EXO Theory pt.

So, I’ve been watching the new EXO mv’s and some of their old ones and I’m trying to piece together what kind of story there is here? To me, after watching Monster particularly, it seems like Baekhyun’s a traitor. I know there is a bit of ambiguity in the ending of the mv, but I have my theories about that. First of all though, I need to talk about Kyungsoo, because I think his role is even bigger than Baek’s to be honest.

 

 

 

For this, I’m going to be assuming the order of the mvs goes as such:

MAMA/History/What is Love - Miracles in December - Romantic Universe - Lucky One - Overdose - Love Me Right - Pathcodes/Call Me Baby - Wolf/Growl - Monster - Sing For You 

 

Now. as to why I think Kyungsoo is the most important character in this story. Well, a lot of this comes from hints in Pathcodes, Lucky One and Monster. Personally, I think that Kyungsoo has an omniscience that allows him to watch and communicate with the other members. Particularly watching the members seems to be an important role in many of Soo’s scenes in mvs.

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In this scene in his Pathcode teaser he looks through this view hole and sees flashes of all the previous 9 members scenes from their own Pathcodes.

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In Monster I think this image/scene can have one of two meanings: either the cameras that Soo is sat upon are a reference to his own all seeing eyes, or he’s out of sight from the ‘red forces’ described in the opening narrative of MAMA. IMO, I think both are equally relevant to Kyungsoo’s position in the overall storyline. I am more inclined to believe that, as he’s sat on top of them, that they are representing his omniscience more strongly than the red forces.

This links in to my second belief of D.O’s role. I think that Kyungsoo is actually stronger than the other members in his power, and as such is impervious to the effects that the captors, the ‘red forces’, try to enforce upon EXO. I.e. making him The Lucky One. The reason for this belief is because D.O’s power is ‘Earth’ officially. Earth generally tends to be linked to nature, or Mother Nature, meaning that Soo could have an influence with all the powers of EXO members.

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In MAMA this is perhaps alluded to when it shows all the symbols of the 12 members and, especially, when it shows the planets aligning (’and the two worlds will become one’) and it zooms out to show D.O’s symbol especially, which then stands in the center position of the others when they join it. I think this is really highlighting Soo’s power and showing us that it might be more important than the others.

And then when you consider this alongside Soo’s mini scene in the Overdose opening…

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Soo receives a box of dirt/sand (either way, earth material) that is clearly heralding a message meant for him and him alone. I am not entirely sure what the flashing images mean but it could be related to their entrapment in the facility/maze/hospital wherever they really are. I have a theory that’s related to Xiumin and Suho here, but I won’t go into that right now.

This also hints towards Soo being strong enough in his power that it’s sending him hints. None of the others in Overdose use their powers at all, and in fact the powers are not hinted to at all other than for Soo. It is kind of the opposite in Lucky One, I think.

 

In Lucky One all the members are eager to escape the hospital they’re trapped in which is secured by the ‘red forces’ (red visored nurse robots). To escape they are using their powers, in some shape or form. The only two that don’t are Kai and D.O. Throughout the mv it becomes obvious that the powers have been diluted or weakened through whatever it is the nurses are injecting into them in the hospital, but there’s evidence of every other member using a power nonetheless. For Kai, I have two ideas. I do think that Kai and Soo (and another member, most likely Xiumin) are linked somehow, but I have not looked too far into that as of now. The other is that it might require more power than Kai has in the hospital, or he needs to know where he wants to teleport to when he does it? There are a few possibilities here.

Back to So though, he has no inclination of using his powers in Lucky One. In fact, Soo does not even (really) try to leave. We see him half running at one point, but he abruptly stops again and even backtracks.

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Out of all the members in Lucky One, he is also the least expressive throughout. The only time we see him make any other expression is when he is feebly struggling with bonds holding him to a gurney for a split second. But if Soo’s power is Earth and strength (and as shown in MAMA and such) shouldn’t it be easy for him to escape? 

My thoughts are that his real power has always been to be a connection to all the members, and therefore can influence many more powers than just strength. As a result, though, he has lost his power of strength. I have a little evidence for this idea:

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First is this scene from Lucky One. Soo looks up and glass explodes. All the other members in the room react except for Kyungsoo, who looks to have caused it to happen. 

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This is the maze from the end of Lucky One. Where the red circle is where we zoom up from Soo standing by himself and looking around. If we are to assume that the white lines are the members, then why doesn’t Soo turn into a line? Because he does not have a power anymore? (Also, I get that there are 12 lines here, but I do think 2 of them which have a little yellow next to them are small because they’re 2 halves rather than a whole but maybe this is just a moot point I do not know)

 

The last bit of evidence for this is the strongest, I think. From the end of D.O’s Pathcode teaser:

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At the end of all the other Pathcode teasers, it showed a clip of the respective member’s power with the words EXODUS over. But Soo’s just shows him rolling some marbles into some other marbles. Not Earth or something related. I am sure there are loads of theories about this already, but it seems very likely that the marbles are each of the (then) present members, and as such this is a controlling move over the other members. D.O is holding 3 marbles (I think they represent Soo himself, Kai and Xiu) and they directly hit 2 marbles, and another one gets displaced by the movement. 

To me, this is the strongest bit of evidence that implies Soo’s real power lies in connecting and even being able to influence and control what the members are doing. And with that power, I think Soo is trying to warn the other members about Baekhyun.