This little au has been plaguing me for months. I finally wrote a small scene about it, but it makes absolutely no sense without the context.
Everything goes along the plot of the movie, right to this moment
just wanted to share this gif :)
Rumi teleports to Namsan Tower, but she is too late - right when she enters the pitch, she sees how Gwi-ma consumes Mira and Zoey.
In her desperation, anger and panic, she screams, and it is the loudest, the most powerful scream she'd ever produced. So powerful that it rips time-space and throws her spirit to a similar distortion - her first scream on top of their penthouse
The girls are alive and well, if a little confused; Honmoon is fed and holding strong; nobody heard about Saja Boys yet; Rumi's patterns are exactly at the state they were on the failed Golden release.
After she calmed down, took some time and help from Zoemira, Rumi started to think:
No matter what happens to her, she will not allow anything bad to happen to Zoey and Mira;
Because What it Sound Like never happened and the last time she saw Mira and Zoey, they point their blades at her, she is absolutely assured that they will never accept her, no matter what (more her trauma speaking, than the rationale);
Jinu is irredeemable - his actions led to the deaths of Zoey and Mira (Rumi can forgive Takedown, but not this);
Because Jinu is irredeemable - all demons are irredimable - and that means that Rumi herself is irredimable;
Because she is an irredeemable demon, golden Honmoon is unachievable for this generation - this condemns her, but it also frees her.
And, while she cannot create the golden Honmoon anymore, there is something she can do to avoid the future she ran away from.
Not saying the girls anything, she repeats the route to Han, as in the original timeline, but alone, this time. And she destroys Saja Boys right in that alley.
Mira and Zoey are disstresed enough just from failed Golden. When Rumi histerically run to them, crying, and hugging them like never before - right after she run away, 15 minutes before the release of Golden - they begin to worry.
When Rumi said that she know how to cure her voice, but she must go to the healer alone, they want to argue, but Rumi is adamant.
When she returns a few hours later, limping, crying, obviously wounded, they want to help. Rumi shuts them down, not letting them near her. Like she is scared of them.
They wait at her door until they hear Rumi crying, and then it's too much to stay away, even if Rumi asks them. Door is not locked. Rumi is crying on her bed, wearing layer upon layer of clothes, wounds already dressed.
They lie on both sides of her, hugging her close. Not knowing what happened, what is happening still, or what to do with all of that, they said the only thing they are absolutely sure of, "We love you, Rumi."
They absolutely mean it. Of course, they do. They love Rumi in any and all ways. And Rumi hears their conviction - how absolutely sure they are of this declaration.
And it breaks Rumi. Because, in her head, it's very conditional. Their love is there just until they see the patterns. Rumi believes them, but she also believes that they will still turn on her. And it makes it worse.
Now that golden Honmoon is out of the question, the only thing Rumi really wants is to spend more time with her girls. But, Jinu's death is still weighing on her immensely, and her patterns grow way faster.
