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Seokjin and his 6 babies

Golden Maknae

Poll – pick your fave KPop Demon Hunters song

•   Golden
•   Soda Pop

Vantae

Isn’t this you just asking us to choose between huntrix and saja boys

In which case im gonna support my girls all the way to the end

Golden deserves so much better

Mochimin

Agreed

Like something like Soda pop shouldn’t have dethroned something as amazing as Golden

I really don’t get it

Hopie

Hey! Soda pop is fun

And you guys don’t get to act like its not great when I can see the two of you moving your shoulders along to the music

Mochimin

You don’t get to play dirty like this Hobi hyung by playing the music

What did you expect me to do when I hear my little soda pop ~

Sit still like a statue?

Sugasweet

Can I take a moment to ask what even a soda pop is

And why you would call someone their little soda pop

Also why little as opposed to big

Why cant it be my big soda pop

WWshoulders

Can I take a moment to clarify to the readers why we are texting while sitting right next to each other

Just to be the responsible mat-hyung for atleast a few thousand words

PresidentMon

I was going to call you out for breaking the fourth wall, hyung

But given the cause

Fair

Mochimin

But before you do

Vantae

Let us set the stage for you

Mochimin

It’s ten in the evening in the bangtan dorm

(and shh yeah maybe we’re all not living together now but for all purposes of this fic the dorm still exists when we need to be in the same space)

There’s a bowl of cleanly finished ramen on the table

Atleast ten empty soju bottles

And a plate with kimbap crumbs that one Jungkook is eying hungrily

Vantae

The frozen TV screen displays the end credits for KPop Demon Hunters

Hobi hyung is playing soda pop to prove his point very unfairly

Quite underhanded for our honorable dance leader

Sugasweet

The most important detail of all would be the way the tannies are vegetable frittered along the living room, close enough that most of us can see into each other’s phone screens and every single word that’s being typed

Hopie

(Another detail is that we’re wearing Jin hyung’s angel and demon pyjamas split into vocal line and rap line)

Its not important to the scene I’m just pointing it out because I’m a little sad I wasn’t given angel pyjamas

And no Jungkook pls don’t take off your pair that’s not what this was about I’m just joking

PresidentMon

(cause this is fun)

That leads us to the question of why we are texting each other instead of talking like normal people

Like there’s zombies lurking outside our door ready to break it down at the slightest noise

(No the reason isn’t that dramatic)

WWshoulders

Can’t believe you guys stole my thunder but okay

So

We’re texting instead of talking cause Jungkookie pretty much lost his voice and he’s been advised by the doctor to not talk for the next week

And we’re doing the same in solidarity (post clearing all our schedules for our mini break) so no one gets to say a single word for the next week unless they’re ready to pay for the next ten company dinners

(Drastic measures yes)

Golden Maknae

You guys really don’t need to

Im fine honestly

I can do this on my own

Hopie

We don’t mind, Koo! Don’t worry

Besides it’s good practice to make us appreciate our voices more!

PresidentMon

Anyways now that the fourth wall breaking is over and we’ve established that Kook is completely okay with us doing this for our own good

Golden Maknae

I actually haven’t but whatever you say, hyung

Vantae

*whispers* whipped

WWshoulders

Holds out sign that has a striked out “Paws off my man” and says instead “Wanna be our third”?

Sugasweet

It’s interesting how Koo looks five seconds away from combusting from embarrassment every time you hold up that sign even though its been a year

You’d assume one would have gotten desensitized by this point

PresidentMon

Can we stop harassing the maknae and get to the point

Which is that sodapop and golden /cannot/ be compared because they belong to two completely different genres

And that they’re both great in their own ways

And that they both suit different moods

WWshoulders

I can make them both fit the same mood

Sugasweet

Hyung

Please

We did not need to know that

It’s bad enough that Tae and Jimin do not have the concept of keeping a closed door

WWshoulders

I meant cooking!

I could play them both while making kimchi jjigae!

It’s not my fault you guys are a mess

Yaah park jimin don’t wink at kim Taehyung

Vantae

Ooh jiminie hyung brought out the legal names

Mochimin

Ooh that’s so what he meant then XD

PresidentMon

Somedays I feel like we’ve gotten wayyy too comfortable with each other

But back to the point!

Golden Maknae

The point has been long dead hyung

I appreciate you trying to revive the poll though

Or atleast talk about it

PresidentMon

Sigh

I give up

But my final point is that /Golden/ and /Soda Pop/ cannot be compared

That would be like comparing /Sea/ and /Boy with Luv/ which are both amazing songs in their own right

Sugasweet

That reminds me that they absolutely copied our boys with luv outfits

The Saja boys would have been buried by the news outlets before the honmoon if this happened in real life

Mochimin

And the antis

(Personally I feel like we did it so much better)

Hopie

But also

Since we are on the topic of parallels between the movie and us

I would like to point out that Koo losing his voice parallels *spoiler alert* what happens to Rumi

Golden Maknae

I’m no demon hunter hyungdeul pls

I can barely keep myself alive

Sugasweet

But oooh

If you think about it

Koo has tattoos

Are you hiding your patterns through your tattoos

WWshoulders

If that’s the path we’re going down

I call dibs on Jinu just because I think I look unfairly hot in a hanbok

Also because of the tragic slightly selfish backstory

PresidentMon

I can’t even be jealous that you’re giving up your life for some other man who’s not me because the other man is our beloved maknae and I think I would resent you a little for the rest of our lives if you chose me over him

Mochimin

What even if this three way relationship that’s not a relationship that brings tears to my eyes

Taetae pls lend me your shoulder to cry on

Sugasweet

Not the whole sleeve

You didn’t have to cut your sleeve

Hopie

We know what you are

We know what we all are

Vantae

It’s the gesture!

Also fashion

PresidentMon

Also something you’re not going to wear out no matter how much we believe in your persuasion abilities when it comes to the fans

We don’t need people speculating about us outside of AO3

Not at this point I think

Sugasweet

Have I ever mentioned how unfairly hot Joon is sometimes when he’s being all leader-y

Hopie

Only about a thousand times when we are in bed together but that’s okay because I’ve done the same

Mochimin

Ooh we do that too

Talk about Joon hyung’s competency in bed

How competent he is in general, that is

Not how competent in bed he is

Because we don't know that because for all Jin hyung acts shameless he's surprisingly tight lipped

(Which we respect in this house just to clarify)

PresidentMon

Why do you guys talk about me instead of each other

Vantae

Because of that endearing look on your face right now Joonie hyung as you look on cluelessly and helplessly

I think I'd be lying if I said that all of us weren't in love with you at some point

Or atleast if I said we didn't have an itty bitty crush on you

(That probably applies to all of you which I've realised is what happens when you put a bunch of unfairly amazing people in a band together and have them live out of each other's pockets for years)

WWshoulders

Fair point

But also, very flattered on Namjoon's behalf

And proud of myself for being the person who gets to talk about Namjoon being unfairly hot while being with Namjoon

Bow down before me peasants

PresidentMon

So

Can we talk about something else

Or someone else that's not me

Golden Maknae

Can we just go back to talk about Kpop demon hunters

And not in the context of who's who but

How silly and fun and touching it was even if unrealistic at points

Mochimin

Unrealistic by which you mean them playing footsie under the table and going on dates and still not getting caught by dispatch and having three thousand rumours?

I'll give you that like

You're telling me these two snuck out to meet SO often and literally not a single soul found out?

Not to mention the way they stared at each other during award shows underneath the tension masked as hatred

And that JOINT FANSIGN and the way they looked at each other I mean it was worse than Jin hyung honeyfarming at joon hyung?

PresidentMon

(Why do we keep coming back to me)

Golden Maknae 

That was not the point I was going for but okay sure we can discuss that first

Sugasweet

They were shipping them Jimin-ah!

I agree there should have three thousand rumours though and so much PR going on maybe getting them to publicly hang out etc etc

Or come up with fake rumours

Fake dating atleast

But also it's like a one hour thirty mins movie so I get why they didn't go into the fake we got married plot

Which we can include while we're writing the AU

Mochimin

That's fair I guess

But I definitely want a scene where they share ONE bed 

And the other girls burst in next morning and see the painting on the wall crooked at a certain angle and stalk out because they can't believe she slept with a demon

Sugasweet

Deal

Hopie

Sometimes I miss the days when they both acted like they didn't know what AO3 was and took conversations like the above to their private chat

It's entertaining but

Mochimin

You secretly enjoy it hobi hyung shh

But anyways Maknae what did you mean by unrealistic then

Golden Maknae

I

Vantae 

Could I interrupt before that to ask if your idea of unrealism is the fact that Rujinu playing footsie ended up on search handles while no one cares when we play footsie at fansigns? Because I find it unfair that news articles don't talk about us playing footsie

Or planting kisses on each other's cheeks

Or wearing a veil and walking around

PresidentMon

People talk about us, Tae

Thats what's there in AO3

WWshoulders

Lol

But fair

Also let's be real here

You guys do stuff like that so often that news articles are more likely to write about the two of you if you guys sat five ft apart

Mochimin 

How you so cute even when you sulk Taetae

But also

I'm sensing that's not what you found unrealistic either Kookie?

Golden Maknae

Nope

I found the whole sequence of them finding out the truth about Rumi to be very unrealistic

Hopie

Ooh I think I know what you're talking about

I also saw a reviewer say something similar about how they just became friends again after such a major fallout with zero communication?

And how the fallout didn't have much communication either?

Which is fair in a way but also unfair because there was a build up to the fallout but I also think that if you'd been friends for so long sworn into secrecy to protect the world then you'd be a little more trusting of each other and understanding?

Golden Maknae

Exactly!!!

Like! If I got to know that Jimin hyung has murdered someone

My first response wouldn't be to look at him with eyes that mistrust

Or have fear

Vantae

Your first instinct would be to ask him if the body is safely buried

Or if you could help him do it

WWshoulders

Or if the police were after him

My first instinct would be to make sure he had a rock solid alibi and come up with fifteen different ways to two them off his scent

PresidentMon

But

Hyung

Consider

Would you really do that?

Im not saying you'll react the way Mira and Zoey did, turning their backs immediately but

Would you really do that?

Because it's different when it's a /what if/ and different when it's the reality that's facing you

Would you be able to look past everything you knows of murderers and still help me

Golden Maknae

I think I speak for all of us when I say that our bond is definitely three hundred X the huntrix's Joonie hyung

I can see you're not convinced based on the how pensive one of your dimples looks but

I think that's the truth

Ours is a bond written in destiny

In our DNA

Vantae

DNA ~

Mochimin

But also joon hyung

seeing how much this worries you

I'm glad at the end of the day that kpop demon hunters is nothing more than a fictional story

So we don't even have to think of such appalling parallels

(Such as me being a murderer aka a demon)

It's good that we're all very normal non murderous non criminal law abiding humans

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ANGELIC VOCALISTS

Taetae

So when are we gonna tell them we're not actually normal humans

Jinjin

And that we have weapons that slay dark beings even if we don't do magical girl group transformations

Kookoo

And that sometimes our vocal practice sessions are just excuses to go fight evil

Chimchim

Yeah I don't think we're gonna do that ever

Just to keep our soft hip hop boys safe though

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Seokjin and his 6 babies

Golden Maknae 

Hobi hyung

Are you okay?

Pls tell me you're okay

Vantae

Oh god yes

That was terrifying

When that red floating cube hovered right above you

Mochimin

And when it tried to pull you up

I think my heart almost stopped

Thank God it disappeared when Jin hyung threw a lamp at it

Hopie

That was wild though

Floating cube of death and it vanishes when Jin hyung throws a lamp at it?

PresidentMon

I think nobody would quite like to be on Jin hyung's bad side

I think I'd want to disappear too if Jin hyung threw something at me

Sugasweet

That's called being whipped but whatever it is

It's gone now atleast 

WWshoulders

that's true but also!

Why would you freeze upon seeing something like that!

Hoseok-ah why did you not run!

Or was it that you couldn't?

Hopie

Hyung

It's not like the cube was some soul sucking dark creature! Like sure I felt cold for a bit and that definitely was nothing good but

And fair, I called it a floating cube of death but that was more like a fun name for it 

PresidentMon

Of course, Hobi's glad you saved him hyung but I don't think we should overthink it though

Golden Maknae

Did you not hear the bodyguards call it demonic though?

There was something evil about it hyung

And we saw you! Turn pale! Under the red light and you floated for a moment and

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ANGELIC VOCALISTS

Jinjin

Koo you're spiralling

Breathe

We can't afford to tell the truth

Chimchim

But would that be so bad

Hyung

Why can't we just tell them and keep them safe

Jinjin

Because it'll put them in more danger 

And also because the cubes are something I've not seen before either so I don't want to talk about something I don't have clarity about either

Not yet

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Seokjin and his 6 babies

Golden Maknae 

Hyung

Sorry for freaking out I just got worried

You're so important to me

To us

And what if demons did exist in our world and what if that thing was a demonic entity and what if Kpop Demon Hunters has more truth to it than you'd expect 

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ANGELIC VOCALISTS

Taetae

Koo

Bun

I know you want to tell them the truth but maybe Jin hyung is right

Kookoo

But the rapline hyungdeul

Taetae

Breathe bunny

Jinjin

We'll keep them safe

We'll keep the promise we made when we became a band so long ago

You think I'd let anything happen to any of you in my watch

So breathe, bunbun

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Seokjin and his 6 babies

Golden Maknae

sorry

Hopie

Awww don't be sorry sweetheart it's fine

Come here and give me a hug

Besides also

Even if Kpop Demon Hunters actually parallels the real world

Then don't I have all your sweet voices to keep us safe?

You think any /nasty/ demon would be able to break past a honmoon your voices created?

Golden Maknae 

But I can't even sing now

PresidentMon

And it's okay, it's only for a little

But if it makes you feel better, we'll all be a little more careful in the future

Not to mention that Hobi probably froze because this was something unexpected

The next time something happens we'll be more alert

Golden Maknae

You believe me though don't you hyung

When I say that was something rotten

When I say that was something not right?

Sugasweet

We do bunbun

If we didn't then we'd have to applaud hobi for mastering becoming a magician because I'm seeing no visible ropes to him floating

It's fine

We'll be fine

Mochimin

Also we've still got our voices to keep Hobi hyung safe Koo

So you just focus on recovering for now

Vantae

Yesss 

Aaaaaah group huggggg

Sugasweet

Tae no

No 

No

Mdjdjdjd

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ANGELIC VOCALISTS

Taetae

It's been a week since the cube

And weird monster sightings have just gotten more frequent

Chimchim

Feels like we're progressing along too fast with too many time skips

But okay

Kookoo

This isn't a long fic Jimin hyung!

And besides I can lose my voice for only so long

It's already been five days

Chimchim

Two days in fic world so you have five more days

Jinjin

Babies

Back to the point

Which is that there's been too many random monsters popping up and more demons sucking souls lately

Kookoo

*Whispers* plot point

Jinjin

Ignoring that

I think we should tell the rapline babies atleast half the truth because right now they seem a little too fearless

Chimchim

I love them but they're idiots who believe in logic and science way too much to accept even news channels when they speak of demon sightings

But speaking of sightings

Seokjinnie hyung

Do you have news on why it's happening and the veil so thin that even low level monsters are escaping out

So thin that demons no longer seem to fear the treaty

So thin that they're beginning to be able to reach human souls so easily?

Kookoo

*Whispers* plot point

But also

I think I might have an answer to that?

Mingyu says there's been disagreements in the council

Seungcheol-ssi's been coming home with headaches fighting the demons on their ridiculous conditions and the more they fight in neutral zone the more the fissure spreads

And the easier it is for them to get to souls

Not to mention that the veil in itself is no longer as strong as it once used to be, something that the demons have gotten aware of

Jinjin

Koo's right

I spoke to Jeonghan

And he says the demons have been pushing to eat more souls

To have atleast one a year

How that they now it's easier

Chimchim

That's impossible

That's too many people

Jinjin

Of course we're not giving in but

There's been change in powers amongst them

Strong devouring the weak

And it's no longer enough that they've been allowed to roam amongst humans

Chimchim

We should have sealed them all away in the fieriest pits of hell after the first war

It was a mistake even thinking there could be peace with a kind of people who feast on souls

Vantae

And yet aren't most of them but lost souls?

They devour souls because they can't find their own

Chimchim

It doesn't change the fact that they devour souls of innocent people

Taehyung-ah

Taetae

That's fair

But back to the point hyung

What do we tell the rapline hyungdeul

Kookoo

I have just the ppt for it!

(Also a blog post)

(And a four minute video if you're okay with me revealing a part of angels and demons without revealing the truth of who we are)

Jinjin

We trust your video skills Koo!

Chimchim

Yes pls

Don't show them your 400 slide ppt

Kookoo

You say that like you didn't sit and align the graphs so that they'd look prettier when baby angels looked at them on the website to understand more about our world

But video it is!

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Seokjin and his 6 babies

Golden Maknae

www.goldencloset.com/angels&demons

Pls watch!

I did this as a favour for a friend!

(All facts within are mostly true, sorry if it shocks you all, I was very shocked the first time too!)

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ANGELIC VOCALISTS

Chimchim

Too many exclamations Koo but good going

Taetae

You also sound like an influencer trying too hard but okay

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RAP BEA(S)TS

Rap Monster

Ahaha

So

Who's gonna tell Koo that he misspelled Yoongi hyung's name at the 2.45 min mark and that he's completely misunderstood how harmless a gryfpuppy is for how terrifying they look

(Also vice versa for the glyfpuff)

Jack in the Box

Don't talk to me about those things they terrify me 

Agust-D

Not to mention that someone might as well as tell him that smashing them with silver isn't going to help they ain't vampires

Who's this friend of his who's feeding him the worst information and throwing his life in danger

Because imagine if he met a glyfpuff and decided to throw one of his two dozen rings at it only for it to chomp on it like it's a snack

Jack in the Box

I mean he'd probably be safe as long as he wears our blood lockets but

Fair hyung

Wrong information is worse than ignorance honestly because knowing Koo he'd take on one of those just because of pure hearted he is, especially if he knows a little more about them than someone else

Rap Monster

We try to keep them safe but the Universe treats us like a joke

And also while we are at it

Who's gonna tell them the monster in my alias isn't a joke

Agust-D

Technically you're not a monster

Jack in the Box

I'd say more of a dark Angel

Fallen angel

Rap Monster

Demon to put it crudely let's not kid about who we are

We are the shadows of sinners born without souls

And instead of repenting and trying to free ourselves from this cycle of hell we repeat the same mistakes by trying to devour more souls like that'll give us our humanity as opposed to try to fill up the cold husks that we are with everything human and out of reach

Devouring a soul isn't going to fill the hollowness within

Feeding ducks isn't going to either but it makes the darkness fade a little and it makes it easier to hold onto the faith that we'll be okay one day and that one day we'll wake up without the darkness trailing after us

But yeah

Demons at the end of the day

Agust-D

Let's not reduce ourselves to Gwi-ma and Jinu's level though like pls I'd like to think we're classier than that

(Also not to disregard your very poignant way of describing our situations but. I just realised /you're/ Rumi)

Jack in the Box

So true! You ARE RUMI OMG

you're part demon part guardian

You've got more soul than either of us Joon

(AND YOU'RE NOT A MISTAKE)

Rap Monster

I'm past the thinking I'm a mistake part don't worry

I'm just

Agust-D 

A right person in the wrong place?

Rap Monster 

It's Right Place, Wrong Person technically

Jack in the Box

You could never be a wrong person so it has to be wrong place

/Boops nose softly/

Agust-D 

You could have just done that irl

But what he said

Rap Monster 

Somedays I'm very grateful to have known you both for over half my life

But also

I'm technically not Rumi because if so I'd be hiding the demon part of me, desperately trying to hate the two of you 

I'm not Rumi because you guys accepted the parts of me I wanted to hide

The parts of me I was ashamed of

Agust-D 

Correction

You're not Rumi (or atleast the Rumi at the start) because you were kinder to yourself

Because you were kinder to us too

Because you chose to question everything they taught you

Because you chose to believe in us

Jack in the Box

Because you didn't have to be pushed into a corner to learn

(And also because you have parents even if the fact that the council exiled them meant you had to grow up bouncing from one orphanage to another)

(Something I'll never forgive them for, as much as they do everything they can to maintain the peace and keep humans safe from our kind)

Also disclaimer that I'm not gonna judge Rumi for how she was at the start of the movie because people are different and strong in their own ways

But

You're /you/ Joon-ah

And we're very glad we've known each other for so long too

Agust-D 

16 years, to be precise

I've known Joon-ah for 16 years

Jack in the Box

The same amount of time I've known the two of you but neither of you guys cares about that do you

But anyways back to where we were before we got side tracked

Rap Monster

Actually no can we get into your tragic backstories too before we get back on track

I'd like the readers to sympathise with you guys too

More than me honestly

Agust-D

Mad Ancestor Who Was An Emperor Killed Too Many People And Died With Too Many Sons

*Sins

Sons too, even if I'm the unlucky guy who ended up in the bloodline of his re-incarnation, the shadows under our fingertips not having lessened even after seven generations

Jack in the Box

Psychopathic Grand Uncle Exited Life Childless Passing On The Shadows To Us

Exactly what it says on the packet

I share blood with a very deranged guy

Agust-D 

As do I

Rap Monster

That's not what I meant

But also

That doesn't define the two of you

Agust-D 

We know Joon-ah it's okay

Like you said

We'll just do enough good and maybe next time we re-incarnate, we'll actually have souls

Jack in the Box

And hopefully we'll all still have intertwined destinies! ^_^

Rap Monster 

I hope so too

But also

Back to the point

We're not telling our angelic vocalists what we are, right?

Agust-D 

Honestly 

At this point

It's less about trust and more about the potential of everything changing between us that scares me

Rumi was onto something, really

(Also what are the odds the scriptwriter is also just one of us)

Rap Monster

I'd bet half my KOMCA credits

Or maybe they're one of the guardians

Jack in the Box

You mean the angels lol

That'd explain a lot + a few of the inaccuracies in the movie

But anyways back to track

I don't think I'd want the others to know either

And it's not just about trust it's about fear and the fact that them being ignorant makes them safer too

Which is what I think you guys are feeling more than trust to be honest

Rap Monster

That's there too

I think

Plus

What if they do something stupid after finding out

Especially given the very shitty situation going on outside right now

Agust-D 

I can already imagine it more than a potential fallout

So we're not telling them, right?

Jack in the Box

Nope and I guess that's final

But we really have to do something about all the incorrect information in Jungkook's video

Agust-D 

You should share your very pretty phamplets with the others

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Seokjin and his 6 babies

Hopie

Thanks Koo! But also I picked up a couple of phamplets on the topic and they seem more legit than the information and whoever gave you that bun

Come get the pamphlets when you guys are free!

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ANGELIC VOCALISTS

JinJin

Is this why I have a literal group of glyfpuffs following me like I'm the mother duckling

Chimchim

You fed them too much silver hyung 

And to think that most of those rings were mine q_q

Taetae

It still doesn't explain why they decided to reverse adopt you hyung but

Who would have known that all it would take to get them to leave was a stern

Bad Puff!

Kookoo

Woof woof

Jinjin

If not for the fact that I know silver does nothing to them

I would have looked down on the /Bad Puff/ idea too

But maybe whoever wrote this phamplet knows what they're doing

Taetae

Who do you think it is though?

There's no identifying mark of where it was printed

Or who wrote / compiled it

Kookoo

Theres turquoise red boxes printed in tiny at the edges of the pages

And it's super glossy

Makes me wonder if there was some connection to the floating box we saw that day

Chimchim

You're saying a demon printed this?

Taetae

Hold up

You're saying Hobi hyung got this from a demon?

Jinjin 

Maybe hobi /is/ the demon

Kookoo

Maybe all of you should stop reading fanfic

And forcing me to be the voice of reason

Chimchim

We refuse to let people think you're an airhead! Or a muscle bunny!

Taetae

Or that all your personality is is your crush on Joon hyung

Kookoo

Pretty sure that's not what people think but okay

Jinjin

You say I read too much fanfic

But one day you peasants will look back and bow down at my wisdom

And yes Jungkook I saw you stick your tongue out at me

Fight me

Kookoo

Boo

Anyways should we be more worried that the rapline hyungdeul are in proximity with someone who has such accurate phamplets?

It means they're closer to the veil than we expected them to be

Chimchim

That's fair

Taetae

And worrying

Chimchim

But also

Is there actually anything we can do about it?

Kookoo

Can you both stop completing each other's thoughts

Chimchim

Aww koo

The fans really are right

Wherever there's a ship, there's a petulant Koo trying to push his way into the middle

Taetae

We love you too bunbun cmere lemme give you kisses

Jinjin

Xoxoxoxo

Kookoo

/Tries to flee chat/

Also no idea what you're talking about Chim hyung

Moving on

Jinjin

I know what you are Jeon Jungkook

But I'll let it pass cause important things

So

I was thinking we follow a buddy system?

None of rapline goes anywhere alone without any of us

Atleast until things calm down

Taetae

That might be forever

Not like I mins sticking to the hyungdeul just

They're bound to get suspicious after some time

There's only so much times I can ask Joon hyung to take me on art dates or ask Yoongi hyung to let me join him on his super secret mission to teach adorable babies

Chimchim

But also Tae

You've forgotten a very important point

It won't be too long cause this is a short fic lol

Jinjin

Joon would hate the fourth wall breaking but fair

And in 3, 2.... 1

I see a two week time skip coming up

Until then let's just stick to them like fabric glue that can cause your fingers to stick together

Kookoo

Fabric glue should be used carefully, kids! Which is why we recommend ABC Fabric Glue, the safest of all fabric glues, especially given how far away the nozzle is making for both easy application and safety

Jinjin

Please buy ABC Fabric Glue if you don't want to end up in the ER while working on a project to glue back Pluto into the soler system!

(

Kookoo

Can't miss the PPL just because we're in the middle of a crisis in the fic!

Jinjin

Oh how well I've brought you up Kookie :')

Taetae

Chim

Is this why they got the product placement call and not us?

Chimchim

I'm in awe

*Slow claps*

)

+++

2 weeks later (as said)

Seokjin and his 6 babies

PresidentMon

Can't you guys skip vocal practice for the day?

Like

I just don't feel right about today

Hopie

Joon-ah's right

A day off wouldn't be too bad

Sugasweet

Not to mention that you guys could probably practice at home if you wanted to

I'm just not feeling too okay about you guys going out today

Especially given how weird things have been lately

Not saying I believe in demons and the veil but

WWshoulders

Ahh Yoongi-ya

We get it

But also everyday from here is going to be like this right?

We can't keep missing vocal practices just because there's demons supposedly roaming around

Golden Maknae

Not to mention that if there are actually demons we might need our voices in pristine condition!

PresidentMon

You're literally just recovering Koo

We're still talking through chat

Because you're recovering

Vantae

Which is why he also needs more practice hyung!

We'll be fine, there's four of us

Mochimin

Seriously hyungdeul it'll be fine

And worst comes to worst

We've got black belts and a Jungkook with us

+++

ANGELIC VOCALISTS

Jinjin

Not very awe inspiring Jiminie

But I think it should do the trick

Chimchim

But also given that even people unrelated to the whole thing can sense something being terribly wrong

Taetae

It's a good thing we're fighting it out today

On neutral territory

Kookoo

That doesn't mean the fissure won't grow but

Jinjin

It just means we've got to be faster and quicker and louder than before

It helps that we're not doing this alone though

Taetae

It also helps knowing that we're doing it to keep our precious rapline safe along with the rest of humanity

Makes the whole ordeal seem a little less scary

Chimchim 

/Hugs/

But fair

Especially with all the rumours floating around

Koo

About the Big 3?

Or that the demons are stronger than before?

Chimchim

Simultaneously both and neither

It's easier to not think about the Big3 because I have no idea how much of a variable they are

But also maybe I'm a little scared inside?

Because we've fought demons all these years but with the strength of the veil and as a group

Taetae

But now that it's proper all out fight

Now that there's a time set with proper demands and all in case we lose

It's a little more real, a little more scarier isn't it?

Chimchim

Yeah

But more than that 

The fact that you guys could be in danger

The fact that we might be walking into something much much beyond us

That /anything/ could happen

Kookoo

That some of us might not come back out alive?

Don't look away Jimin hyung

I hate it as much as you do

And maybe I just want to listen to our sensible rapline hyungdeul and just hide away in our dorm safe in the knowledge that even if the country goes to shit we have enough power and money to keep ourselves safe

Maybe I want to be selfish too, and protect the people closest to me alone

Which includes you guys as much as it does the rapline because like you said

We walk in as four but will we walk out the same

And I want to be selfish and be a part of the minority that refused to answer the call

I want to be selfish to the point where I don't mind being branded a coward or traitor to our kind because in my heart it's always the six of you >>> the world

But

In order to keep the six of you completely safe

In order to make you guys proud, to look at me and see someone you watched grow up and not feel even a sense of regret

I need to go out there and fight

We need to go out there and fight

So it may be terrifying but since it's the right thing we'll do it

...

Can all of you not cry I'm trying not to cry!!!! 

Jinjin

It's just

We're so very proud of you Koo

You might be our baby

But you're the most sensible of us, the most mature and just

We love you

Chimchim

We love you so much Koo

I'm sorry I got a little emotional there

Kookoo

You needed to be for me to come to my senses otherwise I'd also be a sobbing heap on the floor

Don't ever apologise for being human

Taetae 

Fair

You're human first before guardian Jiminie

Kookoo

And I know that if our roles were reversed they'd be properly reversed and you'd be giving me a dressing down on how to do our duty properly

Jinjin

My babies

I love you all so much

I wish I had enough power to keep you guys safe

But I don't

So I just hope that our fates don't let us down

That whoever is watching is not too cruel

Group hug?

(Let's pls put down our weapons though so that we don't end up stabbing each other before the demons get to us)

Chimchim

Group hug!!! <3

Should we also maybe tell the rapline hyungdeul we love them?

Just in case?

Taetae

Group group hug!!! 

+++

Seokjin and his 6 babies

PresidentMon

Not that I mind all the affection but

That was a rather sudden emotional puppy pile group hug

And yes I love you guys too

Hopie

Yoongi hyung is still staring at the entrance to the SIN room, half collapsed on top of Joonie lol

(I love you allll so much too <3)

Golden Maknae 

Just felt a little extra sentimental and nostalgic!

We love you guys <3

Sugasweet

We love you too

And you guys better get your asses back home safe and soon!

Mochichim

Love youuuu

Jin hyung sends a heart

He can't look away from the road cause he's driving

Oh

Vantae

He also says to look into the dressing room cupboard to find more of his hearts

PresidentMon

This hyung /sighs fondly/

+++

CCTV camera footage

The camera blinks to focus blearily to show the middle of an eerily empty street, dilapidated buildings on either side; there's so much crackle that barely any of the audio is audible. Shadows stretch across the ground, the camera flickers once, twice, the light dims like someone switched off the sun.

A man walks into the frame. No, a boy. A young adult maybe. His features are youthful, teen like. He has bunny teeth and he holds a saber in tattooed hands. His eyes are clear when they glance at the camera, trained muscle memory at this point. He smiles, faint, and a trickle of blood seeps down the side of his face.

The shadows grow darker. The video flickers. When it focusses again, there's a rip clean in the middle, like someone broke the lens of the camera. Through the rip reached out a hand. A human hand. So human it's scary. So human when the hand pulls itself out to reveal a human. Only the back is seen.

The bunny boy doesn't tremble. His grip on the saber gets firmer. He doesn't tremble, even when the person, demon reaches behind to tear apart the fissure further, so easily like it's tissue under his hands. He doesn't shake, even when a jumble of hands and legs and heads spill out of the tear; even when otherwordly creatures crawl out. Even when the demon begins to laugh, head thrown back and the camera finally captures a gaping chasm where there should be a mouth and eyes that roll to the back of his head.

"Fearless, aren't you, boy?" The demon asks, as cliche as every other villain.

"I wouldn't make a very good guardian if I feared your kind, would I?" The boy asks, every inch the hero he is.

"You will lose," the demon says, voice like nails against a chalkboard.

The boy shrugs. "And if I do, like my hyung always says, I'll go down in style, taking down atleast half of you guys with me."

And then with a battle cry, both sides charge.

It's not a very even fight. It's not a fair fight. It's like bringing a gun to a sword party. The boy is brought to his knees in five minutes. He looks lonely, glimmers of a setting sun streaking across his bloody face. He looks handsome, regardless. Like a fallen angel. He looks defiant, even as he struggles to his feet, saber planted to the ground.

The demon kicks his feet from under him. The boy crumples to the ground. He doesn't reek of despair even then. He doesn't spell the words defeat for true to his own words, he's laid to waste atleast half the crowd that had stepped out.

"Pity," the demon starts.

"Don't give me your lame words," the boy cuts him off, fiery to the end. "Kill me, before your own monologuing gets you killed."

"But then," the demon goes on, like every idiot villain ever, "There's no one here to save you. The strongest of my bethren are after the rest of your little vocal bandmates and the fact that you fight with a saber shows how poor a condition your voice is in to weave back together the veil."

The boy doesn't say a thing. He hums instead, and it's a pitiful thing, nothing in front of his saber skills. Nothing in front of what it once was, a mere few weeks ago.

"You'd be at my feet if my voice were fully healed," the boy says. "You wouldn't have even crawled your way out."

"But those are just dreams right now, little hero," the demon goes on, stalking closer, his minions circling the boy. He raises his hand and a sword of shadows materialises in his palm. The boy spits blood at this feet weakly. His eyes still shine. Inspite of the pixelated video. Inspite of the shadows. "Any last words?" The demon asks, swinging his shadow sword down.

In the background, even through the shitty audio quality, the opening notes of Ddaeng ring out.

The boy's eyes widen. A hush falls over the clearing. Even the video suddenly seems clearer, as if even the camera is terrified of the new person who has entered.

He walks in, white robes swirling shadows, a purple sceptre in his hand, and a tophat covering that of his features that an intricately designed mask in the shape of a Koala doesn't. 

The boy gasps, regardless, like he recognises the newcomer, inspite of the disguise. 

One-eight, one-three, three-eight, ddaeng; You wrong, me right, look carefully, ddaeng

The newcomer hums, and the veil lights up like a grid except it's shades of purple where it ought to be golden, the colour of healing, or red, like when the demon ripped it apart.

Purple. 

(It defies the colour theory, nobody questions it.)

The demon stares at the newcomer, shadow sword halted midair. A closer look reveals that he cannot pull away, that he is frozen in front of the aura of the newcomer.

The newcomer who keeps humming, who holds his sceptre casually in his hands, who looks at the demon with eyes that contain such fury that the mask cannot quite hide.

They're wonderful eyes. Dragon eyes.

"There are last words," he says. His voice is distorted. Not easy to place. The power in it isn't. "Hey your life's over, you're Ddaeng."

The grid shimmers a bright purple with every word, coalesces into something tangible. The rip knits itself together, purple against gold against red that bleeds away. 

The man doesn't stop rapping. 

The cash register sound, ddaeng

The demon writhes in place, gets brought to his knees, shadow sword dissolving. 

When I was young, I liked to play freeze tag, ddaeng

His minions get pulled back into wherever they came from by skeletal hands, white bone that ought to be frightening.

You wrong, me right, look carefully, ddaeng

The darkness recedes and sunlight spills over. Warm, golden light that surrounds the boy, that holds him in its embrace.

Hold up for a second and freeze, ddaeng

The demon looks up with mistrustful eyes. There's fear in them. There's accusation.

"You're a demon and yet."

"And yet?" The man asks, robes swirling as he steps closer. The sceptre glows purple. His eyes still hold fury.

"You're not. You're tainted." The demon looks at the man, and there's something maniacal. Like he's discovered something that was hidden. The curve of his mouth is gaping shadows. The smile in his eyes is madness. He throws his head back, laughs. The almost healed rip widens the slightest, like fabric tearing. "You were unwanted."

The man says nothing. His eyes flash red for a moment, as does the sceptre. The purple in the veil doesn't come undone though.

"I'm demon," the man says, voice quiet. 

"You're also guardian," the demon says. He looks wretched, shadows seeping out of his mouth. He looks deranged. "You're a mistake that got kicked out, never to be accepted by either side."

The man stares, wordless. There's a deep pain in his eyes beneath the fury. His fingers tremble the slightest around the sceptre. It doesn't affect the veil though. It doesn't affect his control.

"I'm," he starts, only for the demon to gleefully cut him off,

Ddaeng.

The rip widens. A monster tumbles out. Limbs and skin and teeth. It noses at the demon's foot hungrily, tongue lolling out.

The man's eyes flash a deeper red. He lifts his sceptre, shadows swirling-

"He's someone who has more soul than either of us," the boy speaks up loud and clear, his voice the most soothing of balms. And it may not hold the power it held a week ago, but there's enough to calm the man down, for his eyes to settle into human skin. For him to lower his sceptre. "He's somebody who has more heart than a human ever could."

He's somebody who's loved, his lips seem to say, but the audio doesn't pick up on it and it's pinned down to delusion because why would a guardian say that of a half demon?

It picks up the way the boy stares at the man though. The way the man stares back. And in the moment, they're both men. Or maybe just lost boys finding solace in each other.

"You came for me," the golden boy says. "You had no way of knowing I was in trouble."

"Would there be a Universe in which I wouldn't know?" Dragon eyes asks. They stare a moment longer and the camera doesn't pick up on everything that's said.

It does pick up the 'destroy him' the boy voices, as it does the hands that rip the demon apart, as it does the purple grid that shimmers anew when the man slams his sceptre down to the ending notes of ddaeng, darkness completely giving way to sunlight.

And then it picks up no more because the man slams the sceptre into the camera.

+++

[DissPatch]

Guardian Version

Broken across neutral zone - 15 CCTVS but no treaty rules

The Sole Camera with clip partially intact shows a half-demon half-guardian save the day - features too pixelated to ask him out on a date

Choi YJ

+++

Seokjin and his 6 babies

WWshoulders

So

There's 15 minutes before the meeting officially starts

With the Big 3

And the rest of the demons

Which of you intends to start explaining

Sugasweet

Demons hyung

Why are you meeting with humans

Vantae

Hyung

That was like so bad

If Jin hyung weren't in the middle of talking nice with Seungcheol-ssi

Mochimin

You'd be smothered by now

Golden Maknae

But seriously rapline hyungdeul

Who wears their stage outfit to a demon-guardian (taking lives) party

And decides to rap their own songs

To knit the veil together

Hopie

No one else has ever seen through the illusions!

PresidentMon

It's because it's you guys

No one else would ever know

WWshoulders

Small mercies 

But also

Explain

There's 12 mins now and I don't want to hear any more stupid attempts at deflection

You're demons

+++

Rap Bea(s)ts

Agust-D

If this were another world

And there was the slightest possible that one of us could take the fall

I would do it for the two of you

Jack in the Box

Don't be an idiot hyung

If we go down

Then we go down together

Rap Monster

I feel like now shouldn't be the time to be quoting Chainsmoker lyrics

Agust-D 

And here I thought you were being romantic Hoba-h

Sighs sadly while looking at the timer ticking down to 10

I've faced the most horrid parts of hell

We've fought monsters borne of such twisted desires that to breathe the same air as them is to let them taint you

We've stared into the abyss and walked away, shining bright

And yet

Jack in the Box

The thought of facing the rest of our family is what terrifies us

I don't blame you hyung

Maybe at the core of it

Beyond keeping them safe

We're all like Rumi too

Maybe it's like Joon feared

We worry that this will splinter everything

Because for them to look past the fact that we're what they're taught to kill

Rap Monster

We shouldn't be thinking this way logically

Because you know

They've not turned us in

They could have

They could have asked us to take off our masks and we would have done it

Just because they asked

They could have held swords to our neck when we went in to help them

Or gotten someone to do it but

Agust-D 

Joon-ah

Bub

Don't cry

Pls

I can't even cross the damn hall to give you a hug because we're supposed to be the most feared Big3

PresidentMon

It's not like anyone can see me cry

Sorry

I'm supposed to be strong for you

I'm just like

They might have spared us for the bond we once had but

I can't bear the thought of them wanting to do nothing with us after this

I feel like Jin hyung could just stab me with his spear and it would hurt less

He wouldn't look me in the eye when we ran into each other after I brought Jungkookie to him, hyung, Hoba-h

He refused to meet my eyes, shrugged my hand off

Sorry

Jack in the Box

Honey

It's okay don't be sorry

You're dealing with more shit than either of us

I mean, I think I'd lose my mind if Yoongi hyung and I were on different sides

But also Joon-ah

You still have a chance I think? Cause you're part guardian

You're not as tainted as we are

You could still

Rap Monster

NO

If they won't accept the two of you

I don't think they'd be able to me because I'm more of an anomaly 

But even if they do and ask me to be less of a demon

I'm as much demon as I am guardian and I'm not leaving the two of you behind

Don't you dare

You guys are my family too and I could never

Agust-D 

Ah fuck it

Group hug no matter what anyone thinks?

Hyung is crossing the room to get to the two of you

Jack in the Box

Yesss

Hyung wait

Joon-ah 

Why's that B-Free dude walking towards you

Joon-ah what's that in his hand

Agust-D 

Joon-ah MOVE

he's got the Truth Whip in his hand

MOVE

+++

ANGELIC VOCALISTS

(Five mins ago)

Chimchim

Jin hyungie

Don't you think the 12 min countdown was a little too harsh like

Taetae

Fair

You sounded a little too disappointed like hyung you should have toned it down!!

Kookoo

I thought the same too

What if the rapline hyungdeul think we don't like them anymore

But more importantly 

What if Namjoon hyung thinks you hate him cause

Cause you refused to let him brush past you

Jinjin

/Deep breath/ /smiles/

*Banshee wail*

Chimchim

Uh hyung your smile is looking a little too deranged I think Jeonghan-ssi's a little worried now

Taetae

You look possessed hyung no lie

Jinjin

You think

I'd have managed to keep my hands to myself if I didn't wear a cold facade the moment my very hot boyfriend stepped into the room looking hotter than ever with our baby in tow after doing the hottest thing ever?

If id broken character even the SLIGHTEST you'd have seen me rip off Joon -ah's mask to make out in the middle of the room and then we'd all have been in deep shit

(Like I'm already upset with myself for not realising sooner and annoyed that our world doesn't have patterns to identify demons cause then we'd have known before but maybe it's also for the best because this way if they're just minding their own business it's better they not be stigmatised but!)

Kookoo

Oh

Oh

Jinjin 

Yes 

Exactly

So I had to stay in character for the good of all of us and to keep their identities hidden

Chimchim

Actually fair

That's understandable 

When Hobi hyung stepped out of the rip in the veil blazing flames and trapped the rest of the ugly af monsters in the little black and white cubes Tae and I pretty much confessed to him

Taetae

He was so COOL you guys wouldn't believe it

And then he just knitted the veil back?

Welded it together to be honest with his fire

Like WOAH

Like the demons five of us guardians had been struggling with were nothing

Jinjin

You guys get it!

And I'm loyal to my man otherwise when Yoongi blocked the sword to my neck with his own before spinning in circles around me to take them all out

My god

Kookoo

Also the scar down his eye!

In a way I think it's a pity that the masks and illusions mask their appearances

But in a way it's also good because they're /ours/

Taetae

Lol someone's feeling possessive

Kookoo

I have every right to be!!

youre just acting like a pot calling the kettle black by the way

But also Jin hyung

If you think Joon hyung just looks hot

You should have seen him when he weaved the veil together

When he rapped and the monsters cowered and the veil patched itself up together 

He looked like something out of the myths

He looked

Magical

If I didn't already have a massive ass crush on him I'd have proposed right there on my bloody knees

Jinjin

Is this you finally admitting yourself into our relationship?

We can discuss it in detail!

Once the others give us their explanation by the way

On how they could kept such hotness from us 

Taetae

XD

But also 

Aren't they taking too long to reply don't you think?

Should we go check it out and see if something's gone wrong?

Chimchim

It might look too suspicious if all of us go

Kookoo

I volunteer

Jinjin

I'm coming too because I'm the responsible adult who won't let his Maknae be led astray

Taetae

You're the one doing the astraying but you do you hyung

Also just say you guys are gonna ogle over Namjoon hyung and go

Jinjin

Yes we are

Chimchim 

Lol

Look at how fast Koo is speed walking 

Kookoo

They've been spotted!

Looking hot as ever

Standing in different corners though

It's like they're brooding

(I'll give you guys live commentary don't worry)

Everything seems fine except

Wait

Taetae

What

What happened

Chimchim

Do you need us to also come down?

Kookoo

Shit

It's a plot bunny

Taetae

We're coming down

Kookoo

It's the Whip of Truth and BFree is pretty much rushing towards Joon hyung with it shi

Jinjin

Xhdhhd

Chimchim

Jin hyung?

Koo?

This is bad that's a sacred artifact and a banned one

Kookoo

Jin hyung just tossed his phone at me and he's rushing towards Joon hyung

(That's why the keyboard smash)

But also jimin hyung why would you leave out the part where it says the Whip of Truth scars not only shatters your illusions but also your soul to such an extent that it's impossible to piece it back together

(Which quick lesson, time freeze)

Guardians in the past argued could be used on demons as they arguably didn't have souls and weakened them to such a degree where they could be easily subdued but

Just because you don't have a soul doesn't mean you ought to be whipped to a degree of nothingness and so it was banned eventually

(Lesson over)

Taetae

Admiring your dedication of keeping the readers informed

Jin hyung will get to him right

Chimchim

There isn't another option obviously

+++

Video clip obtained from (1) Choi Beomgyu who had shown up to film the ancient architecture of the neutral space hall building and ended up accidentally catching the whole of the demon-guardian war on tape instantly catapulting him to millionaire-dom as the guardians had him sign a NDA to keep the whole thing confidential (as unrealistic as it sounds)

The first image is that of glass painted windows, threads of golden and red splashed with purple.

The second shot is pristine white marbled floors that show no traces of no war having happened less than an hour ago.

The third moment is a piano reaching crescendo as a man with yellow hair (BFree) rushes towards the stunning man wearing a white coat holding onto a sceptre (Namjoon). BFree holds a glowing whip in his hand and his face is a snarl that looks even worse than the actual demons present with shadows for features.

The third moment is a defining moment, an obvious outcome, given Namjoon's obliviousness to the situation, his focus wholly on the tiny pasty he holds in his hand. 

It's an obvious outcome and yet somehow breath-stopping, as opposed to taking, as BFree wields the Whip clumsily, extending it back before whipping it forward and just when you think it's going to catch golden skin, a hand reaches out to curl around the tip of the Whip, blocking Namjoon from getting hit. (He doesn't drop his pastry in shock though he does squish it a little.)

A trickle of blood seeps out of the curled fist that when the camera pans up gives way to the icy features of a blonde haired man, stunning in the satin starry shirt he's tucked into midnight black pants accentuating a very very thin waist.

(It's Seokjin. As renowned for his silver voice as his beauty amongst the guardians.)

Seokjin, who yanks the Whip easily out of BFree's hands, who doesn't seem to mind the blood that's dripping down his elbow now, who didn't get hit by the Whip but so much as tamed it, fury in his eyes.

"You've broken rules," he says coldly, the veil parting under the notes of his voice to pull the Whip into its embrace. "You've stolen a sacred object-"

"Borrowed," BFree argues.

Seokjin's eyes flash violent golden. He looks like an avenging angel. A fallen one. One that fell for love, to take revenge, to protect. To set things right. He's a god descended, as he hums the notes to Dynamite, and the veil snakes itself around BFree, a golden net that's suffocatingly sturdy.

"You've stolen," Seokjin goes on, "And you tried to use it, something which was banned atleast five decades ago. You've broken laws. Committed crimes."

"Tried to reveal the true face of an abomination so that we may remain wary of him," BFree spits out.

Seokjin levels him with a disdainful look so powerful it has half the people (including viewers of the clip) cowering in their shoes, reflecting on their shameful existences.

"He's more Guardian than you'll ever be," he says.

BFree struggles against the bonds. Curses in Seokjin's direction. "Why do you care so for a demon?"

"He saved our Maknae," Seokjin says simply, like that's the only reason there is for saving one of the Big3, faceless as they remain. "And we owe him a life debt for that, not to mention he's not broken treaty rules and that this is neutral territory."

"Is that the only reason?" BFree tries to sneer except his voice never filters out into the crowd for the veil glows purple, a little, and he crumples to his knees like a marionette cut off its strings. Namjoon steps out from behind Seokjin, shadows curling around his cloak, the notes of Dynamite on his lips. (The rap part. In the background Beomgyu doesn't manage to contain his slighted delighted squeal.)

His aura is cold, murderous, even through barely visible features. And yet the hand he uses to rip a portion of his cloak and stop Seokjin's palm from bleeding is anything but. It's gentleness wrapped around hurt held together with a bow. Seokjin smiles, polite, to the eyes of the camera but there's something more to the curve of his lips and something in the quirk of his eyes as he whispers to Namjoon, faint as the summer breeze and flits away, god among mortals. 

The whole room lets out a breath they didn't know they were holding.

The camera flips to show Beomgyu's grinning face and a peace symbol before it fades to black.

+++

Seokjin and his 6 Babies

WWshoulders

I feel like there might have been a little misunderstanding 

Sugasweet

Little

Seriously hyung

Seriously???

Namjoonie almost had a meltdown and you call it little

WWshoulders

As I was saying

Maybe mistakes were made

The /explain/ was regarding hiding

Hopie

Our hotness from you guys

And yes I am rolling my eyes at you virtually

I'm giving you my *disappointed dance leader face* 

Jiminie showed us your chats

We thought you guys wanted to do nothing with us!

PresidentMon

Hyung

I thought death would be better than you refusing to meet my eyes

Vantae

I want what they have

Mochimin

I would love you even if you were a worm, Tae!

Sugasweet

I would carve a whole new planet for you, Hob-ah, made out of stardust and smiles and little squirrels, if this world didn't have a place for you anymore

A place for us

Mochimin

...

I admit defeat

Sorry Tae I luv you

You're my calico cat

Vantae

And you're my Serendipity!

It's okay Jiminie <3

Hopie 

(ILY2 Yoongi hyung :3)

But back to the point

Hyung!!

WWshoulders

I was wrong!

But also I'm a tiny bit offended

More than tiny actually

That you'd think our bond so shallow we'd want to give up on you guys just because you're demons

Do you think I fed and raised you all on nothing but sheer determination and stolen pans only to turn away because you're different?

Golden Maknae 

Jin hyung's right!

How could you guys think that?

And honestly they say demons are to be hunted down because they don't have souls but that doesn't apply to you guys!

PresidentMon

Koo

We don't have souls

Maybe I have half a soul but

It's not like yours

Any of yours

There's only hollowness nestled beneath our rib cage

Vantae

How do you talk in poetry even through grief

But also hyung

That's not true

You guys have souls because you have ours

Mochimin

You've got 4 to share between the three of you

I'd like to see who'd call you soulless now

Sugasweet

I feel like these are the kind of conversations that could get the three of us hunted down as sweet as the sentiment is

Just to clarify to anyone who might be reading, we do not, in fact, have their souls literally

It's a very metaphorical thing

WWshoulders

Nevertheless

It's not like all demons are bad

And sure we're taught to hunt demons but

That's not all of them?

That's why there's a treaty, hello?

PresidentMon

But not hunting and being in love with a demon are two completely different things, hyung

I know I was being selfish when I confessed my love for you but

WWshoulders

Hold up

What's this history rewrite you're doing

One, /I/ confessed to your then pancake ass

And two, do you want to break up with me or something?

Because in that case this is a very roundabout way of doing it

Vantae

/Munches peanuts in the background with Jimin/

Don't mind us!

Hopie

I like how literally none of us is paying attention to whatever is going on up front

Mochimin

But is it really relevant for this fic, what this gathering is about, Hopie hyung?

Hobi hyung

Hobihobi hyung

Given that it's not going to affect any of us at this point

(And let's be real, if the guardians were going to turn on the three of you, this would be a much longer much different fic so)

Vantae

Might as well as enjoy the Namjin cinematic universe

Sugasweet 

Shameless, the lot of you

Golden Maknae 

Or so Yoongi hyung says as he reaches for another packet of peanuts

Making us five in the peanut gallery

Hopie

So fair

(I also love how inspite of the fact that there's something called a private chat, none of us really care for it)

WWshoulders

Ignoring the background noise Joon-ah

Jooniebug

The light of my life

Are you trying to break up with me

PresidentMon

How did you even get /there/ hyung?

How

These are dots that aren't even in the same space for you to connect them

WWshoulders

Why else would you keep talking about our relationship like it's one of regret!

PresidentMon

I'm half a demon hyung!

I'm an anomaly

WWshoulders

You're the product of the love of your parents that surpassed this ridiculous divide imposed upon us by people dead centuries ago

You've not hurt anyone Joon-ah! Not deliberately

Not with malice or anger or hatred

And if your hands are red then I have no idea what to say of ours

Because I would kill for you without a second thought even if that has me shattering my soul

PresidentMon

Hyung

Please don't ever do anything so stupi

WWshoulders

You don't get to define my love for you or the lengths I would go for you

The same way you don't get to decide you're not good enough for me

All three of you

I think I speak for the four of us when I say we don't give a fuck about what you guys are and it doesn't change a damn thing about our bond

Vantae

Seconded

*Throws a handful of peanuts into the air*

Mochimin

Thirded

*Plants a kiss on Yoongi hyung's cheek*

Sugasweet

Why me

/Grumbles softlyyyy/

Golden Maknae 

Fourth (ed)?

*Finger hearts everyone including the guy speaking in the front of the gathering*

Hopie

Lol

Never seen Park Seojoon-ssi look so confused before

The same way I didn't realise Park Hyungsik is a demon

Guess there's more of us here than we ever realised

And people much more braver, given how they're okay showing their faces

Sugasweet

I know I don't say it a lot but

I love you guys

A lot

And I'm so very grateful the universe conspired to bring us together

PresidentMon

Me too

And no, Taehyungie, stop staring at me I'm not crying!

I just

I love you, Jin hyung

Sorry I was an idiot and thank you for loving an idiot like me regardless

I love the rest of you guys too

So much

Golden Maknae 

Group hug?

Sugasweet

In the middle of this meeting that's still going on and in the middle of this whole crowd of people?

A whole crowd of people who know us only as the Big3 and not as the rest of your bandmates?

Who'll look at us weirdly if we decide to group hug?

Mochimin

If we decide to group hug the author will make sure no one finds your last point to be a problem, hyung

(Yes I WILL fourth wall break, none of you can stop me this is just an indulgent fic anyways the author told me)

(Also you're an author yourself Yoongi hyung do better!!!)

WWshoulders

(Blows flying kiss towards Joon)

But also regarding the rest of your points, Yoongi-yah, have we not hugged in the middle of award shows in the middle of group pictures?

Have we not hugged in front of ARMY

(Who would give you their souls without a moment's hesitation while knowing you guys are demons and if that doesn't speak for how amazing the three of you are, I don't quite know what else to say)

You think a crowd of stuffy guardians is gonna stop us from listening to our Maknae?

Sugasweet

Hey just being the voice of (unnecessary) reason! I'm not against it 

Hopie

Group hug!!!!

+++

And then they lived happily ever after, order restored to the world, keeping their version of the honmoon, the veil, strong and glowing purple, making music, battling bad guys in a badass way and just being very very in love.

(Also yes, Jungkook finally ends up being part of a throuple with Namjoon and Seokjin but that doesn't stop him from staring petulantly at any other couple in the group doing PDA without him. He also gets back his lovely voice but somehow that stopped being the focus of the fic after the first half, so.)

~The End~