Leyendecker-sort-of study feat. Celine and baby Rumi
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Leyendecker-sort-of study feat. Celine and baby Rumi
I visit Hyun-Woo nightly. I know he worries about me. What a jerk, right? Worrying about me when he’s the one being punished for loving me. I can’t get him to tell me what’s happening; he had ‘joked’ once that there was no key for the cell they kept him in. Every time I see him, he looks less like himself. He’s been struggling to remember little details.
But he’s always asking after Rumi.
Sometimes when we’ve all fallen asleep at the same time, our dreams merge long enough for him to hold her again.
Oh, Rumi. If you could understand how much he loves you.
I think you keep him fighting most of all.
He says he doesn’t hear the voices anymore. He doesn’t feel Gwi-Ma’s power over him. When he sees me — when he holds you… his shame is gone. The fear and guilt washes away, and… he’s just himself.
His patterns look different lately, too. They shine in ways I’ve never seen on a demon before.
Like opal shimmering in the sun.
— The Gilded Freefall, Chapter 26
Headcanon - Wheh Mi-Yeong dies, Celine isn’t automatically picked to be Rumi’s guardian. Instead, Rumi is put in foster care and sent to another family. Those few months when Celine isn’t able to get custody are some of, if not the, worst months of her life.
Hi y’all, today on my random KPDH shipping brainrot…
I present you:
Sugar Momma Celine with an unintentional “sugar baby” reader who is like idk anywhere between 25-30 (Bc how old do we think Celine is, tbh? I’m aiming for like late 40s / early 50s).
Here's a question: How the heck was Korea not overrun by demons between the Sunlight Sisters falling apart to Huntrix forming????
So I've been thinking about this for a few days. We know that Mi-yeong died when Rumi was born/shortly thereafter, and we see no mention of the third Sunlight Sister in the movie, and it doesn't seem like she was involved in raising Rumi and training Huntrix at all. So like...how was Gwi-Ma and the demons kept in check before Huntrix formed and started properly fighting the demons?
Mi-yeong dying would've been emotionally devastating to the Sunlight Sisters, but also, that's one less Hunter fighting demons, throwing off the Sunlight Sisters' synergy and power, and it doesn't seem like the third Sunlight Sister stuck around. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Celine kept fighting demons as she was raising Rumi, and seems to have kept performing, if the shots from previous award ceremonies where she's with young Rumi are any indication, but that's probably like at least fifteen years or so between the Sunlight Sisters falling apart and Huntrix forming. I'm certain Celine is a badass, but how on earth was she keeping the demons at bay with just her? Best case scenario, maybe the third Sunlight Sister separated herself from Celine but still fought demons, with them working together if they ran into each other, but that's not training together, and the third Sunlight Sister, if she's even alive, didn't seem interested in helping train and raise the next generation of Hunters, even though that included her late friend's daughter, they don't seem to be a girl group/band anymore--and as awful as it sounds, one member of a girl group dying would probably cause their popularity to drop, especially if the two members didn't work together anymore.
Celine probably started taking Rumi, Mira, and Zoey on missions with her when they were in their mid-teens or so, but obviously, young child Rumi wasn't helping Celine kill demons, so....how in the world was one, MAYBE two, best case scenario, solo, mourning Hunters keeping Gwi-Ma in check? Even if Celine is trying to bury her emotions, that seems like a recipe for a destroyed or severely weakened Honmoon, especially if there are no Hunter girl group powering the world with their combined song. And yet Jinu's Lament seems to imply that that Gwi-Ma has steadily been growing weaker in the 400ish years that Hunters formed. No one seems to mention that Gwi-Ma and his demons had a huge surge of power and success in the late 90s/early 2000s between no Sunlight Sisters and no Huntrix.
I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this, because as much as I like Celine and tend to defend her, fighting entire legions of demons by herself seems pretty much impossible. Though it would explain her gray hair, and she would still do it despite the pretty much impossible odds stacked against her, because who else would?
i hope we hear celine sing in the sequel 🥹🙏🏽
I feel like I never see people talk about Mi-yeong and Rumi in the context of them both being alive at the same time which is fair to people who assume that Mi died during childbirth BUT! What if there was some time between Rumi's birth and Mi-yeong's death? Enough time for them to bond and therefore when Mi dies, baby Rumi (who doesn't have any conscious awareness that her mother is dead because, baby) cries because her mother isn't there. What if Celine can't stop Rumi crying and can only hold her while Celine is reeling from Mi death herself?
Big 'ol KPDH doodle dump of stuff I've been hoarding for months! More info under the cut!