Archive of Our Own

Recent bookmarks

• Public Bookmark *

  The Cost of Free by NameIsEli

  Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F, Multi
  • Complete Work

  28 Jul 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Mira/Rumi/Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Mira/Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Mira/Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Rumi/Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Mira & Rumi & Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Mira (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Jinu (Mentioned)
  • Mira-centric (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Mira Needs a Hug (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Post-Canon
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Guilt
  • Unspoken Love
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Character Study
  • Protective Mira (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • they love her
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Everyone Needs a Hug
  • Jealousy
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Based on the song Free by Rumi & Jinu but with a new established meaning
  • Post Traumatic Stress
  • no beta we die like jinu
  • Rumi Takes Care of Them This Time
  • Soft Mira (KPop Demon Hunters)
  • Zoey is precious
  • Pre-Relationship but Somewhat Established
  • Mira Finally Breaks
  • Polyamory

  Summary

  Mira moved like she was underwater. She had pulled the melody straight from memory, from Rumi’s humming, from the way the lyrics had clawed their way into her chest and embedded itself in her heart.

  Every motion, every step felt distant, disconnected- like she was watching herself from somewhere outside her own skin.
  She danced for everything she hadn’t said.
  For the guilt she couldn’t shed.

  She thought it might be a sort of twisted way of coping but she needed to do it.

  It was her penance.

  OR

  The 3 times Mira over hears Rumi singing Free in different moments and the one time Zoey does. The words reopening wounds and guilt inside them. So Mira deals with it the only way she knows how, she dances, diving deep into her regret and emotions as she learns how to accept and forgive herself. Rumi and Zoey is there for her.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  13,259

  Chapters:

  8/8

  Comments:

  109

  Kudos:

  928

  Bookmarks:

  194

  Hits:

  12,198

  Bookmarked by 0the_real_mothman0

  09 Sep 2025

  Bookmarker's Collections:

  • POLY TRIX FOR LIFE

  Bookmarker's Notes

  Amazing, i am am unwell