Chapter 250
Not long after the MV for the album’s second double title track, “Christmas Again?”, dropped, countless fan theories began flooding online communities.
[Title: (Discussion Thread) 23:59 + Christmas Again? Theory
I’ve been connecting dots in my own head and decided to jot down a few thoughts haha
1. Christmas Again is a time-loop story
All of my theories here start from the premise that Kang Ichae dies and returns to Christmas Eve over and over again.
People already suspected it was a loop just from the lyrics — “it’s back again” and “a Christmas I’ve long stopped counting.” But watching the MV makes it obvious haha
Even though Ichae pours gasoline around the house to set it on fire, we never see the actual burning... yet the MV opens with the house already ablaze. This implies that before the events shown, he’d already burned the house down once, killed the members, died himself, and then reset to Christmas Eve.
2. The double titles are connected
“23:59” and “Christmas Again?” take place on the same Christmas Eve.
In Christmas Again?, The Dawn keeps reliving that same night.
Only Kang Ichae (and probably Seo Hoyun) remember the loop.
Which one comes later in the timeline depends on interpretation...