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âin which whatâs known to be perfection becomes the most destructiveâ
Facts:
1. Jimin, Jin, and Namjoon know each other previously.
2. Namjoon has been in the competition before. He says it will be âbeneficialâ for him and his friends to enter.
3. Jimin signs the three of them up.
4. Something has happened in the past so people A. Donât smile much anymore B. There are family members in hospitals or who are gone C. There arenât many young people left. 4A. People have come out of the competition âsmilingâ before.
5. Jimin and Jin both have debts (student loans, family debts, hospital bills).
6. Jimin is always late to things that are his idea.Â
7. They have to âlive in there for a dayâ in order to win the money. Â
8. Everyoneâs idea of perfection is different, to each VR will be different. Namjoon says some people like pain. Namjoon says the government is using the VR to âshape realityâs future.â Namjoon says the âgovernment is looking for someone who has the same idea of perfection as them.â Namjoon says the is a âway to silence people.â
9. There are âaround 12âł contestants. (The other 5~ are random and probably not going to appear in the story, Flirtaus says).
10. Namjoon tells Jin to âhave hope.â Namjoon also says itâs âluckâ that they get in.
11. They had to send in pictures. (Of course theyâre all flawless ones).
12. Namjoon recognizes Hoseokâs name. (Maybe he was in the contest last time with him, too? Or the name was planted in Namjoonâs head last time he was in?)
13. Namjoon recognizes Taeâs name. (Maybe he was in the contest last time with him, too? Or the name was planted in Namjoonâs head last time he was in?)
14. Jungkook is the first to be picked. (I smell a bias).
15. Namjoon is the last to be picked (before unnamed characters).
16. Jin wants to be a barista. (Ha, âRunâ ep. 45 fans going nuts with fan fic ideas already).
17. Namjoon and Jimin have had âfaith in Jinâ since âday oneâ (day one of meeting him? of birth? of whatever this âcatastropheâ was?)
18. At 8:41pm Jin says âand Iâm gonna be able to.â Jimin responds âable to give back after all the sacrifices they made.â Is Jimin finishing Jinâs thought, or does Jimin just want to do something similar for his own parents?
19. Jinâs parents are sleeping (at 8:40pm??).
20. Jin wants to help âherâ and see his parents again soon (where are they?) (Update: Flirtaus said weâll find out who âherâ is later. I figured, as nothing is random here!!).Â
23. Jin got in trouble for not going in early. (What).
24. Namjoon didnât bother to tell Jin that âtheyâre stern around here.â (Rude).
25. âTheyâre ready to set us up and send us off.â (Shippers: Oh, Iâve already set you all up, I got this).
26. A not-super-helpful background on the âcatastrophe.â
27. Flirtaus thinks weâre all idiots.
28. None of the characters are antagonists (then why did she ask who we suspect?? âIt impacts Jin,â she says. Hmmmm, I say!).
29. The timer has already started, even though the game âhasnât begun yet.â Another character is âunder pressureâ already, meaning someone else has probably already started their game, and the time effects them all. (Itâs totally already begun, weâre all doomed).
30. Flirtaus as already seen a theory that is correct.
31. Jin is injected with a fluid to help with sleep and hunger and thirst. Key words âreal body.â
32. Some of the liquid was still visible, though, so the doctor didnât inject it all for some reason. (Perhaps the liquid doesnât matter at all?)
33. Jin is going to be more cautious around Jimin now due to our decision.
34. Jin told the doctor about the fluid and got +1 Good. Â
35. The VR texted Jin asking what his idea of perfect was. After Jin replied, the VR said âidiot.â And Jin said nothing. Jin, my boy, come on, man, thatâs just weird. IDIOT. Also it said âCREATING YOU.â
36. Jin did NOT type âDone.âÂ
37. After entering his happy VR (ha, suurreeee), someone approached Jin asking for help. The man was the âsame height but youngerâ than him. (Is it his younger self?).
38. Jinâs phone is connected to someone who wonât tell him who he is but said he âgot put in here before I was finished.â Put in the VR? Before he finished creating his perfect world? Is this the same guy that just asked Jin for help? Does anyone know anything? (no).
39. Jin didnât pressure the guy, and the guy told him something anyway--that heâs seeing things he shouldnât and that he shouldnât be in this world.
40. TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.Â
41. J-Hope is the man Jin is texting.
42. J-Hope thinks Jinâs idea of perfection is âdull.â
43. J-Hope didnât know what to type in for his idea of perfection and didnât know why it mattered.
44. J-Hope says that âtwo positive make a negative, or negative can overpower a positive.â
45. Jin notices that time has passed--there are 23:15 left.
46. There is a crowd of people nearby--Jin wants to go near them, J-Hope wants to avoid them and go âoutside the city.â (Where will be more clues?) (Itâs reminding me of Ready Player One suddenly. Itâs best to go outside in that case).
47. Jin and J-Hope went down different paths. We chose to follow J-Hope.
48. J-Hope hears voices.
49. After Jin and J-Hope split up, itâs Sunny where J-Hope is and Dark where Jin is.
Ideas/Questions/Theories:
1. Of course they think it is Virtual Reality (VR), but we can assume itâs not that simple. They will have to fight for their lives and survive in the VR to survive in real life.
2. Itâs some form of government brain washing (they come out smiling/the government wants them all to have the same idea of perfection, etc.)
3. Namjoon knows more than heâs letting on. Duh.
4. The time definitely matters. Pay attention to that.
5. At one point Jin says heâs going to âhear out for [Namjoonâs] name.â Is this a typo, or a weird code? Does he mean âlistenâ instead? Iâm still thinking of Outcast too much, Iâm sure.
6. Itâs weird that Jin says to Jimin that his parents are asleep but then wants to see them again soon. Are they dead and he hopes to see them in his âperfectâ world in the VR? Did he lie to Jimin? If his parents are dead, how does Jimin not know at this point if theyâre friends?Â
7. Jin is the âperfectâ member of BTS, so heâll become the most destructive (JK, Flirtaus has said before itâs their names but not their personalities, ha).
8. After Jin got +1 Good for telling the doctor about the fluid left, Iâm beginning to think that Flirtaus is playing us and we actually want BAD points because âin which what is known as perfection becomes the most destructive.â WHAT.
9. Day three of the AU and I literally have no idea whatâs going on.
My choices:
1. âHow much time do you need to make Jinâs choice?â 5 minutes. (Because time is precious here).
2. âWhat should Jin do?? Wait for others. (Because itâs still 5 minutes before it officially starts. Because he and Namjoon need to be on the same page about their ideas of perfection if they want to be in the same VR. On the other hand, even if they share ideas, they wonât be exactly the same, so they wonât be in the same VR. OR itâs all rigged and theyâre all in the same VR no matter what. So why not wait?)
Wrong choice. +1 Bad because a guard caught him. Jimin was late (as expected). What about Namjoon? (Update: Apparently he was already there...way to keep us updated, Joon).
3. âHow many minutes do you need to make Jinâs decision?â 5 minutes (Because time is still precious).
4. âWhat should Jin doâ? Go to the preparation room. (Because Namjoon was doing that, and heâs done this before. On the other hand, Namjoon could be A. Lying B. Brainwashed and leading us astray.)
Neutral choice. Did we miss valuable information? Or is Flirtaus just messing with us again? At least Jin isnât in trouble.Â
We missed valuable information on another contestant, apparently. Double oops.
5. âWho are you more suspicious of?â Jimin. (Because he signed them up and was late.  But heâs always late.)
6. âHow many minutes do you need to make Jinâs decision?â 10 minutes (Because time is precious).
7. âWhat should Jin do?â Not tell. (Because I do not trust these people. If the serum is a brain washing thing or something to knock Jin out from being able to tell reality from VR, then he doesnât need it all! Also, if he says something he may get in trouble again. I just donât trust this doctor, yâall.)Â
Telling was the right decision, oops. Enough people chose it, so +1 Good.
8. âHow many minutes do you need to make Jinâs decision?â 10 minutes (Time still matters, and thereâs no way weâll actually listen to each other and communicate. Who does Flirtaus think we are?) (Also, I know some people are pointing out that she said if weâre planning to always chose the least amount of time it wonât work. Iâm bad at math, so her tweet didnât make much sense to me.) (Also Flirtaus said we have 24 hours to help all 7 guys escape. WHAT IS THE TRUTH??)
9. âWhat should Jin do?â Help him (Iâm too altruistic, yikes, this guy could straight up stab Jin for all I know) (Why would anyone need help in a perfect world? If this goes wrong, then my idea of Bad=Good and Good=Bad might be right, and we should do everything Jin wouldnât do from now on. In short, what our instinct is would be wrong, so we should go against our gut feeling when it comes to what Jin would do).
The guy said he pushed âDoneâ and wants to go back. Does pushing âDoneâ mean they are âDoneâ with the real world?
10. âHow many minutes do you need to make Jinâs decision?â 10 minutes (Because I guess we should not always pick the smallest amount? But who actually would stand there for 10 minutes before answering? Ha. Imagine how flustered the guy would be staring at Jin for 10 minutes).
11. âWhat should Jin do?â Ask him why heâs afraid. (Because we need more clues. I guess it could go âBadâ if the guy attacks him or freaks out or scares him, but otherwise we need more information).Â
+1 Bad because the guy did freak out and even slapped Jinâs hand. Jin ârecognized him from somewhere,â meaning heâs either A. One of the other contestants. B. Himself when younger. C. Namjoonâs version who was here the last time. D. IDK yâall.
12. âHow many minutes do you need to make Jinâs decision?â 5 minutes.Â
13. âWhat should Jin do?â Donât pressure him (because I doubt everything now. I would pressure him--well, nicely--so Iâm going to do the opposite--but since I doubt it I should probably have pressured him. Look, Fliratus is out to make us doubt everything we see and think and do and sheâs good at this).Â
Yaaaa, we did something right! +1 Good. This guy told Jin heâs not in the world he created (heâs in Jinâs? Or theyâre all in the same world, is what Iâm thinking. No one is in his own world, theyâre all in the governmentâs).
14. âHow many minutes do you need to make Jinâs choiceâ 10 minutes.
15. âWhat should Jin doâ? Go outside the city (Trusting J-Hope may be wrong, but his gut feeling could be right to avoid people. The last person we encountered slapped Jin, so Iâm not in love with these people. Also, if itâs anything like Ready Player One, we should explore outside).
+1 Good (YAY!). J-Hope trusts Jin a bit more.
16. âHow many minutes do you need to make Jinâs choice?â 10 minutes.
17. âWhich way should they go: left or right?â Right. (It ended up being 50/50, so they SPLIT UP OH NO THE WORSE)
18. Which path do you want to take? J-Hope (Weâve been following Jin for awhile, so letâs follow J-Hope! At one point weâd want to anyway, so I think this would be ok...).
19. âHow many minutes do you need to make J-Hopeâs choice?â 20 minutes (Because Iâm at work and should really be paying attention, ha).
15 minutes won.
20. âWhat should J-Hope do?â Stay on the path. (Jin did last time and that was good; so Iâm going with not approaching anyone this time. Probably...)
+1 Good YEET. J-Hope doesnât want to lose Jin (Which makes no sense, as theyâre on separate paths...)
21. âWhat would you do if you were J-Hope?â Go back to Jin. (Because we never should have split up anyway).
24 hours and I get my hubby back!! I have no idea why but this trip has been harder for me than all the others. Granted he's been gone for 10ish days, but still I should be used to it. But we get him for nearly 3 weeks and I'm sure we will be sick of eachother by then! I miss you honey hurry home! #lifeofatravelingsalesman #missinmyhubby #24hoursleft