LOONAverse

The **LOONAverse** is the world that the members of LOONA live in.

Work in progress.

As has been officially stated by Blockberry Creative, yyxy is supposed to tell the biblical story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. This is one of the most well-known stories from the Old Testament and has been cited and retold throughout literature for thousands of years. In the story we learn of Adam and Eve, the two first humans. They live in the Garden of Eden along with the other animals of earth. Their job in Eden is to help nature and care for the land and to live harmoniously with the other creatures. God tells them that they may eat any fruit from any of the trees in the Garden, except for the apples from the Tree of Good and Evil. God warns them that if they eat the fruit they would perish. One day while Eve is alone tending to the Garden a snake appears, whom is actually Satan who has disguised himself as a serpent. He tells Eve to eat the apples from the tree of Good and Evil and when she objects, he lies and tells her that if she eats the fruit she can become as powerful as God. She gives into the temptation and eats the apple and tells Adam to eat the apple as well, so they can become enlightened together. After the two of them ate the fruit they realized they had sinned, and out of shame and guilt, left the Garden of Eden and purity behind.

This relates directly to the members of yyxy. As we know, the name "Yves" is pronounced as "Eve" and as stated by Blockberry Creative, Chuu's stage name was almost Adam. Which would make sense, since Yves is able to get the rest of yyxy to eat their fruit and eventually stray away from HeeJin, their creator. But then who is the snake? We can pretty much confirm that this is in fact Olivia Hye, due to the events in Egoist, BBC's statements on Olivia Hye's character, and her representative color. We know that Olivia is a fallen angel, who fell from HeeJin, meaning she is in fact Satan, or the serpent, in this situation. We know that Yves is inspired and looks up to Olivia, just like how Eve gave into the serpent.

**The Introduction of Yves**

In the first few seconds we see LOONA's crescent introduction but instead of moving from right to left like every music video previously, this crescent moves from left to right. This is the first of many clues that yyxy mirrors LOONA 1/3.

On the möbius strip yyxy and LOONA 1/3 are on opposite sides of each other with yyxy on the dark side and 1/3 on the light. yyxy is a dark and twisted version of 1/3, and this is our first clue. And as we've explored in The Phases of LOONA, this is in direct reference to the phases of the moon and shows us the countdown until all twelve members unite.

**Pure Yves**

We see the music video begin with Yves in a room filled with light while she dances in a white dress. This represents innocence and purity, but also symbolizes heaven due to how pure and bright it is. We then see her standing on a balcony high up, again symbolizing she's up high. The important thing to note here is the background.

We see a silver background in the room behind her, with a white circle and the Korean word "꽃", meaning flower, written in the center. This symbolizes her purity and how delicate she is, just like a flower. And the silver background is representative of Olivia, since that is one of her colours. It's slowly taking over the pure, until Yves will fully submit to Olivia's evil.

**ODD EYE CIRCLE's Presence**

When we first see the bowling alley the place is colored in Yves' color, burgundy. Shortly afterwards we see the bowling alley has turned red, blue, and purple. As we know from Everyday I Love You, ViVi has a close bond to JinSoul and is aware of the ODD EYE CIRCLE.

Therefore OEC could've helped Yves to lure ViVi, with Choerry's power of teleportation. Also of note is the fact that Yves' sign is tilted. This shows an unbalance and what was once uniform is now in disarray, just like Yves leaving Eden. She's causing the LOONAVERSE to shift already.

**The Apple**

We first see an image of the apple floating in midair, and shortly afterwards Yves holding it behind her back. The apple is a direct reference to The Garden of Eden as well as being Yves' representative fruit. It's tempting her and she knows she shouldn't eat it and that it's wrong (hence why she's hiding it), but she gives into her desires almost immediately, within the first fifty seconds of the music video.

**Yves' Transformation**

Pretty much immediately after biting into the apple we see Yves out late at night walking behind boys. This is one of the only times in a LOONA music video that we see other characters than the members of LOONA and backup dancers. These boys are supposed to represent lust and seduction, both of which are sins and Yves willingly gives into both. Seduction is Yves' most powerful weapon and she's learning how to use it.

**Tainting ViVi**

We then begin to see signs of ViVi in the music video. ViVi's hair is blonde showing us that she is in fact human, meaning the events in this music video happened before "Love & Live". We catch a glimpse of ViVi's face, and shortly afterwards eight apples lying on the ground with one having a bite taken out of it.

The apples represent the first eight members of LOONA, as LOONA 1/3 and ODD EYE CIRCLE. As we've seen Yves eating apples, this is a foreshadow to Yves tainting ViVi. By the end of this music video ViVi will be missing a part of herself, one that Yves will destroy.

**The Claw Machine**

The next extremely important clue to Yves' role and intentions in the LOONAVERSE is the claw machine. We see Yves' approach it in a dark room. A dark room in the LOONAVERSE represents inside someone's mind or theoretically speaking. This would mean that the claw machine doesn't actually exist, but shows us Yves' decision-making and powers.

We see her enter a card into a slot with the colors of ODD EYE CIRCLE illuminating the slot. This shows that the ODD EYE CIRCLE is a key factor in allowing Yves to access the other members of LOONA. They're luring ViVi for her by illuminating the bowling alley and they're giving Yves access to their powers.

We then see Yves first pull a frog plushie, and shortly afterwards a penguin plushie.

When Yves wins at the claw machine goes to get her prizes, instead of two plushies, she finds an apple. This is because the apple is the key to obtaining the plushies, or the girls she wants. In order to get YeoJin and Chuu she must have them eat their forbidden fruit, in Chuu's case to eat the strawberry and in YeoJin's case to kiss the frog.

It's also important to note that the only other person in the LOONAVERSE who plays an arcade game is the boy in "Everyday I Love You". ViVi's music video is actually a dream and ViVi's memory has been damaged after becoming a cyborg.

**Playing Golf and Destroying Purity**

Right after the claw machine we see Yves standing on a rooftop playing golf, specifically hitting stuffed animals and then an apple. As we've seen from the behind the scenes images, which offer a closer look at the stuffed animals, we know each members' representative animals are in the pile.

By hitting the stuffed animals with a golf club Yves is telling us her plan to mix up the LOONAVERSE. To throw everyone off balance and to cause discord and destruction. It's also interesting that the only other time we see a golf club is in ViViD, when HeeJin is creating another member of LOONA.

This could show that Yves is mirroring HeeJin by trying to gain power and copy her movements in order to create her own LOONA 1/3. We then see Yves hitting an apple, showing her sending her fruit into the LOONAVERSE, or the temptation of sinning to the other girls. The apple already has a bite taken out of it, showing that she's already sinned and wants others to follow her. We then see Yves' representative animal, a swan, or more specifically a baby swan stuffed animal hit by a golf club. This shows her destroying her innocence and the young, pure, and naive side of her and replacing it with a mature and dark side.

**Luring ViVi**

We then see Yves with ViVi in the bowling alley putting on roller skates and skating together. As we know, the only other time we see roller skates in the LOONAVERSE is in Everyday I Love You, showing us again that ViVi views this as a dream. In EILY the dark colors of ODD EYE CIRCLE have now been changed to bright pastel colors and Yves has changed to a boy, whom she has feelings for. This would show us that her memory is damaged after the event and Everyday I Love You is inside of ViVi's mind, with new being the reality.

**Killing ViVi**

We see Yves sitting with floating apples around her head. This could symbolize that she's thinking of ways to taint the other members of LOONA, or that ODD EYE CIRCLE is watching her, which wouldn't be a crazy idea since we saw them represented as apples earlier in the music video.

We then see a flash of ViVi's face, with a surprised look. This shows us two things, one, ViVi has become enlightened. Yves has managed to taint her and in the process she is no longer pure. And two, ViVi has been killed. She wasn't expecting Yves to kill her, and in fact she trusted her. It's a shock to be killed by someone she thought was her friend, as well as being killed. ViVi now knows of Yves' trickery and with her enlightenment can see knowledge that she didn't know of before. But this won't last long, as we see in "Everyday I Love You", when HeeJin saved ViVi and turned her into a cyborg, ViVi lost memories, including those of Yves killing her and of the knowledge she gained. While she isn't the human she was, and will never be, she is able to become somewhat pure again by forgetting the knowledge she gained.

It's also important to note that we constantly see imagery of things painted red. First it's an apple, and later the bowling alley. When something is described as being "painted red" it normally means covered in blood. This is another clue leading us to assume that ViVi was killed in the bowling alley.

**The Cassette Tapes**

As we've seen in "Girl Front", Yves has control of the cassette player. We see her sitting at a table in a similar fashion to Kim Lip in "Girl Front", with the tapes of HeeJin, HaSeul, ViVi, HyunJin, and YeoJin.

Later in the music video we see Yves opening up Vivi's cassette tape, with the case now cracked. This shows us that Yves managed to break part of ViVi. This again goes along with the idea of "Everyday I Love You" being a dream, since we see the same cassette player, but Vivi's isn't damaged and she's the one listening to it instead of Yves.

**The Eighth Floor**

We see the eighth floor flash on the elevator and shortly afterwards we see Choerry.

This would make sense since Choerry is the eighth member. And as we will explore in Starlight Cinema Theory, Yves gives Choerry an apple and we see Choerry in both Kiss Later and One & Only. She's doing Yves' dirty work after eating the apple Yves' gives her in Starlight. And since new takes place in the past before Kiss Later, this would make sense.

**Vivi's Body**

In the last few seconds of the music video we see ViVi dressed in white laying in one of the bowling lanes. White is a color commonly symbolized with the afterlife and purity, and since we see ViVi as a cyborg in "Love & Live", and "new" is supposed to be a flashback, it is proved that ViVi is now dead. It's also interesting that ODD EYE CIRCLE is no longer present in the bowling alley, seemingly like they had no intention to kill ViVi and didn't want any part in her death, and were only working for Yves.

### Heart Attack

Chuu is fascinated by Yves and her rebelliousness, so she copies everything Yves does. She tries to walk in sync with her and hit plushies with a golf club (seen in "new"), so that she can become more like her.

Chuu presents Yves with a green apple, but is rejected and sometimes ignored. Chuu then decides to eat a red apple, similar to Yves, and is enlightened. Yves now notices her and Chuu does not feel isolated anymore, removing her from the snowy environment she previously danced and watched Yves in. Yves then feeds Chuu a strawberry (which is her associated fruit), allowing her to join Yves and her exit from .

Chuu is seen laying asleep outside a window, and HaSeul walks up to her and wakes her. However, as HaSeul is not from Eden, Chuu cannot see or interact with her, but HaSeul can. Chuu then stands up, brushes the snow off her, and walks off in the opposite direction to HaSeul, signifying that Chuu has been used by Yves to join her sub-unit, and is ready to live her life freely, uncontrolled from HeeJin, who plays God.