BTS Universe: a summary

made by: @bangtansaucepan

the smeraldo blog

The Smeraldo Blog is a 'spin-off' of the main plot of the BTS Universe. The viewpoint is the one of the florists who sells the Smeraldo to Seokjin - the same florist who runs over Seokjin's girl in the Highlight Reels. The posts, linked below, are very short and simple, and offer an insight on the world of this flower, the Smeraldo. The name of the blog is 'testesso'. 'Te stesso' in Italian means 'yourself'. Also, the meaning of the flower in Italian is 'non potevo dire la verità', which literally means 'I couldn't tell the truth', but it can also be translated as 'the truth untold'.

The blog was updated during the summer of 2017, 2018, and 2020. Most posts are the same, but since the temporal loops are different, also some events are different. They are always published right before a comeback: DNA for 2017, IDOL for 2018, and Dynamite for 2020.

All the posts from 2018
All the posts from 2017

Posts that are unique to 2020:

The third story
The ninth story
The tenth story
The eleventh story

The blog:

Testesso

introduction

‘HYYH’ a.k.a. ‘The Most Beautiful Moments in Life’ is the story of a group of friends who met by chance in high school and need to face the difficulties thrown in their way in order to remain together, especially when their past haunts them and problems start to arise. But what happens when one of them, Seokjin, is repeatedly sent back from the future to try to save his friends from their tragic fates? Will he be able to succeed on his own?

Trigger warnings: the story depicts scenes of violence, suicide, and mentally unstable characters, so be careful and take care of yourself. It’s extremely important to remember that no matter if this is an official storyline provided by the creativity of BigHit's writers, it’s nonetheless fiction. None of the events depicted are real and the characters are purely fictional, although inspired to the real counterparts.

media linked to bu

Official videos and MVs: o 2015 BTS LIVE TRILOGY: EPISODE I. BTS BEGINS Official Teaser
o I NEED U Official MV
o I NEED U Original
o PROLOGUE
o RUN
o I NEED U Japanese version
o RUN Japanese version
o WINGS Short Films
o Blood, Sweat and Tears
o Blood, Sweat and Tears Japanese Version
o Euphoria
o Fake Love Teaser 1
o Fake Love
o Fake Love extended version
o Epiphany
o Highlight Reels
The Notes posted on Twitter:o Her
o Tear
o Answer
The Notes from the albums: o Her
o Tear
o Answer
o Persona
o 7
Books:o ‘The Notes 1’
o 'The Notes 2'
'Save me' WebtoonHighlight Reels postersWings Concept Book@FlowerSmeraldo and @Smeraldo_Book profiles on Twitter:o @FlowerSmeraldo can be considered as the perspective of the florist Seokjin orders a Smeraldo flower bouquet from on the 15th of August year 22 (see ‘Love Yourself Loop’)
o @Smeraldo_Book promoted 'The Notes 1' and 'The Notes 2' books, and the Webtoon
The game

the pairings

There are some characters that seem to be extremely close to each other.

o Taehyung and Namjoon: Taehyung looks up at Namjoon as if he were his real brother and Namjoon also treats him as a little brother. They explicitly state this.

o Jimin and Hoseok: they are extremely close; in high school they walk home together and later they dance in the same dance company. Also, they share the same room at the hospital and it’s Hoseok’s idea to get Jimin out of there.

o Jungkook and Yoongi: at first, they don’t talk much, but then they end up spending a lot of time together. The nature of their relationship is much discussed, there are occasions in which they seem to be romantically involved. Surely, they are very close to each other.

o Seokjin is the one who needs to save the others. He finds himself in conflicts with them multiple times as he cannot explain what he is going through.

the summary

The temporal loops all start from April 11th of year 22. It’s not clear what they mean by ‘year 22’, it might be 2022, or the age of the oldest character (Seokjin), or neither, leaving the exact placement in time undefined. All the events that lead up to this day are not subject to loops, so they do not change when Seokjin goes back in time. The events take place in the fictional town of Songju, South Korea.

after april 11th, year 22:

The reason why I divided these two loops is because a new loop starts at the end of the book of The Notes 1, which was dropped around the time MOTS: Persona was released and contains notes from the Love Yourself era. Also, different events happen, or the same events happen on different days.

After april 11th:
'Map of the Soul' loop (year 22)

On the 11th of April year 22, Taehyung wakes up from a nightmare where Namjoon was dying because of a fire in his container. When he gets up, his palm hurts and is insensitive under the water. Later, he draws graffiti of Seokjin, whom, in his dreams, looked nearly sick. Meanwhile, Seokjin wakes up thinking of the events of the 30th of September, of Namjoon dying in the flames. He doesn’t know how to put a stop to this endless loop, but he was given a hint and that was to find the ‘Map of the Soul’. He gets up and goes towards the gas station where Namjoon works.

Taehyung sees Seokjin from afar on the 30th of April. He gets chills because he has the same expressions of his dreams. He sees Jungkook running and Seokjin dropping something on the floor to direct where Jungkook should go without being seen.

On the 2nd of May, Yoongi is told he will have a permanent scar. He wonders what would have happened if he did die and whether this is a new beginning.

Hoseok is on the bridge above the Yangjicheon river on the 10th of May. He was told the orphanage aunt is ill, and he is afraid she will abandon him like his mother did. He collapses.

On the 28th of May, Hoseok thinks about the fact that they haven’t talked since they’ve been to the sea. That day, Seokjin had climbed the observatory, Taehyung had gone after him and had stayed while Seokjin had climbed down and went away by car. They had all gone to Namjoon’s. Hoseok feels like he has a déjà-vu.

Jimin goes to lesson on the 29th of May because his parents want him to take a GED certificate. However, he doesn’t want to study and is scared of strangers. He feels like he’s getting worse than he was when he was at the hospital.

Seokjin has only one hint, the Map of the Soul. He goes through all the libraries to try to understand what that is. On the 30th of May, he feels lost.

On the 4th of June, Seokjin is in his father’s library where there is a paint about a sea during a storm and desperate men. Inside the library, there is a small room his father uses when he wants to collect his thoughts. He is scared of the cold atmosphere in there, and he cannot go in anymore.

It’s the 12th of June when Namjoon brings Taehyung in the place where the delivery boy died that snowy day. Namjoon tells Taehyung that whatever he wanted to ask a favour about at the sea, they should find a solution together.

On June 13th, Jungkook dreams of the accident. He wakes up screaming, and then he asks the doctor who is the one who ran him over. On the same day, Yoongi, drunk and sprawled on the floor, rethinks about Jungkook words: Jungkook had told him that he loves his music, that his music moves him, that he wants to die but when he hears Yoongi playing the piano he wants to live, and that it’s as if his feelings are talking through Yoongi’s music.

Woochang is an 8 or 10-year-old child Namjoon took with him once he realised he had been abandoned. It’s the 15th of June, and Woochang has been living with Namjoon at the container. Now, he’s eating his ramen.

On the 23rd of June, Yoongi checks the group chat created by Jimin. Taehyung asks what the Map of the Soul is, and Namjoon answers that Seokjin as well asked him the same thing without providing a clear explanation as to why. Jungkook is still not in the group chat, and Jimin says it’s because he first needs to get better after the accident.

On the 18th of July, Jimin sees some graffiti Taehyung left behind. They portray Seokjin and someone else he doesn’t recognise. Suddenly, he knows who he has to talk to. Later in the day, Namjoon and Taehyung are in front of Seokjin’s father’s building. The two of them have been searching around tall buildings during the night because Taehyung keeps dreaming of canned coffees and four-leaf clovers. Namjoon reflects on how Taehyung is sometimes much more innocent than he and sometimes much braver than he.

Taehyung and the others go back to the classroom-turned-storage on the night of July 23rd. They find the name of Seokjin’s father on the wall and other names. One belongs to someone who is in a mental hospital. Another one belongs to Choi Gyuho, who has disappeared. Under these names there is a sentence: ‘Everything started from here’.

On the 24th of July, Taehyung is on a bench in a park who sees a woman smoking outside of the window of a building. Counting the doors behind her, he realises that’s his mother.

Jimin is the first to arrive at Namjoon’s container where they are going to hold Jungkook’s discharge party on the 24th of July. Hoseok barges in asking Seokjin to please tell his father not to get rid of the orphanage to redevelop the centre of Songju, but Seokjin tells him there is nothing he can do, and Hoseok, angry with himself for not being able to do anything, takes out his rage on Seokjin. The atmosphere is tense. Seokjin goes towards his car, and Jungkook thinks he sees traces of an incident on its bumper.

It’s July 26th when Jungkook goes back to the place of the incident. He wonders who he can trust if he cannot trust his hyungs.

Hoseok is in Hagok on July 31st. He wants to behave the exact opposite as he is, so when he crashes into someone he is rude and tells them to watch their steps. However, it’s someone who calls him hyung, meaning they know each other.

Yoongi sends Seokjin a music file on August 2nd. It’s an old music piece. On the music sheet someone wrote, ‘If we are together we can smile’. Yoongi is sure it’s Seokjin who wrote it, and this is how he titles the piece.

Seokjin and Taehyung have a fight on the 3rd of August in the classroom-turned-storage. Someone falls, and the wall behind them collapses to reveal a hidden area. Inside there is an old notebook. On the first page there is Seokjin’s father name. The notebook recorded every time he tried and failed, and at the end he had given up. Seokjin thinks it’s not a coincidence he found it in that exact place, and he thinks it’s a step forward to finding the Map of the Soul. On the same day, Jungkook, playing a videogame set in a place that reminds him of Songju, is shot by an enemy. He associates him with Seokjin, and he cannot contain his rage. Meanwhile, Seokjin finally remembers everything that happens. The intensity of his memories is so high he can barely stand. He wonders how he could ever forget them. Something is shining in his pocket.

On August 12th, Jimin has a vision where he hugs his younger self, telling him to stay strong. He now is at the arboretum. Differently from when he was 8, now it’s not raining, and the sky is clear.

On the 25th of August, Namjoon and Woochang are trapped in the fire inside the container because some materials fell in front of the entrance and blocked it.

On August 29th, Seokjin gives the diary back to the girl he met before, who is disappointed.

After april 11th:
'Love Yourself' loop (year 22)

APRIL
On the 28th of April, Taehyung is having a nightmare in Namjoon’s container on the railway. Namjoon wakes him up and Taehyung explains his dream, which is his recurring one. Then, he asks Namjoon not to leave him.

MAY
It’s the 2nd of May, and Seokjin knows that Yoongi by now is drunk with a lighter in a hand and his phone in the other. Seokjin knows it’s much more difficult to save Yoongi than the others because every loop he changes both time and place for his attempts. He realises Jungkook is the only one who can save Yoongi, so he makes sure Jungkook goes to Yoongi’s workroom today. There’s a shattering sound, then Yoongi stumbles out and Jungkook tries to follow him. Seokjin drops hints to direct Jungkook and bring him to a motel. Yoongi sets the sheets on fire and just before losing consciousness sees Jungkook entering the room. Jungkook feels an unbearable anger and fear, he grabs Yoongi and drags him out despite the flames, shouting that he thought they would all go together to the sea. Later, Jungkook, shocked, is in Namjoon’s container. Namjoon takes care of him and Jungkook asks him if he’ll be able to become an adult like him.

It’s the 10th of May when Hoseok collapses because of narcolepsy and is brought to the hospital in a room shared with five other patients. Whenever he collapses, he always dreams of his mother.

Jimin has a small fight with a patient from the psychiatric ward, they are slightly injured, and that’s why he is temporarily moved to another ward. Jimin talks about how he always lies to the doctor saying he doesn’t remember anything so that his life will be easier. Next to him, someone is having a nightmare. On the morning of the 11th of May, he discovers the patient is Hoseok. Their friends visit Hoseok, but Jimin hides. The day after, the 12th of May, Hoseok thinks he sees his mother, he runs after her but he slips. Jimin catches him in time. Hoseok is discharged, but he keeps telling Jimin he will be back for him. And that’s why Hoseok and the others help Jimin escape from the hospital on the 15th of May after having a small party in one of the hospital lounges. Jimin goes home with Hoseok. On the 16th of May, he is in the balcony of his rooftop room looking for his apartment complex. He doesn’t want to go home yet, and he is scared he won’t be able to live without returning to the hospital. Hoseok shows Jimin where his orphanage is and then he tells him his narcolepsy is fake. Jimin simply asks if he’s okay now, and then they laugh together.

On the 19th of May, Jimin decides to go back to the arboretum. He asks Yoongi, who was casually strolling in his direction, to go with him.

It’s the 20th of May when Hoseok gets Taehyung out of the police station and walks him home. Then, as he’s turning back, he receives a call from Seokjin who tells him to go back in and ask Taehyung if he wants to go on a trip to the sea all together. Hoseok does, and by entering Taehyung’s house he’s able to stop Taehyung from killing his father. Taehyung sees Hoseok out, and then he feels a desperate need for Namjoon. In his head, he killed his father thousands of times, and now he nearly did it for real. He just wants to see Namjoon.

The trip to the sea takes place on the 22nd of May. Before going to the sea, they make a fire at Namjoon’s container. They run and race on the beach. Then, Jungkook goes near Taehyung, asking if the observatory was already there a few years ago when they came to the same beach. Taehyung remembers jumping from it in his dreams. Right now, however, it’s Seokjin who is climbing the observatory while seemingly taking pictures of them. Then, Taehyung hears Namjoon talking on the phone about him and saying he should start to take care of himself because he’s now an adult. Taehyung feels pathetic and is afraid of becoming a violent person like his father. Later, Seokjin wants to confess the time when he snitched on them in high school. However, Taehyung gets angry because it’s because of Seokjin that Yoongi got expelled and asks him if he has something to hide. Namjoon tries to stop Taehyung, but Taehyung shoves him away telling him that he’s not special, he’s not even his real brother. Then he adds that at the very end they are all on their own, and Seokjin slaps him. Everyone starts to go away. Jimin tells Hoseok he is going home to his parents. It’s now night, and Jungkook is hit by a car (spoiler: it’s Seokjin). A voice tells him that living hurts more than dying and asks him if he still wants to live.

It’s the 31st of May, Hoseok is dancing and he feels like he cannot see his friend of 10 years anymore because she reminds him of his mother.

JUNE
On the 8th of June, Yoongi wants to smoke, but since he doesn’t find his lighter, he switches to a lollipop instead. As he’s getting up he receives a message. The name of the sender has three letters. He instantly smiles.

It’s the 13th of June when Seokjin receives a message from Hoseok that Jungkook was hit by a car on the 22nd of May. In fact, Hoseok discovers about the accident at work because Jungkook’s classmates tell him. Hoseok is disappointed because nobody knew nothing for twenty days. He and Jimin visit Jungkook in the hospital. Jimin tells him he joined a dance crew. Taehyung calls Hoseok promising he’ll go right now to the hospital, but once he arrives, he hears Namjoon and Seokjin’s voices. He is still not ready to face them and goes away. Namjoon, after visiting Jungkook at the hospital, returns to the container for the first time since he argued with Taehyung. These days, Namjoon is solely focused on working at the gas station and going to the library.

On June 15th, Yoongi keeps working on the same piece although he feels something is missing. Lately, he’s been working with a music partner, a very outright and straightforward girl who plays the guitar and who doesn’t hesitate in telling him what she thinks about his pieces and to try to correct his bad habits. She tells him they will meet tomorrow at the hospital where she performs in front of the patients. Yoongi checks the phone for the first time in hours and gets a call from Jimin who tells him Jungkook is in the hospital. Yoongi runs like crazy to get there, but as soon as he spots Jungkook laying down as if he was dead, he panics and runs away. He cries for the first time in forever at the thought of Jungkook being like this. While he’s going back, someone grabs him, but he shoves them away because he doesn’t want to hurt anyone else. Meanwhile, Jungkook, who can now use crutches instead of a wheelchair, goes outside with his sketchbook. The girl he met in the hallway the day before sits next to him and starts talking to him while he draws. Then, he hears a familiar sound. It’s a piece belonging to Yoongi. He raises his head and see Yoongi’s partner playing the guitar. Hanging from the instrument, he spots a lighter with the letters ‘YK’ written on it.

Namjoon has a déjà-vu on the 20th of June. In the crowd, he spots a girl with her hair tied up with a rubber band.

Someone is following Taehyung on the 25th of June. It turns out it’s a young girl. They seem like they will get on well.

JULY
Hoseok is in a sour mood on the 3rd of July because he always tries to help his friends, but he does not always feel as well as he shows. He goes away from the practice room without a word. Jimin notices that the only person who can make him laugh is an old friend from the orphanage, a girl he has known for years who is also his dance partner. Jimin stays behind as always to keep practicing, even if he keeps messing up his steps. Tomorrow he will meet his dance partner and he wants to be treated as an equal. He remembers the day he went home for the first time after having fled from the hospital: his father had simply told him to go to his room while his parents decided what to do with him.

It’s the 4th of July when Jimin and his dance partner tumble down on the floor after they messed up their steps. As soon as he sees the blood coming from a scratch on his arms, he thinks back to what happened in the arboretum. When he comes back to reality, he runs out in the rain with an umbrella and sees Hoseok carrying his dance partner on his back towards the hospital. He goes back pretending to be okay. Hoseok brings the girl to the hospital. While he waits for her, he spots some flight tickets on her bag. He realises that she passed an audition overseas and that she will leave soon.

Hoseok’s ankle swells on the 5th of July and by the 7th of July it only worsens because he keeps going to work and to dance practice.

Taehyung is running away from the police on the 10th of July. He has started graffitiing again because of a girl he met in a convenient store while she was trying to steal. Since then, they kept spending time together and he taught her how to draw graffiti. Now, he cannot escape from the police, so he voluntarily surrenders.

Namjoon goes through his usual, alienating routine on the 13th of July: he leaves the library and hops on the bus. He sees the girl who always comes to the library and takes the same bus every day, but with whom he never talked. She also hands out fliers. Since she ties her hair with a yellow rubber band, he bought a headband for her which he places on her backpack while she is sleeping on the bus because he doesn’t want to wake her up. Once he reaches the bus stop, he sees some graffiti left behind by Taehyung, who is nowhere in sight.

Namjoon and Seokjin have a heart to heart conversation on July 14th at a tent bar. Seokjin confesses Namjoon everything that brought him to snitch them to the principal in high school. Namjoon tells him to say the same things to the others, but Seokjin doesn’t know how to bring up the topic and how to make them believe him.

Hoseok tells Jungkook on the 16th of July he wants to organise a party when he will be discharged next week. Jungkook is now able to sing a song whose lyrics he finds embarrassing, but that his friends like.

It’s July 20th, and Namjoon has been seeing a new girl at the library for the past few days. He starts studying from a book he used in high school.

Seokjin would love to go at Jungkook’s discharge party at Namjoon’s container on the 24th of July, but his father doesn’t care and drags him to a meeting about Songju’s redevelopment. At the container, only Jimin, Taehyung, and Jungkook are there. Jungkook decides to go away without waiting for Namjoon and Taehyung walks with him. However, once at home, Taehyung and his sister have to deal with the police officers who were called by someone who thought their father was hitting them. Taehyung, realising his sister still keeps in contact with their mother, asks where she lives and runs towards her neighbourhood, followed by Jungkook. They decide to stop and eat once they arrive in the city centre. They buy instant noodles, but a random homeless man starts eating Taehyung’s noodles. A group of troublemakers pick up a fight with them until they hear the sound of sirens. In the end, Taehyung tells Jungkook to go back and they go on a hill to see the sunrise. Once on the bus, they spot the homeless man again. On this day, we also discover that the day Taehyung’s mother decided to abandon them, he followed her, but she never turned her head.

Hoseok meets Yoongi on the 25th of July. Yoongi is drunk on the pavement, and Hoseok snaps at him. He also asks him if he knows what he means to Jungkook and tells him to either stop running away or not come back anymore. Yoongi wakes up a few hours later, soaked by the rain. He did hope Hoseok would be kind with him. He starts walking aimlessly towards the mountain. He thinks he is going to die when he hears the sound of a piano and he realises that’s what was missing from his piece. He remembers a day when Jungkook told him he liked the piece he was playing. He follows the sound, decides to finish his piece, and finds himself back on the main road.

Jungkook is finally out of the hospital by the 26th of July, and he wants to bring some flowers to the girl who was like a breath of fresh air in such a suffocating environment. He first met her while he was going down the hallway in his wheelchair. They usually talked until late on the bench, and they went on a trip to the beach. They listened to music together while drawing and drank strawberry milk on the rooftop. Everything he talked to her about included his friends. He excitedly picks the flowers, but when he gets to her room he finds it empty. He also feels a bit empty inside.

Jimin hasn’t seen Hoseok for a while, so he goes to his workplace on the 28th of July only to discover he is on sick leave. Jimin keeps practicing hard every night at the studio and he is slowly starting to enjoy dancing and liking himself. Meanwhile, Yoongi can finally get up from the bed after two days and walks up to the music shop whose window he shattered with a stone. He thinks about how Hoseok hasn’t answered Jimin’s message asking him where he was.

On the 29th of July, Yoongi promises himself he will keep doing music, because even if it hurts him, it frees him. He suddenly wants to play the piano and meet his real self. He feels like he can do it.

AUGUST
On the 7th of August, Namjoon leaves the lights on at the container like he always does. It’s a sign for his friends to come by whenever they want.

On August 11th, Taehyung finds out that a big ‘X’ has been sprayed over some of his and the girl’s graffiti. He feels a bit betrayed, especially after all the time they spent together. He hasn’t see her since the day he protected her from the police and surrendered alone. Now he is going home. His father is hitting his sister. He tries to hold him down even if he is hitting him now because he wants to change and protect his family.

Hoseok explores the cities nearby Songju during his sick leave. He sees a man dancing at an auditorium who captures his attention, and later decides to start touring with his staff. He enjoys touring, but when the staff ask him if he wants to officially join them, he turns them down saying he needs to get the cast on the ankle off. Before going back to Songju, he messages Yoongi who sends him an audio file and asks when he is coming back. On the 12th of August, Hoseok goes back to Songju by train. He sends a message to the group chat asking how they have been doing.

It’s the 13th of August when Hoseok goes back to the dance studio. Jimin and a girl are practicing for a routine that Hoseok was supposed to do. He won’t be able to dance for a while because he has to recover. Jimin is happy. Hoseok speaks with the girl who is supposed to go abroad and tells her to meet each other again when they are both famous dancers.

Seokjin sees the girl for the first time at a railroad crossing. He is sad because he feels that Jungkook doesn’t trust him. The girl drops her diary and Seokjin reads it, finding a list of things she would like to do with someone she loves and that Seokjin does with her without telling her he has her diary. The girl seems to like the Smeraldo flower, so Seokjin, on the 15th of August, finds the only florist who sells it and orders a bouquet for the 30th of August because he wants to make her happy and confess his love to her during the firework festival.

On August 29th, Hoseok suggests they meet for the firework festival. Everyone says yes, even Seokjin who says he will be there after his date. They will meet at Namjoon’s container. Taehyung tries not to think too much of the fact that he had a dream in which a girl was dying in a car accident. Later that night, Yoongi goes towards the container. He finished his piece and titled it ‘Hope’. Jungkook also arrives at the container, he sees Jimin and Hoseok are there as well. He feels uneasy. They hear the first fireworks. Meanwhile, Seokjin receives his bouquet but there is no card, so he calls the florist back. The girl is arriving, but she gets hit by the Smeraldo flower delivery truck which was turning around and dies. The fireworks start, and Seokjin hears the sound of a mirror breaking.

april 11th, year 22

THE FIRST LOOPS: THE WEBTOON

In April and May there are a lot of tragic events taking place: Taehyung kills his father, Namjoon ends up in a detention centre for fighting at the gas station with a customer and not wanting to settle, Jungkook jumps from the roof of a building and dies, Hoseok falls hard on the ground and is brought to the hospital, Yoongi sets fire to a room and dies, and Jimin is hospitalised. When Seokjin discovers this on the 22nd of May, he goes to the beach wondering where all went wrong. However, a small cat persuades him to go back in time to try to straighten all the mistakes and save the others. The glass breaks, and when Seokjin wakes up it’s the 11th of April again.

Seokjin thinks he is forgetting something but doesn’t remember exactly what. For the first two loops, he sees Jungkook falling from the rooftop and dying. Then, right before the third loop, a voice tells Seokjin that this is his fate, that he can’t get out of it alone, and how to remember the loop when he wakes up. This is how Seokjin finally understands he’s going back in time. He decides to do something to save the others once and for all. First, he goes to the gas station and meets Namjoon to prevent the fight from happening. Then, Seokjin tells him they have to find Jungkook by the end of the day. He promises they’ll all go back to the beach when they are together again. Meanwhile, Jungkook is being beaten up by two thugs on the street.

Namjoon and Seokjin find him on the rooftop and stop him. Yoongi calls Jungkook who doesn’t answer, so he sets the room on fire. Seokjin, Namjoon, and Jungkook find out that Yoongi is in the hospital. They go see him and then the glass cracks again. Seokjin wakes up crying on the 11th of April. He goes to both Namjoon and Jungkook, and he asks Jungkook if he keeps in contact with Yoongi. Meanwhile, Taehyung has called Namjoon to be let out from the police station. When asked, Taehyung says he saw Yoongi in his dream. Yoongi sets the room of a motel on fire. Seokjin cannot save him, so the glass breaks again, and a new loop starts.

Seokjin goes outside Jungkook’s school and asks him when the last time he saw Yoongi was. It sounds like the last time they saw each other is when they when they had a big argument. Taehyung says he saw Yoongi in his dreams, but in a place different from the one Jungkook is referring to. Seokjin, Namjoon, Taehyung, and Jungkook have a small argument in the car, and this causes Seokjin to crash against a truck. Everyone but him dies. The glass breaks, and we are back to the 11th of April.

Seokjin draws a map about who to save and in which order. He tracks Yoongi and successfully drags him out of the room on fire before it’s too late. However, once in the hospital, Yoongi tells him he should’ve let him die. A month later, the police is running after Taehyung because he’s doing graffiti. Taehyung goes to Namjoon and asks to sleep there for a night. Meanwhile, Jimin is in the hospital. Here, he meets Hoseok who tells him he is narcoleptic. They haven’t seen each other in two years. Hoseok sees a woman who looks like his mother, he tries to follow her but ends up falling down the stairs. The glass breaks again.

We’re back to the 11th of April. On May 10th, Seokjin, after having saved both Namjoon and Jungkook, goes on the bridge where he knows Hoseok will fall and he catches him right on time before he collapses to the ground. Hoseok and Namjoon later think that Seokjin is behaving weirdly, and they think he is in trouble. Hoseok goes away on a scooter and Namjoon, probably because of what happened when he still lived in the countryside village, tells him something like, bro, if you die I’ll kill you. Hoseok tries to follow Seokjin to get to the bottom of his strange behaviour, and he sees him getting out of a building with Yoongi on his shoulder. They bring him to the hospital. Hoseok wanders on his own at the hospital and trips on the stairs, but Jimin catches him. Again, it’s the first time they’ve seen each other in two years. Hoseok suggests to get out of there. Seokjin then tries to stop the others who are trying to sneak Jimin out of the hospital and has a small fight with Taehyung. Hoseok explains that Jimin has been locked in for two years. Seokjin agrees in helping them, but Jimin’s mother enters and brings Jimin back to his room, reprimanding and slapping him. Jimin asks Seokjin to get him out of there after he nearly drowned himself in the bathtub. Seokjin agrees, they get in the car, but Jimin notices they are going in the direction of the arboretum and runs out of the car, panicking.

The loop starts again, and Seokjin is not so sure he is able to save someone. However, they are actually able to get Jimin out of the hospital and they all go party at Namjoon’s. Jimin doesn’t still want to go home to his parents. Seokjin suggests to go to the beach. On May 20th, Taehyung kills his father on a whim after seeing him slapping his sister. The glass breaks again and Seokjin is back to the 11th of April.

He waits for the 20th of May, tries to stop Taehyung from killing his father but by accident gets stabbed with the broken bottle instead. Seokjin wakes up again on the 11th of April.

For every loop, there is Taehyung saying he has a recurring dream where Yoongi is in the fire, Jungkook falls from a rooftop, Hoseok gets hurt, Jimin is locked in a hospital, Taehyung kills his father, and Namjoon is in prison. Seokjin also remembers that, on the 22nd of May during one of these loops, Taehyung climbed the observatory on the beach and then jumped. Every time Seokjin starts a loop, he opens the courtains and looks out of the window.

before april 11th, year 22

YEAR 9
Hoseok lives in an orphanage. His mother abandoned him at a playground: she handed him a chocolate bar, told him to close his eyes and to count to 10. When he opened his eyes, she was gone. Today it’s the 30th of August, the day of the Festival of Fireworks of Songju, and his hyungs from the orphanage bring him on the rooftop to see them.

On October 10th, Seokjin and his friend, Mr. Choi’s son, run away from some men who are after the latter because apparently his father owes them money. They hide in Seokjin’s house, but Seokjin’s father snitches on the boy handing him to the men and tells Seokjin, who is crying, to be a good boy.

YEAR 10
Taehyung meets Seokjin for the first time on the 28th of February when he goes to the supermarket to play with the dog as usual. Here, he finds another boy, Seokjin, already playing with him. After trying to hide, he makes eye contact with the boy and decides to talk to him.

On the 23rd of July, Hoseok is asked in class by the professor to count to 10. However, while doing it, Hoseok remembers the day his mother abandoned him and collapses to the ground.

On the 29th of December, Taehyung jumps in his father’s arms because he is happy to see him finally home. However, he gets hit while being insulted and then gets thrown against the wall by his own drunk father.

YEAR 11
Jimin goes to the school picnic at the arboretum on the 6th of July. He is on his own, his parents not bothered enough to show up at their 8-year-old son’s school event. When it’s time to go home, he is momentarily left alone by the teacher, so he starts running by himself under the pouring rain. He goes towards a warehouse just inside the back gate. What happens in there is unknown, but it’s enough to scar Jimin for the years to come and to trigger his seizures.

YEAR 12
Seokjin’s mother has recently died, so his father decides to send him to Los Angeles to live with his grandmother. On July 21st, Seokjin goes to the airport with just his driver.

On September 30th, the side of the road collapses and people, panicking, form a crowd in front of it. Jungkook gets curious and wants to check what happened. He nearly falls into the hole. Then, he notices something sparkling into it.

YEAR 15
It’s May 21st and Namjoon gets home later than usual without telling his parents. However, nobody is home. The phone starts ringing, and he has a bad feeling about it. Eventually, he decides to answer the call.

Yoongi goes home running on the 25th of July because his mother gives him piano lessons. He doesn’t have time to rest, so he can’t concentrate. His mother keeps scolding him until he can’t take anymore and he starts screaming and throwing stuff around, hitting the piano and breaking a key.

YEAR 16
Namjoon hands out flyers to pedestrians. He works illegally since he’s a minor, but his father is ill, and they need to pay for his treatments. They are also behind with bills. His mother quits her job a week before June 21st.

On September 19th, Yoongi’s house burns down. His mother remains trapped inside and dies.

YEAR 17
Jimin has a happy dream where he goes on a car trip with his parents and performs on stage with his friends, his parents being proud of him and clapping from the audience. When he wakes up, it’s August 20th and he is in a hospital bed crying because he didn’t want the dream to end.

On September 11th, Jungkook stops waiting for his father, who abandoned both him and his mother when he was 7, to send him his birthday wishes.

YEAR 18
The 2nd of May is the day in which Namjoon and his family have to move to a storage room for a few days because his brother fought with the owner’s son who came to solicit the rent, and they were thrown out of the house.

It’s the 10th of December when Jimin is transferred for the fifth time to a new middle school. He reminisces when, before the incident at the arboretum, he loved to play on the swings.

YEAR 19
Seokjin comes back from the U.S. at the end of February and is transferred to a new school. Here, on the 2nd of March, he meets the principal and promises to both him and his father to be on his best behaviour.

The 12th of March is the day in which, for the first time, the seven of them meet all together. Jimin gets detention because he came late to school, and when he goes to the classroom-turned-storage he finds that the others are already there. They spend time together as if they have known each other since forever and that place becomes their secret hideout.

They have lunch all together on March 15th. The mood is lively. Yoongi, used to always be careful on how to behave during meals, for the first time is at peace, and the others don’t notice he’s speaking while eating.

On the 28th of May, Jungkook is assigned some homework. To do it, he asks the others what their dream is. Seokjin says that he wants to become a good person, Yoongi thinks you don’t need to have a dream, Hoseok wants to become a superhero and defeat the bad guys, Taehyung wants to find his mom and live happily, Jimin doesn’t know, and Namjoon just wishes his part-time job paycheck was higher. Jungkook doesn’t know either.

On the 12th of June they skip school together and decide to go to the sea on foot following Yoongi’s suggestion. In fact, they were supposed to go to the arboretum, but upon seeing Jimin’s expression, Yoongi suggested they go to the sea instead. Jungkook and the others race for a while and then they lay under a torn parasol. Later, they decide to walk until they find the exact place where, according to the internet, they can find a rock that turns dreams into reality. Jungkook and Yoongi start a conversation with Yoongi telling Jungkook not to bite his nails and Jungkook asking Yoongi some deep questions. Unfortunately, when they arrive at the place, they find out they rock has been blown into pieces to make space for a resort. Nevertheless, they scream their dreams towards the sea and take a picture that Jungkook asks to keep.

On the 25th of June, Seokjin finds his father’s name written on the wall of the classroom-turned-storage with a sentence under it: ‘Everything started from here’.

It’s the 30th of August, and it’s been one year since Jimin was discharged from the hospital. While walking home with Hoseok, he can’t but think when the next time he will be hospitalised is.

YEAR 20
On the 20th of March, Taehyung hears Seokjin talking on the phone with the principal in the classroom-turned-storage room. He is snitching on Taehyung and Yoongi. Taehyung hides, and Seokjin gets caught by Namjoon who tells him that it’s okay and that he must have had an explanation as to why he did so. Taehyung reasons that Namjoon is much more mature and clever than he is, so he decides to behave as if nothing happened.

Namjoon goes to their school for the last day on the 15th of May. He needs to move because his family needs treatments for his father and is behind in bills payment. He writes ‘I must survive’ on a piece of paper and ‘See you again’ on the window with his finger.

Taehyung lost sight of his dog Doobu on the 7th of June. He looks for him desperately until he hears him bark and hugs him close. Living with him is his only happiness. He feels like at least for someone, his dog, is a place to return to.

On the 25th of June, Jungkook is alone in the classroom-turned-storage room playing the piano. A few days ago, he was laying on two desks in the same room while listening to Yoongi playing the piano and feeling moved by it. Suddenly, a professor entered the room and started slapping Jungkook, but then Yoongi pushed the teacher in order to protect him and was expelled. Jungkook wonders whether Yoongi would still be there if it wasn’t for him. Meanwhile, Yoongi is at home. He can’t stand living with his father anymore after four years have passed since his house burnt down. He throws from the window a half-burnt piano key that he was keeping in his drawer.

Summer holidays start on the 17th of July, and Seokjin avoids talking to Hoseok and Jimin because he feels guilty as it is his fault that Yoongi was expelled. In fact, when he talked to the principal on the phone, he snitched on their hideout because he thought nobody would be there. He thinks he ruined all their happy memories by trying to live like his father wants him to.

Jimin has a seizure on the 15th of September and Hoseok brings him to the emergency room, where he meets Jimin’s mother. Jimin never returns to school and Hoseok doesn’t see him again.

It’s now the 28th of September, and Jimin can’t remember how long he’s been at the hospital. However, today he lies for the first time and says that he can’t remember anything of what happened at the arboretum.

A professor asks Jungkook on the 30th of September if he still goes out with his friends. He lies saying that he doesn’t. On the same day, he goes to the classroom-turned-storage for the last time and sees Hoseok gathering all their stuff. He understands it’s the end of the time they spent together.

YEAR 21
The first time Hoseok danced was at a talent show in school. When he dances, he feels happy. Now, on the 25th of February, he is dancing in front of the mirror.

On the 2nd of May, Jungkook decides to go by bike along the desert bank of the Yangjicheon river. He doesn’t want to see anyone at home or outside. He thinks about his friends, whom he hasn’t heard from in months.

It’s August 9th, and Seokjin has been in Los Angeles for a year. He likes taking pictures of the sea, but he hasn’t taken pictures of people since he left his friends in his old high school. He believes pictures capture emotions, so he is scared of even watching those pictures again.

Namjoon, after he left Songju, moved with his family to a small village in the countryside where he worked as a delivery boy for a small restaurant. There was a guy working with him who reminded him of Taehyung, so that’s how he called him. Because of an unfortunate incident a day when the snow was falling heavy, this guy slipped on the road while returning from a delivery and died. Namjoon was supposed to make that delivery, and that’s why he had sprinkled salt on the street and scattered some leaves. However, these actions turned out to be deadly. Namjoon reflected about what happened, then the same day his father told him to go away to survive. It’s now the 17th of December and Namjoon is going back to Songju by bus.

YEAR 22
Seokjin goes back to Songju on the 1st of February because his father suddenly called. Seokjin doesn’t feel home neither in Songju nor in Los Angeles.

Hoseok reached his 19th year of age, and by the 25th of February he cannot stay in the orphanage any longer. Therefore, he decides to go living in the rooftop room of a building on top of the hill. It’s the highest point of the town. He has recently got a high school diploma, so he can work more hour at the burger joint 'Two Star Burger'. He likes working there because it makes him a better person. He knows by now that Seokjin transferred to another school and that Taehyung started drawing graffiti. Sometimes he sees Jungkook, who looks like he gets into fights. On the 2nd of March, someone he knows enters the burger joint.

On March 29th, Taehyung is hit by the owner of the gas station because he was drawing graffiti. He’s on the floor when Namjoon approaches him and helps him stand up.

Yoongi, on the night of the 7th of April, is drunk and wandering around an abandoned construction site. He hears the sound of a piano and he follows it while risking to have an accident. He arrives at a music shop and sees Jungkook. He doesn't want to go in at first because he is scared he will hurt him and not protect him, but in the end he decides to go in and help him play.

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