#celine

[waterfire1848]

ON THE SUBJECT OF RUMI NOT KNOWING HOW TO DEAL WITH A TRAUMATIZED 6 YEAR OLD, I just had an eeeeeeeevil idea

The penthouse has this one staircase that's perfectly safe for adults, but would be extremely dangerous for a little kid to play on. One of the first hard and fast rules they set for Celine upon finding out about the spell is that she cannot, under any circumstances, go up or down those stairs without one of them or Bobby present.

Celine is a good listener, for the most part, but every kid is going to make mistakes sometimes. So, when she's absentmindedly wandering the penthouse, she starts climbing up those stairs. As soon as they see her, Rumi rushes over, grabs Celine and brings her back down.

"What the hell happened?" She asks, "I thought we told you not to go up those stairs without one of us with you?"

Mira and Zoey watch from the other side of the room. Celine just stares at the ground, hands twisting together behind her back (she knows she'll get in trouble if they see her fidgeting). She opens her mouth to try and explain herself, but as usual no sound comes out.

"Can you look at me when I'm talking to you?" She asks, in a tone that makes Mira and Zoey cringe, "are you even listening to me--" she reaches over to tilt Celine's head up, and Celine flinches in a way that makes Mira's stomach drop. Her head turns to the side and tucks towards her chest, her arms fly up and out over her head to protect herself, her knees buckle and her breath hitches. If you've ever been hit as a kid, you know the pose, and it's a posture Mira is intimately familiar with.

"Nope!" She snaps from the other side of the room, rushing over and dragging Rumi away into the kitchen, while Zoey makes her way over to scoop Celine off the floor.

"What?" Rumi looks up at her, confused and frustrated.

"Rumi..." Mira grips her shoulders, "you absolutely cannot do that."

"Do what?" Rumi looks genuinely bewildered, like she has no idea what just happened, "I just needed to make sure she was listening and she... I don't actually know what she was doing? Why did she fall over like that?"

Mira freezes, "you really don't know?"

"No?" Rumi shakes her head.

"Oh boy," Mira mumbles. Her eyes stay wide, but her overall expression shifts from scared and angry to just plain sad, "she thought you were going to hit her."

"What?" Rumi's mouth goes dry and her eyes well up with tears, "but I--I didn't--I wouldn't--"

"I know," Mira pulls her into a hug, "I know you wouldn't hit her, but that doesn't change the fact that somebody did, and now she's hardwired to protect herself when an angry grownup makes a sudden movement like that."

Zoey steps into the room, "I think I got her calmed down, but you should probably still come talk to her."

Rumi nods, and goes to sit on the couch by Celine, where Zoey has her set up with a coloring book and some markers. Her movements are careful, tracing the outline of every shape before carefully filling it in in broad strokes, like she's afraid to leave any white spaces or color outside the lines (she doesn't want to get in trouble for wasting paper).

"Hey," Rumi says, crouching down beside her.

Celine doesn't respond verbally, but she pauses what she's doing and that's enough for Rumi to know she can hear her (she's going to get in trouble again. She's supposed to look at grownups when they talk to her. She's supposed to speak when spoken to but she just can't and now Ms. Rumi is going to--)

"I'm sorry," Rumi whispers, "I promise I am never, ever going to hit you. Ever."

Tears drip onto the paper below Celine, mixing with the ink and making colorful smudges (she's going to be in trouble for getting the paper wet).

"I'm gonna try not to yell either," Rumi continues, "I never want you to feel like I'm gonna hurt you. Grownups hurting kids is never okay, and as long as you're here you'll never have to go through that again."

Celine still doesn't look up. She wordlessly slides the box of markers to rest between them and goes back to carefully filling in the shapes.

"You want me to color with you?" Rumi confirms, grabbing a blue marker once she sees Celine nod, and coloring in the tiger on the page.

Celine gasps, having picked the most sensible choices she could for everything else on the page-- green grass, brown tree trunks, red flowers, and a yellow snake hidden among the vines (she's not sure what color snakes normally are. She's going to be in trouble for getting it wrong).

"What?" Rumi chuckles, "who said tigers can't be blue?"

This isn't my best work by any means but oooooough I hope it conveys a fun dynamic here :)))

Hello @theamphibianmen !!!

Your writing is so good!!!! I know you said this isn’t your best work but I really liked how you wrote everyone and how you depicted the situation the girls find themselves in. To that end, I hope you don’t mind me adding in my own scene down below.

Celine pulled her stuffed cat close to her body as lightning slammed against the tower once more. She was supposed to be asleep, a good child slept through storms and didn’t get scared or want someone to hold her or—

BOOM!

Celine yelped and covered herself with her blanket. Fear was fighting against fear in her brain and the constant noises of the storm was only making her want more and more to escape her room and find shelter elsewhere.

A second large clap of thunder sent her bolting from her bed—cat still held tightly in her hands—and straight to the hallway. She scanned the hallway for a moment to try and figure out where she was supposed to go. Zoey always said her door was always open and, honestly, Celine really wanted to fall asleep in her pile of stuffed animals that she showed her.

She was just struggling to remember which door was Zoey’s.

Slowly, Celine walked down the hallway, peering at the doors to try and remember where exactly she was supposed to go. Finally, she came to one door and her eyes narrowed. This door felt familiar. She felt like she’d been here before. Celine hoisted herself onto her tip toes and opened the door, slipping inside and rushing towards the bed with the sleeping hunter in it.

Only it wasn’t Zoey.

“Celine?”

It was Rumi. Ms. Rumi.

Celine’s eyes fell to the floor.

“Hey. What’s wrong? Did you have a bad dream?” Rumi asked, leaving her bed to kneel down beside Celine, “Did something happen to your cat?”

Celine didn’t respond.

She didn’t have to.

Another clap of thunder caused her to let out a yelp and bury her face in her stuffed cat. Realization fell over Rumi’s face.

“Oh. The storm, huh? Well, let’s see what we can do about that. Do you want to go get some milk and try to go back to bed?” Rumi asked.

Celine opened her mouth. No words came from her at first but she forced herself to say at least for, “….don’t wanna be alone.”

“I think we can arrange that. How about some chocolate milk and a movie and then we’ll see how you’re feeling then? Does that sound okay?” Celine still refused eye contact with the half demon and Rumi had no intention of pushing her. Not after what happened that morning. She waited. She waited 5 minutes for Celine to finally hold up a hand—a silent confirmation that she wanted to follow Rumi.

Rumi took Celine from her bedroom into the kitchen, pouring her a cup of milk and placing a straw inside. On her first day, Zoey had given Celine some chocolate milk—under the hope it would cause her to grow more comfortable—and Celine slipped some and cried. Ever since then, straws had been their go to when getting drinks.

“You know, when I was little, I was terrified of storms.” Celine didn’t reply but Rumi could feel her eyes on her, “My….caregiver would sometimes leave during them and I was always so scared that the storms would hurt her somehow. One night, I went to her in tears saying she couldn’t leave because there was a massive thunder and lightning storm coming and she needed to stay home. She pulled me onto her lap and told me a story. Do you want to hear it?”

Celine nodded in her chair. It was the polite thing to do.

“She told me about a mythical hunter who loved the rain more than any hunter who had ever come before her. She would dance and play in the rain like a fish in water. One day, she was out fighting with her fellow hunters and they happened upon a village in need of help. The three hunters fought strongly and they drove back the demons and saved the village, but, in the battle, that mythical hunter was lost.” Celine’s eyes grew, “Her fellow hunters continued on without her but during their next battle, the skies began to darken. They were sure it was more demons come to attack, but, instead, the sky boomed with light and sound. The lightning gave them sight to see the demons and the booms scared the demons away with their noise.”

“….the hunter sent the storms?” Celine whispered.

“She did.” Rumi nodded, internally celebrating her ability to get Celine to speak, “My caregiver said that storms are a hunters way of protecting one another and keeping each other safe. This storm is the hunters of the past protecting us and you from any demons. I know it’s loud and scary but the hunters up there are pretty old. They need it to be loud or they wouldn’t be able to hear it.” Celine giggled for half a second before slamming her hands over her mouth.

“Come on.” Rumi scooped Celine into her arms and took her towards the tv, “Let’s get a movie going and see if you got any sleep left in you.”

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[waterfire1848]

Ya ever think Rumi gets jealous that de aged Celine gets along with Zoey the best and even gets along with Mira more than her.

She knows she’s being unfair to them but it still hurts that her not mom bonds with others more than her.

Hi anon!!!

Oh, 100% she gets jealous. Especially if this is post movie when she’s trying to rebuild her relationship with Celine and something happens to de age her.

Like, Rumi’s been working months to talk to Celine again, for them to form a bond again, and it was starting to work. They weren’t a family from a cartoon but they were having dinners, talking again, going into the city to shop, they were on the right path.

And now little Celine can hardly look at her.

Little Celine bolts straight to Zoey. Only Zoey can pick her up for the first few days, only Zoey can convince her to leave her stuffed cat on the bed, only Zoey can make her smile. Rumi’s not upset that Celine is warming up to Zoey, far from it, it’s actually SUPER helpful to have someone Celine semi trusts now because it helps them keep her safe, but it hurts to see them all sitting down for a movie and Celine avoids her to go sit next to Zoey.

Mira being the second person that Celine trusts hurts too. Again, she’s not upset Celine trusts them, it’s good, but it hurts that it’s them and not her that Celine trusts. It hurts seeing Celine laugh with them and whisper inside jokes and make drawing with all of them in it and shove Rumi to the side.

That being said, there is one day, when Rumi is by herself in the kitchen, that Celine walks up and tugs at her to show her a new picture she drew. Rumi cleans her hands and readies herself to see another drawing of all of them where she’s in the house in the picture or off doing something important which is why Celine didn’t even draw her.

Instead, it’s her and Celine smiling and holding hands with Rumi’s patterns proudly displayed.

“I dreamed it” is all the explanation Rumi gets but it’s all the explanation she needs.

Even after Celine turns back, it still hangs proudly on the fridge and Rumi has no plans to take it down.

[waterfire1848]

I do like the de aged Celine stories were Huntrix realizes that Celine is neurodivergent cause adult Celine is great at masking. I find it a cute way for her and Zoey to bond.

Hi anon!!!

I’d like to imagine that Zoey has the most knowledge on neurodivergence from growing up in the States/Burbank. She not only learned a little in school but she was also just around more people who probably outwardly admitted to being neurodivergent. Meanwhile, Mira and Rumi certainly know neurodivergence exists but they just don’t have the same experiences as Zoey stemming from a more isolated upbringing.

So when Celine has trouble with certain materials, struggles to look people in the eye or struggles with paying attention, Zoey is quick to pick up on what it means and adjust herself. Mira and Rumi would need to be told but they eventually figure it out.

Rumi: Celine? Celine, you need to put on a coat. It’s cold out. We don’t want you to get sick or be chilly.

Celine:….

Rumi: I’m going to count to 3. 1….2….

Celine: Hurts.

Mira: The coat hurts?

Celine: *Nods*

Zoey: OH!

Mira: Yes?

Zoey: Wait, Celine, does the fabric feel bad? Like when it touches your skin do you feel icky?

Celine: Icky?

Zoey: I mean….do you feel like you have ants crawling up you or shiver or want out of it as fast as possible?

Celine: Mmhmm.

Zoey: Ah, okay. Well, Rumi was right about you needing a coat outside, we don’t want you to be cold, so why don’t we look at some other coats for you to wear, okay? We can try to find one with cats on it. Like the ones you drew from France.

Celine: *Nods* Okay.

[waterfire1848]

Okay I'm gonna bother you more about Celine deaged to around 6 and adult Rumi now because they make me so unreasonably emotional you have no idea

Just. Celine being so little and so confused and so scared. She wakes up in this big strange house with these three pretty ladies who somehow know her name and she wants to be a good kid and help them find her family but she's so scared she can't talk and the lady with the purple hair is mad at her because she's a bad kid and --

Rumi knowing Celine as this monolith of strength and independence slowly realizing that she's being too harsh with this poor scared little kid who thinks she's fundamentally unlovable. Realizing that Celine might not have done the best job raising her, but damn did she do good compared to what she had!

Hi @theamphibianmen !!!

First of all, I can never be bothered with de aged Celine. I don’t think it’s possible.

Second, Celine just really can’t catch a break can she???? That being said, I really like the idea of Celine not having a great childhood because I think it fits in nicely with another Headcanon the fandom has where Celine, when she was a sunlight sister, didn’t really think about having kids.

She didn’t have a great childhood herself, she doesn’t know how to parent, she doesn’t know how to properly raise a child in love and not end up like her mother so she refuses to subject any other kid to that. Things change when Rumi is born though and Celine swears to protect everything left of Miyeong, including Rumi. Celine doesn’t have a baseline for good parenting but she does her best to give Rumi everything she had wanted in her own childhood.

Third, I’m kinda curious as to why Rumi would be harsh? Not that I think it couldn’t happen but I’m wondering why she’s being so harsh with Celine when she knows her mentor/mother figure is currently 6 years old and practically hiding from everything.

Fourth and finally (I don’t know why these are numbered), I really like the idea that Rumi does have this picture of Celine as this unwavering hero figure so to see her suddenly small and terrified is a huge shock to Rumi. Even more of a shock is the fact that Zoey is the one who Celine bonds with the most, because she’s the only one who seems to understand Celine needs space and time and not questions and harsh voices.

Even when Celine first wakes up, having suffered a bad wound in a fight and been “healed” by the honmoon, de aged, it’s Zoey who offers her water and asks what she needs while Rumi and Mira are more trying to figure out how this happened and why Celine isn’t speaking/isn’t acting like…well, Celine.

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