#bu theory

[korejinnie]

(THEORY) The ACTUAL Story Timeline Sequence of the BTS Universe and The Two Realms it's Separated Into.

SO, I've been theorizing for a while about the order of the MVs, and I've always felt like the order of the MVs are just... so out of order that it didn't make sense to me. Then, after I did some deeper research on Jungian theology, and also reading the book "Demian", and then also going back to watch all the BTS MVs, shortfilms, and highlight reels again, I noticed that there was a pattern:

The BTS Universe was split into two major realms:

The "Dream Realms" and the "Reality Realms".

My theory is that the MVs in these two realms happen simultaenously and often cross over each other throughout the BU storyline.

Let me explain.

Dream Realms includes MVs that depict surrealistic settings/situations (such as BS&T and Boy with Luv).

Reality Realms includes MVs that depict the reality situations happening to the boys in real life, mostly based off of "The Notes" (such as RUN and I NEED U):

Now, you may think the BU storyline begins at prologue,

but, it actually begins... with Singularity and DNA.

Why?

Well, Taehyung's solo, Singularity, may be about creating a persona to cover up one's pain, but it could also be referring to "Singularity" on a scientific spectrum: "Initial Singularity".

Initial Singularity is where everything started. Before the Big Bang and the universe exploded, there was only singularity.

And guess where the DNA mv setting is? A Galaxy/Universe

And GUESS WHAT HAPPENS IN DNA?

Exactly. An explosion.

The beginning of the Universe. The beginning of the BU storyline, begins with Singularity ending, leading to the creation of the universe with DNA.

In DNA, Hoseok and Namjoon sings,

"The evidence of destiny given to me, You're the source of my dream".

Like I said before, BU is separated into Dream and Reality realms.

DNA is the "source of my dream"

but who's?

Jungkook's dream.

This is where it all BEGIN. (WINGS shortfilm #1: BEGIN).

Now most of you may already know that WINGS is based off of the book "Demian" (if you haven't read Demian yet, you can read the summary here: https://sparknotes.com/lit/demian/sum ).

Demian presents the reflections of an older man on his childhood.

HYYH is about the journey of the boys growing up and losing their innocence, about how they learn to leave their childhood behind, which is very similar to that of what is depicted in the book "Demian".

So, just keep in mind that each shortfilm from WINGS depicts a different stage in the boys' growth from their childhood to adulthood.

Anyways, now we move on to "School days", AKA Lie + No More Dream + N.O.

During this time, the boys are probably in elementary school. This is when they begin to hide their true feelings and begin to create their own personas in order to perhaps meet their parents or society's standards of who they're supposed to be. In real life, they may seem fine, but in their mind/dreams, that's where their true thoughts and feelings come to life. As shown through N.O., No More Dream, and Lie, you see how the boys really feel about their life and school. They dislike the education system and the way they're being forced to learn through regurgitating information.

They are conflicted about their identity and their future, being told by their parents that they need to study and work hard for a future that they might not really actually want for themselves, and aren't even completely sure of yet. There's so many different possibilities that the boys dream of, such as perhaps becoming a race car driver or a detective. But again, they have no REAL dream or concept of their future. They don't know.

In LIE, Jimin also lies about his traumatic childhood and the murder he witnessed at the arboretum of one of his classmates, Choi, when he was very young. In traditional asian society, especially for boys, emotions and feelings aren't really talked about openly.

Also with the fact that Jimin's parents were never around to support him that much, since he was always pretty much staying in the hospital due to his mysterious illness that causes him to have seizures, he felt that to seem normal, he would have to hide his feelings from others.

Now uh.... this is where we get to the teenage years, where the boys are in high school

and uh... this is where they, let's be honest, start to get horny :))))))))), as seen through their superficial love for girls in Boy in Luv, Danger, and War of "Hormone".

Boy in Luv portrays the boys reality, as depicted in The Notes, the boys would hang out in a old empty classroom and spend time together there, and this is seen in the Boy in Luv MV.

You can also tell if it's the dream or reality realm based off of their outfits. In the case of Boy in Luv MV, the boys are all wearing pretty much the same student uniforms and sneakers. Typical of that of a normal highschool student in real life.

Danger and War of Hormone though... THAT's what the boys are really thinking about in their minds and dreams.

As shown through their dramatic expressions when they see a cute girl walk by and the odd black and white with the excpetion to the red and green colors in the MV, and the boys dancing in a metro station? singing about why the girl they like won't answer their text and talking and why the girl is ignoring them:

Anyways, as the boys grow up,

this is where we get to the discord era, where everything begins to fall apart, but also where the boys begin to discover who they really are.

In the original prologue, Jin took a picture with some of the other boys with his polaroid. But then, at the end of the prologue when jin took out the same polaroid picture from the previous night before, he realized that his friends wasn't in the picture.

Of course afterwards bighit deleted this scene & we never actually know why bighit deleted it.

But this leads me to question.... if Prologue was actually a a dream? perhaps Jin's dream?

If so, then Taehyung never actually jumped into the sea, and um this might actually be true.

In prologue, we see Taehyung climb up a tall platform and jump down, supposedly starting the butterfly effect and starting off the entire HYYH story.

BUT guess what?

At the very beginning of Euphoria MV, we see the exact same scene of taehyung jumping down from the platform into the sea.

And at the very end, who do we see on the platform instead?

Jin, holding a camera and pointing it down to the boys:

But then HERE'S THE THING.

Jin's camera falls down off of the platform and then it the next scene directly cuts to Taehyung falling into the water???

And the right after Jin is shown again, standing on top of the platform:

If you've watched all the MVs, you'll notice that the two characters who always stands out the most are always Jin and Taehyung. Jin films/records everything with his polaroid or camcorder, and Taehyung always seems to be the outcast of the group.

But the one thing that makes me believe that Jin is the only character to exist throughout the entire storyline, is because of "Demian", Jungian theology, and also the fact that Jin is usually ALWAYS watching everyone from a outsider's perspective.

And GUESS WHAT?

At the end of the book "Demian" (which was the book WINGS was based off of, as I mentioned earlier), the main character Sinclair realizes his two friends: Eva and Demian, are actually not real people.

He realizes that Eva and Demian are actually WITHIN him.

Eva and Demian, are actually Sinclair's Anima and Animus (which I'll talk about later when we get to the highlight reels).

So anyways, to break the confusion you might have right now. What I'm saying is that Euphoria and Prologue are happening simultaneously at the same time. Jin & Taehyung might be jumping into the water at the same time (cuz they might be the same person teehee).

And now, we get to I NEED U and Stigma.

I NEED U is the reality realm and Stigma is the dream realm, as I NEED U, despite portraying each of the boys' struggles, I NEED U is really mainly about Taehyung & his struggle after murdering his father by accident to protect his sister from their abusive drunkard father.

Because in I NEED U taehyung killed his father, in Stigma he gets caught by the police and gets sent to jail for the murder of his father:

Now we get to what I was talking about earlier: the boys meeting their animas in the higlight reels.

Each of the girls the boys spend time together in the highlight reels is their anima. In Jungian theology, a person possess both anima and animus within themselves, however the boys are only being introduced to the feminine side of their personality and psyche right now, so they haven't learned that the ultimate goal of individuation (which is pretty much the end of the BU storyline), is to learn to balance their anima and animus.

Anyways, we move on to Fire and Fake Love. So, if you've read my theory about “Dionysus' Magic Shop Deal with Abraxas”, you'll know that Dionysus might actually be the owner of the Magic Shop in Fake Love.

Since Dionysus is the god of ectsasy and wine, guess what?

The "temporary happiness" that the boys traded for with their anima objects in Fake Love, is actually sweet poison (aka drugs/alcohol).

Wonder why Japanese BS&T looks so weird? Like the boys are tripping or something? Yup! It's drugs and alcohol that's making the boys go wheewhoo psycho. It's also why Jungkook threw up in Japanese BS&T lol:

I mean what did you think they were doing having a party in RUN? With the red SOLO cups? Those SOLO cups are usually used to pour alcohol in for parties.

In RUN furniture was all over the place, there were writings all over the wall, and it was chaotic.

RUN is the reality realm, while BS&T is the dream realm. BS&T portrays what's going through the boys minds while they're partying and getting drunk on "sweet poison that's sweeter than sweet":

That's why in Japanese BS&T in the very beginning we see HYYH Taehyung looking all sleepy as if he had just woken up from a hangover.

And remember when I told you that there are cross overs between the reality realms and the dream realms? yeah, here it is:

Anyways, so then this is where we move on to the REFLECTION stage.

This is when the boys start to realize that doing drugs and drinking away their pain might not actually help them get out of this cycle of despair and misery, so they begin to reflect upon their ego and shadow.

They start thinking to themselves "hmmm something needs to change" (which is also the first step to realizing they need to love themselves!), and this is where we'll eventually reach Epiphany, when Jin finally learns that he's the one he should love in this world.

THIS BOI IS LITERALLY LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR! HIS REFLECTION! LIKE DO YOU SEE THE CONNECTION HERE?!

Alright anyways once Jin finishes singing with his amazing vocals (king seokjin vocals yes). This leads us to the Real Love stage aka turning from lust and love on the outside (which we saw in boy in luv) into love on the inside.

At this stage, Just One Day is the reality realm and Boy With Luv + Lights is the dream realm.

Just One Day has very similar lyrics to boy with luv, talking about how gently and nice they want to treat the girls they like:

We also know that Just One Day is the reality realm because the boys are wearing school uniforms just like they did in Boy in Luv And guess what? Boy with Luv is a reference to Boy in Luv. 

Alright so anyways, so Boy with Luv is what goes on inside of the boys' heads during Just One Day, singing about the girls they like in a gentle and soft way. Now, we can't talk about Boy with Luv without taking about Lights MV though, because Lights is a sequel to Boy with Luv.

Lights is essentially what happens after the boys enter the Persona theater. You can think of the theater as a person's persona, while the inside of the theater is how a person actually feels. Also through the lyrics, it's quite obvious the connections between BWL and Lights.

Alright! Now we move on to the Harmony era aka the stage where the boys' Anima and Animus finally come together at peace with one another, and the boys finally learn to balance both their anima and animus. This can be seen through MAMA and Serendipity.

Remember when I told you that WINGS is based off of the book "Demian"? And how at the very end the main character realizes that his two friends, Eva and Demian, were actually his Anima and Animus?

When Hoseok saw the painting (from Lie, since Jimin and hoseok are close friends because they always spent time together at the same hospital) turn into the mother hugging child picture, he came to realize that he didn't need to depend on anyone else to feel loved and normal.

He's spent most his entire life missing his mother and letting the pain of his mother abandoning him when he was younger suffocate and manipulate him into believing he is ill. When he finally learned to balance his anima and animus, he felt complete.

MAMA = My Anima My Animus

This is why MAMA is the only song in the entire WINGS album in all caps. It's a acronym for My Anima My Animus.

The "Her" in Love Yourself: Her Album.

It's not a girl.

It's anima.

The idea of finding oneselve's anima and balancing your anima and animus can also be seen through Jimin's solo Serendipity.

In serendipity, Jimin sings about his anima (since he's a boy and represents animus). This boy LITERALLY sings

"You are me, I am you". "Cuz you love me, and I love you."

Jimin has finally learned to love himself.

This is also why, in Love Yourself Highlight Reel '承', you see each boy and their girls having a good time together, interacting with each other and everything seems to be peaceful and happy. Heck, even Jungkook is playing the piano with yoongi again!

In chinese the word "承" means "to understand", so at this stage, the boys have finally understood the true meaning of self love.

But of course, even when you do understand the true meaning of self love, that doesn't mean you have necessarily ACHIEVED self love. There will still be more challenges and hardships to face and overcome. This can be seen in Love Yourself Highlight Reel '轉', when things start to go wrong. Each boy ends up leaving the girl they liked. The anima and animus starts to become unbalanced again.

But, this doesn't go on forever, because one day, you WILL learn to finally truly love yourself. The idea of the process of individuation is when you finally complete the map of the soul and become one with your soul, you'll become your own god and finally break out of they cycle of reincarnation.

We know Jin has reached the final stage of self love and process of individuation, because in AWAKE, we see him dropping the apple (aka the sweet poisonous apple from snow white). He let's go of the materialistic things that he used to hold on to to help him feel less painful.

Also from the wallpaper in AWAKE, we see the pattern of Abraxas: The ALL POWERFUL GOD who is beyond heaven and hell. He is beyond time and space:

The bird painting Jin was staring at, that was Abraxas' messenger:

Anyways, this is when we reach the last step before Jin goes "bye bye" forever and becomes a god and leaves the cycle of reincarnation: Young Forever.

Ever noticed why Jin is so far behind from all the other boys in Young Forever?

Exactly. He's the only real character throughout the entire storyline. Young forever is Jin looking back at all of his memories from his life and letting go of the past that had been troubling him for so long.

I mean seriously! It says "2015.04.29 ~ FOREVER" at the beginning of Young Forever.

You can see this as Jin or BTS' way of saying, even after I'm gone, we'll always be in your memories and heart forever. Sort of a reference to when BTS disbands.

Epilogue is defined as "A section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened."

And you see this comparison in similarity from AWAKE as well. Where the photos of an important item that symbolizes each stage of Jin's life is laid out across the floor and in Young Forever how strips of picture films are shown across the screen of Jin and his "friends":

"We cried a lot and laughed a lot but it was so beautiful".

The most beautiful moments of life (HYYH)... is life itself.

This is BTS' way of saying...

"We had a lot of fun memories together and it was all so beautiful, but it's time to leave. We love you forever, goodbye.”

[korejinnie]

Dionysus' Magic Shop Deal with Abraxas (BTS Theory)

In MOTS: Persona, there is a song called "Dionysus". Now, it's obvious that this song is referring to the greek god Dionysus, as seen by the lyrics. But this song may be much more important than you think.

First, let me explain the gist of who Dionysus is: 

Dionysus is the god of wine, madness, vegetation cultivation & religious ecstasy. The story goes that Dionysus was the son of Zeus & Semele. Zeus seduced & impregnated the princess of Thebes, but then a jealous Hera tricked Semele into demanding that Zeus reveal his true form to her. As a mortal, Semele could not look upon a god’s true form without dying. Zeus managed to rescue the unborn Dionysus by sewing him into his thigh. A few months later, Dionysus was born from Zeus’s thigh.

Thus, Dionysus was known to have been twice-born and was sometimes called “dimetor” (of two mothers), which is also constantly referenced in BTS' song "Dionysus". Being born and reborn:

Now, like i said, since Dinoysus is the god of ritual insanity, he has the ability to make people go insane at his will. He makes people go into a trance of ecstasy and euphoria, where they lose all awareness. Dionysus uses his powers to make people forget about their pain and misery. 

On the other hand, Abraxas is the god of Heaven & Hell + everything beyond that. He is the Supreme God. He has been mentioned throughout “WINGS”, especially “Blood Sweat and Tears” several times. Abraxas is also the snake who tricked eve into biting into the apple in the Garden of Edens, which led to the fall of Adam & Eve. However, he did it to open Adam & Eve's mind and enhance their knowledge. 

Essentially, Abraxas puts people through "hell" so that they can learn from their pain & mistakes and eventually ascend to enlightenment. So, Dionysus in a sense is very similar to Abraxas. Dionysus is the god of vegetation and Abraxas is the "life of vegetation in the course of one year". Dionysus uses his powers for good and evil and so does Abraxas. 

They are alike in power, BUT different in intention.

So what's the difference between Dionysus and Abraxas? 

 In very simple terms, Dionysus is the god of Euphoria, and Abraxas is the god of Enlightenment/Nirvana. 

There is a stark difference between Euphoria and Nirvana. Euphoria is a state of extreme happiness, often to the point of abnormality and usually caused by use of drugs. Nirvana is a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. Nirvana is beyond heaven and hell.

Euphoria in a sense, is a mock Nirvana, because Euphoria is temporary, while Nirvana isn't. 

So... what if Dionysus wanted to become like Abraxas? Because, Dionysus isn't actually a full on God. He was a demi-god, since his mother was Princess Semele of Thebes, a mortal. Dionysus can be seen as a rebel probably from the shame he felt for having a mortal mother. He could've been a god, but because of his mother, he is merely a demi-god. He could never possess the powers he wish he could as a full-on god. Because of this, Dionysus would never think he was enough. He would crave power more and more. He always wants MORE. His craving for more power is driven by his ego and fear of being seen as weak or inferior to other greek gods. He would use religious ecstasy to hide this weakness of himself from others. If he could make other people forget who he really is, including his fears and weaknesses, he could make other people see him as the perfect all powerful god that he always wanted to be. 

People could see him as Abraxas: the SUPREME GOD.

But how would Dionysus have obtained this power, or persona? 

Well, remember the Magic Shop in Fake Love? 

"Magic Shop is a psychodramtic technique that exchanges fear for a positive attitude" 

Each member traded their fear for a positive attitude:

It's important to also note that, Abraxas is most likely the owner of the magic shop, because the word "Abracadabra" originates from the word "Abraxas":

So what if, Dionysus was so desperate to become Abraxas, he walked into the magic shop, and like the members of BTS, traded his fear for a positive attitude?

What if, Abraxas made a deal with Dionysus: 

In exchange for Dionysus' fear, Abraxas would give Dionysus a chance to take over the Magic Shop, in a sense experience what it's like to be Abraxas. 

 And perhaps, this is the reason why he has the ability to send others into a state of euphoria. 

 And this makes sense, because where do we see the boys at the end of LY: Wonder? 

Euphoria MV. They all seem really happy, but we know the truth is Euphoria is merely a temporary state of happiness, in truth their fears are still present and haunting them.

Dionysus would never actually become Abraxas, because the deal Dionysus made with Abraxas was merely to trade his fears for a mask of perfection, or PERSONA. 

The positive attitude that each member traded for with their fears, was their personas.

It's why, at the end of Fake Love, we see each of the members wearing cloaks and masks. 

The masks represents their personas. And this is also why we see the owner of the magic shop wearing a mask and a cloak. Because the owner is Dionysus.

And Dionysus traded his fears for a mask of persona as well. 

He traded his fears for the persona of Abraxas.

[korejinnie]

(THEORY) Why the Girls in the Highlight Reels Are Each of the Boys' Anima, and Their Correlation to Carl Jung.

HYYH The Notes - Yoongi (15 June Year 22)

"I woke up from a weird dream. I thought I heard someone knock on the door, but I couldn't hear anything after getting up. I must've heard it in my dream... The woman was straightforward and outspoken. She popped in & out of my workroom whenever she felt like it. She never hesitated to beat around the bush when she evaluated my work. She took away my lighter when I tried to smoke and threw me a lollipop instead. She nagged me to sleep and eat. I couldn't argue with her because her performance and pieces were impressive. Because her evaluation was accurate."

This woman that appeared in the highlight reel... it was actually Yoongi's anima, also his image of his mother, before she passed away in the burning fire.

"If you are boys, your God is a Woman. If you are women, your God is a boy. If you are men, your God is a maiden... The God is where you are not."

- Carl Jung, The Red Book.

To find one's self, one must find their mother, their anima.

To protect both the mother and self is to protect yourself and gain strength to love yourself,

And find the map of your soul.

To Yoongi, his mother is his God, as to him, she was perfect. She was the one who first taught him how to play the piano, however, after she passed away, he felt like a part of him was taken away, and he felt empty.

Similarly, the same thing happens for Hoseok. After Hoseok's mother abandoned him, only leaving him with a bar of snickers at an amusement park, he felt empty inside ever since.

His narcolepsy would trigger whenever he dreamt or thought of his mother. His only comfort was the one thing that reminded him of his mother: the snicker bar.

Similar to Yoongi, Hoseok would miss the girl he and Jimin meets during dance practice because she reminded Hoseok of his mother who left him as a child. Instead of presenting a snicker bar to Hoseok, she gave him a birthday cake:

This birthday cake is seen as a very significant symbolism throughout various time in the BTS storyline. We see this birthday cake in the Ego Outro, in the highlight reels, in Fake Love, etc.

In the Red Book, Jung mentioned a dream that he had after the death of his mother on January 9th, 1923.

Here's an excerpt from that part of The Red Book:

"Only now do I see for that dream of 23/24 December 1923 means the death of the Anima. This coincides with the death of my mother.... Since the death of my mother, the A. [Anima] has fallen silent. Meaningful!"

Similar to Carl Jung, Yoongi's dream about the girl who knocked on his door and switched out his cigarette for a lollipop was a depiction of his mother, but in the form of dreams. For both Yoongi and Hoseok, memories of their mother continues to haunt them and remains to be a part of their collective unconsciousness.

“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.” 

- Carl Jung

[korejinnie]

BTS MOTS: Shadow Subunits Theory

May I introduce you to the new subunits:

Taehyung and Yoongi

Namjoon and Jin

Hoseok, Jungkook, and Jimin

Please refer to the Jungian color wheel if needed:

Let’s begin with the Taegi subunit:

Yoongi and Taehyung are both wearing green, and in Jungian Color theory, green = sensation.

Remember how Yoongi and Taehyung were the ones who continuously kept trying to commit suicide throughout the BU storyline? Death = sensation.

Now we move on to the Namjin subunit!

Namjin are wearing blue stripes with red collar/linings 

Blue = thinking and    

Red = feeling.

Since Jin is the only character who actually exists in this whole storyline and everyone else just lives within him, he of course as the human thinks and feels. (If you didn’t know Jin is the only real character to exist throughout the entire BU storyline, please refer to the original prologue video, before the scene which would reveal the truth about Jin was cut out)

Namjoon, then most likely represents the tree filled with wisdom. As we see in his vcr, he walks out of a dark room and walks into a bright room with a tree growing out of the roof of the room. As we see in his vcr, he walks out of a dark room and walks into a bright room with a tree growing out of the roof of the room:

And in Carl Jung's Red Book, he constantly illustrates trees as shining and blue, seemingly all-knowing and knowledgable. It's sort of like the tree of life (you can also think about how Siddartha ascended and became Buddha after he sat under a tree to reach enlightenment).

The tree is also referred to as "The Cosmic Tree" Carl Jung has also mentioned this multiple times through his writings:

So now we know Namjoon and Jin represent feeling and thinking.

Now we move on to Hopekookmin Jungkook is wearing white, which we can assume represents innocence and purity (which makes sense because he represents Jin's first stage of Youth: Begin). Jimin is wearing a red shirt and in Jungian color theory, Red represents feeling, as we've also established earlier with Namjin. With Jimin's mental illnesses and seizures and serious depression, we can see why he only wears Red. All he does is feel pain.

So it's important that Jimin feels.

And now we finally move on to Hoseok. Hoseok is wearing blue. Blue, which we know, represents thinking.

We know Hoseok suffers from Munchausen Syndrome: A psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy or reassurance to themselves. Ironically in comparison to Jimin, Hoseok THINKS he has a disease and suffers from thinking (placebo effect) that he is suffering from the pain.

So Hoseok thinks.

And why, you ask, are these 3 so different characters placed in a subunit? Well, because they are so different, Jungkook as purity and innocence, Hobi as thinking and Jimin as feeling We will be able to get a better-understanding of  Jin's unconscious mind.

[korejinnie]

The 7 Jungian Archetypes of BTS’ Consciousness

BTS has been hitting the idea of Archetypes and personalities since Fake Love era. And now, after MOTS: Persona, we can finally confirm that each member, along with the unique masks projected onto each member during the 2018 Japan MAMA Fake Love Intro, that each of the members represents a different archetype and character. 

There are a total of 12 Jungian Archetypes:

Ruler

Creator/Artist

Sage

Innocent

Explorer

Rebel

Hero

Wizard

Jester

Everyman

Lover

Caregiver

And these 12 archetypes are separated into 4 different categories:

And so from the 12 Jungian Character Archetypes, I found the 7 archetypes that best represents the 7 members of BTS and created the 7 Archetypes of BTS’ Consciousness. (*Note that I incorporated 2 other similar archetypes into 2 of the 7 archetypes because Yoongi and Taehyung are a bit more complicated).

So let’s begin with Hoseok.

- The Jester

This is the Jester/Clown:

"They are the masters who have no emotional connections or family but who cause a spark of interest in us and can have a deep impact on us if we meet one. Humour and wit equate power and with this archetype, looks can be deceiving."

This actually represents Hoseok quite well, as we know he has Munchausen's Syndrome. This is a psychiatric disorder where someone will make up events or illnesses to draw attention/sympathy to himself. All the pills Hoseok took and all the things he said about his illnesses, they’re not real. So in a sense, he lies and manipulates others to gain attention and sympathy from others.

He also has no family because as we know, his mom left him at the amusement park with a bar of snickers when he was really young. Hoseok copes with his illnesses by laughing it off. He is the sunshine, and he makes everyone happy, but that at the same time, drains him on the inside.

- The Innocent/Orphan

This is the Innocent/Orphan:

“The Orphan is the lost child, without a solid identity they have the opportunity to feel deep suffering yet see life for what it is without attachment. Its shadow is its likelihood of becoming the victim, consumed in its loss, much like the Magical child it will assume it will be ‘saved’ and that fate has more strength than its own actions.”

Though Taehyung isn’t actually an orphan, his mother died when he was young and his father was very abusive, which led him to become a lost child. Taehyung accidentally killed his father with an alcohol glass bottle when he saw that his father was abusing his sister and he wanted to protect his sister. Ever since then, he has become a victim of that incident. Taehyung has also been protected by his sister ever since his mother’s death. His sister acted as the mother figure, so for the most part, Taehyung had not much idea what his father was doing to his sister when he was young, nor did he know how to stop it.

This incident, along with his past of fatherly abusement, very soon became his shadow, as he sings about this in the WINGS short film “Stigma”. He gets caught by the police for vandalizing a garage door and every question the police asks him and every answer he replies with hits him like a punch in the face. He’s a lost puppy, and he has no idea what to do. In truth, he just wants to be happy. Taehyung, like a puppy, is innocent and all he wants is to be happy, however, the shadow of his abusive father and his murder incident makes him a victim. 

As we saw in the highlight reel, he actually has a kind heart and is good-natured. He wants to do things right. He attacked his father to protect his sister during “I NEED U”, and he caught the girl who was stealing the backpack in the convenience store and offered to pay for the things she stole for her instead of turning her in for what she did.

- The Explorer

This is the Explorer:

"The explorer leaves home to find themselves, battles monsters and then returns home to slay their own demons. As with all journeys, we travel far from home only to discover that what we were looking for was on our doorstep the whole time.” 

Namjoon, as we know Namjoon lives in poverty as a homeless person. The rest of the boys see Namjoon as a responsible adult that they admire, but Namjoon believes that he does not deserve to be perceived in such a way. Namjoon eventually moves away for a period of time, which is during the same time Taehyung got in trouble and tried calling Namjoon for help.

Namjoon’s fear is being lost in life, yet his greatest weakness is aimless wandering. Homeless people are usually seen as the “misfits” of society, and we see his weakness through this aspect of him as a person. Namjoon wants to experience a better, more authentic, and more fulfilling life. He has bigger dreams for his future... but he decides to forget about his dreams because they seem impossible to him. He has to work at a gas station to make ends meet... so how could he? In “I NEED U” we also see him get in trouble with Taehyung a lot, and this was how it was in HYYH. Taehyung looked up to Namjoon and they were very close together. They were happy together as the misfits of society.

- The Everyman

This is the Everyman:

As we know from The Notes and “SAVE ME” Webtoons comic, when Jimin was young, he witnessed the murder of one of his classmates by a group of gangsters at an arboretum. He then also suffers from a crippling illness that causes him to have seizures. It is unknown if this illness developed after the incident at the arboretum or previous to the incident, but either way, this crippling illness causes him to transfer schools a lot due to his long and regular hospital visits. After he met the rest of the boys, his mood and illness were stable again for a while, but this happiness didn’t last long and he eventually was sent to the hospital again and spiraled back into depression.

Jimin has a fear of being left out and not being loved for his true self. When he was a child his parents were never there for or with him, and he had no friends because of his illness and constant hospital visits. Especially since after the arboretum incident, he was pretty much scarred for life and because he was so terrified, ever since then he never told anyone about the incident nor and tried to forget what he saw.

All Jimin ever wanted was to belong, to feel normal, to be a part of a group. But the downside to that was he would lie in order to seem “normal”. He would lie so he could be liked, and so he could be accepted. This is evident throughout the highlight reels and Jimin’s WINGS short film “Lie”.

When Hoseok and the girl he liked was dancing together, Jimin secretly filmed them dancing. As soon as the girl realized that Jimin was filming them, she told Jimin to come and join their dance practice, but Jimin felt shy and embarrassed and instead refused the girl’s invitation. In “Lie”, Jimin knew about the aboretum incident, and he knew a lot more than he was telling the hospital, or whichever facility he was being put in. But when the camera pointed to him and the robot hand showed him a card, seemingly asking him if he knew something, he lied by smiling.

- The Caregiver

This is the Caregiver:

“The caregiver feels stronger than other people. They want to protect people from harm and try to prevent any danger or risk from threatening other people’s happiness.”

Jungkook, as the youngest boy out of the friend group, looks up to his hyungs a lot. As we know, Jungkook’s mother and stepfather ignore him when his stepbrothers beat him up, which leads him to have suicidal thoughts. But he soon found happiness after meeting the 6 other boys and he becomes very close with Yoongi. However, this happiness didn’t last long, because one day, after a teacher hit Jungkook for misbehaving, Yoongi stood up for Jungkook but unfortunately got expelled from school. Ever since then, Jungkook felt guilty for getting Yoongi expelled. 

Jungkook has a fear of letting his hyungs down and he hates to see his hyungs unhappy. He wants the best for his hyungs, but oftentimes he would end up sacrificing himself in order to make up for his hyungs’ happiness. Jungkook always wants to protect and care for his hyungs, and he is very compassionate and generous when it comes to the people he loves and cares about.

And we definitely see this in Fake Love and Euphoria. In Fake Love, everyone else traded an item that represented each of their fears for a positive attitude, except Jungkook. Jungkook recieved a key that would open the door to the Singularity room. Many Armys have theorized that this key would open a room that’s similar to Pandora’s Box, but in our case, Jungkook traded himself instead, for his Hyung’s happiness. We see later on, after he traded himself for the key, that he ran around the fake love house and had to experience every single one of his hyungs’ deepest fears in order to understand how they truly felt. At the beginning of “Euphoria” and in “I NEED U”, Yoongi tried to commit suicide by lighting his room on fire in hopes of dying in the fire. In “SAVE ME” Webtoons comics, we see that Yoongi almost always seems to end up either dying or getting injured in the fire that he caused within his apartment room. In Euphoria and SAVE ME, Jungkook was the one who runs into the room to help pull Yoongi out of the fire and save him. 

He tries to sacrifice himself and his happiness in exchange for his Hyungs’ happiness.

- The Rebel/Destroyer

“The rebel is a transgressor. They provoke people and don’t care at all about other people’s opinions. As a result, they like going against the grain and thinking for themselves. The negative side of the rebel archetype is that they can become self-destructive.”

Yoongi, as we know, used to love playing the piano because his mother taught him how to play. However, after his mother died in a fire, Yoongi was traumatized by that incident and ever since then, Yoongi blamed himself for his mother’s death and became suicidal and depressed. He would frequently smoke and drink as ways to help cope with his depression and PTSD.

And it’s because of this traumatic experience, that he started to become careless of those around him and how they felt. He would use self-destructing methods to harm himself because he feels guilty for his mother’s death. In the SAVE ME webtoons, during one of Jin’s time-traveling sequence, Yoongi tried to commit suicide. After Jin pulled Yoongi out of the burning apartment and called the ambulance to help rescue Yoongi from the fire, he blamed Jin because Jin was the reason why he was still alive and he asked them why Jin couldn’t just let him die in the fire.

- The Sage

“The Sage archetype seeks the truths that will set us free. Especially if the Sage overcomes the temptation of dogma, it can help us become wise, to see the world and ourselves objectively, and to course-correct based on objective analyses of the results of our actions and choices. The Sage is a seeker after truth and enlightenment and journeys far in search of the next golden nugget of knowledge. The danger for the sage and their deep fear is that their hard-won wisdom is built on the sand of falsehood.”

I’ve previously explained in my “BU Storyline Summary” why Jin is the only real character throughout the entire BU storyline and how the BU storyline is about his journey to finding his soul and learning to truly love himself, eventually reaching enlightenment.

Now, Jin has a fear of knowing the truth, but deep down inside, he has a strong desire to understand the truth (it’s kind of confusing but just think of it in this way: After taking a test, you have a strong desire to know what grade you got, yet simultaneously you also don’t want to know what grade you got because you fear you got a bad grade). This entire journey throughout the BU timeline consists of Jin, through his mental illnesses and obstacles, trying to break down the barriers and defeat his inner dragon (AKA his mental challenges). 

In a way, Jin represents all the boys, and all the boys represent Jin. The aspects of the Sage can be found in nearly all 6 other archetypes, and all 6 other archetypes can be related in some way or another to The Sage.

So, this theory took me a good 5 hours to make, and I have no idea why. This took way longer than it should have, but I hope it makes sense and also helps to clear up some questions you previously had regarding the BU timeline/storyline and theories uwu.

[korejinnie]

Make It Right Dragon Theory

So if you’ve seen the 3 different Make It Right ft. Lauv remixes lately, you know it has caused much confusion among our fandom. A lot of people have said the amount of remixes for “Make It Right” is ridiculous and some people mocked the remix album covers, wondering how long and how many remixes it will take until the boy wearing the cape finally defeats the dragon.

And that’s what we’re going to be talking about today: The Dragon and it’s meaning.

The Make It Right ft. Lauv remix came out a month ago, and from the moment it came out I have been wondering and trying so hard to figure out what in the world the dragon is supposed to symbolize or mean. In the Make It Right ft. Lauv Remix MV, we see a boy (which is supposed to represent BTS, a sword (which is supposed to represent a microphone/BTS’ music) and a girl who also turns into a cape (which is supposed to represent ARMY). Basically, the girl turns into a cape for the boy to wear, and the boy, along with his sword, eventually finds the courage to face the big fearsome dragon and finally defeat it.

Overall, it’s a cute MV. The storyline may be a bit cheesy, but overall, very cute and wholesome. But we know Make It Right is a part of MOTS: Persona album, and MOTS: Persona is heavily related to Carl Jung and the Jungian Archetypes. And so, today, oddly enough while I was trying to write my theory on the 7 Archetypes of BTS’ Consciousness, I came across this research PDF on the 12 main character Archetypes, and I immediately spotted something:

This website, on their PDF, listed the different qualities and parts of each character archetype. And if you look closely enough, in the 3rd column, it says “Dragon/Problem”.

Dragon? Problem??

So.... the Dragon actually symbolizes the problems BTS has to face.

And this totally makes sense, because, in Fake Love Teaser 1, each member traded their fears for a positive attitude, aka the Magic Shop Psychodramatic Therapy.

And then there’s “Surplus Reality”: the enactment of senses that represent hopes, fears, and unfinished psychological business that may be experienced as being almost more “real” than the events of everyday life.

Essentially, Surplus Reality is another term for dreams.

So dreams such as BS&T, Spring Day, Not Today, etc., can all be explained as a part of Jin’s surplus reality (since now we know Jin is the only real character throughout the whole storyline and different MVs portrays his different perspectives regarding his life, his thoughts, and the events happening around him in his life).

And so I believe, that Make It Right, is supposed to be Jin’s way of telling himself that even though everything may not be/seem ok right now, it eventually will be. He knows he’s the only one who can save himself, and so he keeps telling himself he can and will “make it right”. And to make it right, Jin must overcome the mental obstacles he’s constantly struggling with that’s preventing him from truly loving himself.

And so symbolically, he must collect the courage to slay the fearsome dragon.

[korejinnie]

MAMA 2019 Performance BTS Theory Thread

The Performance was separated into 3 parts: 

I. Future Meets Past: Calling 

II. Past Meets Present: World 

III. Future Meets Past: Eternal Journey

First of all, let's talk about the snake in Future Meets Past: N.O. and We are bulletproof. Snake symbolizes rebirth and transformation.

Carl Jung once said a human is born 3 times: 

- 1st time = actual physical birth  

- 2nd time = with the development of the ego 

- 3rd time = leads up to the birth of the spiritual consciousness (AKA YOUR SOUL)

Now, N.O., We are Bulletproof pt. 2, and Dionysus are parallel to one another. We are Bulletproof and N.O. are the shadow of Dionysus, and Dionysus is the Ego of We are Bulletproof and N.O. We are Bulletproof talks about BTS' ambition to make it big (big cars and big rings).

N.O. talks about the boys being suppressed by society, while Dionysus is the boys' Ego, showing their power, stature, and their dominance.

And in MMA performances, we've seen plenty of evidence why the next comeback could be both ego and shadow. And this makes sense, because ego and shadow are conflicting opposite to each other, but shadow cannot exist without ego. Shadow is cast by the ego.

(The shadow figures are an integration of both SHADOW & EGO, since these Shadows glitch and also portray the boys’ past and the shadows are also the boys’ ego projections)

Now, back to the second birth that Carl Jung mentioned: 

"The second occurs with the development of the ego." 

With the symbolism of the snake during the performance, and how the snake symbolizes rebirth and transformation, it's clear how rebirth and ego/shadow connects together.

Now, let's talk about past meets present: Mikrokosmos and Boy with Luv. 

Both of these performances included very colorful backgrounds... but both of these backgrounds seem.... psychedelic to me.

And what do I mean by that?

Well, in BTS’ MMA performance, I noticed that there were the words “LVOE” written on the walls:

Odd how it isn’t written as “LOVE”, but “LVOE”.... 

Not sure if this is a hint, but there is a band from France called LVOE:

If you take a look at their website, underneath their logo it states 3 words: Popinde, Psychedelia, Electronica. 

Popinde means pop & electronica means electronic, so basically the style of their music. 

But what really caught my attention is psychedelia.

"Psychedelia - music, culture, or art based on the experiences produced by psychedelic drugs." 

Psychedelia seems to involve a lot of colorful colors, specifically rainbow or holographic-like colors, which reminds me of "Peace and Love" era in the 70s, psychedelia seemed to be a very popular trend:

And those were the same patterns we saw during BTS' Mikrokosmos and Boy With Luv performances today:

Also, note how the Mikrokosmos performance looked very similar to DNA MV:

Anyways, then... what caught my attention was also this:

"Dreams are our realities from now on".

Now obviously, they could be referring to how their dreams from the past are now a reality.

But it's important to note that dreams also reflect your reality. 

Carl Jung once said:

"For all ego-consciousness is isolated; because it separates and discriminates, it knows only particulars, and it sees only those that can be related to the ego. Its essence is a limitation, even though it reaches to the farthest nebulae among the stars. All consciousness separates; but in dreams, we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal man dwelling in the darkness of primordial night. There he is still the whole, and the whole is in him, indistinguishable from nature and bare of all ego-hood. it is from these all-uniting depths that the dream arises, be it never so childish, grotesque, and immoral."

We tend to embrace our Ego complex more since we like our ego better than our shadow, and our Ego is who we identify with and as. But in dreams, dreams are more honest and real. Dreams don't discriminate between ego or shadow.

So just another aspect of how the next comeback might be ego and shadow.

Now here's where we get to the interesting part... 

Future Meets: Eternal Journey (Dionysus)

In the final vcr, we see a LOT of symbolism correlating to WINGS and BS&T.  

Here are some examples:

The eyeglass Hobi and Jin was holding in BS&T:

Polaroids???

You CANNOT have missed this:

The first thing that came up when I saw Hobi holding a picture frame is BS&T and Dionysus:

Reminds me of WINGS short film LIE when Jimin was sitting in front of those robot hands and there was a black camera filming him:

The hourglass and the hourglass that was seen in Namjoon's VCR from SPEAK YOURSELF final concert:

Exact Connection to Young Forever:

Here's the interesting part: 

The VCRs from MMA refers to HYYH 

But the VCRs from MAMA are referring mostly to WINGS 

This parallel with shadow and ego, how shadow and ego contradict each other and how BTS is now using HYYH and WINGS to contradict our thinking about the next comeback.

Is it going to be Shadow or Ego? 

HYYH or WINGS? 

We don't know for sure, because the future is unknown.

This may very well be BTS way of telling us you don't have to figure everything out now. 

All we need to know is that more will be revealed with the next comeback.

[korejinnie]

Theory on Why the Next BTS Comeback Might Be EGO-SHADOW?

So, I know pretty much the entire fandom has already theorized and predicted that the next comeback is going to be MOTS: Shadow. 

I mean, it's obvious right? It even says the 3 Archetypes from the orders left to right, top to bottom: "Persona, Shadow, Ego"

... Or is it?

Now, this is just a theory, it's not a fact. I'm not saying the next comeback is definitely going to be Ego, but there is a possibility. After all, BTS themselves haven't even announced what the title of the next comeback is going to be. 

So, what makes me, and quite frankly, a few other theorists believe that the next comeback may very well be Ego? 

Well, let's first take a look at the Jungian definition of the Ego and Shadow.

"Ego - The part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity."

Now, to explain Ego in more simple terms, it is essentially the center of your consciousness. Think about all the times you have ever use the word "I" to describe yourself (ex. I am beautiful, I am hungry, etc.). That "I" you're talking about actually refers to your Ego.

The Ego is all your beliefs, ideas, and thoughts, in one. The Ego, is also the "I" that you like and identify with the most. For example, a celebrity may identify themselves as "rich, famous, and popular". In this case, this is what their ego is: rich, famous, and popular.

This is also why the popular idea of being egoistic as being prideful & narcissistic exists. For some people, they may often become obsessed with that particular trait of themselves that they identify with or like. If you project too much of your ego on to the real world, you could easily become a narcissist. 

"Shadow - The dark side of someone's personality." 

And again, to explain Shadow in more elaborate and simpler terms, the shadow is essentially the opposite of the ego. The shadow is an unknown side and area, hidden behind/under the ego, that the ego does not identify with. If you identify yourself as beautiful, but someone tells you you're ugly, that identification of you as ugly is strange to you. You don't accept it as your identity, because you identify yourself as beautiful, not ugly.

Every trait that you possess that you like about yourself will have a shadow component in which you have to repress to keep your identity consistent... in many cases, your persona. 

For example, if you're a very hard worker, you may repress the part of yourself that's lazy, if you pride yourself as beautiful, then you may repress the part of yourself that's ugly. 

 Now, Let's switch back to the blackboard for a second. 

If you take a close look at the picture, there are the words "Who am I? Who are you?" written on the blackboard:

That is the relationship between the Ego and the Shadow. When you ask yourself "Who am I?", you will most likely respond with "I am smart, I am hardworking, I am beautiful, etc". This is your ego, it's the traits and things and ideas you like and identify with. 

Then there's the question "Who are you?", and that's the shadow because the shadow is in a sense, another version of you, that you repress as a result of your ego. 

"Who are you?". You don't recognize that person, you don't recognize that version of you.

For example, if you're a hard worker, you will reppress the part of you that's lazy. If you pride yourself for being beautiful, you will repress the part of you that's ugly.

It's why the Persona acts as a bridge that connects the ego consciousness to the outer world. You can think of ego as an extension from persona. Persona is what you want people to see you as, a mask you wear in public. And ego is who you think you are.

Now, let me ask you a question. 

Does shadow come first or light? 

It would be light, right? If there were no light, shadow would become darkness. In fact, you wouldn't even know that the shadow exists, because you can't see anything in the dark. Any light that is projected on any surface or place, is going to cast a shadow of some sort. This is the same with Jung's idea of Ego and Shadow. The shadow comes with the development of the Ego. 

And if you take a look at this chart, you can see Ego and shadow are opposites to each other, like yin and yang. 

Then you might look at this diagram and ask, "so are you saying anima/animus is the opposite to persona?" 

And to that, I reply with yes.

You can think of persona is materialism, because it is a mask you wear into the public. Most of the time, your persona doesn't display yourself as who you truly are. Instagram models, politicians, celebrities, they are definitely not who they say they are on tv in real life.

Now, with anima/animus, the reason why it is the opposite to persona, is because, say if you are a male. Now, you would have an anima. When you discover your anima and begin to truly understand it, your female side and male side (aka anima and animus sides) will begin to harmonize. And when you start to reach this balance between the two sides, you will be able to reach the final goal of individualization. You will start to get closer towards your inner world, towards the door that would lead you to your soul, because the map of the soul exists within you, and it is your goal to find and discover your soul, to reach the final goal of individualization.