Smeraldo blog explained

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-on july 4, 2017 before bts' love yourself series.
-this smeraldo blog is a blog on the online platform called 'naver', this portrayed a real-life blog typed up by a florist who's opening up a flower shop.

-this florist specializes in Smeralda flowers which is fictional so you can't find this flower in real life.
-this blog basically provides a background story connected to bts' storyline, the 'bangtan universe' which was all created by bighit.

-on aug. 9, 2017, jin posted a photo on twitter posing with a bouquet of flowers with the caption 'smeraldo'.
-armys discovered the blog, the florist went by the name 'testesso' which means 'yourself' in italian.

-army started to notice the connection to bts such as finding the photo of the supposedly florist which had the file name 'bts underscores smeraldo'.
-the first blog was posted on july 10, 2017 and there were 9 stories.

-the first post introduces the florist testesso who plans on opening up a flower shop mid-september in korea.
-we later found out that this date is connected to bts comeback date(dna era/love yourself her)

-he tried to attend a lecture in the u.s to learn more about these smeraldo flower but missed it because he had the wrong date instead he attended a lecture about playing cards which acutally helped him learn more about the flower.

-he mentioned that the story can also be seen in smerlado's flower language which means 'non potevo dire la verità' in italian, this translates to 'the truth that couldn't be told'.

-a year later we linked a bts song called 'the truth untold' which was released on may 18, 2018 for bts love yourself tear album.

-the second post mentioned his plans of opening up the shop, he posted a photo of renovations in his flower shop and the delivery truck which we end up seeing in bts highlight reel.

-the third story describes the flower of legend, he mentioned that in 2013. a friend he met at the playing cards event 5 years prior told him that someone discovered the smeraldo flower in real life, he shared a screenshot of an instagram post from june 12, 2013 which is +

actually bts' debut date
-the instagram user is 'amare_0' and supposedly the traveller found the flower in northern italy.
-so if you combine amare and testesso, it'll say 'ama te stesso' in italian meaning 'love yourself'.

-this is hinting bts' upcoming series called love yourself, keep in mind that all of this is being posted before they announced the series name which was love yourself.
-the fourth story talks about the legend of the flower, smeraldo stands for 'emerald' in english.

-in the seventh story the florist posts pictures of the emerald city and we recognize the cathedral it's the 'cathedral of the saint mary of the flower florence', the ancient name for the florence was 'florencia' meaning flower.

-the present city for florence was established by the roman general julius caesar and the arms of florence show a florin time lily until year 1251, the coat of arms of florence was a white lily on red field and bts has shown the white lily multiple times in their music video +

and storyline such as bs&t, i need u (both korean and japanese mv), a highlight reel, and awake.
-now the emerald city is a fictional city in the book of 'Wizard of Oz' and there is a sequel to the wizard of oz called the 'Emerald city of us' and remember the members read +

wizard of oz during their FM 613 which is one of their recent videos on BANGTANTV.
-according to sources the flower is known to have a bloomed in 'La Città di smeraldo' a flourishing city which supposedly was located in northern italy during medieval times but was abandoned +

after the black d*ath.
-the smeraldo flower represented and entangled the love story about a man who once lived in a secluded castle in 'La Città di smeraldo'.

-there's not much information about this man except that he was a love child of the 'Duke of Florence' who fell in love with a poor gardener's daughter, she passed away at childbirth due to excessive bleeding leaving the child alone in this world, the child grew up to be +

a man hiding alone in an old castle and wore a mask because he was supposedly very ugly because of all the hatred and jealousyhe received he never opened his heart to anyone. his only joy was to grow flowers in his garden that made him happy and peaceful.

-one day a girl appeared near the vicinity of his castle with ragged clothes, he watched her as she climbed over his garden fence and stole some flowers. the man was furious and spent the whole night guarding his flowers but it has brief moments of sleep the girl picked up +

some more flowers and ran away.
-several nights continued to pass like that until the man pretended to be asleep as he watched the girl pick flowers, one night without realizing it the man waited for the girl and followed her. after following her to the village, he realized +

why she stole flowers every night.
-she was actually very poor and had no other way to provide for herself so she sold flowers.
-the man still ended up feeling bad for her and wanted to help her, he began to slowly fall in love in the process.

-the man started to grow many flowers and made sure they were the best quality, he wanted to eventually show up in front of her and tell her his feelings but he knew that was impossible. he thought she would have been scared because he was ugly and he never got the courage +

to confront her with time.
-he decided to grow the most expensive flower which was this smeraldo flower, this was the only way he could unveil his sincerity to her. he locked himself in the castle and began many attempts to create it, the flower turned out beautiful. it was +

something that never existed in the world, afterwards he filled his garden with the flower and waited till nightfall for the girl to return but........she didn't.

-he became anxious and decided to visit the village, unfortunately he found out that the girl had d*ed. thus the flower language of this smeraldo is as such 'non potevo dire la verità' the truth that could not be told.

-now if you go back to the lyrics of bts' the truth untold you'll realize that the song actually connects to the story.

-the fifth post lick ceased smeraldo playing cards, william ashbless is a fictional 16th century poet and plain car enthusiast. ash blasts went around in search of a place with a hot spring or good quality air but then discovered the smeraldo on the spot ash blasts +

created the flowers name and Florio grapy.
-he derived the flowers name from the villages name 'La Città di smeraldo' naming it 'smeraldo', he decided the flowers meaning as 'the truth untold' and when he returned to his home, he created the flower card inspired by this +

smeraldo and made it a part of his ash blessed cards.
-the sixth is where the florist talks about a painting titled 'Madame Lenormand on the Salon' by the artist Jean François Roland.

-Madame Lenormand was said to be an astrologist to france who was treasured by Josephine the queen of Napoleon even before she became queen Josephine's personal astrologists she had gained popularity from making tarot card readings for the noble ladies and had accumulated a +

mass fortune from doing so, it became known that the card she created called 'oracle card' was influential to quite a considerable number of card decks, even today many tarot card sites and other places still sell the oracle card decks.

-the florist posts a picture of a painting mentioned that the painting was destroyed in a fire only and only part of the painting that shows the hand holding the flower card was restored, making it the only trace of the ash belle's smeraldo card, note that you'll see +

playing cards linked to bts' storyline, you'll see it in music videos in their notebooks. they also have a song called 'house of cards' which they created a lyric book for.

-the seventh story talks about the florist leaving for italy with his friend from the plane card event, he was inlove with her and they promised to visit 'La Città di smeraldo' together, he saw her arrive at the airport but hid as soon as he noticed +

her with a handsome man, his friend tried to call his phone but he didn't pick up.
-he ends up getting on the plane and hoped that she'd come searching for him but no one came, he arrived in italy and daw the smeraldo flower on his own, the next day his friend's brother calls +

and tells him that his friend got into an accident while rushing after someone at the airport she ended up dy*ng.

-when he got back home he found that his flower shop for smeraldo got approved in korea, he believed that the news from the association was the final message from his friend delivered to him before she left to another world. this was his faithful tie with the smeraldo.

-the eight blog talks about the the florist checking out the construction at the shop, a young man came in looking for smeraldo flowers and wanted to order them. the young man mentioned that he didn't know it was a smeraldo specialized shop.l, he just came in there as if +

something was luring him in.
-this became his first official order in korea, a photo was posted with a order receipt and you'll notice a signature matching seokjin's.
-the florist told him that he wouldn't be able to deliver until the end of august.

-in the ninth post, the florist said the smeraldo passed through customs and arrived, he was excited to finally deliver them and the entry date for this was august 30, 2017, the same day seokjin received the flowers in the highlight reel.

-in the highlight reel, you see seokjin excited and getting dressed. he ends up picking this smeraldo flowers from the truck that we saw in the blog, he sees a girl as she runs across the road and a vehicle hits her.

-we ended up finding out how that happened in suctions entry for august 30 year 22 from the notes book, apparently there was no card in the bouquet so he called the owner right away and the owner said 'i'll make a u-turn now' the light just change before the owner finished +

his sentence, seokjin witnessed the truck hitting the girl.
-mid-september was when the florist was trying to open up his flower shop and those dates fall into place (sept. 18, 2017 - the date released of dna mv).

-these were all the blogs that were posted and the smeraldo blog was later on disabled and temporarily shut down on sept. 2, 2017, a year later the blog appeared again on july 4, 2018 and the first blog was posted on july 10, 2018.

-although most blogs were the same the first and last two entries change and the tenth entry was eventually added in the second post instead, the florist in the shop would open mid-september it said that he would open the shop late august.

-in the eighth post, he went to the shop under an explainable premonition he had but not much actually happened, he felt as if someone would come into the shop but he was unable to meet anyone so this time around instead of suction coming in to order the flowers, this post +

show that he didn't show up and that's because remember time travel plays a huge role in the bangtan universe.

-seokjin has the ability to travel back in time, in the first blog that we mentioned thatwas the timeline where he started to fall in love with this girl, found found her diary read that she wanted smeraldo flowers so he ended up finding this shop from testesso placed an +

order on the flowers and then on august 30, after he received the flowers and when he was planning to giving it to her that's when we find out that the girl d*ed.

-the second time around in this blog for 2018, you notice how seokjin no longer comes in to order it and that's because he decided to change the timeline instead of purchasing the flowers for her.

-he decided to actually just cut the connection with her so he could try to keep her safe.
-the ninth story was about the completion of his shop and the opening, the shop was located near Jamsil, Seoul and the opening was august 25.

-the tenth story was posted on august 24, 2018, the florist was getting ready to open his shop and this coincided with bts' love yourself seoul concert where they had a small smeraldo booth, they sold smeraldo themed merch during this two-day event and at that +

time bts' idol music video was dropped on august 24, 2018 then once again the blog was disabled and temporarily shut down until 2020.

-it has re opened again around july 6, 2020 and the first post was posted on july 10, 2020 and july 12, 2020 just like in the first and second time, this time around the florist said he's trying to open up his shop late august.

-in the first blog july 10, 2017, he mentioned preparing to open up a flower shop mid-september.
-september 18, 2017 with bts has comeback with dna.

-second time around july 10, 2018 he said he was preparing to open the flower shop in late august, august 24, 2018 is bts has comeback with idol.

-third time around july 10, 2020 it is now saying the flower shop is trying to open end of august so comeback could be around the 28th or the 30th.

-although there is a possibility that they might not and it could end up being a highlight reel or their game or even the save me webtoon season 2

-for now we're just gonna have to wait and see because more blogs will be posted and we're gonna have to check out what have changed.
-in the storyline august 30 is the last date we get on the notes and highlight reels, we've never gotten anything past august 30.

-end of thread-

all of those are from xceleste, I've typed all the things she said on her yt vid. thank you very much xceleste for explaining it to us

if there's smthng wrong, feel free to tell me

sorry for the typos