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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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- 26,557
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- 4/5
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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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- English
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- 908,350
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- 46/46
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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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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
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03 Sep 2026
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Mira drank half the glass, then rasped, “It’s our fault.”
Of course it was. Of course it was, because they’d fed into every one of Rumi’s fears—they’d pushed her away—but suddenly Zoey was consumed with rage—suddenly she wanted to scream—suddenly—
“It’s your fault,” she said, ugly, hard.
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- Part 4 of kpop demon hunters thingz
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02 Sep 2026
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shave me down to nothing to see what grows by willows_shame
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
24 Jan 2026
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It doesn’t know exactly when it started to understand.
At some point, when it’s maybe fifteen, it wonders—because it’s not as if it doesn’t hear people calling it “she” pretty much every day. Hadn’t it heard that as a kid as well? Even when it didn’t really interact with anyone, when it was too young to be around people, when there wasn’t really anyone talking about it. So it’s not like anyone has ever actually called it “it,” even though that’s what’s accurate since it isn’t a she. It can’t be—because it isn’t human. It’s a demon. It’s a monster.
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Rumi and her relationship with gender, humanity, and monstrosity.
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- Part 3 of kpop demon hunters thingz
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02 Sep 2026
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“Chat,” Zoey says, “we have a proposal.”
So, simultaneously, Zoey and Rumi make Mira a deal.
They’ll order dinner, just like she wants—as long as she does a cooking stream.
Their chats start praising the heavens.
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Mira gets corralled into starting a cooking stream.
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- Part 2 of kpop demon hunters thingz
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02 Sep 2026
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Artwork by Princington for their Finders Keeper AU (FKAU) posted on Tumblr and Twitter
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02 Sep 2026
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A Tale As Old As Time by eternalnslaught, LootnScootn
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
28 Jun 2026
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There was a princess.
There is a beast.
Nine years after Honmoon Palace fell to a mysterious foe, Kang Mira and Choi Zoey live under the ruthless thumb of the Kang merchant family risen to power with the absence of the ruling Ryu Clan. Zoey, the sweet half-blooded outsider, and Mira, the headstrong and wayward daughter of the Kangs, escape Honmoon Village in fire and blood to leave behind the cold venom of cruel words and coerced obligations. They flee for the ruins of Honmoon Palace, hoping the tales of ghosts and other unearthly creatures will be enough to deter their angry pursuers.
They don't expect the rumours to hold a grain of truth in them. A terrifying beast roams the palace grounds—the very one alleged to have brought an end to the Ryu line—but it doesn't attack or chase them away. Surrounded by strange magic and a cagey beast, Zoey and Mira plot their next move and ready to leave.
And the Beast will let them. She must.
For who could ever love a beast?
Based on Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991).
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- English
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02 Sep 2026
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from a rose on the grey (and if i should fall, will it all go away?) by ev09
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
16 Aug 2026
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Celine’s office has always smelt of calm: of wood polish, paper and ink, the bergamot of her perfume. It’s always been a place Rumi has associated with tranquility. Granted, Rumi hasn’t been in here often. She’s spent all sixteen years of her life thus far in the hanok and she can count on her fingers the number of times she’s been summoned to the office. Only for important matters.
This is an important matter. It is also very much not tranquil.
Rumi stands beside Celine, seated at her desk, and observes the two girls sitting across from her.
This is them. This is them.
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26 Aug 2026
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Rumi would love to throttle their younger selves for allowing the architects free rein on the penthouse design, because it turned out to be impossible to babyproof.
Or: Rumi finds out her homeschool curriculum wasn't exactly comprehensive.
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- English
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- 1/1
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15 Aug 2026
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something bigger and louder than the voices in me by whyyesitscar
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
29 Jul 2026
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It’s Rumi’s turn to frown, though she doesn’t let the expression stay on her face too long. There was a learning curve when she first started escorting souls on her own; maybe this is just the prelude to unlocking a new skill.
“Let me start over,” she placates, “I think I’m a little out of rhythm. I help guide souls like you to the world beyond. My name is Rumi, and I’m usually a lot better at this.”
“I’m Zoey,” Zoey smiles. “I think you’re doing great! But I’m definitely not dead.”
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Rumi is the latest in a long line of Shepherds, spiritual chaperones who are tasked with guiding wandering souls toward their homes in the afterlife. Up late studying one night, she feels the usual call of a soul, except this one insists she's not actually dead. While Rumi is trying to figure out how to solve that problem, another soul emerges, which Rumi has been told is impossible. And there's something special about these two that makes Rumi want to keep them.....
or: a comedy of errors involving too many ghosts, a really stupid cat, and the terrifying reality of finding somewhere you belong
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- English
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- 20,624
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- 1/1
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- 247
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30 Jul 2026
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"Mira.” Her voice didn’t shake, and although it was barely above a whisper, it made her wince as it echoed loudly in the space.
Rumi willed Mira to look at her with everything she had. Searching for a crack in the façade — it had to be a façade. Because if it wasn’t, if this were the truth, and Mira truly wanted to leave HUNTR/X, it would ruin her.
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Or, 6 months after the girls defeat Gwi-Ma and the Honmoon is sealed, Mira delivers HUNTR/X a killing blow. We see what happens when they reunite in an unexpected way 5 years later.
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- English
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- 16/20
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29 Jul 2026
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There's a hole in Rumi's heart.
It belongs to two girls who died before she ever met them.
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- Part 29 of Polytrix Timelines
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22 Jul 2026
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jinu’s footstool @fangirl234
okay am i going insane? has anyone else noticed rumi’s collar???? huntr/x in their freak era??????blood is at the huntr/x concert @bl00dygh0st
replying to @fangirl234
Are people just not allowed to wear neck jewelry anymore?GAYTR/X IN YOUR AREA @huntrxsoh0t
replying to @fangirl234, @bl00dygh0st
> “neck jewelry”
> looks inside
> leather d-ring dog collar
[cat.jpg]RUJINU CONFIRMED (see pinned) @gilliegirl_
replying to @huntrxsoh0t
ogm do you think its from jinu??!!!Rumi is my WIFE @RUMIPLSSTEPONMEPLS
replying to @gilliegirl_
kpop stans be normal for 3 seconds challenge: impossibleView 739 more replies
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Zoey “jokingly” suggests that their next concert and promotional outfits should feature matching collars. Rumi likes this idea a little bit more than she probably should
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25 Jun 2026
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when life gives you patterns (have a gender crisis) by JacksonCalico
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
20 Jun 2026
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Rumi was a lot of things. An orphan and an Idol, a hunter and a half-demon.
The first things were known to the whole world and the second only to the people who mattered. Those things were fine, Rumi had always known those things to be true. They were givens, the factual truths about their life. There was no need to think otherwise, this had always been what they were told, that was how they were always supposed to be.
That was the easy part. This wasn't.
Because Rumi was a lot of things, but a woman wasn't one of them.
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- Part 4 of how (not) to solve a scandal
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24 Jun 2026
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"I did you guys a favor, you know."
Zoey hummed, doing another turn, another scan of their surroundings.
"Y'think so?"
Rumi shifted her hands in a stretch–Zoey saw Mira's scowl harden, grip tightening on her gokdo–as the woman straightened her arms over her head. The hem of her crop-top lifted slightly, a sliver of pale flesh flashing in Zoey's periphery, teasing just above the waistline of her pants.
Zoey definitely didn't stare.
Too much, anyways.
"I know so," Rumi answered after a moment, shaking her arms out. "Spiro wanted you dead."
And then she shot Zoey a smirk, and that look was all tongue and teeth and promise.
"But I've got more use for you alive."
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No way Mira and Zoey could have known kidnapping one woman would cause them so much trouble, right? After all, what does a mafia boss and her loyal enforcer have to fear?
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The demon!Rumi / mafia boss!Mira / mafia enforcer!Zoey AU.
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- English
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- 113,875
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- 11/11
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21 Jun 2026
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Rumi touched her fingers to her ribs. She could feel the heat radiating from her skin, even through her clothes. A distant, miserable part of her said, this is going to hurt.
She pushed her fingers down.
The rib shifted.
The thing about telling one very big lie is that it requires a foundation of hundreds of smaller lies to hold it up, lies such as "I'm fine," and "nothing's broken," and "it doesn't hurt."
Rumi finds this out the hard way.
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- Part 1 of i can cover it up
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 85,442
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 2
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- 1,729
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- 2,843
- Bookmarks:
- 737
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- 54,883
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19 May 2026
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No, I Don't Belong to You or Anyone Else by OllieSeastone
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
22 Jan 2026
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It took them two months to track down Rumi.
An unforgivable amount of time in Mira's opinion.
Or. Rumi is captured by a group of scientists hellbent on discovering how a half-demon came to be. Mira and Zoey spend months figuring out what happened to her. When they eventually do they all have a long road to recovery ahead of them.
Or, or. Finely pureed Rumi
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12 May 2026