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Stray Kids' Kingdom stage analysis - I'll Be Your Man
Seungmin begins between two lights, as Hyunjin in Levanter - stuck between two paths as we now know. His uniform and white florals are stained red, his sash showing the liquid dripping down.
Note Seungmin's smudged red lips
Seungmin begins between two lights, as Hyunjin in Levanter - stuck between two paths as we now know. His uniform and white florals are stained red, his sash showing the liquid dripping down.
Note Seungmin's smudged red lips
He offers the flowers to the statue like a promise, a seal that Jisung reinforces with his hand over Seungmin's. These flowers look like baby's breath, which symbolises eternal love, purity and trust.
The boy is one of their own, after all, with a ring to match. Unlike Min, Jisung is more desperate, falling to his knees before the statue after his proclamations.
We've seen these rings in Ex and Easy. By all signs the statue is of Minho - he is the one trapped between life and death since B Me, still present but not quite awake. The red and blue are what the boys pick between, awake or asleep.
Changbin follows the enlightened path. "The two moons overlapped, creating one streak of light." as Chan said during the prequel highlight reel.
And yet - there's another. As the child runs into the storm, there's a parallel to another one of their own escaping.
Hyunjin, whose guilt throws him into a mirroring suffering.
Hyunjin, whose guilt throws him into a mirroring suffering.
Jeongin, as Chan called him, our 'Oracle'. He lies alone with his knowledge as time passes by, unable to reach the others - isolated, caged like in Astronaut.
Briefly, we see Changbin's memories - the boy a ghost in his past. His throat is tattooed with 'Howling', showing us the extended damage their beastly form has on their bodies. Their howls are the 'so many voices' inside their heads they battle with.
Jisung and Minho make up their mind, and Jisung follows Min out of heaven, through the gates.
Felix swears to God quite literally - He's being cast out of heaven for his actions here, and dragged by his feet but not regretting a thing.
He made a pact before God and won't back on it now.
He made a pact before God and won't back on it now.
The rest of the boys follow, breaking out of their chains to make the ultimate sacrifice - their own souls. Their own blood, because that's their missing ingredient - life.
The red stone Chan gives up at the end of today's performance has the same chain he wore on his face in God's Menu. The stone is as much a part of them as they are it, being made from their own blood and life force.
"All you have to do is pick."
Minho doesn't want this - for the brief moment the stone is in his grasp, the world flashes blue, with his pure heart and hope they can still return.
But it's too late.
Minho doesn't want this - for the brief moment the stone is in his grasp, the world flashes blue, with his pure heart and hope they can still return.
But it's too late.
