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[secondtolastrow]

Wild idea that popped into my head

Celine sacrifices her soul to save Mi-Yeong(and demon dad if you want) and ends up in the demon realm.

Fast forward to present time we’re Huntrix under Mi-Yeong and Third are close to completing the golden honmoon when the Saja Boys mentored and accompanied by demon Celine shows up.

Celine while being a demon isn’t fully under Gwi-Ma’s control. So while she has to do the mission to stop the hunters she is also tryna find an out to be free before the golden honmoon and save her new charges(the boys) in the process.

Would be an extra twist of the knife if Mi-Yeong named her Rumi after Celine or has other kids with demon daddy and names one after Celine.

Interesting to have Celine mentoring the Saja Boys—obviously they’re trapped at fairly young ages, but Jinu at least is several hundred years old. Also, like, the Saja Boya are Jinu’s plan, not Gwi-Ma’s. Maybe instead Jinu’s got something on her, or they’re tied by Derpy and Sussie?

Either way, this Celine’s gone dark if she’s justifying taking any souls

And then we have the question of if Miyeong had lived, what would that have meant? I feel like her showing up with a pregnancy scandal and then a kid followed by Celine dying would’ve just wrecked the SLS’s careers in a way her death averted in canon

But I love the idea of a Hunter returning as a demon, and showing up as the manager of the group, using their knowledge for the other side, messing up the narrative of their death, etc. Fun fun fun

[fakelawyerbug]

I feel like Miyeong would have been blacklisted from the entertainment industry. And in order to protect the honmoon, Third would have needed to distance herself from Miyeong.

Thinking maybe for at least the first few years, Miyeong also wasn't doing a lot of her duties as a Hunter because of the baby.

And over the years, Third grows increasingly resentful of Miyeong because Miyeong fucked everything up but somehow, Third is the one dealing with the consequences.

(Miyeong has a baby and a 'husband'; Miyeong got to retire; Miyeong seems perfectly content playing homemaker)

Meanwhile Third has been doing a job for three people for years and probably will be doing it until it kills her.

So by the time Celine shows back up, Third and Miyeong have been estranged for a while and Celine becomes the catalyst for their reconciliation?

Also feels like the honmoon wouldn't be in nearly as good shape as it is in the movie with the scandal. So maybe the time line can move up and the Saja Boys as a music group never needed to happen.

And Celine is treating this mission as a break out?

[secondtolastrow]

Meanwhile from Miyeong’s pov, like, she’s intentionally avoiding the spotlight to some degree even as she picks up doing Hunter duties as well as she can again because she doesn’t want to hurt Third’s deal more by reminding the public of her existence

Mix and match some martyr complex and some resentment of her own for how easy Third seems to have it, given she’s still got so much money/influence/whatever, she still gets to perform in a way that’s completely gone for Miyeong now, and for being “left” (that she knows is partly irrational) from her side of things?

And then Rumi turns out to be a Hunter and like… poor kid stuck between these two idiots and probably lying about who her mom is to the public

I dig the idea of Celine getting given this mission that she’s treating as a way to break out—trying to play Gwi-Ma and walk the line of what she is and isn’t willing to do

I think even with a weaker Honmoon, we’d want something similar at least to the original Saja Boys concept, just because their idea is “do what the Hunters do” and we have a Hunter as a demon

Maybe the idea could be something with a different timeline or smaller planned impact than Jinu’s hail mary? Or it could be more about turning public opinion against the Hunters than just getting fans of their own?

[the-fallen-blue]

It's weird to think of a Celine who isn't centered on Rumi somehow, so maybe that's the mission. Miyeong and Thirdlight aren't as careful as canon!Celine about hiding Rumi's patterns, and Gwi-Ma finds out, and arranges the Saja effort specifically to understand and suborn Rumi in some way. For Gwi-Ma this is because the idea of something with patterns that he can't hurt is both offensive and frightening, and Celine's connection to Rumi's mentors feels to him like a fun way to twist the knife for everyone involved. For Celine, it's a combination of one part Jinu's initial canon motive (a Hunter with patterns who Gwi-Ma cannot touch? she needs to know how it's possible, how she can have that) and six parts that is the child of the women I gave my soul for, I have to meet her.

[secondtolastrow]

Oughhhhh and Celine’s job, according to Gwi-Ma, is to get this kid’s trust and use that to shred her, even if she doesn’t actually really want to hurt her, just to stop hurting. And Rumi is this lonely, earnest kid who actually keeps reminding her of all the things that she loved about being a Hunter and all the reasons she gave up her soul

…while also showing her how those women she gave it for have not been their best selves in the following years. By any measure

So maybe she does want to hurt someone

Then Rumi grew up with her mom kind of trying to keep the Problems away from her until suddenly it gets reversed, and her mom is the secret that she has to be ashamed of. And Third has always kept her at arm’s length, clearly seeing her mom and her patterns and—

Kind of insane, but Celine the demon is the first adult who feels like she’s being real with her. Always. And who accepts her fully, including the hard parts

(That’s going to end well)

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

tae thinking that just because there’s a new baby in the family, he doesn’t have to go to school for a while, and so when it’s time for him to start getting ready for school, his parents find him in baby miyeong’s nursery, reading her a book.

when they tell him he still needs to go to school, he’s devastated. he tries to beg and bargain with his parents to let him stay home with her, but no dice.

and then comes the insane part.

they eventually manage to get him to start getting ready, but before they leave the house, he has to run back real quickly to get something. he’s in much higher spirits when he gets back, so they figure he just wished his baby sister goodbye. rumi stays behind to keep an ear out for the baby while mira and zoey take the kids to school.

drop off goes well, all things considered, so they all think nothing of it. polytrix have a little bit of fun time, which quickly gets interrupted by a phone ringing.

it’s taeyongs school. somehow, tae managed to sneak his baby sister to school with him.

(zoey would almost be impressed if she wasn’t freaking out.)

they check the nursery and sure enough, miyeong isn’t there, so they all rush over to the school, where they can hear miyeong WAILING all the way from outside.

“impressive pipes,” zoey jokes nervously, trying not to lose her mind just from hearing her baby cry, “definitely gets them from you, ru. she’s got a real good future as a musician.”

her wives glare at her, and she shuts up.

they find them in the principal’s office. taeyong is sitting in a chair, watching his sister cry anxiously. she’s being held by the principal, who’s struggling to keep her in his arms because she’s squirming so much.

rumi quickly takes her from him, and miyeong instantly lessens her wails a bit. all three of her mothers cooing over her helps as well.

taeyong hangs his head in shame. he knows he’s in big trouble. the principal decides to allow polytrix to decide on the punishment, and allows them to speak to their son in private.

tae tells them the truth. that he didn’t want to go to school without miyeong, so he snuck her into his bag with some blankets (with the top of the bag opened up) and then went to school with her. she slept through the entire trip. it all seemed like a good idea, until he got to class and realized he wasn’t sure where to put her, and then he realized he shouldn’t have brought her, so he told the teacher. miyeong didn’t even wake up and start crying until the teacher picked her up. he tearfully apologizes, not just to his parents, but to baby miyeong, because he knows it’s his fault she’s so scared and upset.

it’s more than a little scary. they never thought their son would do something like this, although they can understand that he just didn’t know any better. but also, he stuffed his sister into a bag.

but also also, they somehow didn’t notice. it kinda makes their heads spin a bit.

he gets grounded for a while after this. for the next few months, they make sure that when he leaves for school, he isnt allowed to say goodbye to his sister in the morning without supervision.

(he thinks about this incident when it’s miyeong’s turn to go to school without him.)

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

zoey waking up in the middle of the night with a massive boner, getting onto her knees, grabbing a still sleeping mira, rolling her over and propping her up on her knees and fucking her till mira is overflowing and her stomach is bulging, and then zoey going back to sleep while leaving mira on her knees with her face on the bed

rumi waking up about half an hour later and feeling a little hungry and she’s about to roll out of bed when she sees mira propped up and full of cum. she ends up cleaning out ALL of the cum with her tongue, making mira come a couple of times, and then takes a turn fucking her herself with the honstrap before rolling over and falling back asleep

zoey waking up one more time to quickly empty another few loads into mira before passing out again

mira waking up in a strange position but completely satisfied and being fucking THRILLED about the cum leaking from her

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

during their training days, zoey made a lot of friendship bracelets for rumi and mira, as a show of conviviality, with each one being personalized to whoever she was making them for. she would always shyly hand them off to them with an, “um, here, i made you this.”

rumi would blush and thank her for them. zoey would sometimes see her wearing them during their days off, and it would make her stomach flutter with joy each time. it’s why she keeps making them.

mira, though, was a lot rougher around the edges when her and zoey first met. the first few times zoey gave her a friendship bracelet, she would take it but just stare at it like she was annoyed. afterwards, she would walk away without thanking zoey. for a while, zoey stopped making them for her because she figured mira clearly didn’t like them, especially since she never saw her wearing them like rumi did.

(every time mira watched zoey hand rumi a friendship bracelet during that period, her stomach roiled with jealousy.)

but once her and mira started becoming friendlier, she started making them for her again. mira would quietly thank zoey and smile at her. she didn’t start wearing them until near the end of their training days, however, but even then, mira was hyper aware of her styling and rarely wore them.

once they debuted, zoey had a lot less time to make them these friendship bracelets, but would try to find the time whenever she could. the response got warmer and warmer from both of her teammates with bracelet, especially considering they were all pretty firmly in love with one another at that point.

much later down the line, after they’ve gotten together, huntrix is going to this industry event, and zoey needs another accessory for her outfit. mira suggests that she just go to mira’s room and get some jewelry from her collection.

when zoey opens her massive jewelry box , she sees them.

all of the friendship bracelets she’s ever made mira, even the ones from before they were really friends. they’re stored with all of her ultra expensive jewelry.

mira comes in to check on her progress finding something, and her face turns the color of her hair when she sees what zoey is looking at. she’d somehow forgotten zoey would see them there.

zoey tearfully asks about it. mira, blushing, tells her that of course she kept them all, zoey put in hours of her time and effort into making them for her. and, blushing even harder, she says that of course they’re stored with her expensive jewelry, they’re worth even more to mira than a bunch of gemstones and metal, because they were made by zoey with her in mind.

needless to say, zoey barely leaves mira’s side that night.

(when mira and rumi both wear the very first friendship bracelets zoey made them to their wedding, zoey bursts into tears at the sight of them.)

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

rumi does some acting work from time to time. usually it’s live action, and usually films meant for more mature audiences, but at one point, she ends up agreeing to play the main role in this animated children’s show. she ends up doing a few seasons for it, and it’s pretty popular with kids, so she keeps coming back, until one year, she’s unable to do so because of scheduling conflicts. they end up replacing her for the role, but it’s seamless enough that few people really notice. at this point, she’s done maybe 5 or 6 seasons of it, so she’s a little sad to leave, but it’s not her favorite role she’s ever done, and she’s certainly not gonna miss having mira and zoey teasingly quote her characters catchphrase every few hours or so.

fast forward to years later.

well over a decade, in fact, at which point rumi has gotten married to her the two loves of her life and become a mother of, at this point, 4 children. her mother’s other lover has come back into her and celine’s lives, and they’ve gotten married and had a daughter, and her mother has come back to life and is currently heavily pregnant.

miyeong spends a good chunk of her days at home even while poppy and celine are out, partially because of them being super worried for the health of her and the baby, and partially because they’re all reluctant to have the general public see her, especially when she’s pregnant. that means she’s spending most of the day alone with hayun, celine and poppy’s biological daughter, and her adoptive daughter.

she’s exactly where she wants to be, though. she absolutely ADORES hayun. loves her as much as she loves rumi and this new baby.

they spend a portion of their days watching children’s shows together, including this box set of this one particular children’s show, which quickly becomes hayun’s favorite.

one day, rumi decides to visit her mother and, she guesses, her annoying baby sister 😒 (don’t believe her, she adores that girl) so she doesn’t have to be mostly alone that day. when she gets there, she comes into the living room to find the two of them watching the show. she’s immediately stunned.

it’s her show. the one she worked on over a decade ago.

miyeong greets her and sees her watching the screen. “oh, yeah! this hayun’s absolute FAVORITE show. well, up to a point.”

rumi, still shocked, asks her what she means.

miyeong explains that hayun loves the show, but refuses to watch season 7 and onwards. miyeong, who hasn’t looked at the cast list, doesn’t know why.

before rumi can have another moment of awe at that revelation, hayun jumps up with joy as she starts speaking along with the main character, proudly and excitedly saying her catchphrase at the same time as her. afterwards, she shouts about how the main character is, “SO COOL!”

rumi just about bursts into tears at that point.

[bigfatbreak]

Speak of the Devil

part twenty-eight previous/next

[polytrix-juseyo]

but rumi being taught japanese and english since she was a kid because she was going to be an idol and she needs to communicate in interviews and all that. and she was good enough at it until mira and zoey arrived.

mira being fluent in japanese and zoey in english, rumi literally said goodbye to those languages. brain emptied of it all.

and then there's so many videos of her just zoning out during these interviews in other languages, and celine is just seeing how all her work is crumbling down.

[frozenwolftemplar]

A lifetime of lessons undone in an instant by a pair of pretty bilingual girls, made all the worse for Celine because the exact same thing happened to her: Miyeong rattled off one sentence in Japanese, accent and syntax perfect, talking as naturally and easily as if it were Korean and smiling to show her dimples and-

and-

and-

[sink drain sound effects]

And now Celine's standing there, head empty no thoughts but 'pretty girl is speaking fluent Japanese.' (all those years of lessons are really paying off! 👍)

Even before the Honmoon chose Rumi, Celine had her learning Japanese. Miyeong spoke it so well, so fluently...it would feel like sacrilege to not have her daughter do the same, especially since she's (shamefully) picked up more then a little of Celine's French (she's been minding her tongue, but it slips out more than she'd care to admit).

Private lessons, books, a bargain that she can watch all the Sailor Moon she wants so long as it's in Japanese, Celine does everything she can humanly think of to have Rumi be fluent in Japanese.

And yet here she is, standing in the wings of a Tokyo TV set, watching Rumi smile dazedly as Mira fluently answer the interviewer's question about their newest album, head empty no thoughts but 'pretty girl is speaking fluent Japanese.'

Not a good day to be Celine.

And somewhere in the afterlife Miyeong is looking down and laughing.

"Oh, Cece...she's just like her eomma <3"

[dajo42]

5001 being divisible by 3 doesnt feel right

[dajo42]

[shinyhappygoth]

Shortcuts to determine if an integer is divisible by:

This is a given.

If the last digit is divisible by 2 (a.k.a. even), then so is the whole number.

If the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, then so is the whole number. The recursivity of this means that if the sum has multiple digits, you can add them up again until you get a single digit and see if it's 3, 6, or 9.

Like the rule for 2, but check if the last two digits are divisible by 4.

If it ends in 5 or 0.

If the rules for both 2 and 3 apply.

No shortcut. Alas.

Like the rules for 2 and 4, but check if the last three digits are divisible by 8. (Yes, this pattern keeps going for 16, 32, etc.)

Like the rule for 3, but the sum of the digits (or the sum of the sum of the digits, etc.) must be 9.

If it ends in 0.

[ninadove]

Happy Birthday, @purplecatghostposts!!! 💜🐈‍⬛👻 Hope you enjoy my little riff on Free, it was a lot of fun to write!

AO3 version here and alt text under the cut!

루미

“Hide, sing, smile —

You're no good, you're not right —”

Keep me in chains and make me weightless

Time goes by, breaking through all the dark in me 

This monster lost inside my head, pointing towards you;

I don't trust it, but I want to

I keep coming back to

You

I can heal, sing,

Hope

귀마

You're no good

I won't let you feel anything

Secrets, chains, damage you can't fix

Never face it

Never face it

You're breaking, buried for good

Imposter! Monster!

You can't

Escape!

진우

I broke

I tried to breathe

I know I won't

We can't fix it

We can't fix it

The past only hurts

Just forget all the dark in me

Find a way to escape it

Be free, free

(Free, free)

(Free, free)

I broke

I sing

Weightless

HUNTR/X

Never lose hope.

[fakelawyerbug]

I 100% believe that in the KPDH world there is a viral photo of Celine naruto running up the Han River (it was dark, the water demon was getting away, she didn't have much of a choice and also she wanted to look cool) that resurfaces once every few months. Every time, people claim it's AI. The picture is from 2007

//wheeze//

Lucky for Celine, it was from 2007 and it was blurry enough that no one can definitively prove that it's her or that it wasn't some sort of weird promo/ad that never surfaced

(It just looks close enough to Celine that the fans latched on and it becomes a fan meme that Kang Celine is a closet Naruto fan)

(Celine has denied it being her every time she's asked but that has not stopped anyone from photoshoping those headbands onto her)

(It's one of Rumi and Zoey's favorite photos of her)

(She tried to deny it -- she makes a point in trying to be honest to the children but in this case, she'll lie to their faces -- but it's even more unbelievable than denying it to the fans.

"We can see your swords," Mira says.)

It's Rumi's favorite picture of Celine. There's something comforting having photo evidence that Celine could be silly and dorky even after everything fell apart.

Zoey and Mira gift her a copy of the photo and she puts the photo up next to a photo of Miyeong.

(At some point, probably after the Idol Awards, Rumi sneaks into Celine's office and replaces one of Celine's photos -- the one where she's in a mixing booth, headphones over her ears and notes scattered around her -- with the naruto run photo)

(Celine keeps the photo up though why, Rumi can't out of her)

[0nkret]

How it all began:

[ijosten03]

A rewrite in the whole “I don’t know if we should save Nico, cause I don’t trust him” in Mark of Athena. Because I didn’t like it.

“All I’m saying, is that I’m not sure Nico is someone we should trust, no offense Hazel” said Jason. Hazel’s eyes turned to Jason, ready to talk back but she was interrupted by Leo

“Neither am I”

“Yeah, I mean, he knew about both camps and Annabeth told me about the whole river Styx thing, maybe he’s not really in our side” said Piper doubtfully

“Okay, First, the bath in the River Styx was because he wanted to help me and he didn’t know Hades will lock me up, AND he saved me right after, so…”Percy started

“Yes, but he knew about both camps, and about you Percy, and he said absolutely nothing. Maybe he and his dad are working with Gaea too” interrupted Jason, Annabeth looked at her boyfriend, Percy’s eyes were dark with rage

“I do not give a shit if he’s not on our side. I’m not going to let him die”

“It’s a trap and you know it” said Leo “ you’re going right where Gaea wants you to”

“Does it look like I care? I’m going to find Nico and break him out of that jar”

“If you die because of it, our quest is dammed and so is the whole world” Leo yelled

“So be it. I’m going to save my friend” Percy somehow looked taller than Jason. Percy’s fatal flaw was personal loyalty. And right now he was ready to let the entire world die, just to save a friend

“So you don’t care about the world? You don’t understand how dangerous this is?” Jason yelled, getting closer to Percy.

“Of course I care. But we still have time for that. Nico has five days only, he’s more important” Percy yelled again.

“I’m any case, Annabeth’s quest is more important” he said “ do you want your people to die in the hands of the Romans?”

“No one is dying and I’m making sure of it. So shut the hell up Grace”

“I’m not letting you leave then” Jason said. His blue eyes looking at Percy’s

“You think you can stop me? I’d love to see you try” Percy looked dangerous, Hazel thought that’s what Poseidon looked like when he was angry.

“Piper says one word and you don’t go off of the ship”

“Nico dies, and Piper will not longer have a boyfriend” The threat left Jason speechless.

“Percy” annabeth said “ that’s enough”

He hadn’t realized how close he was to Jason or that he was now holding his pen, ready to uncap it. Jason had also reached for his weapon.

“I’m going to find Nico and maybe kill two stupid giants, feel free to come with me” Percy said and turned to his girlfriend

“Percy, I can’t go with you” said Annabeth “my mother’s quest…”

“I know Annabeth” his voice was way softer than before “I’m not asking you to, I’ll do it alone if I have to. But I’m not leaving him”

“I know” she smiled “you’ll get him back”

“We’ll help you” said Hazel, Frank behind her, nodding “thanks for doing this Percy”

“There’s nothing to thank Hazel, I care for him” Percy said and then looked at Jason, Leo and Piper “ you can help me or you can do something else, I don’t give a damn. I’m not leaving him to die”

Jason, Leo and Piper ended up agreeing. Percy would do it on his own otherwise, and they needed him alive.

[dimensionhoppingtrio2]

Hazel hesitantly walking to Percy's room and awkwardly standing in the doorway when she sees her laying down on her stomach,wondering if she caught her at a bad or rather recharge nap time.Then Percy lifts her hand without moving otherwise and does the two finger 'come here' gesture so Hazel semi-slowly gets under the covers while Percy lays over them and listens to her rambling about and explaining what she'd been dealing with lately on her side of half-blood business and they figure out plans to work it out together once tomorrow comes for(and at)them

[jadetea-writing]

pre-canon Rumi crash outs where she freaks out in her room bc Mira was staring at her suspiciously so she Must Know

meanwhile Mira is trying to figure out if Rumi is homosexual, homophobic, or unfortunately both

[mmeandar]

rumi:

she knows.

she knows, she knows, she knows. i know that knowing glare, i know that slow, predatory look she keeps giving me. she has Figured Me Out. she can somehow see past the fabric, past my lies, past the mask, past the cover—she knows, she knows, she kn—

—

meanwhile mira:

maybe if i were to ask her who her celebrity crush is... but then she'd ask mine and i'd be cornered. hmmmmmmmmm...

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

celine stares at her daughter’s lifeless body.

she looks so much like her mother did when she died.

miyeong had a month after her daughter’s birth to live. rumi didn’t even have a day after her fifth child’s.

how cruel, that mira would call her here to witness this.

her eyes drift over to where zoey’s body has gone cold in the chair, still slumped over, still reaching out to rumi. her eyes are still open, vacant and pale.

how cruel, for the universe to make zoey witness celine’s own nightmare played out, and not even give her the opportunity to scream, to reach out and hold rumi, like celine had with miyeong.

the screaming becomes sharper.

she looks down.

mira is curled up, weeping on the floor. her newborn daughter is crying loudly. has been since the deaths of her other 2 mothers, celine guesses.

her name is miyeong.

how cruel, to leave mira alone, when she has five children to raise. with no warning, unlike the weeks celine had of miyeong’s illness before her death and poppy’s discontent before fleeing. to leave her with no hope of seeing either of them again.

how cruel.

how very, very cruel.

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

(zoey alone au)

when zoey wakes, she’s expecting to see mira hovering over her, rumi checking her vitals just one more time, and a mountain of snacks waiting for her. its standard practice at this point for when zoey is injured, after all.

she sees none of that.

instead, her children all sit there, weeping silently.

(zoey’s a smart woman. she always has been.

but this isn’t right.)

“where?”

they all look up in surprise.

and then their faces crumble. it’s all the answer zoey needs.

the heart monitor picks up.

“no,” she says, angry and indignant and pleading with the universe to see reason, “that can’t-i can’t be-it was never supposed to be me!”

the heart monitor beeps even faster.

her children watch her, bewildered and fearful. “what?” jihae asks.

“it wasn’t supposed to be me!” zoey shouts. she can’t breathe. the heart monitor is going insane. “i wasnt supposed to be the last one!”

hani takes a shuddering breath. “who was?”

zoey doesnt answer.

the heart monitor beeps so fast now, it almost sounds like a flatline.

it may as well be.

the moment she’s well enough to move to her (it used to be theirs) own bed, she never leaves it.

(they take the iv out and seal her fate.)

it’s not for lack of trying on her children’s part. they beg her, plead with her to leave the bed, have some food, drink some tea or water, get some sun.

all to no avail.

any attempt to get closer to her is met with glaring eyes and still-strong swats to get away. leave her alone.

they figure she just needs more time.

days pass.

it starts to smell awful in there.

the day before the funeral, they each ask her if she’s going to come.

“you should,” aeri insists.

“it might bring you closure,” taeyong reassures.

“they would want you there,” miyeong says.

“it’s the least you could do,” jihae grumbles, before her face crumples. “sorry, that’s not what i meant.”

“please,” hani sobs, “just please leave this bed. i just need you to show me you have any life left in you after all this. please, mom.”

(oh, hani…)

she doesn’t respond.

the next day, they send taeyong in (“who could be that mad at taeyong?”) to go check on her.

he stumbles out of the room, and promptly vomits.

they hear his retching from down the hall.

“i know it smells bad in there, tae,” miyeong winces, “but is it really that-”

“she’s dead,” taeyong chokes out. his sisters freeze.

“what?” aeri asks, breathless.

taeyong sobs, shaking his head and retching again. “dead! she’s dead!”

the smell. it was rot. decay.

their mother, it seems, decided that withering away in the bed she’d spent the last decade or so sleeping in with her wives was a far more preferable fate than spending anymore time without them.

(the funeral is postponed. their three mothers are buried together.

jihae returns the rings before they’re buried.)

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

(rumi alone au)

when rumi wakes up, and sees her crying children, instead of the usual post-injury wake up crew of her wives jumping on her (well, as on her as they could be given she was injured), she knows.

“are they…?” she croaks out.

a sad nod from aeri makes her stare at the ceiling, and take a deep, wet breath.

(unlike mira and zoey, rumi always figured she’d be the last one left.

it’s too early, though. they all should’ve have decades more. they should’ve all gotten to meet great grandchildren.

instead, their oldest grandchild is barely a teenager.

it’s just…

too soon.)

rumi actually makes it to the funeral. she even speaks at it.

she makes sure to kiss the coffins before they go down. she whispers something to them.

nobody can hear it.

it makes her children uneasy, though, which makes no sense. why should their mother saying one last goodbye to her wives make them feel so on edge?

(they shouldve listened closer.)

the week afterwards is spent with her adjusting to her wives no longer be around.

it’s morose, as one might expect.

but there’s an…

oddness, to it all.

rumi is almost in too high of spirits for someone who just lost her two wives, her two soulmates, in one fell swoop. she’s following much more of a normal routine than they’d expected, like taking care of her greenhouse, and cleaning, and painting.

(and going to the hunter’s tree. she says she’s training. they’re not sure how she can ever think about hunting again after…everything)

that isn’t to say that she’s cheerful, or anything, but she certainly seemed to have more energy than they’d expected her to have.

(she keeps visiting the graves. they don’t know why, but it feels wrong.)

after the week is over, she insists that she’s fine to take care of herself.

“how am i ever going to adjust to living on my own if my children hover over me all the time?” rumi says, jokingly.

(something is wrong.)

it takes some convincing, but they do decide to go a week after that.

the day before, around sundown, they find her sitting outside, beneath the tree. she’s smiling up at it. “we used to climb the branches, when we were teenagers and training,” she tells them. “we’d race each other to the top, and then back to the bottom, and then home.”

(it’s all wrong.)

when they leave the next day, after she wishes them goodbye, and promises to call if she needs anything, she turns to the window to stare outside (and at the tree.)

their minds are screaming at them to stay, but they’ve been shooed out basically, so they all get in their cars.

they’re not even an hour away before they all turn around, giving in to the horrible feeling that’s been clawing at their chests for a week.

they’re too late.

they find her in the tree.

(one last climb. for old time’s sake.)