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She is the dog that bites when a hand extends itself to feed, the dog that is wrong down to its very bones, down to the marrow, down to something genetic and intrinsic and unchangeable, the dog they put down to spare it its own misery.
She wishes it were as simple as a matter of guilt. Guilt for hurting them, for hiding, for lying, because maybe she could’ve fixed that, because guilt, at least, would’ve meant that she’s only done something wrong.
Shame is knowing that she is something wrong.
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Rumi doesn’t run when the girls find her backstage.
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They promised the night wouldn’t count. No names, no context, no consequences.
Then the semester starts, and the stranger from the bar turns out to be the student council president.
Artist vs analyst, chaos vs control: portraits, protocols, and the deeply inconvenient tendency to keep wanting the one thing they both agreed would only ever be just a night that didn’t count.
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- Part 1 of case studies in color
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“Then what did it mean?” Yumeko asked, her voice low.
“Nothing.” Kira’s voice cracked slightly.
Yumeko leaned in, close enough that Kira could feel her breath on her lips.
“Say that again.”, she whispered.
But Kira couldn’t.
And Yumeko knew it.
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Kira has spent her entire life doing exactly what’s expected of her. She is controlled. Composed. Untouchable.
Yumeko has spent her life doing the exact opposite. She’s bold and unpredictable—and dangerously good at seeing through Kira’s carefully constructed facade.
The more they try to keep their distance, the harder it becomes to resist. And some lines - once crossed - can’t be undone.
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A Student Council reunion at the Timurov Lake House turns into a high-stakes game - and somehow, Yumeko ends up as Kira’s House Pet.
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When Rumi finds herself in an awkward predicament, Mira offers to give her a hand. When it happens again, Rumi realizes that maybe there is something more going on between herself and her best friend.
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What if Rumi’s dark side couldn’t be hidden when she was young? As her demonic traits grow, Celine must hide her away from the world, protect her, and the next hunters, from each other.
Zoey and Mira aren’t supposed to talk to the mysterious girl who looks after the shrine, no matter how intriguing she is.
Rumi is just as fascinated by the new hunters. She watches them from afar, unable to interact. It isn’t safe. She isn’t safe.
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Rumi escapes the Underneath and must learn to survive in the human world. There she finds a job selling plants and encounters two delicious looking women, whose souls she only momentarily thinks about eating. Now she just needs to work out how she gets to snuggle them.
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“Hey, babe. Been looking everywhere for you.”
The voice was low, honeyed, warm in all the right places. It fell over Rumi in a way the man’s voice hadn’t, settling into her bones and gnawing faintly, already leaving impressions on her marrow.
And yet another touch, this one lighter, a palm splayed across the small of her back, a second body pressing into hers from behind.
“Yeah, we thought we lost you for a sec there.” This voice, a little higher, but no less deadly.
Not one, but two strangers.
“Can’t you see you’re interrupting something?” the guy snapped at them.
“Can’t you see,” the first voice mocked, “she’s not yours?”
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Two women step in when a guy gets pushy with Rumi at a bar. What happens after is meant to be a one-night stand, nothing more.
But rarely do things turn out exactly the way they're meant to.
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“To friends who cancel,” she said, “and the much better company that shows up instead.”
Rumi clinked her glass against Mira’s. The sound vanished into the music. “Big assumption that you’re better company.”
Mira’s eyes roamed and she tilted her head.“I’m very good company. Especially when I want something.”
Rumi felt the words land low and warm. She took a sip to steady the sudden dryness in her throat. “And you want something?”
“Right now?” Mira’s knee brushed hers under the bar, lingering. She lifted the cherry garnish to her lips and sucked it into her mouth. “Desperately.”
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Rumi meets a hot stranger at a bar and has a great night. On Monday morning, she discovers that same hot stranger is her new boss.
..This feels like a personal attack.
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Did it mean something?
Zoey thinks about a lot of things daily.
She likes turtles, and every time she learns a new fact about them, she tells Rumi about it for days. Same thing goes for any game, new food they try, those new shows she gets obsessed with every few months, or that song she can't stop replaying.
But she takes up too much space in Zoey's mind. It doesn't feel like those passing obsessions.
The way she stays in her head, the way she lingers, feels harder to explain.
She doesn't fade.
She doesn't disappear like everything does eventually.
Did it mean something?
"It did, Zo…"
Rumi's voice stops Zoey's spiral once again, and she leans back to look her in the eyes.
Zoey blinks. She feels her chest tighten at Rumi's confirmation.
It did mean something.
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—Rumi and Zoey decide to go look for Mira once again and have a second night with her after they can't stop thinking about her (and the threesome).
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- Part 2 of Romance (Polytrix)
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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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Rio is used to quiet mornings and carefully planned schedules. But when her new roommate Agatha storms into her life with a wicked grin, a chaotic personality, and teasing that won’t quit, Rio realizes her last year of college is about to get a lot more complicated.
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Besides the few trusted members of her clan, Mira has been her own shoulder to lean on since her parents passing. With no guidance from her father to tell her how to lead, and without the warmth of her mothers arms to fall back into when authority became too much to handle, she was left with a clan in need of guidance, and given no direction.
Despite this, she has thrived as the leader of her people, and promised more; more land to settle, more riches, and more prosperity. When the opportunity to settle the rich countryside of Mercia is handed to her, Mira takes it with little hesitation. Of all of the things she could have been asked for in return though, sex was the very last thing she could have dreamt of.
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Rumi sighed, unfolding her legs as she rolled over onto her back. “I just feel so…behind,” she said. “I mean, Zoey’s known she was bi since she was a kid. I’m twenty-four…aren’t I supposed to know this by now?”
The brush of fingertips against Rumi’s open palm was featherlight, but it was enough. Against her better judgement, Rumi turned her head to look up at Mira. Behind her glasses, Mira’s eyes were bright, and Rumi could not help but sit up to meet them properly. Something fluttered inside Rumi’s chest, sending a hot ripple down Rumi’s Patterns. But this wasn’t new, no, this just what it’s like to be around Mira. It always had been.
It always had been.
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Mystery Work
Part of carrot.
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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"That's—Nancy, that's where we broadcast—"
"I don't care." Nancy was already moving toward it, pulling Robin with her, and Robin went because apparently she would follow Nancy Wheeler anywhere, even into bad decisions.
OR: Nancy has a thing about guns. Robin has a thing about Nancy. The math does itself.
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Yumeko stepped forward, not enough to crowd, but enough that the scent in the air shifted—sweet, rich, alpha-pulled tension. “Jealous?”
Kira didn’t flinch.
Didn’t blink.
But something behind her eyes flickered.“Delusional,” she said, voice low and razor-clean.
“Mm.” Yumeko tilted her head. “So no part of you imagined what that would feel like if it were you?”
There was silence.
Long. Thick. Sharpened by implication.
Even Suki was holding his breath now.Kira exhaled once, through her nose, like she was resetting. Her gaze dropped briefly—to Yumeko’s mouth, to the space between them, to something she couldn’t name—and then snapped back up.
Her voice, when she spoke, was calm. Clinical.
“Tell your puppy to stay out of my path. And you—” her eyes narrowed, cool as polished jade “—should be careful where you aim your scent. You might attract something you can’t handle.”
Yumeko’s smile widened, slow and satisfied. “I’m counting on it.”
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At St. Dominic’s, Yumeko Jabami’s reputation precedes her: compulsive gambler, thrill-chaser, the “Kakegurui.” Her world is built on risk, instinct, and the intoxicating rush of tearing through opponents one gamble at a time. But when her obsession turns toward Kira Timurov—the ruthless, elegant student council president known for her unshakable control—Yumeko discovers a game far more dangerous than cards or dice.
What begins as a wager becomes an obsession. Yumeko thought she could tempt the untouchable queen and claim victory, but Kira rewrites the rules entirely. In her arms, even surrender feels like triumph. And the deeper Yumeko falls into the game, the more she realizes she never really understood the power of Kira’s gravity.
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03 Jan 2026
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After the idol awards everything has been calm, but one night the honmoon wakes.
Rumi for the first time in a while has her demon parts showing. Late one night she hears Celine’s voice, the one that used to control her, which sends her spiraling.
Mira and Zoey wake to see her having a panic attack.
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The woman’s eyes widened, and her hand reached out, not quite touching Rumi, but close. “Not that you’re not beautiful, because wow, you-” She stopped, a look of realisation crossed her face “-I mean, no, wait, no, you are beautiful, but I wasn’t hitting on you, I have a girlfriend-”
Rumi ignored her chest squeezing.
“-A stunning girlfriend, Mira. I mentioned her, right? My girlfriend Mira-” The woman stopped abruptly and lowered her head down into her arms. “Jeez, Zoey, stop rambling at the deaf woman.” It was muffled, but Rumi heard it.
Silenced by grief, Rumi’s world is transformed when she crosses paths with Mira and Zoey, who guide her toward a voice she thought was lost forever.
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Mira with Zoey holding her arm in a death grip: Hey, my girlfriend saw you from across the record shop, and we really dig your vibe. Can we buy you a vinyl?
Rumi, with selective mutism: 👁️👄👁️ -
I want to die like a citrus tree (but that's not a milkweed's fate) by ILovedHerAndSometimesSheLovedMeToo
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
17 Oct 2025
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Mira and Zoey don’t know this yet (they will, one day soon, they will), but Rumi died for the first time the Monday after her eleventh birthday.
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Rumi inhaled, the rush of air filling her lungs, inflating that tiny balloon called hope trapped behind her ribs.
“I love you, Celine.”
The words tumbled out of her gracelessly, but so so sweetly. She waited, and all the while, that little balloon grew and grew, the plastic skin of it stretching and thinning with every second before—
“You too,” Celine said back.
‘Pop.’
“Celine,” Rumi tried again, voice shaking as tears she didn’t even know she still had left to shed began to drip down her left cheek. “Celine, I said I love you.”
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If demons (even half-demons) could kill themselves, there probably wouldn't be many left. Rumi doesn't know this, yet. She learns.