✦ JINU

The first time he sees your full demon form, he can’t stop staring. "You’re… beautiful. I mean— I knew already, but this…"

Asks you to permanently keep your demon form with him in private.

Loves running his fingertips over your markings, fascinated by how they glow faintly under his touch.

If you teleport unexpectedly, he laughs every time. "You could’ve just walked, y’know."

If your patterns flare while kissing, he pulls you closer.

Sometimes stares into your yellow eyes mid-conversation and loses his train of thought completely.

Whispers that your claws are sexy and you could mark him up when you’re annoyed at him —just to watch you roll your eyes.

If someone insults your demon heritage, he’ll take it too personally. (Someone lost a soul? Definetely.)

Loves slow dancing in private with you in your demon form —yellow eyes shimmering under dim light.

Complains when you teleport away from hugs too quickly. "No cheating. You leave when I let go."

Keeps reminding you you’re not too much or too dangerous for love.

Says your glow makes you look like you’re blushing everywhere, which he finds unfairly hot.

If your patterns starts to glow when you're angry, his teasing gets shameless — "Someone’s losing control…"

Secretly loves how your fangs peek when you smile.

✦ ABS

Calls you "pretty monster" in private.

Absolutely obsessed with the idea that you could overpower him when you lose control. He lives for when it finally happens.

Trains with you to test your strength, but uses it as an excuse to get close. It always turns into heavy breathing and smirks. Wink.

Thinks the magenta glow is ridiculously hot.

Teases you about teleporting away mid-argument — "Yeah, run away, coward."

Traces your purple markings with the back of his hand when you’re both half-asleep.

Touches your fangs like they’re delicate, but then dares you to bite him.

Constantly grabs your hand to compare claw sizes.

Will try to wrestle you just to see how far he can push before you teleport behind him.

Thinks your glowing eyes in the dark make you look like a predator. Will definetely let you caught him.

Pulls you into his lap after fights to cool you down when your patterns' glow is still intense.

Finds the line between playful and dangerous with you… and enjoys toeing it.

✦ ROMANCE

Writes songs about your eyes —doesn’t admit they’re about you, but it’s too obvious.

Gets weak when you teleport behind him and whisper in his ear.

Keeps telling you your voice sounds different —more magnetic— when your demon side comes through.

Always traces the edges of your markings before bed, like he’s memorizing you.

Says your claws are dangerous for everyone but him, which makes you snort.

Loves holding your face in both hands, looking into your eyes like you’re his whole world.

Secretly loves the adrenaline of kissing you when you’re close to losing control.

He swears the purple glow makes you look like a star burning in the dark.

Wears jewelry that matches your markings —purely to make you smile.

If you teleport away from a kiss, he’ll chase you down without shame.

✦ MYSTERY

Barely reacts when he first finds out. "...Okay." But internally? Fascinated.

Later admits he’s never seen anyone more striking in demon form.

Can’t stop staring at your yellow eyes when you’re talking.

Almost never touches your claws —but when he does, it's reverent, always tracing each of your fingers slowly with his own claws.

Never says much about your teleporting, but somehow always knows exactly where you’ll reappear. "Gotcha?"

Rarely lets anyone see his smile, but you make it happen just by existing.

When you growl playfully, he can’t hide the shiver it gives him.

If he's needy, he'll lap along your glowing patterns in the dark provocatively.

Brings you little trinkets in deep purple.

Prefers kissing you in demon form; says your fangs make it better.

The only one who can make you stop glowing mid-control-lapse just by holding your face.

Doesn’t like showing it, but he’s proud you’re as strong as you are.

✦ BABY

Immediately claims his demon powers are cooler than yours to mess with you.

Makes snarky comments like, "Half demon, full hot," just to get a reaction.

Likes resting his head in your lap, tracing shapes over your skin patterns lazily. Especially your tights.

When you try to hide your fangs, he pouts childishly and tells you not to.

Secretly loves your claws and asks you to scratch his back, it helps him relax. Kinda.

Loves how intimidating you look when you’re mad. Will definetely try to upset you.

Gets horny by just feeling your breathing on his skin.

Says dating you is like having his own supernatural bodyguard slash supermodel.

✦ ZOEY

Thinks your demon features are the coolest thing ever. Gushes about them constantly.

Will excitedly tell anyone (who already knows about demons, probably Rumi first) that her partner is half demon and awesome.

Pout when she realizes she can't teleport with you. Asks you to try again every time.

The first time she sees your patterns glow, she squeals and asks if she can take a picture.

Gets absolutely giddy over your fangs — she calls you "sharkie" just to make you groan.

Tries painting little designs on her own body as a way of supporting you.

Sometimes stares into your yellow eyes mid-conversation and forgets what she was saying.

If you go haunting with her, she’ll point dramatically and shout, "Go, babe!" like you’re her star player.

Loves to jump into your arms —no fear about the claws or fangs or anything— because she trusts you completely.

✦ MIRA

The first time she sees your demon form, she’s like, "Well… that explains a lot. I didn't understand why you were so hot."

Teases you about your patterns but secretly loves them, especially since you're like a work of art.

100% pokes at your fangs to annoy you —"What? They’re cute. And sharp. Like you."

Finds the yellow eyes intimidating in battle, irresistible in private.

Lowkey likes testing how much control you have by whispering suggestive things in your ear.

Makes jokes about you being weaker than her just so you actually show your strength.

Will absolutely paint her nails black to match your claws just to look "couple coordinated."

When you’re upset, she’ll grab your face and tell you to "focus on me" until your glow fades back to calm.

Gets a kick out of kissing you mid-teleport so she’s suddenly making out and you don't escape.

✦ RUMI

Notices your demon patterns immediately but doesn’t bring them up until you’re ready to share. Instead, she just shows her own patterns more often so you feel comfortable.

When you finally tell her, she just smiles and says, "I figured. Still gorgeous."

If they glow when she touches you, she smirks knowingly and leans in closer.

Takes pictures of your yellow eyes — thinks they’re mesmerizing.

When you lose control, she’s not scared. She just takes your hands and grounds you.

Keeps nail polish on hand just to match your dark claws in aesthetic little photoshoots.

Very protective if other demons try to flirt with you. Her stare alone is a warning.

Loves kissing you when your fangs are visible. Finds it thrilling somehow, like kissing danger itself.

If you tease her with your teleportation in a romantic moment, she will absolutely turn the tables physically.

- rumi's sword(s) — rumi's first sain-geom is symmetrical and double-sided; perfect and elegant and beautiful. yet, it's such a slim and lightweight sword. she wields it just like she would with a boomerang, if that makes sense (see the bath house fight scene where zoey and mira were backed by an army of water demons).

rumi often wields her sain-geom with one hand, slashing away like a perfectly choreographed dance during battle. what i noticed, however, is that her sain-geom doesn't have that much of a range; in comparison to mira's gok-do, which offers a lot more acrobatic space to slash multiple demons at once, or zoey's shin-kal that reaches far and deadly precise.

the sain-geom rumi wields at HUNTR/X's final battle with gwi-ma, however, was so much larger–it was single blade with two sharpened and raised peaks. it's resembles more like a broadsword. it's not symmetrical; it's rather crude and definitely heavier; rumi wielded it with both hands as she slashed down gwi-ma.

i wholeheartedly believe that sword, not only symbolizes her demonic heritage's acceptance, but also that it was forged from both the honmoon AND jinu's freed soul. rumi finally accepts that she isn't all perfect–she's got jagged edges and a dark side; but, that's what makes her stronger and beautiful.

to make a strong sword, after all, is a balance of pure steel and the impurities folded into it. a harmony of the light and the dark.

(i wholeheartedly believe jinu's freed soul lives as rumi's sain-geom–he's that stubborn and sassy buddy you just can't get rid off)

((rumi bickers with jinu oftenly; jinu being an exhausted 400 year old man (now a sain-geom entity), while rumi being an oblivious ass half of the time))

- rumi...is NOT good at reading the room — speaking of obliviousness, rumi is genuinely shit at reading zoey's and/or mira's cues that they like her.

let's be real; rumi most likely had a secluded childhood, pre-HUNTR/X. i'd like to believe she was homeschooled by celine, and if not, she went to a really, REALLY, private school (she's a nepo baby with generational wealth to her name, c'mon now). she doesn't really interact with a lot of kids her age back then; celine always reminds her to study hard at school. ace your classes. go straight home to train; whether it's demon hunting, or to be an idol.

rumi isn't exactly uncaring, nor she is cold; she just hadn't had a lot of socializing experiences. so, in the simplest words: she's hopeless. it wasn't until celine brought first mira–then zoey–into building HUNTR/X around her, that rumi finally learned how to socialize and bond with her Hunter sisters slash bandmates.

rumi was always polite and kind towards her younger members; but, she's rigid and distanced. she tries to be as friendly as she could manage, but never expose much of herself. rumi never took offense to mira's bluntness, nor getting vexed by zoey's endless trails of rambling. the other girls, in return, had always respected rumi's tall walls; until those walls eventually crumbled post idol awards incident.

when they finally talked things out and rebuilt their relationship upon a foundation of trust and transparency (a mirror of how they rebuilt the honmoon), mira and zoey are slowly adjusting to rumi's renewed self. they were hopeless. the more comfortable rumi gets with exposing more of her skin, the frequency of mira and zoey malfunctions at their HUNTR/X penthouse exponentially increased.

rumi had always loved wearing crop tops, but never one with exposed shoulders, arms, or collarbones. rumi's pajama pants had also gotten much, much shorter, her light bluish patterns decorated the exposed skin like a carefully painted minhwa. mira, bless her soul, was often caught staring at rumi's toned stomach or her thighs; with a shade of red on her face matching her hair. rumi could only raise an eyebrow questioningly at their usually direct and blunt main dancer whenever mira started to stammer and gape like a fish.

zoey is a little less hopeless than mira is; not that it's saying much. the maknae fronts a bolder charade when she admires rumi's endearingly beautiful patterns, always putting on her widest grins that matches the sparks in her eyes as she offhandedly tells rumi how pretty their leader look in that off-shoulder cropped tee. rumi would chuckle at their maknae's cheesy compliments, but mira would have a shit-eating smirk at zoey because good god, zoey's grins are so dopey and lovestruck.

(whenever rumi is asleep first while mira and zoey are still at their couch, they would banter about how hopeless each other are)

((rumi on the other side only thinks about how weirdly spacey mira has been lately, and how much cheesier zoey is))

- rumi is eeriely soundless — rumi may be verbally loud (she's the main vocalist now, let's be real), but by god, is she physically soundless.

both mira and zoey had always known rumi has a very light footstep and always snuck up on demons weightlessly, but they never really accounted her soundless movements to her being half demon. yes, Hunters are typically quiet and sneaky when it comes to fighting; zoey is acrobatic in fights, whereas mira is fluid like water. but, rumi? dead silent.

remember when she snuck up on jinu on their first meet on that roof? her steps are so light as she lands; not a single human being–not even Hunters–have that light of a step. and then, rumi did jump scared the hell out of jinu on their second meet, and jinu was a whole ass demon, for god's sake.

the girls actually gets jump scared often by rumi, back when HUNTR/X were trainees and rookies. zoey used to mention how rumi vanished into thin air after they were done with their vocal takes, only to seemingly reappear into the studio behind her. rumi would frown, puzzled by zoey's surprised squeals, because she remembered telling zoey she was going to the toilet earlier.

rumi once walked into the kitchen to find mira cooking jjajjangmyeon for their dinner one night, singing to the music playing from her phone. she peeked behind mira and casually said, "that looks good, mira." and mira jumped out of her skin, ultimately surprising rumi as well. mira's face was pale, and she had a hand on her chest as she leans back at the stove's countertop, while rumi struggled with every inch of her to not laugh because mira started cursing and yelling, "someone ought to put a damn bell on you!"

now that mira and zoey are aware of her half demon nature, rumi likes to be a little shit and abuse her abilities to scare the girls. post horror movie marathon? rumi would soundlessly teleport from one room to another to stand in the dark corner and scare either mira or zoey walking into the room.

mira and zoey, without fail, would scream, "don't randomly teleport to a dark corner like that!!" and rumi would cackle maniacally as she teleports the fuck out of responsibility.

(zoey would whine, "this isn't how i expect rumi to give me heart palpitations!" and mira would groan, "i agree. i'm buying an ankle bell for her tomorrow.")

- rumi's demon eyes glows and reflect light — whenever rumi's demonic eyes flicker subconsciously, it glows a bright golden brownish orange; especially under the sunlight. rumi's eyes flicker when she draws her sword from the honmoon, the shine of the honmoon's energy reflecting on her eyes. mira and zoey finds her glowing eyes hauntingly beautiful and without fail, would pause momentarily, as if stunned.

however, the girls still finds her eyes unnerving at night. not in the bad way, of course, just slightly off-putting.

rumi had finally learned how to use her demon eyes to navigate the dark, night-vision style. she easily gets used to heading to the kitchen in the dead of the night for some water or snacks without ever turning on the lights, because she didn't want to deal with the sudden light changes hurting her hypersensitive eyes.

mira, on one unfortunate night, sleepily went to the kitchen to grab a glass of cold barley tea from the fridge. the hairs on her neck raised in shivers as she senses someone else's presence in the dark kitchen, but she brushes it off. it wasn't until a pair of glowing orbs faces her dead on that she screamed and scrambles to turn on the lights.

let there be light, and behold; a frantically heaving mira on one corner, and a freshly blinded rumi crouching on the other. rumi was groaning as she slowly and painfully readjust herself to the sudden blinding light. mira scrambles in panic towards rumi, shielding her in her shadow, checking in on her. rumi gave her a weak thumbs up once she finally readjusted to her human eyes.

zoey walks in on both of them crouching after hearing the commotion three doors down in her room, puzzled by the scene.

"what happened?" zoey asks.

"mira flash-banged me." rumi weakly replies, sending a soft glare at the pink-haired girl.

to her credit, mira did look guilty. "...sorry, rumi. i'll buy you yangnyeom chicken tomorrow, okay?"

rumi pouts. "tonight."

"i-" mira stammers, glancing at zoey, who doesn't look impressed, siding with pouty rumi. mira groans, defeated. "fine, i'll order it."

- rumi is a big eater — everyone in HUNTR/X knows that demon hunting is an exhausting job, after every mission warrants the girls a hefty portion of food to replenish their energy. that, doubled with their pop star daytime job? it shouldn't be a surprise the girls consume two weeks worth of food in three days.

rumi, however, ate so much more in comparison to mira and zoey combined ever since HUNTR/X's debut years ago. i headcanon that rumi is a bigger savoury tooth than a sweet tooth; having kimchi jjigae AND gamja-tang as her two wintertime comfort foods. her favourite summertime dishes are kimchimari-guksu (cold noodles with kimchi broth) and gulmuchim (fresh oyster seasoned in kimchi style marinade). whenever they tour during summer, bobby would ensure that the girls have their comfort dishes post-shows (in which he had to prepare rumi's gulmuchim days ahead because it's a little hard to come by).

neither girls ever accounted rumi's large appetite being another one of her demon-related traits; rumi used to brush mira's and zoey's puzzled looks towards her portions of food by saying she has an accelerated metabolism.

(which isn't entirely wrong; her demon half burns her energy reserves like gasoline back in the '50s)

mira challenged rumi to ramyeon eating competition to see if she could defeat their purple-haired leader's indomitable record of ten XL cups down in one sitting. mira finally came close to eight and a half cup before tapping out, while rumi chuckling as she easily slurps her eleventh cup, setting yet another new record.

rumi's large appetite baffles and awed jinu when he once appeared out of her sword without her summoning, finding rumi wolfing down her second large bowl of takeout jjampong on her bed. rumi was mid-slurping when he materialized out of thin air, cheeks full of noodles and broth, nearly choking at his sudden appearance.

jinu eyed the other bowl at the foot of her bed. "you eat a lot." he then snickers, amused. "even for a demon's standard."

finally out of her stupor, red-faced rumi yelled, "i'm a Hunter and a k-pop star, for god's sake! demon hunting alone is already exhausting!"

- rumi's voice(s) — pre-idol awards incident, all of them always thought rumi's Hunter's voice is just that hauntingly beautiful and powerful. her ranges and breath control had always been so strong and stable that her voice has such a distinct timbre to it.

it wasn't until one moment a week before their debut that rumi accidentally unleashed her demon echo; an enthralling siren-like whistle note while recording her vocal take. the honmoon quakes in a soft magenta glow that it's rumbles reached celine. the HUNTR/X girls initially assumed it was another demon breach, in which it was; a few demons slipping out and they immediately went to neutralize.

celine summoned her instantly afterwards, pointing out to her that the honmoon reacted to her demon echo. frantically, rumi backtracks to how could she had been so stupid to accidentally let it out, and celine had harshly reprimanded her to never ever let that happen again. keep the demon in check. never let the girls know of her shameful half.

unbeknownst to either of them, rumi's demon echo had always seeps into her voice, blending seamlessly with her Hunter voice. even when she speaks, rumi's voice lulls people into pseudo-trance. the only other people mostly unaffected by her voice are mira, zoey, and celine (then again, rumi doesn't really talk much with celine).

post-idol awards incident, mira and zoey began to notice the slight demon echo under rumi's normal voice, and how much it rumbles in their ears down to their chests. zoey mentioned how much rumi's new demon echo laced vocals suited darker tone songs like Takedown, and joked that if rumi had been the one singing Your Idol instead of the Saja Boys, she would've gladly followed rumi to the underworld.

mira had the most appalled expression upon hearing zoey's thinly veiled confession; it was a little crass that she was worried rumi would take offense or hurt at it. rumi's eyes did widen and her jaw dropped slightly at zoey's joke, and mira was about to jump into reprimanding zoey, who'd already started realizing how insensitive she might've sounded. but out of her expectations, rumi instead blushed and laughed; full blown and head thrown back.

and again, out of both of their expectations, rumi smirks and teases with her demon echo, "if you wanted me to sing you dark lullabies to fulfill your demon fantasy, zoey, you should've just said so."

this time, zoey was the one who blushed ten shades darker than mira's hair. mira on the other edge of the couch wasn't faring well either, facepalming to hide her undeniably hot cheeks because what the fuck why is her demon echo THAT damn attractive why is rumi this fucking attractive why am i so turned on WHAT WHO SAID THAT

- rumi's patterns, pt.2 — as we know, rumi's patterns glow differently after she accepts her demon half and released her shame; she glows a bluish crystalline glow as opposed of demonic purple. rumi's patterns definitely glows together with her demon eyes, and it echoes her emotions.

mira and zoey always find rumi's smile blinding and bright before, but now that her patterns are out for them to see? rumi seems to glow instead, like a firefly in summer nights. like the brightest star in an otherwise dark night sky, and it twists a tug in their hearts in the best way possible.

rumi glows a bright goldish shine when she's happy or elated at the girls, flickers a darker hue of blood-red when she's angered, and recently (for some reasons the girls not yet known) a bright pink hue. the girls might not pinpoint what rumi was feeling yet, but rumi did. she glows bright pink when she's jealous, for some reason. she doesn't even know why she was jealous; they were recalling about how the Saja Boys were all kind of flirty with mira and zoey at the joint fan signing event, and rumi started glowing pink.

"whoa, what is going on, rumi?" mira was the first to notice, eyeing rumi up and down with concern.

"huh?" rumi responded with barely any eloquency.

zoey then points at her, blubbering like a fish. "y-you're... pink...?"

rumi looks down on her limbs, and indeed she was glowing pink. "huh." was all she could manage, piecing the puzzles in her mind.

mira and zoey starts playing a game every time rumi start to glow a different colour that they haven't catalogued yet, guessing what emotions she might be feeling judging from the colour.