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[unluckycryptid]

KPop Demon Hunters Posts

Here's a masterpost of all my Kpop Demon Hunter related original posts for those of you visiting my blog. Enjoy :)

Headcanons

Huntrix girls' age (lowkey confirmed?)

Huntrix cancelled? Oh yeah, more times than you can count.

Honmoon plays boss music to the demons when Huntrix appears.

Huntrix + Power Rangers = get the bazooka away from Zoey

Holy Water gets Rumi drunk

Huntrix is weird to other idol groups

Huntrix gives "Takedown" to Twice

‘What It Sounds Like’ is a rare performance

Textposts:

Three Women Power Walking at me? = I'm cooked

Rumi's fuckass shoulder pads

Zoey summons a glock from the Honmoon

Huntrix being experienced/efficient hunters appreciation post (+ please give us a prequel)

What it Sounds Like Appreciation Post Part 1: The interlude

How It's Done line substitution - let Rumi say fuck

Starved Dog Gone Feral fic series is haunting me (appreciation post)

What it Sounds Like Appreciation Post Part 2: The End

Polytrix subpairings as idiots explained

Fic Prompts

I made Takedown worse >:)

Each generation of Hunters ends in tragedy before they can turn the Honmoon gold

Mira and Zoey sacrifice their souls to Rumi to defeat Gwi-Ma

*Fanfiction*

A Demon's Pretense (Complete!)

Jinu only needed one demon to orchestrate the takedown of Huntrix. Or It actually is Mira and Zoey on stage during Takedown. . Takedown gets worse; all because of a demon pretending to be a girl.

For the Girl Who Has Everything (In progress)

In which Rumi wakes up in a world where her mother is still alive, Celine loves her for all she is, and she gets everything she’s ever wanted. What could be the cost of a life like this? . Meanwhile, Zoey and Mira have to rescue Rumi. (…And maybe convince her to be their girlfriend while they’re at it.) That's a whole lot easier said than done when they find out that she doesn't remember either of them. . KPDH meets the Black Mercy storyline from Superman

Posts Related to my fic: For the Girl Who Has Everything

- New Fic prompt? Sike, I actually wrote it - Mira and Zoey's rendition of Wait for Me from Hadestown. Rumi has no idea who tf these girls are. - Sunlight Sisters in the Dreamscape/IRL Lore - Zoemira performing Gnarly - Based off the mention that Zoey had made Mira watch Phineas and Ferb with her at some point -> Zoey and Mira's rendition of Busted - Chapter 3 spoilers -- a summary - Zoemira's rendition of the Killin It Girl choreo -> Rumi gets a nosebleed from watching - Late night realizations about the bouquet -> Rumi didn't say no - Zoey can make Ordinary Girl!Rumi blush in one word - Out of Context Memes for Ch 4 - Spoilers - Mira and Zoey can take anything but Jinu's bipa - Deleted scene: Honmoon? Nah, honeymoon - Rumi's gotta take off her sweater to give Zoey a piggy back ride - Ch 5 Out of context memes/spoilers

[rumisselfworth]

Rumi in suspenders came to me in a vision

[theyappiest]

fic idea where nobody can be convinced that huntrix is actually dating each other

the first incident happened when zoey got caught on camera gorilla gripping mira’s and rumi’s butts (she was born with two hands for a reason duh). this was before they were ready to come out to the public so they were relieved when all that came out of it was a heated societal discussion about why it’s not gay for male athletes to slap each other’s ass but when a girl does it to her two best friends suddenly they’re a bunch of homos

second time is zoey’s fault again (oops). she’d been on ig live or something and forgot to mute so the entire stream heard mira call rumi “love” and to “not hog the blanket tonight”. but this time they’re comfortable and settled in the relationship and would be down for ppl to actually know. it happens again tho with ppl explaining that girl besties have sleepovers and call each other nicknames all the time.

from there it spirals into a game for mira and zoey to do increasingly incriminating things to see where ppl would finally admit that they were dating. Rumi isn’t actively encouraging it but she’s also not actively discouraging it either

queue the antics of doing everything short of making out sloppy style in front of the camera. they’re touchy, they feed each other , they sit on each others’ laps, they even called one another their girlfriends. at one point an exasperated mira even posts a pic of their promise rings online (the public called it a “stunning physical display of female friendship”)

they’d almost called it quits and released an official statement when rumi of all ppl was caught on a fan’s video being horrifically down bad for the other two. dealer’s choice for whatever she’s caught doing or saying but it’s enough for ppl to start backtracking and re-examining all of the previously labeled gal pal activities

internet explodes and then the girls confirm it by doing a lil kissy kissy for everyone to see

[thesevenstarfoxes]

"The Honmoon love its hunters" Sure, why not "Being choosen by the Honmoon is not a good thing" Also very much true and I need more people to explore it

[fakelawyerbug]

"Chosen" but in the sense that slayers are chosen. Suddenly thrust into a centuries long war that started before you were born and will probably continue long after you die.

Battle after battle where victory seems just out of reach and the realities of the conflict never seem to change.

The exhaustion of knowing if you live long enough, you have the honor of training children to take your place.

The wheel turns. It is always turning.

The rock rolls down the hill again.

The struggle itself must be enough.

(One must imagine Sisyphus happy)

[frozenwolftemplar]

Trying hard to not keyboard scream because ^THIS^ is my favorite way of thinking about the Honmoon.

It’s beautiful. That’s always the first thing the Hunters say when their eyes are first opened to the shimmering celestial strands. Mira and Zoey are no exception. They look up at the Honmoon and though they’re silent the word is written in wide enchanted eyes and jaws hanging slack.

“It’s beautiful.”

And it is, Celine can own. Strung across the evening sky, the wisps of rose still listing about the horizon tangled with the turquoise, and a few eager early stars nestled among the threads, it’s a sight that never fails to set a part of her soul at piece.

(Is it truly hers, though?)

But standing there, watching them, and watching Rumi standing beside them as awed as if this was her first time too (though in a way it is; the world always looked brighter when one’s fellow Hunters were by their side), she can’t help the other feeling from the part of her soul the Honmoon didn’t touch, and in the threads she sees beyond the beauty.

She sees the demons, the battles, the horrors that bleed from them; the world she's forced to send three children into.

She sees the long days, longer night, the hardships of a Hunter; she prays it doesn't break them.

She sees the scars, so many scars, and those young and awed faces twisted in pain; they will get hurt, badly, and they must accept that as part of their lot.

And they must get up and continue the fight, no matter how it wears.

She sees the dreams the Honmoon strangled so its future may be sure, and the sacrifices it demands as tribute.

She sees Sihyeon on the couch, eyes glued to the television, watching archers take their marks; "Coach said I was on track for these games, you know," she says with longing on her lips, idly toying with a stardust arrow that was to be her compensation for Olympic glory.

She sees Mi-yeong, clasping her shaking hands in her own, coaching her through deep breaths before an appearance and reminding her that "Once we're done we can go home and you can be as introverted as you like."

(she still felt she wasn't meant for the spotlight)

She sees herself, collapsed on her bed and burying alternating screams and sobs into her pillow because the Honmoon chose Rumi and she didn't want this life for her, didn't want Rumi to have her life decided for her, didn't want Mi's daughter to be a soldier in a neverending war.

She remembers one weary night spent lying on Mi's bed, one of Mi's hands trying to coax her to sleep through the haze of pain (the night's Hunt had been....bad) and the other on the swell of her belly, and the prayer she heard whispered once Mi thought she was asleep.

"Please don't choose her."

And when she met Mira and Zoey, she didn't want this for them either, never mind their excitement and the stars in their eyes (a lot of stars for Zoey)

True, all three would say it was the best thing that happened to them, it was how they found each other after all, but the years would march by, battles and blood and corpses of the girls they were or could have been would darken the shadows stretching behind them, and they'd look up at the sky and see it differently.

Celine blinked; the sun had completely set; the Honmoon was brilliant; the girls still gazed at it with awe and wonder and pride; the stars still laughed where they were nestled lovingly in its strands.

And the grief in her chest crashed anew.

They would look up and see the truth.

That the stars were nothing more than flies caught in the spider's web.

[zzzzz-cff]

Mann there's a whole lot of stunning interpretations and stories happening in all the reblogs.

@/frozenwolftemplar in particular always hitting right in the feels (so good) => "That the stars were nothing more than flies caught the spider's web" it's so fricken cleverrrr

just made me think:

Spider web made puppet strings strung by their own hands and hung over themselves. A leash to pull themselves forward for something with meaning instead of a noose around their necks. What if the girls learn the truth and tragedy of the honmoon but love it anyway? To be chosen when nobody had. To have a purpose. Corpses of who they could have been? They had already felt half-way dead by the time it found them. How do you mourn something that could've been if you hadn't even thought it could be?

or a different set of thoughts:

thinking about how the hunters created the honmoon to be used for a purpose thinking about how then after, the honmoon would instead create hunters to be used for a purpose but over the centuries, the honmoon could only feel the new tears shredding its form just as new tears would appear shredded onto its hunters' bodies thinking about how the honmoon tried to find ones that might end up loving it and loving them in return (ones who actually loved to sing, to dance, to ride rhythms) => they were supposed to need each other, help each other thinking about how these new hunters destroyed it instead and made a new one to love

[doodlesofwhimsy]

Continuation of my polytrix fencing au!!

Close ups:

[jammatown919]

[derpy-chats]

I had this idea at about 2am, and I woke up from being dead asleep to write it in my notes app. So, here is a more coherent version for you all.

Imagine an AU where everything is the same, but Rumi isn't a Hunter. Mira and Zoey are both invited to the compound to train, they meet Rumi, and since Celine can't find the third Hunter, she just pushes Rumi into that third slot.

Rumi can still see the Honmoon, she can still kind of influence it, but she can't summon a weapon. She is strictly martial arts. It honestly freaks the demons out a little bit because this Hunter-but-not-really-a-hunter is coming towards them with nothing but brass knuckles and get out of the way I don't want to fight her-

For all intents and purposes, Rumi is the exact same as the movie. Still a flawless idol, the fearless leader, and still a demon. It eats her alive, keeping her in a constant state of fight-or-flight throughout the whole movie. As Jinu gets closer to her, she starts getting a little careless. More free.

Until the Idol Awards. Where her teammates, her girls, rip off the last layer of protection she has against those marks. She still goes to Mira and Zoey, crying, insisting she can fix it. No one notices the Honmoon shimmering around her hand. Not when her girls are looking at her with disgust. Not when there's a demon standing where their Rumi should be.

Gwi-Ma almost gets her. The second she appears, his power increases tenfold, trying to get this abomination on his side. But this time, she's not fighting for the Honmoon.

"The Honmoon is gone. But my girls aren't. And your mistake was thinking I wouldn't fight for them."

Rumi starts singing, snapping her girls out of their trance, and the three of them start attacking. They make their way through the first wave of demons, Rumi wearing steel-toed boots to up her attack power, and meet in the middle.

Just before they pull away, Rumi apologizes to her girls. They don't get the chance to question it before they have to have their final showdown. As Gwi-Ma fires his attack, the girls realize immediately why Rumi apologized. She wasn't going to dodge it.

The attack hits Rumi like a truck, slamming her backwards and burning her arms. She's not a hunter, she's not strong enough to hold this off for long. But she can buy her girls time. Just as her arms are about to give out, Jinu steps in front of the attack, explaining to Rumi that she needs to survive for her girls. He gives her his soul, and it's the final piece needed to awaken something in Rumi.

The girls watch in awe as Rumi summons something. Not a sword, but a scythe. She runs forward, slicing through the demons with ease, like she had been using it this whole time. As the girls deliver the final blow, Rumi can hear something from the other side of the Honmoon. A very gentle word of praise from a voice she knows, but she can't place where she's heard it before.

I really didn't know where to go with this one, but I figured you all deserved a new post. I hope it's at least slightly coherent.

[dem0nic-child]

Rumi "CATCH THESE HANDS" Ryu, everyone, holy shit I love this post, op, it's fucking amazing.

[ollieseastone]

We've hit another milestone

[unluckycryptid]

no onr TALK TO ME i just read the latest gimme that candyfloss chapter 😭

[dremenec]

Very lightly GTC flavoured. Crack fanart of those characters specifically, but nothing like this has happened in the fic. Yet(?)

More context under the cut

On the subject of waking up to a new chapter of GTC:

Bonus, Zoey (and me):

[lillowing]

so, like, why is Rumi likeable in So We Were Liars?

hi everyone!!! i'm back with more kpop demon hunters posting. this time an analysis of another fic!! This post assumes you have read So We Were Liars by arendellesfirstwinter (ao3) (hi Aren!) in its entirety, I do not plan to recap the plot. Significant spoilers ahead. Also, mentions of manipulation, death, sexual topics. It’s heavy. But good! 

In SWWL, Rumi’s flaws are increased tenfold. Thousandfold? Increased significantly. Throughout the fic, she lies repeatedly, disregards her own safety, lies during and for sexual favors, and is generally an all around bad person. If we were to list everything she did, it would be almost comical. Going by her actions alone, Rumi is not a good person and hard to root for. 

So why is she still likeable? Why do I tear up when they finally reconnect? Why do I want her to find happiness? What is this fic doing to portray her in a good light? 

The key actually hides in the scene everyone talks about as super angsty. It is angsty, yes, but also integral to the story. Without it, Rumi is a terrible person. To figure out why this works, we need to look at the Why of Rumi. A Root Cause Analysis, if you will. Why does SWWL Rumi lie, manipulate, etc etc. 

She lies to hide her patterns, same as the movie. Her patterns out her as a half demon, she doesn’t want her friends (“friends”) to know, so she lies. One step deeper, she doesn’t want her friends to know since they have been trained to hunt demons. Demons hurt people, demons are bad, so she hides out of fear of retribution. Not just for being “other” but for lying about it this entire time. This creates a negative feedback loop where Rumi lies to hide, then hides her lies with more lies. 

Rumi’s fundamental fear and source of anxiety in this fic (and in the movie!) is that Mira and Zoey will have a negative reaction to finding out she is half demon. Whether this be social exclusion, violence, confrontation, she fears this negative reaction more than anything. This, along with her self esteem issues around being half “bad” drive most of her actions in this story. 

A key to making these anxieties sympathetic and not frustrating is realism. Let's say there was a character, X, that was deathly afraid of Y finding out they, I don’t know, stole cookies. But Y states to X repeatedly “I don’t like cookies, take all the cookies you want, I hate them. I would not care if you took the cookies.” 

X looks… less favorable here. They may even look silly, or stupid. How can X possibly think Y finding out they stole the cookies is an issue? Maybe X has cookie-stealing trauma, which will garner sympathy, but only to a point. If Y is perfectly patient and makes it excruciatingly clear that they do not like cookies, X’s fears now look silly instead of serious. This would make X lying very, very unlikable. Because the audience is screaming “Just tell them you ate the fucking cookie!” If we know nothing bad will happen from the reveal, doing unlikeable actions to hide the reveal just seems like angsty writing. 

Back to KPDH, Rumi is hiding a very big cookie. The entire jar, if you will. Yet, in many fics, Zoey and Mira don’t really care that Rumi is a demon. Sometimes the author will even have them joke in front of Rumi that Demons are attractive, not that bad, or something similar. Even the movie, attempting to make Mira and Zoey more likeable, does this. During the confrontation, Mira and Zoey raise their weapons at Rumi, seemingly validating Rumi’s anxiety. But their weapons shake, they look conflicted. This makes Mira and Zoey more likeable, but also makes Rumi’s anxieties look less serious. I’ve seen many a people watch the movie and react “Why didn’t she just tell them? They recovered pretty quickly.” Liar-revealed plots run a very fine line of being interesting and being frustrating. 

And yes, I know Celine told Rumi from birth that stealing cookies was a cardinal sin that deserved death. She has a lot to unpack there. But this only stretches audience sympathy so far. Once again, if you make it abundantly clear that nothing bad will happen, the audience will lose sympathy with every shitty action the cookie-eater takes. 

This is where we round back to SWWL. SWWL actually takes it a step further than the movie. Mira and Zoey don’t just raise their weapons at Rumi. They kill her for it. Sure, there’s misdirection planted with “Demons have tried to imitate them before” but Mira and Zoey see Rumi as a demon, and their reaction is to kill her. Since Demons need to be killed. On a first read, this may just appear as angst. But it’s finally a story that validates Rumi. 

Shell-shocked, Mira blurts, “We’re saving a demon.”

Zoey stiffens. She turns to look at Mira incredulously. “...We’re saving Rumi.”

“Who’s a demon.” Mira repeats. She doesn’t know why she’s focusing on this so suddenly, but the abrupt insistence of the patterns’ presence worms its way into her thoughts.

Rumi lying during sex is abhorrent. But, the alternative is death. It’s still abhorrent, but it’s sympathetic. I can see why she did this, even if it's a terrible, awful, no good decision. Rumi rushing into battle alone is reckless and dangerous. But is it more dangerous than being loved by Mira? We see where that love led.  “Do you think I’m not grossed out at the thought that I’ve potentially been having sex with a demon who was just using us?”

Okay, that was mean. I’m not saying Mira and Zoey are evil. They’re not. What we see is a tragic miscommunication over years, forcing their entire belief system against their feelings. And, realistically, the training won. When Demons eat souls the girls can’t afford to be sympathetic. Combining the miscommunication, misdirection of demons, and Rumi’s behavior, no one can really say that Mira and Zoey are in the wrong. Any more than Rumi. They dispatched a dangerous demon. But the blame can’t be fully placed on Rumi, either. She did hide it, but the alternative was death. So who’s to blame? 

This is where SWWL really shines on a re-read. The first time I read Rumi borderline giving herself a panic attack, I was rolling my eyes at her. Girl, just tell them. It’s not that bad. But the fic showed it is that bad. This is where chapter 7 and 8 shine. It may appear angsty. Rumi got revived, the lie is revealed, why can’t they kiss? But everyone in this fic is looking for sources of blame, and internalizing. Even fucking Celine joins the battle of internalizing. Mira and Zoey blame themselves for not seeing through Rumi’s lies. Celine blames herself for how she raised them. Rumi blames herself for her terrible actions. 

They all blame themselves and retreat. Which, they all share blame. I really like the conclusion of they all just sort of.. Accept it happened. Apologize. Cry. And try to move on. It’s realistic. None of these girls are monsters. They all did terrible things in the fic, and took accountability. (Mira touching Rumi’s scar really shows this the best, I think. Mutual forgiveness. This happened, you did it, it was partly my fault, but I forgive whatever part was your fault.  “I love you. I love you Zoey. I love you Mira. And I forgive you.”

“We forgive you too, you know that, right?” Mira mutters uncertainly, Zoey adding a quick agreement.

They *all* share blame, they all share forgiveness. Just three girls who love each other very much going through a genuinely shitty situation that's the world's fault.

It’s a really good fic guys! I really like the themes of blame and forgiveness. I love the ending. I love that they’re all kind of bad people, by action alone. But they each find redemption in the end. This is a fic with borderline gaslighting, lying, murder, but none of the characters are the villain. 

Anyway, go read it! Again! It shines on re-reads. Every time you think Rumi is being stupid, remember what it leads to. Wouldn’t you do the same?

[dremenec]

(I'm so sorry, I tried to reply as a reply, but it was too long 😔 discrimination against yappers) But yessss, SUCH a great fic, there's so much to unpack with it.

To the point about validation - the way I see it, while her worst fears did come true, it’s ultimately her own action and inaction which engineers it to happen. She got the right result for the entirely wrong reasons.

Her core fear is that they would never accept her as a demon, and she’s completely contradicted in that belief. Outright.

They do accept her, readily, and it’s clear that they always would have, if only she had been able to help them to understand why (heritage, rather than betrayal).

The problem is that she doesn't—can't, because of her own preconceptions.

Despite what Rumi believes, Mira and Zoey didn’t kill her because she’s a demon.

They killed her because she recklessly put herself in danger for them, and ended up hurt. Because she hid herself so well that they could never even have suspected what was happening. They killed her thinking they were protecting her.

Mira and Zoey kill her, unintentionally, because they love her.

Rather than proving Rumi’s fears correct, the narrative proves that her core beliefs were false.

They wouldn’t kill her. They wouldn’t kill her.

If there had been any doubt in their minds who was in front of them, they wouldn’t have killed her.

Everything that happens could have been avoided if she hadn’t been on a downward spiral of self-hatred since way before the events of the story even begin.

And that’s the tragedy of it.

So, I don’t think it’s that we empathize with Rumi because her fears are reasonable (they’re not), but rather as a result of the way she is written and how her point of view is shared. We feel her desperation very acutely.

On a rational level, we know the characters wouldn’t hate her.

We know this from the start. We’ve seen the movie, we know these characters. As the audience, we know she’s wrong, we know she’s making things worse, and worse, and worse again.

But somehow, despite that, we want her to escape from these constant obstacles by any means necessary, because the tension is strung so tight by the pacing and her perspective.

Despite knowing there’s an easy way out, we still feel as trapped as she does, and we are as worn down by her self doubt and her self hate as she is.

Irrationally, we begin to doubt it too. Would they understand?

She’s wrong, and yet we’re on her side. She does awful things, but we root for her anyway. She believes things we know are false, but somehow… it’s still plausible.

It’s like playing a horror game.

You know it’s not real, that you can shut off your computer at any time. But that doesn’t stop you feeling scared. Wanting to run away—wanting your character to live, no matter what it takes.

And that immersion is what toggles off the part of your brain that is trapped behind soundproof glass screaming “THEY LOVE YOU, YOU DUMBASS JUST TELL THEM ALREADY”

So despite wanting to throttle her, I do, unfortunately, also very much like her. Likeable, throttleable Rumi.

[princington]

yeehaw

[princington]

theyre saving a horse alright

[starcut-sand]

Something I think about a lot is how Rumi probably learned to be so afraid of her own emotions over the years.

Obviously expressing anger too explosively is a no-go, she'll hurt the honmoon.

But I'm also sure she's noticed that her patterns grow more when she's upset or feeling bad. And more than that, they glow. And we know the glow can be visible through her clothes:

So. Imagine what a tight control she must keep over herself during photoshoots. During meet and greets. During concerts. Even when she's relaxing with Mira and Zoey. She can never let anything make her feel too deeply bad, or she runs the risk of glowing and being discovered. Imagine how terrifying and exhausting that would be. I bet she gets antsy and restless, secretly tense, whenever the outfit her team gives her has thinner fabric than she thinks she can handle.

She has rigorous specifications for what she'll wear, of course, but you can only specify so much when you're not willing to explain what the specifications are for, and her team (bless them) are very good at coming up with ways of technically meeting her demands while still styling her in new and interesting ways. Which is always stressful for her.

But like. Think about it. She's literally learned over the years to treat her negative emotions as a dangerous threat. And it seeps into every facet of her life. She's probably spent so much time obsessively checking things that nobody else would think matters: whether the lights at the photoshoot are hot enough to make her concealer come off her arms. What the back of her neck looks like in this outfit. Whether the sleeves on this jacket will slide down if she raises her arms up. Like, it must take up so much of her mental energy.

[baiueonch]

well

[secondtolastrow]

Polytrix au where Rumi is still raised and trained by Celine, but Mira and Zoey get found earlier by the Unnamed Third Sunlight Sister

Eventually, failing to complete the trio, both fragments debut separately—Rumi as a solo act, Zoey and Mira as a duo. It’s immediately clear what they’re supposed to be and they’re all obsessed with each other

But Third doesn’t hesitate to tell Mira and Zoey what Rumi is and that the feeling is a trick, and Rumi knows exactly what they’ll have been told, with Celine right over her shoulder begging her to be afraid enough to survive

And yet

The pull is still there

Like, Zoey pretends she only listens to all of Rumi’s songs as “knowing your enemy,” but Mira knows better. Still, she’s aware of how Zoey hates when people are angry with her, so she tries to swallow her initial response. (The conversation still doesn’t go well)

Mira can swear she’s angry that she was too slow the first time they run into Rumi at the same tear in the Honmoon—a tear she might well have caused—but it’s obvious to Zoey that she’s more shaken than she’s letting herself feel. (That conversation just doesn’t happen)

Rumi can know that they’re only being civil because of the multitude of eyes on them, but that doesn’t keep her from thinking about maybes, getting distracted as the morning wears on a little and Mira cracks a joke and Zoey looks at her like she’s saying ‘she’s hilarious, right?’ and everything feels like it should be—

(And then they all remember themselves)

[secondtolastrow]

@crypticparableprowler What would this be if they didn’t?

Celine did her damnedest to find Rumi, if not her partners, then someone. Pretty much every trainee at Sunlight within five years of her age on either side has spent a while with her. They’ll tell you different things—sweet, awkward, cocky (with the begrudging admission it was well-earned)—but. None of them clicked.

Rumi was always too scared, in the end. Of how unsafe being that close to demons would be for them. Of how unsafe being that close to her would be for them.

And now she’s fighting both sides of the war, alone. Celine does her best, but—that’s only so much, anymore. Maybe Mira and Zoey only come after her when the opportunity is shoved in their faces, consumed by bigger and badder and more immediate threats, but they still do.

The first time, they’re too slow to land a hit. The second—

It’s hard, fighting each other. The Honmoon hates it, Rumi hates it. But this is all just a trick, and it’s likely that only once Rumi’s gone will they be able to find their third.

Sometimes, it’s almost fun. Almost easy to forget. And others…

Mira sees the blood on the street every time she closes her eyes for days. Her hands shake at the thought of forming into fists. It was Rumi’s eyes, you know? They’d looked so… human. Maybe Mira’s the monster they always said she was

Zoey, though—Zoey saw the claws and the heard the way Mira cried out. She’s got a demon to take down.

(And, speaking of: Rumi doesn’t really know why they let her hide what she is. Why there hasn’t been a mutter to a reporter about a skin condition, at least, or—god forbid—tattoos. A quick way to fuck her career up, not having an industry-perfect body, even if the world wouldn’t understand the ugliness the patterns really are)

(Rumi asks, eventually, hisses it out sick and panicked and angry, and Zoey recoils with a feeling like she’s been hit because what the actual fuck)

[2for1bagels]

Polytrix but it's Mira and Zoey already dating who jokingly put together 'Free Pass' lists of celebrities they would sleep with if they ever met them, only to both put Rumi down "as a joke", only to both realise neither of them were joking, only to start an intense competition to see who can seduce Rumi into the relationship first...

Only to realise Rumi is fully aware of this competition and is purposefully playing dumb to their flirting.

[cosqf]

Your faults and fears