KPDH Season 1: Sweet Pride - S1E1: Jinu's Lament
The fact the likes keep coming for my production and a few reblogs wants me to see how far I can go with this idea. In script format because this is s'posed to be episodiac. Because c'mon, you all know who is who in KPop Demon Hunters so I'm not gonna ??? anyone even when they have yet been introduced. I'm just gonna use names at the start to avoid confusion and just have the fun of it.
I will reiterate that this aims to have slice-of-life-ish premise with some hc lore going on after thinking 'you create that hell and not have some lore for those demons I somehow can't come to hate???' Well, yeah... onward to the first episode of *shennanigans*. Note that this is also somewhat a pilot, a draft and testing out the waters. Really, how far can I go?
Ep1 - Jinu's Lament
After centuries on end since the creation of the Honmoon that had kept demons at the backfoot, five jeosung sajas have decided the brilliant idea that a demon boy band is a great way to go to gain an upper hand. It wasn't like anything else worked so far.
The notes of a bipa played, over an olden village of yore where flames danced around, monsters more known as demons of all kind from the Dokkaebi, the jeosung saja and the faceless roam around with water demons lurking around in lakes and oceans. And people with talismans, running villagers and prayers were called out even when hellfire spread, laughing all the way with the glows of souls dancing underneaeth.
JINU: In the beginning, there had been two worlds split into humans and demons. Led by the hellfire king, Gwi-ma, the demons roam around the human world, stealing and reaping souls to their king in eternal damnation. No talisman, prayer or power could fight against hell, helpless humans without any means of rescue...
Shown a mother-daughter pair about to get soul sucked by a Dokkaebi before a trio of women arrived, singing songs and weaving through souls that can only be fully taken by demons in its entirety for their king that was now taken in parts with an energy that now turned against the demons. Pushing them into the underworld where they belong.
JINU: Until humans, a huntress trio, had found power in music and figured how to use the souls so coveted by Gwi-ma against the demonkind as a purer energy by people's hopes and desires repelling the demons considered as an antithesis. The soul energy saving people had formed a barrier called the Honmoon that had been maintained to this very day with the power of music that has become this generation of KPop idols.
The bipa stopped playing, showing where those demons in the underworld are and narrowing down to five jeosung saja out in the plains with a tiger and bird familiar side by side with the bipa jeosung saja, Jinu. The other four jeosung saja just stared.
BABY (playing on a phone): And we know that already? How does that turn into us, of all people, becoming idols?
ABBY: Really, a demon boy band?
ROMANCE: Just because we now chose names that sound like we belong in a boy band, doesn't mean we can become a boy band? And for what?
JINU: You mean that you chose names for yourself. You still wouldn't let me call myself Pri-
ROMANCE: And not Charming either just because you got addicted to old Disney movies, hyung.
ABBY: You actually didn't forget your own name, like the rest of us. You should cherish your name, hyung.
A flashback, of a little girl held back by a woman. The doors almost shut, and that damned scream.
Flash back to the present.
JINU: (And yet the only reason I know my name is because it's tied to my worst memory, my deepest shame... unlike some demons where their names don't matter to crush us and become the faceless.)
Camera pans over the underworld they live in, featuring the doekkabi, water demons and even the faceless. Zoom in to a jeosung saja, consumed by patterns in a spin of hellfire before a scream cuts off and they become faceless creatures. Comes back to Jinu thousand yard dead stare before snapping out of it in defensive.
JINU: Even when you have forgotten your names, why did you have to choose those names that sound like your in a boy band? You also secretly want to, don't you?
BABY: You are really grasping every straw, aren't you? Blame the Internet that your familiars bless us from topside that just have to inspire us when we are too busy otherwise to enjoy it all. After all these centuries, humans can think up anything.
Derpy had been nuzzling Jinu while Sussie flew overhead where the Honmoon was still trapping demons and somehow went out in a beam of light. Derpy followed.
ROMANCE (wistful): I swear. You attract the strangest things.
JINU: Does that include you guys?
ABBY: Hey, rude. You know exactly why we are all here together.
Incomprehensible flashbacks, of lone wanderers and bipa playing. Warzones. Topside, patterns, hunters, reaping, underworld, cries, growls, patterns, burning, soothing music and yearning. Then, back to them.
ABBY: Plus, there's nothing wrong with our names. Easy to remember us by, right? Straight to the point. Who doesn't like that?
MYSTERY: Does not make us a boy band. We are inspired.
Yeah, inspired by Michael Jackson's Baby, KDramas, gym bros and horror games. The computer, barbells, MP3 player and video game console will be remembered.
JINU: Come on! At least give it some thought. We are already 3 quarters in it anyway!
Jinu points his bipa to Romance who's heart shaped locks fall pleasantly to his face and Abby flexing his biceps.
JINU: Aren't we handsome?!
Jinu points at Baby still nonchalantly playing mobile games but with the ocassional scrap papers where one read 'Your my Soda Pop'. Can opening sfx inserted.
JINU: Haven't you already been song-writing to show PSY who's boss or something just because we realized he's the one who single-handedly could be responsible for the Golden Honmoon if not for the fact he's not as well-versed as the huntress trio to command soul energy???
Jinu looks straight at Mystery, the most agile and flexible of them all from a dance move that they all stumbled from phone acquisition and finding something that has to do with a metal pole.
JINU: And what about flexible cheography that we can handle with someone demolishing those weird TikTok challenges when Derpy got us our own phones???
ROMANCE: Hell forbid we have our own interests.
MYSTERY: That's not enough for us to become a boy band.
BABY: Why would we even want to be a boy band anyway?
JINU: For breaking the Honmoon! For getting the one thing that is fueling the Honmoon! For the fans!
~Uh-ah~ sfx. Coincidentally, Derpy came with Sussie carrying actual fans, the hand-held and electrical kind and some that just need batteries.
JINU (aghast): Not those fans!
ABBY: Ha, who needs to be a boy band for 'the fans' when they are literally right here! I dunno how well these would work but maybe this human invention would finally cool the hell fires down in our place!
MYSTERY: If we know how to get them to work.
BABY: We are the most tech-competent demons out there with the loot we get from Derpy and Sussie. Of course we can get them to work.
ROMANCE: Hell fire help us. Are you going to conviniently forget the blenderTM incident?
BABY: Shh. That was just a fever dream.
ABBY: Barely. Humans have come a long way with torture methods.
JINU: I know what you guys are doing. I'm not going to stop until you finally see what we are destined to be!
ROMANCE: Save it for when we get back home.
BABY: Whatever you say, gramps. If delulu was truly the solulu, then we wouldn't be living out our un-lives like this.
MYSTERY (whispers): He's been on that phone for too much.
The five had been skirting around the underworld, with the familiar's loot strapped to the tiger's back. The underworld, even at a tyrant's hellish rule, still thrived among packs, very much like them with a sliver imitation in human life that they have managed to find out when they weren't escaping in a hurry from the ever watchful hunters, like an imitation of some human market among huts to gossip. Like a trio talking.
DOKKAEBI#1: I can't believe that group went out with a death wish. Do they really believe they are strong enough to defeat the Huntr/x?
DOKKAEBI#2: Maybe it's not strong but desparate. There have been many acting up lately, and the fires seem to be dying down now, but that just means...
SAJA#1: Or maybe they just wanted to have some fun. I hear that they have to hijack something called a plane to assassinate them.
DOKKAEBI#2: A plane? Sounds cool. If I get blasted by those Honmoon weapons doing something that cool, maybe it would actually be worth it.
SAJA#1 & DOKKAEBI#1: Pass.
Or two water demons chilling in a make-shift fountain.
WATER DEMON#1: They... they just keep coming. Those Faceless, they just keep multiplying out of nowhere and appear, like... like ghosts!
WATER DEMON#2: I mean, they technically are, according to some human folklore. But for how many they are, how long has it been any of us or dokkaebi even appeared out of nowhere? Have there even been any new jeosung saja roaming around in these parts?
WATER DEMON#2: When souls run out, there are only us left... What will the fire do? How is the fire?!
WATER DEMON#1: The fire feels colder. And me... too. But... but I'm still me. My soul isn't taken entirely yet!
JINU: (Not yet. But it will come all the same.)
ABBY: And I thought hell couldn't possibly get worse.
MYSTERY: That's the point of hell. It will always get worse.
The five had been walking in shadowed places, avoiding the other demons with the loot they have until they reach a supposedly empty plain that only shimmered to a hut once they neared a certain spot. They went inside, to a decently sized area with gym equipment, make-up and clothes, posters of cats and dogs surrounding a metal pole, computers, phones and Switch consoles and KPop posters with similar 'How to care for animals' guidebooks that surround the centering mass of electrical appliances and other trinkets. Derpy uncerremoniously dumped the fans into the center, with ominious energy after reminded of the blenderTM incident.
MYSTERY: Good luck not summoning a water demon.
JINU: Especially a faceless.
BABY: Why are you guys talking like we are gonna fail already??? And why are you talking like you have nothing to do with this?! We are going to cool down the hellfire and bask in winter coolness before you guys know it!
ABBY: That's what those small metal phones called that A/C thing to do, not these fans.
MYSTERY: That's what ice-cream can do better than those fans. That's why there's ice in the name.
ROMANCE: Or just experiencing real winter but it's not like Derpy and Sussie could bring snow and whatever else that makes up winter right in hell.
JINU: Why are you guys wishing for it, when we can literally go enjoy topside if we-
Everyone else: No, hyung.
JINU: What, you said saved it when we get back home. And now we are home. Don't you want to get a taste of the human world after so many centuries that we haven't experienced it?
ROMANCE: And you think THE hell fire would really allow us that luxury? Unless we risk our necks against the hunters.
BABY (already tinkering with the fans): There's no way our tyranical soul sucking king would even consider a boy band. Sure the hunters out there are a KPop idol group but how is a demon boy band even going to change things up? Do we even have what it takes?
Jinu was already wheeling the whiteboard full of KPop posters and concepts with a laser pointer at ready before Baby even finished his sentence.
BABY: Hyung is truly in delulu mode, that he's not even being modern about it.
JINU: The only reason why I'm not using those Power Point presentations you are clearly thinking about is because the screens we have are not big enough compared to good old whiteboard. And who are you to talk about modern, when I'm just a century older than you?
ABBY: It saves us from the 100 slides presentations killing our eyes. No one needs the brain bleach incident.
BABY: You just can't handle peak. What's wrong convincing you the deeper double meaning about-
MYSTERY: Yeah, no thanks. We try hard to forget.
JINU: Anyway! I already listed the top 3! Handsome, song writing and dance cheography! Of course I admit that isn't enough to actually become a KPop boy band. But that's where we have themes, concepts, fashion choices that we can use to brainwash the masses!
ABBY (whispering to ROMANCE) : He's too deep into this.
ROMANCE: Yeah. Like the rest of us aren't, with your fitness challenges and my latest make-up trends.
ABBY: This body never comes in cheap.
ROMANCE: Neither do these looks.
Mystery was already zoning out, laying on Derpy's fur. Baby was still tinkering on the fans and Jinu was in a zone even with Romance and Abby's rude whispering before they were all interrupted when Baby stepped away from the fans that were fizzling out and sparking loudly enough that the banging door open came next.
JINU: Why couldn't it have been a water demon?
It had been a faceless, lunging around frantically at the five who had already locked themselves into a battle in a frenzy. The claws flashed the color of Gwi-ma's flames, of hellfire, burning and causing patterns all around to flare up especially dangerously near the eyes. Abby was already on it, taking the Mystery's metal pole to do battle.
ROMANCE (singing): I will make a man out of you~
MYSTERY: We have time to make Disney singing a valid battle cry?
ABBY: Oi, you idiots. Less peanut-gallerying and more vanquishing our foe before we become like them.
BABY: Yeah, it's time to git gud!
JINU (summoning the bipa with a fond smile): 'Himbos', the lot of them.
The bipa played, already messing with the faceless' hearing as Abby started swinging the metal pole around. Baby was already throwing the hand-held fans narrowly missing the crawling demon. Mystery and Derpy had charged at the faceless while Romance was damage controlling their home, especially not his make-up.
ROMANCE (singing again): Kung Fu Fighting~
MYSTERY: And that is someone who had watched too many movies in their un-life.
ROMANCE: This is how I cope from the possibility that my trendy clothes might be ravaged again by these dreadful intruders.
Singing works though, because it baits the faceless to Romance who is nowhere near his trendy clothes, just for Baby to toss a boxed fan like an MMA wrestler would do with a steel chair. Sussie just watched the entire chaos unable to do anything when the faceless has no eyes to peck, but had already started flying when the faceless in rampage had gotten too close to Jinu.
The flames got too close to the eyes even when Jinu tried to block with his bipa. The golden eyes somehow got smaller as patterns flared especially over the eyes, and the four others' rushed to their hyung, knowing what this could possibly mean.
Scene flashes black as Jinu's disembodied voice floats by...
JINU: Even in this un-life, are they really making me go through those life flashes? Any moment now, even when I already knew this was inevitable, a demon's end under the cruel Gwi-ma. The patterns especially going to your eyes, robbing your sight and twisting your mind with hallucinations when there is nothing else you can see until you stop becoming yourself. Because the memories are too much and they just overload, to become a mindless drone for the hell fire.
The darkness turns to four other demons suddenly coming to mind, and Jinu was already reminiscing.
JINU: No one even knows what happens to the soul that sticked to this dead body after all this time. A fate worse than any other, without turning back. I'm even skipping from my mother and sister and to the four idiots I could almost call my friends. And I thought maybe I would have bought myself time to still be with them if the KPop scheme comes through, but alas, goodbye-
ABBY: You are not leaving us that easily.
BABY: Too bad you are still in the world of un-living but at least you are not worse than dead.
ROMANCE: I can't believe that this is how we find out, from near-death delirious monolouging.
JINU: Seriously, I had to say that out all aloud? Had I been more out of it than I thought?
The four demons that had come out from Jinu's mind was actually just them getting into his face, and snapping him back to reality. By now, the faceless demon is gone. And Jinu's cheek was undoubtedly red as he faced four worried demons.
MYSTERY: Why didn't you tell us anything?
JINU: This. Because I didn't want to worry you.
BABY: And what happens when you suddenly become a faceless on us and turn into that tyrant's obidient minion on us? Wouldn't you think that's worse?
JINU: I hoped, that by the time Gwi-ma let us become a KPop group and that we solved hell's problems with the souls, then there would have been nothing to worry at all.
ROMANCE: That's a terrible excuse, and you know this Jinu. Even if you manage to sate THE hellfire enough not to burn the souls he already posess with us demons until we become the faceless, how much that faceless affected you to have trouble shows that your nearly at the point of no return even if there were enough souls around to appease the fire.
Baby was already off hugging Jinu, and the rest were no better hovering over him.
ABBY: What are you not telling us? You know that we have gone through enough that we would stick by any decision you make. If there is anything that would prevent you from becoming a faceless, anything you have figured out, we would stand by you.
ROMANCE: Because we don't want to lose anymore than before.
MYSTERY: Because we became a pack.
BABY: We ride and die together.
JINU: Even... even if it's selfish?
ROMANCE: Nothing can be more selfish than how we all became demons. If anyone could figure out how to prolong the inevitable about becoming a faceless, it will be you. But even then, there had always been a steep price for freedom and just paying it to live longer, live with us, we would probaly have done the same thing. And let everyone else know.
BABY: Somehow, this better not be your 'shouldering everything alone' sthick you always do. Just because you are about to face fate worse than death doesn't mean you should go on forgetting what we drilled into you these past centuries.
JINU: 'No going off my own and doing something reckless without the rest of you knowing because you would just worry more and get us all in trouble with enough tension to stoke the hell fires'. Yes, I know...
JINU: OK... in exchange for using the KPop scheme to lure souls for Gwi-ma, I want all my memories erased.
JINU: If a demon becomes a faceless because Gwi-ma torments us from our worst memories and overloads us until our patterns rob us of everything, then the only way to reverse that fate would not have any memories altogether to overload in the first place.
ABBY: That's a risky gamble. Desparate.
JINU: But the only way that may work. Has anyone tried anything else to avoid becoming a faceless?
BABY: ... Why all the memories? Why not just the bad memories?
JINU: You think that Gwi-ma would be that benevolent?
Silence. And then Romance hugged him.
ROMANCE: You know that you could have used this to convince us to become a KPop group faster. It's insane and idiotic, but it's something. We didn't come all this way to lose each other without a fight. Even if it ended up with you without any of your memories, it's better than you gone.
MYSTERY: Memories can be made again, but you only have one life, one soul.
Abby too. Derpy and Sussie had already joined the makings of a boy band group hug.
ABBY: We are here because we have never given up on each other. We aren't going to start now.
Baby had already hugged tighter. They are now truly riding and hopefully not dying together.
BABY: ... So you have concepts?
JINU (smiles): So, do you know about that Soda Pop song and many other sweet titles you've been making because of that candy soda match game?
BABY: It's called Candy Crush, the soda edition. Get that right.
JINU (ignores Baby): That's when our concept comes to play. So this is what we are going to do...
Can opening sfx. Montage starts.
JINU (in narrator voice): With the clothes.
Flash forwards to the boys trying out Romance's clothes
ROMANCE: You can't make Abby try another shirt! They don't deserved to be ripped like this.
ABBY: Your clothes just can't handle this chest!
ROMANCE (cries): I didn't learn fashion trends just to sew up all the buttons that you are wasting.
BABY: If you dare put that hat on my head, you can say goodbye to your hands.
JINU (there were no regrets placing the beanie on Baby's head): ...
BABY: You absolute son of a-
ROMANCE: Well, at least the rest of you are not doing crimes against fashion.
JINU: And who appointed you fashion guard?
BABY: You mean, fashion police. Gwi-ma, you can get so old some times.
JINU: I'm just about a century older than you, young man!
The rest of them laughed.
JINU (in narrator voice): With a touch of accessories and makeup.
Flash forwards to demons 'ransacking' Romance's makeup kit, sitting around the mirrors they have hoarded.
ROMANCE (being beautician queen behind Mystery): The things that you have to do for beauty, Mys. Those tusks could be magicked into killer earings, but whether that would vibe with our summer boy fit because of the songs Baby made...
BABY (trying out perfume): Jinu could have chosen any of my other songs but he chose Soda Pop and the other candy related ones that have to scream summer preppy vibe. Imagine that, demons being pastel easy on the eyes.
ABBY (hairspray meet muscle man): That just means no one would imagine us a demon boy band. It's great undercover.
ROMANCE: Although I don't think that people would mind the idea of a demon boy band. Why can't we market that?
BABY (taking out his notebook): Seems a little 'so obvious that there is no way'. Instead of this preppiness, I do have songs that would just let us rock our regular outfits and skip all these long hours treatment.
JINU (piercing his ears): No. It would be too early for the masses and too risky with the hunters. We have to play it safe, and especially being the type of idols that will sell among the masses. So we keep being preppy.
BABY (swapping the perfume for Abby's hairspray): Damnit.
ROMANCE: Don't even think about using those two together. I don't know how it happened, but- (shudders), I don't want to even think about the state of my hair for weeks.
MYSTERY (dryly): And the house. It's a wonder we haven't burned the house down again.
JINU (in narrator voice): Cheography!
Flash to their somehow working cracked screen computer streaming KPop Dances, and Soda Pop looping.
BABY: No the crab reel on what humans call social media is not an acceptable dance move.
ABBY: If the humans like it, why not just add into it? Shouldn't we be... hip with the crowd?
JINU: Oh Gwi-ma, those human's latest creations are corrupting you.
BABY: Better than being corrupted by Gwi-ma.
MYSTERY: Hips, hips, nails, shoulders...
ROMANCE: I don't think we can afford to do that with the metal pole all the time. It's not like we can go everywhere with those conviniently lying around.
BABY: But metal poles do lie around, ramrod straight called those light posts out in the street! We can totally improvise!
ABBY: Hips, hips, nails, shoulders, hips, chest, chest, chest...
JINU: No Abby, not all of us can afford to go shirtless like that. We want to wow fans, not overstimulate them.
ROMANCE: Maybe no hips and chest for now? Shoulders, shoulders and nails... ooo, we all gotta paint 'em at some point~
MYSTERY: Shoulder, nails... hm, bopping shoulders...
ABBY: No wait, keep the hips. How are we gonna dance if we don't thrust these bad boys?
BABY (straight to Jinu): Are you really sure we can KPop? I don't think a good song and being pretty boys will get our jail free card.
JINU: Rome wasn't built in a day. Have faith. KPop is not just about the song and cheography. What will really eat fans up...
JINU (in narrative voice): Fanservice~
JINU: What? You are the pink haired duo. Why are you getting so close to me, Abs???
ABBY (already draped his shoulder over Jinu): You are also certainly our leader and a lead dance. Wouldn't fans want to see one of the boys get a little closer to our hyung?
BABY: I can already see the fan conspiracies.
MYSTERY: Yeah, there is nothing gay about one of our band members always coveting our hyung's shoulders.
ROMANCE: It's certainly just, what do the humans call it? Ah yes, bromance.
ABBY (proud): And that's what historians would say. This would certainly spice up our cheography.
JINU: But this isn't enough to service our fans. Now, practice our aegyo! Especially you, Baby! Our gap moe maknae must never be underestimated!
BABY: I hate that we discovered the Internet. After this, I might strike a deal with that tyrant to erase my memories.
ROMANCE: Aww, but you love us anyway.
Scene fades, montage over as the boys huddle with their backs on each other in high-fives in a whirlwing of clothes, papers and haunting melodies.
ROMANCE: Well, at least we look pretty.
ABBY: How many days did we give out our souls to just KPop?
MYSTERY (points at a clock among the mess): According to that alarm clock Derpy got us, it's just a few hours.
BABY: Damn, that was a mess.
JINU: Don't... don't worry. I never expected KPop to be easy. We certainly just need some more polish, but being pretty boys will be enough to convince Gwi-ma to send us topside with the idea. Everything else, we will let topside teach us as we go. The Saja Boys are not going to be defeated this easily.
MYSTERY: Wow, you must really be desparate.
ROMANCE: He even already had our boy band name planned out already. How long have you even been thinking about this?
But no one is going to miss how he was looking at his side of the house with the KPop posters that he had started collecting since its birth.
MYSTERY: Saja Boys... For lion, and us jeosung saja.
BABY: It's an easy name. Maybe your naming sense isn't bad after all.
JINU: Do you really want to go there, Baby?
BABY: It's ironic aesthetic!
ROMANCE: There they go again, but this is... nice. Maybe, do you think that it would get better if we go topside thanks to this?
ABBY: I wonder. How much the world changed to have such fascinating inventions, and even what modern humans call slang.
ROMANCE: Yeah, our centuries old butts need to hip with the current people. Do you think we have what it takes?
BABY: We are the only tech-competent demons in the underworld. Who else can modern enough to keep up the human farce? We have to, anyway.
JINU: Yes, we can do this. We absolutely can do this. We- gah!
The patterns flared worse, that caused the five to run out of the house and stare in the sky. The Honmoon, barely visible in the quieter moments and shining blue flares with flecks of a certain colour (golden) that made the hell fires appearing underneath the Honmoon in response flare brighter in retaliation.
The patterns flared as the demons tried to rid the hell fires surrounding them like predator to prey, as they briefly flashed to a fiery pit, with a gaping maw and could only feel, hear, see, know...
GWI-MA (Distorted, in minds): Fail. Greed. Hunters. Honmoon. Stronger. Demons weaker. Useless. Pathetic. Demon, run. Hungry. SOULS. HUNGRY.
Patterns. Many patterns. To serve, the blue-light souls around the pit and yet darkened to purple, patterned flaring yellow. Demons. Them. Flashes, to feel the hell fire's wrath, the summoning, the orders and the emotions behind it. Flashes, that if the hell fire suffers, they will too.
A woman and child in harsh winter, with a door shut behind.
Surrounding men, and soldiers after to a flurry of blades leaving only blood.
Backstabbed, for a man masked and forever masked in thousands, in a party of glamour to all the men and women and cursing all the whispers that should have remained untrusted.
Hidden away, nothing more than a 'beast' hidden away in bangs of hair hoping to be more and always- forever stuck as a beast, even more so because no matter what, because...
Unwanted. Thought powerful in the forbidden and end up suffering for a mere child, easier to pull down at a youthful age no matter what others may want and what choice could anyone really have, because.
In demons' screams, the tiger and magpie had cuddeled up to the suffering boys, in nudges and nuzzles until they significantly calmed down even with flaring patterns to ward off any incoming hell-fires, even fanned away by Baby who kept the hand-held fan and they all calmed down.
ABBY: You too, Sussie. That had been rough. What's happening now?
JINU: Huh, Sussie, what's up?
Sussie flew on Jinu's shoulder, cawing something and something passed for Jinu to understand.
JINU: Good to know. It's time to make an impression.
ABBY: Mind filling us in for those who do not bird-speak?
JINU: Gwi-ma had just caught wind that the demons he sent to off Huntr/x failed the plane hijack. There's one survivor left but they have fled even if it wouldn't be long that they would be found and an audience will be arranged.
MYSTERY: Thanks for explaining the obvious glowing Honmoon, summons and THE hell fire's wrath.
ABBY (narrows eyes): What did Sussie really do?
JINU: Ah-ah, this has to be kept more secret at all costs. At least THE hell fire can really only access and amplify negative thoughts with our corrupted souls especially when he's become so deprived. But that demon who failed could only escape a few days max, so we have a short time frame.
ROMANCE: Wait, are you still going on with that KPop thing? Are you really going to suggest that now, when we are not ready yet?!
BABY: This better not be one of your 'just trust me' insane plans that you are already steps ahead of.
JINU: Then, I will not tell you to just trust me. It's just that we still have to strike while the iron is hot so what are we waiting for?
MYSTERY: Somehow that's not any better.
ABBY: Why do we stick around with this idiot again?
BABY: Bipa playing music.
ROMANCE: 'He can crush us with those thighs' feels of protection.
ABBY: Ah yes, I'm not the only one who wants to covet a part of hyung.
JINU (sarcasm): Aww, I'm feeling the love.
Time skip. THE gaping hell fire, surrounded by demons of all kind as a Dokaebbi still in modern outfit from the plane hijack walked to the pit, literally pulled toward THE fire, ready to face its wrath.
GWI-MA: Let me guess. They got away again.
DOKKAEBI ATTENDANT: That's because the hunters are too strong.
DOKKAEBI ATTENDANT: You... do?
GWI-MA: I understand you are WEAK.
THE fire surrounds and leaves no ashes, as the tyrant now addresses everyone else in the same way he always has to the kind he rules over.
GWI-MA: Pathetic! Useless! Don't you idiots know what happens when the Honmoon turns golden? It will be over for us!
Tears. Fear, and that it would really doom them all. Because of hunters protecting humanity, and yet in ignorance to what they may have truly done.
JINU: (Can light exist without darkness? What would really happen, when the first hunters figured out how to seal us underneath with further wishes for the golden Honmoon?)
A tiger's glowing eyes flashed in an instant, with a bird only seen by those who noticed flying overhead as a singular jeosung saja stood forefront at top overseeing the whole debacle.
JINU: (But the demons will all still be oppressed to the whims of our tyrant and until he has no one except soulless puppets when he has no souls left... that would somehow be a good ending, and yet do we deserve the same fate?)
The bipa played, and there was no turning back. "Jinu's Lament" in the background.
There once was a mighty demon king
Stop me, if you've heard this one before
He was in total control
He feasted on souls
The world trembled when he roared
But then some hunters sang some songs
Now all he does is starve
Can't get at the souls, and his flame grows cold
Just a whisper in the dark
[Vocalized]
And will he let the fire go out?
Is this the end of him now?
Dying king with a crumbling crown?
Will he let the fire go out?
The demons have parted ways for Jinu to face the demon king, as the four others on standby slowly crept up to him, already whispering to each other unheard by others.
ROMANCE: We better rock that fashion check. I spent so much time perfecting for us.
BABY: All that practice better be worth it.
ABBY: I still wonder why we can't assert dominance.
MYSTERY: Did you really want to show off your namesake that much that you have now no fear?
GWI-MA: I let you keep that voice, and now you are mocking me?
JINU: I'm not here to mock you. I'm here to help you. It's time for a new stratergy. We fight the hunters where they least expect it.
The other four have finally gathered with Jinu as a united front when they flew to Gwi-ma.
JINU: Go after the very thing that powers the Honmoon. The fans.
Expected uh-ah sfx as they posed.
GWI-MA: A demon boy band?
Gwi-Ma laughes, followed by everyone else.
GWI-MA: What makes you think that can work?
Jinu does snap finger sfx, can opener sfx as they undergo the *transformation*
DOKKAEBI#3: Yeah, that will totally work.
GWI-MA: ... Okay. But I know you, Jinu. There is no way you would do this without wanting something for yourself.
JINU (bitterly): (You know very well why I want to do this, especially something for myself.)
JINU: I want my memories erased. All of them.
GWI-MA (amusement): Oh. All of them?
The flames flicked towards the other jeosung saja standing alongside him and yet Jinu had to remain unfazed.
JINU (whispering): I'm sure you already figured out why, and you 'know' me. This isn't going to be a bad deal for you either.
GWI-MA (laughs): Interesting. Then I expect results. I am sure you have a fail-safe foolproof plan to back this up so I better expect results soon.
Jinu was very good at ignoring the others' stare hidden from others by their gats that screamed 'No, this idiot had everything prepared in only a few days even if he had thought it who knows how long before. There's no way he has a fail-safe foolproof plan.'
JINU (bows down): Then we must make haste.
No sooner he said it that hell fire flickered before making a ringed arc, before the debuting boy band.
GWI-MA: Then you better not have wasted my good will in sending you topside, with all the soul energy to bring our kind even against the Honmoon. You all know the price of failure.
SAJA BOYS (stepping into the portal): Yes, Gwi-Ma.
JINU: And that was how the Saja Boys came to be. I had no aspirations that it would be as easy as singing a few songs to KPop and best the Huntr/x but that's why this is just the start. As long as we do enough that we can ease the Honmoon, we will get enough leeway.
To live another day, to delay the inevitable or die trying and at least having great memories along the way with the people I can almost call friends. At least, it will not be in vain.
And episode end. I feel like it could be polished or done better, but that's what pilots are for. Maybe I will get good episode ideas outta the way with the next one, Soda Pop that will really get a groove into it. This episode is brought to you by a madwoman fangirlism with a tons of HCs and too much empathy for literal demons. I swear it's because my soul decided to sell itself so shallowly that I am investing in giving this demon boy band feels. All hail canon divergences. Also, now that I think about it, if this was actually made an episode, it would not fly to production because I would get sued if I made money out of so many references. BUT THANK SAJA BOYS I'M DOING THIS FOR FREE FOR MY OWN AMUSEMENT THEN.
To try having this series make as much sense though, S1E2: Soda Pop is up next, with summary, hmm...
The Saja Boys have made it topside, with free reign to KPop but it's much more than singing and dancing. Advertisement, showing yourself up, connections! And then actually experiencing the topside. Do the Saja Boys actually have a plan to human in the top world, sell themselves to the masses and debut like their lives depend on it? The answer will and will not surprise you at the same time.
Tune in next time. Like, subscribe and lemme know what u think. Much love, for the fans~ *Uh-ah*
