BTS members in their impoverished period are transformed into vampires when their human bodies can no longer sustain them. The episode is not presented as a willing initiation into supernatural life but as a desperate intervention by their mother, who explains that they could not survive through their “human” strength and therefore had to be made into vampires. Their altered existence consequently begins in deprivation, coercion, and the management of vulnerable bodies rather than in power or privilege.

Circumstances of the Transformation

The event emerges through a violent encounter involving a mysterious child and Jin. The child arrives with a single stated purpose, declaring that after completing the task, Jin will be the price. He bites another person, cuts his own wrist, and then bites Jin, making blood the immediate medium through which the crisis spreads. The sequence treats the body as both target and instrument: the child’s self-inflicted wound supplies blood, while the bite imposes a transformation whose consequences reach beyond the initial victim.

The danger becomes visible when the child runs toward RM and Jin responds with extreme force, chopping off the child’s left arm with his hand. Yet the severed body does not simply end the threat. Others observe that the child is regenerating and ask how such recovery is possible; Bambam suspects that a vampire may have entered the place from outside, while further inspection of the child’s teeth leads him to think that the condition may involve a change in DNA. The scene therefore frames vampirism through bodily evidence—bites, teeth, regeneration, and altered biology—before the family explanation names it as the means by which the young BTS members survived.

The Child’s Assault and the Crisis of Blood

The child’s violence turns the transformation into a crisis of contagion, protection, and uncertain identity. After announcing that Jin would become the price of the completed task, the child bites him and then cuts his own wrist, making the wound part of the attack rather than a sign of weakness. He subsequently bites Jin again, while Jin’s attempt to stop him escalates into dismemberment: Jin chops off the child’s left arm with his bare hand. The apparent victory is immediately undermined when the child’s back begins regenerating, prompting the others to question how such recovery is possible. Bambam responds by investigating the physical evidence, asking whether an outsider vampire has entered and examining the child’s teeth for signs of a DNA-altering condition. The episode thus presents the supernatural change through a sequence of damaged, examined, and repairing bodies, leaving the characters to interpret vampirism as both an attack and a biological alteration before its larger survival function is disclosed.

The Mother’s Explanation and the Meaning of Survival

The physical crisis is ultimately reinterpreted through the mother’s explanation of why the young BTS members were changed. She states that they could not survive on their “human” strength, so they had to be made into vampires. This account shifts the event from an unexplained attack to a forced act of preservation: vampirism is imposed because ordinary human endurance has failed. The transformation therefore carries an unresolved double meaning. It saves the children from death, but it also replaces the human condition they once possessed with a supernatural state whose origin lies in necessity rather than consent. Their later existence as vampires is consequently rooted in an act of protection shaped by desperation, making survival inseparable from bodily alteration and loss.

Memory, Disclosure, and the Reframing of Origin

The transformation is also inseparable from the story’s unstable control of memory. At one point, Jin explains that he sacrificed his power to lock the green-eyed entities inside the mirror, establishing that supernatural history is preserved through partial testimony and confinement rather than openly shared knowledge. The earlier discovery of a written account, which Y/N opens and reads while alone in her room, provides another model of delayed revelation: the past survives in objects until someone is willing or able to interpret it. This structure places the vampire origin within a wider politics of disclosure. The mother’s explanation supplies the crucial fact that human strength had failed, but later acts of concealment alter how that fact can be understood; Assiah admits that she erased Y/N’s memory, while the room suddenly turns white, marking a rupture between experienced history and accessible recollection. The conversion of the BTS members therefore functions not only as a bodily rescue but also as a buried collective trauma, one whose meaning is repeatedly recovered, concealed, and reorganized by those who possess supernatural authority.

The Transformation as a Foundational Trauma

The conversion of the young BTS members is best understood as a foundational trauma whose effects continue after the immediate danger has passed. The episode begins with physical vulnerability: the children cannot endure through human strength, and the mother’s intervention preserves their lives by changing what their bodies are. Survival is therefore achieved through a loss of bodily continuity. They remain themselves in one sense, yet the condition that allows them to live also separates them from ordinary human existence and binds them to blood, altered biology, and supernatural dependence.

The event’s violence makes that contradiction visible rather than abstract. The mysterious child’s attack places Jin and the others in a situation where protection requires equally extreme bodily force. Jin’s response to the child’s assault is not a controlled ritual but an immediate attempt to stop a threat that moves toward RM; even dismemberment fails to resolve the danger because the child’s body regenerates. The scene consequently denies the characters a stable boundary between injury and recovery, human and vampire, victim and aggressor. Bodies can be wounded, used, examined, and remade, while the meaning of those changes remains uncertain until someone with authority explains them.

That uncertainty also shapes the group’s later relationship to its own past. The origin of the vampire state is disclosed through the mother’s account, but other supernatural truths remain fragmented across testimony, written records, sealed mirrors, and erased memories. Jin’s recollection of sacrificing his power to imprison the green-eyed entities shows that even a central participant can reveal history only in partial form. Y/N’s reading of a written account while alone in her room similarly turns memory into something mediated by an object rather than freely inherited from the people involved. Assiah’s admission that she erased Y/N’s memory makes the politics of remembrance explicit: supernatural survivors do not merely suffer the past; they can also control who is permitted to retain it.

Within that larger pattern, the conversion of BTS becomes more than an origin story for vampirism. It is the buried event that explains why their extraordinary existence carries both protection and deprivation. The transformation saves them from the failure of human endurance, yet its coercive circumstances prevent it from functioning as a simple gift. Later revelations do not erase the violence of that beginning; they clarify why the characters’ identities, loyalties, and fears remain tied to the question of who changed their bodies, who concealed the truth, and who has the power to restore or destroy memory.

Disclosure, Memory, and Origin

The transformation is inseparable from the story’s unstable control of memory. Jin later explains that he sacrificed his power to lock the green-eyed entities inside the mirror, showing that supernatural history survives through partial testimony and confinement rather than open disclosure. Y/N’s discovery of a written account offers another form of delayed revelation: while alone in her room, she opens and reads a record that preserves information unavailable through ordinary conversation. These moments place the vampire origin within a broader politics of remembrance. The mother’s explanation establishes that human strength had failed, but later acts of concealment determine who can understand the consequences of that failure. Assiah admits that she erased Y/N’s memory, and the sudden whitening of the room marks a rupture between experienced history and accessible recollection. The conversion of the BTS members therefore functions not only as bodily rescue but also as buried collective trauma, repeatedly recovered, concealed, and reorganized by figures who possess supernatural authority.

The Transformation as a Foundational Trauma

The conversion of the young BTS members is best understood as a foundational trauma whose effects continue after the immediate danger has passed. The event begins with physical vulnerability: the children cannot endure through human strength, and their mother preserves their lives by changing what their bodies are. Survival is therefore achieved through a loss of bodily continuity. They remain themselves in one sense, yet the condition that allows them to live also separates them from ordinary human existence and binds them to blood, altered biology, and supernatural dependence.

The violence surrounding the change makes that contradiction visible. The mysterious child announces that Jin will become the price after the child completes a particular task, then bites him and cuts his own wrist. When the child moves toward RM, Jin responds by chopping off the child’s left arm with his hand, but the apparent victory collapses when the damaged body begins to regenerate. Bambam’s questions about whether an outside vampire entered the place, followed by his inspection of the child’s teeth for evidence of a DNA-changing condition, show the group trying to understand vampirism through observable injuries, bodily repair, and biological alteration. The scene refuses a stable boundary between human and vampire, victim and aggressor, or injury and recovery.

That uncertainty shapes the group’s later relationship to its own past. The origin of the vampire state is disclosed through the mother’s explanation, while other supernatural truths remain fragmented across testimony, written records, sealed mirrors, and erased memories. Jin’s account of sacrificing his power to lock the green-eyed entities inside the mirror demonstrates that even a central participant reveals history only partially. Y/N’s reading of a written account while alone in her room similarly turns memory into something mediated by an object rather than freely inherited from the people involved. Assiah’s admission that she erased Y/N’s memory makes the politics of remembrance explicit: supernatural survivors do not merely suffer the past; those with authority can determine who is allowed to retain it.

Within this wider pattern, the conversion of BTS is more than an origin story for vampirism. It is the buried event that explains why their extraordinary existence carries both protection and deprivation. The transformation saves them from the failure of human endurance, but its coercive circumstances prevent it from functioning as a simple gift. Later revelations do not erase the violence of that beginning; they clarify why the group’s identities, loyalties, and fears remain tied to who changed their bodies, who concealed the truth, and who possesses the power to restore or destroy memory.

Narrative Significance

The conversion of the young BTS members is more than an origin story for vampirism: it is the buried event that explains why their extraordinary existence carries both protection and deprivation. Their mother’s explanation gives the transformation a survival logic, but the surrounding assault prevents that logic from becoming a simple act of rescue. Blood, biting, self-inflicted injury, regeneration, and the investigation of altered teeth make the body the first archive of what happened, while later testimony and written records supply meanings that the body alone cannot settle. The episode therefore establishes a lasting contradiction at the center of the group’s identity. Vampirism preserves life after human strength has failed, yet it also severs the survivors from ordinary human existence and binds them to a history shaped by coercion, secrecy, and dependence. Its significance deepens through the story’s treatment of memory: Jin’s account of sacrificing his power to imprison the green-eyed entities, Y/N’s discovery of a written record, and Assiah’s admission that she erased Y/N’s memory all show that the past is never simply available to those who lived through it. It is disclosed, sealed, read, or removed by figures who control supernatural power. Later revelations consequently do not cancel the violence of the transformation; they make clear why the group’s identities, loyalties, and fears remain tied to who changed their bodies, who concealed the truth, and who has the authority to restore or destroy memory.