:)

Celine: So, do you want to go out?

Miyeong: Celine, you’re great—

Celine: Oh, no.

Miyeong: I had so much fun these last few days.

Celine: I am going to kill Bobby.

Miyeong: I have a daughter.

Celine: What?

- @lelitachay

I love this so much. Miyeong is fully ready for Celine to just dismiss her once she finds out about her daughter (which she honestly prefers as opposed to Celine saying she’s fine with it then deciding 3 months later she’s not) because what famous pop star who’s done concerts all over the world is going to like a single mom.

mira is kinda the obvious choice, isn't she? problem child and all that. but i'd like to think that she actually keeps herself in line most of the time unless there's an opportunity to piss off her parents who are definitely watching her career from afar. i'd like to think of her PR incidents like this: she is a pleasure to talk to in any variety show, interview, anything—but every once in a while she says the most out-of-pocket, hair-gripping, toe-curling, teeth-grinding thing so it evens out and compensates for her Manners. and leaves both bobby and celine with 20% more grey hairs than before.

Backstage at an event or something, Mira and Zoey spy someone making eyes at Celine and share a look and a nod.

They somehow manage to convince this person to shoot their shot and said person moves to do just that.

Cut to Rumi full on tackling Celine out their path, curling around her like a jealous Koala, glaring at this poor innocent soul who's just as confused as Celine is.

Celine: "Rumi, what the hell!"

Rumi: *hiss*

Innocent soul: *confused fear*

Zoey and Mira:

Clark: 8 hours. Why?

One of her burners gets famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) for their unhinged thirst posts about Celine because Rumi made the mistake of 1) responding to the account and 2) getting baited into posting, "EW NO" to the question, "so you don't think Celine is hot"

(Rumi cannot believe she had to explain *in a press release* that she was *not* saying Celine was ugly, she was simply expressing discomfort at the idea that *the woman who raised her* was "hot" because that is not something she wants to think about because *Celine raised her*)

(Rumi had to explain the situation to Celine.

"Celine, stop laughing! It's not funny!"

"Aish, this is why I told you girls to stay off social media.")

who would win?

rumi whose whole life is kpop, who probably studied kpop history, who was pr trained for this.

fangirl zoey who went through an endless hyper fixation on every single group known to man. expert in everything sunlight sisters.

Rumi is majorly pissed because it was not only a question about the Sunlight Sisters, but specifically about Celine.

Rumi: I lived with her for, like, nineteen years!!! You shouldn't know more about her than me!!!

Mira: Scoreboard doesn't lie.

Rumi: That wasn't even a fair question! What kind of person knows what flavor of [insert brand] milk tea she had her face on in 1996?!?

Zoey: The winner 😁

Mira: In spring 1998, the Sunlight Sisters rescheduled three concerts after Ryu Miyeong broke her shoulder playing which sport?

Rumi: Uhhhh *has watched the home video Thirdlight taped, which shows her mother falling out of a tree while showing her and Celine a trick-shot with her bow* ....Archery?

Mira, giving her a Look: Incorrect.

Zoey: Volleyball!

Mira: Correct. For double-points, Ka—

Mira: *adjusts her glasses in case she misread it*

Mira, glancing at Rumi, eyebrow raised: —ahem. Kang Celine very publicly ended a...two-year relationship in July of 2005. Which actor from which TV show was she dating?

Zoey: Park Jeongho from...ooh! Diary of a Seoul Secretary!

Rumi: Wait, what?!

Mira, shrugging: Correct.

What if the other two weren’t super obvious post Idol Awards? And for a while there was a real fear that when the Honmoon broke, and was repaired, the souls that had been woven into it had been released into the ether.

And of course Celine never blamed Rumi or held resentment. She understood why what happened needed to happen. And she almost saw it as something healing, in a way. The countless generations that came before, finally allowed to rest. A part of her did wonder, though. She knew she’d likely be the next Hunter to die, so she questioned if all souls would be unbound to the Honmoon in death, or if she would be the first of countless Hunters to come after to become one with this new Honmoon.

And she would be alone. Without her girls. For eternity.

Celine never expressed this concern to Rumi, but Rumi had similar thoughts and the guilt only weighed heavier and heavier. It built up further after Celine’s first heart attack. And festered up until her second one, the one she didn’t wake up from.

But two lines from the Honmoon became pronounced along the walls of the hospital room, vibrating like sound waves, calling out until the heart monitor went steady, and a third appeared along with them. And Rumi was sad, of course she was, but at the same time she felt a kind of joy and relief that took years worth of worry from her shoulders.

But also, just imagine how heartbroken and almost terrified Celine must have been when the honmoon fully broke. Miyeong and Eun Ji were always the easiest dotes/strings to find because they were the only ones in a group of two. It's not like they can talk but, for Celine, seeing that double string appear when she's feeling her worst lets her know that they're still with her, they see her, they still want to be around her. When the honmoon breaks, Celine watches them vanish and while, like you said a part of her is happy that they can finally be at peace, it's also similar to seeing them die again as she watches those lines vanish.

“Of course they would,” Mira pointed out when she spotted Rumi admiring the strands for the twentieth time that day, “Celine always wanted that gold Honmoon.”

Rumi watched the bright threads dance together over the ceiling, sparkling like waves on a beach at…golden hour.

The realization dawned on her, and tears sprung readily to her eyes. Mira and Zoey both sat up, ready to offer condolences or comfort, but then Rumi laughed weepily. “They’re not gold,” she explained.

Mira and Zoey shared a confused glance.