#thirdlight

Eventually miyeong goes to help Hana up, the older hunter didn't even realize she was on the ground when celine looked at her. Miyeong admits she never thought she'd see a celine that looked their age, Hana agrees as the fear starts to fade along with the pressure. It still clings to her bones like a chill that won't go away, but it s hard to be terrified of a woman who has a twenty year old woman koala d on her with two other young women talked at her a mile a minute.

Miyeong does tell Hana that Zoey is right, the other celine is a milf. Hana scolds her reminding her she's married. Miyeong laughs it off by reminding Hana they're technically open, and that Hana knows that personally which shuts her up.

Eventually things calm down, huntrix introduces othertrix along with, miyeong, Hana, and ryon to MC. They go inside the compound and get celine caught up with the whole other world situation. She takes the other her being the queen of demons surprisingly well, but Hana and miyeong and see it does bother her. Even after years and being from another dimension, MC has the same tells as their celine.

Then celine is asked questions, mostly by othertrix. The thing is, when they initially met huntrix, they were curious, but while the world was different the two groups are still very similar at their cores. Othertrix is basically a more muted version of huntrix. But celine is a whole new person, they never really get to talk to DQCeline so a good version of her seems like a brand new person.

Celine mostly echos huntrix's version but with more info on the timeliness between the sunlight sisters breakup and huntrix forming, she's intentionally light on the details. Basically after miyeong died and Hana retired, celine kept the honmoon going. She went solo, raised rumi, and protected the world from demons.

Hana is sick from the idea that her other self just left celine to not only raise rumi alone but fought against demons alone. She can tell there's more, MC wouldn't try to kill her onsight if there wasn't more. Celine eventually admits that she's exhausted, she's an old woman who performed a ritual that was supposed to take 3 hunters solo, she's tired. Othertrix grudgingly let's her rest other Zoe offering her bunk for her to recooperate in, but celine turns her down of course. It's not like the compound is lacking space even with 4 additional guests so MC goes to rest.

Miyeong tries to talk to Hana who brushes her off saying she has to meditate and think on the events of the day. So she retreats to her spot in the compound that is her secret area that the others know is her spot. It's strange that the demon queen visiting isn't the strangest thing that happened that day.

While she's Grappling with the thought of abandoning one of her soulmates to face all of gwi ma's forces alone after just losing her other one doesn't sound real. But her thoughts are interrupted by MC who sneaks up on her, MC says she knew Hana would be here.

Hana says she comes out here to meditate, celine opens a secret panel to reveal a mostly empty bottle of expensive soju and says, 'right meditating.' Hana forgot that celine was with her when they found their teachers secret stash. Hana tries to come up with excuses, but celine says she won't judge. On a day like today Hana needs the bottle, she forgoes a glass and drinks straight from the bottle. After a long pull she offers the bottle to celine but MC politely turns her down.

Hana says that's surprising, she remembers celine drinking all the time when they were younger. The public had the image of celine as a perfect angel, but she was a party girl since they debuted. It never interfered with either of their jobs, but it had gotten pretty bad when miyeong told them she was pregnant. Hana scoffs saying the celine isn't even from this world and she's making her look bad.

Mc says she's been sober since rumi was born, she emphasizes you can't be a drunk while raising a kid. That she was fucked up in the head enough with hell literally breaking loose, she couldn't do it in the bottle. Hana knows about celines parents, about why she had hidden scars before she started hunter training. She puts the bottle down and back in her hiding place, the alcohol didn't feel like a bandaid when she was sitting their with a celine she didn't want to kill, it felt like a noose.

They sit there quietly for a moment, just enjoying the other's company even if they are technically strangers. MainCeline opens up first and apologizes, she says that when she saw her, she shouldn't have tried to attack her, even if she didn't get the chance.

Hana is shocked because it doesn't feel real, that Celine is apologizing to her, that she wants to accept because for a moment it would put her heart at ease. Hana asks why, MC just says that she isn't the one she's mad at, she's not the one who...

Hana starts breaking down in tears, something she hasn't done in front of another person in decades. She says MC doesn't owe her an apology, after hearing the stories of how she raised Rumi, became a CEO and solo artist, all while being the only Hunter in her world, is amazing, while Hana views herself as a failure. Yes, the Honmoon existed until Othertrix could take over and debut, but she knows in her heart it's because QueenCeline let it happen. If Gwi-Ma had been the one in charge, they would have been overwhelmed and the world would belong to the demons.

Hana is putting MainCeline on a pedestal because of the stories she's heard from Huntrix and from MC's description of what happened after the worlds changed. She views MC as a better hunter, a better mentor since Huntrix is much better than Othertrix in so many ways, and just a better person.

Celine bitterly laughs it off since she's a failure too in her own eyes. She did her duty, she raised Rumi, she fought demons to maintain the honmoon and protect the innocent, and she managed to raise the next generation. But, she starts to tremble, she made her own daughter feel unloved, unwanted, that she was broken when she's been perfect from the first moment Celine laid eyes upon her. She wanted to protect Rumi, but only ended up pushing her to the point where she wanted to die, that she asked Celine to kill her.

It's hard for Celine to say, it's hard for Hana to hear but it's also kind of cathartic. Hana asks why MC came to talk with her of all people. Celine says because she owed Hana an apology, it was strange seeing her after all these years, Other Hana might be used to seeing Celine's face every now and then when she fought Queen Celine, but it's been years since MainCeline was forced to look into the face of someone she hated and loved so much.

Hana asks if Celine ever was romantic with her Hana, or Miyeong, since Hana had loved them since before their debut. She knew Celine loved them too, but was too scared to act on her feelings. MC says it was the same for her, she loved them both so much but was too much of a coward to act on her feelings. Celine goes on to mention she was still a dumb smitten puppy with them, that they could ask her for the moon and she'd do it to make them smile. well, anything and everything but one, there was one thing her Hana asked her to do that she just couldn't. She would have ripped her heart out of her chest if Hana asked, but not that.

Hana feels sick to her stomach as she guesses in her head what her doppelganger asked Celine to do. She doesn't voice it though, she can't say the words. Despite everything that had gone wrong with her life, she never thought Rumi was one.

Celine changes the subject, to move on to her counterpart. Her girls seem to think that she can be saved, she wants her and Miyeong's opinion before making a choice. Celine admits that she kind of thinks they should just kill her and be done with it, which despite trying to do the same for years shocks Hana. They'd been fighting for years, at least she has, but despite it all, she can't imagine a world without Celine. She had to deal with that once, like the world had lost it's color, despite her choosing to become the demon queen, part of her was happy any version of Celine existed. To hear her own other world counterpart speak so casually of killing her, it does something to Hana.

Hana tells MC that she genuinely doesn't know, whenever they see each other she operates on instinct and muscle memory so she doesn't have to think about it. In front of her girls and Miyeong she's so gungho about killing QueenCeline because it's what a hunter does. But in her heart she knows that Celine is going easy on them, she didn't have to confront those thoughts until MainRumi called her out on it, but she's not an idiot, she knew. It was easier to burried the feelings of love under hate and betrayal instead of trying to figure out why Queen Celine is doing what she's doing.

Hana admits that a good hunter would kill her, what hunter in the last 400 years would pass up a chance to the Demon Queen. Celine mentions that she's never been a very good hunter, but they just sit there quietly after all that. Thinking on the quiet between them.

So I hope you like this, feel free to make comments and ask questions, I love talking about my works even if this is more notes than a story

This was kind of a correction for how I think I portrayed Hana from my earlier posts. She's not the villain of this story, she's just a more extreme version of how I view MainCeline. She loves the girls, she loves Miyeong, she begrudgingly loves Ryon as a member of her strange family, but she is so broken after the initial years that Gwi-Ma sent his armies when it was mostly her protecting the world she can't really show it. She wasn't able to encourage Othertrix to be closer than companions instead of soulmates because DQCeline's betrayal shook her so badly.

The way I view it, despite her failings, Celine succeeded in her duty, she maintained the Honmoon, she fought demons, and she trained the next generation. Her big failure was as a mother (to a certain extent) and caused no small part of Rumi's mental issues that almost doomed the world. However, before that, Huntrix was almost going to turn the Honmoon gold (I don't like the idea that doing so would hurt Rumi, or do anything badly, I don't even think it would remove her patterns but that's me and how it will be viewed from this story) and Huntrix as a group is specatcular compared to past hunters. Hana on the other hand is a failure in the literal sense, she was overwhelmed and the Honmoon and world would fall to Gwi-Ma if not for Demon Queen Celine devouring him and taking his place as the queen of demons. Othertrix is an adequate group as hunters and idols, but inferior to Huntrix, which just makes Hana feel like more of a failure not knowing Celine's shortcomings until now.

Despite Celine's shortcomings, I believe she is the most dangerous hunters in their history as I mention in this post. I believe in the avengers level threat celine, since she was able to start a company (which I know is fandom not canon), raised a daughter even with shortcomings, was a solo artist (again headcanon and fandom, but it's my headcanon) , while being the one hunter against Gwi-Ma's hordes and maintaining the Honmoon. She might be fucked up in the head, but she is a deadly hunter and probably the most dangerous creature in both worlds (human and demon, not the different dimensions which I get are confusing). Her failures keep her from allowing herself to call Rumi her daughter, she only calls her it when it slips out or when she's with someone, like Other Hana, who literally exists in another world. Her self loathing is even stronger than she is

MainRumi does view Celine as her mother, even if she was always gently scolded by Celine every time she called her eomma because Celine thinks she doesn't have a right to be Rumi's mother as I posted earlier.

Polylight could have and would have happened if they were all a bit braver, if the world was a bit kinder, but part of the tragedy is that they all loved each other, but love unfortunately wasn't enough and Miyeong giving birth to Rumi is set in stone and time.