TW: I'm sure if you're reading this, you've probably seen the MV. Please note that there may be images that are disturbing to some people, including things with blood and implied death. All translations either done by me through Google Translate or are from @txtonnews on Twitter! <3 EDIT: BIG HIT ADDED SUBS TO ETERNALLY!!!!!!!!11!1 The subs are now Big Hit's translations. Thank you, Big Hit ;-; SECTION TWO - Song of a Star - Soobin We start out right where we left off--Soobin is traveling down a warp tunnel/train thing. As he walks down the tunnel a little bit, the lights around him start to blur and distort until he is transported into what appears to be a memory. He starts to walk forward, although you can't make any of it out. One of the things that floats past him looks a little bit like one of the kids' masks from NOAS MV. (Fig. 2.1) Another looks like a scary face. (Fig. 2.2) Fig. 2.1 - Could this be the blue mask from NOAS? Fig. 2.2 - Some sort of creepy ghost thing is going on here... There are some star lights hanging around the place, probably showing that it's the "Starlight Festival." We also see a close-up of a lightbulb, which is the lightbulb from Magic Island MV. I saw a lot of people saying that the lightbulb in CYSM was the lightbulb from Magic Island, but they don't look very similar. However, these two are much more similar. (Fig. 2.3) To me, at least. I'm a clown in the end, so what does it really matter? :3 Fig. 2.3 - The two lightbulbs, with CYSM's lightbulb for comparison. (Left: Magic Island, Right Top: Eternally, Bottom Right: CYSM) After that, the scene clears a bit. Soobin is walking through the festival, surrounding by blurry people who aren't paying attention to him at all. He looks surprised by it all. He makes it out to the back of the festival, where a die rolls over and lands at his feet. When it stops, it sends out a burst of flame magic that sears a symbol into the grass for only a moment. (Fig. 2.4) He bends down to look at the die in wonder when a child holding an ice cream cone comes running over from the festival. He runs straight past Soobin and drops his ice cream on the ground. :( Soobin turns around to look at him and the kid stares back. After a moment, we get a close-up on the child's shoes, which he is standing on the back of. Where have we seen that before? That's right. The child is Hueningkai. Soobin seems to realize it too, just before baby Hyuka turns and runs into the darkness of the forest beyond. Soobin falls and begins to cry. :'( Fig. 2.4 - I wonder what that symbol means? If you haven't seen a translation of the lyrics for Eternally, I think you should look them up, or turn on Big Hit's captions. The lyrics for this part especially truly fit the plot of the music video. ("Please stop / This recurring nightmare every night / Your hand that is just out of reach") Before this section can end, however, they had to throw in another twist. The camera cuts to a hill, and over it steps a blue ghostly girl. Her hair is long and black, and her dress is white--we can tell this even with the blue tinge. A lot of people are theorizing that this may be Eunha or Umji from GFRIEND, but I don't know enough about GFRIEND's storylines yet to add my input on that opinion. Other people speculate that she is the mysterious ghost girl from Magic Island. I think that could be accurate, and if so, I have a deep gut feeling that she does not mean no harm. Either way, whoever she is, she seems to feel for Soobin, as she bends down and hugs him. (Gonna be honest, I'm really not sure how to feel about her.) (Fig. 2.5) Fig. 2.5 - Who are you? And what do you want with Soobin, in particular? "I always tear up after waking from a familiar dream." Sounds as if that may be a quote from Soobin. He's the one that usually is referenced as to having nightmares, and, well, this isn't the first time we've seen him cry in music videos. :') With those words, we cut abruptly to section three. SECTION THREE - Promise - Yeonjun This section starts with the same scene as before, we're in the practice room while the lights are flashing. This time, however, we are focusing on Yeonjun. After a couple of flashes, the lights all go out, except for a single spotlight where Yeonjun is standing alone. Behind him, a light comes on, almost as if a door was opened. He goes towards it. (Fig. 3.1) Fig. 3.1 - Okay, but these boys have the worst self-preservation instincts I've ever seen. Do not go into the light!! Yeonjun comes out on the other side of what seems to be a destroyed stadium--yes, the same stadium from the beginning. The camera makes a point out of showing us he comes out of a hallway marked A-3--why it's important, I don't know, but it must be. (Fig. 3.2) He seems to spot something down below him, so he peers over curiously. He sees himself. Dead. (Fig. 3.3) Fig. 3.2 - A-3?? Fig. 3.3 - Why does he seem to be the one always in peril? He just stares at himself for a moment, before turning to the side as if he heard something. There's no noise, however--he just sensed it. A pair of eyes--one green, and one blue, stare back at him from the depths of blackness. (Fig. 3.4) Welcome back, Odd-Eyed Cat. Literally no one missed you. Yeonjun is so hard to read. T.T I have no idea what he's thinking, he just stares at the cat. "I thought it was salvation, then." Sounds like someone made a very bad decision. But about what? Fig. 3.4 - Curse this stupid cat. Congratulations, you've made it halfway through the video!! Only about nine minutes remaining. :')
Check out the next part of my 'Eternally - +U Analysis and Theories' series here! - Ilona O'Connor
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