Timeline

WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!!*This article contains spoilers!!*This timeline is a chronological display of the events that happened in the different realities depicted in Seogwipoteez.

## Childhood

* When Seonghwa was three, he nearly drowned. He can recall the water dragging him deeper. This event triggered Seonghwa's intense fear of the sea. It turns out, it was a young Prince Wooyoung who dragged him down, not knowing humans needed air to breathe.
* Hongjoong nearly drowned as a child, but was saved and marked by Umberlee. He was nine at the time.
* Hongjoong saw a beautiful rainbow something in the ocean when he was ten, it turns out it was San's tail when he was playing with Mingi and Wooyoung.
* Yeonjun migrated to Atlantis as a young mer 12 years prior to *Operation Selene.*

## Circa 2015/2016

*8 years from* Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach),*Chapter 8: Olympus and Chapter 9: Eos (Late 2023 - Implies late 2015) but 2 years before events of* Hephaestus *(2018ish? - Implies 2016)*

* Hongjoong graduated around this time.
* Hongjoong meets Bang Chan vacationing on Whitsunday Islands, saves him from mer hunters, and becomes his Valet on Land.

## Circa 2018

* Hongjoong works up the nerve to confess to Seonghwa, but before he can, Seonghwa announces his intention to go to and acceptance into an internship in Switzerland.
* UNDERWORLD debuts successfully.
* Hongjoong's parents pass near immediately after UNDERWORLD's full-length album charts #1 on Melon and on Billboard, before Hongjoong got a chance to tell them.

### *Hephaestus*

* Hongjoong was spiraling after Seonghwa left for Switzerland and his parents' deaths.
* Yoongi and Hongjoong strike up something of a friendship.
* Feelings and crushes galore. Then something more. But they're both still hung up on someone else.
* Yoongi and Hoseok get together.

## 2019

### *Operation Selene*

* Yeonjun's first selenomancing job in Atlantis. He advised they approach from the west.
* There was stormy weather so the troops approached from the south instead, it was a massive failure with 60 Atlantean casualties and only 15 Uiurean casualties.

## 2022

* Geonu visits the Sea Witch in hopes of helping with his trauma & PTSD following *Operation Selene*. She takes the opportunity to turn him into a seal.
* Minhyuk finds Geonu within the day(?) and trades himself for Geonu's return and Geonu's original wish for mental peace. He uses his necromancy as a bargaining chip.

## 2023

### *The Chocolatier's Tail*

**Chapter 1: The Master from Switzerland**

* Seonghwa begins working at Lunes Chocolates and comes into conflict with the Lune employees, but especially Wooyoung.

### *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*

**Chapter 1: Apollo**

* San meets Hongjoong and they strike up a friendship. San gifts Hongjoong a shell from the Atlantean castle gardens (something notoriously difficult to get a hold of).

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 1: The Master from Switzerland x *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 1: Apollo**

Hongjoong (as "Edward") and Chan (as "Chris") act as secret shoppers for Seonghwa and encounter Wooyoung.

***The Chocolatier's Tail,* Chapter 1: The Master from Switzerland**

* Wooyoung identifies Hongjoong's shell necklace and other jewelry are of Atlantean/mer origin, and reports to his parents that "Edward" and "Chris" are mer hunters.

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach),* Chapter 1: Apollo**

* Chan and Hongjoong recognize Wooyoung as the Atlantean prince he is, Hongjoong tells San they met Wooyoung.

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 2: The Sushi Boat**

* Wooyoung discovers more evidence Hongjoong is a mer hunter via UNDERWORLD's music video for "Ambrosia".
* Wooyoung and Seonghwa go on a date and go rollerskating.
* Wooyoung is banished after his surface world visits were discovered.

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 2: Poseidon**

* Hongjoong introduces the rest of UNDERWORLD to San and Jisung teaches San PERSEPHONE
* Chan gifts San a piece of coral and asks him to take care of Hongjoong's heart.
* San starts teaching Hongjoong Atlantean.

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 3: The Balenciaga Sandals**

* Seonghwa takes Wooyoung out to a department store to do some shopping.

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 3: Aphrodite**

* Seonghwa gets extremely chaotic advice from UNDERWORLD for various Wooyoung related crises.

### *Cold Coffee and Warm Yellows*

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 3: The Balenciaga Sandals x *Cold Coffee and Warm Yellows*, Chapter 1: Dialling In**

* Lune Chocolates hoesik featuring Yeosang's "p-p-p-p-p-p-ponytail!"

***The Chocolatier's Tail,* Chapter 3: The Balenciaga Sandals**

* The magical kiss happens!!

***Cold Coffee and Warm Yellows*, CCaWY**

* After the hoesik Yunho piggy backs Yeosang back and they chat

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 4: The Dishwashing Gloves x *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 3: Aphrodite**

* Seonghwa calls Hongjoong in a panic regarding his new fishy status but cops out and tells Hongjoong he took drugs instead, because that's somehow better I guess. Hongjoong sings Seonghwa to sleep with Aphrodite.

***The Chocolatier's Tail,* Chapter 4: The Dishwashing Gloves**

* Seonghwa discovers his newfound fishy attributes such as, getting a fish tail when he touches water, liking fish, and his unique ability: Enhanced hearing.

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 3: Aphrodite**

* 'Haha imagine if Seonghwa turned into a fish' --Chan
* San receives the news from Mingi that Wooyoung has been banished, Mingi and San make plans to lay low due to their close relation to Wooyoung, and San tells Mingi his contingency plan is Hongjoong.

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 4: The Dishwashing Gloves x *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 3: Aphrodite**

* Chocolate episode of UNDERWORLD's web series *Theseus’ Challenge.* It is as chaotic as expected, if not more.
* Hongjoong invites Seonghwa over to his house and UNDERWORLD is nominated for Album of the Year for the Grammys.
* Hongjoong texts Seonghwa about wanting to introduce him to Hongjoong's significant other.

***The Chocolatier's Tail,* Chapter 4: The Dishwashing Gloves**

* Wooyoung forces Seonghwa to reveal his fishy self and reveals he's a prince of Atlantis

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 5: The Chocolatier's Tail**

* Wooyoung tells Seonghwa the story of how he got legs from a Sea Witch and the magic kiss.
* Seonghwa and Wooyoung go on a swim and they share a beautiful moment with an underwater kiss.

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 4: Icarus**
***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 5: The Chocolatier's Tail x *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 4: Icarus**

* Seonghwa texts Hongjoong that he finally confessed to Wooyoung and they promise to introduce each other to their significant others.

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 6: The Waterfront McMansion**

* Presents for everyone in Lune!!
* Wooyoung confides in Seonghwa that he thinks Hongjoong is a mer hunter & Seonghwa goes to Hongjoong's to confront him

* Mingi shows up with an injured San and Hongjoong takes him inside to heal.
* San wakes up, he and Hongjoong share a moment, and they kiss.

***The Chocolatier's Tail,* Chapter 6: The Waterfront McMansion x *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach),* Chapter 4: Icarus**

* Seonghwa shows up at Hongjoong's and sees San in a tank. So many conclusions are jumped to that it could be a bouncy castle.
* Hongjoong comes out of it with a burnt throat, Seonghwa & Wooyoung explain their situation, Hongjoong & San explain how they met.
* Wooyoung releases San from his life contract as Wooyoung's valet & Seonghwa, Wooyoung, and San depart to find the Sea Witch.

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 7: The Sea Witch**

* Wooyoung, Seonghwa, and San make their way to the Sea Witch who tells them Seonghwa needs to wear a shell necklace for three days, and at the end, be in a moon pool on Mako Island.
* On their way to Mako Island they encounter Mingi and journey together as a group of four.
* Seonghwa hears a boat incoming, which attacks them using harpoons and nets.

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 5: Hades**

* The Uiure crew comes to Hongjoong after the big confrontation, Hongjoong receives both permission and suggestions to tell Wooyoung, Seonghwa, and San about his Uiurean status.
* Hongjoong deals with the scars of the confrontation, both physical (his burnt throat), and mental.
* The Uiure crew help Hongjoong figure out what could've been going on during that confrontation.
* Hyunjin and Chan, is there something going on? Hongjoong thinks so~

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 8: The Prince from Atlantis**

* Suspecting the Sea Witch of the ship attacking them, they break the shell and Seonghwa is engulfed in magical light water flurry that turns his hair blond. (Who knew the sea does hair dye jobs).
* Wooyoung wakes in the captivity of the Sea Witch and Seonghwa sneaks onto the ship but becomes a hostage as well.
* Surprise! Sea Witch is Kim Iseul, disappeared model from the surface world. She reveals the surface walking spell was actually from the King of Atantis.
* As the Atlantean party arrives, the Sea Witch goes on an evil monologue as all good villains must. Prince Jimin of Naranda shows up with a Narandan party.
* A lot of chaotic magic fight things happen but they end up in a safe water cocoon of love
* Uiure showed up to fight as well
* Wooyoung wakes up a couple days after and the battle is explained in more detail.
* Seonghwa of all the mers correctly guesses that Wooyoung's second ability via the Obsidian Tail is water manipulation, and that's what saved them in the end.
* San plays the glockenspiel
* Seonghwa is smuggled back to the surface

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach),* Chapter 5: Hades**

* UNDERWORLD is prepping for their world tour, so Hongjoong's voice recovering quickly is essential.
* Hongjoong sings Umberlee's Dirge with Hyunjin, as a result he's forcefully called to the sea.
* Hongjoong gets hair dye job from the sea, and comes out of it with confidence and a drive to reclaim who he is.
* Chan had sent out a request for Advisor Taehyung of Naranda a siren to come visit them and help Hongjoong, but they see flashes of the battle from afar.

***The Chocolatier's Tail,* Chapter 8: The Prince from Atlantis x *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach),* Chapter 5: Hades**

* Seonghwa is back on the surface and runs into a protective Minho first.
* Hongjoong and Seonghwa go out for a drive and drive to Sanseong Park, running into Kai.
* They watch a very pretty and wonderfully described in the stories sunrise together, closing *The Chocolatier's Tail* (minus the epilogue).

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach),* Chapter 5: Hades**

* UNDERWORLD embarks on their world tour, stopping for a moment to pick up a Grammy as the first Korean act to do so, and ending with a bang in Athens, Greece with a live streamed concert.
* Seonghwa and San watch the Athens concert together and start putting things together that Hongjoong may indeed be hiding further information, but ultimately put their trust in him.
* San asks Hongjoong to help him complete his last task as Wooyoung's royal valet: Ensuring Wooyoung's safe arrival to the surface, specifically to Seonghwa.

### *I Found a Star Called You*

**Chapter 1: The Dolphin of Gangnam**

* Taehyun frees a mer, later identified as Yeonjun.
* Taehyun applies for a job at Lune Chocolates as a waiter or something and Mr. Kim guerrilla hires him as Chocolatier Apprentice.

***The Chocolatier's Tail*, Chapter 9: Epilogue x *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 5: Hades x *I Found a Star Called You*, Chapter 1: The Dolphin of Gangnam**

* Hongjoong videos Seonghwa and Wooyoung's reunion at Lune Chocolates. Which is sweet until it's chaotic, because that's their brand.
* Taehyun regrets taking the job here.
* *The Chocolatier's Tail* ends fully.

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 5: Hades**

* Hongjoong seeks refuge in San after the mental stress of being around Wooyoung.

***I Found a Star Called You,* Chapter 2: The Lost Merman**

* Taehyun's first day was a mess, an absolutely insane mess, and he makes sure Beomgyu knows this.
* Taehyun is restless and goes for a walk late at night. He ends up on the pier sketching the mer he saved, the mer pops up and introduces himself as Yeonjun.

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 6: Crossing the Styx**

* Another therapy session with the Sea for Hongjoong. Who knew the Sea was such a good therapist?
* Hongjoong summons a seven-headed Hydra and a scythe; he's a drowned son.
* Hongjoong gives San his necklace with the Atlantean shell and San spontaneously sprouts legs.
* San finds out about the Uiureans.
* The necklace is on a timer for as long as the energy from Hongjoong lasts, but for now, Hongjoong can show San around
* They go to a teddy bear museum and find UNDERWORLD teddy bears
* Hongjoong and San surprise Wooyoung and Seonghwa at Lune Chocolates. San tastes chocolate and loves it, Wooyoung shows him around. Jongho has a fanboy moment and Hongjoong gives him a limited edition keychain.
* Hongjoong makes chocolate for San and San adores it and the sweetness of their rots the teeth of everyone in the shop.
* Wooyoung and Seonghwa go over to Hongjoong's place for dinner and learn about the Uiureans. Wooyoung is extremely apologetic and Minho is extremely protective.
* Then Wooyoung asks why they're not ugly if they do magic. It's story time, everyone go around the circle and tell your story. How magic works, Hongjoong becoming Chan's valet, Hongjoong's Drowned Son status, Hongjoong and Seonghwa loved each other, the Sea Witch battle.
* Talking it out really does help.

***Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach)*, Chapter 7: Persephone**

* San spends the day at Lune Chocolates working alongside Wooyoung. They make good use of his pretty face and he greets customers. San has really good people skills, a man shouts at a baby for crying (what a jerk) and San defuses the situation and sings the baby to sleep. He also correctly identifies what's bothering a customer and helps her calm enough to get across what she needs.

 * Chapter 2: The Sushi Boat
 * Chapter 3: The Balenciaga Sandals
 * Chapter 6: The Waterfront McMansion
 * Chapter 7: The Sea Witch
* Chapter 6: Crossing the Styx
* Chapter 7: Persephone
* Chapter 8: Olympus
* Chapter 9: Eos

* I Found a Star Called You
* Trapping Me in the Frame
* Hephaestus (epilogue)

## References

1. ↑ *The Chocolatier's Tail,* Chapter 3: The Balenciaga Sandals
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach),* Chapter 5: Hades
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach),* Chapter 6: Crossing the Styx
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 *Opals by the Seashore,* Chapter 9: Higher quality, identity
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach),* Chapter 2: Poseidon
6. ↑ *Looking for that Place (We're about to Reach),* Chapter 4: Icarus
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *Opals by the Seashore,* Chapter 10: Not who I was yesterday