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"I would give anything for her to look at me the way she used to,” her voice was rougher than usual, “The way she used to when she thought we weren’t looking.” She reached out and brushed a piece of hair from Zoey's face, bringing her hand down to cradle the younger girl's cheek. Zoey leaned into her palm, “What if she never does? What if she hates us and there's nothing we can do about it?” Her lip quivered, and her breathing had started to quicken, “W-what if we lose her forever?”
Rumi's stomach dropped, and all she wanted to do was run in there and hug them, kiss them, assure them everything was gonna be alright. But could she? Could she walk in there and tell them they wouldn’t lose her? Could she tell them she didn’t hate them? No. No she couldn’t, because she’d be lying to them. A part of her did hate them, and she despised that. She let out a silent breath as tears clouded her vision. She was gonna lose them. She was gonna be all alone. Her breathing quickened.“No. No. No. No. No. Not right now. Please, not right now,”she thought helplessly.
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27 Sep 2025
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“And the price?”
“An alliance by marriage.” Celine’s gaze flickered downward. The air seemed to thin in Rumi’s lungs. Still, she forced her voice to hold steady.
“By marriage?” Her gut twisted. She knew where this was going, but she could hope to the gods she was wrong.
“Your marriage. To Mira of the North.”
For one heartbeat, Rumi let her eyes fall closed. The lamplight still pressed past her closed lids, hot and heavy, as if forcing her to still see her future. The rest of her life—lived out on the arm of a stranger. For just that heartbeat, she allowed herself to break. Then, just as quickly, she pulled those walls back up and opened her eyes.
“I-I understand."
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RuMira Week Day 2: Fantasy
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- Part 2 of RuMira Week 2025
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25 Sep 2025
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Bobby held up a picture of Zoey and Mira, rarely candid as they allowed themselves to be in public. Rumi could even recognise the bench they were sitting on. Zoey was showing Mira something on her phone—probably one of her weird cat memes—and Mira had her head thrown back, her mouth open in that unflattering laugh she only let out when she was truly amused. Bobby swiped through to another photo, and Mira was still laughing. But Zoey had stopped looking at her phone screen, and was instead gazing at Mira with a soft smile on her face, expression completely besotted.
Something about the sight made a lump gather at the back of Rumi's throat.
When a photo of Zoey and Mira goes viral and the idea of them as a couple becomes more popular than ever, Bobby suggests they fake-date to keep Huntrix ratings up. Rumi doesn't expect to have as many emotions about it as she does.
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03 Aug 2025
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It hasn't even been twelve hours. This time yesterday they were excitedly preparing themselves for the Idol Awards, singing along to an older album of theirs as quietly as they could tolerate while compiling a list of snack requests to ask Bobby to have ready for them before the show. It feels like a different lifetime now. With everything they'd thought they'd known about each other now shattered between them, Rumi no longer has any idea how to navigate the delicate margins of HUNTR/X's existence.
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(Two moments in the aftermath of Namsan Tower, and the hope for a new beginning.)
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- Part 2 of Approach the Darkness With Confidence
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25 Sep 2025
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Rumi is six years old the first time she thinks that she might want to die.
It's a fleeting thought, is the thing. There and gone again so quickly she's barely even registered it, and by the time she realizes what her mind has whispered to her she already regrets it. There had been an argument with Celine—nothing particularly noteworthy, just frustrated words and a slammed door whose echo bounced through too-empty hallways—and Rumi had thought to herself, Maybe she'd love me more if I was a gravestone, too.
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(A pre-canon exploration of who Rumi was, and who she chooses to become.)
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- Part 1 of Approach the Darkness With Confidence
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07 Sep 2025