The thing about food and eating is that I think very very few people just have like. Fully normal and healthy relationships to it. And all of the Huntrix girls have different kinds of weirdness to whatβs up with them even given that someone (Celine) has done her best to make sure that they are able to eat despite the standards of the kpop industry
This is in part because Celine herself had a severe eating disorder as a younger person, and while sheβs recovered to the point where she understands that what was happening with her and the other Sunlight Sisters was Not Okay and she really really wants to make sure that it never happens with her girls, sheβ¦ has some weird ideas about what food is Okay and Healthy and Safe for her especially and about how to get people to eat in general
Which is why Rumi is the most chill around food but also does just kinda treat it as a necessity sometimes. She heard βfood is fuel and you should give your body what it needsβ constantly growing up, and so like she doesnβt do messed up βfood as rewardβ or βfood as overindulgenceβ viewpoints really but
She will just get disconnected from her body and forget to take care of it. Or sometimes, eventually, lowkey avoid taking caring of it. Because fuck it, sheβs not a machine, she doesnβt need to be in perfect shape, why not go on an insane spiral and do something that sucks the whole way down instead?
For Zoey, itβs not the βwhat is having a bodyβ autism as much (though that does happen to her), but the βI have sensory issues and food is An Experienceβ autism
Of course, itβs not like she can say that she doesnβt like mushrooms or that the texture of rice turns into something Evil the moment itβs even a little overcooked or she just finds lentils really very unpleasant. She canβt be picky and cause problems and make someone make a special meal just for her
(Her parents had a tendency to lash out. Maybe. Just a little. Itβs fine! Sheβs not going to be a problem! Itβs fine!)
Getting Zoey to express an opinion about food is a level four friendship achievement
Mira, meanwhile, grew up in the dance world, and so that came with a lot of bodyshamingβboth from her teachers (too tall, anyone with an ounce of fat on them was fat (derogatory)) and from her family (too muscular, not feminine enough, etc)βand a lot of pushes towards restricting how much she ate and what foods were acceptable
When she moves in with Rumi and Celine, sheβs very surprised to find that suddenly the attitude on food is not βlet us control that heavilyβ and instead βyeah youβre doing a lot of work you need a lot of that so of course weβre making things with lots of nutrients in them for meals! You should feel free to get a snack whenever you want!β and, in classic Mira fashion, is probably the one whoβs most worked through her existing issues to get more comfortable and healthy around food and in her body