polytrix pls

In the movie Celine says, "Everything I was taught told me you were wrong". I've always had mixed feelings about this quote. It's powerful and conveys Celine's inner struggle about accepting Rumi, though I always felt like something was missing.

This storyboard gives us a different version of this quote, and it's so much better that I hate it isn't canon. "Everything I've been taught told me what your mother did was wrong, but what came from it was you and you were so... right."

It would have been so beautiful to have had a canon moment that really drove home how much she loved Rumi, how she really was doing her best, and the magnitude of her actions (that line about how Rumi made her question everything she stood for was powerful).

Like, I can see why they made the choices they did for the final cut (and still don't like the idea of her murdering Miyeong being canon), but a moment where she lays bare for Rumi how much she means to her?

what did zoey mean by "you just won't sing it because *i* wrote the lyrics" what beef did they have? is there a world where maybe rumi and zoey had tension over zoey doing most of the song writing? the implication was also kind of that zoey choreographed takedown- was takedown in particular a song that zoey was really proud of? crazy implications for later. and we know what the takedown choreo could have been and i can see why rumi kept trying to change it... also just implies zoey in particular being rlly against changes which is fun! (for me not her)

also the idea that zoey knew the entire time, point blank, that rumi was lying about the tonics helping her (even, potentially, that zoey specifically set rumi up TO lie knowing that she was taking her to a scam)

the specific "not everything is about your trust issues, mira" laid out (paired with the above about zoey)

ALSO zoey's "oh does that make you feel left out?" to mira, like zoey is the one who always feels left out between rumi and mira maybe?

zoey: i would kill for you!

mira: i would be kind for you...

zoerumi: 🥹

Ive been thinking about the possibility of pre-debut Zoemira just using their weapons willy nilly around the place and just occasionally not de-summoning them.

I mean… whats the harm?

Zoey throwing the dull side of her shinkal at the light switch when she doesn’t want to get up,

Mira using her gok-do to reach something too far away (yk, when smth is too far away so you grab a kind of long object nearby and try to use it to pull the thing you want closer) and now the blade is just waving around

Zoey using one of her shinkal to open something during couch time and forgetting it when it falls between the cushions

Its not like it can really hurt anyone that bad

Meanwhile Rumi is over here fighting for her life trying to lie on the couch only for something very sharp and painful to prick her. Or Rumi trying to get out of the way whenever Mira decides she cant be bothered to get off the couch.

Honestly i wouldn’t be surprised if the girls took their weapons very unseriously because they thought they couldn’t be hurt with them.

Or maybe just the girls wanting to train and wondering why Rumi was so adamant on never training with their actual weapons.

I could see younger Mira being a hothead and challenging Rumi and even pointing her actual weapon at Rumi to get some form of reaction. She didn’t expect Rumi to flinch so much which had been odd

Later Celine had chewed her out when she found out about it. Some whole spiel about not treating their sacred weapons like toys

Bobby: Yes?

Rumi: Zoey, Mira, and I—

Bobby: Are getting married?

Mira: No, we—