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, Sungmin has to travel through three OTPs in order to finally reach his own (or his soulmate or whatever, which is Eunhyuk). When you get down to the technical details of the mathematics, it doesn't actually make sense, but...I still needed something to govern my fic, thus why I bent the rules, like a LOT.
As for the other stuff, such as transitions every time he encounters a new OTP, I just wanted to remain consistent. So every time he pushes into the next plane, it's always a violent, or painful experience. There's also the dino club appearances -- Hae, Amber, Jjong -- as another source of 'similarities/connections.' As for Minho, starlitbright's SHINee OTP is Jongyu, but it's an inside joke that I've been getting her to like Onho a little, so I wrote Onjongho, but then killed off Minho so she could have her OTP (but still with Onho moments ahahah) I intended for Sungmin having to kill Minho be the violent/painful experience -- plus, since he's always just like, NEVER LOSES, I used his presence as a sacrifice, so to speak, like an extra transitional jolt for Sungmin to finally catch up to Eunhyuk and land in the world he's supposed to be in with him -- aka this one, where they're both in SJ/as idols.
As for the other stuff, such as transitions every time he encounters a new OTP, I just wanted to remain consistent. So every time he pushes into the next plane, it's always a violent, or painful experience. There's also the dino club appearances -- Hae, Amber, Jjong -- as another source of 'similarities/connections.' As for Minho, starlitbright's SHINee OTP is Jongyu, but it's an inside joke that I've been getting her to like Onho a little, so I wrote Onjongho, but then killed off Minho so she could have her OTP (but still with Onho moments ahahah) I intended for Sungmin having to kill Minho be the violent/painful experience -- plus, since he's always just like, NEVER LOSES, I used his presence as a sacrifice, so to speak, like an extra transitional jolt for Sungmin to finally catch up to Eunhyuk and land in the world he's supposed to be in with him -- aka this one, where they're both in SJ/as idols.
...does that help >_
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