Listening to "Railway" again and noticed the line "we're staring at the ticket that says one trip."

It made me think of the bit in #Levanter where #BangChan, #Seungmin and #Han are in the elevator, Seungmin is holding the ticket "to new world," and the other two are looking at it.

So I had to go back to "Levanter" MV to check it out again. It is a one-way ticket. (Okay not exactly the same as one-trip but close enough.)

Is the "Railway" bit intended to be a subtle call-back to the "Levanter" elevator scene?

Contrasting trudging up the stairs on his own, versus taking the elevator (even if it's a shitty and dangerous elevator) with other members of the skz blue team.

Bang Chan does like to put subtle references and hints into his work, and doesn't like to explain them. I guess sometimes the references are deliberate?? And other times it's just coincidence.

✂️ Railway, Bang Chan's solo stairs, and staring at the ticket that says "one-trip"
 https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxieIvZO0p_JbYBZrQqHk0XYc71DurE8yE

✂️ Levanter, the blue team's elevator, and the one-way ticket to new world
 https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxQvJzcETpEIjSAYJUoibHkI7Tfrf6fdof

#skz #RailwayByBangChan #skzBlue #skzElevators #skzLore

HEY

They're doing the red/blue thing in this #Levanter dance practice video.

They all have at least one blue thing and at least one red thing on them, except maybe for #BangChan and #Hyunjin ?? I can only see blue on them.

#skz #skzRed #skzBlue #KidCarrying

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.

#skzLore #skzRedMoon #skzBlueMoon

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.

#skzElevators

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.

#skzLore

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