I was thinking about your last anon before and how Jikook really and truly donât let us in, much at all, and what that means and why.
I also saw another anon who had commented on someoneâs post about Jimin being more active with JK being away last week, humorously, like they both did in 2023. But, it got me thinking in the round about it all, and I noticed that yes he was active before JK went but also not, because each time he posted it was when JK wasnât around (aside from the Dior fit pic we donât have context for that. He looks like heâs at a back yard party somewhere in the city of Compton and is about to keeping it rocking). But for the shopping pic, Jungkook told us he was asleep, same as Jimin watching Hobiâs live the same morning. When they went to the beach last Saturday Jungkook was back in Seoul.
But back to the top, they barely tell us about what they do. Or it hardly makes it to the grid. And yet, they decided in their wisdom in 2023 to embark on some travelling and film it. For us.
Why? Well we donât really know other than them vaguely saying it was something that has discussed prior. And for Jungkook to get some time off right at the beginning of his new promo for his solo career, Seven has been out a day, and he already needed a weekend break⌠but still, off they went. Pre enlistment, pre us knowing anything about their other plans of a buddy enlistment. We got mostly guarded or somewhat vague conversation about nothing really. Even where further and more deep conversation could have taken place about their music for example, we got edited conversations and cuts. Where we could have had context, we got edited conversations that left us scratching our heads, because we donât know their inside jokes. Where any conversation could have taken place at all, we got much more intimate in bed moments.
But why? Why the evasiveness if they are indeed just friends? Why does it feel like an intrusion when you watch them? That we really shouldnât be there at all?
It was slightly different when V joined but also not really. It just left more questions than answers. In jeju we got our first glimpse into the buddy system, Jimin telling V that they were going together and V looking essentially unbothered. Not surprised, impassive almost (until fighting was mentioned). We had Jimin in these episodes in particular outwardly caring for Jungkooks welfare with him on the motorcycle, when drinking his coffee, and after the pork incident in the last restaurant, making sure Jungkook was happy. He didnât ask this if V, at least not that we saw. Again not much conversation even between the three of them. V often withdrawing from them entirely, on the boat for a moment, to go to bed early, to go golfing. Gone the time he was meant to join his friends heâd insisted on joining. It gave a lot away at that moment about his probable questioning his decision in life.
It all gives this picture though. Of how different their bond is, even if it actually remains unspoken like you said. Or undefined.
So going into a new season supposedly, what will we get? Them setting off on their travels under the radar until sightings occurred. Us trying to grasp what was going on. So far the footage captured by those that saw them leave a fragmented picture. To me at least. It seems not as large a production as season 1, to any of the trips. They had staff with them but also not really, in comparison to the sheer number of staff we saw in all episodes of all the trips in season 1. It seems they are filming on handhelds almost entirely. They also seem to have chosen a rather selective and limited wardrobe, they were often wearing the same thing in all sightings. Is this all due to the intimacy they wanted to perhaps creat in this season? Is it actually going to be the same as before? Where did they go and why? Will they tell us? If so what made them chose Switzerland and Vietnam? Iâd love to know. Will the use of hand helps enable the to perhaps tell us more about their time in the military and be more unguarded?
In Switzerland they are pictured and seen in a park, feeding swans, and playing in a lake. Actually surrounded by the public, unlike much of before. In Vietnam too in shops and on a boat. They went for two short nights to Vietnam. Itâs just such a short period to actually get any nitty gritty, or really see much of anything. Itâs all so curious to me.
I know only time will tell, and I know we will all love anything they do. It just canât help but make me think and wonder. About the why of it all. Where we barely get words from them, or half truths a lot of the time, even sometimes outright fabricated/denial elements, but their actions tell us time and time again.
Someone wise once they speak louder than words. I guess we shall see.
(Anonâs referincing to this post)
I think you got the entire core of Jikook right in this ask, anon: if you wanna look for the craziest clues and truths, theyâre most likely in the things they donât do, they donât say, they donât admit. Weâve mentioned this so often itâs impossible to dismiss.
AYS2 is gonna be different, of course. Theyâre in a different emotional state, theyâve already done it and chose to do it again because they clearly felt comfortable with repeating it. We donât know much about where staff followed them and where it didnât, but we have proof of Jikook looking for private moments away from crowds/teams/chaos. The Antoya date being the biggest one (kicks her feet in cuteness)
Anygays. Iâve been asking the same question youâre bringing forward on here for the past 2 years and Iâve always come to the conclusion that they choose to approach privacy differently because of whatâs at stake. They protect what they share in such a detailed and loving way that it creates the weirdest paradox: the closest people ever, always sharing experiences and travels and hardships, attached at the hip, deeply in love/âwe thought it was fun to do itâ, âI donât wanna know the smallest things about youâ, âIâm grateful youâre hereâ.
Everyone knows those two cuddle like kids before going to sleep, hug tight after not seeing each other for 30 minutes and send each other romantic songs after a fight. We all know it. But youâll never ever get a glimpse of it in their words. At least not in their usual words and conversations. Because to say that they never tried to express even the smallest part of the love they share is wrong too.
âI miss youâ said when Jimin was working hard and often busy hides 100 layers of care, need, love. âI wanted to cook an authentic italian carbonara for youâ hides 100 layers of effort, commitment, of wanting the other to be at ease and happy. All concentrated in that big pasta pot. Followed by Jiminâs âIâm just grateful to eat your foodâ bomb? Thatâs love. Pure, deep, unconditional love.
âAre you having fun? Thatâs all that mattersâ or âas long as youâre happyâ said after an activity they both did or when Jungkookâs stomach became a black hole hides 100 layers of attention, emotional depth, care. All Jimin cared for in that moment was that Jungkook was happy. Fine. Joyful. Happy is a strong word, yâall. Happiness is one hell of emotion⌠you donât wish that to anyone. People who give meaning to words know what that is. âAll that matters is that youâre happyâ ARE WE HEARING THAT?
Repeated in Sapporo too: âthis is all for your happinessâ. Yeah, thatâs not casual. Thatâs straightforward, simple, probably has been turned into clichĂŠ in our modern times. But Jimin meant it. Jimin means every big thing he says.
âHeâll protect me, I feel safe with him, he takes good care of meâ hide 100 layers of safety, of comfort, of peace. They choose each other so often and so consistently because theyâve worked on creating balance between each otherâs strongest feelings and acts of love. They feel good around each other.
And I could go on all day. Jungkook reading âyouâll always be n.1 to meâ to Jimin wasnât just a joke. It was serious. My man felt every single word. âWaking up and seeing Jungkook is the best thing these daysâ means that having him around since the very first second of the day, the one when everyoneâs usually confused and hyper sensitive as fuck, is not an issue. âI wanna see you first when I open my eyesâ.
They just say it like itâs nothing, sometimes. And itâs rare, mostly calculated but also just contained, considering how loud their actions can get to compensate. But if we truly took Jikookâs sentences and declarations out of context weâd get a whole damn novel and portrait of their love and their tenderness. These two can bicker, push each other, tease, flirt, break the bed, but theyâre soft cutie pies. Deep down Jungkookâs the little spoon and Jimin the oppa, Jungkookâs the menace and Jimin blushes while struggling with eye contact. They both couldnât bare the idea of being away from each other for 18 months just like they couldnât bare it in the months prior, during their schedules. Do we really believe they havenât talked about it, havenât expressed to each other how much they need the other like teenage boys in a coming of age movie? They are soft for and with each other.
Most people ignore these signals because itâs not the type of dopamine-producing stuff they crave on the internet and in strangersâ lives nowdays. Because Jikook have their own pace, their own style. Their own rhythm. But itâs there, totally. And the fact that they avoid it often - avoid the deep talks, the romantic moments on camera, play it cool after the gayest scene of all times, just proves all of it and more.
Iâm not saying Are You Sure2 will show them kissing in a close up. Neither that theyâll change their nature and compromise any form of safety and security theyâve built- within themselves and with the external world - for a show. What makes Jikook last is that theyâve gradually learned how they donât need to prove anything to anyone to validate their struggle, relationship, the beauty of their love and the pain of it. It doesnât concern us.
But Iâm sure a shift will be evident. If directly or not, I canât say. Whether those details between the lines will get louder or theyâll go straight to confessions and emotional moments, itâs hard to define.
We still donât know if NY will be included again in the show, if it was a private trip, if it was a GCF content, a vlog, a secret 5th thing. We still donât know why they flew to Japan at the same time and Jungkook had a filming bag with him, and if Japan will be included again in the show or it was something else, solo or not. The fact that so many Jikook things seem to be coming given the coincidences that link them to trips, and trips with cameras, itâs a sign of easiness and openness itself.
I think all we can be sure of at the moment is that theyâre happier than they were the last time we saw them on those Disney screens. And that says a lot already for us to imagine, rationally, what could be coming next.