exo: spin you round through the roar of this crowd (notes)

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I never thought I'd be doing this again, but lookie — it's a side story for Color Theory! Haha! While most of the details have already been explained in the original notes, I've added some details that might need to be explained.

1. Triad. Triad is The Spectrum's top hospital. It was where Jongin's father spent his days as the Chief Grader — in the normal human world, this is the chief doctor. 2. As a refresher: Pinnacle Point is where people during the Middle Stone Age scraped ochre, a red clay colored by iron oxide. In Color Theory, it was said that Pinnacle Point is the best place to be in for a red. It was where Jongin was born and where he restored a bit of his energy before the encounter with Lu Han in the ending of Color Theory. It must also be noted that since there's a strong concentration of red hues in Pinnacle Point, it is not recommended that other Primaries (yellows and blues) stay in Pinnacle Point for too long. 3. The characters in this story wear their color on their skin. Jongin mentions that his red has turned dull since the falling out with Sehun, and briefly talks about Sehun's yellow hue not being as bright as before when Sehun's family got into an accident. 4. Yixing is a Primary, and his shade is blue. The reason why his hair is a bright shade of purple is because he's been smoking Saturates (discussed in the next point). 5. Saturates. Saturates are cigarettes, in a sense, except the nicotine that people usually get from smoking is translated to colors in this world. It's safe to smoke Saturates of your own color; there have been studies where Saturates were seen to have made the hue of a color brighter. (Increasing the saturation of a color makes it brighter/richer.) 6. Color Education. Color Education is a degree program that is much like Color Grading, except it focuses more on theories than the actual execution (since Grading deals with scientific methods). Color Education produces color analysts — Hexes — who teach color to students. Both Sehun and Kyungsoo graduated with a degree in Color Education, while both Jongin and Joonmyun graduated with a degree in Color Grading (and in Joonmyun's case, Color Psychology — how color affects the way people think, an introductory course to Color Media or advertising). 7. It was said in the fic that color emissions, when absorbed or inhales, are deadly. This only happens when colors are taken in their purest form, all at once. It wasn't discussed in Color Theory but colors purchased during color sales are regulated, given in a certain dosage so that the color system in one's body won't go haywire because of the intrusion of the new substance. 8. Choi Jin is SHINee's head manager. LOL. Well, that was pretty long. Haha! Thanks for reading through this, and for reading through the main fic! Back to "Spin you round through the roar of this crowd"