romeo + juliet (1996) but make it zoemira
fabulous. yes. genius. jinu murdering rumi? perfect.
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romeo + juliet (1996) but make it zoemira
fabulous. yes. genius. jinu murdering rumi? perfect.
What if the aquarium scene was redrawn?
a smile that knows we love you
Glasses thief on the loose
Last seen... Uh (squints) I'm not sure where
(loosely based on the tags dremenec left on one of my posts three days ago i don't know if this is what they meant, but when i read the tags A Lingering Image™ entered my head and i have not been able to get it out)
you see it. you see my vision
Going back to how every Huntrix has a different traversal mechanic........
Rumi's is she can go into dark rooms
Zoey can climb through vents
Mira can scale knee-high walls
But the kicker is that you only get a limited time to do your tasks/puzzles
Because there's a "separation anxiety" bar that depletes while you leave the other two standing around
If you let the bar drop completely, they all burst into tears and the game bricks itself entirely
it's for your own safety, mira. you Need to wear the hats (+the shorter the wall the funnier it is that they can't cross it. i love videogame logic where the cool action hero inexplicably Cannot Jump)
Rumi is in the wrong genre entirely but she's living her best life
Owing to the tight development timeline, the infinite backpack glitch was never discovered or patched
i see your 'Rumi has no idea what genre they're actually in' and i raise you 'Zoey ALSO has no idea what genre they're actually in' (on account of the hayfever)
(+spinning around these tags from frog4278 in my mind. i am not immune to fashionista mira propaganda. by which i mean the s-aint-elmo fashionista mira posts were so powerful that they instantly made fashionista mira canon in my heart forever)
See you think the survival horror element of the game is the zombies and traps and haunted duck rides BUT it is also the puzzles and challenges, which are crafted specifically to psychologically traumatize each player character (especially fashion suffering s-aint-elmo mira)
(They also tried chucking Zoey over the ankle-high walls but she splattered against the invisible barrier
(However this did lead them to unlock a secret move called fastball special where Rumi can launch Zoey directly into enemies for an instakill.
(It only works if she manages to hit them.
(Which has yet to happen, but they try))))
the existence of non-zoerumi contacts that mira can send embarrassing outfit pictures to implies that the other kpdh characters are also somewhere out there (i choose to believe everyone else is just chilling on a beach while they wander the haunted amusement park of ambiguous size)
+ bonus tags from frog4278
Look at my party dawg we're gonna die!!!!!
Mira's outfit reminded me of Marinette from Miraculous Ladybug for some reason so that's why she's there. We can just say she's an NPC party member
Playing as Mira is basically hard mode because you have two needy characters showing you stuff and accidentally inflicting fatal status effects (they're arguably more dangerous than the actual enemies)
(desc in alt if you can't read my handwriting)
And a sneak peak at the loading screen (featuring return of tricycle Zoey (I only have one joke (and the joke is "Zoey is short")))
fishing minigame brainrot activate. the fishing minigame requires players to wear the ugly fishing outfit
+spinning around the vague idea of divorce mechanics in my head
Obsessed obsessed with both of your art styles especially you assortedbowloffruit your art is so simple yet clean and detailed mwah mwah
and @dremenec I saw your post after I got off of work yesterday and it literally made my entire night I want you to know that. AND THE ANIMATION IS ADORABLE!!!!!!
Big fan of the implication that Marinette is some sort of curse that only YOU can see after recovering from Divorce and the others can't see her unless they also go through Divorce. Like the Social Bunny from Sims 2 where you just look insane
Mira out here with the Fear and Hunger level of status effects if she doesn't find a stash of Monster soon she's COOKED
They're way too overencumbered to carry her, but there are ways and means, ways and means indeed...
Talk about a FLASH light ha ha ha ha
(this game is not beating the E for Everyone allegations
(but you know it's a good immersive sim when the answer to a puzzle is "induce gay thirst"
(if rumi and mira are divorced at this point the game flips a coin to decide if you are permanently softlocked or whether an unskippable reunion cutscene plays
(the cutscene has been banned in several countries for reports of inducing seizures
(and spontaneous homosexuality)))))
i am not immune to honglock propaganda. by which i mean i saw the honglock posts and folded immediately. netflix, please give zoey a honglock in kpop demon hunters 2 (context for this iteration of the honglock)
+the honglock posts in question [1] [2]
PEAK ONCE AGAIN YOU NEVER MISS DUDE !!!!!!!
When Zoey gets divorced she becomes a magical girl to earn back her gfs (Zoey can also now see Marinette and she becomes Ladybug to help)
Meanwhile when Mira gets divorced this is what happens
If Mira fails the fight everyone is put into a Date Everything -esque dating sim where Mira has to win back the love of Rumi and Zoey lest they gets stolen by the other objects
Hi, may I present: Turtle suit (equip-able item)! (which @redcoloredpanda suggested one day as I was doodling, thank you for giving me the wonderful knowledge that these existed)
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one of the most strange yet useful bits of writing advice I've seen was, if you're deliberately trying to copy a specific writing style, sit down with a story written in that style and retype the whole thing, word for word. If it's a novel choose a couple of chapters. This forces you to really focus on studying the word choices & voice.
I've never used this on a novel but I use it for fanfic all the time. If I'm trying to master a character's voice, I'll look up some scenes they're in and retype their dialogue. Just their dialogue. Really focus on how they talk, their vocabulary, the length of their sentences, the sentence complexity, what contractions they use, how (and whether) they express emotions...
It's a handy trick.
Incorrect K-pop demon hunters quotes part 91
Have you already read Show me (how to love you) ? Because I've been reading it and LET ME TELL YOU !!!!!! It's so good I can't stop thinking about it.
More incorret quotes
What do you mean this isn’t canon? (13/?)
What if she's not around and they have to get a stool? What then?
was talking to @velteris and her hc of rumi chewing on her braid left an impression on me
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you did really well today.
fanart for @honestground's ''show me (how to love you)'' with a special shoutout to @queerukuleleplayer for the fun podfic version!
(nsfw warning for the fic!)
So the Scholomance series by Naomi Novik stars Galadriel Higgins, a girl whose father consigned himself to the Torment Nexus so her mother could escape and whose grandmother prophesied she would bring doom and destruction on untold scale to the world. While, as of the books' beginning, she hasn't, it's purely for lack of trying— she has a natural affinity for spells of mass destruction and a perfect gift for ripping people's souls out should she make the slightest effort, which she generally goes out of her way to avoid.
Also featured in this series is the titular Scholomance, an enormous clockwork thing built in a pocket dimension infested with wizard-eating monsters trying very badly to consume the children (high school aged) inside; the 25% survival rate of Scholomance students is five times the survival rate of wizard children outside the school, because the entire world has a wizard-eating monster problem and keeping them out is expensive enough that the wizards of London built a nuclear bunker (the titular Scholomance) to keep them out.
Life in the Scholomance is a strict routine of watching out for monsters, doing strenuous and delicate work to generate the mana you need to cast the spells you need to finish your schoolwork and keep yourself alive, and constant politicking with the other students who are also trying to keep themselves alive, even if it means getting someone else killed.
This is made much easier if you find people you can trust to join you in an alliance, a tight-knit strategic bond where you do whatever it takes to keep each other alive and intact until you can graduate, returning to the outside world with the skills and knowledge necessary to keep yourself alive to adulthood. Galadriel Higgins has difficulty finding or establishing one because her affinity causes a constant sense of low-level unease in everyone around her, who can tell there's something wrong even if they don't know what; when she does find allies, it's because one of them is willing to look past that sense of unease and confront the reality of who she is, even when she isn't willing to admit it herself.
Do you see where this is going, yet?
(El also has a bargaining chip because everybody thinks the school's resident hero and monster-hunter is in love with her, but that's not immediately relevant.)
ALL OF THIS TO SAY:
i think polytrix where they're stuck in this kind of resource-scarce intense survival scenario, trusting each other far beyond the bounds of reason, and having to figure out why rumi has a problem possesses some serious spice. there's also another AU rolling around in my head where instead of Galadriel Rumi swaps with Orion (monster hunter) but that's much more spoilery and I don't remember if tumblr has spoiler tools other than tags, which ime are often not very good for that
You can insert a cut and put a spoiler warning above it.
Also, I feel like Huntrix and Galadriel would get on like a house on fire.
Fuck, I want to write this now.
Aha! Well, in honor of your pointing that out, I'll talk about the other— possibly more apt— character swap for Rumi, and some of my thoughts for where I see this going. (Spoilers for the end of Golden Enclaves, third book of the Scholomance.)
I mention, above, the Torment Nexus. In the world of the Scholomance, there exist these things called maw-mouths, which are unstoppable and nigh-indestructible flesh goo creatures that rip apart and absorb any living things with mana in their path, not even killing them but keeping them alive in screaming pain for ever and ever, and which play a role somewhere between global warming and WMDs, thematically.
In the world of the Scholomance, there exists a boy called Orion Lake who is very nearly indestructible, who rips apart most any inhuman thing with mana in his path, who kills and kills and kills but does not die but only feeds the hunger, deep inside him, until such a time he faces the only thing that exists in the universe with hunger equal and kindred to his: a maw-mouth.
Orion Lake is an experiment in human sacrifice and renewable energy, who is lauded as a hero (who is a hero, he really does want more than anything to help people), and who discovers far too late into the series that he's a monster, that who and what he is cannot be changed, and that (he thinks) his existence means nothing but hurt for the people around him, such that he asks the only person he personally loves to kill him instead of letting him continue.
Doesn't that sound, just a little bit, familiar?
There are some differences: in the universe of KPDH, being a demon (like Rumi's father) is only a somewhat-voluntary action; being a maleficer (like Orion's mother) requires deliberate and repetitive torture of other living things to extract power in the form of their surrendered life. Likewise, Orion is a hero because he is addicted to killing and is happy to turn over the fruits of his labor to others, and to protect them; Celine of course would rather Rumi hide who and what she is.
Orion's gift from his nature, the ability to take "polluted" life energy/mana (called malia) from murdered monsters and return it to service as mana is also so hilariously overpowered that in-universe a major faction coasted along in an extremely resource-limited environment purely using the leftovers from his wanton killing. I think the tone we're setting, here, for this crossover, relies too much on characters being scarce and scared and desperate for a translation there to stick— so I think, for the purposes of this AU, Rumi can do almost the same thing but that she has to take it from them manually, and for her it's still malia.
That means she can do it, but it'll have some serious consequences. A sickly aura, a feeling of doom, fingernails that blacken and twist, changes to her hair and eye color... Nothing anyone here can visualize or borrow convenient screenshots of, right? (Also: difficulty building or holding onto mana of your own. The high is high, but the comedown and recovery are pricey.)
So: for the purposes of this AU, Rumi and Mira and Zoey are not adult performers in the KPOP genre, but young adults in a twisted bunker-high school called the Scholomance. The Hunters are not a one-of-a-kind lineage of heroes fighting a foe that no one else in the world knows still exists, but rather an alliance of pragmatism in a stark and hungry world. Huntrix, I think, is still heroic, still saves people— but it's less part of tradition and more a choice of our trio. In the world of the Scholomance, your first priority is always keep yourself alive. (Faults And Fears Must Never Be Seen still holds, of course. As much for survivors as for paragons.)
I'm not sure whether it would be more apt to place the hunters as a wizard collective, or series of wizard collectives, or to declare them some kind of wanton enclave. They don't have the kind of institutional comfort an enclave demands— I'm honestly more inclined to place Mira as an enclaver, or Zoey (perhaps of one recently fallen?), but it does play into the "ancient line" thing effectively.
Whichever, whatever— I think their specialty was song-spells, and they're damn good ones. Enough that, once Rumi has two solid incanters backing her who can also hold their own in a pinch, it's worth singing them full-throated even when that draws more maleficaria to their location, and they have the juice to save other people as well.
I think that's how they get started, actually, as Huntrix, as more than another nameless alliance: I think Rumi saves someone she didn't need to, with power she'd already committed to spend, and Zoey or Mira worked out some kind of "insurance policy" deal with any groups who thought they might need muscle in a hurry. Yanker spells, even?
Building the mana would've been hard, and finding people who could afford to pay them harder. Once they had momentum, though, I think they could've brokered enough deals to make saving anyone they reach effective enough: the loss on one rescue covered by the profits on another. Eventually, you hit your canons-appropriate Orion situation, where they're running around saving people not for free but for just enough, subsidized, to know that they can make it.
Then... well, it's hard to justify them muscling everyone together for graduation, that's a bit much even for them, but how about a smaller catastrophe? A smaller maw-mouth, climbing through the library?
Rumi goes in first, of course. She'd have to, she's their pointer, and I think she recognizes something about this, however unhappily. She goes in— with a circle backing her, Rumi and Zoey and however many students they can coerce politely sway, and.
I think canon has a strong enough description.
Rumi isn't Galadriel, of course, and I don't think she makes it out on mana alone. I think she does what she has to, what she's been craving to and hiding— I think, to kill the maw-mouth, she has to pull some malia from the maleficaria itself, to go maleficer to end its malignance. I think she emerges, alive and scared and only somewhat hurt, and she sees— them, staring back, at what they see.
They see a monster, and so does she.
...not wholly sure where to take it from there, of course. The people who aren't their allies flee, Mira and Zoey have to decide whether they're looking at the real Rumi (and what that means), and whatever they do— I don't know that people trust them anymore. Even if they do still have that trust, they can't make good on it, not without Rumi out of casting shape. They have to rebuild the rest of their mana store themselves, slow work and hard work that Rumi can't even do right anymore until she's better and can't recover for until she's done the work, but I think that's what they do.
When graduation comes, I'm not sure how it goes for them. One in four is not a pretty number, and I don't think they're going to fight for the door when there's people to help.
Then again, they're pretty creative.
Soooo, yeah! That's what I've got in my head for Scholomance AU, and I hope it's at least a little clear even for people who only know KPDH. Thanks for the tip abt the post cuts, I sorta forgot you can use those as spoiler containers.
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