Regressor Rumi Headcanons!
rumi didn't really get much of a childhood because of how celine raised her, yeah? everything in her life was about becoming a hunter, getting rid of her patterns, and being perfect. obviously, this affects rumi in a very bad way
she doesn't exactly discover what age regressing is until after she's been doing it for a while. instead, she finds that she sleeps better when she has a pacifier. she doesn't exactly know *why* it helps, but it makes her feel safe and somehow younger
mira and zoey find out, and at first rumi is humiliated because she still feels like she needs to be the leader. when zoey tells her about regression and how she thinks thats what she's doing, rumi isn't happy
she's mostly unhappy because it sounds nice, getting a redo on her childhood
mira and zoey take care of her, though, and they help rumi slowly get more comfortable with regressing
one of the first things that helps is stuffed animals. as rumi starts letting herself regress and be small, she starts accumulating a small collection of teddy bears that she keeps on her bed
rumi also finds a series of blind box plushies that she falls in love with, and she collects them. the plushies are little teddy bears with jobs like "chef!" or "teacher!" or rumi's personal favorite: "train conductor!"
she keeps the train conductor on her bag wherever she goes and accidentally pulls a lisa with labubus on her fans, so now these little job-having bears are insanely popular. and rumi is insanely grumpy that she can't get her hands on them anymore
zoey and mira spoil her like crazy. whenever rumi lets them, they dress her up in cute outfits, they play tea party with her, they build train sets with her
rumi has an utter fascination with trains, and she has several toy sets of very pretty trains. she likes watching thomas and friends, too, and sometimes mira and zoey take her down to the train station just to watch the trains go by
the girls do eventually tell bobby about rumi's regression just so he can keep any rumors down (especially after the blind box teddy bear problem) (bobby also gets rumi full cases of each new series so she can collect them all. bobby is her favorite person for about two weeks after that and its the happiest moment of his life)
(then zoey buys her a really big cookie and she becomes the favorite)
mira does her hair a lot when she's small. rumi doesn't really like having her big braid when she feels small because its heavy and reminds her of celine, so mira comes up with all sorts of cute styles. twin braids, space buns, bubble braids, sometimes she even puts ribbon in her hair and rumi gets so excited
derpy and sussie are endlessly fascinating for her whenever rumi's small. she loves playing with them, and they love playing with her. derpy is so fluffy and cuddly, but usually mira and zoey will supervise whenever rumi wants to play with him because he will sit on her and accidentally hurt her if they dont watch. meanwhile sussie thinks of himself as a third caregiver even though he is a bird with a hat that isn't even his
they get a ton of baby snacks for rumi to try when she's small, especially those puree pouches. her favorite is peach mango, and she will just lay on the sofa watching tv with a pouch. sometimes she lays upside down, though, and zoey fusses at her when she chokes or has puree come out her nose. rumi never learns her lesson
she doesn't use any sort of nickname for mira or zoey, but they dote on her with every little pet name under the sun. it starts out pretty normal with 'sweetie' or 'honey' then turns into 'little bear' or 'mango baby' and eventually the most common thing for mira and zoey to call rumi when she's small becomes 'choo choo'
also, rumi makes friendship bracelets for mira, zoey, and bobby. all three of them cry
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