okay okay okay i know not actually a lot of people go here but i've just started thinking of a kiesha'ra/kpop demon hunters crossover and i'm not being normal about it because there are SO MANY POSSIBILITIES.
first is obviously the enemies-to-lovers arranged marriage situation. rumi is 100% repressed enough to be avian. i just know it. i also know she's duty-bound enough that she would agree to an arranged marriage to the enemy's crown prince in order to end a thousand-year war. shardae princess rumi doing arranged marriage things with cobriana prince mira would DO things to me. mira having serpiente empath abilities would also work super well for her character, and rumi's masterful avian reserve would drive her up a wall. THE SERPIENTE EVEN LOVE DANCING.
ANOTHER possibility is rumi getting the falcon-hybrid treatment because of her whole half-demon thing. This one gives lots of potency for angst because if she was falcon-serpiente, her bloodline would be incredibly unstable and give her an extremely powerful(dangerous) connection to ecl and magic at large, in the same vein as hai. celine could be a cjarsa or araceli substitute (or syfka??), depending on the flavor of celine you wanted to play with. this is maximum angst potential rumi.
a THIRD option would be rumi as a serpiente-avian hybrid à la oliza. this gives her sick wyvern shapeshifting and none of the real/immediate downsides of having mixed magics like being falcon-serpiente. miyeong would be avian and rumi's father serpiente, and THEY'D be the ones who successfully pulled off the hawksong arranged marriage. mira is an avian who's embraced the more open serpiente way of life, and zoey is a serpiente who's more open-minded than most and has similarly drifted across the court to partake in the avian side.
or or miyeong was a shardae who managed to get knocked up by a cobriana, DIED, and now royal advisor celine is forcing rumi to hide the fact that she's wyvern so the avian court doesn't realize she's part serpiente and possibly kill her. WHO is her alistair in this situation?? JINU??? him being the only bitch who knows her secret would be peak. you can either have him around for best friend shenanigans or kill him off for angst. shardaes sure do have a problem with keeping their alistairs alive.
and a FOURTH (FIFTH??) OPTION (i simply cannot stop) would be shardae mira doing the arranged marriage situation with cobriana zoey while rumi is doing her mixed-falcon agony speedrun in ecl (with added honmoon nonsense) (is ecl the demon realm?? how do we make the honmoon work. i need to reread snakecharm and falcondance. and wyvernhail. and all of them.) or something. something something then they all kiss.
