Discover Top Posts Tagged with #fever part 2

Ateez's Full Storyline Explained - Part 4

Masterlist

Fireworks (I'm The One) (Z-World)

It's rather unclear what exactly is going on here but I'll once again present my personal theory/headcanon which aligns best with the canon info we get from the Diary Entries laid out below:

The Black Pirates are in their hideout and have just woken up from passing the Cromer on to Ateez (as seen in Fever Part 1) and are now gearing up for a fight against the Android Guardians who they know are right on their asses - this is the part we get to see in the MV

Storyline wise, however, we can elaborate on the surrounding events through context clues:

The Black Pirates absolutely don't want the Cromer to fall into the hands of the central government so they chose to hide it with the only people they can trust to pick up where they're now forced to leave off: themselves - or in this case, the next best thing: themselves from another reality

I believe Hongjoong was able to hand over the Cromer without actively traveling to the A-World by utilizing the dreamscape - this could either be because a cosmic lunar event enhanced the Cromer's powers or because both parties are alternate versions of each other and happen to be extremely powerful dreamers which allows them to access a part of the Cromer's powers others cannot

Either way, they could hand over the Cromer successfully and managed to put a quite a fight against the Android Guardians, as we get to hear in the song 'The Leaders' which directly follows this track

Another noteworthy moment of the MV is the burning the tree which I believe symbolizes two things:

It's - for one - them acknowledging their failure to fulfill their dream of chasing away the darkness with their voices (as the people of Strictland had hoped for - see: the Fever Part 2 concept teaser) as they know they're about to be captured - and in their minds, potentially killed

But two - it's also a symbol of renewal because they'll be handing the baton over to their alternate selves

In the end, the Black Pirates are captured before Ateez's arrival in the Z-World as we'll find out below

Fever Part 2 Diary Entries:

The Diary Entries take place after the happenings of the MV.

Ateez arrive in the Z-World, specifically in the Black Pirates’ hideout after the Cromer teleported them there

They immediately get confronted by Android Guardians who're breaking down the hideout's door and are described as "giants dressed in white" who are "wearing masks that cover their entire face" and "did not feel like people"

The Guardians want to get their hands on the Cromer (which is Ateez's only ticket back home) so they put aside their confusion regarding their entire situation and focus on getting to safety

From Hongjoong's entry:

I had to protect the Cromer and the members at the same time, but that was more like a gamble.

Noticing a shard of glass under his foot, Hongjoong takes the Cromer from Yunho and tells the Guardians he'll hand them the Cromer right before he chucks the shard out the broken window and shouts for his members to run away while the Guardians are distracted by the piece of glass

Hongjoong's distraction bought them enough time to get away and Ateez get some time to explore the hideout's surroundings which San notes, are very similar to their own hideout's back home

From San's entry:

Visible spaces were similar to the reality we knew but were also slightly different. [...] By the time I was immersed in such thoughts, I could hear the members laughing. The members, who had been taking a break for a while, were playing with each other, relieved that the Cromer was safe.

Note: This is the only other time outside of Fever Part 1 where we get San mentioning "Bobo" - this time in regards to there being a place nearby back home where Wooyoung had saved Bobo. I can only assume it's some neighborhood kid, or maybe a street cat or something. He never explains it.

While they're all resting in the middle of the forest, the Android Guardians catch up to them and attack them once again

They manage to grab Wooyoung by the ankle and drag him away which makes the remaining members jump into action

During the resulting fight, the Guardians get their hands on the Cromer just as a small avalanche of stones catches them by surprise

Ateez are quick to rush toward the cave where they spot a girl who gestures for them to enter where they also met her brother - he introduces them as the Grimes siblings

Tired, all of Ateez are quick to fall asleep while the Grimes girl tends to Wooyoung's injured ankle

The Grimes boy explains his sister's voice was stolen by the Android Guardians who can remove a voice and turn it into what looks like a bead filled with blue energy

The boy also offers more information on the world they'd found themselves in, such as the AI simulations the government had run to establish new policies that would ensure their desired futures which resulted in the ban of the arts and the use of technology to lower the citizens ability to experience emotion

All that led to the appearance of the men in black fedoras who'd made it their mission to return the arts to their world (a mission that landed them on the Government's Wanted list)

From Seonghwa's entry:

[The Central Government] put the blame on human emotions for causing crimes and terrorism that threaten humanity and so the key to their policy was to control the variables called human emotions. [...] As those days continued, men wearing black fedora began to appear one day. They sang and performed here and there and that and that was said to have the power to attract people. Being stimulated by these men, people who escaped the control began to appear. People from various fields formed a resistance against the central government and called themselves the 'Black Pirates'.

Due to the Black Pirates' ability to teleport with the Cromer, they'd been able to evade capture for the longest time but, at last, thanks to the Android Guardians, they'd finally been arrested

Side-Note: The fact that the Grimes siblings know about this now, as well as later instances suggest that the Black Pirates were captured at least some time ago which implies instances of time travel correlated to the upward flow of the sand in the Cromer in the Fever Part 1 Diary Entries. I explain this in more detail here.

Ateez listen to the story but as Seonghwa describes, none of it matters - what matters is that they can't back home without the Cromer and that was now in the hands of the Android Guardians

Despite everything that's happening, Yeosang takes a moment to write a letter to his father (a letter he can never send) detailing how trapped he felt in the life his parents had planned for him and how, despite it all, he feels more free here in the Z-World than he ever did back home, simply because his own decisions had led him here and he was still with his friends

He also takes a moment to describe the people he'd seen in the city after they left the woods; he says they never look at each other or the sky, always rushing around like they're being chased, they never talk about anything but their needs, never smile when "unnecessary" and move as if they were machine controlled

From Yeosang's letter:

I thought that maybe this place is not a new world, but that I'm just taking a microscopic look at the world I was living in. Father, I know you were shocked to see me singing and dancing with these friends. But I really wanted to escape the world I've lived in, the world I've been trapped in. I love my parents so much but I have never been happy in your world.

He proceeds to detail a past event in which his father kicked them all out of the empty garage they'd been using as a hideout, forcing them to separate; this is likely the incident that caused all of Ateez to split up in the Outro of the Fever Part 1 Diary Entries

It made Yeosang feel like it was his fault, that meeting him was the reason all their happiness was taken from them and it made Yeosang resent his father

But he doesn't want to feel like that anymore - he still loves him but doesn't want to blame him anymore and because of that, he doesn't plan to return to the world his father has created

Thanks to Wooyoung's nosiness, they find out about a man named Left Eye and how his position as the manager of the Strictland dump gives him knowledge about the Android Guardians' bunker which they can use to break in and get back the Cromer; their only way back home

From Mingi's entry:

Thanks to nosy Wooyoung, we decided to find out the location of the Android bunker as well as regain the voice of the Grimes girl. That dude is always so unnecessarily nosy like that.

The wording heavily implies that Wooyoung was the one who asked why the Grimes girl never speaks and then proceeded to offer all of Ateez's help once they got her story; it's certainly in line with his personality and lines up with how him and Mingi became friends (see: Fever Part 1 Diary Entries)

They decide to split into 2 teams: one will track down Left Eye while the other will find the Grimes girl's voice

The team in search of Left Eye find him in the yellow hallucination inducing fumes of the Strictland dump, mumbling to himself

(Side-note: We first get to see Left Eye on-screen in the Guerrilla MV and Teasers

Meanwhile, in search of the Grimes girl's voice, Jongho ties a rope around his waist, puts on a gas mask and enters a cave filled with toxic fumes

Inside, his old basketball rolls toward him and a game begins

While Jongho is trapped in his own hallucination, Yunho is facing down Left Eye

Here, we learn about Left Eye's background as a fashion designer who was repeatedly denied opportunities due to his unfriendly appearance

Regardless, he was known as a warm person with a passion up until he lost his daughter who got hit by a car when she tried to safe a flower that had bloomed on the roadside

From Yunho's entry:

People thought moving forward quickly was more important than looking around. Even after seeing the child on the street after getting hit by the car, people were busy passing by, pretending not to have seen anything. During that time, the child died slowly.

When Left Eye learned about this, he changed and shortly after, he saw the hallucination of his daughter in the Strictland dump fumes for the first time

And it was while wandering through those fumes, that the Android Guardians selected him as its manager

The story makes Yunho think of his brother and, instead of only seeking information about the Android Bunker which houses the Cromer, he now also wants to help Left Eye

This means luring him away from the fumes and making him realize the fumes were only showing him an illusion of his daughter

Back by the cave, with Jongho trapped in the illusion of the game, Yeosang gets increasingly worried and decides to put on his own mask and enters the cave to check on him, only to find him running straight toward a cliff

While that's going down, Yunho manages to lure Left Eye away from the fumes, but once freed from the hallucination, Left Eye gets furious

Everyone was unsure what to do but then Yunho shouted amid the silence. "Your daughter is dead!" Everyone looked at Yunho in surprise. "You're denying it because you don't want to believe it, but aren't you already aware of the truth?"

It only made Left Eye swing a big bat at Yunho

The entries end here.

#ateez #ateez lore #hongjoong #seonghwa #yunho #yeosang #san #mingi #wooyoung #jongho #fireworks mv #fever part 2 #fever series

I love ATEEZ’s b-sides so much and I thought it deserves some visuals so I did some title cards for each song! 🌼🌸❀✿🌷

✿ Time Of Love

✿ The Leaders

✿ Celebrate

✿ Take Me Home

https://open.spotify.com/album/1JMc8IZ1Jbax6m5OvswmAB?si=0GO6K5I5Ql6h7mj-8twF0A

#ateez #ateez fanart #time of love ateez #the leaders ateez #celebrate ateez #take me home ateez #fever part 2 #에이티즈 #hongjoong #seonghwa #yunho #yeosang #choi san #song mingi #wooyoung #jongho