el dorado

〈 NOX ﹔ the prophecy 〉 blockberry creative's first boy group。
El Dorado
1st MV



Into the light that spreads out before us
Toward the future that no one knows of
This walk will be a legend in the
Days to come, the El Dorado


 

The scene starts out with a heavy rainfall. It's stormy to the point that it's difficult to see very far, only nine  silhouettes who stand together in a circle can be discerned, the rest of the scene blurs together into an unwelcoming gray. At the first notes of the song, the silhouettes look up towards the sky.

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Adán and Daebyeol are standing in a big hall. The walls are all painted black, and the room is almost empty with the exception of different-sizes doors in various directions and a dartboard hanging on one wall of the room. Adán raises his arm. In his hand is a dart and he throws it towards the board. It lands on the outer edge of the board. He looks at Daebyeol who now also raises his hand, another dart between his fingertips. He throws and gets a little closer.

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Daebyeol,
Cano and Sion are running in a pine forest. The trees are slender but dense, their crowns so thick that they would absorb any light that tried to pass to the ground. Daebyeol looks back.

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In front of their eyes, Adán and Daebyeol's dartboard takes of a more yellowish color and distends, the rings melting and turning into a hexagonal pattern. It transforms into a bee hive! A seemingly endless swarm of bees starts to flock out of the hive and advance towards them, more than the hive seemed capable of sheltering. Daebyeol pats Adán's arm and they split up and run into different directions, taking steps towards different hallways.

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Dal and Vana are warming up in the opposite corners of a boxing ring in a large, dimly lit room. Both of them wear sporty attire and boxing gloves. Their expressions are tense, brows drawn together. Numa steps into the ring, his light blue button shirt and fly marking him as the referee. He smiles unperturbedly.

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The bees, every single one of them, are following Daebyeol.

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Numa is holding a speech. He wears an uniform with many medals clipped to his chest as he stands in front of a podium in the middle of what seems to be a lecture room. The camera is zooming at him from the front and below. Numa looks enthusiastic and gesticulates wildly while his mouth opens and closes. From time to time he glances at the podium in front of him where a stack of paper is lying before turning to the empty rows of seats again.

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Remus sits on a sofa in a lavishly decorated baroque-inspired room. A breeze opens his slightly ahar door and sees a frantically running Daebyeol followed by a swarm of bees. He stands up and moves to the door, extends his arms outwards, as if to stop the bees but they are paying him no mind, avoiding his limb. He stares after the hive as it passes, an unreadable expression on his face. Then he lets his arm sink down and closes the door.

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The forest gets slightly lighter, in the distance, there are even a few rays of sun shining through the dark. The scene only includes Cano and Sion now, and their running speed has accelerated. The scene closes up on Sion at first, whose eyes are fixated on the clearing with a determined expression, hands balled up into fists. Then it shifts to Cano who looks equally serious, his feet slashing up mud in his wake. A firefly buzzes around his ankles.

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Nova sits on the end of a huge dining table, stacked with various plates and goblets filled to the brim with gourmet food and drinks. A crown lies atop his head. He tries a bite of every dish he can reach, smiling and nodding occasionally as he tries something else.

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Vana is standing on a field of grass, staring into a mirror with a dark expression.

Remus spots Vana as he looks through the window in his room, his curtains slightly askew by a breeze. He comes closer to the window and presses his forehead against the glass. Then he softly knocks to catch Vana's attention but the other one doesn't seem to notice him.

Slowly, Vana balls his hand up into a fist and punches into his reflection. The mirror shatters into pieces.

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One look over Numa's shoulder reveal the notes which lay on the podium as he glanced at them periodically during his speech. They were crude pictures of daisy flowers that had smiling faces in the middle of it's pollen, drawn with colorful crayons. Even now, Numa's eyes flit to the papers again before continuing with his speech, grinning widely.


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Remus opens the door to his room again. Cano, Dal and Adán are walking together on a long hallway outside. He waves at them and they smile and wave back. He closes the door.

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Sion is dancing on a stage in front of a red curtain. A spotlight shines down on him. His body bends and stretches in a contemporary dance, twists and withers on the floor but always remains under the unmoving light. His expression is gloomy.  As the scene zooms out, two more spotlights come into view, shining down onto the empty stage at his left and right sides. More and rows of velvety seats get visible,  the stage belongs to an old theater. Sion continues to dance and spin around, alone.


 

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nephesh
#1
Chapter 18: ah sorry. school had just started two weeks ago and i had presentations and quizzes so... my energy and time are pretty much on a downwards trend and tbh i've nearly hit my burnout levels.
but i'm still interested!
on this chapter:
okay but shinjo is cute tho. sneaking out and got caught but his manager still was like 'oh you must be nervous'? as;lkdsd thats cool. aww, youngki :( it's just for a minute but i had this morbid curiosity on how bad it came to be. like... the things and the stuff that having your hair like that can actually make you feel. inyoung? aah i like his interactions with seungyoon. and aww, euikyeol being a protective groupmate (although kinda annoyed? the way i read it to be).
i really enjoy the standalone chapters, and honestly it would be interesting to see more of the mix between individual and group chapters.
zimzaIabims
#2
Chapter 19: hi bby i'm still here!! sorry for not commenting often it's my fault :-(
Twiillaa
#3
Chapter 19: I am still here and reading! :)
kattirompa
#4
Chapter 19: Heya. I still read though I haven't had time to comment proper on the last chapter.
Twiillaa
#5
Chapter 18: I really like seeing the whole music show process and it pretty accurately done as I have a few friends who have worked on them and heard some stories. Anyway, it was really cute that Shinjo sneaked away and met some friends then was excited about his secret piece of paper with their numbers on it. Though, I have to say Inyoung getting that piece of confetti was my favorite part since he’s been waiting so long for this to start and I don’t but I felt like him getting to feel and see standing at the front and feel what groups that are a little more popular feel gave him this hope or a feeling of hope that waiting for this moment again will be worth it - I don’t know if that makes sense. I am looking forward to reading the next chapter!
nephesh
#6
Chapter 17: yay for chapter 1! thanks for updating. nox finally debuted!
okay quick review; i really like zhihui's pov and i loled a little at his interaction with hawon. aw, he saw the loona girls? and now hes all secretly red and happy. i like that use of show don't tell.
if theres a character i dont really like very much, it'll be kang san? i think its a good job on showing his flaws. he had a little attention-seeking habit (which kinda ruins the mood of seyoon's emotional glimpse). wonder if its super noticeable though.
kattirompa
#7
Chapter 17: I LOVE El Dorado. Its probably my favorite Exo song next to Black Pearl. The MV seemed disjointed and a little random, which the knetz picked up on, but I'm seeing what I think are snippets of the fortune telling aspect. That end where Jiwoo is dancing alone though? Oof. I have theories on that. Amd it makes me not bode well for the dance line :S

Its nice to see the boys debuting and interacting together. You can actually imagine the showcase BBC must be putting together for this, and Haseul!! Zhihui your feels are showing you silly boy lolol. And you can see the difference in how certain characters interact as they have either been with the company longer and have those relationships, or the more introverted ones. The Shinjo and Euikyeol moments are super cute and I enjoy seeing how they all (kinda) rally around Seyoon. But for different reasons seemingly. Thank you for the update! I look forward to more!
zimzaIabims
#8
Chapter 17: IM ALIVE BECAUSE OH DEAR GOD EL DORADO IS MY FAVORITE EXO SONG JESUS CHRIST I LOVE YOU I LOVE THIS GROUP STAN HASEUL STAN LOONA
Twiillaa
#9
Chapter 17: El dorado is a great title track for them. I think it really fits the start of their journey - looking for something almost mythical and out of reach. While the music video is a little odd in some places, but I can see how everything fits together from everyone else's music videos. I think that future music videos will only get better and fill in the story of them. I really liked the debut showcase as it highlights everyone's personalities and relations with each other - really well. I do like that Euikyeol was put on the spot and that Shinjo stepped in for him - it shows their friendship in the small ways.
kattirompa
#10
Ahhh! I'm so sorry for not commenting! But all the MVs were very fun to read, and the different POVs and timeframes they occurred in also helped frame up the characters. I'll get more detailed once I catch up on some things!

Thanks for the updates and I look forward to seeing where you take these boys!