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I love writing. Would love to do it again someday

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I look pretty today and there's no one to see... WHERE IS JUMIN

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Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful response to my question about Jumin’s normal ending! You brought up some good points like that dialogue with Jumin, and other details about his endings that I forgot! It makes a lot more sense now as to why that’s a normal ending and why the good ending is the way it is. Also, your general thoughts on it gave some great analysis for to think about. I appreciate it! ❤️

Of course, and thank you for caring about my thoughts too! At the end of the day I'm just a silly little woman rambling about her fictional husband so I love that there's people thoughtfully nodding along hahaha :')

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Hi! I appreciate your blog and love hearing your takes on Jumin, especially his route and characterization. You may have answered this question before, but I was curious to hear your thoughts:

What do you think about Jumin’s normal end?

I’ve thought that it wasn’t too bad, and I appreciated some aspects of it compared to his good end or other canon endings like the Valentine’s Day DLC where he seems to be materialistic and rather than address he didn’t prioritize time with MC he just gave an expensive gift to smooth it over. Basically, I feel conflicted since I know the normal end means he gave up on the business, but I also understood it as him being less materialistic and more focused on spending valuable time with MC, like in the museum scene which I thought was really sweet. MC also seemed to have more autonomy in this normal ending with a job, whereas in the other endings I mentioned MC is just following Jumin or waiting for him to be done with his work.

Thank you! As for my general thoughts on NE here you go 💓

I do see where you're coming from with him perhaps seeming a bit materialistic in the Valentines DLC, but the way I see it he planned to surprise MC from the beginning and just had a lot on his plate rather than the gifts being an apology for him being inconsiderate. All of them are thoughtful, purchased over a number of months, and he went out of his way to buy them himself. Plus, if I recall correctly he was actually supposed to be away longer and MC was aware of that already, but he still made the effort to cut his trip short to be with her.

I think part of what is lovely about the good end is having faith in Jumin to love you despite his work rather than him having to prioritise one over the other to an extreme. Both can be important to him. That's okay! And even so he still puts MC first:

("A man who is swayed by emotions and ignores all his responsibilities doesn't deserve a partner like you..." is a reference to how he acts in a normal end!)

As for MC having a job, there is no universe in which Jumin would be against his partner having a job of their own if they wanted one, I promise. Put yourself above everything else, right? More than anything Jumin cares about his wife's happiness, so he would most certainly support anything she wanted to do—job or no job. I sort of address it in the post above but, in my opinion, them working together actually creates a sort of muddy boundary between business and pleasure that both MC and Jumin would definitely be better off without. In an ideal world you can both do your own thing and love each other more than anything despite, despite, despite.

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something i really wish theyd change or rather fix up in jumins route is the good ending cg 😭 like whats with both their noses and mc's expression 😭

Oh true there are a few cgs I wouldn't mind being tweaked a bit </3 I've always thought she looks kinda scared in that one lol

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Hi there! I was wondering, if you change/rewrite anything from Jumin’s route, what would it be?

This may be controversial (somehow) but I actually really like Jumin's route lol. Quite a few people think it's ooc for him etc. but idk, I think it does a fairly good job of putting a man who chronically represses and detaches being pushed to his limit on display. Anyway!

There's a couple of little things. I've mentioned before that I would have liked to have seen either a different first kiss or a second better one, but maybe that's a little greedy of me [looks at V route]. I also honestly would have liked to have seen Sarah be a bit more three dimensional—either give her redeeming characteristics or make her utterly awful rather than being the weird level of just very irritating she is in canon. Neither of these things are anything I feel mega passionate about, it just would have made it that bit more enjoyable for me I think.

I do however genuinely wish the bomb threat had come into play somehow because I think it would have been kind of next level to see him absolutely flip out. Not only is there a bomb in the apartment in the first place, but he was right that you were under threat and Seven knew. Seems like a missed opportunity? but you know, it is only 11 days and there's only so much drama you can pack into it without it getting a tad oversaturated

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if you did a rewrite of jumin's route from his perspective i think you would definitely do it justice! i second the prev anon, i've read tons of jumin fanfics over the years but your characterisation is one of the best i've read

i know you said you like canon compliancy for the most part but are there are any aus you would like to see jumin in? i just wanna see that man in situations

Agh thank you 💜 honestly it's always reassuring to have people compliment my characterisation so for you to think it's some of the best means a lot :')

In terms of AUs there's not really anything in particular I would like to see that I can think of? but there is bound to be something out there that would catch my attention. Generally I don't mind jumin x reader set in other endings, it can be done well but I don't think it's something I would care to write myself—at least not at the minute!

I do like seeing him in situations though

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reliance

day 7, jumin’s perspective

jumin x reader, 1170 words

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If you asked almost anyone, those who know him personally or otherwise, they’d most likely tell you that Jumin doesn’t feel.

It’s not that straightforward, of course. There’s layers to it.

It would be more realistic to say he’s mastered the techniques of repression. He always only had himself to lean on. How could a lonely child cope with the consequences of gritty rejection at the hands of his own mother other than compartmentalise? How else could he handle the relentless harassment from the shameless women that his father willingly, repeatedly let into his life? It was easy as far as he was concerned—he let the threads tangle until they could barely be deciphered from one another and pushed them aside.

In the recent past, Jumin might have even considered telling you it’s a skill. Developed at a young age, perfected into adulthood. A skill that allows him to avoid inconveniences to his duties; fend off any sort of long term resentment or frustration. Dwelling on something like What extent of lacking consideration might make a good father a bad one? should not matter. Time will pass with or without him. So he simplifies it: objectively bad things happen, are tangled away soon thereafter, and life goes on. This way memories he needs are easily accessed and ones he doesn’t are easier avoided.

Before, on the occasion things did start to get overwhelming, distracting himself had been relatively easy. He had conjured up this idea of his cat being the catch-all to combat his discomfort. If ever emotions started to creep into uncomfortable territory it was simple to sidestep them. Elizabeth the 3rd had been… sympathetic enough to make him feel sufficiently comfortable again. Then if necessary he could pick up extended office hours here, a cat project there, an extra glass of wine to ease the transition from overthinking to composure.

The last week, though, has flipped everything he thought he knew on its head.

You’re at the forefront of it, really. You’re special to him in a way no one else is; he’s told you that much already. Even so, he will preface his thoughts with a point that he’d surely be jumping the gun to say he’s in love. He met you barely a week ago. In the moments where he tries his hardest to stop the unemotional part of him from slipping through his fingers, he almost believes (or maybe tries to convince himself) that it must just be that there’s so much happening right now. Sarah, her name bitter on his tongue, seems to have forcefully slithered her way into his life, though he’d rather have never paid her a second glance. There is no reasoning with his father surrounding the absurdity of the arranged marriage and the trust at the foundation of their relationship feels suddenly fragile; unpredictable. Not to mention the impact yet another divorce and planned subsequent remarriage quickly took on business (with Jumin, of course, being left to pick up the slack).

Then, as if things weren’t dire enough, his dear Elizabeth the 3rd is seemingly under threat. He is riddled with both the need to protect and a simultaneous abundance of confusion from the dawning realisation that she could never understand him like he needed. It plays heavy on his heart.

Amongst it all though, here you are—a pillar of light in the chaos. Someone who cares about him with a deep sincerity and understanding he thought he could have never pulled from the depths of another human. Someone who might just care about him in a way that not even Rika had. He’s considered informing you that it makes him feel terribly vulnerable. As though you’re cradling his heart in uncertain hands.

Still, Jumin keeps assuring himself that things will fall back into place. They always do. Things will fall into their rightful place, and life will return to what he is accustomed to.

…Then again.

What if he doesn't want it to go back to how it was before? What if this is a rare occasion where he welcomes a sudden change with open arms? An open heart? (It’s okay if hands shake as you hold it, he thinks. Be it his hands or yours.)

Because it just doesn’t feel right to tuck you away with everything else in his brain the way he’s used to. You’re too different. It comes too easy to ignore everything else for you. Thoughts of you are spread all around in an uneven jumble; disorganised, distracting. From his stares alone it’s impossible for you to begin to visualise the scramble. He feels like he’s been ripped from safety and comfort and thrown as far from familiarity as possible. He has never been so out of his depth. He has never, even as a child, felt so out of control.

Part of him, strangely, welcomes it.

It makes him think unusually, however. Perhaps even unfairly. And so along with the scattered joy of you, you, you, develops an internal battle to gain control again. He wants your eyes on only him as much as he wants no one else to look at you. Something pleads with him to keep you here, keep you here, while something else begs him on its knees to never hold you back.

He’s watching you, sitting with your legs tucked up beneath you on his sofa. You’ve been quietly focused on some drama he’s never heard of and sipping a vintage wine he’d been saving for a special occasion. It makes him dizzy. Perhaps against his better judgement, he has wanted to kiss you since you walked through the door. A special occasion indeed.

The pleading continues, desperate screams of No matter what it takes! No matter what it takes!

But you have been so kind. He wouldn’t dare take advantage of it. On the contrary, he’d probably do anything you asked of him in a heartbeat as long as he could guarantee you’d be safe in the end.

Then he says your name. He’s not sure he intended to say it aloud. When you turn to him he scans your face for something, anything, that suggests maybe you’re losing your mind as much as he is. Instead he’s distracted by lips gently parted and vaguely stained red from the wine, and comes to no conclusion.

“Yeah?” you say.

You’re sitting in the spot where he’d usually sit, he realises. He’d been so shaken by your arrival that he somehow hadn’t even noticed. Not that he’d have made you sit elsewhere anyway.

He takes a sip of his own wine and wonders if his lips are the same colour as yours.

“Jumin? Everything okay?”

You seem too far away somehow.

“Yes.”

You tilt your head to the side slightly as you ask, “You sure?”

“Yes. Apologies, what I was going to say somehow slipped my mind,” he says.

“Alright.” Your eyes sparkle as you smile (always sweet, never pushy) and he has to turn away to stop himself from acting on foolish impulse.

He downs the rest of his wine in lieu of it.

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Have you ever considered doing longer styles multi chapter fics or even a mini series? I can’t get enough of your writings and characterization of jumin :3

This is so sweet thank you! I am definitely not opposed to it but there are a couple of reasons I haven't, the main one being that the majority of my mystic messenger ideas just tend to lean better into one shots. I like canon compliancy for the most part so it's not really like I could do a getting together fic for example (unless I was just to rewrite Jumin's route from his perspective, reliance style, which could be fun but I'm not sure I would do justice?)

Second reason is that I tend to get sick of myself quite quickly while I'm writing hahaha. I'm an edit as I go writer which works well for anything up to about 5000 words and thereafter I start to go urgh... at half of the fic. Hypothetically it could be remedied but I've tried a few things and nothing has worked so far.

This said I would still like to write a honeymoon fic longer than the stuff I typically write. We're not talking multi-chapter but long for me lol. Maybe the warm weather will motivate me when it comes back :-)

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sometimes people reblog my posts like "mystic messenger on my dash in 2024?!" and well. wait until you find out what this whole blog is dedicated to

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“Don’t you want to escape from this filthy world? This is an invitation to paradise.” —Saeran Choi a.k.a Unknown.

the one i would date if i were the MC

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⭐️bonus⭐️

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I miss living in that apartment with a constant potential bomb threat

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hes going to die in two seconds because he didnt have a humidifier

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My opinion of you is one of admiration for how you not only get to the heart of Jumin's character but you also pickup on the smallest of traits that make me gain a deeper appreciation of him.

I've low-key wanted to ask you for ages if you'd write a commission but I think my ideas would conflict too much with the real Jumin (wish he was real 😞)

Anyway, gushing over. You keep all us Jumin stans very happy

Agh this is lovely, thank you wtf 🥺 I'm glad that I can make people appreciate him more. Parts of him get overlooked all too often and I want to rectify that! He's so endearing. I could talk about him forever.

I don't plan on doing any sort of formal requests or commissions any time soon but I'm very flattered you'd even consider me <3 Means a lot!!

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u seem like a lovely person and jumin would def 100% be in love with u if he was real

HOW COULD YOU SAY THISSSS