I have some vague memories of the dual moon imagery in skz videos *before* #Levanter, but I don't know if that's really a thing or I'm muddling my memories.

I want to go back and watch again *right now* but I have other things to do this evening, alas.

A bit of background...

#skzBlue team is #BangChan, #LeeKnow, #Han, #Seungmin

#skzRed team is #Changbin #Hyunjin #Felix #I_N

Parts of the #skzLore may have been hinted at before #Levanter, but the 2 teams of 4 wouldn't have been part of the hinted lore before that, because there was a 9th member.

(I guess it's technically possible that there were hints before Levanter, but if that was the case, then #skzExMember would have been in one of the teams (unbalancing the numbers) or he would have been *excluded* from the teams (which seems like something the rest of skz would never do).)

No #skzRed team connected sequence in that same video as far as I can tell.

They come out of the elevator at the end in order, #skzBlue team followed by red team.

Apart from that, red team's parts in the song itself are not connected into a whole. Which is also consistent with #Levanter, where blue team seemed like a cohesive unit and red team was more scattered.

A part of me is tempted to go back to #Hellevator and watch all the videos in sequence again from the beginning. I know they've dropped lots of hints at the #skzLore from the beginning, without ever properly spelling it all out. Wondering how much more of it I could piece together now.

I realised that a big part of my ongoing fascination with Stray Kids is that my mind sees them as an intricate puzzle to solve.

Hence the deep-dive analysis of their hanky code signalling, their signficant jewellery, and every potentially shippy interaction that they have with each other.

This fascination started because their music is also so varied, layered, intricate. There's a lot that can be picked apart, and a lot that's put there intentionally. Then when I discovered all the extra content that they put out, that fascination multiplied.

Which is to say: my mind has still been paying attention to the skz puzzles even when I haven't been posting about them here.

Yes there is a #skzBlueMoon in #BangChan's solo video too, but not in #LeeKnow's. (Lee Know has someone throwing a round #BlueCake at him, and he ducks so that it misses him, but no blue moon that I can see. Although I amuse myself by thinking of the connection between mooning, cake, and butts.)

Anyway the #skzBlue team is mirroring the #Levanter MV in their solo MVs, with the core trio of Bang Chan, #Han and #Seungmin all including the blue moon in their solo MVs, and Lee Know on the outer again, but still associated with them with his blue cake.

The #skzRed team does not seem to have any particular red symbol connecting their solo MVs. (Having said that, #Changbin's video is so fucking dark omg what video editor is responsible for that mess.)

Do I want my mind to let go of trying to solve some of these skz puzzles? I don't know. Maybe, a little?? but I still find it fun.

And just to fuck with my observations, some bits in #Levanter that don't fit as neatly into a #skzBlue team #skzRed team theory...

#Hyunjin, #I_N and #LeeKnow are walking down a road when Lee Know sees a bird flying overhead. He turns around and starts following it towards the elevator. #skzBirds #skzElevators

(This happens immediately after #BangChan, #Seungmin and #Han are in the elevator looking at their ticket to the new world. So my theory is: the bird is a messenger from them to Lee Know, bringing him towards them.)

Presumably Hyunjin and I.N also turn around to follow Lee Know until they end up at the elevator together.

Then the bird flies off overhead while the #skzRedMoon and #skzBlueMoon appear on either side of the elevator.

I'd like to suggest it's significant that the blue moon is higher than the red moon at this point. Because the blue team already has 3 of its 4 members together, but the red team is much more separated and only appears alone or as duos.

The red team's light seems like it's only just starting to stabilise, with #Felix alone holding his gyroscope with the small red light at the centre. #skzRedLighting

#skzRed team in #Levanter

They appear in duos and their parts seem to focus more on separation

I can feel new hashtags gestating oh noooo

#skzBlue team in #Levanter

#BangChan #Seungmin and #Han are a unit. #LeeKnow's on his own but connected to them.

Seungmin has a ticket "to the new world" that they're looking at in the elevator

When the elevator burns, there is a #skzBlueMoon and a #skzRedMoon on either side of it. #skzElevators

The vibe is: trio has been together from the start, and Lee Know's on his own

uhoh too late

red and blue moons combining at the end of #levanter

The whole of Levanter is essentially the red and blue teams.

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxNJ3Tf-lUMJWquFSBmTjA7fhzLOqPRrBm

Listening to my #StrayKidsRumours playlist again so that I can feel normal human emotions yep yep.

On #Levanter when #BangChan sings "now that your weight's come off my shoulders, I realised that I can fly" it sounds a bit like "your wings come off my shoulders".

And I think about the iconic choreo at the end of #SpreadMyWings when Bang Chan kneels with his back to the camera, the other 8 are close around him, and 2 of them mimic wings on his back using their hands.