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[adamichaelangelo]

HWANWOONG 'RADAR' MV

[4giorno]

i saw a man so beautiful i started crying (who said this, me or shu? based on this mv we just dont know anymore)

BONUS bc he gets more and more beautiful every time i literally love him so much

[atiny-for-life]

BONUS: ANITEEZ - The Lore

Masterlist

ANYone know ATEEZ?

The entire video is basically a frame-by-frame recreation of the Hala Hala MV Teaser (Treasure Ep. 2: Zero to One) and, honestly, a perfect way to introduce us to this cute lil animated crew.

Venture the Unknown

We're in Treasure Ep. 3: One to All territory, specifically the audio of Wave and the visual of Illusion.

A noteworthy difference though, is the anarchy symbol on the sail which didn't enter Ateez's lore until Guerrilla (The World Ep. 1: Movement).

To me, this signals that KQ is basically using the ANITEEZ animations to fill in some lore gaps. Because as some of you may know, changes were made to the lore between the Treasure and Fever series to ensure everything would be cohesive as Ateez's backstory gets introduced in the Diary Entries and such.

In the process, some videos were even removed from the official YouTube channels to ensure future Atiny wouldn't stumble over them and get confused. (Original plans involved San as a more morally ambiguous character for example.)

Now back to the video: as we pan across the ship, we get an idea of the roles each of them have as part of the crew:

JJOONGrami: Captain (of course)

DDEONGbyeoli: Carpenter

TYUdeongi: Sailing Master

HETmongi: Lookout/Mate

SANdeoki: Mate

bbyongMING: Mate

WOOYOnyang: Cook/Mate

JJONGbear: Boatswain/Gunner

After we pan across the ship to get a glimpse of everyone, we stop at TYUdeongi who notices something off about the map he's looking at and proceeds to immediately inform the Captain.

A meeting is called and everyone gathers in the quarter galleries where JJOONGrami proceeds to inform them about his plan moving forward. On the blackboard, an 'x' marks their destination: an island (perhaps the one from Illusion?).

They continue to fly peacefully for a bit before a storm suddenly surrounds them and lightning strikes the ship. Though instead of causing a fire, the lightning source transforms, taking on the shape of first a circle, then a familiar symbol: the Cromer.

Still in the quarter galleries, the crew grows alert as the ship shakes and glass clinks together. They rush up the stairs onto the quarterdeck where the light from the Cromer grows brighter and brighter until they all pass out.

When they wake back up an unknown amount of time later, they're in a completely different location. Stranded. In the middle of the open ocean. They just switched into another world.

Another Path, Another Journey

We're back in the crow's nest with HETmongi who spots land on the horizon and immediately shouts to JJOONGrami to let him know. Face determined, JJOONGrami changes course and sets sail for the island.

Upon arrival at the new port, everyone heads on land, which is when a mysterious red light appears, though only JOONGrami seems to notice it. (Is it the Sopro? The ruby-red stone we learned about in the Golden Hour Pt. 2 Diary Entries? The one which synchronizes the emotions of everyone in its vicinity?)

Regardless of what it is, it begins leading the crew through the forest to a city which seems... familiar.

Eternal Sunshine, anyone? The music certainly seems to suggest so. We know from Ateez's lore that Illusion takes place in a dream and so does Eternal Sunshine. Is our crew here walking through their shared dreamscape then? Is it the Sopro which enables them to dream together in this way?

Regardless, the red light guides them to the subway station and into the train where we eventually get to look out the window and see the colorful apartment buildings you may remember from the Eternal Sunshine MV.

The red light eventually leads them to exit the train at the next stop before it guides them to yet another familiar location:

It's the school from The Real.

(I'm now about 98% certain they're telling us through this animation, in no uncertain terms, exactly which of the music videos take place in a dream and which ones contain information relevant to the storyline.)

After heading onto the school campus, a glowing snowflake suddenly appears and catches the crew's attention.

We zoom into the snowflake's glow and get transported alongside the crew into an ice hockey rink.

But the video doesn't end there, we flash back to the campus where the crew is still gathered around the snowflake, clearly just sharing in the fantasy but not actually getting transported there.

A shadow suddenly descends onto their little huddle as the sound turns ominous and JJONGrami turns to look up with a shocked expression. The video ends.

Beyond the Map's Edge

We're back on the open ocean with our little crew on their ship. It seems whatever surprised them at the end of the last video only pulled them out of the dreamworld but didn't cause them any harm.

As they sail away across the ocean, a familiar blue bird suddenly appears. (The same one we've seen in both Halazia and at the end of Crazy Form perhaps?)

It flies up to a humming JJOONGrami as he's manning the helm (as per usual) and captures his attention. Lil face growing determined again, he changes course and follows the bird.

They hit land at full force and fly through the air for a moment before they set down on the dunes and begin rushing across them as if they were waves on the ocean, completely unhindered - this ship is not your average sailing vessel.

They steer around cacti, and finally make it to their destination in the middle of the desert where they strap on their teeny tiny backpacks and march off even deeper between the dunes.

As night falls, they set up camp and pitch two tents, only to still sleep in their sleeping bags around the fire, all happy and giggly.

By the time the sun rises, WOOYOnyang is the only one who's barely moved while the rest are spread out across the campsite.

They continue onward after packing their stuff back up and eventually come across an all too familiar location:

We're now in Treasure Ep. 1: All to Zero territory, specifically the Treasure MV. As the crew moves through the small town, they wander through all the familiar areas we've seen before until they eventually cross through a large set of doors.

They're in a courtyard now and gather around the fountain at its center. The liquid inside is blue and clear as they hop onto the rim and hang their little heads over the edge to look inside.

As they peek into the depths, the liquid suddenly begins to emit a white light which keeps growing brighter and brighter until it swallows them whole and they disappear, presumably getting teleported elsewhere for their next adventure.

As for the lore in this video, I would say it's very much in line with what I've been assuming in my debut album theories. They arrive because they were sent there on a mission after being on the ship for a while, explore for a bit and get transported away again to their next mission.

It's basically bonding time for them and, for us, it's now a little trip down memory lane to a much underappreciated music video.

[thirstkanaphan]

Thirst Gets Lore-Pilled (Part 4/?)

I decided to lock in and immerse myself in Ateez lore! Thank you to @loving-that-officey-feel for being my guide and curator (their quotes are in italics). With their permission, I'm posting some of our interactions as I go through the different eras.

It's time for Fever 3! Deja Vu is among the more consequential music videos in terms of lore.

The boys are being chased by drone machines (android guardians) and there are lots of recurring motifs that I've come to recognize, such as the hourglass in the constellations of light, blue butterflies, and thunder/lightning. Of course the most important part is when the members encounter Halateez in glass coffins, locked in stasis yet aware of their presence.

The coda of the mv features Yeosang with the cromer, which is smashed! Per the advice of my lore tutor, I am saving the diaries for after I've watched the relevant content for Fever 3 so I expect to gain more context later.

BUT!!

Thirst, you say...?

The Deja Vu performance for MNET contains some more clues, such as the repeated use and allusion to "blue light" and blue in general being a dominant color-way of this cb.

@loving-that-officey-feel: I think the fact that Deja Vu is so clearly referencing The Matrix, and famous scene in the matrix is "This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

It's clear Deja Vu is setting up a lot of story that we won't get to for a while yet.

You would think that Eternal Sunshine would be a relatively straightforward watch in comparison to Deja Vu, but I have been affected by my lore tutor's intriguing theories that something is not right about Eternal Sunshine. I'm inclined to agree: they're in this urban landscape full of color but devoid of life. There's a train going to nowhere. It's actually a very alienating set piece, despite the upbeat energy of the song.

I'm strangely reminded of Turbulence: another mv marked by its empty cityscape. They are tonally different, but with striking similarities, including that Wooyoung starts flying on both.

ok, this is what I will say about Eternal Sunshine... question 1) why does everyone have all these really put together, clean, fresh summery bright colour outfits.... while San has a ripped grey sweater ensemble that looks a lot like his clothes in Answer.... when San is the one who pulls Wooyoung out of the world/dream(?) at the end... San... who is in the garden prison in Wonderland..

Lots of stuff to chew on!

At the end of Eternal Sunshine it starts "snowing" or at least something is falling down around them, which also reminds me of Answer.

I'm urged to listen to the lyrics of Eternal Sunshine: "If you could only keep one memory / which one would you choose?"

Now for the diaries! We have some background for World Z and I'm really not digging the idea of an industrial revolution that expands our lifespan for 200 years. More labor for capital!

But then follow that question with: 'how old does that make Halateez?'

oooh!

We return to the cliffhanger that ended Fever 2: the boys are consumed by the hallucinations conjured by the gas and Yunho is able to talk Left Eye out of his grief-spiral (clearly drawing on his own barely-processed grief over the death of his older brother).

The people of World Z witness these actions and claim: "Those boys will be able to save the Black Pirate." INTERESTING! These World Z people know more than they are saying!

The members take the ship to infiltrate the android guardian's bunker where they encounter Men in Black Fedora (Halateez) in their glass prison, directly referencing the Deja Vu music video.

Despite them being separated by glass, Halateez are able to communicate with our boys. More than that, Halateez are able to transfer their energies/powers to the boys: "Soon after, we were wearing their black suits without even noticing." HOW??!!

We learn that the leaders of World Z are able to control the population by extracting their cherished memories and burning them for fuel (Eternal Sunshine lyrics!) and the smoke created from the burning is like an opiate subduing the masses.

Yeosang is captured and the Guardians threaten to kill him if Hongjoong and the members don't give up the Cromer. Yeosang would rather die than give up the Cromer (😭) and utters the most heartbreaking sentence:

"My friends would not have all been scattered if I had not met them at first"

noooo!!!! I hate/love that Yeosang is the one captured, given he is ostensibly the reason they found a home in the first place AND the reason it got taken away.

Yeosang smashes the Cromer, sending the boys back to World A without him. Yeosang is captured to be held prisoner and tortured by the robots in the glass case (of emotion) we find him in Say My Name!

We end Fever 3 with Ateez back in their world. They need to a) get back to World Z somehow with no Cromer and b) save Yeosang AND Halateez!

Now I see why the Snow White imagery for GH3 is so intriguing, given that Yeoang is essentially entombed in a glass coffin at the end of Fever 3.

@loving-that-officey-feel left me with some interesting observations:

now that you've read this diary in particular... think about the fact that Halateez: have magic powers, a magic ship, and had the Cromer. They are the biggest threat to Z. But they have been captured. The Android Guardians could easily yank thier memories (and later when you see Z's government publicly hanging and shooting people in the streets... just straight up kill them).

Halateez are the current biggest threat. Why are they alive in the glass cases with thier memories in tact when it would be much better for Z if they were not?

Why are the android guardians/Z keeping Halateez alive but imprisoned?

Do we know the source of Halateez's power? Are they not from World Z or World A but from somewhere else? Are we in a time loop? These may be questions no one has answers for yet, but I am curious to see what theories I'll develop as I wade deeper into the waters of the lore.

Nest up is Fever: Epilogue!

[gracebethartacc]

What's your fave thing about your HMS designs and is there anything you cut from their final designs that were in previous ones?

My fave thing is honestly hard to pick but tbh I think probably just a lot of the small details (hearts pant moon phases, minds lightning shape anime girl hair vent lols, souls freckles, etc etc) as for things that had been cut: wings! Initially none of them had wings bc that was just a fanon thing only a few artists did back when I joined where as now it’s more widespread, but then I toyed with giving all of them wings (heart w bird mind w bat soul with both) but I scrapped that some time or another and only kept heart with them but I think soul kept his wings for a little bit before I cut them, tho they do come back in more symbolic based art of him for funsies and I later was like eh fuck it lets let him get temporary wings for one scene why not it helps the dramatics <3

another thing was wayyy back in my first designs I was gonna do solid pupils like sly but then last minute opted out of it, similarly soul was gonna get mix matched eyes (white eye on shadow side and a fnaf style black sclera on his regular side) cut it bc just looked a bit too edgy/didn’t fit the character

another thing was they were originally gonna be fully monochrome but their theme colors like the MVs and whole was the only full color one, scrapped bc just didn’t look good, but in turn I tried to make my first designs very flat/dull colored while their theme colors were my usual bright colors to give the illusion, but when I redid them I scrapped that and made them a lot more colorful for better visual appeal/more fun drawing :3

not much else cut I don’t think bc a lot of my changes were adding stuff not so much removing stuff iirc

[pastelbatfandoms]

My Kpop MCU DR💖🌠

Inspired by the lore in their MV's.

Stray Kids-

They are still a Kpop group, Bang Chan is still the leader because he brought them together but Changbin manifested them in that reality.

Felix accidently shifted there, and is now "stuck." Has powers of his own, like the blue flames.

Felix has a sword similar to Renji from Bleach. It can reach long distances & unleashes a blue flame. (I had a dream about it)

Felix controls his powers through his pulse. Is unknowingly part angel/demon.

Everyone thinks he created Stray Kids but it was actually Changbin.

Changbin also has lightning & god like powers which he can use on other groups like Itzy.

Changbin knows about parallel universes & alternate realities. They all do now but Binnie is the one who scripted Twice, Itzy & NMIXX's powers.

Changbin also has energy manipulation and Super Strength due to experimenting with ULTRA (This realities version of the super soldier serum)

Han has telekinesis.

Seungmin can freeze & turn back time but not change it.

Lee Know can time travel & go to other planets & universes.

Hyunjin can shape shift (only into other humans) & has super speed (like his speed mirage)

I.N. can duplicate & clone himself. Is an alien as is Han.

Only Bang Chan knows. Bang Chan is also a Hybrid, Vampire/WereWolf.

Dr Strange has helped Felix control his powers but keeps an eye on Lee & Changbin because of what they can do.

They all can teleport

My other dr self Lilianne, Deadpool & Wolverine are fans.

They can transform into their respective animals...👇

Felix- Yellow Bird (as well as mythical ones) 🐦‍🔥

Changbin- Pig & Warthog 🐽🐗

Han- Beaver, Chipmunk & Squirrel 🐿️🦫

Hyunjin- Ferret & any rodent 🐹🐁

Lee- Rabbit & Cat 🐈‍⬛🐇🐅

I.N.- Fox 🦊

Bang Chan- Wolf 🐺

Seungmin- Dog 🐶🐕

TxT

Together by Tomorrow is also in this DR. All the boys have super agility & know martial arts.

They are also descendants of Fallen Angels.

Yeonjun, the leader, can leap large distances, has solar powers & demon horns (Which he uses glamour to hide) Yeonjun's power color is blue.

Beomgyu has super strength, as well as can grow spikes along his body. Knows magic, is able to see & communicate with spirits. His color is green.

Soobin knows pyromancy. Has demonic features like large pointed ears, connected to The Fae. His color is red.

Taehyun has ice, water powers & demon eyes. His color is purple.

Kai has wings & can fly. Is most connected to their angel/demon/fae lives. Kai's color is yellow.

All of them time travel & portal jump. Thanks to Beomgyu's spell book. (Given to him by Hecate & Cernunnos) Dr Strange is watching them all closely.

My DR Self

Another version of me in my MCU dr is Michiru. I also have the same one (without abilities & in different relationships) in my other Kpop drs so I won't be explaining my background here other than I'm in NMIXX (replacing Sullyoon) and aware I shift.

I am the "Tech Girl" (Similar to Daisy Johnson aka Quake) and like I.N., knows what is going on in that universe. Especially with the clones and androids.

I have an app that can control or stop them.

Friends with Itzy & Twice.

All of NMIXX can traverse realms & are aware of shifting.

Came from the same post apocalyptic world as Stray Kids, BTS, Twice & Ateez (But Ateez, despite being space pirates, did not shift to the MCU)

I can also see spirits & through realms. I use music to concentrate. I can also see through dimensions via electronics as if I was there.

I am in a relationship with Yeonjun & Bang Chan. (Possibly other members as well)

Polyamoures.

NMIXX are all two years older than in their cr.

My emoji 🦄

EXO is also now in it as Werewolves and each have their own respective elemental powers, like in their MVs. I have a Childhood Friends to Lovers dynamic with Chanyeol.

The group is also Aliens and came from the Sirian star system to our dystopian planet to help us escape it. (Once it became apparent we couldn't heal it)

I have mini shifted a bunch of times and had a couple ungrounded shifts as well, that I will talk about in another post! Also one of my first full shifts!

BTS is also in this dr now, I will be making a seperate post about them!

[lividsandstorms]

that one meme on the internet

i decided to draw them together here since i thought it fits them (ALSO I decided to give Cobb gloves/it kinda looks like he's wearing one in the middle of the MV where he's riding the car with the other world enders)

sorry if the colors look wack (I used some reference from the World ender mv and a scene from the vide noir movie [i havent watched it and plus im broke 😭💀so i just went into the wiki and used the pic] so the lightning is a bit weird)

Also this is my first time drawing in realism so uhh, i apologize if the anatomy looks weird 😭

[msinsanity06]

Seraph MV

Mood pt2

* Based on Ian's interviews and lives and my observations*

3.44 to 4.50

Color in my moods -- is regarding his different moods

Your violets on horizons -- i believe is referenced to violet crazy

My love brings all the lions -- could be that when he loves someone he becomes very protective or territorial?? Idk

"I don't assume that you knew (Hey)

That I miss you when it's quiet

Oh, it's true, I want you (It's getting dark)

To tell me if I'm lying" These lines could be related to NERVES or this could be related to his other personalities especially Mito, cause his lines comes after this.

"Oh, I just came back from the moon

Found the lightning coming from your 눈(eye) "

In Mito's voice. This means Mito came back from moon, which could be a metaphor for night, sleep, dream. Showcases his activity during night or sleep. The second line is a connection to the transition of Ian to Mito with a white eye.

When Ian says "I want you" Mito is running, so this might mean that Ian was calling out for Mito

Confetti and lip colour for Mr insanity

And different eye colour for hybrid and Mr Insanity

[maepersonal]

What up, I'm Mae, I'm 19, and I never fucking learned how to read

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about me: name: Mae or Ames age: 19 pronouns: ae/aer, it/its, she/her queer?: aroace + agender :3 why am I like this™?: autism, ocpd, bpd, ocd, adhd, anxiety, depression, alexithymia, aphantasia, dyspraxia, sometimes nonverbal & semiverbal, pots, tic disorder, sometimes agere (9-13ish) MBTI: ISTP :) aesthetic: here! :D element: water (duh) hogwarts house: slytherin ;) (I actually hate hp but I'm proud of my house) favorite colors: blue, green, purple nationality: american (canadian + german parents) shit I like: kpop: Lunarsolar, Xdinary Heroes, Ateez, Yena, Bibi, others more casually music: hardcore punk, punk, hard rock, symphonic metal, alt rock, nu metal, power metal, glam rock, hyperpop, Elliot Lee, Andrew Polec, Meat Loaf, Sick Puppies, In This Moment, Black Market Kidney Surgeons, Anti Flag (fuck justin sane), Iggy Pop, Car Seat Headrest musicals: Sweeney Todd (1982), Newsies, Ride the Cyclone, Bat Out of Hell, The Lightning Thief, Bonnie & Clyde, everything Starkid (but especially Starship, Black Friday, and Trail to Oregon) movies: The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence, Velvet Goldmine, Star Wars prequels, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Narnia, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets tv shows: Lockwood and Co, Julie and the Phantoms, Haikyuu, The 100 games: Palworld, The Enchanted Cave 2, BATIM, YTTD, Children of Silentown, The Mortuary Assistant, Little Witch in the Woods, Until Dawn, The Quarry, SCP Foundation, Project Kat, definitely more stuff I'm forgetting other stuff: wet specimen taxidermy, punk diy, collecting weird shit, tornadoes, alchemy, statistics, photography, The Council <3, insects, being a non-theistic satanist (inspired by LaVeyan satanism), being punk, being an anarcho-communist tech support: op tag: #oh mae oh my pfp: Bronté Barbé as Katherine in Newsies UK header: MUU (ex-LUNARSOLAR) - Shooting Star MV not safe for littles tag: #nsfl - BLOCK IF NEEDED

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FAQ:

why are u reblogging/interacting with therian/DID content? because I am very close with a system that has therians and non-human alters :)

what do you use this blog for? this blog is mostly for irl, kpop, bpd, other mental disorders, anarchy, aroace, agere, vents, and anything else I feel like doesn't fit on my main :)

no DNI, just don't be a dick.

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

Now when it's pride month, it's time for the yearly list of Queer Songs in DCLA shows. Cause every year, I feel like there's a new one to add.

Of course, any dcla song can be queer if you analyse it like that, but these are the ones I've thought about + want to include.

Si es por amor - The lyrics can be analysed very much, PLUS the music video... yeah. I personally don't think the song is about Ludmila having a crush on Violetta, but rather Vilu in the mv represents the part of her that's like "everyone knows what you are. You can't hide", and Ludmila keeps escaping her just like she escapes her sexuality.

Entre dos mundos - What do you mean this is between "performing arts and motorcross" lmao no no this is like Leon's bi anthem.

Yo soy asi - "I am like this". DEAL WITH IT! I'M HERE, I'M QUEER!

Como Quieres - When Violetta performs this, there's bisexual lightning in the background. Also, the lyrics can also be analysed like that.

On Beat - This is only here because 11 year old me got a bi awakening from the performance in 2x40 and not particularly because of the song.

Underneath it all - Someone is hiding who they are! Will you like who they are if they confess it?

Como me ves - A majority of Ámbar's solo songs are queer coded asf and this is SO CLEAR in the lyrics. It's basically the singer's "reflection" singing back to them, telling them who they really are.

Aqui estoy - Due to the performance, mostly

A rodar mi vida - Jim and Yam MADE this sapphic by performing it /hj But seriously. The sapphic acoustic ballad it's the biggest influence for this.

Habla si puedes - Listen, I don't care the context of the song in the show (just like honestly with most of these songs, I'm talking about the songs in a vacuum), but just analyzing the lyrics... someone who's struggling with their feelings, maybe their identity even. "Speak if you can" alone is just... yeah.

Ser mejor - I mean, this is an anthem on it's own right. All the talk about colors, and "just love, love, love"... <3

Asi yo soy - This song is just a big celebration of being who you are. "Be you!"

Hoy somos mas - It's the vibes, you know? Also the franletta keyboard duet certainly helped hehe.

Claroscuro - OH BOY... I'm thinking someone who had a bad coming out, and kinda have this "well fuck you because I'm how I am, even though if you don't like the truth! I'm still gonna thrive!"

Creyendo en mi - Every song Yam sings on her guitar is sapphic coded, I don't make the rules. Like I listen to this and I picture girls holding hands in a field.

Valiente - It's a power anthem! Power anthems are PERFECT for pride month, are they not?

Yes, I do - I PICTURE A QUEER COUPLE GETTING MARRIED GROWING OLD TOGETHER!!!!!!

Codigo Amistad - The planet of the GIRLS. But guess what, they also talk about boys... it's a bi anthem imo.

Peligrosamente bellas - Well. The performance mostly is the reason for this.

Can you come up with some more? Especially Bia songs, because I suck even remembering those. Also SL songs. I mostly have focused on Violetta songs (as they have the best songs lol)

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1.---She was born in Seoul, S. Korea.

2.--- Her personality is like a loving mother.

3.---She attended St Paul's Girls' School Elementary (graduated), Dwight School Seoul (graduated), Harvard University (previously before moving to Korea) & Yonsei University (Department of Medicine and Business Administration.)

4.--- She can play the piano, flute, violin, cello, guitar, drums, & harp.

5.---She has a pet dog named Leo. 6.--- She made an appearance in many BTS MV 7.---Her favorite flavor of ice cream is cookies and cream.

8.---She is the global brand ambassador and muse for Innisfree, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Celine, CHANEL, HERA, CALVIN KLEIN and Dior, 9.---Her stylist calls her "Perfect Beauty" 10.---She loves cooking.

11.---Her favorite song is Love Wins All by IU

12.--- She loves eating anything sweet or spicy

13.---She loves spoiling the members with food and gifts.

14.---She was never a K-pop fan until she became a trainee

15.---She can memorize any song or dance with just one look

16.---She has a photographic memory

17.---She has a huge plushie obsession

18.---She's friends with every Hybe idols

19.---Loves wearing the member's clothes

20.---Her ideal type is "someone who prioritizes her over anything and acts like a child only around her"

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 MBT: ESTJ - The Supervisor

PERSONALITY - mother-like personality, affectionate, charming, overly caring, kindhearted, passionate, open-minded, easygoing, confident, responsible, creative.

HABITS-  Raising one of her eyebrows, Pouting, Biting her lips, Sticking their tongue out, Sleeping anywhere.

KNOWN FOR- her goddess like visual, her strong and unique vocals, her strong dancing, her unbelievable stage presence, being the most popular K-pop idol, being 5th gen IT Girl, being the Nation's "Goddess", being a trendsetter, being the daughter of Kim Jae-yong SouthKorean business magnate and the vice chairman of  XXXX Electronics.

HOBBIES- cooking, traveling, musical instruments, photography, eating, sleeping, ballet, figure skating.

PHOBIAS- achluophobia (fear of darkness), astraphobia (fear of thunder and lightning).

FAVORITE NUMBER- 08 ( cuz it's her bday and lucky number)

FAVORITE COLOR-  black, white, and anything pastel.

CLOTHING STYLE-  has 2 types of style 

1- comfy everyday outfits ( got this style after moving to Korea cuz the old money style stood out too much while going out)

 2- old money outfits

FAMILY- mother, father ( only child)

BACKGROUND- come from a rich family and am known to be the perfect girl .... perfect grades, perfect looks, perfect manners. But deep down, she knew she was far from it. 

Tired of her family's expectations she ran away from home (aka went on a vacation to Korea) without her parents knowing. Moving to Korea she experienced what a normal life was like renting a small cozy apartment, enrolling in Yonsei University (Department of Medicine and Business Administration.), and working part-time jobs to provide for herself. (But without her knowing her parents already knew where and what she was doing the whole time).

Got scouted a hundred times by a lot of companies even the big 3 but rejected them all except for one particular company that begged outside her apartment for a week just to go audition at Hybe.

 Finally, after a lot of persuasion, she went to the company and passed after one look at the judges, trained for 2 weeks then got moved to KOZ Entertainment (due to Zico begging to have her as a member of BOYNEXTDOOR).

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟First serenade, and last serenade𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

[aoharushiyo]

the wall / leo/need [eng translation]

TITLE: the WALL ARTIST: Leo/need SERIES: Project Sekai: COLORFUL STAGE! COMPOSITION: buzzG LYRICS: buzzG OFFICIAL MV: (L/N game size ver) (L/N full ver)

ENG:

I wanted to know what lies at the heart of the lightning-like feeling I felt as I held the wavering twilight sky close, not wanting to let it go

In truth, I don't need to be understood, but I still want to know why I believed not being able to touch anyone's heart was a strength

This battered melody's rhythm is woven with blue-coloured scars, and because these scars will never disappear, to sing is to hurt, to be afraid, but yet I sing this ordinary song that connected us, this song, which can overcome every wall

"It's alright for your hands and feet to tremble," you told me, but could my timid, transparent self even leave anything behind?

Everything I wanted to convey should have already dried up, but why is it that I still want to paint the orange that bridges day and night?

"It's alright to smile," you told me, who had become afraid of being alone, as my heartbeat pounded at the beautiful sight before me Surely, the gods created us to be weak so that we wouldn't have to walk our paths alone

The happiness that brings tears to my eyes and these countless, towering walls— both of them, all of them, are all for the sake of this voice

As I recounted the days I loathed, days where I felt as if I was drowning in a deep sea of mist, you listened, all the while resiliently holding in your tears

This battered melody woven with blue-coloured scars overflows from me, and because these scars cannot be separated from its rhythm, to sing will still be painfully lonely, but yet with you by my side, I want to sing this song; I want to sing a song of the world, a disfigured, yet warm, song which brings down every wall

JP:

稲妻のような感情　その奥を知りたくて 離さないようにぎゅっと抱いた　黄昏に揺れる空

本当はわかってほしくて　わかられたくなんかなくて 誰の心にだって触れないことが強さだと思っていた

ぼろぼろのメロディ　律動　青い傷跡 それが混ざりあって消えないから 歌うのは痛いよ　怖いよ　それでも君と紡ぐありふれた唄 すべての壁を越える唄

震える手足は健在　君はそれでいいと言うね 透明で臆病な僕に何が残せるのかな

伝えたいことなんてもう　枯らしたはずなのにどうして 昼と夜のあいだ　その橙を描きたくなるの

美しい光景　脈動　笑ってもいいよ 独りが怖くなった僕を 神様はきっと　僕らが独りぼっちで寂しく歩まないように か弱く産み落としたんでしょ

噎せ返るような歓びも　聳え立つ無数の壁も 全部　全部　この声のためにある

溺れるほどに深い霧の海で自分を呪いたくなる日は 君の目がずっと　強くて　泣けちゃうくらいに

溢れたぼろぼろのメロディ　律動　青い傷跡 それが混ざりあって　これからも 歌うのは痛くて寂しい　でも 君とならそれを、世界を、歌ってみたい すべての壁を溶かす　歪であったかい唄

[supernovaa-remnant]

So, when the UIEUD music video dropped, I was watching the sunset with my friends. Because we decided to spend the evening at the beach together as a fun little hang out because we were separated this past school year w/ uni and stuff, and it's been really nice to reconnect in person and hang out irl.

Anyway, the UIEUD music video dropped whilst watching the sunset. And, on the drive back to my house, there was this beautiful cloud straight ahead painted pink with the colors of the sunset. And I saw a flash of lightning in that cloud. And, as my friends and I continued on our way home, the sky was just painted in beautiful shades of pink. Like—it was actually one of the most stunning sunsets I've seen.

And, idk, the timing of that + knowing I was gonna watch the UIEUD MV upon getting home? It just reminded me of Techno, y'know?

[kanokanokanokanon]

OH MY GOD DON'T THINK I DIDN'T MISS THAT BMC REFERENCE this analysis is so interesting!!! I never looked at amane's mvs in this perspective, I just thought one of the cult leaders got killed, my personal theory on the mascots is that gozake and riyone were amane's parents, with both waterboarding and electrocution being shown in the purge March and water and the color blue being a point that is often showed in the purge March, the ordainments also change literally EVERYTHING about magic! I noticed the lightning bolt in amane's "wand" in magic as well, but I missed the lightning socks! Good eye op!! I always thought that Yuri was more doubtful about the cult's teachings, in magic, when all the mascots catch amane healing the cat, Yuri has a VERY different expression on his face unlike the other mascots, he looks almost sympathetic for amane before the "punishments", despite the fact that Yuri is shown beating amane, he seems almost like he's doubtful of the cult as well, Yuri was also described as "compassionate big bro" from the translation to English from magic, so it's pretty clear that Yuri might not be all THAT indoctrinated, He was also shown the least in the purge March, shown as leaning off to the side as opposed to the others, I think the cult leaders must have much more going on with them then meets the eye, like how they all seem to imitate animals preventing amane from recieving comfort from REAL animals (as pointed out by a commentator under magic), the diagram is also really good!! I Personally thought that amane was in the process of breaking away from the cult, it still seems so that her views on them have changed, I am 100% voting both kazui and amane inno, kazui was just secretly gay and that killed his wife, while amane's mother deserved the umbrella and shock after what she had done to amane (I wish mafuyu tried that on her mom...) And that poor cat (if the cult really killed the cat),

An Analysis and Theories of The Purge March…

(By someone who knows very little about Milgram)

Hello Milgram people! First time posting an analysis about it, mainly because I only started getting into it like two days ago. I kept seeing it get mentioned in my dash and I thought "yeah these characters look mentally ill enough to be interesting I'll check this out." And wow, this thing is awesome!

Even though I'm missing massive amounts of critical information (I haven’t even watched all the MVs for the other characters yet), I still want to talk about my thoughts on the newest MV, Amane's "The Purge March". I'm sorry if a lot of what I say has been said before, I tried my best to research other opionions before defining my own, but I still know very little compared to others. Hope you can take something away from here anyways!

CW: Cults and indoctrination, child abuse, torture, waterboarding, electrocution, violence and murder, animal death.

Basic Rundown & Lyrics

Introduction

The video takes place in three main settings: the titular march, the place with the cat, and Amane's apartment/home.

Hold on, you may say. Can we be sure that's Amane's home and not some other place? Well, I believe so, based on this little sign here.

This translation was taken from Napkin's analysis on the MV, which was massively helpful and I recommend you check out yourself!

In case you forgot, Amane's full name is Amane Momose; that's her father on that picture. When combined with the context that Amane walked into the apartment on her own and with a small smile, it really makes it look like that is her home. Adittionally, a leaked storyboard from Milgram Premium apparently says the hand holding the taser belongs to Amane's mother, and I believe this is the case. Not because of the storyboard, as I don't usually trust that type of meta evidence, but because of some stuff I'll get to later.

Anyways, back to the video. We open with the march, alongside this lyrics:

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! It’s the beginning of a most wonderful day However, there are blasphemers and silent by-standers, who would have it otherwise We must not give into them, they are the ones that should be judged With pure, unsullied body and soul, let us preach all that is true and right

This sets up the main theme of the song: it's about how the cult Amane is in sees the concept of punishment and justice. Those who go against the cult, must be judged, they must be punished. I think it's worth noting that this part not only calls out "blasphemers", but also "silent by-standers". Amane's cult not only condemns """harmful""" actions, but also inaction. There is one part of the MV which I think manifests this, I'll get to it.

Flags and Ordainments

Then, we see four flags corresponding to each of the cult's... uh...

Okay, so, as a refresher. There's this four characters, right? From left to right, Yuri, Gozake, Riyone, and Gachata.

Certain theories claim these are cult leaders, and certain others claim they are just mascots or even deities and not real people. I believe the latter, but of course all theories are valid. I'll explain my reasoning later (take a shot), but for now, I need to establish what I believe.

Anyways, we see flags representing each of them attached to lyrics which are connected to them, indicating some of the cult’s ordainments.

’Tis ordained, thou shall follow thine destiny [Riyone] ’Tis ordained, thou shall discard vulgarity [Gozake] ’Tis ordained, thou shall deliver unto those thou believest in [Yuri] ’Tis ordained, thou shall stay thine course, then perish [Gachata]

Here's what I think they mean:

>Riyone, who has bandaids for ears, represents the cult's belief in medicine. Essentially, they denounce it, and their accepted MO is to only pray for the injured instead of healing them medically. So when Riyone 'says' "thou shall follow thine destiny", it's saying "accept your fate/situation, don't try to change your destiny". This is why we don't see Riyone doing anything other than punishing Amane in the first trial MV; the only thing you're meant to do in relation to Riyone and medicine is pray.

>Gozake has possibly the vaguest ordainment, that being “thou shall discard vulgarity.” Since it’s described as a monk in “Magic”, I believe this means to discard unnecessary, vulgar things, and only accept the things the cult accepts. There is indication that the cult denounces these type of trivial things, from some of Amane’s interrogation questions from trial one.

Q1: Do you have any special skills?

A: Nothing that I can call a talent. Perhaps studying. I do well in my Japanese class.

Q5: When you go to an amusement park, what do you like to ride?

A: That is a place I should not go to.

Q11: What kind of meat do you like?

A: I don’t eat meat.

Q14: Do you listen to music?

A: Not really, to songs that are highly entertaining.

Amusement parks are somewhere she shouldn’t go to, presumably because it’s considered vulgar. Perhaps she says she doesn’t have a talent because she’s not allowed to engage in a lot of activities. It’s certainly possible she doesn’t eat meat out of preference, but it could also be due to religious beliefs. And she only listens to songs which are “highly entertaining”, provided I’m reading that right because it’s worded a bit weird. The reason I bring that up is that we see Gozake teaching her to sing in “Magic”, which relates it to music. While that’s likely metaphorical, it’s possible the cult’s “songs” are the highly entertaining ones, and the rest are vulgar.

Worth noting for "The Purge March" though, Gozake’s flag is on the floor before being waved. It's pretty clear Amane holds some contempt against Gozake and/or his punishments.

I believe it’s because it is Gozake’s ordainment, “thou shall discard vulgarity”, that Amane most disagrees with internally and the one she’s most likely to break. I mean, obviously, she’s a child, she’s going to want to do all sorts of trivial, “vulgar” things for fun, that’s just what kids do. We even see a version her fumble with this flag later, implying she has broken this ordainment before.

This fits a lot of the lines in “Magic”.

Dear wise one, Am I worthy? Is it ok to spoil myself?

Spoiling herself here likely means doing things she wants to do, but which are considered “vulgar” by the cult. Her interrogation questions also imply it.

Q3: If you were allowed to do anything, what would you want to do?

A: Nothing really. I am not lacking anything.

Q17: What would you do if the world ends tomorrow?

A: If everything ends? Then, I might do all sorts of things I have never done before.

Notice how there are things she wants to do if the world ends, but she doesn’t want to do them now. That is because now, she’s still under the threat of consequence, the “vulgar” things she does can be punished. But if the world ends, then she can just do whatever.

>Yuri is meant to represent solidarity and generosity within the cult, as a sort of tactic to make all its members willing to help and lend resources to the cult. We see him collecting money in "Magic", as the animals "deliver unto those they believe in". That's why his clothes are all patchwork, as if to imply the cult is in need of money.

>Gachata represents order and obedience, that's what "thou shall stay thine course, then perish" means. I don't think I need to explain how that's connected to cults. It's styled after an alarm clock, as they represent a regularity of action, a "schedule". An alarm clock tells you when it's time to wake up and work, just like Gachata.

The Purpose of Punishment

We then see a version of Amane fumble with Gozake's flag as this lyric plays:

The “It can’t be helped”, from the scum who can’t be helped

There's something extremely important in this line. "The scum who can't be helped" are those who say "it can't be helped". In other words, acceptance of mistakes, blasphemy, etc, is the most unforgivable crime in the eyes of the cult. That's why "Leader Amane" slams her baton on the ground, causing this "helpless Amane" to sink, with this line.

That makes them doubtlessly, clearly, absolutely, unequivocally, beyond any doubt, GUILTY

The thing that makes them guilty is the sentiment that "it can't be helped".

What does that mean? It means that something is only forgivable if one acknowledges that it can be fixed. Giving up on improvement, claiming "it can't be helped", is unacceptable. And this is why punishment is so important. If someone doesn't accept punishment, they're claiming their faults cannot be helped by it, which makes them guilty.

(Also yes guilty is in caps because Amane was voted guilty in the first trial I think)

What's important, though, is that because of this scene, Amane is not "scum who can't be helped" in her eyes. Because she's both the one judging and the one being judged, that means she understands the value of her own punishment-

IN THE CULT'S EYES. I gotta clarify that sometimes I will speak from the perspective of the cult to make things clearer, but I do not agree with anything they do or believe, obviously.

So Amane believes she should be punished if she does something wrong, though obviously usually she isn't the one punishing herself. The punishment we see happen then is Amane being drowned, which is the punishment related to Gozake as we see in "Magic". Electrocution is connected to Riyone, physical blows to Yuri and verbal abuse to Gachata, please don't question it too much. Rain starts falling as she sinks, but clears after she's fully under and drowning, revealing a rainbow.

This rainbow shows up later a few times, and... frankly, it's hard to know exactly what the hell it means? But I think it represents the twisted and frankly horrifying view the cult has on punishment: even in the rain, which would be the pain of punishment, there is the bright light of improvement shining through it, being the rainbow. Even though Amane is suffering from drowning, she'll grow and improve from it. That is honestly disgusting to write but well here we are.

The lyrics here are:

I disavow you, eyes corrupted must be crushed So nary a sound can be uttered a second time, I’ll crush your throat too

Essentially, those who go against the cult must be silenced, their views disavowed (eyes crushed).

Then, we see Gozake's flag fading into the background as Amane sinks further. After that, we cut to real life, to Amane being waterboarded.

(Btw, I'm using "waterboarding" because it's faster than "controlled drowning", even though I'm not entirely clear if waterboarding is the right term for what she suffers through)

The lyrics are:

After you cry, repent, and kneel, it’s now your turn to say that hopeless “I’m sorry” x2

Amane claims it will soon be "your" turn to apologize and be punished, the "you" likely being her murder victim. How is Gozake related? Well, I believe that's alluding to an aspect of Amane's murder. In fact, this scene might be just a few minutes before her kill, as I believe she killed her victim after suffering from "Gozake's" punishment. I'll get there.

The Cat Incident

(Not the Kazui MV drop, the other one)

We then see what happened for Amane to be punished: she healed a cat. And the cult hates medicine. She gets spotted by a man and a small girl.

See the rainbow? That's because getting caught will lead to punishment, which will lead to improvement. I want you to know I actually feel disgusting writing that, but those are the beliefs of the cult.

Note the girl is holding a balloon with a symbol which is very similar to the symbol on multi-Amane's flags later, so these two likely belong to the cult as well. And since she's wearing the same uniform as Amane, they likely go to the same school, which may be ran by the cult.

I’ll talk about the balloon a bit more later, but for now, who are these two? I said I don’t believe the mascots are cult leaders, so it can’t be them. See, I actually believe they’re simply other average cult members, with nothing special at all about them. This is because the girl, and thus presumably the man with her, never enter Amane’s apartment.

See how that sign with 403 is above the door to the apartment? The balloon stops in front of it, but then goes away. (It's hard to show this with just images but trust me). By the way the string is positioned, it’s clear the girl is still pulling it. Thus we can conclude the girl never went in, and because of that (and the fact the girl has slightly different hair than Amane so she does exist), I believe the man merely told Amane’s mother what he saw, but left before Amane went home. Thus, I find it unlikely this man holds any more importance.

Why is he snitching, though? Well, it goes back to the cult’s beliefs of punishment. If something is wrong, it must be corrected. Remember, “silent by-standers” are just as bad as blasphemers in their eyes. So he wants Amane’s mom to do something about it.

(Btw, I don’t think the cat was a test necessarily, but the fact it’s collared and then gets killed could be an argument for that interpretation)

Oh, and for the uninitiated, I’m saying Amane’s mom because of one of her trial one interrogation questions:

Q: Is there anyone you hold in high esteem?

A: My father. My father has been on a journey for a while, but that is something very honorable.

So, only her mother is in the house.

The lyrics of the scene are relatively straightforward.

If you become a bad girl, monsters will come out. This is the magic that stops that from happening

Then the four “‘tis ordained” things again. Amane broke one of the rules by healing the cat, so she has to be punished, because her actions could cause bad things (monsters to come out). Again, in the cult’s eyes.

After this, we see Amane arrive at her home, where someone, perhaps her mother, is waiting with a taser. Electrocution is Ryone’s punishment, remember. Which makes me think it’s possible the cult specifically assigns each punishment to the ordainment of the mascot. So, because Amane broke Riyone’s ordainment about destiny, she gets electrocuted. That’s a bit half-baked as a possibility, but I think it’s worth mentioning.

The whole thing happens alongside the same “unequivocally GUILTY” line from before, again alluding to Amane receiving punishment.

(Btw, does anyone know what the note behind Amane’s head in that scene says? It fires off alarm bells for me, but my Japanese is null, so)

Amane’s Magical Girl Transformation

Then, we see Amane return to the place of the cat, except its collar is broken and the napkin Amane had used to heal it bloodied next to it, implying the cat died. Amane is obviously heartbroken, and looks up at her umbrella, before we cut to the march again.

There’s quite a few things to note. For one, notice the real Amane has a bruise on her forehead, implying she was hit, and thus received Yuri’s punishment. Assumedly she was also verbally assaulted during the ordeal, Gachata’s punishment so as to complete the set, but it’s sorta impossible to tell.

However, the lyrics are important. It’s stuff we’ve heard before:

I disavow you, eyes corrupted must be crushed So nary a sound can be uttered a second time, I’ll crush your throat too

With “I’ll crush your throat too” notably playing as the transition to the march completes.

But what is she disavowing? Well, think about it. The cult members are not meant to interfere with destiny, with life and death, as per Riyone’s ordainment. That means that while they’re not allowed to heal things, they’re also presumably forbidden from killing them. Though maybe I’m expecting too much logical consistency from a cult but you know. In any case, than means Amane disavows this act, and decides whoever killed the cat, must be punished.

The baton has already been connected to punishment when March Leader Amane slammed it down and caused the other Amane to sink. Which, with this context, we can presume the Drowned Amane to represent Amane before she was punished for healing the cat or some other “offense”.

But the baton is also representative of Amane’s murder weapon, as we’ll see later. And yet, it is also being related in this scene to an umbrella. Why?

Well, it’s simple. Umbrella’s represent protection, in particular protection from the rain which has been related with punishment through this MV. So, to protect herself, Amane punishes others. She does this because, since the cult idolizes punishment, their poster-child (as Amane has been implied to maybe be) should also deal out punishment.

In summary, when Amane sees a wrong, she wishes to correct it because it’s what the cult would want from her, and if she does what the cult would want from her, then she won’t be punished herself.

Q7: Do you like yourself?

A: I have never considered it from the perspective of love and hate, but I do think I am a good child.

…This kid worries me. Severely.

The idea that Amane will punish whoever killed the cat is reinstated in the following lines. As a swarm of Amane’s rushes forward with big grins, proudly holding the flag of the cult and its beliefs, the one with the baton walks forward with conviction. Look at the lyrics.

I don’t need it any more, if you’re going to break your vow Here and now, it’s my turn to tear you apart So there is no second time, I’ll give back the judgment that you gave to me

You wanna know why the swarm of Amanes are so happy? Because now she’s the one who get to punish, instead of being the punished. This is… an unfortunately common reaction to abuse.

It’s important to keep in mind what I said before; the Amanes are still holding the cult’s flag. They’re still acting on the cult’s beliefs. Notice how she specifically says the purpose of returning the punishment is “so there is no second time”, which fits what I’ve been talking about regarding punishment in the cult being to discourage repeat offenses.

Well, she’s following the cults beliefs… in theory. It was pointed out by iris-drawing-stuff in this post that Amane’s eyes have a shade of purple which is not associated with the cult, possibly implying she’s also acting on her own desires, but still rationalizes them through her cult’s twisted logic. The punishment she gave out is death, which sorta goes against the whole “follow thine destiny” logic I said earlier, and more pressingly, doesn’t really fit any of the four established punishment methods of the mascots. Well, I guess Yuri if you squint, but it still isn’t supposed to kill presumably. So she’s not actually entirely going by what the cult says when she kills her victim.

… This kid really worries me.

But hold on. Didn’t I say the symbol of the flags is actually different from the balloon? Is that significant? Well, I think it could be. It could represent how Amane’s views on her cult were changed by the punishment she received after healing the cat.

Think about it. The balloon’s symbol is more simplistic, and is on, well, a balloon. Something childish, something which offers simple bliss without anything wrong about it, and something fragile. I believe this represents how Amane viewed her cult before the cat incident. It was just a nice little thing that brought joy and didn’t require any more thought; it’s a more simplistic viewing, that’s why the symbol is more simplistic. Any small punishments, like Gachata’s finger-flick at the start of “Magic”, aren’t anything to write home about. Obviously I think she’s downplaying the extent of the abuse, but in her mind it wasn’t a big deal.

(That and I imagine the cult doesn’t feel like spending much money on more detailed balloons of all things)

However, this simplistic view “stays at the door” the day of the cat incident, as the other girl never enters the house. This is because after this, Amane’s view on the cult becomes more complex.

And that’s why we then see the symbol on the following flags. Flags are certainly something more mature, and the design is more complex. It is no longer simply colors on a balloon, it represents a fully formed ideology. After the incident with the cat, Amane began understanding the “””value”””” of punishment her cult pushes, and so wishes to begins to act accordingly.

Have I gone insane? Buddy, I was already insane before this, this is nothing new.

Amane’s Justice

Anyways, keeping in theme with the idea that she’s acting on the ideals of her cult, we see her twirling her baton of punishment in front of the four mascots, the rainbow of change after punishment firmly in the background.

It’s important to note, she is firmly planted on the mascots’ side, fighting in their behalf, which is part of what makes me believe she didn’t kill a cult leader as some theories state, but obvs that’s an opinion. The lyrics here are more of the same, Amane is the one punishing now.

After you cry, repent, and kneel, it’s now your turn to say that hopeless “I’m sorry” x2

However, something interesting happens right after. The lyric:

You’re sorry? I don’t care! Please, go ahead and die already

-plays as the baton she’s holding becomes stained with blood, indicating her intent to kill.

This is what separates Amane’s desires from the cult’s. The cult would want her to keep the victim alive as long as they can learn from their punishment and fix what’s wrong, but Amane killed her victim, which sorta goes against that. She’s a child, traumatized and hurt and at her limit, obviously her mind is trying to justify anything that would get her suffering to definitively stop. She explains the reasoning right after.

Remember MY cries, MY repents, MY words of “I’m sorry” that I said to you?

She said sorry, she wanted to repent and change, but her abuser(s) never stopped, so why should she? She should be allowed to go all the way, ignore her abuser(s) pleas of sorry and deal out whatever punishment she thinks fits their crime, right?!

At this time, the video transitions from the march to reality, the baton turning back into the umbrella for protection.

However, two things remain the same: the rainbow of punishment, and the look on Amane’s eyes, showing her excitement. This is to show that her wish to punish her abuser(s) isn’t merely a fantasy, but extends to reality as well.

And that gets us to the final (or, second to last I guess,) shot.

Let’s talk about this.

A Theory on a Murder

Let’s start at the beginning.

The Victim’s Identity

So, I’ll kill the suspense. I think Amane killed her mom. The most direct evidence I have for this is a combination of two of her trial one interrogation questions.

Q13: Who do you want to meet right now? A: My father. I want him to praise me for working hard.

So as far as Amane is aware, her father is alive. However:

Q9: Tell me what your family consists of. A: It was my father, my mother, and I.

Past tense. Peculiar.

That’s obviously a pretty big one, but there’s a bit more. As the lyrics imply, the person Amane killed was someone who had previously “punished” her. But as I also pointed out, it seems unlikely that it was a cult leader, as she is facing away from the mascots when she declares her murderous intent.

Cult Leader Theory runs into a contradiction under this interpretation (and it’s important to clarify, other interpretations are obviously valid, I’m just talking about how I see the MV). If the only people abusing Amane are the cult leaders, then she shouldn’t be facing away from them when she begins her crusade of punishment, and if someone other than the cult leaders is punishing her, then why are the punishment methods each related to one leader?

This is what leads me to believe the alternative: that the mascots are merely fictional characters who represent some of the cult’s ideals. Under that theory, it is Amane’s mother who punishes her, using a combination of all the methods associated to each mascot. And thus, it is her who dies.

There’s another thing that solidifies this belief in my eyes, but for that, we have to explain:

Murder Method

(Now this is more my comfort zone <- Top ten things to never say about murder IRL)

I’m not entirely clear how important exact method is usually, but I swear, this is interesting. If nothing else out of curiosity.

Based on that scene we have of the murder, we can observe the following things.

>There is only one door with the light still on.

>Going from this door to the corpse, there is a trail of water puddles. Since the bigger puddles are closer to the door with the light, it can be assumed it’s the door to the bathroom.

>The corpse lays on a room at the end of the hall, presumably opposite to the entrance (note the shoes at the bottom of our perspective). I will call this room, quite aptly, the murder room.

Now, some of you may take issue with that. Based on the card Amane holds up in her ‘inmate segment’ of “Undercover”, it looks as if her victim died in the bathroom.

(Apologies for the quality)

Those images are meant to represent the room or general area where the murder (or “murder” depending on who you’re talking about) took place.

Here's the issue, though. The corpse doesn’t appear to have been dragged, as there are no bloodstains outside the murder room. So the room on the card is most likely the murder room, which brings up issues for the bathroom idea. Like how several elements near the door to the bathroom don’t match what we see around the murder room (no, the floor wiper-looking thing alone doesn’t count, nothing else comes close to matching), how the floor would be nonsensical because why are we putting a wooden floor on a bathroom, there apparently being a door behind the curtains, among other stuff.

I don’t know what the murder room is, necessarily, but it doesn’t seem to be the bathroom. Probably not a kitchen either since there’s cooking utensils on a sink in the hallway. My bet’s on a dining/living room of some kind, which… has a sink for some reason, but it’s practically impossible to tell.

>The time is around 5:00, based on the clock we see (though admittedly I find it weirdly hard to tell). This isn’t important, but pointing it out makes me feel smart, and attentive! It almost looks like I know what I’m doing!

>We have a kill-shot from “Undercover”, meaning we know something like this happened.

As you can see, Amane’s victim was beaten with some kind of… stick? Pole? Cylinder? It doesn’t matter too much what exactly it is, so you can say anything from a metal pipe, an actual baton, an Inconvenient Cylinder of Unknown Purpose (ICUP)… I’m just gonna go with umbrella, because even though I question its efficacy as a murder weapon, it fits thematically and is at worst a fun headcanon.

So, uh, what do we do with this?

Prelude; Water Puddles and Gozake

Gozake is likely connected to the murder in some way. That’s because the “Old Amane”, the one concerned with “vulgar” things who hasn’t started punishing others’ wrongs, dies underwater and reaching for his flag. This is her transformation into perfection in the cult’s eyes, which involves punishing others and thus the murder of her mother. Thus, it can be concluded Gozake has some connection to the murder. I’ve already established why I don’t think he’s the victim or even a real person, so we have to find some other way to connect him.

And I think the water puddles make the possible connection quite clear. I think those puddles come from Amane herself, and she was likely waterboarded right before she killed her mother. As waterboarding is the method connected to Gazoke, this explains the connection.

Amane in the Bathroom

(Amane flying solo~ /ref)

Of course, I still think it was Amane’s mother dealing out the punishment. But if you think about it, why would Amane’s mother let her walk out from the bathroom when she was still soaking wet, especially onto a wooden floor? Well, that’s where the next part comes in. I believe there was a moment where Amane was left alone in the bathroom after being waterboarded.

Apart from that line of reasoning, which is my strongest piece of evidence for this, I want to draw attention to the fact someone came out of the bathroom, but left the light on. Since that’s not the case with any of the other rooms, it makes me think Amane herself was the last to leave that room, as her mother may not like leaving unneeded lights on.

But that’s sorta weak. In truth, I like this possibility because I think it can explain one thing in particular: Amane’s silhouette scene in “Undercover.”

It’s important to note these scenes always include the prisoners in some way or another, so it’s be weird for Amane to break the trend. Thus, this is likely Amane.

But what are we looking at? The water sorta looks like rain more than a simple shower head, and it certainly doesn’t look like waterboarding. However, the floor sorta looks like bathroom tiles, so we can’t rule out the possibility.

In fact, I actually do think this is in/near the shower. But as I said, it doesn’t look intense enough for waterboarding, and Amane is face-up on her back instead of the kneeling position we see her in during the other shower scene.

That’s why I think this is directly after a waterboarding session, not during. In particular, it would be the moment Amane’s mother leaves her alone in the bathroom. While the girl usually kneels during her torture, she may afterwards collapse on the floor and roll over from pain and exhaustion. Or something. And her mother… left the shower head on… for some reason? Maybe she went to look for a towel to dry up Amane? Maybe she needed something else and this is actually mid-session? Or maybe the rain’s metaphorical. Point is, I think this makes the most sense.

But if you’re not convinced by that, there is actually something else about the murder which makes me think Amane being left alone in the bathroom is what most likely happened.

A Matter of Position

Here's the thing. You can see the victim's hand peeking out from the door. Now, it looks like the hand is palm-down, which doesn't quite seem to fit the "Undercover" kill-shot, but that's actually simple to explain.

The "Undercover" kill-shot is likely taken moments before the victim's death, as Amane is holding the weapon in the air. But what if we extend "moments" to "seconds"? Well, I think it's possible Amane's mom managed to push her off briefly, getting a moment to turn around to turn and try to crawl away. Obviously Amane recovered quickly and managed to kill her anyways, but this little scuffle would explain how the hell her hand ended up palm down. It's the simplest explanation in my mind.

Amane's position isn't weird either. No matter what happened, she could have just stepped away from the body before taking a moment to look at it.

The weird thing, though, is the fact that we can see the victim's hand at all.

See, based on the "Undercover" shot, it seems like the victim must have had their back to the door before they fell to the floor. If you think about it, it would be really hard for them to end up with their hand there otherwise. However, if they had their back to the door, then Amane must have been facing the door as per the kill-shot.

This would be easier to explain if I had...

If I had visuals...

You know, like a- like a diagram.

(You thought you could escape my murder diagrams?! You fool!)

Why is this important? Well, because this means that, unless there was some crazy scuffle in that room (unlikely, as any actual fight would be near impossible for Amane to win), Amane was in the room before her mother entered. Obviously, this sort of only makes sense if Amane was left alone in the bathroom for a moment. Here's sort of the series of events I'm envisioning.

Does this make sense? How crazy am I going here?

Well, I think it follows. This is sorta what the evidence seems to be pointing at.

But it raises one big question. Why is Amane going to the murder room, then? If her mom is on the other side of the apartment, and she wants to kill her, what is she doing?

Well, I believe she's looking for a weapon. The blunt object seems like a possibility, but something like that could probably be improvised with almost anything, it wouldn't require going to that room in particular. No, I think Amane's actually looking for something more specific.

The Second Murder Weapon, and the "Magic" Kill-shot

Have you ever pondered how weird it is that “Magic” seems to have no allusion to Amane’s murder, at all? All the other trial one MVs have at least a reference to it, even if it’s as short as Mahiru’s look of horror in the final frame of her MV. But “Magic” doesn’t seem to have anything like that at first glance.

Well, here’s the thing. Now that we know a bit more, it’s easier to tell what time the kill-shot would have to happen. And it goes back to the wand Amane receives at the end of “Magic”.

As you know, when Amane receives this wand, she becomes the “perfect poster-child” of the cult, at least in her head. This is represented by an entire magical girl transformation sequence.

But when does that happen? If you’ve been paying attention, the transformation from “the regular Amane” to “perfect poster-child” Amane happens when she begins to understand and carry out the cult’s doctrine of punishment; when she kills her mother. In fact, you can even see in the frame we have of the murder, Amane is shown not in her real uniform, but in the March Leader clothes, showing her transformation is no longer a fantasy, but has become reality. Not literally, obviously, but metaphorically. She has become what she considers the ideal cult member.

So it’s fair to say then, that when Amane undergoes the same transformation in “Magic”, what we’re seeing is the time Amane killed her mother. And this transformation happens when she picks up the wand.

If this interpretation is right, then the wand is directly linked to the murder. And there is a very, very interesting detail about this wand.

Judges, jurors, and executioners. That’s a lightning bolt.

It’s not a wand. It’s the taser.

I mean, they could have chosen literally any other symbol to put there, right? A star, a heart, the clouds of the cult’s logo, even a rainbow. But no, it’s a thunderbolt. And it’s not even limited to just the wand, either. Notice how lightning strikes behind her right after she picks up the wand, and how her socks are styled in a lightning pattern.

(Don’t mind the blue in the background: that may look like a water puddle, but it’s always there, so I don’t think it means anything)

Now, to be clear, her socks are always like that in “Magic”, but the point stands. It’s a motif that repeats quite a few times, and yet, it’s nowhere to be seen in “The Purge March”.

Well, aside from the electricity of the taser.

I believe this is because “The Purge March” places more emphasis on the baton as the weapon, but there’s the thing. The baton and the wand aren’t the same thing. Not only is the baton longer, it has absolutely no allusions to thunder or electricity whatsoever. But since they’re both connected to the murder, I believe they’re both different murder weapons. The baton is the blunt object which actually killed the victim, and the wand is the taser.

That would explain how Amane was able to overpower an adult. She first incapacitated her mother with the taser, then started beating her with the "baton". It would also explain why she went into the murder room on her own. She was looking for the taser.

This is "Magic"'s kill-shot, I think. She points the wand at the screen, in a way which sorta looks vaguely like holding a taser, while these lyrics play.

I take an oath! I can only become a better girl!

And we've established what being a good girl is in the eyes of the cult, someone who punishes evil.

Q4: Do you think that your family is proud of you? A: Of course. No daughter is as exemplary as I.

Isn't that a concerning sentence.

Add this to the list of reasons I don't think she killed a cult leader. At the end of "Magic", after this shot, we see her among the four mascots with no indication any of them are hurt.

"Magic" underplays violence a lot, but I think for the murder, that takes the form of hiding the mother from view entirely, behind the camera.

So, a summary of how I think the murder went down.

Closing Argument wait wrong series

-After seeing the cat has died, Amane decided her mother should be punished as per the cult's beliefs. But she isn't looking to get forgiveness out of her mother; Amane was never forgiven, so her mother wouldn't be either.

-However, she wasn't able to get to the plan right away. Her mother was angry at her some nonsensical reason and waterboarded her before she could do anything.

-At one point, her mother left the bathroom, leaving the water running. Amane rolls over on the floor in pain and exhaustion, which is what we see in the silhouette scene in "Undercover".

-After catching her breath, Amane stands and leaves. She needs to look for the taser her mother usually used to punish her. She goes the other way her mother went, into the dininig/living room/bedroom/whatever it is, and picks it up.

-Her mother noticed the water puddles leading to the murder room, and followed Amane in. When she did, she saw her rummaging around somewhere she shouldn't have been, so she rushed further into the room to stop her.

-Too late. Amane had picked up the taser, and now turned to shock her. Her mother was incapacitated instantly, falling to the floor and writhing in pain.

-Amane grabbed an umbrella/baton/convenient cylinder and started beating her mother with it. This is the "Undercover" kill-shot. Even though her mother plead for forgiveness, Amane wouldn't listen, the same way her mother hadn’t listened to her pleas of forgiveness.

-The mother managed to briefly push Amane off, and tried to crawl away. But Amane quickly recovered and kept going until her mother was fully dead.

-Amane stepped off her mother's corpse, stepping over her and turning to look at it. By dealing out punishment, she has become the perfect follower for the cult. The March Leader.

What did we learn?

Well, uh, not much. Apart from morbid curiosity, there isn't much to gain from murder method usually. But there's still a few observations we can gleam.

For one, the whole thing with Gozake and its connection to the murder because of the waterboard thing, and possibly the "Undercover" silhouette scene. But if I'm right about the taser thing, then that means Amane's murder was more well-thought out than we had believed. Something like going to pick up the taser isn't exactly something that comes from a heat of the moment decision. She went in not just with an intent to kill, but an actual plan. Combined with an evidently high pain tolerance, seeing as she did all this right after being tortured, this poses her as quite a dangerous character.

Basically, I think it’s silly to say Shidou wouldn’t be killed by this kid. Y'all we might be fucked.

Verdict

(Oh yeah this is a thing we have to do)

First, I want to clarify: I do not have all the information here, so you probably shouldn't listen to me. Again, I've been here two days. But still, I think voting innocent is the... uh, better answer.

I'm gonna be real, I don't think either of the options are good here. A guilty verdict would make her significantly more volatile, because as we've seen, Amane reacts violently to being hurt. She's also not going to listen to us, since she's claimed she won't listen to the voices. I don't think she's telling the complete truth there, but the sentiment is likely true, she will not be swayed by just us. But an innocent verdict would validate the cult's beliefs of idolizing punishment, which would encourage her to attack Shidou.

But here's the thing. If she doesn't listen to us on guilty verdicts, it's possible she won't care too much about us validating the cult's beliefs. I think the act of forgiving her and showing we're not trying to hurt her is probably the best way we have right now of trying to reach her.

The only argument for guilty would be trying to get the physical restraints on her so she doesn't kill anyone, but I'm not sure we should trust that aspect of the first trial guilty verdicts to apply very well to this situation. If I'm right about her murder method, it would actually probably be pretty difficult to stop her I think, and as far as I'm aware there's not even confirmation the same rules from the first trial will apply again (I might be wrong about that). Frankly, I think as long as we can secure an inno on Kazui, we'll be safe from actual murder so long as we're able to keep Amane as predictable as possible. A guilty verdict would make her more unpredictable, I think, so an inno verdict would be better?

Frankly, I don't know. I think we're fucked either way. All the verdicts of the first trial, not just hers, have led us to quite the mess, but it was never going to go any different way. Shit was always going to get wild.

So here's my final conclusion: since I don't think the verdict can be trusted to properly help the group one way or another, we should vote to help Amane, the only one we know we can reach with this vote. And right now, she needs an innocent verdict.

Also I am insanely biased this kid needs help I'm not guiltying her. Call that part of the Milgram experiment ig.

Conclusion

The Purge March gives us better insight into the actual beliefs of the cult, mainly in relation to their views of punishment and reform. We also got a more detailed look at Amane’s murder, and the motivations behind what she did. Overall, while neither voting option seems great at the moment, that’s because they are unlikely to help with the tensions in the group. That means we’re going to have to vote for Amane, and the only way we’re going to make progress with her is by voting innocent. At least, that’s my view.

This was fun! I look forward to diving into the other MVs and going insane over them too, but for now I wanted to start with this one since it’s the most recent one and the one which actually piqued my interest enough to check out Milgram. If you made it this far into my insane ramblings, then… may kami-sama have mercy on your soul. Take care!

(Oh also tagging @sunlit-haru because he asked nicely)

[ztaohs]

“i got new planes” - z.tao // ai [x]

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

late night talking mv: some observations of mine (so far) besides the most obvious ones we've already discussed

the polka dots are green and blue. in the first pair of pjs the shirt is always open, revealing a ribbed top; the brown pjs always stay closed

the jewellery constantly changes: starts off with only the cross/dicklace, without rings. then he's crawling in the duvet, there's a fit change and he has the pearls on, but no rings. when he comes back up, he's in a velvety bed (resembling stage curtains), incl rings now

postcard with a big ass tree - ref to garden of eden and the tree of knowledge? paradise (lost)?

old trees also a symbol of long, deep-rooted love

in bed with female-presenting person, who seems to be wearing the tshirt that was crumpled up in his room at the beginning of the mv (so 'reality'? despite this partner being there too in his performative/fictitious life? so maybe the initial scene is also muddled by dreams/stories/gossip? no harsh distinction between what's real/fiction). spotlight is on them but they're watching the scene too. no rings

blue polkadot pjs (while on a bed that's more like a parade float) with a scarf in the colors of his first pjs (reality?). so when he's performing/pretending/... he likes adding details of his reality to his wardrobe? // blue bandana, baby blue... -> more muddled. bc real life is muddled and messy. but these moves are also calculated. it's both golf swing and a trampoline

in bed with female-presenting ppl who are wearing less clothes than he is (// in the huge ass bed from the third scene) - 'reality' pjs, no pearls, BUT RINGS

queer wedding: pearls, no rings

lilies in his lapels - different sizes - bigger when he's officiating the queer wedding. used as well in the fine line cover shoot, with the nude. symbol of love, devotion, purity and fertility. rejuvenation, new beginnings. commitment. rebirth. pink lilies: femininity, love, adoration

note about the permanence of the pyjamas: suit jackets and coats can go on top, but the pjs always stay on. bc ppl, whatever he wears or does, will focus on his bedroom activities anyway? as if he's a full-time sleeper? // his bed being a museum exhibit + the spotlight being on him while he's at the theatre <-> the date with the male-presenting person in blue is private and dimly lit

queer wedding goes wrong, despite the couple being super happy - they only freak out once harry disappears after lightning strikes, and then it's like he's shot out of the sky

at first he's freaking out, falling down, but then he relaxes and accepts it as he lies down and chills basically. // falling stars (otb), falling (song).

queer paradise is up in the clouds (over the rainbow.. where he wants to fly to all the fuckin time...) but forces he can't control keep him from enjoying life up there (?)