One_Way_Return



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    Four teams, one Tournament - with everything to play for.

    When Rumi gets the chance to make amends with her childhood best-friend-turned-rival, Zoey, she jumps at it with both hands. If the intimidating Lieutenant Mira Kang is part of that deal, well, Rumi can live with that. Especially when Kang's got a plan that Rumi thinks could turn this whole damn system on its head.

    But as Rumi knows all too well, good things don't last. Zoey and Mira aren't out to change the world; they're out to save Rumi.

    Rumi has no interest in being saved, if she can't bring her people with her. She'll die down here in the dirt before she leaves them behind.

    Mira and Zoey won't stop fighting for her. Rumi can't bring herself to do the right thing, and step away. How far can she push it before it all goes up in flames and she loses them both, all over again? Can she even keep them alive, when a crueller eye than they understand turns its gaze upon them?

    The game's about to start, take your places please. There's no such thing as winning, in the end.

    Unless they change the world.

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    14 Aug 2026

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    I dont like sports, but I do love this sports dystopia

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    Rumi startled awake to a scream. It was a sound she’d never heard before, and one that chilled her to her very core.

    “Mama?” she whimpered, rubbing her heavy eyes.

    The scream came again, and Rumi flinched. In front of her Derpy had jumped to his feet, back arched, fur standing on end as he hissed and spat at something in the garden.

    Rumi thought the scream sounded like Mama. Though she’d never heard her scream, she had heard Mama call her name a million times. And it sounded like she had screamed Rumi’s name.

    Suddenly, Rumi found herself airborne. A sickly purple glow wrapped around her, and long clawed fingers circled her ribcage.

    The distance grew between herself and Mama with those clawed hands dragging her away.

    “Mi-yeong?! Rumi?!” The deeper voice of Eomma rang out in their small back garden.

    “Celine! Get Rumi! They want Rumi!” Mama screeched. “They came for Rumi, and I can’t reach her!"

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    18 Jul 2026

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    Baby Rumi gets kidnapped and grows up in the demon realm

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    Pre-Debut AU: After a tense year of training, auditions, and zero progress towards sealing the Honmoon, Rumi and Mira finally find a clue as to where to find their third member. Unfortunately for them, that means a trip to Los Angeles without any buffers between them.
    Rumi has secrets.
    Mira has a short fuse.
    Zoey has anxiety because things are finally working out for her and all of a sudden there's this hot couple that keeps showing up and flirting with her and running away but also encouraging her to show all of the parts she's struggling to keep hidden and she's barely holding things together as it is.

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    Insecurity via comedy of errors; Zoey is insecure about being too much and too weird, Rumi is insecure about if she’s actually fit to be a leader and being out in the world for the first time, Mira is insecure about why Rumi keeps her at arms length all of the time and whether she actually stands a chance of being more than someone to criticize.

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    11 Jul 2026

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    Rumi&Mira go to US to find Zoey with tons of pressure from shitty parent Celine

  4. Public Bookmark 23

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    To save Zoey from whatever spiral she was sinking into, Rumi prompts. “So uh, how’s my honey latte thing coming?”

    “Oh!” Zoey hesitates. “I actually have three of them, I just can’t decide which foam design I think you’d like best.”

    Three drinks.

    Interesting.

    After graduating early from high school, Zoey moves to Korea with her father to work at her grandparent's coffee shop. Rumi works as an intern at Sunlight entertainment, quietly scouting for her fellow demon hunters. The Honmoon doesn’t so much bring them together so much as it’s forced to bear witness to their bumbling attempts at friendship.

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    How Rumi finds Zoey

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    07 Jun 2026

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    After they turn the Honmoon gold, Rumi's patterns don't disappear. Instead, she does, leaving Zoey and Mira to grapple with her presumed death.

    Until she crash lands back into their lives, feral, bloodied, and broken, forcing them to confront not just new threats to their world, but the trauma she left behind.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    Get all the major character death angst without the major character death sad ending!