EXPLAINING SKZ COMEBACK LORE -KARMA
Karma is an upcoming album of Stray Kids, the word Karma already gives us a general theme about this album.
Karma refers to the concept of every action leading to a consequence based on that action. If you behave well, then you will have positive results and if you don’t, karma will either get you in this life or the next one.
This comeback is set in the future and more specifically in the year 2081, where a new edition of the KARMA Sports Event is about to take place.
In this future, the KARMA Sports Event is similar to the Olympics or the World Cup.
And here: only the best of the best can participate.
It seems that the first game was back in 2018, which is Stray Kids debut year - so basically even 63 years later they’re on top and still winning.
In the specific, this edition of the event seems to be a bit more special than usual because only the previous winners / champions can participate in the games.
The video shows us each winner one by one.
Felix won in 2080 as we see from his belt.
Changbin comes next and we see that he won in 2079.
His specialty seems to be boxing and in the background you can see the names of all the people he's won over.
In 2078 Han won, he’s a soccer player.
In the video we see him immortalised as one of the greats Maradona.
Much like real life champions we see children who want to play with him, who are even wearing his vest with the number and name - who seem like his fans.
They invite Han to play with them by kicking their ball to him, and well Han’s character here seems like a bit of an ass, because he looks at the children then smashes their ball with his foot.
Also to mention is that his mural is being covered in the same scene.
Han also seems to have been recently punched in the face? Maybe?
Which would make sense regarding his current behavior. May he be garnering some bad karma with his actions? - seems so.
Lee Know and Seungmin
Together they are playing a racing car game, Lee Know and Seungmin are actually teammates who won in the same year being the champions of 2077! I can presume their speciality is auto racing.
Bang Chan won in 2076, we don't see his specialty but we see he has different colored eyes.
Which reminds me of Gods Menu or ODDINARY era.
And I.N is the champion of 2075.
Once again we don't know his specialty since he’s just sitting and chilling on a rooftop until he gets hit by a Karma Coin.
Hyunjin is the winner of the year 2074, he’s a motorcycle racer.
Karma Coins
One cool detail of the video are the Karma Coins, which here seem to be used as an invitation to the games and a possible symbol of their karma points, because as we see at the end - all of the champions receive at least one coin.
Which this is a sign that they’ve earned their entrance to the games.
Changbin’s training results in a lot of coins.
When Lee Know and Seungmin finish the game they both receive a ton of them, but maybe because they are two people?
Bang Chan is showered with Karma Coins.
While the same can't be said with the rest who are: Felix, Han Hyunjin and I.N, because they all each only get one coin.
Does this mean that they have less karma points than the others in this story?
Could this be a clue that in the games they’re going to be hit with negative karma?
Alright but one thing is clear: the 2081 Karma Sports are all about excellence, with only the best competing to break their records.
But we'll have to see when the album drops!
creds go to bookish theories on yt!
and a lot of users on tiktok lmao
