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Ryu Rumi, eighteen years old, beloved idol in training, died on a cloudy Friday afternoon.
Nobody ever found her, there was no funeral.
But Ryu Rumi, hunter apprentice and pop star heiress, died on a cloudy Friday afternoon in a small hotel room, and someone else walked out.
A year later, twenty year old 'Yun Jia' has a small apartment, two dead end jobs, and a mystical shield tugging on her throat like a leash to pull her back to a home that has moved on without her. Despite HUNTR/X being the most popular Kpop duo in Korea, Jia has never listened to a single one of their songs, or gone to a show, or watched an interview.
Because Yun Jia is a coward. A nobody. But she's alive while Ryu Rumi is dead, and that's all she thinks will make her happy.
Because Ryu Rumi, beloved friend and one of the most important people in the world, died when she was eighteen, when Yun Jia left her corpse in a hotel room in Seoul, and walked out wearing her skin.
But now she's a ghost, and she won't go away.
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19 Jan 2026
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i wanna know peace again (wanna sing a different song) by wisteriaoverbarefeet
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
12 Jan 2026
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As hot tears begin to prickle out, Rumi slowly opens her eyes. The voices won’t stop - her voices - and the weight is only sinking deeper. She needs to count again. She needs to count a dozen more times, a hundred even. She needs to count and count until she’s big enough to seal the Honmoon the way she’s supposed to and she can finally know for certain: her patterns have turned to dust.
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16 Jan 2026
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Mira and Zoey were beyond shocked to see Rumi's patterns. How could their Rumi, the person they've both been in love with for years, have kept something like that from them? But the hurt of that revelation can't stop them from still wanting her. Rumi is shattered, running from the people she loves most in the world, the people that she isn't allowed to want. But what if she was? How will the girls come back together and work through their feelings after the Idol Awards?
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What if Mira and Zoey went after Rumi when she ran to Celine during the Idol Awards? Then what?
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02 Jan 2026
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All the ways Zoey and Mira could have found out Rumi is half-demon by BadLuckDisaster
Fandom KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
26 Jan 2026
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Unrelated works. Includes: Angst, Lots of Cuddles on the Couch, Crack Without Brain Cells, Celine, and our beloved Derpy and Sussie.
Now including the best dad, Bobby!
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26 Dec 2025
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"Come on, demon scum,” Zoey bounces on the balls of her feet. practically vibrating as she shifts from side to side and wipes the blood from beneath her nose. Her smile is sharp. just as clear as it was an hour ago when they had started. “You call that a hit?”
Or. Rumi clutches her hands to her sides, letting her claws dig into her palm. Celine watches her with a softening expression, taking a breath before letting it out.
“Oh Rumi” she says, cupping her cheek, the warmth of her palm sinking into her skin.
“Don’t ruin these young girls' lives. Leave them alone. They have a whole world ahead of them” Celine pulls away and heads for the door but at the last moment she turns to look back at her, “don’t let your selfishness be the thing that kills them”
or. What if Celine hadn't turned Rumi into a hunter? what if she had seen the abomination of a child that had been left to her and thought she might as well turn her into something useful.
and then set off to find the next generation of hunters.
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- Part 1 of Growing Pains-Verse
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