their actions without me repeating myself. i will try to be as informative as i can be!
now, the roles will make zero sense to you until later on, but i feel like you will need to know them first to understand the reason behind their actions without me repeating myself. i will try to be as informative as i can be!
[ THE GHOST / CAT ]
it may sound like a stretch and absolutely absurd, but the ghost is the cat! the cat has appeared in every short film, wouldn’t it simply make sense for her to be present in magic island? that’s where the ghost comes into play.
it may sound like a stretch and absolutely absurd, but the ghost is the cat! the cat has appeared in every short film, wouldn’t it simply make sense for her to be present in magic island? that’s where the ghost comes into play.
+ in the ss below, she has made three appearances in total. one to comfort soobin and one to approach hueningkai in the eternally mv. i will explain her part in eternally soon! however, her appearance in magic island is enough to signify that she is the cat by solely
+ appearing there when the cat never had. judging by the sounds yeonjun hears as well that he is clearly disturbed by, we can tell that the cat has “caught up” to them. what we’re dealing with is a ghost that can shapeshift!
[ YEONJUN ]
yeonjun is the guilty one of tdc and causes everyone’s doom. he is also the one who is cursed to die alone. his role mainly drives the plot forward, which is very important! i have gotten this question many, many times and, yes, yeonjun does die.
yeonjun is the guilty one of tdc and causes everyone’s doom. he is also the one who is cursed to die alone. his role mainly drives the plot forward, which is very important! i have gotten this question many, many times and, yes, yeonjun does die.
+ however, not exactly in the way you’d expect he would as it is shown in the dreams. i will elaborate further on this later.
[ BEOMGYU ]
beomgyu is a protector of sorts and the blamed. zoe was kind enough to tell us that he said “i was told to protect this book” in these clips. (slowed down and muted for you to read lips if you know korean!) i will cover the importance of the book later on.
beomgyu is a protector of sorts and the blamed. zoe was kind enough to tell us that he said “i was told to protect this book” in these clips. (slowed down and muted for you to read lips if you know korean!) i will cover the importance of the book later on.
+ the blamed part will be explained later on that ties in with yeonjun!
[ TAEHYUN ]
taehyun is a bit tricky to explain, but basically what i will try to say is that he wants the best for yeonjun? he knows more than he lets on! he’s knowledgeable, is what i’m saying! his dream ties in with yeonjun’s ever so slightly (i do not recommend connecting
taehyun is a bit tricky to explain, but basically what i will try to say is that he wants the best for yeonjun? he knows more than he lets on! he’s knowledgeable, is what i’m saying! his dream ties in with yeonjun’s ever so slightly (i do not recommend connecting
+ all of the dreams though, it will make no sense and put you at a dead end! believe me, we tried) he and beomgyu have a bit of a rocky relationship, per say.
[ HUENINGKAI ]
hueningkai is our true victim and also what comes between yeonbin most of the time. i will explain the latter later on! hueningkai is being manipulated by soobin, who is being controlled by the cat. he is what pulls everyone together, but he’s also alone in the
hueningkai is our true victim and also what comes between yeonbin most of the time. i will explain the latter later on! hueningkai is being manipulated by soobin, who is being controlled by the cat. he is what pulls everyone together, but he’s also alone in the
+ process. this will make sense when i explain his dream and what he does throughout the series.
— THE MUSIC VIDEOS.
this section is extremely long, i mean it! please take your time reading this or else nothing will make sense! i will be more than happy to privately dm you if you ask to explain it in a simpler manner. it will be separated into two sections solely,
this section is extremely long, i mean it! please take your time reading this or else nothing will make sense! i will be more than happy to privately dm you if you ask to explain it in a simpler manner. it will be separated into two sections solely,
+ eternity first and then magic. there will be references to star here. like i said earlier, please remember a backwards timeline and star being a dramatic reenactment that gives us answers we didn’t know where right in front of us!
with that said, let’s begin!
with that said, let’s begin!
[ ETERNITY ]
this section will include two music videos solely: eternally and cysm. i will begin with eternally and then cysm.
!! read at a slow pace !!
this section will include two music videos solely: eternally and cysm. i will begin with eternally and then cysm.
!! read at a slow pace !!
↳ ETERNALLY.
perhaps the most interesting part about this music video is the fact that everything is a dream/vision other than the practice room. the twist is, it’s looking into the future! even the beginning, soobin’s first dream, is the future in the end of magic island.
perhaps the most interesting part about this music video is the fact that everything is a dream/vision other than the practice room. the twist is, it’s looking into the future! even the beginning, soobin’s first dream, is the future in the end of magic island.
+ now how do i even know that’s the end of magic island? look! the first ss is the end of magic island, the second ss is the beginning of eternally. soobin is dreaming of the future.
+ these screenshots will be very important for the next few dreams. all of them are visions/dreams of the future. soobin’s first dream is a vision.
the practice room scene is quite normal, actually. then, soobin opens the door and the chaos begins. the ghost makes her presence known by flickering the lights. soobin, being her first encounter, is immediately made to suffer by her because she saw him first.
+ time then begins to fast forward when you see the water bottle tip over in this scene. the water bottle is almost like a key to an alternate universe of the future that txt see in their dreams. i say time fast forwards because someone had pointed out that the time went
+ significantly faster than it should have by the end of the mv.
one thing that many people overlooked! the writings on the windows! (slowed down without sound so you can read it!)
+ here are the translations and which quote we believe belongs to who. it does not include soobin because soobin is the only one who can see the writings!
now, here is the part everyone is curious on! is soobin is a time traveller/teleporter? no! he is not! soobin goes to the elevator for a reason! elevators in signify going into a different universe. this is a doing of the ghost’s, soobin posseses no power!
let’s move onto soobin’s second dream. here is something to majorly support that the cat is the ghost. see the cat eyes? and by the time hueningkai leaves, the rest of the world around him is lit up. the cat eyes are no longer there.
+ allow me to explain the young hueningkai first! you can tell that it is hueningkai by face resemblance and the shoes. however, this is not a vision. it is a dream. his first dream was a vision. “whenever i’ll wake up with that familiar DREAM, i’ll always cry.”
+ this means that soobin was only dreaming. you also know that because he cries in the dream. he sees hueningkai as a child still, so they embodied it. he dropped his ice cream as well when he bumped into soobin, so that means soobin will be destroying a his innocence,
+ as sweets symbolize purity and innocence. you know that pit feeling you have when you know you will be doing something bad? that’s exactly what occured in soobin’s dream. he knows he will do something bad to hueningkai, which is why he is remorseful.
now, why is this exact dream included? what importance does it have? the ghost. remember how i said earlier soobin will be the manipulator/the controlled? refer to these phitos. (credit to the original creator!)
+ she’s manipulating him. she’s making him believe that she’ll guide to make everything okay. “and not to worry as my tears fell” see? that’s why he allows her to take over his will to protect the boys, because he thinks he’s doing something right and protecting yeonjun.
let’s move onto yeonjun’s dream! this took such a long time to decode, but we finally figured it out! yeonjun saw the farthest into the future, seeing him die with his body unrecovered. then, he turns to see the cat. the ghost. the cat is quite literally telling yeonjun he’ll die
+ alone. there isn’t much to decode unlike soobin’s dream, i know we’re missing the number above when yeonjun comes in, but we couldn’t figure that out. i’m very sorry! if anyone knows, please quote this so people will know what it means if they have questions!
beomgyu’s dream, probably the hardest to understand out of all of them! however, as i told you all before, he is fiercely protecting a book. the +u theorists believe that hueningkai gave the orders to protect the book to beomgyu, as hueningkai is a force that separates yeonbin.
i had made this observation: yeonbin did not attack beomgyu. their sleeves are striped while tyunning’s are buttoned. i do not think they’d go through the trouble to make an entirely new jacket and i think bighit would allow for is to know who the attacker is, at least.
+ but why is taehyun attacking him? well, here’s where star comes in extremely handy! look! see the floor pattern? then look at the wall of crown and who beomgyu is recording! that’s taehyun! that’s why he uses a phone throughout eternally!
+ unfortunately, we are not very sure on why the book is so useful. however, we do know that soobin gets the book from taehyun because he has it in the first scene of eternally. the +u theorists believe it has a way for yeonjun to escape his death.
taehyun’s dream is rather simple to decode. it intertwines ever so slightly with yeonjun’s. we know that they can see other dead bodies as well because taehyun saw yeonjun’s. taehyun knows that yeonjun will die in the end and alone. we know this because of the magic island scene
+ where they are all dead in the end. yeonjun is surrounded in flowers in taehyun’s vision. noas takes place in magic island because of the flowers and purple theme. the purple is supposed to symbolize imaginary blood. so taehyun knows that yeonjun will die alone, which is
+ why he fights with beomgyu to have the book so soobin can give it to yeonjun.
hueningkai’s dream was so difficult to decode, i’m so proud of the bighit writers for creating such an intricate scene for hueningkai that can leave you confused yet amazed! however, we managed to figure it out! hueningkai’s dream depicts him being with the boys, but a force
+ (the cat/soobin’s manipulation) separates him from them in a way that he can’t reach them, if that makes sense?
the end of eternally! we have finally finished the dreams! in the end, the water bottle falls over and everything is “normal” again. however, going back to this translation, look at the end part. “the boys didn’t know that this was just the beginning of the chaos/huge mess”
+ this shows that the timeline is literally backwards! i applaud the bighit writers for showing this in such a discreet way!
↳ CYSM.
there is a lot of foreshadowing in this mv that directly relates itself to eternally! i can’t reallly get into it, you know? but soobin is manipulating the boys in their narrative! he’s the liar in their choreography, but what strikes me odd is that he sings:
there is a lot of foreshadowing in this mv that directly relates itself to eternally! i can’t reallly get into it, you know? but soobin is manipulating the boys in their narrative! he’s the liar in their choreography, but what strikes me odd is that he sings:
+ “broken sand castle, who is a liar?” this signifies he doesn’t think he’s doing anything wrong and that the cat is still controlling him! but it is especially cool that the taegyu fight is foreshadowed when beomgyu suffocates taehyun. remember when you get a look in the phone
+ screen for beomgyu’s vision? an odd splatter on the wall? yeah. it is exactly what you think it is. beomgyu defeating taehyun and then looking at the camera, similar to how beomgyu suffocates taehyun and then looks at the camera.
+ we know taehyun survives though because he appears in magic! but he did take the book. also, the two “save me”’s by soobin and yeonjun stand for two different things!
soobin - save him from the cat/being controlled
yeonjun - save him from dying and help him escape his fate
soobin - save him from the cat/being controlled
yeonjun - save him from dying and help him escape his fate
[ MAGIC ]
this section will include two music videos solely: magic island and run away. i will begin with magic island and then run away.
( this section isn’t as long as eternity’s don’t worry! )
this section will include two music videos solely: magic island and run away. i will begin with magic island and then run away.
( this section isn’t as long as eternity’s don’t worry! )
↳ MAGIC ISLAND.
this is pretty much the end of the tdc series! theres many things to explain about this mv, so read slowly!
this is pretty much the end of the tdc series! theres many things to explain about this mv, so read slowly!
the boys traveling to the magic island! simple enough. however, yeonjun takes it as a joke. he tells the boys to close their eyes, but he’s the only one who opens them. (slowed down without sound so you can watch)
now, see the stadium in the video? that supports that the train crashed and all of them died. look at the stadium and then look at eternally’s scenery, doesn’t it look familiar?
however, instead of immediately showing they die, we are brought to the magic island. the beginning has peace for once in this entire goddamn series, which is nice! however, the magic island is soon set on fire. many people blame beomgyu for it because he was the one who didn’t
+ put out his fire ball. however, it’s actually yeonjun’s fault! he opened his eyes and brought a lighter, something he wasn’t supposed to do and bring! hence, this concept photo. beomgyu is blamed, but yeonjun is guilty.
the ghost sees that they survived and realized that it isn’t right, which is why she invades and sets the island on fire to bring them back to reality. hence, why they die. all of their bodies are recovered except yeonjun’s, as explained above. that is it for magic island!
↳ RUN AWAY.
there isn’t much to the mv, it was foreshadowing eternally and magic island! such as them making the symbol that is shown in eternally and the burning door! yeonjun’s burn from earlier heals during the burning door scene because the magic island is no more, where he
there isn’t much to the mv, it was foreshadowing eternally and magic island! such as them making the symbol that is shown in eternally and the burning door! yeonjun’s burn from earlier heals during the burning door scene because the magic island is no more, where he
+ got his burn from. there are many little details the +u theorists caught onto, but this thread is so long!
— THE CLOSING.
i know that this is such an incredibly long thread and it must have been very exhausting/confusing to read, so please let me know! i did not cover everything and i know, such as the doll and room 17. i’m very sorry and i wish i could have added it, but we either
i know that this is such an incredibly long thread and it must have been very exhausting/confusing to read, so please let me know! i did not cover everything and i know, such as the doll and room 17. i’m very sorry and i wish i could have added it, but we either
+ got lost or couldn’t figure it out. we’re still a small team of people! i’m sorry for seeming as if i was rushing in this last bit! but this is the final theory! if you have any questions or would like for the +u theorists to work on something, please let me know!
please read if you’d like to know about noas and their species! i felt as if it was a bit too small to cover. https://twitter.com/soobfie/status/1277576138345385985?s=21
thank you so much for reading and being invested in the +u series as much as we are! once again, huge thank you to @yjflwr, @yuuhwas, @sunniwoo, @Nekoman77434518, @txtiIy, @junifruity, @aninoami, and @atzgummi!
error here! i forgot to include this! i’m so sorry!!! https://twitter.com/soobfie/status/1277780187623628801?s=21 https://twitter.com/soobfie/status/1277780187623628801
