Rumi

Rumi is the main protagonist of Sony Pictures Animation's 29th feature full-length animated film KPop Demon Hunters.

She is a half-demon human who is the leader of the K-pop group HUNTR/X (pronounced "Hunt-rix"), comprising herself, Mira, and Zoey. They take secret identities as demon hunters to protect the souls of the human world from demons.

Appearance

Rumi is a fair-skinned young woman with a slim figure. She has long, calf-length bright purple hair styled into a braid starting from her hairline going down the back of her head. She has dark brown upturned eyes framed by long black lashes. Her arms are covered in her demon markings resembling loose purple stripes, which are usually hidden from view.

DEMON

In her revealed demon form, Rumi's appearance has bright demonic features. Her braid is messier with numerous loose strands, and her left eye becomes a bright orange-yellow that temporarily glows. The most noticeable changes are on her limbs. Her demon patterns spread onto her face and legs as well, glowing a bright pink in some areas. Rumi's right fingernails transform into sharp claws, with a dark hue over her hand.

Personality

Rumi is kind-hearted and ambitious, working hard to achieve her goals while also taking time to care for her friends and fans. Raised to be an idol, she displays herself to be charismatic, confident and friendly. She outwardly shows appreciation for her loved ones and wishes to protect them from harm. As the leader of HUNTR/X, Rumi is used to being the responsible one in the group.

Her ambition is especially emphasized with her long-time goal and duty to seal the Golden Honmoon, which will permanently banish the threat of demons in the world. However, Rumi's determination can result in her being isolated and so focused she refuses to relax, as stated by Mira. She is also shown to push herself, such as when she persists to go on with the Idol Awards despite her voice audibly faltering.

Hidden under her optimistic demeanor, Rumi harbors a deep insecurity of her demon heritage, likely due to her beliefs as a hunter. She fears the thought of it being revealed, and thus constantly tries to cover her body patterns. However, her desperate attempts to keep this unknown make her become more distant and unreasonable toward her friends. She becomes secretive, uptight and unwilling to open up about her feelings, causing problems amongst the group and breaking the trust between them.

Also due to being part demon, Rumi is the most sympathetic towards them out of the trio. This is further imposed upon her after forming a friendship with Jinu, a demon who explains his past to her. This results in Rumi carrying the new belief that not all demons may be completely evil, and some may be forcefully trapped under Gwi-Ma's control. While the song is in development, Rumi considers changing the lyrics in "Takedown" to be less hateful, which gets her questioned by her groupmates.

Story

For a long time, demons have attacked humans and stolen their souls to feed the Demon King Gwi-Ma. Three women rose as demon hunters, defeating the demons by using their singing voices to create a barrier called the Honmoon to seal them out of the human world. This legacy was passed down through generations who used their singing voices to maintain the Honmoon.

Rumi's mother, Miyeong, was a member of the Sunshine Sisters — a now-disbanded K-Pop group and the previous generation of demon hunters. She had conceived Rumi with a demon, and died shortly after Rumi was born. Celine, another member of the Starlight Sisters and Miyeong's friend, made a promise to preserve all that's left of her, which meant raising Rumi. From a young age, Rumi was taught to hide her demonic heritage, with Celine stating that when Rumi grows up to be a demon hunter and conjures the golden Honmoon, her demonic markings (patterns) will disappear.

Later, the K-pop girl and demon hunter group HUNTR/X was formed under the mentorship of Celine, with its members being Rumi, Mira, and Zoey. After defeating demons and finishing their world tour, Rumi rushes to release their newest single "Golden" in hopes of creating the Golden Honmoon faster as her demonic patterns have been growing and spreading around her body. However, she loses her voice at a live performance due to her patterns, and abandons the stage. Huntrix regroups and focuses their energy on preparing for their performance at the International Idol Awards instead, which is when the Honmoon is strengthened for the year and when the group believes the Golden Honmoon will be formed.

Huntrix then encounters a new boy band, the Saja Boys. Though nearly deceived, they sense something is off. They confirm that the Saja Boys are demons but fail to stop them in a scuffle; Jinu discovers Rumi's heritage and keeps it from Mira and Zoey.

He meets with Rumi privately, revealing that demons are controlled by shame and misery through voices Gwi-Ma whispers to them. Jinu recounts how, 400 years ago, Gwi-Ma gave him a beautiful voice that helped lift his impoverished family. Jinu became a palace performer but was eventually banished to the demon realm and is haunted by guilt over his family losing everything. Jinu's demonic patterns are a mark of his shame over this incident, while Rumi's mark her shame over her heritage.

Huntrix later performs their single "Golden" at the International Idol Awards, hoping to create the Golden Honmoon. Beforehand, Rumi makes a deal with Jinu — the Saja Boys would forfeit their performance so that Huntrix would get a guaranteed win. Rumi nearly succeeds at creating the Golden Honmoon during her solo, but is betrayed by Jinu who creates demon illusions of Zoey and Mira to attack Rumi on stage, while using the lyrics of HUNTR/X's unreleased song "Takedown" against her.

After the incident on stage, Rumi's patterns are revealed to Zoey and Mira who turn against her out of fear. Rumi confronts Jinu, who reveals his backstory was partially fabricated and that he was the one who abandoned his family. Later, Rumi finds Celine and asks for her life to be ended, and when Celine refuses and tells her to cover up her patterns, Rumi retorts that the demonic patterns are a part of who she is, and that she's glad the Honmoon is destroyed.

Rumi teleports to the Saja Boys' performance and interrupts it, and states to the Demon King that the world knows what she is and that she will create a new Honmoon. Rumi reignites Mira and Zoey's souls with her song, and they together work to defeat the Demon King, the Saja Boys, and swarms of other demons. During this, Rumi is attacked by a blast of energy from the Demon King, but Jinu steps in to sacrifice himself and give Rumi his soul. Rumi is dismayed at Jinu because she wanted to save him but Jinu tells her that she already had saved him before disintegrating into ashes in front of her.

With the power of Jinu and the fans' souls, HUNTR/X defeats the Saja Boys and the Demon King, as well as restores the Honmoon. At the end of the movie, Rumi is seen being more confident and open about her patterns, wearing more revealing clothes into front of others including young fans and even going to the bathhouse with Mira and Zoey.

Powers and Abilities

• Fighting Skills: As a Demon Hunter, Rumi possesses vast experience in weapon handling and hand-to-hand combat.
• Singing: As a K-pop star and demon hunter, Rumi is a magnificent singer. Her voice is capable of attracting and inspiring hope and joy in people.
• Spirit Magic: Rumi, like all hunters, can use spiritual magic powered by her and her fans' souls.
  • Weapon Conjuring: Rumi is able to conjure a magical sword that she can slay demons with.
    • Energy Slash: Rumi's sword can create a powerful long-range slash, which she uses to attack Gwi-Ma in their final battle.
  • Spirit Vision: Rumi can see spirits, demons and the spiritual energy that flows through the Honmoon, she is able to see when it changes color or fluctuates indicating that there are demons nearby. She can also see when the Honmoon is damaged or destroyed.
  • Honmoon Creation: Rumi, together with other members of Huntrix, are capable of creating and strengthening the Honmoon using the soul energy of their fans.
• Demon Magic: As a human-demon half-breed, Rumi can use demonic magic to a certain extent, but does not have full control over said powers.
  • Demonic Screech: When enraged, Rumi can let out a powerful scream. Due to Rumi's connection to the Honmoon, her scream affects it, sending magenta shockwaves across it.
  • Teleportation: Rumi, like all demons, can teleport through magenta smoke.
  • Demonic Patterns: Rumi possesses "patterns" on her skin, which all demons possess as a mark of their shame. It glows magenta as she loses control of her demon side, and glows a light-blue hue when she accepts her demonic side and releases her shame.

Story of Joining Sora's Team

Rumi join in Sora's Team with Zoey and Mira as K-pop group HUNTR/X member in her position in leader , but Zoey and Mira surprise about Tenn Kujo, Riku Nanase, Kojiro Maruyama, Subaru Akehoshi, Ensemble Square, Jun Sazanami, Tomoya Mashiro, Sora Harukawa, Tsukasa Suou, Ryuiseitai, Hiiro Amagi, THUNDERBOLT CHALLENGE 4piece, Sakuya Kujo, Soji Mikami, Len Tsukimori, Maruyama Daisuke, Jun Fuyumi, Luna Loud, Squigly, Minato Lizuka, Ramuda, Zool, Argonavis, Fujin Rizing, εpsilonΦ, GYROAXIA, Sakuya Sakuma, ArS, Twinkle Bell, Ra*bits, Ryuiseitai, Hiiro Amagi, Tsukasa Suou, I♥B, F∞F, POP'N STAR, Lancelot as Issei Todoroki team, HE★VENS, QUARTET NIGHT, RE:BERSERK as Eva Armstrong team, Tenjyou Tenge as Tsubaki Rindo team, Alchemist as Kuro Yukaku team, ST☆RISH, Mankai Company, IDOLiSH7, Trigger, Re;vale, 315 Production Legate, Protostar, AnaLe, Ètoile as Shido Akira team, Merry Panic, Saburo Yamada, Sanzenkai, theater bell and some of heroes as singer, dancer, actor theater, and popstar is here in front of her, Zoey, and Mira apparently it was Bobby's doing as the manager of HUNTR/X which made Rumi a little annoyed with Bobby, but all the heroes will maintain their identity as demon slayers because it turns out that all the members of Sora's team received a letter from Celine as Rumi's adoptive mother to become collaboration members with HUNTR/X in every concert and battle mission even High x Joker (Shiki Iseya, Jun Fuyumi, Hayato Akiyama, Haruna Wakazato, Natsuki Sakaki) is actually a rival with Saja Boys because it turns out that Saja Boys had a fight with High X Joker before from what Jun said

making her, and her two friends as fellow girls surprised even Saja Boys is a group of boys in the form of demons in human form from Mira's words but the arrival of Saja Boys makes all members of Sora's team such as Tenn Kujo, Aether, Jun Fuyumi, Cecil Aijima, and Iori Izumi upset like sabotaging the collaboration fan meeting between HUNTR/X and Sora's team because all of Sora's team already know that they are Xehanort's teammates through Gwi-Ma order to Saja Boys but Rumi is helped by Tenn Kujo and several other heroes as fellow idols, singers, and superstars as well as Mira, and Zoey want angry get helped calm by Hokuto Ijuuin, Nagi Rokuya, Shouta Mitarai, and several others in fansmeet.

but when the song TAKEDOWN, Rumi ran away then she had a demonic physique then this made Rokuro, Harumasa, and the others show their side that they were also not human like her even though their forms were different, even though Mira, and Zoey wanted to attack Rumi but were successfully warded off by Cecil Aijima, and Rise Kujikawa then Jinu made things worse, even though they were angry but were helped by several of Sora's team even Celine apologized for what happened to Rumi but most of Sora's team didn't mind because Rumi must be confused so they got along again