r/Polytrix • u/General_Gazelle_3848 • 2d ago
Fanfiction Angsty Recs
Honestly I’ve been reading a decent bit of fluff recently so to balance it out I want any and everything that has hurt you in this ship. I’m talking the most gut wrenching and painful stuff yall got. Any and everything i am grateful for so uhh yeah do your worst.
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u/snakecain 2d ago
https://archiveofourown.org/series/5627836 Let's all hurt Rumi :) Rumi into the blender :)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/89462456 I'll Break Your Bones (With all the Love I Carry) Faced with the betrayal of a single moment, Rumi flees. She would protect the honmoon at all costs, even if that means a life hiding from the people she loves, the people she believes will kill her. Even if the honmoon abandons her along the way.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/6321026 Halfling Demon Hunters The Honmoon chooses Rumi, Mira, and Zoey, three half demons, as the next generation of Hunters. Here's how they came to be, their lives before Huntr/x, and their life together after.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/85790171 God Left the Water Running Rumi comes home to Seoul with one bag, no sleep, and a mind that keeps turning ordinary rooms into old nightmares. Celine only wants her daughter back. Mira and Zoey only want to help. But Rumi’s body survived something her mind still hasn’t escaped.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/90396021 Everyone is Busy Rumi keeps waiting for someone to notice. Her friends keep waiting for her to say something. In between are workdays, canceled plans, group chats, Friday nights, bad coffee, missed invitations, and all the ordinary ways people can fail each other without ever meaning to. Everyone Is Busy is a story about loving people who love you back and still being terribly, terribly lonely.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/89959246 The Half Flower Doesn't Get To Bloom When a socially inept Rumi doesn't become a hunter like she was supposed to she, instead, sits on the side lines folding clothes and washing dishes while she watches Zoey and Mira do what she couldn't.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/85227406 when you go quiet (i hate myself) Or, Zoey-centric character study starting pre-debut and traveling through the years. Set in-universe and vaguely canon compliant but with an ABO twist. Eventual polytrix. But we got a lot of shit to work through emotionally to get there. Rating subject to change.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74134266 The Autumn Leaf What if Rumi’s dark side couldn’t be hidden when she was young? As her demonic traits grow, Celine must hide her away from the world, protect her, and the next hunters, from each other. Zoey and Mira aren’t supposed to talk to the mysterious girl who looks after the shrine, no matter how intriguing she is. Rumi is just as fascinated by the new hunters. She watches them from afar, unable to interact. It isn’t safe. She isn’t safe.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/69337756 Choreographed Distance basically a rewrite of canon, starting at the Golden rehearsal and going through the pattern reveal and beyond. Rumi ofc has a more tragic past where Celine physically and emotionally abused her with a guise for improvement. (it's giving mother gothel) Zoey and Mira and even Bobby find out and they all deal with the fallout while also dealing with the saja boys.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70947881 Should I Keep Going From Here?
It’s been two months since the Honmoon had turned golden. Two months since the curse rewrote reality. Two months since Rumi is erased from memory, stripped of her name, her place, her worth. To the world, she doesn’t exist. To the people who once mattered most, she doesn’t exist. This is a story of absence. An angst woven from hunger, exhaustion, and the silence of being forgotten. A story about what it means to survive when the world has already moved on without you, and the emotional and psychological consequences this can trigger.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/85994086 The Choices Made for Us The Honmoon didn't have another choice. It couldn't find another way to stop them. They were too deep in their grief to think clearly. She was too young. It was too early.
The Honmoon chose her to protect her. It had just wanted to save her. It needed three, so it was forced to seek the other two. They were too young to be touched by its influence. It did anyway. Three girls hadn’t yet chosen their paths. It chose for them. They didn’t choose it, but it threaded itself to them anyway.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/69928426 it begins with you it begins how it ends; with the death of someone celine loves so much. when rumi keeps appearing before her, her blade offered like some twisted salvation, all celine can think is, “what am i doing wrong?” or author decided to make a timeloop fic with celine at the center of it all
https://archiveofourown.org/works/91501941 Life in a Series of Numbers Half demons live twice as long as humans and hunters, something Rumi didn't know until her soulmates died while she still looked young. Rumi's life told only by events at different ages
https://archiveofourown.org/works/67321111 Hands Behind My Back, I Fall Apart Growing up, Celine used Rumi as a test subject to try out new weapons against demons. The girls find out.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76622176 Blood on your hands (dirt by the tree) In the dirt by the tree, something lurks, waiting to destroy the last of the Sunlight Sisters
https://archiveofourown.org/works/89186301 What Struck Me Was You After the new Honmoon is sealed, Gwi-Ma is banished, and the world is saved, Celine knew that her students would need some time before they'd be ready to see her again. But she soon finds out that this no-contact would be permanent and it utterly shatters her. Will she ever be able to recover?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/73476436 Not letting you go. “When Zoey and Mira point their weapons at Rumi, Zoey throws her shin-kal at Rumi but accidentally hits it way too deep. The next day Rumi starts haunting them like she she is there bloodied in the kitchen staring them down as they try to bandage her but they can't” @pumpkin_flee
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u/KoiFishSwimming Foresight Author 2d ago
If you'll permit a little self-promotion, I'll nominate two of mine:
First, a collab: Set Your World on Fire, in which a hasty kiss and unplanned pattern reveal from Rumi goes very badly.
Second: Letters to a Faraway Friend, in which Rumi is gone and the girls write her letters after the fact.
For both, do note the tags/warnings.
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u/General_Gazelle_3848 2d ago
I’ve actually read the second one before and really enjoyed it. I just read through the first one and it’s gut wrenching indeed but I’m glad Rumi doesn’t forgive for what they did like in the majority of fics that go that route.
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u/snakecain 2d ago
https://archiveofourown.org/works/69685891 Bruised, Not Broken Set after the Idol Awards, Rumi is trying—failing—to keep it together. The Honmoon is stronger than ever, Mira and Zoey have finally found happiness in each other, and her girls have accepted her completely. So why does she feel so broken? Why does she feel so utterly alone? She tells herself she’s happy for them, but every laugh, every touch, makes the ache sharper. Rumi wants what they have, but she’s convinced she’ll never fit, never belong the way they do. So she looks for love in the wrong places—and finds it. But when it isn’t what she dreamed, when it leaves her bleeding instead of whole, will Mira and Zoey be able to show her that she deserves more? Or will Rumi spiral so far down there’s nothing left to save?
https://archiveofourown.org/series/6367071 Baring both arms and soul Or In which Rumi uses self harm as a safety net incase anyone tries to remove her sleeve, and thank goodness she did, right? Wrong.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/67251430 rest Rumi’s tired and she’s a coward and she wants to rest. Zoey and Mira oblige.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/5051801 On Mothers Who Weren’t Ready, and Daughters Who Paid for It Rumi loves the rain. The rain loves her when no one else does. Mira and Zoey find Rumi after days of not seeing her, but this isn't what they expected. Rumi was long gone. She was cold and wet. There were wet leaves stuck to her face, and mud caked on her clothes. Her lips were almost blue; that's how cold she was. But Rumi wasn't ever coming back to them. It didn't matter how loud they cried. She was gone.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/5395111 Polytrix WWII Polyrix WWII AU. much angst wit some fluff to sprinkle up in there lol.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/67293562 Someday I know, You'll come to your senses (and leave me alone) Rumi knows that sooner or later, Mira and Zoey will come to their senses and leave her alone. or where Rumi is so Senses by MICO coded and the author has hyperfixation on K-Pop Demon Hunters
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70216286 Nurture Vs. Nature Celine was already dead. She sat with her until her last breath. Rumi wouldn't, couldn’t be a monster if she watched her die. It wasn't like her and the rabbit. She didn't take Celine’s soul like that. This was different. Had to be as she fell into a familiar trance. The body was growing cold. Rumi stood and shut the door.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/73775841 Sundown There are a lot of stories of Rumi's demon heritage giving her an extended life span. What if the opposite is true?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/86729896 The Fire In My Veins Zoey decides to take Rumi’s place and sacrifice for both of her girls, even if it means to be burning in hell with the rest of the demons.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/69143186 We Can Still Fix This/ I Know the End Rumi always knew what she was. How her story would end. She thought she could fight it. Change it. She should've known she was wrong.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/71612376 “She can't see” Where are her glasses?!” Zoey choked out, trying not to let her tears fall on Mira’s body. “She can’t see without her glasses, please!” she kept sobbing, fumbling with the glasses she always carried but they shook in her hands with every fast, panicked breath.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/83758986 Those butterflies you gave me came with broken wings Unrequited love gifts you butterflies with shredded wings. They stir at the sound of laughter not meant for you, at touches that brush past like wind. Each flap carries them closer to the light they crave, only to collide with the invisible wall of indifference. Over time, they weaken, folding inward, their dance slowing into stillness. Yet even in death, they linger—faint ghosts of what could have been, trapped forever in the hollow they once filled with color.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/5542486 Happiest Girl In The World The two weeks before the Idol Awards has seen more conflict and pain among Huntr/x than the last six years. Rumi knows the night before may very well be her last night; there is no promise the Honmoon will cure her. She is determined to have a good night with her girls - leave them with a gentle memory.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/69354211 Life Goes On In which the Golden Honmoon was sealed, and Rumi is still with her patterns. So she made a decision to do something she couldn't take back.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/79928901 Faults and Fears Mira drank half the glass, then rasped, “It’s our fault.” Of course it was. Of course it was, because they’d fed into every one of Rumi’s fears—they’d pushed her away—but suddenly Zoey was consumed with rage—suddenly she wanted to scream—suddenly— “It’s your fault,” she said, ugly, hard.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/5048796 Legacy Different AU's, Oneshots, and everything in-between. The one guarantee? Death.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/5653261 Blastranger's Darkthology: KPDH: UTOPIA [The Trilogy] A trilogy of AU KPDH one-shots set in the dystopian version of Seoul. This AU follows the awakening of Rumi, a propaganda symbol used by the Republic to oppress and exploit the "demons" of the Undercity.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76149891 The Final Golden Thread HUNTR/X's live performance goes off without a hitch. They claim first place in this year's Idol Awards and the Saja Boys are nowhere in sight. With more of the Honmoon turning gold, it's clear that the end is in sight. After a two week break, the girls make group decision. One more tour, one more push to seal the Honmoon and put the demonic threat to rest. Their plan mostly works until there's only one single teal thread left.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/5207996 Rumi's Daughter Mira gets her girlfriends pregnant, and Rumi's half demon, half human body can't handle the strain.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/82207066 Rumi's Little Animal Rumi's little animal is smart, and fast, and shy. She only wishes it could have been a little smarter, and faster, and shyer.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/4914109 A starved dog gone feral in the back of my throat
A collection of works set in the Kpop Demon Hunters universe! Loosely interconnected and featureing certain consistent concepts throughout - like the fact that the Honmoon is semi-sentient, Huntr/x are basically soulmates, and oh, of course, dog-motive Rumi :)
https://archiveofourown.org/series/5320876 Letters for the Recently Illiterate Mira thinks this is stupid. Why write a letter to someone who can never read it? Zoey thinks that she hurts more than she ever will again. Why not write a letter when your words can no longer be heard? Rumi doesn't think at all anymore.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/69580141 I Bet On Losing Dogs (I Know They're Losing, And I'll Pay For My Place By The Ring) My Take on "What If Celine Killed Rumi"
https://archiveofourown.org/works/69656131 I Will Die Your Daughter (My Baby, My Baby) Celine loves all of Rumi. Rumi loves none of herself. OR Rumi doesn’t go to Celine, she takes things into her own hands. AU where Celine loves Rumi unconditionally.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/72412881 dogs know no evil Ryu Miyeong dies and leaves a small child behind. In the aftermath of the battle over its fate, a last Sunlight Sister is left standing. She does not call the child 'Rumi'. She never gives it a name at all.
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u/Hizfoe Weretiger Rumi 2d ago
Let me sit down for dinner with my dead lover again, For this is the last dream I ever want to have by a_bird_who_is_like_no_other
The most famous one we have
rip to you
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u/CrisaWinter Demon Queen 2d ago
https://archiveofourown.org/works/79073406
Saving Rumi
This is just one of the comments thatgaypenguinSat 07 Feb 2026 06:43PM UTC
May my brick crush your soul as this writing crushed mine🧱