PrismKorean Mudang

Sun-Mi Park

Seoul, South Korea

“A K-pop star who made a deal with a nine-tailed fox. Now she carries the power of both.”

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Novella

Nine Tailed Idol

Some guardians aren't what they seem. Sun-Mi Park has spent years chasing her K-pop dreams in Seoul, desperate to escape the suffocating weight of her family's spiritual heritage. As the heir to five generations of mudang shamans, she's expected to serve their ancient guardian spirit, but stage lights call louder than shrine duties. Until her grandmother starts dying with prophecies on her lips. Ominous tracks encircle the family compound. Electronics malfunction in Sun-Mi's presence. And something massive stalks the sacred mountain, watching with ancient, furious eyes. When Sun-Mi returns home for what might be her last goodbye, she discovers that everything her family believes about their spiritual protector may be built on lies. Caught between her Seoul debut opportunity and a cosmic conspiracy spanning over a century, Sun-Mi must navigate shapeshifting predators, righteous vengeance, and the terrible weight of family secrets. Her newfound abilities are growing stronger, but so are the forces that want to claim her. In a world where traditional Korean spirits clash with modern ambitions, where mercy and justice war in the shadows of Gyeryong Mountain, Sun-Mi faces an impossible choice: preserve her family's faith or expose a truth that could destroy them all. Some prices are paid in blood. Others in silence. Which will cost her more?

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Prism (Working Title)

Full-length novel continuing Sun-Mi's story.

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Echoes

Hidden connections that reveal themselves on the second pass: cameos, foreshadowing, and threads Mimi shares with the wider world.

ForeshadowingChapter 9: Debut Stage

Emiko Tachibana

The girl in the VIP section

During her debut concert at COEX Artium, Sun-Mi spots a young Tokyo-based influencer named Yasuragi in the VIP section, wavy black hair with bold white streaks, watching the performance with the focused attention of an artist studying another artist. Sun-Mi knows her from late-night scrolling: street art that layers Shinto shrine imagery over urban spray-paint, content that sits in the exact overlap of heritage and modernity Sun-Mi is performing live. What Sun-Mi cannot know is what Seol-hwa detects from the dressing room afterward: something strange around the girl: not present power, but a potential tied to the future rather than the present. An ancient Gumiho spirit has registered something significant about this ordinary human before anything extraordinary has come for her.

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