I just had a thought that tickled me silly: what if the girls gain the ability to use the new Honmoon to disguise their weapons? Just in case civilians happen to see them when demon hunting.
Mira: "GOK-DO? WHAT GOK-DO?? *twirls a broomstick elegantly* I was just sweeping the floor to help out with cleaning our streets. Get with the times, people. Stop littering. >:I "
Rumi: " ..AH HAH HAH.. *super wide dork grin while waving a traffic baton* We of HUNTR/X support our local traffic police and endorse public safety! Wooo, traffic safety..! \(^-^;;;)/ "
Zoey: " AAHHH *drops 6 corndogs on the ground* NOOOOO, OMG RUMIII, MIRAAA, THE 5 SECOND RULE STILL COUNTS RIGHT?!?! D':> "
XD the only PR "scandal" they have to deal with is just them being goofy as fuck.
AU - Rumi, Zoey and Mira arenât human but are actually baby orphan demons. During a battle, they accidentally fall through the barrier and get the attention of the Sunlight Sisters. The three know that their mentors will kill any demons they see, even child demons, so they make a choice to take the three little demons and run away with them.
Owo but how do they raise them? They might not be willing to kill children but are they able to treat them as kids? Do they think the kids might end up a danger to humans? Do they get taught that they have to behave better, hide their demon traits, because if there's any slips, the mentors might find out and then they're dead?
In my mind, Iâm thinking they donât treat them 100% as kids because they are still demons. They understand the danger these kids posses but they also start to think âwhat happens if these kids are raised away from Gwi Ma?â If theyâre never taught to steal souls will they not? Itâs not like demons gain anything from stealing souls, only Gwi Ma does. And the girls are pretty happy eating mostly protein so itâs not like they have to eat souls or anything like that to stay alive. Polylight kind of made this move without thinking because they just came across these kids and didnât have it in them to hurt children but now the kids are with them and they need some form of parenting.
They would be told about the danger the mentors possess (mostly just so the girls know the danger around them and can be prepared) and they would be told to remain in human disguises but I think that, around the house, especially Mi Yeong, would let the run in their demon forms. Since theyâre growing up with not as much shame as Rumi did, itâs also much harder for Gwi Ma to talk to them. (And Iâm gonna steal from HTTYD and say Gwi Ma has no control over baby demons).
But I also agree that there is so much angst potential here especially with polylight having abandoned their mentors (made extra angsty if one of them had a parent who was in the older group and left their mom) and the girls growing up knowing their caretakers are literally hunting other demons and have weapons that could kill them.
And the different ways SLS interacts with the girls. Like maybe Miyeong and Third are softer on them, more parental than a mentor/warden combo (because everyone is very much aware that the three kids can't just leave). Miyeong and Third becoming eomma and mama fairly quickly;
But Celine, who maybe held the lessons their mentors taught them closer, generally kept them at an arms distance. She knows that if this little... experiment? Wildly optimistic plan? Fumbling family? Doesn't work out and these three kids do end up like other demons, they will need to do their duty.
(Miyeong and Third know this, but Celine is the one making contingency plan after contingency plan late into the night, trying to figure out a way where everyone lives)
The girls are maybe a little scared of Celine. And Celine is always just Celine-nim or teacher. Tough, not particularly warm (though she has her moments), and the one that goes out to kill demons more often than the others.
Until maybe the mentors do find out and come to the house when Miyeong and Third are away. And Celine tells the girls to hide while she deals with this.
And from their hiding place, they can hear yelling and then fighting and then silence.
Then footsteps coming towards them.
Then, "girls you can come out now."
And they find Celine injuried and the mentors nowhere to be found.
I can see this! Miyeong and the third sister are all in when it comes to raising these girls because they really have shown to be nothing but kids. They follow them around, want to learn, want to play, get scared of storm, want to go to school, etc. They act like any human children would so itâs easy to accept them as three human girls.
Celine (maybe this could be an opportunity to give her some backstory and say that demons stole her familyâs souls or something and she was saved by the mentors, mirroring polylight saving the three girls from being attacked by their mentors?) isnât going to hurt them for no reason but sheâs colder and not as open. The girls get injured? They go to the third sister. They have a nightmare? Miyeong. They want to show off good grades? Miyeong. They want to help cook? The third sister. It doesnât help that Celine is the one coming home with her weapon out and the one who actively talks about hunting demons.
When alone with Celine, the girls just kind of keep to themselves and Celine keeps to herself. Itâs a system and it works for them. Itâs only when Rumi is playing and opens the door for three very scary looking women that the girls realize the may have made a mistake. Thatâs when Celine steps in, telling the girls to leave and they all hide under the bed.
Celine returns, helping them out of their hiding spot one at a time and the girls attach to her like ducklings. They follow her around permanently after that. Miyeong and the third sister might be eomma and mama but Celine has become their protector. They start calling her mom shortly after with Zoey saying it first then Mira then Rumi.
This is also when Celine realizes having them around might not be thr worst thing ever and starts to teach them how to sing. As kids theyâre not amazing causeâŠtheyâre kids but polylight sees how the honmoon seems to love them and an idea form with them about having the three become future hunters.
Celine: Demons becoming demon hunters. What would our mentors say?
Miyeong: Theyâd think we lost our minds.
- HTTYD (I donât know why there are so many HTTYD references either)
we donât know much about the previous generations of hunters beyond Celine, but from the flashbacks, they give off an impression as being elegant and stalwart guardians of humanity
now Huntr/x, not to say they arenât these things, but theyâve grown up in the digital era. Rapid globalization, digitalization, and of course, social media, has drastically changed culture, communication, access to information as well as shifting perceptions of boundaries and privacy.
All this to say, the girls are an untapped well of chaos and memes waiting to be unleashed on the demons (even more than they were in the movie)
âą Mira makes an impromptu blowtorch with a lighter and hairspray
âą Zoey starts playing the knife game with her shin-kal and makes a demon cry
âą Rumi, after slaying the first demon in a large group, does the âAlexa thatâs so sad play despacitoâ bit; when a disembodied voice agrees and music starts playing, the demons loose their shit
âą budding arsonist Mira with a Molotov cocktail ?? where does she keep getting fire from ?!?
âą Zoey absolutely has a spray bottle filled with pepper spray that she squirts at demons while scolding them like theyâre a puppy that just peed on the couch; her sad pouty-eyed nonchalance just makes them cry harder
âą Rumi didnât have many friends growing up so instead watched movies in her free time. Sheâs taken to reenacting her favorite fight scenes (choreography and all) during her hunts; The Princess Bride, Gladiator, and Star Wars have all made their appearance. The demons freak out every time she yells âARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?â
âą Mira quotes Marie Kondoâs âDiscard anything that doesn't spark joy,â before starting a frontal assault
âą Zoey had a phase where she tried to learn magic tricks, now it makes for really cool boss moves when she can pull more than just her Honmoon knives out of thin air. The demons donât know how she keeps getting MORE weapons
âą Rumi has ABSOLUTELY used her braid to strangle a demon. They learned to stop making a grab for it after that
Not to use Jinu as a standard, but he was over 400 years old. You canât convince me the Underworld was truly with the times (rather than just performing a mimicry of modern day) when they could hardly manage to cross the Honmoon. There is no way (in hell) they could keep up with whatever brand of crazy thatâs going on with this new trio of hunters
We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.
I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.
Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.
if there are people who care, it's never a lost cause. at one point, kÄkÄpĆ, a nocturnal flightless parrot species from aotearoa, were thought to be entirely extinct for decades. until 1977, where booming calls from males were heard on the small island of whenua hou. now, thanks to people who care so much they dedicated their lives to caring, kÄkÄpĆ numbers are close to 300. despite the setbacks. despite the small gene pool causing infertility and health problems. people cared so fucking much that they survived. this is one of COUNTLESS, countless similar stories. I'm studying ecology so that I can go into conservation and all around me, every day, I see people who care enough to put years of their lives into learning about and solving environmental problems. I don't know man. hope isn't just some nebulous thing. it's tangible if you do something with it.
Tim Wong saw the decline of the pipeline swallowtail butterfly, and dedicated himself to providing habitat and raising babies, and it worked.
Spix's Macaws were extinct in the wild for 70 years, and now captive breeding and conservation groups have reintroduced a small population (with more on the way) and there are babies being successfully raised in the wild again.
And what else is there, but hope? We exist for the grace of hope. Those who have lost all hope don't stay here. If you are here to send an ask like this, it is not because you have given up, it's that you are hoping someone will show you that that hope is worth having.
It is!! It always is!!
There will be good things and if you cannot find them, make them! The time will pass anyway, you can choose what to do with it, and so many, many people are choosing to try to help.
The Lord Howe Island rodent eradication project never fails to make me cry, itâs so beautiful.
The population of an entire island working together to eradicate every last rat and mouse to save the native bird populations. They had to trap a bunch of the birds and keep them in captivity so they wouldnât be hurt by the rodenticides, and released them after the rodents were gone. Normal residents helped by phoning in tips whenever they saw rodents. And they did it. Lord Howe Island, last I read, remains rodent free, and the native bird populations are rebounding!
Acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer, both of which were terrifying specters of my childhood, have been largely dealt with. Ecosystems devastated by acid rain are also recovering.
In 1979, an audacious, expensive conservation project was begun to try and breed california condors in captivity toward being released into the wild again. This was considered useless and hopeless by many people, but many more people said we had to at least TRY.
In 1991, the first captive-raised condors were re-introduced to Big Sur, Pinnacles, and Bitter Creek.
In 2006, three months before I turned eighteen, the first wild pair of condors was seen nesting in Big Sur in over a hundred years. A hundred years.
We did that. We fixed it.
How about another example.
When my mom was small, in the 1960s, there were many, many days of the year she was not allowed outside. Days and days they had recess indoors, because the air was so poisonous to breathe. Here's an article about it, with some good pictures.
My mom was 13 in the picture on the left. She was 50 in the picture on the right.
In 1987, there were 27 California Condors in the world, all captive.
In 2024, there were 566.
369 of them fly free.
That happened within my lifetime, and I'm not even 40 yet.
When you lose hope, think of our stories we're telling you. Recount them to yourself like a prayer. That's what I do.
There are 369 California Condors flying free in the sky right now.
Black footed ferrets were considered completely extinct in 1979. Then we found a single den in Wyoming in 1981. In 1996 it was classified as extinct in the wild.
By 2013, there were approximately 1,200 living wild, across 18 dens. Their numbers increase regularly, and while the face challenges due to habitat loss, climate change, and their limited genetic diversity, they're in a much better place than they were.
Because people cared, and they worked, and they fought to make things better.
