Hey guys! Continuing on from my timeline analysis of the LOONAverse, I will now be sharing my personal theories regarding LOONA's latest comeback # and "So What"!
If you haven't already, I recommend reading my timeline analysis before reading this...
Okay, so I felt kinda bad about this, but when I was discussing my analysis on the # teasers leading up to "So What", I briefly mentioned that there was something in "Rain 51db" that originally, I planned to bring up in the "So What" analysis, but forgot to. 😂
However, I decided to discuss it here, because Haseul's character and story in the LOONAverse is one full of mystery. And I believe that she has a tragic fate that the other members are trying to save her from.
So let's dive a little bit deeper into Haseul's story arc and see what's happening.
Rain 51db
Okay, so at the start of the music video for "Rain 51db", we are shown small clips of the 1/3 members' music videos:
Hyunjin's "Around You", 1/3′s "Love & Live", Haseul's "Let Me In", ViVi's "Everyday I Love You", and finally Heejin's "ViViD".
But did you notice that on top of the fact that we see bird Haseul instead of Haseul herself, that "Let Me In" wasn't actually playing in the clip?
All the other clips did, but not Haseul's. We just heard the sound of wind blowing.
But why are we seeing this and why don't we hear "Let Me In"?
Well, let's remember what we've been associating the VHS static overlay as: when we see something with a static overlay, it's a memory from one of the members, whether from a waking experience or a memory from a dream.
In the case of the clip for Hyunjin with the letters, Heejin sprinting on the track, and ViVi in the skating rink, they are memories from their waking life. But Heejin's "ViViD" is, for the majority of the video, a dream in Heejin's mind. She was imagining herself in a more luxurious life and world full of vibrant colors.
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So, what does this mean for Haseul's clip and "Let Me In"?
Well, I believe that what we see occur in "Let Me In" is actually all a dream in Haseul's mind, much like "ViViD" was for Heejin.
And the fact that what we see in the clip is Haseul's shadow self, along with the broken down plane, and don't hear the actual song, must mean that she's haunted by this dream. For Haseul, what she saw in her dreams was akin to a nightmare.
Now that we've re-established this connection, let's re-examine what we see happen in "Let Me In" in the context of it being a dream.
Let Me In
So, we already established that after "The Carol", Yeojin went missing and Haseul went in search of her. But maybe when we see her arrive at the black sand beach in Iceland, she wasn't actually there; she was only dreaming.
Let's say that Haseul's mind traveled to the dream world on the opposite side of the Moebius, since her thoughts were focused solely on finding Yeojin, and we see her shadow/dream counterpart appear.
