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ODDINARY Trailer 1.1 & 1.2

First impression theory:

Felix entered another skzverse realm. The characters there could be the antagonists of themselves in reality. Perhaps, something happened to them / they disappeared in the real world so Felix travelled different places to find them.

It’s also possible that in this world they are actually being their real selves. Stray Kids aren’t common, they themselves, their music and attitude are ODD. So are the laws of THEIR real world, all this would seem weird, scary or/and unnatural to the outsider. But that’s what they are.

Felix is very determined to figure things out. Even when he’s scared or to tries to run, he never breaks down. Even though this realm seems more hostile to him than the others might have been, it seems like he’s used to such new experiences.

*Inception (film) – falling deeper into sub-consciousness in your dreams, different levels of dreams, looking for a way to fully wake up / come back to reality, it’s possible to stay in a dream for so long you forget it’s a dream

*Russian Doll (series) – every time you die you come back to some certain place and time in the past, you’re in this loop until you find a way out / break this circle / finish the level of the game

M on the lock

‘Main’ song. Also main in Korean is [gibon], which could also sound like [gibun] which translateы as mood/feelings/emotions.
Sigma – A mathematical sign representing summation. The answers could all be inside the lock itself (!! the whole world (realm) is locked in small objects: Mulholland Drive – blue cube, Matrix – cat’s necklace). OR as used in standard deviation >> DEVIATION FROM THE NORM >> ODDITY

Seungmin’s giving Felix the cake with his baby photo on it. It could make him small, like in Alice in Wonderland.

Physically small so he could enter the lock. There he could find the answers. It could also be a portal to yet another realm.
It could make him a child again. Children are often associated with emotions and true feelings. It’s often said that creative people have a good connection with their “inner child”.
It could bring him to the past so he can relive his life differently. Felix was the one to find the broken compass, which divided the Stray Kids’ world, so he’s always looking for a way to bring it all back. Seungmin here gives him a chance to take a different path, so this wouldn’t happen.
It also might be the “blue pill”. If he eats it, he’d finally wake up and forget about whatever he saw in other realms. Each member has their own “blue pill” but they decided not to take it because they don’t want to live in oblivion. Yet, they still have it (pills=cakes that could make them smaller and let them escape through the lock(?)), so Seungmin offers Felix his own cake as a way to escape until it’s too late, hence it has his picture on it.

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Common theory:

Alice in Wonderland

Felix – Alice / rose / soul stone / Snow White

Chan – March Rabbit / Caterpillar

Minho – Cheshire Cat / Red Queen

Hyunjin – Red Queen / Cheshire Cat / Caterpillar / Ryuk / Scarlet

Han – Mad Hatter

Changbin – Knight / Edward Scissorshands

Seungmin – Knight / Rabbit

Jeongin – Mouse

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General notes & theoretical interpretations:

Felix has the power to lock and unlock different worlds

The world alike in MIROH, NOEASY > sound monster

025-ride dept of transportation bus stop > OH Mixtape, 0325

The sound of the lock locking and unlocking > sound of the Zippa lighter, fire, “all united we ignite” (Paint by Mayfly, KD), “we’ll burn forever” (Thunderous by SKZ)

Felix going against the flow of people, somewhere they’re getting away from

Lee Know, Seungmin, HAN (I wish you back photo) missing, I.N >>> “starting point” – FIRST MISSING

Missing people irl may have just transported to another layer of reality (novels: Max Fry, C. Ahern “A place called here”)

“Ordinary” – trap; in the spider web > no one was there for a while ***New: the spider was though > Venom [damn i’m good, but they’re better]

Smiley face > Cheese, Christmas EveL ***New: the smiley face falls down unveiling the real faces > Mask Off

Entering a ‘boutique’, glass doors with luxuries > Sherlock BBC, Moriarty on throne inside the glass box in the exhibition ***New: Hyunjin in a glass box in Lonely St. > he’s often displayed as a “luxury”/beautiful accessory/visual (it breaks him)

Met by Bang Chan > March Rabbit (mixed characters with caterpillar?), has the music pad instead on the checklist (?), lets him in

The coo-coo clock scares him [reminiscent of which film?]

14:06 (changes to 13:22, then 14:03 in a second), 1.24 24 28(?)

02.25, 10:15, Han-10:12/9:12/2:04(?) on the clock, candles, chandeliers

Han’s message from Seungmin pops up roughly translating as “time for feelings/5 minutes for emotions”

in their world they don’t have feelings
they used up all their emotions
they had to restrict themselves in this way, because it’s difficult to be odd and sensitive at the same time/react to everything, as the society doesn’t accept you – in order to keep going while staying your true self you must brace yourself and hold in your emotions, however you can let them out just for a bit (a common way of surviving in the modern world – you bottle up your emotions and then have a break down on the weekend or at night, and then you wake up and continue on with your daily life)
someone else made them live this way > novel “We”, a certain set time for everything for everyone written down *tickets (work, exercising, sex etc.)

Han uses eyedrops to start feeling emotions (drug) OR faking emotions (theatrical tear drops)

Felix going down the stairs > deeper in the sub-consciousness; whose sc is it though? his own? (comatose irl? ppl in such state may continue living in their mind)

Seungmin taking pictures, some of his polaroids are empty/black; film and polos everywhere – everything is documented (over the top control? eyes everywhere? “every step you take, every move you make I’ll be watching you”)

Seungmin offering Felix the cake with his baby photo on it. It could make him small, like in Alice in Wonderland.

Physically small so he could enter the lock. There he could find the answers. It could also be a portal to yet another realm.
It could make him a child again. Children are often associated with emotions and true feelings. It’s often said that creative people have a good connection with their “inner child”.
It could bring him to the past so he can relive his life differently. Felix was the one to find the broken compass, which divided the Stray Kids’ world, so he’s always looking for a way to bring it all back. Seungmin here gives him a chance to take a different path, so this wouldn’t happen.
It also might be the “blue pill”. If he eats it, he’d finally wake up and forget about whatever he saw in other realms. Each member has their own “blue pill” but they decided not to take it because they don’t want to live in oblivion. Yet, they still have it (pills=cakes that could make them smaller and let them escape through the lock(?)), so Seungmin offers Felix his own cake as a way to escape until it’s too late, hence it has his picture on it.

*Matrix – blue = oblivion, red = unsettling but life-changing truth

*District 9 – SKZ are given little red notes that look like red pills first that make them realise something and escape

When Felix doesn’t seem to be interested/finds it rather weird, Seungmin gives him the picture he just took (a polo of Lix entering); could imply “if you rejected the blue pill, it means you want to stay and you wouldn’t be a threat to us, so I’m giving the compromising evidence I have against you” – showing the trust and trying to gain it too

Experiments desk > NOEASY Minsung’s workspace

Felix drops the polo and notices a body laying nearby, covered with a newspaper with Jeongin’s photo (“missing people. starting point.”) and “normal life” on the other=opposite page

Jeongin wakes up and scares Felix, acting exactly like the Mouse from AIW (sleeping, “I wasn’t sleeping I heard everything”; he seems little and innocent but he’s not; independent, dgaf attitude)

As Felix takes another stairs going down, Hyunjin notices him and tries to stop/scare him off > as if he’s guarding the last floor/the depth of the mind no one is allowed to see

Lee Know is a royalty, perhaps Hyunjin is his personal guard/guardian demon?? (angel antagonist)

LK playing cricket with empty cans (silver, new, multitude, crushing), threatening Felix > LK, HJ, JI – play with Lix (“playing with food” like predators vs. victims in Twilight?); Lix’s reaction is amusing to LK, he probably saw it more than once

different people came there and no one made it
all the members who are already there had the same reaction upon their first meeting
Felix is not there for the first time, and every time he reacts the same way

Changbin teleports in the space, security guard / Knight (RQ’s Knight was all tough but deep inside he was sensitive)

He wants a hug, made a diy sign; he didn’ know how to but tried his best to make it pretty, yet Lix got scared and he looks sad > this situation and his gaze is reminiscent of Edward Scissorshands

*The Free Hug movement initially started in Australia, starts on the first wknd of July and ends on the 1st of August (STAY’s bday)

*Ice cream shop trap from Spomge Bob ???

Felix ended up on the Hellivator when he tried to escape (you try to run from your fears/yourself/the truth – worse for you)

Hyunjin rather wants to play with him/his sanity (Lix turns and he’s not there already, makes him want to believe it’s all in his head&), hungry; he’s like s “ghost”, moves fast, uncatchable, inhuman

He asks “Do you want to be ODDINARY?” and you can see the way Felix moves his lips saying [ani] even though the reply written on the screen is “yes” in the Korean Morse Code (why MC though, not some other code?)

Perhaps he actually meant this, because the lock unlocks when he says it

The walls of the elevator are all painted in bright orange and yellow with paints dripping

Hyunjin pushes Felix out of the elevator’s window, yet Felix stays relatively calm > does he suddenly recall that it’s not the first time it’s happening to him (see the RD point); realising that you’re stuck in a loop is the first step towards the way out/getting and breaking the algorithm

*The scene could remind of Mary Jane from Spiderman falling

*It personally reminds me of the scene of the Avengers Endgame where Thanos had to push his own daughter off the cliff to get the last (soul) stone > is Felix the sacrifice?

When Felix is falling, the lock breaks; on the lock there’s a letter M > Main (the title sing name) OR a symbol Σ > a mathematical symbol

Summation; all the thing inside, a whole universe/answers/truth

*Mulholland Drive > a blue cube

*Matrix > the cat’s necklace

Used in the formula for the standard deviation > deviation > deviation from the norm = oddity (+oddity >>> Space Oddity by David Bowie, see the later point)

It is possible that the reason he stayed alive is because Hyunjin jumped after him and caught him (a. HJ is immortal, b. the laws of physics don’t apply in this realm, c. HJ is a demon/can fly > Ryuk)

If he actually fell, he might’ve been reborn/changed to an advanced being

*Fight Club – “only when you lose everything you become totally free”

Felix’s eye became a different colour > odd (green) eye cat, heterochromia; David Bowie (alien, starman) had anisocoria – his pupil sizes were different, he always looked non-ordinary / odd because of this; you may get this if you’re hit in the head (he was pushed off the stairs in school and got concussion) >>> Felix is pushed by Hyunjin out of the window, he falls / hits his head and comes back with an odd eye

After the fall Felix becomes oddinary & joins the team (for what? what’s their mission/desire?)

Felix is the white rose painted red; the Red Queen ordered so, PAINTING WHITE ROSES IN “GOD’S MENU” – behind Felix &Seungmin, I.N

Felix could also be the red soul stone; all Stray Kids’ members represent a different stone/power (?), together they can do absolutely anything, even conquer the universe > Stray Kids world domination