AW MAN, I'm sorry, please don't overthink it! there's really not much to 'get,' I mainly went by RL parallels/coincidences, etc. The matrix part is me trying to be funny -- sure, there's a film called The Matrix (...which, I guess if you haven't seen it, then yeah, some baseline assumptions might be a little confusing. The Matrix is about people living in pods controlled by machines, living out their lives in their dreams. When they get unplugged and are introduced to the real world, they tend to freak a little) -- but I wanted to be super geeky about it and insert actual matrix multiplication as a ruling principle for the fic. The dimensions of the matrix -- how many rows, how many columns, was customized to how many OTPs I wanted to insert into the story, since it's for my friend starlitbright. She had three -- Hyukmin, Qmi, Henber -- that I was aware of, so I wrote those in. I kinda wanted Hyukmin to be the ultimate OTP because Sungmin is her bias, so I needed them to be the end product. Thus...oh my god, I'm sorry, BASICALLY,
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Forgot to answer this -- the girl from Florence is just another occasion of Sungmin within the matrix; it's not real. Kyuhyun has him practicing interviewing/looking for clues, in order to get him ready to look for Eunhyuk. The red pill is a reference to the actual film, The Matrix: the main character, while still in his dream world, has to choose between a red pill or a blue pill; the red one, the one he chooses, wakes him up. The blue one would have let him keep dreaming.
Nope, Qmi are out -- but I counted them as part of the OTPs in the matrix that -- actually, you know what, it can be illustrated like this:
[Kyu Hae Hen Mi Won Amber] as the (2,3)
[Jong Onew Minho] as the (3,1)
resulting in
[Min Hyuk] as a (2,1)
Haha, yeah tbh you're asking me questions I didn't really think about! I think each OTP is a different 'world,' but that's where I bent the rules/made it super vague because well, it's only a 5000-word fic. I guess you can think of it as, Sungmin's trying to go to where he belongs; before, he was existing only within the mathematics. Now he's using the mathematics to get there. Once he gets there, 'balance' is achieved (or smth, idk) and that's like, one pair down for Kyuhyun.
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[Kyu Hae Hen
Mi Won Amber] as the (2,3)
[Jong
Onew
Minho] as the (3,1)
resulting in
[Min
Hyuk] as a (2,1)
Haha, yeah tbh you're asking me questions I didn't really think about! I think each OTP is a different 'world,' but that's where I bent the rules/made it super vague because well, it's only a 5000-word fic. I guess you can think of it as, Sungmin's trying to go to where he belongs; before, he was existing only within the mathematics. Now he's using the mathematics to get there. Once he gets there, 'balance' is achieved (or smth, idk) and that's like, one pair down for Kyuhyun.
/tooootally just made that up!
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