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THE STORYLINE: the timeloop and who are Halateez
Read how the ATEEZ logo is a representation and fundental key element of the Ateez storyline to find out who are Halateez!
Let’s look at the Ateez logo from Fever albums…
Universe A ——- > < ——- Universe Z
It’s basically a representation of the two Universes converging, perfectly reflecting the events set in the Fever albums: Ateez moving through Universes with the Cromer.
Talking about the Cromer… the converging “TEE” in the logo itself represents the Cromer, the device they use to travel through the Universes, and that connects the two. The Cromer is an hourglass and therefore has an eight shape, which, reversed is the symbol for “infinte” and “loop”.
And what else has an “eight shape” and represents an “ infinite timeloop”?
The Möebius strip:
The Möebius strip has been used to explain time travel theories. It works like this: we start at a point A (pinpoint your point A of choice in the image above) and walk towards an opposite point Z (draw your finger to your opposide point Z of choice). Since the two ends of the strip are connected, we can then continue from point Z and find ourselves back at point A. This means, we can infinitely walk from one to the other creating a loop. Since time passes while we walk from point A to Z, point A is in the past (where we start our journey) and point Z is in the future (the destination of our journey), making the Möebius strip a timeloop.
Let’s apply it to Ateez story!
We start in Universe A and we end in Universe Z, in Universe A we find Ateez, in Universe Z Halateez. This means that Halateez are Ateez in the future, and Ateez are Halateez in the past.
N.B. Ateez were born as Ateez and we, the fandom, gave the Universe Z Ateez the “Hala Ateez” name to differentiate the two. Now, according to the canon provided through the Diary Version of the Fever and The World albums, we know that Ateez call themselves the Black Pirates (instead of Halateez) in the future to hide their identities.
When Halateez fail to protect the future from Z, the leader of Strictland/Universe Z, and are about to be captured, they go back in time to bring past Ateez in the future to take over them. This time Ateez, instead of becoming Halateez/The Black Pirates, become the Guerrillas, and this is how we have two timelines:
- the Halateez timeline
- the Ateez timeline
or (more correct and less confusing)
- the Ateez > Halateez/Black Pirates timeline
- the Ateez > Guerrillas timeline
Since the Möebius strip has two sides, we can give one side to Halateez timeline and the other one to Ateez > Guerrillas. And since the strip has a twist in the middle, that’s the point where the two coexist and meet (see Say My Name and Dejavu mvs where Ateez and Halateez meet).
Why is this the only point in time where the two coexist though?
In the first timeline Ateez went from their past (when the group was formed) to their future (when they turn into Halateez/Black Pirates) living the time in between them, and not jumping from point to point. When they as Halateez got hold of the Cromer for the first time and used it to travel through the past they changed this: in the second timeline, Ateez do not walk towards their future anymore, they are brought directly to it through time travel.
Halateez changed their own present time, future and past too, bringing their past selves to their present time/Ateez future: since there’s no Ateez in the past anymore because they were brought to the future, they can’t live to become Halateez like they did before, and that’s why Halateez do not exist anymore in the future, why we don’t see them outside of Say My Name or Dejavu. Halateez timeline was replaced by Ateez > Guerrillas timeline and they therefore chased to exist.
So yes, r.i.p Halateez 😔
This timeline distinction is *fundamental * to understand which version of Ateez from which timeline we see in each music video and hear about in each song…
> read next : THE STORYLINE 4: ATEEZ or HALATEEZ? Who we see in each music video - COMING SOON!
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Just realised that the Fever: Epilogue posters, one with bright colors and modern uniforms and the other with the old photo grain, basically confirms that this album is about both Ateez (timeline 2) and Halateez past (timeline 1). In Turbulence we see Ateez (timeline 2), in The Real we see Halateez past (timeline 1)!
(If confused about “timeline” read: THE STORYLINE 3: the timeloop and who are Halateez )
I’ll explain myself better about the use of modern vs old imaginary to differentiate the two in this post “THE STORYLINE 4: ATEEZ or HALATEEZ? Who we see in each music video” later! For now I just needed to write down this thought 😆👍
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