🦋🪐🌌☄️🌠🌻

Also, completely unrelated, but I’ve always found it bizarre how Mira and Zoey have zero reaction to Jinu sacrificing himself for Rumi. You’d think they’d be surprised at least lol, or immediately running to Rumi given they were concerned about her taking the fire blast, and when the camera cuts back to them, they’re no longer engaged in fighting the other four SjB, but it doesn’t look like they’ve even moved at all from their original positions in an attempt to rush over and help her the moment they could.

Oohh...

I'll redirect you to this post.

Generally speaking, I think... I think it makes the most sense to take Jinu very very literally when he says that feeling shame and misery is "how Gwi-Ma controls us [demons]." Because it does seem to track. Consistently, the only moments when Gwi-Ma's control over Jinu seems to slip are the moments where Jinu has chosen to indulge his hope over his shame. (After Free, Jinu slips back into shame when he chooses not to tell Rumi that he abandoned his family, despite seemingly wanting to tell her. So then Gwi-Ma gains control over him again.) And we know that Hunters inspiring people enables them to harness people's souls and use them for the honmoon, so who's to say that Gwi-Ma isn't quite literally doing the opposite? Making people ashamed enables him to harness their soul, I think. But just like the honmoon can be broken if the souls making it up start to feel more downcast than not, Gwi-Ma's power over demons' souls can be broken if they start to feel more inspired than ashamed. It's kind of a Wizard of Oz type situation? As long as demons believe that they're resigned to their fate, they are resigned to their fate.

You would think that Zoey and Mira would be surprised. It's kind of awkward... sequence blocking, I guess. I think you're meant to assume that the girls were busy fighting the Saja Boys up until after Rumi was saved by Jinu, given that they do initially freak out and try to reach her, only to be distracted by their respective fights again. And then afterwards, we do see them defeat their respective Saja Boys--Zoey has her whole "you're just my type" joke and Mira has the "no more abs!" moment. So they presumably haven't had a moment to try and get over there during their fights. Maybe glanced over at some point and realized that it was being handled somehow, what the fuck is Jinu giving her his soul, I didn't know he had one of those, fuck okay focus on the threat right in front of you at least she's not dying right now we'll unpack all that later. That kind of thought process.