From Doommates to Bloommates
There’s a lot of wonderful symbolism in Doom at Your Service. I’ve really enjoyed reading everyone’s theories on the red string of fate, whether Myul Mang and Dong Kyung will be deities or humans together, and if this is at least partly a story written by her friend (ita the parallels between mm/dk and the ill-fated loved triangle are getting strong).
There is a theory which I haven’t seen exactly yet. That the Flower the Goddess is waiting to bloom is actually Dong Kyung, who has been living in a suspended state of survival until her terminal illness brought doom into her life which awakens how much she truly wants to live. There are many reasons for Dong Kyung to be the Flower. First, she is human and therefore meant to be part of the Goddess’s garden. Second, she brought the flowers back to life in Myul Mang’s world. Third, like the potted plant, she has not been growing in life. For a long time, she has been taking care of everyone else but not herself. She has also stunted her emotions to survive which is most prominent in not allowing herself to cry or feel the true impact of what has happened to her over the years. We get a literal representation of this emotional state in two visuals: the ocean which cries for Dong Kyung and the marble which represents Dong Kyung’s frozen ocean of tears she can’t shed herself. One of the main things that needs to happen for Dong Kyung to grow and bloom into the Flower she was meant to become is to fully accept her emotions and eventually let herself cry so she can truly live. She’s not going to get there with smooth sailing. She needs obstacles to push at her defenses and bring her walls down. There is more pain to come.
There is another big hint that Dong Kyung is the Flower in both the titles and the marketing of the show. First, let’s look at the titles.
Here in the black and white garden of the Goddess we see Myul Mang the Butterfly fly in (see far right column).
After Myul Mang and Dong Kyung shake to seal their contract, they are enveloped in the red string of fate which births a large flower bringing a full range of colors (aka emotions) into the world.
At the end of the titles, the butterfly comes to rest in the bloom of the flower as the camera pans out to show a spectacularly colorful garden sunset with a man and woman holding hands (both whom look similar to our two main couples). This is the endgame: the butterfly and flower are meant to be together just like the romantic couple.
This pretty clearly shows that Myul Mang is butterfly and Dong Kyung is the flower.
Furthermore, in the latest TVN twitter posts for their big kiss both in the text and video of the tweet they have 4 emojis to represent the moment:
Flower + Butterfly + Rain + Kiss = Dong Kyung and Myual Mang kiss in the rain
They started off wanting to bring the world doom but they will end it wanting to watch it bloom. They’re going from Doommates to Bloommates.
