zoey and rumi being really bitey to show affection and biting mira on her shoulders and arms and hands and legs whenever they’re lazing around and mira just lets it happen and barely bats an eye but never really reciprocates which is fine because zoerumi can simultaneously bite each other whenever they want so it’s not like they’re lacking the bite marks UNTIL ONE DAY when mira is lying half asleep on top of both of them and they’re poking fun at her over something and she rolls her eyes but in her exhaustion can’t form any words so she retaliates by gently chomping on the closest person’s arm and both of them start freaking out and squealing like their skittish cat has finally come out of hiding to cuddle up against them and mira’s like ???? as they both slap each other and kick their feet and grin at her
zoey gets a role as the face of this environmentally friendly workout gear brand, and for it she ends up doing a series of workout videos and a bunch of those commercials that you wake up to in the middle of the night that go on forever. they also have workout clothing so she’s modeling all sorts of sports bras and sleeveless shirts and shorts and tight but comfortable pants as she works out
obviously, bc they are codependent, rumi and mira come along to shooting days. it takes them a day for bobby to ban them from the set, and then less than a day for him to ban them from the entire studio while theyre filming
every time zoey would ask a question to the camera mira would unconsciously answer her, ruining their take. anytime zoey flexed, rumi squeaked loudly.
when bobby says they cant stick around, rumi and mira expect zoey to beg bobby to let them stay, to tell him they’ll be on their best behavior, they all promise
and listen. zoey is loving this. she loves when her girls arent shy about how attracted they are to her. HUGE ego boost as the one people tend to infantilize the most to get to hear how much her girlfriends want her.
but theyve had to scrap so many takes, and zoey is getting tired.
bobby kicks them out and zoey doesn’t say anything about it. rumi and mira stare at her in betrayal (and still absolute adoration. “who knew she could still look so sexy while letting us be kicked out”mira says)
it still takes them a while to finish, but by the time zoey gets home, its late and shes WIPED. rumi and mira are waiting in bed for her, ready to make her beg to be let in, to have sex, to cuddle.
but zoey basically just collapses onto the couch and falls asleep instantly as soon as shes back. rumi and mira, confused about why they heard the elevator but not a single door open since, come out to find her and, feeling an overwhelming wave of affection at seeing their maknae curled up on the couch, pick her up to bring her to first shower (which she grumbles tiredly through) and then bed
when they try to come with her on set the next day bobby locks them out of the set. they scratch at the door for 20 minutes before he goes over and tells them to go home for the day.
rumi and mira are devastated they dont get to watch zoey work out in those outfits for hours on end (they can they’ll just have to wait) so as soon as she gets home that day they drag her to bed for reasons other than sleep
the final products end up going straight to rumi and miras Go To Videos To Listen to When Alone lists
The host turns his attention towards her, shuffling a set of cue cards in his hands, and the audience grows silent.
"Mira!" he says with a wide, unsettling smile — the one he always uses when he has some sort of dirt on celebrities — and she knows exactly where this question is headed. "You went to medical school?"
"Yes," she replies simply, arm draped on the back of the couch behind Zoey and Rumi. Mira stays relaxed, cool, nonchalant, like this is just any other question about their choreographies or their tour.
There's a few gasps from the audience, a coo here and there. A girl, probably in her late teens if her voice is anything to go by, lets out a dreamy sigh before saying "she's so cool" a little too loudly.
"Wow," the host says with fake awe, elongating the 'o' sound to make it sound really sincere. It's not, Mira can tell. She always can. "Who knew Huntr/x's very own Jeong Mira was a prodigy — ballet, medical school, and idol training. Impressive, right ladies and gentlemen?"
He looks out into the audience, giving them a wink as the light above them flashes the word 'Applause'.
"She really is," Rumi affirms confidently after the thundering sound of applause settles. "Mira has always shown that she's in a class of her own. Not to mention she's incredibly dedicated to everything she puts her mind to."
"Yeah!" Zoey chirps along, patting Mira's leg twice and letting her hand linger a little longer than is acceptable for public appearances. "It's always nice to have someone with medical knowledge around, too. Especially with how clumsy I am!"
That gets the audience to laugh and shift the attention away from Mira. Zoey's good at that — playing up the silly, clumsy act around an audience to take pressure away from Mira and Rumi when questions get too personal or hit nerves that are not meant to be seen. She excels at breaking the tension, at creating space for each of them to breathe when the walls feel like they're closing in.
More importantly — and much to Mira's delight — she's good at making hosts feel backed into a corner. Yes, Zoey is sweet to a fault, Mira loves that about her. Everyone loves that about her. But she knows how to weaponize it, too. She's well aware that no one would dare push back on the sweet maknae on national television or anywhere with an audience. So she uses it to her advantage when she feels someone has stepped too close or pushed too far.
Works like a charm, as expected. The host looks between all three of them, taking a deep breath and flipping through the cards in his hands before setting up the next question.
— ☆ —
"Medical school?" Zoey asks with amusement between gasped breaths, fingers tightening around Mira's hair.
Mira smiles, lips warm against Zoey's skin as she places a soothing kiss on the blooming hickey beneath them. "This time it's actually true."
Zoey's laugh, melodic and warm, fills the space around them. It's hypnotizing. Mira swears that it's Zoey's siren call, or at least it was for her. She would follow the sound of her laugh across the world if it meant she got to hear it every day for the rest of her life.
"Yeah?" Soft hands move to cradle Mira's face as Zoey brings her in for a kiss, sloppy and wanting. It tastes like love and devotion with a pinch of mirth. "Just like how you spent some time as a cook in a Singaporean hawker centre or how one summer you sailed across the Mediterranean or how you are the youngest wildlife photographer?"
It's Mira's turn to laugh this time, because of course Zoey has kept track of all of her bullshit answers to hosts throughout the years.
"No, this time it's actually true," she answers, meeting Zoey's eyes so that she knows that Mira is being sincere. "I graduated early and was accepted into medical school. Went to classes for about a week before Celine approached me."
"What were you going to specialize in?"
Mira hesitates for a moment, looking away from Zoey's questioning eyes. No one's ever asked her this before, not her parents or her friends, and for some reason it makes her feel vulnerable, seen.
"Pediatrics."
Zoey's thumbs caress her cheeks, the way they always do when Mira lets her in to some of her most guarded thoughts and secrets. "Of course," she says softly, placing a kiss on the bridge of Mira's nose.
"Plus," she clears her throat, searching for a way to stop her cheeks from heating further, "it pays to know anatomy."
"Yeah?" Zoey tilts her head to the side curiously, not catching on as fast as she normally does.
"You've never complained," Mira says with a lopsided smirk that earns her a lighthearted smack on the shoulder.
They're squeans I'm pretty sure! If they pop like that anyway. But the term for this kind of "symbol to refer to the general vibe of something in art" is called "Emanata" because it emanates from a person or object.
Zookeepers zoey and mira vs that one strange quiet girl thats constantly near the tiger exhibit on weekdays. They both work in that area; mira actively with the Sumatrans and Zoey nearby in the reptile house. Finally after watching this woman hover for almost three months they go up to ask what shes doing and catch rumi working on little watercolor paintings of the tigers. Mira almost cries, she can recognize the individuals in the paintings. They end up being fast friends and start chatting when everyone has the time. It gets to the point where Zoey begs rumi to come do some of the snakes portraits which rapidly turns into ‘what animals does rumi need to paint this week’ and a hoard of gifted art stuck to every surface of the office spaces.
Being a bi guy quite possibly the funniest sexuality like dammmnnnn I know who John Waters is and jerk it to twinks in panties but I got a coffee date with Hetero Jessica from work at 3 thats her name heteroooo jessica thats her name folks thats what we call her hertero jessica
Mira was, apparently, in a more forgiving mood; she'd moved her hand to rubbing Rumi's abdomen, though her grin was huge and smug over Rumi's shoulder.
My birthday was last month so my wonderful fiancé gifted me a commission from the incredible @princington! This is a scene from Our Girl by the talented @ghostbitsforkicks. I highly recommend following all three of these amazing creators, you won't be disappointed.
I saw an anonymous ask that got sent to an artist I follow that was along the lines of "I need an outlet for my stress, and being mean to people makes me feel good" and I would really like to say. to anyone who is mean to others for the thrill of it. I understand you completely and I was EXACTLY the same a few years ago. you're right!! it DOES feel good!!!!
and then you feel even worse than you did before. you're not "letting off steam", you're building a dependence on bullying, and you WILL end up with misery as your default emotional state. even if you don't behave this way to your loved ones, it WILL start showing.
I've had to distance myself from friends whose main form of entertainment seemed to be upsetting strangers over harmless disagreements. play a stressful video game. join a sports team. get into media analysis and get angry at a shitty tv show. there are ways to blow off steam that won't make you a miserable person who has a hard time finding ways to relax.
if I got out of that "get angry -> take it out on people -> feel good -> feel worse and need an outlet -> repeat" cycle, that means it's possible.
as soon as my efforts to escape that cycle started paying off, I was NOTICEABLY less stressed, I was VISIBLY healthier, and the urge to fight with people died down.
these days, I'm quick to delight, I find it very easy to be kind to people, and I can calm myself down before jumping to conclusions. and I can tell you with absolute certainty that life feels IMMEASURABLY more enjoyable this way. my good days outnumber my bad days 10 to 1 despite the fact that I still deal with the same things I used to, and those bad days are much easier than they used to be anyway.
but how do you even escape? what's the first step?
the next time you find yourself itching to lash out at someone to get that good rush of anger, try taking it to private dms with a friend who gets you! this stops the person you're angry at from responding and continuing the argument, which helps that reward-response feeling fizzle out.
from there, try a high-focus-high-stress fun activity instead of talking about it AT ALL. like I said earlier! video games! horror movies! go for a bike ride at full speed! let the cortisol and adrenaline or whatever it might be course through you until you feel calmer.
once you've got that down as a skill, you could even try flipping that anger on its head. MAKE something out of it. someone's artstyle pisses you off? make your own art the way YOU think it should be. someone hates something you like? talk with your friends about how that same something brings you joy, and why!
best of luck. been there. this isn't meant to be patronising or condescending. I don't know better than you. I only know how good it feels, and how bad it can be for you and the people you care about.
I posted this on the KPDH discord, but I figured I could repost it here too. Here's a list of links to various storyboards, early and/or scrapped scenes, and pitches & concepts shared by the various artists who worked on the movie.
Prologue & backstory
Prologue - Mingjue Helen Chen
More prologue paintings - Mingjue Helen Chen (check out her IG for a lot more production art)
Hunters through the ages - Mingjue Helen Chen
Young Rumi - Mingjue Helen Chen
Concepts of child Rumi - Scott Watanabe
Celine & child Rumi, Rumi practicing controlling the Honmoon - Simon Baek
Early days of Huntr/x - Darren Webb
Opening
Plane fight story pitch - Jed Diffenderfer. More at his website and also check out this post that has a video with an early voice track and an early version of How It's Done, & storyboard comparisons.
The original Vimeo upload was DMCA'd (I think it was a bogus claim...) but you can download it from the previous link. If the video there is deleted too DM me and I'll share a link.
Credit to this post by gkqtjdsbql, though sadly the video was deleted there too.
Different version of the opening - Nagi Koyama
Early skydive scene - Ryan Savas
Different intro battle (with lots of dancing and choreography) - Alicia Chan
Weapon summoning exploration - Alicia Chan
Early version of Jinu's intro - Sooyeon Lee
Golden
Golden storyboard initial pass - Darren Webb
Golden storyboard + early version of Golden - Bridget Underwood
Bathhouse
Gear up scene video - Hye Lynn Park
Longer bathhouse scene video - Josh 'Hat' Lieberman Storyboard
Jinu vs Rumi bathhouse battle sequence - Alex Chiu
Takedown montage, fansign, dates
"Meet Ugly", first encounter with the Saja Boys - Jed Diffenderfer, website
Derpy & Jinu's letter story pitch - Jed Diffenderfer
Zoey's notebooks - Stephen Neary
Slaying demons (plays during the Takedown montage), with funny Mira reaction & Zoey with a frog hat - Alicia Chan
Zoeystery - Ryan Savas
Idol Star Athletics Championship (replaced by the fansign scene) - Bridget Underwood
Train scene while arguing about the tonics - Alex Chiu
Aquarium date - Marion Bordeyne
Another Rumi & Jinu kiss pitch - Charles Hilton
Rumi & Jinu date at Woljeonggyo Bridge pitch - Laura Price
Jinu, temporarily stuck on the demon side, meets Rumi at the market - Bridget Underwood
Climax
3D Draft version of Takedown scene (Youtube)
Early version of Rumi's breakdown (with even more ANGST) - Sooyeon Lee
Lighting keys for breakup sequence (with Mira protecting Zoey) - Wendell Dalit
Rumi confronts Celine sequence - Jessie Wong
Another confrontation ("Celine... why did you kill my mother...") - Simon Baek
Confrontation continued - Simon Baek
Rumi goes to her mother's grave & Celine and Rumi flashback - Simon Baek
Rumi's transformation sequence - Andrew J. Ross
Climax ideas - Ryan Savas
Gwi-Ma attacks Rumi, Zoey, Mira & Jinu's reactions, Rumi's patterns are gold - Bridget Underwood
Rumi figthing Gwi-Ma - Bridget Underwood
Jinu gives Rumi the hat ending - Hanna Cho
Various
Storyboards - Stephen Neary
More storyboards (most of these made it into the movie) - Ray Xu
Other pitches
Golden MV teasers ideas (very short vignettes) - Alex Chiu
love how heathers was like you cannot fix him. you cannot save his sorry ass. he’s going to blow himself up on the football field and you’re just going to have to live with that, babe!
in a world full of tropes that romanticize the violent bad boy with a heart of gold archetype, heathers had the strength to say no. no. that man is fucking crazy. he is going to ruin your life. you are not bonnie and clyde. you are not the juliet to his romeo. if he wants to kill a bunch of people and explode that is HIS goddamn business. and honestly i respect the shit out of it for that
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