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[netsage]

wiege is a song meant to bring comfort, a lullaby to, as the name suggests, lull someone into slumber. hyuna sings to luka to assure him he is still alive, to act as his counting of fingers personified, and vice versa, to calm hyuna when everything crashed on her, both metaphorically and literally. it's not a duet because the two singers are lovers. it's a duet because it symbolizes mutual solace between two kindred souls.

and so, the reason that ivan sings it alone, atleast in my interpretation, is because he always had to comfort himself, yet not always because he was lonely.

in the slums, who could've possibly given him sympathy? afterall, those children were truly, in the whole meaning of the word, alone, with no one to care for them in such a way. maybe the only thing he had left was to hum mindlessly, maybe in the same way luka counted his fingers to remind himself he was alive, to give himself the hug no one was there to hand him. afterall, we see this distraction of his even in Black Sorrow, where despite hanging off a building, his life depending on the threads of his shirt and the benevolence of the alien holding him, through tears, he watched the comets, disassociating from the situation at hand. (in my opinion, quite unrelated but, his raggedy clothes in the slums are possibly one of the reasons his ANAKT uniform remains so pristine: it was the only nice thing he had.)

then, he was sold off as a gift, and even if the love he had represented as an offering for Valentine's Day, he was sent into ANAKT garden and later, Alien Stage, such a well known, undoubtedly fatal competition. here, he wasn't truly in solitude. did he think he was, even in his last moments? perhaps, but he did have people next to him. people who probably never saw his true emotions. at first, his blank stare in his early years that concealed everything that went through his mind, and then the practiced, facade smile he kept. after all, the only time we've seen him break character was when Till let go of his hand, his love for the idea of love, despite looking so happy right before thinking of it, proving to be stronger than the will to escape and be with Ivan. that is when his lips bloomed into a forced, full of despair and mocking towards himself grin, as if he was mentally ridiculing the idea he had: to escape with his adored one and be with him forever.

except no, that is not the only time. there were two more.

his expression, his last, and one of his first, true smile and the true light in his eyes before dying, shot three times,

and the childlike innocence, carefreeness at the end of his cover of wiege, when he speaks of embracing the sea that sings.

the sea adorned with a familiar teal color.

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LETS GO COVERS OF SONGS????

IM SO HAPPY, ESPCIALLY SINCE THERES MORE LIKE MEANING IN A WAY TO IT, i’ll try interpret the meaning later, rn i’m blissfully happy (also happy new year!)

[netsage]

my thoughts on the new HYUNA song drop and the various scenes in the song

1. Mizi rebels (no surprise), but interestingly, is being kissed multiple times by Hyuna to kind of drag her out of her discomfort/thoughts, some type of new ship or platonic relations??? (i’m not sure, but if that’s the case, im open to it, seems like an another great arc and more character development in one way or another)

2. Mizi’s hair was cut off, leaving behind past memories (that’s great! (she looks hot, im not complaining) question is, does this also mean she has moved past from her grievance for Sua?) (does this mean that possible romantic indication with Hyuna? if so, im happy for her for moving on, im sure Sua would too tbh…)

3. Hyuna has like defo a some sort of love hate relations with Luka, cuz he literally killed her brother (HE IS INSANE) (i officially dub him as like some scheming yandere with like manipulative tendencies, cuz she payed attention to him once and he goes like “give me more” anddddd she doesn’t cuz she needs to care for her sibling and he gets jealous and just starts a fight and so happens to “accidentally” push him or something and he’s dead. bro casually looks up to Hyuna and says “woops, i didn’t mean to” and from there on, she just feels absolutely rage and just thinks he’s insanely brainwashed in some way)

4. Hyuna’s group is bonkers and they all just flirt for fun (head canon she’s actually bi/les) anddddd she saved mizi cuz she saw her and was like “omg, my possible partner fr? i’ll give her everything (refer to the scene where Mizi and Hyuna fought like the alien bots or smth and like was infiltrating what i think was probs a base of some sort + like little hugs and kisses (those were so cute)), fuck you luka”

5. Ivan and Till is expect to fight in the next round… and slight foreshadowing, someone hits till’s face, does this possibly mean that he is eliminated in the next round????

6. (continuing from point 5!) but Ivan is said to have feelings for Till, so another possibility is that they try and do a duet, like what Sua and Mizi did. (will they be successful or end up the same fate as the both of them? tragic, but it may happen)

7. another scenario is the Ivan ends up the winner, and Hyuna and her gang comes and pull Till out from the situation (aka just like Luka and Mizi round), then it would be like crazy for Till to handle since Mizi would be there. (or alternatively, Mizi tries to convince Hyuna to save Till cuz Till is her friend (LMAO friend zone fr), and it worked, in which same shit goes down.) (but question is, if this case happens, will Ivan try and report the case and find Till? meaning which, he rebels more (ANOTHER REBEL IVAN ARC (just a teeny bit) ?) and eventually sneaks out to search for Till (his beloved lmao). )

8. but a possible scenario too in that round could be that Till gives up on singing and Ivan punches the absolute shit out of him to force him to sing (or vice versa cuz Till is mad that Ivan is just pitying him or that he’s just giving up so easily just so he can live)

9. OR ANOTHER SCENARIO (there’s so many im sorry😞) is that like Till don’t care (just like when he did in the round with some side character 😭😭), and then screws over Ivan, Ivan just goes like “i wish you the best my liege” and then explodes and Till just either “idc” or “what the fuck have i done”

10. WHAT IF TILL HAS LIKE LINGERING FEELINGS??? (i lowkey headcanon him as like bi but he has this one case of internalised homophobia, refer to like the cover they made with like ‘MY CLEMATIS’ ) cuz like Ivan tried saving him yk, so what if, like he comes to regret that afterwards (head canon, when he’s stressed he feels extremely nauseous to the point he puked like multiple times and got beat up for being like high maintenance, which would explain more about why he’s so feral dog angry at the aliens all the time) (and also cuz like they did like a lot of fucked up shit, any sane human would grow to hate them tbh, so it’s valid, but i like to think that it gives him more reason to want to rebel them even more out of more spite and just plain hatred for what they have done to like the contestants and Mizi (especially her))

11. also back to the topic of luka…. (i hate this man, but his song is so good 😠😠😠), will like he come and find Hyuna? like lowkey Luka and Hyuna interaction fr??? (probs like confrontation in a sense, and then one of them like goes feral or something cuz obvs someone is OBSESSED with like Hyuna 😞😞😞)

ALSO, referring back to point 5, Till gets eliminated and yk the whole “win or die” process, and Ivan just turns into the next Mizi (vengeance or smth) or he just mourns, and refuses to do anything more (REBEL ARC maybe)

another thing i would like to add on from point 3 is that i imagine the three of them just discussing ways to possibly get out of this situation alive, and just was blissfully happy for like awhile cuz they’re all together in this and up till the day Luka (the insane bastard) killed her brother, she actually admired him for like his skills (in terms of able to perform and stuff)

I MAY BE WRONG (but it’s my thoughts and i would like my fellow alien stage enjoyers to give me their insight too, cuz rn i’m just ranting about my little expectations 😞😞)