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Mira looked hungry, so Celine fed her.
There are a few reasons for this. She’d been rather insistent that she needed the manilla envelope sitting on her desk in her office, needed it delivered as soon as possible to the apartment she keeps in Seoul for the days she spends in Sunlight Entertainment HQ, and it had to be one of Huntrix to bring it to her. It just so happens to have been Mira who answered.
Mostly, though, Celine feeds her because she aches for the days when all her decisions were so simple.
It's hard to see yourself reflected in a younger generation. It's harder to tell long-buried secrets-
-especially what happened on the day Rumi was born.
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After a rabies exposure, the virus must travel to the brain before it can cause symptoms. Therefore, the incubation period may last for weeks to months depending on several factors such as location of the exposure site (in relation to the brain) and age; in extremely rare cases it could be dormant for years.
Rumi thinks about this one frequently, lying in bed at night; the idea that you could be wasting away at any moment in your life. A poison in your veins with you none the wiser– like a ticking bomb just waiting to go off.
You would need to get bit or scratched first, of course, and if you took the right precautions you would likely never know. And Rumi has never been bitten anyway. She’s fine.
Absently, she scratches at her shoulder– skin tight.also known affectionately as the “rabies rumi” fic. i promise she doesn’t actually get rabies.
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from the prompt: nail
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‘Zoey, can I talk to you for a minute?’
Rumi’s tone freezes her in place. It’s gentle but cautious and peeking at her face—her expression hesitant, if not worried—confirms Zoey’s fears; whatever Rumi wants to talk about, Zoey isn’t going to like it.
‘Sure! Absolutely! I’m kinda in the middle of something—do you wanna talk about it now or later? Later is probably better for me,’ she muses with a wide grin that hopefully hides the way her heart feels like Rumi has thrown it onto a roller coaster without any of the safety checks or bumpers. Everything is climbing, climbing. Zoey is definitely not sweating. ‘Oh, later is actually - it might have to be, like, later later because I promised Mira that we would go on a shop run—’
‘No, you didn’t.’ Mira doesn’t even bother to look up from her phone when she commits her foul treachery. ‘When I asked you to come, you said you’d—and I quote—vivisect me if I made you leave the house today.’
Fucking snitch.
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faultline (noun)
a line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault.
an area of a system that seems weak and likely to cause problems or failure.
a divisive issue or difference of opinion that is likely to have serious consequences.
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Rumi is eleven, and she is going to die. This is a fact. It’s true for everyone, she supposes, but it’s different for her.
Rumi is going to die. Not today. Probably not tomorrow. But soon. Sooner than most. Rumi is not going to live a long life. She might not even make it a quarter of the way through.
Rumi is eleven, and she realizes just how short her lifespan will be. Rumi is going to die young, just like her mother, because she is a demon. She is both demon and hunter, predator and prey, and there is no possible way she will get to grow old.
or: rumi, and her birthdays throughout the years
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They released Golden after they finished their tour and turned the Honmoon gold with their first performance. Rumi’s patterns went away, Zoey and Mira never found out, and that was that.
But Rumi doesn’t entirely remember that. Doesn’t remember the specifics. She doesn’t remember the celebrations they had when they saw the Honmoon gleam gold. She doesn’t remember talking to Celine after doing what she was trained to do. She doesn’t remember being given time off, flying to Jeju.
… Is this how it happens?
No, the Honmoon gently wraps itself around Rumi’s wrist, pink and blue and purple, this isn’t how it happens.
or: rumi is sure huntr/x defeated gwi-ma. she's sure that zoey and mira are her soulmates. she just can't quite remember how it happened.
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over and over, i will turn back in the face of despair by tzushi
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
30 Aug 2025
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“You still continue?” Gwi-Ma asks, almost delighted. “Even after everything, you keep fighting?”
I don’t want to, Rumi thinks. It’s against my will. I’m a prisoner of my own misery. If the world ended for good, I would welcome it.
But that’s not entirely true. No, if the world ended for good, it would take Zoey and Mira with it. And Rumi’s existence may be a horrible thing, but Zoey and Mira deserve so much more. They deserve to live and grow old together, to be happy, to live their lives however they please after they’ve given up so much to protect the Honmoon.
“I’d do anything for them,” Rumi says. “Even if it tears me apart by the seams.”
or: rumi relives the day of the idol awards over, and over, and over again.
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“So remember this, jagiya. If someone won’t peel an orange for you, they don’t love you the way you deserve.”
Rumi blinked slowly, the lesson already sinking into a part of her heart she didn’t yet understand. “But you and Dad both peel them for me.”
Mi-yeong’s voice softened even more. “That’s because we both love you.”
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5 times Rumi gets an orange peeled for her and the one time she peels the orange.
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Bookmarked by oldrook
16 Oct 2025
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I want to be remembered like her. She's the mom I aspire to be. / "About how lucky I am and how that should mean I’m not allowed to mess up."
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The two weeks before the Idol Awards has seen more conflict and pain among Huntr/x than the last six years. Rumi knows the night before may very well be her last night; there is no promise the Honmoon will cure her. She is determined to have a good night with her girls - leave them with a gentle memory.
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- Part 3 of Koi's Collected KPDH Work
- Part 1 of Happiest Girl In The World
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Someday the Honmoon would lead her to her fellow Hunters, just like it led Celine to Kimmy and Miyeong.
Rumi hadn't believed her about that part until the first time she felt them.
Or, the soulmate AU where the Honmoon connects the girls when they're kids and they know each other before they ever meet. Each chapter a different First.
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Bookmarked by oldrook
22 Sep 2025
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I wish I could blanket recommend everything from this author.
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Bookmarked by oldrook
22 Sep 2025
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I don't usually go for pairing-focused works, but this is an incredible set of bangers.
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A collection of hurt/comfort polytrix fics that are loosely connected but can all be read stand-alone.
I can't stop hurting them. I won't stop hurting them.
Polytrix might not be explicitly mentioned in all of these but as a girl kisser I promise you it's always at the very least implied.
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Bookmarked by oldrook
22 Sep 2025
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A rare gem, from an author who can actually write characters who are both functional and hurt.
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Rumi hadn’t meant to cause such a scene. She just wasn’t thinking straight.
Celine had told her Zoey and Mira would kill her if they found out what she was, and Rumi had come to the conclusion that she was probably right.
Her plan, as tenuous a description as that word was, was to cut the patterns out. If she could cut out the parts of her that made her dangerous, that made her less than human, that made her so unloveable, maybe she’d stop feeling so fucking guilty every time Mira or Zoey opened up to her.
They loved each other from the start, but it just wasn't that simple.
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- Part 4 of Putting polytrix in the blender
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Bookmarked by oldrook
16 Sep 2025
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Incredible. Perfectly toes the line between characters who are emotionally wounded but who are also mature, earnest, thoughtful people.
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“Rumi, did you-”
“No!”
“You did! Mira said ‘babe’ and you answered!”
Rumi looked to Mira for help. She found none.
“I was talking to Zoey, but uh. I can call you babe too, if you want.” she drawled. Rumi groaned and buried her head in her arms. Zoey’s laughs died down, her attention now intensely focused on Rumi’s form.
“I was gonna say I wanna call her honey ‘cos she’s so sweet, but maybe I should call her glowstick?”
Zoey and Mira make a discovery about Rumi. Things spiral from there.
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Bookmarked by oldrook
09 Sep 2025
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There ought to be a button for recommending authors.
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im the sacrifice at the altar (i didn't think you'd hold the knife) by Anonymous
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
29 Aug 2025
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Looking at Rumi now, curled up on the floor and staring at nothing, Mira thinks how fucking stupid it was that all this happened because of a press war. A popularity contest.
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You are six years old, and the woman who is not your mother finally listens. She thinks it’s something you’ll grow out of, and you can already tell she feels guilty for how she can’t love you properly, so she lets you grow your hair out and lets you put on those pretty dresses. She calls you Rumi, because you asked her to. And then you’re ten, and you still haven’t grown out of it, so you move from the city to the country. She gets you the finest doctors, all the blockers and hormones at the right time, all the vocal training and clothes and everything else you need to be a real girl.
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pop star au without magic. retelling of cannon events with a dual storyline of mira and zoey trying to find their girl in the husk that came back from the hospital.
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- Part 1 of took a long time to mend (i will be here until i drown)
- Part 1 of kpdh fics
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Bookmarked by oldrook
03 Sep 2025
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The trans lesbian self-hatred in this one is so real.