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Mira destroyed them, that night, but somehow she still gets to keep them.
She shouldn’t get to wake up to breakfast steaming and ready in a bowl for her. She shouldn’t get to fall asleep in the safety of their arms, tangle in their limbs on the couch, or tuck stray hairs behind the shell of an ear, lingering over the miracle of a simple touch.
The guilt of the crime itself is outweighed by the guilt of such an unbefitting punishment.
Mira destroyed them that night. She should not still get to keep them.
Or:
The purpose for the entire visit slips off of her tongue like a prayer, reverent and pious.
“I never thanked you,” Mira says. “For the night of the Idol Awards.”
Celine stiffens.
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Rock you like a hurricanrana by Counterpunch for ForestCreatures
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
25 Dec 2025
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Secret Santa gift for Forest with the prompt: Zoey sparring shenanigans prompt
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Becoming, pt.1 by Counterpunch
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
08 Dec 2025
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"Rumiiiiii," Zoey whined. "Why didn't you tell us how boring this would be?"
"I did." Rumi replied without losing focus on her forms. "Repeatedly."
"Yeah, Zo," Mira said, "Sorry to burst your bubble but she did say patrol was like, 90% observing like a million times. To which you responded - and I quote - "That's fine, it'll be like a fun team bonding experience.""
Also known as: Zoey's first kill and the path that unwinds from there
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- Part 3 of Rumi the Vampire Slayer
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these wheels keep turning, but they're running out of steam by Counterpunch
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
03 Nov 2025
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Everything was perfectly normal. Except that it wasn’t.
Rumi knew it the way she knew that the sun rose in the east and set in the smooth line of Mira’s shoulders, graceful and lithe. Rumi knew it the way oceans ebb and words flowed through Zoey. Rumi knew it the way she knew she would die.
And that the Honmoon would remain.
Because the Honmoon was stronger than ever. It waxed as she waned.
And that was the thing, wasn't it.
Or: Rumi died that night at Namsan Tower. It just took her body a little while to catch up.
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Training Montage by Counterpunch
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
12 Sep 2025
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"She would teach them how to protect themselves.
Even if that meant one day protecting them from herself."
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Mira and Zoey want to learn to fight. Rumi does not want them to.
Mira and Zoey learn to fight. Rumi did not want them to.Rumi hides truths and is buried under the weight of them but also can't say no
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- Part 2 of Rumi the Vampire Slayer
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Rumi the Vampire Slayer by Counterpunch
Fandom Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
08 Dec 2025
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Rumi is the Slayer.
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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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29 Mar 2026
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let down and hanging around (crushed like a bug on the ground) by alternatemind
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
22 Mar 2026
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“I’m sorry,” Zoey cut in meekly. “I’m just trying to understand—”
Rumi whirled to face her, and she flinched back. “I’ve explained this to you before. We have insects that are pests and we have insects that are beneficial. If we let the pests live, they do damage, so we kill them. It doesn’t matter if it’s alive—all of them are alive, but some of them need to die.”
A study of Rumi and bugs.
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25 Mar 2026
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Zoey and Mira have always been Rumi’s cosmic complements: the higher and lower harmonies that form a perfect triad with her every time they’re in sync. The warmest chord she’s ever heard—intended, euphonious, side by side by side. Inyeon.
Jinu wasn’t like that. He… he was her, just mirrored back. Her dark reflection, an octave down.
The first person she’d ever met in her life who’d rhymed.
[or: after Namsan Tower, Rumi must contend with who she is, who she wants to be, how she communicates, what the girls mean to her, and what Jinu means to her, too... especially considering how she might have eaten his soul, and all.]
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21 Mar 2026
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The memory rises unbidden: the clash of bodies, the way Rumi had aimed a blow at her torso. Mira dodging— barely— only allowing Rumi to graze her side.
“And what’s your name?” Rumi had asked mid-fight, breath steady, smirk radiant.
“Like I’d tell—”
Rumi had leapt back then, sudden and theatrical, leaving space between them. Mira had paused, wary, unsure what game she was playing.
Then Rumi had flourished Mira’s ID, plucked from her pocket without her noticing.
“Kang Mira, Interpol,” she’d read aloud, slow and condescending, like she was talking to a kindergartener. “Woah. The big guns are after me now.”
“How’d you—?”
“Picked your pocket just now,” Rumi had continued, eyes flicking up to meet hers. “Pretty name for a pretty face.”
“Damn,” Zoey’s voice had crackled in Mira’s earpiece. “She’s good. And hot.”
“Stop that,” Mira had snapped— both at the nagging voice in her head and at the nagging voice ahead of her.
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Mira and Zoey are the Interpol agents assigned to the Ryu Rumi case, a globally renowned superthief. But the closer Mira gets, the more she begins to notice the quieter ways the case is beginning to take things from her.
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20 Mar 2026
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she dies that day; you’ll start calling it the day the world ended, even if it didn’t. it should have, you know that much, but it didn’t. something to do with her, as it always was, because she was too stubborn to let something as trivial as her death affect the world itself.
you can’t stop asking questions that you’ll never get the answers to. why did you leave? where are you now? is it better than here? are you happier there? can you be happier for me? do you think of me, of us? do you miss us? why couldn’t you take me with you?
(or, rumi dies the night of the idol awards; zoey is left to pick up the pieces)
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- Part 1 of reflection no. 2 (a treatise on being)
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