General KPop Demon Hunters things

[htgriffin]

Seems to have come up a bit on the Story Rants thread, so....

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Just a random thought: I notice a lot of people speak of Bobby as a father figure to HUNTR/X but... am I the only one who has a lot of trouble picturing the dude as even pushing forty? More likely 10-12 years Rumi's senior, old enough not to be blown off reflexively when yelling at network heads but only just.

 

[LEGENDARYNOT]

I saw a portrayals of him as a former idol, don't actually know if it's canon or not

 

[S.I.N]

Seems to have come up a bit on the Story Rants thread, so....

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Just a random thought: I notice a lot of people speak of Bobby as a father figure to HUNTR/X but... am I the only one who has a lot of trouble picturing the dude as even pushing forty? More likely 10-12 years Rumi's senior, old enough not to be blown off reflexively when yelling at network heads but only just.

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Bobby is 34 apparently but it's probably because his VA is ken jong so you imagine him older.

But yes he would be closer to a older brother then dad but it's understandable why people feel that way dude has dad energy.

 

[Soupervan]

Never heard of this one before but demons going after celebrities- perhaps because they have more faith energy than priests in modern times- and the demon hunters turning it around on them by training up the celebrities to fight them seems like an amazing idea.

 

[cliffc999]

It's more that there's a Korean shamanic tradition of using ceremonial music and dancing to cast protective rituals over villages, and over the generations one line of demon hunters has consistently trained their successors to be entertainers because the larger the audiences, the more the rituals scale up. The latest generation are Huntrix, a three girl kpop band who are one of the most famous acts in the world, so they are cranking more power than any of their predecessors and will soon make the protective barrier that keeps demons out of the human realm impenetrable.

So the demons embark on a desperate plan, and that's the plot of the movie.

Admittedly the girls also have anime martial arts and fight demons with magic lightsabers but hey, why not.

 

[cliffc999]

An observation about the final scene that isn't directly lampshaded on-screen, but notably recontextualizes both the backstage confrontation and the final showdown.

From AO3, in the comments of the fic 'Perennial'

All of What It Sound Like is just INFINITELY softer when you remember that MIRA AND ZOEY DON'T KNOW. They CANNOT POSSIBLY know Rumi's backstory; they reacted badly in the first place because of the intensely condemning patterns, and Rumi was in no place to explain.

They think they're forgiving her for betraying every ideal they ever fought for and selling her soul to the demon king and lying to them to cover it up, and the moment she comes back for them, they forgive her anyway.

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Because Rumi never got the chance to tell them that she was only half-demon, remember? As far as they know, that's not even a possibility. The only explanation within Mira and Zoey's scope of knowledge for how a person they've known for years can suddenly have patterns is if she's done a deal with Gwi-Ma, a la Jinu's deal.

No wonder they reach for it. No wonder they emotionally collapse so hard afterwards, as soon as Rumi's run and it sinks into them just how wrong things have gone. That scene hits entirely differently once you realize that Mira and Zoey aren't reacting badly to finding out their friend is mixed-race, they're horrified that apparently one of the people they've trusted more than anyone else in the world has betrayed them.

And they still reconnect with Rumi the instant she looks like she's fighting against Gwi-Ma now, they just wanted their sister back that much. Yeah, that scene's one for the onion ninjas.

The reaction for when they find out later that Rumi never actually did anything wrong and this whole mess is only because Celine raised Rumi with the worst mental health advice ever is probably going to be epic, though.

Rumi: Mira, what are you doing?
Mira: (manifesting her spirit weapon) I just want to talk to her.

 

[S.I.N]

An observation about the final scene that isn't directly lampshaded on-screen, but notably recontextualizes both the backstage confrontation and the final showdown.

From AO3, in the comments of the fic 'Perennial'



Because Rumi never got the chance to tell them that she was only half-demon, remember? As far as they know, that's not even a possibility. The only explanation within Mira and Zoey's scope of knowledge for how a person they've known for years can suddenly have patterns is if she's done a deal with Gwi-Ma, a la Jinu's deal.

No wonder they reach for it. No wonder they emotionally collapse so hard afterwards, as soon as Rumi's run and it sinks into them just how wrong things have gone. That scene hits entirely differently once you realize that Mira and Zoey aren't reacting badly to finding out their friend is mixed-race, they're horrified that apparently one of the people they've trusted more than anyone else in the world has betrayed them.

And they still reconnect with Rumi the instant she looks like she's fighting against Gwi-Ma now, they just wanted their sister back that much. Yeah, that scene's one for the onion ninjas.

The reaction for when they find out later that Rumi never actually did anything wrong and this whole mess is only because Celine raised Rumi with the worst mental health advice ever is probably going to be epic, though.

Rumi: Mira, what are you doing?
Mira: (manifesting her spirit weapon) I just want to talk to her.

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Yeah their reaction to why Rumi is so mentally fucked up is not going to be pretty it's clear from their joking around about how theirs no chance in hell they would actually ask Celine for help with rumi voice that the girls don't like dealing with her on serious situations so yeah this would probably be of fucking course this is Celine fault.

 

[S.I.N]

Actually no I need to focus on that for a bit.

Can we process how fucked up that actually is that Zoey and Mira both immediately came to the conclusion they wouldn't want to ask Celine for help? This is supposed to essentially be Rumi mother a retired idol and their mentor and rumi being possibly sick and losing her voice they say we are not telling her asking her for help and will hide this is such a fucking red flag it's not even funny.

 

[cliffc999]

To be fair the girls had already rejected the option of simply cancelling performances until Rumi eventually recovered, which would almost certainly be Celine's advice as well. So it doesn't have to be 'they considered her absolutely horrid', it could be the simpler 'the children are not telling the parental unit about the problem because they already know what the parent would order them to do and they don't want to do it'.