#pathcode exo

[okiecookie20]

EXO Theory Dftf (don't fight the feeling)

In this post I will try to point out and decode clues. I made some conclusions to arrange the eras in order. Let's start by analyzing the main theme.

• EXO was travelling to Exoplanet as seen in the dftf teaser pictures.

The word HISTORY is shown in several languages in the starting. The setting is similar to what we see in History mvs:

Exo evacuate EXOPLANET with the help of a spaceship. I believe that History, chronologically, happens before Dftf.

Here is Exo's Kcon Australia 2017 vcr which depicts their spacecraft was going to crash land.

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The bright Exo logo at the end might be a symbolic representation of exoplanet. The spacecraft crash lands on one of the other extra terrestrial planets on which Power takes place. Notice how the exos don't have their powers in dftf which they acquire in the form of orbs in Power mv. Hence, Power happens after Dftf.

Now I'll talk about two main theories which lead to different conclusions for this section of the storyline:–

#1 The Emergency landing promo pics show them on different planets each representing the 6 members' (no Yixing🥲) powers. The album logo shows a radar locating the 9 members. It is also present in the vcr above. As part of their promotions, they released a game called EXO Ship Saga in which each mem has a different planet. The theme seems pretty straightforward: they travelled to different planets, maybe used escape-pods because they were going to crash land in the vcr above.

This theory might be able to explain the story of parallel universes as well as the ending of Power with Baek falling in an ocean.

#2 After reaching the planet shown in Power, they were scattered to different cities on Earth (Pathcodes) as comets seen in the beginning of Dftf. As of now, many of us are confused which of these happen in the chronology (they land in cities or on planets). They must have tried to evacuate it since the Red Force has come to know they are all together and have acquired their orbs. Let's go with the second theory: I believe Pathcode comes after Power.

Why? Proof: in Tao's pathcode, he was reading a newspaper and it said that 10 comets were visible near earth (ot10 era) hence they landed in different locations in Pathcodes.

The comet Kyungsoo saw in Dftf mv could be the one appearing in Let me In and explains their isolation in Sing For You.

At the end of Dftf mv, they approach a portal and there is falling snow in space?! This could be another hint that Sing For You comes later in the story and not before Dftf.

• In Ep 02. One giant leap teaser video, Kyungsoo is the only one who looks back with a robotic sound. Also, he is the only member emersed in green light in the concept pics of Dftf. Smth definitely seems off but we'll leave it at that for now.

From 2:56, they dance in the spaceship with some blinking red lights behind. These could be cctvs as I pointed out in Rover (mini theory) and Obsession. In this era too they are under surveillance.

• SM included easter eggs from previous releases (code numbers) which means a lot as the group has matured artistically alongwith more involvement in production and shares a great bond with their fans (releasing this album for EXO-Ls with Yixing🐑 during the drought❣️).

There were other things I wanted to discuss but due to the confusing timeline I tried my best understanding plot holes. This mv is undoubtedly connected to many others and with the possibility of parallel universes, it has become complex.

Of course I asked more questions than solving them hehe but I love Exo. Do share your thoughts & THANKS FOR READING! Also, missing SeKai😭❣️

[vulpixtodoroki]

I miss EXODUS era and the Pathcode trailers 😔 life was simpler back then

[fulushouxiswriting]

My taekai and EXO fic masterlist

these are the fics I've posted on AO3. I have a separate masterlist for my LJ fics. I will be updating this as I post my older fics on AO3.

taekai:

The Night Before "You feel different." Jongin makes this announcement lying on top of Taemin. Happy New Year ”Taemin, about last night...” Four Years Taemin and Jongin are reunited after their military service. Jongin has something to tell Taemin. The Teaser Jongin is finally ready to debut with EXO.

EXO:

Decimate At first Jongin was going to ignore it. The sound of the same footsteps had been following him for a while. // A fic based on the EXODUS/Pathcode teaser era. This Stranger Next to Me Pre-debut Baekhyun, Jongin, and Kyungsoo go to a rock concert together. Jongin has a bit too much to drink, and it's up to Baekhyun to help him.

[synteis-bookclub]

Xingdae Fight of 2015

N.B. This is a repost from my old Tellonym.

Jongdae and Yixing both belonged to Exo-M.

They have a one year age gap and Yixing is the elder. Jongdae joined very late and had a very short training period which was especially tough given that he now needed to sing in Mandarin which he didn't know before his audition. Although he had tutors and lessons and such, Yixing, who is a native Chinese speaker, took him under his wing and did a lot of coaching and teaching, both of phrases for interviews but also pronunciation for songs. My understanding is that Yixing also tutored Jongdae in dance, another area of initial weakness. Jongdae was an eager pupil who always credited his teacher and as they got older, started looking after Yixing in small and large ways, the most prominent example is attending Yixing's solo Pathcode shoot and worrying about him staying warm (27:33 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3rmasa).

Yixing had been making his own music since his trainee days and had the goal of releasing an album and/or contributing music to an Exo album. However, SM is very strict about how tracks and lyrics are accepted so artists typically have to compete with other tracks and win. Nevertheless, you can hear some of Yixing's early work in his Lost Planet solo 'I'm Lay' as well as in this SM Rookies practice clip of Seulgi and Irene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuxQa9_eSLQ).

After the first two Chinese members left Exo, Yixing wrote the music and Chinese lyrics+rap to Promise in reaction and this was his first song to be properly featured on an Exo album. However, because Korean is not his first language, he asked the Exo group chat for help and Jongdae was the only member to come down. Jongdae would adapt/write the Korean lyrics to Promise with Chanyeol ultimately writing the rap. This initial collaboration would spark a whole series of demos that they made together with Yixing generally contributing the music and Jongdae generally the lyrics. Jongdae would normally perform the majority of the vocals on the demos. The goal for Yixing was to prepare 100 demos to present to SM to show that he/they were ready for their own album for more of their music to be featured on Exo albums. This collaboration brought them even closer together and they were very affectionate with each other during this period. Ultimately though in late 2014 the USB with the masters of the demos was lost and never recovered. They were able to reconstruct Promise and there were a few non-master files of some of the songs but they had lost a huge amount of work.

Shortly thereafter, the remaining Chinese member outside of Yixing, Huang Zitao, who had had many injuries during his time with Exo and at the time had one severe enough he couldn't perform, started to make moves that suggested he too might leave. This period is very complicated and was very uncertain for fans and for the band because Tao's father got publicly involved in his quest to have Tao sue SM for mistreatment (largely bc of the injuries and how they'd handled them) while Tao had previously maintained he had no plans to leave ever. It's also clear that with the departure of the first two members, SM had been scrambling to sort out how promotions in China and Exo-M would work regarding both the two Chinese members as well as the two Korean members but Tao, as a Chinese member was clearly a key part of whatever plans they had.

At the same time, Yixing was in negotiations with SM that ultimately led to him opening his own Chinese studio which initially was supposed to be focused on managing his Chinese acting. His bargaining power was presumably strengthened by the loss of two going on three of the four original Chinese members given that Exo's original vision was fundamentally based in part on serving the Chinese market and expanding SM's reach in it.

Ultimately, Yixing opened his studio at the beginning of April while Tao's father's letter was published at the end of April.

In the middle of these two events is the Japanese fan meeting (https://youtu.be/lOHEypLdako?t=390) which contains one of the most iconic Xingdae moments: Jongdae picking Yixing as who he would be a fan of if he was an Exo-L and indicating it by backlogging Yixing whose face is hidden. The grin that spreads across Yixing's face as he gets picked is everything and Yixing ultimately breaks the chain they'd had going to pick Jongdae back.

The next time we see them together is for the May 30/31 concerts of Exo'luxion. In between the fan meeting and those concerts, Yixing begins filming for Go Fighting! (where he gets very close to the other Chinese celebrities on the show, all older than him), Tao's father's letter is published, Yixing has an injury on the set of GF and SM officially announces that they are in negotiations with Tao in the hopes of convincing him to stay.

NOW my personal read of the May 30th and May 31st concerts, both of which were performed in Shanghai, is that I think the May 30th concert is more or less normal between them. In the Chinese versions of the concert, Yixing performs 'My Answer' with Jongdae and Kyungsoo with Yixing largely providing piano accompaniment as well as some vocals. The vast majority of these performances are very tense and weird because Jongdae completely refuses to make eye contact with Yixing, even when he's initiating it or when neither of them is singing and Jongdae is also seemingly very adverse to being close to Yixing. For example, watch the May 31st performance and this one from August. l tend to use the My Answer performances as a marker for their relationship since it was clearly designed to take advantage of their chemistry and instead showed the breakup. HOWEVER I personally think that the May 30th performance, has basically normal interactions between the two of them.

I'll also note that unlike other fights in the band like Chanyeol and Baekhyun's Obsession era fight, I don't really think the other members took sides.

Take for instance, the two members outside of Jongdae who were closest to Yixing: Minseok and Baekhyun. On stage throughout the tour, they have fun together and in the Second Box we get the three of them at ease in their couple talks and roller coaster adventure. But we also don't see a rift between either of these two and Jongdae. This tells me that neither of them did anything either in terms of what sparked the fight or during the fight that the other members had a serious problem with.

Another factor is how long this fight last, it took until Jongdae's birthday in September for Yixing to publicly apologize and from October to March, we start seeing some signs of the rift healing though this is only fully confirmed by the November 2016 (a little under two years after the fight) when they do their double Lose Control/Hey Mama! promotions that it's clear that everything is forgiven between the two of them. So it was a serious fight between two people who are not prone to fights and which lasted a long time, which is less surprising given that they are both stubborn people.

SO this is what informs my XingDae breakup take.

[fff777]

Watched exo's ladder 4 episode 2

Xiuchenmyeon winning the biggest meal and Sehun trying to get an in with them. He'll probably succeed too, with Junmyeon next to him.

Sehun ultimate loser

Jongdae getting excited over the top ranked meal while clinging onto Sehun the loser ^^;;

I think the difference between the top meal and the second place meal is that the second place meal doesn't have two of the raw seafood dishes. It still looks pretty solid tbh. That's good news to Kyungsoo the foodie.

Of course Kyungsoo thinks that loser Sehun's meal is too generous lol. Big meanie.

Sehun thieved food from Junmyeon's plate in broad daylight and Junmyeon just watched him while Sehun grumbled about hyungs having to share with dongsaengs. Sehun's getting brazen.

And then he stole from Jongdae too!!!!

Somehow Kyungsoo is the veteran variety star among them. Honestly it makes sense though, because he has the most visibility as an actor compared to the others who are still more well-known as idols. So because of that he'd be invited on to variety shows as an actor as well as as an idol.

Kyungsoo is so strict with Sehun and I love that the others let him, because everybody else babies Sehun too much X3

They keep giving Sehun opportunities to win the rice, but I think it's more that they want to challenge him to actually do a poem.

Junmyeon started off his acrostic poem super cringily and Jongdae was like POWER THROUGH!!!! POWER THROUGH THE CRINGE!!!!

Kyungsoo is a huge grump but they're actually letting him be a grump on camera now that they're not young idols anymore

Sehun being a bit shy about the poem. He was like "...no, I'm not gonna do it."

Kyungsoo @ Sehun. Though this is the sentiment for Sesoo in general, not just today tbh lol.

Sehun has such wide shoulders istg

Ooh ok based on that clip showcasing the "mystery" ladder this looks really fun. The one where you cut the string and a bag drops looks fun :3

Aww they're going to be wearing light up fairy wings! I think I saw a clip of the guys putting that on Kyungsoo :3 <3

Oh nooo is there a mafia game of some sort TAT Those kind of stress me out to be honest

Ooh are there new teams every day? :3

The way Chanyeol cheered when he was on the same team as Baekhyun X3 That's because they are both good at games and they'd probably win

Chingu team!!!! X3 But yeah honestly if it comes to games Chingu team are the winners. Chanyeol and Baekhyun are good at games, and Jongdae has good common sense.

Xiuhun arguing about who'd be carrying who on their team hehe

Cute little birdie <3

Chanyeol @ Baekhyun: Why did you call me a dummy >(

They're taking this so seriously lol

The leisurely walk team~

Chanyeol volunteered his entire team onto the big slide without consulting anyone

Honestly, giving them unlimited tries is a good move. Being too strict would make it not so fun. We want to see the guys fulfilling the goals.

Chanyeol: Baekhyun, hurry up! Baekhyun: It says not to run here Chanyeol: Oh, ok Safety first, kids!

Baekhyun screaming down the slide XD

Kyungsoo: Hurry up and get back up there

Pathcode!

A nice view

LMAO they opened the first padlock by accident

So Minseok is the one hard-carrying lol.

Junmyeon remembered his speech well :3

[hyuck-xix]

dear loevhyuck,

i'm staying with my aunt for a few weeks but when i get back home i'll send you lots of photos of the albums! for now I'll just add some of my favorite photoshoot photos. i hope you feel better soon <3 the summer is often an apathetic time for me... idk if you feel the same?

i completely agree with you on the new nct u album. it feels wrong to have one right now. the teasers are kind of interesting? they remind me of the exo pathcode teasers (although less cool). but they're not interesting enough for me to get over how awful the timing is lol!

on donghyuck dyeing his hair, i think he might! or maybe it's wishful thinking. but i remember him saying somewhere that he wanted to dye it an unusual color. and considering it was his idea to add the white streaks, i think maybe he wants to be more playful with his hair these days... i personally kind of want to see a comeback of his hot sauce/ridin era hair-- i love that soft auburn/light brown color on him. what about you?

here are some photos for you (apologizes that they're blurry-- i have really shakey hands!)

the photo of mark in front of the garage door is my favorite photo of all of them <3

take care and i hope to hear from you soon 🥰

sincerely,

hyuck-xix 💌

💌 dear loevhyuck,

my istj albums finally arrived last night! wooo! i really like them. i was worried I'd regret buying the 7dream qr box set but it was actually my favorite version! part of me wants to buy some of the photocards that i didn't pull but i think it might be more fun to just draw my own versions of them <3

i hope you're doing well these days! have you been doing anything fun? what are your thoughts so far on the nct u golden age album?

sincerely,

your friend hyuck-xix 💘

my dear one hyuck-xix, you're so lovely. and i'm really so glad to text with you here every time and see your messages. thank you for being there. i'm glad to have a friend here. will you show me what you got and what it looks like? i would really like to buy a new album myself, but there is no way to do it yet :( im fine? i've had a lot of apathy in recent weeks but i'm going back to university soon, so i'm trying to recover and sleep more. and about the new album. honestly, it would be better not to have it. like sf and markf i can't look at another schedule when they're already so tired. and plus mark's main unit. it upsets me. but i want to wish them only strength and health. how are you? what's new? tell me, i'm always interested in receiving messages from you. what do you think about the album? and do you think donghyuck will eventually dye his hair? a very important question! i always miss you. most sincerely, your friend loevhyuck. ps. i love you <3

[amaranth]

the hardest part is letting go of your dreams

[okiecookie20]

EXO's EXODUS Theory!

Hear me out🎵 before we begin let me tell u I've read some theories for this particular post and I'll give credit where it's due. Let's decipher clues!

• In the EXODUS Coming soon trailer (2015), we see objects rearranging as the group "rebrands" for a new era. It shows us that 10 members have escaped the maze but 2 are still stuck in it (Twitter user @baehuntella) and would not continue with their quest to purify the RF. The Pathcodes show each member's situation and potential role in the lore after their "mass departure" (exodus) from the maze.

SM chose this section of the storyline for obvious reasons in 2015 and since then they have modified the og plot and character roles for the current members.

• One thing many have failed to notice is the logo animation for this album:

Looking closely we find that it is very similar to this scene in Tempo!:

This means— a) they have solved the puzzle in the red cube (Exo & the Cube theory!) or b) they are yet to do it and are in the drugged state, being manipulated by the RF which leads to Pathcodes. I'm not sure as of now that Pathcodes are real or a simulation (due to symbolism) since we are yet to know how they were separated on Earth if it is real.

If a) is true then Exodus comes after Tempo in the story.

• For the pathcodes, our fandom has come up with brilliant explanations <3

Since the exo k & m concept was still continued then (b sides of the album), it was surprising that they had all mems for Call me Baby mv. One thing we got to know is that the subunit concept was sort of temporary as we see that Growl and Wolf were Exo mvs and not of different subunits and all mems could meet

That might mean the RF was purified or they were captured before their alter egos were created (Obsession Theory!) in 2014.

[dmumt]

it's been 7 years since we got an album title beginning with ex they're going back to their roots !!!!

[cosmiclz]

Bringing back the work of art that was Pathcode: #CHEN

[rideordie-mp3]

[heartcravings]

don't fight the feeling character clips || exo parallels

minseok — monster ; baekhyun — lotto ; jongin — kokobop ; kyungsoo — love me right ; chanyeol — obsession ; sehun — tempo ; yixing — lucky one 

[exo-s-victory-lap]

Someone needs to hurt one of the exos so they start acting cunty again

[youngshiney]

not people saying *** started the lore trend in kpop when Exo literally got so much shit for MAMA until people paid attention after Growl and have put so much time and effort into creating a universe not only in mvs but also in teasers, solo projects, VCRs, etc

[yoongesthetic]

Don't Fight The Feeling X Pathcode

[cotton-myeon]

CHANYEOL GIFs - Pathcode

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