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I'm tryna kiss your lips for real by Counterpunch for ironnbarbs
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
26 Jun 2026
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She wants them.
Mira and Zoey know she wants them.
She knows that Mira and Zoey know she wants them.
Rumi refuses to let herself have them for perfectly reasonable reasons.
They're all going insane.
or: Rumi is Mira and Zoey's producer. It's never good to mix business and pleasure. Especially when your mom practically owns the record label.
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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)
07 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)
04 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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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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tell me it's inevitable (that i'd end up with scars) by Reyna_is_epic
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
15 Jul 2025
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Rumi closes her eyes. Slowly, almost practised, like she’d rehearsed this many, many times before, she calls her sword and lifts it. Not to wield, but to offer. Like a knight asking for a king’s blessing. Take this, bless this so that I might defeat the monster, so that I might purify this land.
“Kill me and fix what was never meant to be.”
Zoey stares. Mira breathes, and the gok-do on the floor blinks once, twice, before bursting into sparks and disappearing entirely.
“What the fUCK, Rumi?!”
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My stab at "Rumi asks the girls to kill her instead of Celine"
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16 Sep 2026
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Mira's brows twitch.
"I… I know now isn't the time, but I'm realizing that actually I haven't seen you get sick. Like, ever. Is that—"
"A demon thing?" Rumi whispers. "Probably. Celine always said I had a strong immune system."
Mira makes a face. One that Rumi would've struggled to decipher even if her vision wasn't so blurry.
"Celine… knows?"~
In the immediate aftermath of Namsan tower, Rumi wakes up the following morning sick as a dog. Zoey and Mira help her through it, while also confronting their emotions and assumptions about the events of the last 24 hours.
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16 Sep 2026
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Letting someone into your head means letting them know you to your core, and then losing them means being alone in a way you never could have been before.
Ranger Ryu Rumi, former pilot of the legendary Mark IV jaeger Demon Song and a survivor of the Jaeger Program's golden age, before everything went wrong and the war turned against them, has paid that price. Once the pride of the Shatterdome, now she's scarred and alone, and the sheer weight of the loss has her resigned to that fate.
So failed cadets Mira and Zoey, humanity’s last hope, have no place in her lonely world. But with the Breach growing more active again, Rumi is forced to return to the Shatterdome to teach them how to love what she lost, and to hold on to each other harder than anyone outside of the Drift ever could.
But the Drift is a tricky thing, it calls to the heart and soul, so they start to want to hold on to her too, even as she tries to stay away. Because the Drift already ruined her once, and she doesn't have the strength to risk it happening again.
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Bookmarked by Counterpunch
14 Sep 2026
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a (largely) post-canon collection of fics centered around grief, love, recovery, and how all of that looks different for everyone involved. a handful of pre-canon fics are also included that are centered around glimpse!rumi as a look into her mindset prior to the beginning of glimpse
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Bookmarked by Counterpunch
06 Sep 2026
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It starts when Mira decides to reclaim chess.
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Zoey of HUNTR/X is lowkey a chess grandmaster.
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- Part 6 of kpop demon hunters thingz
Bookmarked by Counterpunch
03 Sep 2026