RED_Cowbirdy
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if you go, i'm going (remember the pact of our youth) by RED_Cowbirdy
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
06 Jul 2026
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She can't see a way through anymore.
She can't see anything but the memory of the patterns crawling up her throat and tainting her voice.
But the city is far below, from this place on high.
And there is always a way out.
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Mira and Zoey follow behind Rumi after the failed rehearsal and find her on the edge—of the roof and of a decision.
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When they first turn to walk backstage, Mira thinks that things are okay. She's exhausted and probably bleeding somewhere, but her girls are with her, and she knows they have each other. She can't stop looking at them. But then Rumi is crying—tears of joy? She shares a concerned look with Zoey.
"Rumi?" She squeezes Rumi's hand as she says it. Rumi turns to look up at her, but it doesn't look like anything is really registering.
They make it almost backstage when Rumi's hands seem to slacken, her footsteps more and more unsteady. Without having to say it, both Zoey and her tighten their grips and speed up. Something isn't right. Rumi inhales suddenly, sharply.
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My own version of what happens after the movie, but before the bathhouse scene, and maybe some after it. Leading up to polytrix.
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- Part 2 of KPDH Polytrix Works (not necessarily connected)
- Part 2 of Red's "Canon" Timeline
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In which Rumi tries to hide something until she really can't.
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She sleeps fitfully, waking again, this time hot.
She uncovers fully, but then the sweat makes her shiver, so she pulls the blanket back over.
Then, too hot.
Then, too cold.
On and off the blanket goes, maddeningly, until she has just almost found a half on and half off solution that leaves her somewhere in the middle, when she hears Mira clear her throat in the hallway, and then knock. No, it can't already be training time, is it? She checks the phone again—just after 7. Shit.
Content warning. Heed the tags. This one may not be for you if you have emetophobia.
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you'll find true north and stumble home by RED_Cowbirdy
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
17 May 2026
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But then she walks out—
and another piece of yourself slots into place, the both of them filling up the empty space inside you.
—and she sees you both.
And you see her recognize something inside you both as you walk closer to her.
And then you are as complete as you can be.
(One day, you will be able to be with them fully, letting all of yourself out in the open. But for now, this is the freest you have ever felt.)
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- Part 1 of Red's "Canon" Timeline
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Sickness is just another thing that Rumi has learned to hide from Mira and Zoey. It's out of necessity, but hopefully it won't have to be that way forever.
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Once that Rumi hides being sick, and once that she doesn't have to.
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- Part 1 of KPDH Polytrix Works (not necessarily connected)
- Part 3 of Red's "Canon" Timeline
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KPDH Polytrix Works (not necessarily connected) by RED_Cowbirdy
Fandom KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
06 Jul 2026
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These are works that are not connected (though some of them could be)
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Recovery is rarely a linear thing.
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faultline (noun)
a line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault.
an area of a system that seems weak and likely to cause problems or failure.
a divisive issue or difference of opinion that is likely to have serious consequences.
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03 May 2026
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After Gwi-Ma is sealed away, the new Honmoon blanketing the city in its protective embrace, the only thing Rumi wants to do is sleep.
Her body aches, her vision blurs, and her head throbs with the pain of a headache long ignored. The moment Mira and Zoey usher her offstage, away from the hundreds of thousands of fans, the adrenaline leaves her as fast as it came. She sags backward, stumbling over nothing but her exhaustion, and for a moment, she thinks that hitting the floor would be a welcome sensation.
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The girls get Rumi home after the events of the Idol Awards, and then they have to deal with all of the shattered glass they had sung about.
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18 Oct 2025
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“I asked Celine to kill me.”
Rumi doesn’t know what compelled her to say that. The sound of chopsticks clattering to the floor, though, stokes an immediate regret that urges her to get up and run.
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13 Sep 2025
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“You okay?” Zoey asks, her hand wrapped around Rumi’s. Mira’s hands are braced at her opposite shoulder, keeping her arm steady, and ow— that’s where the demon must have got her. She winces around a sharp inhale.
“You’re okay,” Mira says, firm. “Go slow. I think it dislocated your shoulder on top of scratching you up. Ripped your sweatshirt too, sorry. I know you liked this one.”
It takes Rumi a moment to register what she said. Then, in a move that makes her head spike with a pain that almost takes out her vision entirely, her focus snaps to her arm.
The sleeve of her hoodie is slashed open and gaping. Her patterns are out, shining in the morning sunlight, vivid even through the blood.
She’s up and away before either of them can stop her.
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The first time Rumi gets hurt after the Idol Awards, a head wound and shock means she forgets that her team now knows about her patterns— and old habits die hard.
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