LOONA Love&Live Theory
So it’s pretty collectively known that at the end of Love&Live, ViVi becomes human. But I haven’t really seen any discussion on exactly why that happens. So let’s discuss.
Focusing on the parts during the bridge and last chorus:
We see ViVi walking down a hall, looking at her bag/charging station before pulling out a plug, which causes a timer to be set off in 5 minutes.
When the timer has just passed 4 minutes, she is seen again with her galaxy eye.
We then see ViVi, somewhere on the track presumably, reminiscing on moments with 1/3 and the timer has passed 3 minutes
Finally we get to close to 2 minutes, and we see ViVi pull the plug off her bag before she runs from it down the hallway.
She then runs off the track as the timer has passed two minutes, running past a town or something before she enters a field running towards a fence blocking her from a forest with a small cottage visible.
She is then back to running in a neighbourhood as the timer runs out, and her galaxy eye flashes. The timer says ‘low battery’ before dying, and ViVi’s galaxy eye finally goes out; unlike the other times where she remained unaffected by exercise, she stops to regain her breath, signifying her becoming human (again?)
So what does it all mean?
Well, it’s obvious that the charger is specifically for ViVi’s galaxy eye, and only once it runs out does she become a human. Therefore ViVi can’t have the eye and be human at the same time. Given that we see ViVi make time to charge herself instead of spending it with Hyunjin and Haseul and that she walked slowly as if contemplating before she unplugs her bag, it’s implied that she knew the consequences of losing the eye but made the choice anyway.
In previous choruses (chori?? debate for another day), Heejin sings, “In my day, the problem of you is my biggest homework”, and ViVi joins her to sing, “I wanna solve it one by one”. However in the last chorus, Hyunjin sings Heejin’s part, with ViVi joining her to sing “I spend my days with a frustrated heart”. At the same time in the MV, Heejin passes a yellow baton to Hyunjin, then ViVi reminisces- while Hyunjin and ViVi don’t really have any important connection, I think that Hyunjin with yellow caused ViVi to have a realisation about the Loonaverse. This makes her realise that she needs to become human again.
I’ve basically used up my 10 image limit here, but I’d like to quickly bring up Rain51db: in some scenes, leaves and plants will be visible, and in other scenes, when lit up, the silhouette of a house in front of grass can be seen. Thus I believe that the cottage place seen near the forest is where Rain51db takes place. I also believe the forest is where Yeojin is lost, and where yyxy are in Eden but I’m willing to change my mind about that. Maybe the cottage is actually where love4eva takes place.
I’ll elaborate a bit more when I make more stuff (I say stuff because I don’t know or really care what the plural of analysis is) about videos ViVi appears in, because I think that she’s a key player in the LOONAVERSE. Feel free to comment, add or ask anything about this, because I worked hard on this and would love to discuss more!
