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I somehow survived the second attack y’all 😂

Yes I have more details to add onto my theory, but I also have questions so if you can join the discussion and solve these mysteries together that would be handy splendid (^_^)

At the very end of the novel, after Grenouille had been eaten by the town people, there was this quote:
“But to eat a human being? They would never, so they thought, have been capable of anything that horrible. And they were amazed that it had been so very easy for them and that, embarrassed as they were, they did not feel the tiniest bite of conscience […] They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of love”

AND GUESS WHAT WAS WRITTEN ON THEIR SHOES?!?! 

BLIND

FOR

LOVE

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! 

Grenouille killed the girls out of his love for their scents as well. So basically almost everyone in the novel was blind for love

“The more Grenouille had become accustomed to purer air, the more sensitive he was to human odor […] Thus his nose led him to ever more remote regions of the country, ever farther from human beings, driving him on ever more insistently toward the magnetic pole of the greatest possible solitude”

This is where VIXX took their BW teasers/filmed the MV: 

duN DUN DUN DUN~

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Here come the questions:

1. Each BW teaser has a color, except for Ravi and Hongbin. There were times when Grenouille associated scents with colors, so if Hongbin’s teaser doesn’t have any color that’s totally understandable, since Grenouille had no scent. But why Ravi? 🤔🤔🤔

2. Is Hyuk the first victim – The Plum Girl, or the last one – Laure? He was holding flowers in both the colored teaser and the BW teaser, and Grenouille had once referred to Laure as “the incomparably beautiful flower”. Andddddd Laure was the youngest among Grenouille’s victims so pretty sure she’s a virgin, too 🙂 

Feel free to chime in~ 

Mmkay. *cracks knuckles* So, some further observations to add to this.

1. Ravi and Hongbin are the only ones not holding anything in the black and white teaser photos. Leo, N, and Hyuk are all holding colored flowers, and Ken is holding a colored perfume bottle, but those two aren’t holding anything, and their pictures are entirely devoid of color. Also, if you take a look at the group photo where you can see their shoes, you’ll notice something very interesting.

Ken, who was holding the odd item out, a perfume bottle, has his right shoe turned toward the viewer, which says “Blind.”

Leo, N, and Hyuk, who were all holding colored flowers, all have their left shoe turned toward the viewer, which say “for love.”

However, Hongbin and Ravi, who were holding nothing, their pictures devoid of color, have their bodies turned completely towards the viewer, obscuring the words on their shoes entirely.

In addition to this, Ravi’s first set of teaser photos have him as the only member whose eyes are closed in both pictures.

Everyone else’s photos have their eyes open in both (N, Hongbin), or closed in only one of them (Leo, Ken, Hyuk). Also, that group pic in OP’s post? That is the first time Ravi has actually looked at the viewer in any of the teaser photos he’s been in. Every other picture he’s had his eyes closed or is very pointedly not looking at the viewer, as seen here in the first group pic:

or here in his solo black and white photograph (in which, might I add, he was the only member out of all six to not be looking directly at the viewer):

All this leads me to believe Ravi might have a larger part to play in the MV’s storyline than anticipated. Could he be a ghost of some sort? Hongbin’s accomplice who willingly turns a blind eye to Hongbin’s misdeeds because of his devotion to him and ends up stabbed in the back for his trouble? I guess only time will tell.

2. This is a really good question, and I’m torn, honestly. It could go either way. For now, though, my money is still on Hyuk being The Plum Girl because of his white shirt and the plum blossom he’s holding in the first set of teaser images. I think Hakyeon is the more likely candidate for
Laure, because his eyes are never closed in any of the teaser images, and he’s always, always looking at the viewer, much like Hongbin does. Compare:

Perhaps this points to N being the “final girl” of sorts?
Laure

doesn’t survive in the original story, but perhaps N will in their version of it? His role with Hyuk could end up being switched, though, like I said, it could go either way. I do find it interesting that out of all the teasers, N and Hyuk are the only ones that are both turned to the right. Everyone else is either facing the camera or turned to the left. That could point to some kind of connection between them.

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OKAY, SO LIKE I’M TOTALLY FLYING BY THE SEAT OF MY ASS RN AND THIS IS GONNA BE HELLA LONG BUT GUYS–

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You make a lot of really great points, dude!

It did briefly occur to me when I was writing my first response to this post that Ravi and Hongbin could be sharing the role of Grenouille, but not to the extent of them being the same person just at different points in the timeline. :O Or perhaps they’re going to continue their Jekyll and Hyde theme somehow with this MV, with Ravi being the more regretful, innocent side of
Grenouille

while Hongbin is the more arrogant, detached, and ruthless side? Ravi does have a pale pinkish-orange hair color for this comeback while Hongbin’s is silvery-blue; those are pretty complementary colors, so maybe that lends some credence to that theory. That would also explain why the words on their shoes aren’t visible, since while a BIT of white can be seen on Ravi’s right shoe, it’s certainly not enough to make out an actual word; if they’re the same person simply looking in different directions, then that would explain why there’s no color in their B&W photos and why the camera can’t make out the writing on their shoes.

That was an interesting tidbit you pointed out about the colored items in the B&W photos, though. I’m not sure if the pink flowers that Hyuk and N are holding are the same (I looked at them pretty closely and they seemed to be different shapes), but they ARE basically the same color, which confused me, since Leo’s flower is yellow and the liquid in Ken’s bottle is brown, so why would two of the members have the same color item all of a sudden? But it would make total sense if they were meant to mirror each other in that way all along, right down to their postures in the photos (like them being the only ones with their hands not in their pockets in the group B&W shot, or them leaning their heads against someone else’s in the color color shot).

I LOVE what you came up with for Ken and Leo, though; them being Baldini and Antoine respectively makes so much sense! I was puzzling over why in the colored teasers Leo was the only one with his eyes open but never looking at the camera, and that explanation makes perfect sense, as does why Ken is the only one not holding a flower for the B&W teaser, and why his is the only shoe we can clearly read “Blind” on.

I can’t wait to see what further developments happen in future teasers to see if they support these theories or not. 8>