I’m back on my running man (korean tv) bullshit and I can’t stop thinking about Huntrix absolutely destroying the competition and shocking everyone.
Picture this
Running Man shows up on their post-release promo schedule and it’s a great opportunity to finally do it (Rumi was always refusing it due to the name tag ripping and the chance of accidentally revealing her patterns was WAY too high to consider before, plus the new Honmoon is holding strong and there hasn’t been a demon threat in weeks)
So they show up like most first timers do, woefully unaware of how actually competitive the cast gets during these games. But just as unprepared is the running man side of things, because they made Huntrix team leaders not knowing how competitive THEY are with each other.
Now, I imagine there’s varying degrees of knowing Running Man within Huntrix
Rumi - knows the most being in and amongst the Korean entertainment industry basically her whole life and also grew up watching it
Mira - knows some, but only got into it later because her parents would consider it one of the lower forms of entertainment
Zoey - knows absolutely nothing other than what she was given to prepare before the filming (she starts watching after appearing and gets really into it)
So when it comes time to choose teams there only six member to choose from because of scheduling conflicts. (I’m not fully caught up so I don’t know some of the newer cast that well) Yoo Jaesuk, Jee Seokjin, HaHa, Kim Jongkook, Song Jihyo, and Yang Sechan. They played some quick game to choose order and Zoey wins.
Based on what she knows the filming tends to get pretty physical and, since she’s got speed covered, she needs muscle so KJK(SPARTA!) is her first choice.
Rumi goes next and HAS to pick the nations mc so Jaesuk joins her team.
Mira chooses Jihyo because, if there’s a random chance game, it never hurts to have (weirdly) good luck. (I don’t know how Jihyo does it. It’s actually insane.)
Back around to Zoey and she likes HaHas vibe,(he probably did something weird and “cute”) so he’s her second pick.
Rumi throws everyone off by grabbing Seokjin (he’s been there since the beginning, and she feels a sense of loyalty to him over Sechan)
Mira graciously accepts Sechan as her final pick (1 - she would hate to make someone feel unwanted and 2 - she wanted him on her team anyway cuz there’s a little hint of Bobby in him)
So teams are
Yellow Team - Zoey, Jongkook, HaHa
Blue Team - Rumi, Jaesuk, Seokjin
Red Team - Mira, Jihyo, Sechan
And there’s some game about 4-word idioms that trips Zoey up, but then they do some quiz about animals that she absolutely rocks, like every question, no one else gets a chance to answer (she may be obsessed with sea creatures, but she loves every member of the animal kingdom) This ends with Zoey’s team leaving the earliest, Rumi’s 5 minutes later and Mira’s 5 minutes after that.
They go to the next mission spot and it’s a food challenge where they have to remember what order the food was put down and assemble a ssam in that order before eating it. Any deviation, try again. Mira absolutely crushes because she’s insanely perceptive. Zoey was not paying attention at all, but luckily KJK is always suspicious of restaurant challenges and they get it pretty quick too. Rumi, Jaesuk, and Seokjin and up eating way more than they should although Rumi’s not bothered (girl needs an insane amount of calories a day)
The next mission is a singing challenge at a karaoke place, but they draw papers and have to get the score that’s on them, so it’s not just a singing the best. If they don’t get that exact score, try again. Rumi’s team completes it the quickest, partially because the paper they drew had a 94, so Rumi just carried them. Zoey’s team eventually pulls a 63 and they just goof off for the song. Mira’s team kept pulling 77-83 but the wide skill range of the team kept swinging too off the mark until a very serious attempt after the other two teams left.
Then they get to the final spot. An amusement park or similarly outdoor location. And now it’s the name tag ripping race. They have 1 hour to eliminate the other teams by ripping the name tags off their backs. Normally over the course of the first forty minutes, the guests and cast manage to get down to two or three remaining players. Not this time. All the teams split up and somehow within 15 minutes everyone except Huntrix is eliminated. The girls actually have pretty good control and, while they manage to not use the honmoon to strengthen their bodies for, essentially, a game of tag with regular humans, they are specifically trained for combat, even if it isn’t life-or-death.
Thats really all I have. I don’t know who would win between them, although I am biased towards Zoey. I’ll think about it some more.
