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Some naming options you can use:

If you want to refer to their switched roles:
- Miji-rae if you want to refer to Miji as Mirae = e.g. Do you think Hosu is aware it's Miji-rae?
- Mirae-ji if you want to refer to Mirae as Miji = e.g. Their mother still hasn't suspected it's Mirae-ji.

Another example: Do you think Hosu was with Mirae-ji or Miji in the photo? His mom thinks it was Mirae-ji. (Meaning, she's aware they switched, that it was Mirae pretending to be Miji.)

If you want to refer to them as their real selves:
- Miji if as herself (usually teenager; student era)
- Mirae if as herself (usually teenager; student era)

Others:
- Mr. Organic Farming or Strawberryman
- Hosu
- Vice-Principal
- Miji's ex
- Attorney Win; or Attorney Winning-Is-All-That-Matters
- Shy Guy (from the office)
- Maniac or Predator (the one Mirae tried to expose)

Mirae also gave nicknames to her boss and his henchman, but I can't remember. 🤣

Misunderstood, as is usually the case.

Some even assumed Mirae tried to commit suicide when it was clear she planned to have an accident to force them to give her an extended leave.

Patience. 🙂 We'll get there.

First of all, "should thank God for giving her twins" is a Christian viewpoint.

Secondly, you're viewing their story from your own lens. Whatever made their mother to favour one over the other is hers to share at the right time.

Thirdly, obviously.

Fourthly, Mirae did tell Mr. Organic Farming that Mirae is selfish. Also, "she is your twin isn't she is your half existence too ??" that's coming from your own lens.

The mere fact that the twins grew apart is itself proof that "your twin is half of your existence" is not true. Parents favouring one over the other is yet another proof of that. Twins are not half of each other's existence. Each person, twins, quadruplets, identical, or not, is their own person. They don't owe each other anything. They don't define each other's identity and life.

Fifthly, "you were selfish enough to go for suicide you didn't think about anyone else before doing this"

1. Your own lens again
2. Your own religion again
3. "Selfish" and "suicide" don't go together
4. Mirae did not commit suicide, she wants to have injuries from an accident

Mirae even told Miji her plan! (Paraphrasing)
- If I jump from the lower floors, nothing will happen.
- If I jump from the higher floors, I might actually die or get seriously injured.
- So I thought, the 3rd floor is the best height to jump from. I can throw bedsheets as cushion and just tell them I accidentally fell, and I will still sustain some injuries to warrant an extended leave.

Miji wasn't listening so she assumed Mirae wants to commit suicide. Mirae's plan would've worked if Miji didn't stop her.

It's hard to tell.

Was he like that with Mirae?

Or, did he notice it's Miji-rae so he's being compassionate?

It's 50-50.

That photo both Miji and Mirae stared at, if Hosu later is given a dialogue identifying who he was with and he got it wrong, it means that his skills isn't that good.

But if he knew who it was, then it means he's playing along with Miji-rae in the present.

Kudos to the author. It was a very brilliant approach.

I felt what Miji-rae felt; and I also felt what Mirai-ji felt. Those two scenes were different yet equally powerful. I'll never forget those scenes.

Because the author used identical twins and forced them to live each other's lives, they were able to create a story with a very deep impact and plenty of lessons, without creating far too many scenarios to achieve the same effect.

Imagine if they weren't twins but they lived each other's lives. Do you think it'll have the same effect? It might even turn into a comedy, correct? Or, if they chose some magical bidy switch, wouldn't it distract you in finding answers to the switch instead of focusing on their lives?

Imagine next if they weren't twins and they didn't switched lives. How much out-of-this-world a scenario should be to have the same deep impact as when:
- Miji-rae was told by Hosu that it wasn't Miji's fault?
- Mirae-ji was told by Hosu's mom that Mirae have good qualities?

In a novel, that's easy. Or maybe a movie. But in a TV series where you have to produce 10+ episodes with at least 1 hour running time each?

For example, Miji-rae was forced to belittle Miji only to be told by Hosu that it isn't Miji's fault. All her life, Mji blamed herself. She kept hiding. She developed anxiety disorder because of it. She developid fear of locked doors. Of going outside. Of facing other people.

When she partially recovered, it was only because she's running away from the core issues. She smiles not because she's truly happy, she smiles because she's hiding. She hates her twin being bullied, not because of her twin, but because she doesn't want another version of Miji.

Meanwhile, Mirae-ji was forced to look down on Mirae but her business partner, and Hosu's mother has shown her otherwise. I especially love the encounter with Hosu's mother where she said that she's 100% sure the girl in the photo was Mirae because she has that look and face. Qualities that Mirae herself hasn't seen in herself because she kept telling herself that she's selfish.

The approach of the author in dealing with the psychology of looking into oneself is really brilliant.

Here's what they did:
1. Use the rarest type of identical twins (practically look-alikes type (not all identical twins look the same))
2. Then force them to switch places

The twin and switch were both used as a literary device to open up tackling the prychology of growth, trauma, understanding other people, discovering yourself, appreciating your family members, and the most important of all, forcefully looking at yourself and being honest.

If you use any other approaches, you won't be able to achieve the same level of story without creating far too many scenarios to place the character in a situation that they'll start reassesing themselves. Secondly, audiences will be disctracted of "comparing two people" and will miss your whole message.

However, by using identical twins and forcing them to live each other's lives as adults, the audience cannot help but compare them. And while the audience are doing that, you have these two characters who also can't help but compare themselves with their twin.

This approach eliminated the most hated "comparing people" attitude.

Miji-rae and Mirae-ji were forced:
1. To understand their twin's life
2. To realize they've taken their twin for granted
3. To realize that they are not the only ones struggling
4. To face who they really are because of situations where they had to belittle their twin - but they're actually talking about themselves (remember they switched)
5. To hear from other people things they wouldn't normally hear
6. To embrace who they really are instead of constantly denying or running from it
7. And finally, to move on and become a better person

It's going to take one or two more roles before fans can get over her Twinkling Watermelon role and image. 🤣

Did they choose that style for Seorina because fans might still picture her as a high school student from Twinkling Watermelon? 😝

Even with that hairstyle, I still see her Twinkling Watermelon character. Her stylist, and the writer, made her very memorable in that role. 😀

Official OTTs usually are delayed. 😅

Ahh. I thought he was skinnier than he last appeared in Playlist and Playbook. Maybe it was the clothes.

"d-i-e" is the redacted word

ROFLOL. Is he going to [redacted] every single time? 😅

Is it just me or he's slimmer than usual?

😝😝

No. Part 2 happened from November 21 to November 24, 2020.

- November 21 was the day younger twin escaped from the Ark lab
- November 24 was the assault / fireworks, and it was Tuesday

Meanwhile, E01 of The Tyrant showed the arrival date of the Tyrant virus in the ship manifest as 2021-11-02. One year after the events in Part 2.

The Tyrant is a sequel to Part 2.

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Anyway, are they similar? No.

I'm not ready to publish my findings but basically, there are different types of enhancements.

1. The Naturals. These are humans whose superhuman genes were activated either naturally or through other methods. It's just pure human, unaltered genes.
2. The Gene Engineered. These are humans who were genetically engineered like in "The Witch" project and 7 of its labs around the world (Part 1).
3. The Arks. These are humans who were augmented with devices. The younger twin is Ark-ADP1. ADP stands for Ark Data Point. She is not part of The Witch project technically, she's under the Ark Data Poinp project and on a Jeju lab that is not part of 7 global labs of The Witch project.
4. The Tyrants. These are the humans who were merged with the Tyrant virus. Only one known human is known to have survived it.
5. The Augments. These are humans who received an augmentation using non-Korean technology. This was explained in The Tyrant when Paul was watching a Tyrant experiment. The discussion explained that the Tyrant is different from their own tech because the Tyrant was natural, it already exists, it was not created by humans.

The augments are the ones showing those weird veins. It's different from the Tyrant virus, as the Tyrant appears to be a symbiont, and only individuals with DID can control it.

And of course…

6. The Witches. The Witchesare children born from old experiments and prrticular bloodlines, like the mother of the twins. Their mother is the one hanging on some lab the younger twin always sees in her visions.

Remember in Part 2's opening when Baek and her sister kidnapped their mother? Baek said, "Don't you know who you are?" And then later it was explained that the sisters, in particular Baek, have been looking for specific people.

In addition, their mother in the last scene of Part 2, did not appear to have aged much further since she was last seen lying on a bed in the lab,and that was 20+ years ago. And their mother was not the only one in that lab.

The protagonists in Part 1, Part 2, and Tyrant, are all Witches. They came from a particular bloodline, and that bloodline is very special and have been hunted down since time immemorial to be experimented on.

All other humans who are not Witches pale in comparison to the Witches. It is why they are called "monsters". Or, during the dark ages of Europe, "devil spawns".

And yes, there are male Witches. Baek and her sister told the twin's mother that they will create a lot of brothers and sisters. They weren't only using it as a camarederie brothers and sisters, they also meant it literally.

But that one I'll explain further in another time.

Ooh. I thought it's a movie! 😅 It's the only one I haven't watched yet.

I'll start it now. 😁

Thank you!