48 Hours

'After 48 hours, only one boy will be alive in this house.'

'48 Hours' is one of the many famous fanfiction in the EXO fandom. It's quite a sadistic story... a very tragic sadistic story. The setting takes place in LA, and Chinese-Canadian member Kris, is the main character. Basically, the twelve members of EXO are trapped inside an enormous house(?) mansion(?) and if there is more than one person alive in the house after 48 hours, all of them will die.

This fanfiction was written in Chinese by a Chinese fan: http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1820645117?see_lz=1

This was then translated to many other different languages. This is the link for the English one: http://lukais.livejournal.com/296.html



In a personal point of view, after reading '48 Hours', my mind was flooded to the brim with information and questions. That night, I woke up multiple times with answers to my own questions about the fanfiction. '48 Hours' generated a lot of questions to the EXO fandom, and you have to read it to know why it confused readers so much. Because of this, many, many, fans decided to share their own opinions about the story. However, the most believed analysis was by a Chinese fan. (http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1872659934?see_lz=1)

This was also translated. (http://chanxun.livejournal.com/738.html)


A snippet:

Question 1

Do you think Xiumin and Chen really died from the start of the game?

1. Xiumin and Chen should have really died from the start.

At first, they were planning to fake their deaths to scare and increase the tension. However, unexpectedly, Xiumin really died. Upon seeing that Xiumin really died, Chen’s world broke down and crumbled to bits. This was because in his heart, this was all just a surprise party, and nothing could have gone wrong; let alone death! Hence, that was why Chen desperately when to try out the pin number lock on the door despite the warnings from his members! In fact, this surprise party had long been swapped and turned into a game of murder. The initially harmless ‘knife’ in the bronze ring around their necks took Chen’s life after he used up all his chances on the door lock. Therefore, right from the beginning, the only two people who knew about the entire setup had been silenced forever.

“Murder at its highest realm, would be using the hands of the dead to kill the living, and again using the living to kill the other living people, because no matter what, the first person to die would never be able to reveal the truth.”

The author had stated very clearly that Xiumin and Chen had already died right from the start! This was because the only two people who knew about the entire setup had been killed from the beginning! Also, as the surprise party was planned by only Xiumin and Chen, it would then be described as “using the hands of the dead to kill the living”.
Moreover, I think that Chen and Xiumin’s disappearances near the closure of the story were also manipulated by a mastermind. If Xiumin and Chen were to be found dead, people would start to suspect that this surprise party was swapped to become a murder game! However, Xiumin’s and Chen’s fates were never revealed; their corpses never seen.
Like this, the surprise party can be said to be the reason that led to the killings amongst the members due to their misconceptions about Xiumin’s and Chen’s deaths!
Hence, even if Xiumin and Chen weren’t dead, they’d still disappear.

Question 2
What did Junmyeon hear when he went downstairs to check out the mirror and what was he trying to tell Kai before his death?

2. What Junmyeon was trying to say was probably, “There are noises in the basement”.

“The thing was that no one knew that Junmyeon, who had been killed with the mirror shard, perhaps might have said in a hoarse voice, “There are noises in the basement.”

Question 3
Why did Baekhyun drew on eyeliner in the middle of the night?

3. This was because the eyeliner was a gift from Jongin; he had reckoned that he wouldn’t have a chance to put it on in the future if he didn’t put it on then.

“Jongin passed a long, intricate box to Baekhyun. Upon opening the box, Baekhyun held up the eyeliner and smiled widely, jumping up to hug Jongin.”

Here it states that the eyeliner was a gift from Jongin to Baekhyun.

“Baekhyun was peculiar wasn’t he; applying the eyeliner that Kim Jongin had given him right in the middle of the night. Are you claiming it’s peculiar only because the first hander, Kris, felt that way?

To the people who found this reaction odd and strange, after getting involved in all the mutual suspicions in the villa, would you behave like Kris, who walked out of the toilet silently even when he knew that Baekhyun was going to die? You are wrong; he precisely was the easiest and stupidest person in the game, stupid to the extent whereby he put friendship before the rules of the game.

He’s a person who would give away his company’s trade secrets the moment an old friend pats his shoulder casually to ask for it. Even if the entire company thinks that he’s a spy, even if the entire world thinks that he had been bribed to give away the trade secret, he’ll think that the only negative impact of giving away that company secret would be that he’ll lose his job in a month.” 

We can tell from the author’s words that Baekhyun was purely just putting on eyeliner without any intent or motive. Baekhyun did not deliberately plan anything and neither did he predict for anything to happen. He was simply using the eyeliner that Jongin gifted him with…

SPOILER:

if that wasn't too clear

Two of the many fanmade trailers:










and a longer, more detailed (but Chinese) version:








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