Aespa members NEW power in Real World

if you're into aespa's lore, each member has power in the Kwangya world:

- Karina is Rocker Puncher

- Winter is Armamenter

- Giselle is Xenoglossy

- Ningning is ED Hacker

But seems like in real world, they have gotten new set of power

- Karina with super strength

- Winter with ability to balance things (?)

- Giselle with time/motion control

- Ningning with flame generation

SUPERNOVA out today!

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Actually i think winter power is elasticity

Aespa is really the coolest girlgroup out there

The concept, the aesthetic, the way their promote comeback

Nobody is doing it better than them

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Why elasticity?

I saw some said that her power might be gravity. As usual, Winter is making people confused @.@

Quote from ItsTheFuture

Yeah. I don't like this. this is very far from their original lore. In their original lore, they are normal people who can only use their power in virtual/digital environment using sync with their aes. And now, they are somehow 'Superbeings' or people with superpowers. There is no relation at all.

Now, I am 100 percent sure that they leave their aes and Kwangya lore. There is no way they can use them back.

Hmm on one hand I do agree with you that they seem to move away a bit from the Kwangya world BUT this strange phenomenon in Real World seems to be continuation of the Black Mamba defeat + Naevis sacrifice.

I think it is still part of the story. Maybe, it is something like they are actually still inside Kwangya (despite looking like Real world) because Black Mamba wasnt defeated or there is another new villain which trapped them in parallel world (remember their new concert is named Parallel SYNK)

The above can explain why they still has superpowrr, the world has strange phenomenon in MY World album and them going havoc in Drama. Just my prediction

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I don't understand SM's plan for Aespa at this point. After Yoo Young-jin left SM, they don't have a producer that can make songs according to their lore.

Now, It's more like they choose song and make aespa's concept (whatever concept it is) according to the song. Their original lore is not like that. Their songs were purposely created by YYJ to move their story forward and fit their lore perfectly. Now we have a multiverse where SM make whatever concepts that fit into songs they choose for Aespa.

Example:

Spicy movie: happy summer concept. they added funny strange events in the movie.

Drama movie: these strange events didn't exist at all. they turned into spies or whatever.

Supernova movie: they are not spies. they have superpowers that don't exist in any previous movie.

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I think it kinda spice things up. Staying in Kwangya forever is only hurting aespa at certain point (the backlash happened in Girls era though real fans enjoyed it)

In a way, aespa's songs have become more GP-friendly since YYJ and LSM left. Both Spicy and Drama have less reference made to Kwangya in the lyrics (only subtle references in Drama). They are avoiding alienating casual listeners and the effects are shown on charts.

I think SM just need to find songs that suitable for aespa sound (which they have always been doing, SM bought songs from the west and YYJ just enhance the productions + restructure + lyrics etc). The song lyrics can always be rewritten to suit the aespa storyline. With how SuperNova sounds like, im sure they havent (or never) given up on Aespa core sound.

One thing with big companies (SM YG JYP) is that they never gonna give up on what they started. They dont just dump a concept entirely. They have the money and they will continue until it works (twerk a bit here & there) unlike small companies which will jump from concepts to concepts till they find success

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More like current SM can't continue Aespa's lore. They don't want to leave Aespa's lore completely because they are afraid many fans will leave the fandom. So they end up giving random concepts that they think are similar to Aespa's original concept with less quality. I think YYJ is the only one capable to structure the songs to fit Aespa's original lore.

I believe Drama is the best concept for real world (the concept, fighting, etc are plausible in real word) not Spicy. But Spicy is a success, so they continue to put one kidz song for the title track.

Both Spicy and Drama are success. Both peaked top 2 on Kcharts and Drama is having better reception globally and still doing numbers on spotify.

I beg to differ on the point that only YYJ made songs that work for aespa. So far, both Spicy and Drama kinda proven that aespa can somehow continue without YYJ and the quality is decent / on par. Results dont lie.

Even as a MY myself, i do enjoy both Spicy and Drama which kept aespa core sound which is hyperpop and heavy synth.

Quote from ItsTheFuture

I don't understand SM's plan for Aespa at this point. After Yoo Young-jin left SM, they don't have a producer that can make songs according to their lore.

Now, It's more like they choose song and make aespa's concept (whatever concept it is) according to the song. Their original lore is not like that. Their songs were purposely created by YYJ to move their story forward and fit their lore perfectly. Now we have a multiverse where SM make whatever concepts that fit into songs they choose for Aespa.

Example:

Spicy movie: happy summer concept. they added funny strange events in the movie.

Drama movie: these strange events didn't exist at all. they turned into spies or whatever.

Supernova movie: they are not spies. they have superpowers that don't exist in any previous movie.

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I found an interesting theory under comment on PC. Just putting them here

The whole spicy, better things and drama is set on the real world bcs the black mamba arc are closed (during girls era). So some fans are speculating that defeating black mamba and banishing naevis is why their ae counterparts aren't able to connect with aespa anymore. And the real world aespa (spicy, better things and drama) are all different/parallel world (the lyrics of this is in girls). In spicy the girls are just normal girls living their college live but there are some abnormalities happening around them (probs bcs of the causality of black mamba downfall and naevis coming to the real world), in better things the girls are shown to have a holiday after defeating black mamba but at the end were shown to encounter a terrestrial being we don't know of. In drama they were all trying to kill each other (there are theories Karina is evil and controlled by black mamba if anyone remember that one teaser from black mamba era, u would know, so everyone speculates that bm isn't really dead).