Author's Note:
I love the KPop movie Demon Hunters and the
HUNTR/X, especially Rumi and Zoey.
I love you too, Mira, you're an essential member of the team, it's just a matter of preference.
I wanted to write a story about KPop Demon Hunters, but I couldn't think of anything.
For a moment, I was thinking about having HUNTR/X become Magic Girls, creating a crossover where they replace LoliRock.
A cartoon about three idol girls who are actually Magic Girls who help people and fight bad guys between their concerts.
But it seemed like an obvious idea, I stopped to think and two ideas came to me:
1) A KPop Demon Hunters X Devil May Cry crossover, with Nero ending up becoming Rumi's boyfriend.
2) The Polytrix will be part of Earth-2126, a multi-crossover world based primarily on Type-Moon X Marvel, but with the presence and elements of many other series. I want to write a scene of Zoey meeting Marcy Wu and Luz Noceda, and they talk about nerdy girl stuff.
In the end, I decided to implement both of my ideas. First the less crazy idea with Devil May Cry, then the crazy one with Earth-2126.
Before I start the story, I want to say that I changed two things about the DMC timeline/world:
- To avoid complications in this timeline, Nero and Kyrie never got together as boyfriend and girlfriend, instead they have a brother and sister type relationship.
- V, who is my favorite character from DMC5, is not Virgil's human side, but rather his second son and Nero's half-brother. V was dying because Virgil used her as a vessel for his human side. V is now well and is teaming up with Nero to find a way to bring Dante and Virgil home.
PS. This story is not part of the Kaleidoscope Adventure Series or Chronicles of the Celestial House (Earth-2126).
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Story Title: DMC: HUNTR/X and the descendants of Sparda
Plot: After the incident with the Qliphoth, Nero's life has become more chaotic than usual, he discovered that V is his half-brother and now faces an increased number of demons as he and V search for a way to bring Dante and Vergil back to Earth. Following a possible lead, V, Nero and Nico go to Seoul, and things get interesting when they discover that the famous girl band HUNTR/X are facing demons.
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Story Arc: A New Demon Hunter in Town
Episode 1: Punk and Goth
Chapter 1: An unexpected encounter
Plot: Rumi, Mira, Zoey plan to go out together and have fun, but something happens and their plans are turned upside down.
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POV Narrator
A few days ago, HUNTR/X, Korea's most successful girl band and one of the most followed in the world, concluded their international tournament in Seoul, which spans much of Asia.
Due to the huge success they gained, the three girls were given a couple of weeks off by their manager, Bobby.
Rumi, Mira, and Zoey are walking the streets of Seoul, just wanting a quiet, fun day together.
Rumi is a 23-year-old young woman, 164 centimeters tall, with fair skin and a slim physique.
She has long, bright purple hair that reaches her calves, tied in a braid that starts at her hairline and runs down the nape of her neck. She has upturned, dark brown eyes, framed by long, black lashes.
Mira is a young woman of 22 years and 6 months, 169 centimeters tall.
Mira has a long, angular face with narrow brown eyes. Her hair is pink and flowing, pulled back into two long ponytails with side bangs.
Zoey is a 21-year-old young woman, 154 centimeters tall.
Zoey has black hair pulled back into two braided buns with micro bangs and fringe.
Like the other girls in her group, she has a slim build and long limbs. She stands out for her rounded features, especially the shape of her face and eyes.
To avoid worrying about fans and paparazzi, the girls "dressed up".
All the girls wear casual clothes, completely different from their fabulous outfits they wear on stage or during their various idol jobs.
In addition to their different clothes and lack of makeup, the girls wear accessories to make them harder to recognize.
Rum, thanks to her hoodie, uses the pink hood to hide her iconic long purple hair.
Mira uses a more fashionable disguise, hiding her identity with a black cap and yellow-framed sunglasses.
Zoey simply wears a yellow beret, which oddly enough, makes her look cute and adorable.
[Author's Note: As a writer and reader, I prefer Rumi, her character has so much to offer: internal conflict, enormous external burden, serious issues with her adoptive mother. Unfortunately, as a nerd/man, I'm more attracted to Zoey, she loves turtles. And I convinced my parents to name my younger brother after one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Kindred spirits.]
"Girls, this is the first day of our little vacation, what do you want us to do?" asks Zoey, her expression happy and full of energy.
"Knowing you, Zoey, you'd have a list already made." Mira said, walking next to her nerdy friend.
"Yes, you know me well, Mira, I've lined up three or thirty-three places we can visit." Zoey said, extremely happy to spend time with her two friends without having to worry about concerts or fighting demons.
"I don't think we could visit 33 places in a single day. I think we should do more city tours." Rumi said, enjoying the idea of enjoying more fun days in the city with Miea and Zoey.
"Perfect!" Zoey exclaims, taking her smartphone out of her dress pocket, which shows a map of the city and lots of places to visit.
"If we visit at least three venues a day, we'll finish the program in eleven days, leaving us three days of vacation to improvise something," Zoey said enthusiastically, ready for the best mini-vacation of her life.
"Zoey, I like the enthusiasm, but we must not overdo it, we must stay fit and be ready for anything," Rumi said, not forgetting the responsibilities of her double life.
"Rumi, if you take a day off, the world won't suddenly end." Mira replies, loving her purple-haired friend, but she's too much of a workaholic.
"Someone has to be the woman in charge, we can't forget our duties." Rumi said, being the one most dedicated to her role as Demon Slayer for several reasons.
Rumi, unlike Mira and Zoey, did not have a normal childhood, since she was little she was raised to be an idol and a Demon Hunter.
Mira rolls her eyes, having heard similar phrases so many times.
According to the red-haired girl, Rumi's dedication is admirable, but he goes overboard, doing more harm than good.
"You need to go out more and work less, maybe go on a date," Mira suggests, wanting to help her friend unwind.
A slight blush appeared on Rumi's cheeks when Mira mentioned dating.
"I don't have time for dates." Rumi answers too quickly, still blushing.
While Rumi is the best singer and fighter on the team, she's also the worst at making friends, and even worse at finding love.
Mira and Zoey had their share of dates before joining HUNTR/X, nothing serious or long-term.
But both girls have kissed boys, which Rumi can't say she's done.
"Maybe on our tour of town you might find a cute guy or girl," Zoey suggests, thinking Rumi might play for the other team.
"Zoey!" Rumi exclaims, her face red as a chili pepper.
"You have nothing to fear with us, whatever you like, we'll be on your side." Mira said, trying to show that she cares for her purple-haired friend.
"Mira!" Rumi exclaims, unable to believe that her second friend also thinks she's a lesbian.
"I'm on the same page as Mira, I'll always have your back, Rumi. Unless the guy or girl is bad in the bad sense and not the good one," Zoey said, wishing only the best for Rumi, as well as Mira.
"What's the difference between bad good and bad ugly?" asks Rumi, trying to change the subject of the discussion.
"A good villain means a rebellious attitude, dressed in leather, and punching anyone who hurts you. A bad villain means an asshole who only takes and gives nothing, as well as verbal and/or physical violence." Zoey explains the differences between the two different types of villains, one is purely aesthetic, the other is toxic.
A small part of Rumi's brain begins to associate the word "Bad Ugly" with Celine, her guardian, who for many is her dear aunt, who raised her alone, making her an internationally famous star.
Unfortunately, the rest of Rumi's brain didn't accept this association.
"Girls, I appreciate you caring about me, but I don't need a boyfriend or girlfriend, just having you two in my life is enough to make me happy," Rumi said, feeling more than fulfilled with her deep friendship with Mira and Zoey.
"You're a sappy girl, Rumi." Mira said, her voice mocking, but her eyes were soft.
"I like it sweet," Zoey exclaims, hugging Rumi, having no problem showing affection.
"It's no surprise to me, you're made of sugar and fluffy stuff." Mira comments, continuing her tough-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside attitude.
"I take that as a compliment," Zoey replies, before looking at her smartphone screen.
"We're near a cafe with cats, so we can have a drink and a delicious meal while playing with these adorable creatures." Zoey said, showing a picture of the cafe and the adorable kittens on her smartphone.
"So cute!" Rumi mutters, having an inexplicable weakness for cats.
"You'll become an old lady with ten cats," Mira comments, releasing her grip on Rumi's shoulder.
"Two out of three are for the cats, let's go for the adorable kittens!" Zoey exclaims, rushing forward, dragging her purple-haired friend with her.
The two girls turned the corner of the street, when one of the world's oldest clichés came into play.
BONK
BONK
The two girls crashed into two boys, but the results were different.
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Rumi's result was a cliché.
Rumi crashed into an athletic boy, ending up falling on her butt against the asphalt of the street.
Her pink hood fell down, revealing her long braid of purple hair.
The white-haired girl looks up to see a young white-haired man in front of her.
This person is called Nero, he is 22 years old, 185 centimeters tall, his distinctive feature is his short white hair and blue eyes.
Nero wears punk clothes, with a dark blue hooded jacket, a dark red torn T-shirt, a small necklace consisting of two outstretched wings surrounding a red gem, and black trousers with military boots.
On his back he carries a blue guitar case and under his left armpit he is carrying a small cardboard box.
"Are you okay... were you hurt?" Nero asks, speaking in rough Korean, with a strong foreign accent.
The stranger reaches out to help the purple-haired girl up.
Rumi grabs Nero's hand and stands up, his cheeks turning red during the whole process.
"Yes, I'm fine, I'm not hurt." Rumi replies, dusting off his pants.
Nero remains standing next to Rumi, seeming to have more or less understood what the purple-haired girl said.
Rumi looks at how Nero is holding her hand, instead of pulling it he lets her hold it, even though she doesn't know why.
An unprecedented sensation is appearing in Rumi's heart, a kind of warmth, which seems to extend through his skin.
If Rumi were to take off his hoodie, he might see the symbols of his demonic heritage, which react passively to Nero's presence.
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Zoey's outcome was in some ways the opposite of Rumi's.
Zoey hit a tall, thin boy, she remained standing, while the boy fell to the asphalt.
The boy's name is V, he is a young adult of 23 years old, 188 centimeters tall, slim and thin, with fair skin and dark green eyes.
V has natural black hair, chin-length, with a long fringe combed to the left, which sometimes obscures his eye.
A distinctive feature of V are his black tattoos that decorate his neck, chest, stomach and arms.
V wears a long, sleeveless, open leather coat with sides tied together with strings, internal pockets, and a vest sewn to the front, resembling a corset.
He also wears black pants with a silver chain made of skulls on the right side of the belt and a fingerless glove on his right hand, black sandals.
V sports many accessories, including a tooth pendant around her neck, a silver ring on her left middle finger, and a spiked bracelet that crisscrosses around her left wrist.
Next to V is a silver metal stick.
"Sorry, my female friend Rumi and I were just running around without looking." Zoey said, speaking quickly, feeling terrible about what she'd done.
Zoey looks down and notices the silver cane fallen on the sidewalk, now she feels even worse.
According to Zoey, hurting someone is bad, hurting someone with a disability is extremely bad.
Without thinking much, Zoey grabs V's cane and begins to apologize again.
"I'm so sorry, I'm often in the clouds, but I never crash into anyone." Zoey said, holding the stick in her hands, continuing to talk instead of handing the stick to V.
"Instead of meaningless excuses, you could hand over what's mine." V said in a calm voice, having developed great patience since traveling with Nero and Nico.
The black-haired boy speaks fluent Korean without a trace of an accent.
"Here's your staff, you hurt yourself, do you need anything?" Zoey said, as she passed the silver staff to the young black-haired man.
"Like glass, human beings are fragile. Our extreme exposure to the precariousness and contingency of existence is evident in the very event of birth, but it is important to recognize and demonstrate how the intrinsic strength of human life lies in fragility." V responds with a poem, using his cane to stand up.
"Those words are wonderful," Zoey comments, feeling a certain fascination.
Zoey's eyes travel over V's body, noticing his tattoos.
For a second, images of the demons she's been facing for years appear in Zoey's mind, but the feeling of disgust/enmity quickly disappears.
Because Zoey's artistic side is interested in the unique shape of V's tattoos.
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Mira, who stayed behind her two friends, saw how Rumi and Zoey were talking to a Punk and a Goth.
Not even two minutes ago, Mira was suggesting that Rumi get a boyfriend and have some fun.
Mira can't explain it, but something inside her tells her that these two boys are trouble.
"Punk, Goth, me and my girl friends, we have plans, we're sorry to bother you, but we have to go." Mira said, walking over to Rumi and Zoey, taking each of their hands.
"Mira, what are you doing, we can't just leave." Rumi said, freeing her hand from her more belligerent friend's grip.
"At the very least, we need to offer the boys a coffee or soda as an apology for the inconvenience," Zoey said, once again showing that she's the kindest and most compassionate of the group.
The purple-haired girl, unlike her red-haired friend, has a good feeling towards boys.
"Just now, you two girls should have been interested in men, Punks and Goths are only good at making their parents angry." Mira said, speaking from her own experience.
In her past, Mira often chose the most unconventional boys to irritate her parents in the worst ways.
"V, what did the red-haired girl say?" Nero asks in English, addressing his half-brother.
"Nothing big, just a protective woman towards her friends." V replies in English.
Rumi and Zoey move forward together, returning to the front of the boys, carrying Mira as well.
"V, I know you're not a talkative guy, but I barely speak or understand Korean like you do." Nero said in English, letting his half-brother talk to the three girls.
"The language barrier won't be a problem, the three of us speak English, although Zoey is the best among us," Rumi said, letting the two cute boys know that they speak their language.
"I grew up half my life in America, so it's normal for me to speak English well. Where are you two from?" Zoey asks, wanting to get to know the two foreign boys.
"Nero is originally from Italy, while I'm from the UK." V replies politely, being the one with good manners in the family.
"You're quite far from home. What brings you to Seoul? Work, vacation, or a special occasion?" Zoey asks, very curious.
"Zoey, don't be pushy." Rumi said, pulling her chatty friend towards her, not wanting her to scare the boys.
"No problem, in fact it's a relief, I was starting to get bored of talking to only two people who understand me." said Nero, having been able to communicate for weeks only with V or Nico.
"If you had paid more attention and put more effort into my actions, you could have a conversation with anyone in this country," V said, criticizing Nero for his inability to sit still and learn a new language.
"I'm a man of action, books are your thing, along with poetry and dark clothes." Nero said, more or less joking with his half-brother.
"You're also a man who can't walk alone in the city because he can't read the street signs and gets lost." V replies, with a precise countermove.
Nero prepares to retort, but the purple-haired girl speaks before him.
"If you two are having trouble finding your way, my friends and I wouldn't mind giving you a hand; the three of us know the city very well," Rumi said, trying to sound friendly and approachable, as if she were talking to fans.
"I agree with Rumi. After all, we're free for two weeks, so we can be tour guides for you two." Zoey said, forgetting for the moment about her plan to take Rumi and Mira to a café with adorable cats.
"Two against one, I can't help but accept." Rumi said in Korean, accepting her two friends' idea, but keeping an eye on the two boys.
"If you insist, it would be rude to refuse your hospitality, ladies." V said, giving a small, theatrical bow.
A radiant smile appears on Zoey's face, finding V's mysterious and gallant attitude endearing.
"Nico sent us to get some spare parts for our van, now we have to get back to this address ■■■." Nero said, lightly shaking the cardboard box he carries under his arm.
"It's not that far, we could walk to this address in half an hour," Rumi said, knowing the streets of Seoul very well.
"If I remember correctly, there's an ice cream shop near that address. We could get ice cream, my treat." Zoey said, wanting to offer something sweet as an apology and welcome.
"I almost forgot the last time I ate ice cream," Nero said, having been too busy these past few weeks to enjoy life's simple pleasures.
"This is a mistake we absolutely must fix," Zoey said, treating this matter as if it were a public threat.
The three super star girls began walking together with the two foreign boys.
"One step after another, life flows along the way, without a destination, a crossroads, a shadow, a smile and the unexpected, like a wind that improvises." Recites V, walking next to Zoey.
"Does your friend often spin nonsense poems out of thin air?" Mira asks, adding another thing to the list of things she doesn't like about the Goth boy.
"Unfortunately yes, V, he's an eccentric guy, but he pays for the gas and knows a lot." Nero replies in a low voice.
The White-Haired Boy has unwittingly learned more about literature from being around his Half-brother than he ever did from attending Italian lessons at school.
"Poems aren't meaningless, just listen and you'll understand their meaning." Zoey said, showing her deeper side as a lyricist/songwriter.
"Finally someone with some culture." V said, his voice calm.
Zoey's smile grows and she walks slightly closer to the black-haired boy.
'I have a bad feeling about this.' Mira thinks, feeling as if she's walking with something dangerous that's pretending to be harmless.
'I have a good feeling about these guys,' Zoey thinks, feeling butterflies in her stomach.
'It's not the group outing I was expecting, but it's not bad.' Rumi thinks, casting a quick glance at the white-haired boy.
Continues ...
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Author's Note:
Initially, I was thinking of writing a story where Nero gets together with Rumi, while Zoey might have a relationship with Nico. However, Mira would be left alone while her two friends get boyfriends.
Then, while writing this chapter, I remembered the classic trope: Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl.
Zoey is a Gentle Girl, V is a Brooding Boy, I could write something like that. I'm putting together my favorite characters.
In short, I finally settled on these pairings: Rumi X Nerone; Zoey XV; Mira X Nico.