fkau is so lovely!! i feel so inspired by your art for it that i started working on a short one shot which is slowly spiraling out control.
if you're interested, here's a little snip of zoey and rumi before they met mira and before they have myungsoo.
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zoey's playing minecraft when rumi suddenly appears next to her. she startles and laughs. "damn, baby, you scared me."
rumi smiles and points to her ear. "oh, sorry." zoey takes her headphones off, "i was yelling wasn't i?" she doesn't even get a chance to feel self-conscious, not with how rumi looks at her with something close to reverence.
she looks more shy than zoey has ever seen her. her eyes are soft, her head tilted. a fondness that zoey will never get used to. zoey has to look away, pause her game, collect her thoughts, before she gives rumi her full attention.
and that's when she notices rumi holding a hand behind her back.
"hi, ru. i missed you." zoey sinks back into her gaming chair and bats her eyelashes. "what are you hiding? did you get me a present?" she's mostly joking, rumi was in meetings all day, she wouldn't have had time to get zoey anything. but, ever surprising, rumi nods and then kneels.
if zoey chokes at the sight, that's no one's business but her own.
"baby, your knee, you're gonna have a flare up." zoey moves to stand, to help rumi up but rumi shakes her head and zoey sinks back. "what is going on, jagi? you're freaking me out a little."
rumi reaches into her pocket and pulls out a ring. it's dark in the room, but zoey would recognize it anywhere and her heart sinks. "ru? what's going on? why aren't you wearing it?"
rumi hasn't taken off the ring in years, not since zoey gave it to her on their one-hundredth day. she tries not to jump to conclusions, notices that rumi's left hand is still tucked out of sight.
zoey looks up with wide eyes, "love, please tell me what's going on."
rumi is oblivious to the panic, "i need you to hold on to this for me for a bit."
"oh god, im gonna throw up."
"what? why?" rumi sounds genuinely surprised.
"you met someone didn't you? you're trying to let me down easy. you don't want me anymore. oh man, i always knew this day would come. i just thought i had more time-."
"zoey, respectfully, what the fuck are you talking about?" rumi blinks rapidly against the onslaught of questions.
zoey wails, "it's okay, i totally understand. i always knew there's no way that ryu rumi would want me forever. i'll start to pack-" she's cut off from her spiral when rumi brings both hands to cup her cheeks.
"okay. wow. okay. take a deep breath. please. that's not what's happening."
zoey feels a wrinkle of plastic as rumi runs her thumb soothingly along her cheek bone.
"what-?" she pulls rumi's left hand down and the breath rushes out of her at the linework.
"i lied, i'm sorry."
zoey's head snaps up to look at rumi, the panic still not fully cleared from her system. rumi just smiles back.
"i wasn't in meetings all day. i wanted to surprise you." rumi blushes, looks down at their clasped hands. zoey squeezes gently, not wanting to further irritate the inflamed skin akong the back of rumi's hand, along the top of her left ring finger. "it's ivy. it means friendship, fidelity, eternal life.
"its for you."
this is so sweet 🥹 i might incorporate this tattoo into canon!