Sky's the Limit

Their on-ice rivalry is legendary. No matter how private the two of them are, it’s infamous in both of their fanbases that they just have some kind of unknown history, if only for the public arguments they’ve gotten into. Bickering at awards shows, snipes over the media, social media digs, etc.

Unbeknownst to almost everyone, though, is that they’ve also been life partners and girlfriends for three years. They have two cats and have a closet full of sweaters that belong to neither and both of them, with each others coffee orders memorized. Rumis lockscreen is Mira asleep in her jersey, Mira’s is Rumi cursing out a judge for giving her a less than adequate score.

Their “rivalry” started as a pr stunt by one of their managers that got out of hand. It almost immediately turned into a joke between them, and now they’re mostly waiting for the other to crack in an interview and admit that it was a ruse the whole time.

To everyone outside of their immediate circle, they’re slightly bitter rivals. For everyone inside of that circle, they’re disgustingly in love sapphics who happen to think obliviously bickering so loud that children cry makes for excellent foreplay.

For example: they go to the movies cus Rumi always falls asleep

They take long car rides to places so Rumi would sleep in the car

Mira: so you're telling me that most of your family in the states have no fucking clue who we are?

Zoey: yep.

Rumi: B-but we've done tours in the US? In Canada? In Central and South America? We've won the international music awards multiple times in a row?!

Zoey: Yeah most of my family doesn't listen to Kpop. They just know I'm in a band and that you're my bandmates and now girlfriends. Since they've never heard of us they also have no idea how well off we are.

Mira: is that why your grandma handed me forty dollars?

Zoey: yeah..... I'll show you where to put it. I always had to sneak it back in her wallet after she went to sleep because she won't let you give it back.

Rumi: H-how do they not know us?!(existential crisis bc she grew up in the industry and her family legacy)

Zoey: Do you know who Dolly Parton is?

Rumi: Who?

Zoey: okay how about Rauw Alejandro?

Rumi: No?

Zoey: There ya go.

Rumi: (spiralling then looks at Mira who's chill) How are you not freaking out?!

Mira: I went to boarding school in Paris? I convinced half the class I was the adoptive daughter to Belgian diplomats and the other half that I was secretly the daughter of Kim Jong un. (shurgs)

Zoerumi: (stare with deep concern)

Mira: What? I was 12 and bored. Besides I was expelled by the end of the school year.

Rumi: Because of the lying?

Mira: insider trading.

Zoey: what?

Mira: Nah, it was for fighting.

but my brain is smooth so y'all get the development notes version.

It's a space AU, Zoey Choi is a biochemist on a transport/cargo ship, she's in charge of the hydroponics bay and the small aqua farm. The ship is transporting Commander Mira Kang to her new post on a midrim world.

However, some nameless dumbass on the crew decided to make the trip in record time and hacked the ships AI to set a new navigation course through unpoliced space. Cue space pirate attack.

The ship is controlled by a powerful AI called Celine, named after the personality core used for her interface base. Her prime directive is to take care of the crew and passengers to the best of her ability. To this end, as the pirates attack, she remotely activates an android printer and uses the available materials in storage (a mix of spare ship parts, electronics and bio material) to create an android that would be able to assist the humans on her behalf. Cause she has no hands. She's a ship.

Rest put under a cut cause it got looooong