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Not Part of Riordanverse
The following article/section is from the Gifted Clans continuity under Rick Riordan Presents and not the Riordanverse canon. |
| “ | When Sora first told me I had to initiate, I thought I'd have to betray the family that raised me. Be a traitor or something, you know? […] Now I've realized it's not a betrayal. It's a 'sacrifice'. Just like our clan motto. By Sacrificing my Gom identity, I can save Hattie. | ” |
–Riley to Emmett on why she chose to initiate into the Horangi in The Last Fallen Star. | ||
Riley Oh is the protagonist and narrator of The Gifted Clans series under the Rick Riordan Presents imprint. She is one of the Horangi and an adopted Gom, although first presumed to be a saram, a person without magic. Riley is the Last Fallen Star, a shard of the dark sun. Sacrifices herself to becomes the new sun. She is currently in a relationship with Emmett Harrison.
History[]
Riley was born to Mina and Yoon Seo, members of the Horangi Clan. Her mother attacked the temple with the rest of the congregation in an attempt to gain more power and died during the fight, while she was pregnant. Unbeknownst to the gifted community, when the goddesses selfishly destroyed the dark sun, the Haetae brought it to the Mortalrealm and hid it in Mina Seo. Thus Riley was born, the living dark sun.
After Mina was killed, Okja removed her from the womb and gave her to her sister and brother-in-law to raise and told Riley her real parents were teenagers who were too young to properly care for her. The only thing Mina and Yoon left her was a tear shaped onyx stone. At her adoptive parent's request, Riley was placed in a Gi cauldron, a cauldron that determines which four elements a witch is affiliated with. After a delayed reaction, the cauldron revealed all her elements were fire, something unheard of, with elements usually never repeating. The elders took it as a sign that she should not learn magic. Okja managed to let them permit Riley to live with the Oh family, but they wouldn't allow her to train as a full fledged witch. Riley lived with the hope that she still might finally belong in the Gom clan someday.
One time, her family went camping in the Angeles National Forest. She and Hattie shared a tent and the family roasted s’mores over the camp fire.
When she was in third grade, she was barred from attending Jennie Byun's birthday by the birthday girl as she wasn’t a part of the gifted community. As she was crying in the library, a boy dropped a bag of chocolate chip cookies in her lap and they started hanging out. After befriending him, she learned his name was Emmett Harrison, who left the gifted community after his mother died, and is a fan of his baking. She once bedazzled a shirt to say Donut Touch My Donuts! due to how munch she enjoys them.
When she was nine, she went with her family to visit her aunt Okja when she was living in New York City, she was shocked by how different it was from Los Angeles and memorized the subway map in case she was separated from her family.
Her family would go to Zany Zoo Mini Golf and she would often get holes-in-one. On the last hole, which granted a free two scoop ice cream to whoever got a hole-in-one, she would take her time analyzing the hole and would always get free ice cream.
When she was eleven, her father made her take first aid classes.
The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories About Mythic Heroes[]
My Night at the Gifted Carnival[]
As she is waiting in line with the rest of her Saturday school class to enter the Gifted Carnival, her sister points out a kid on a unicorn flying through a crowd of Cheollima. As they watch their chaperone Joon reveals his gifted mark to the ticket taker and walking back with a large pile of maps and tickets. As the other kids cheer, Riley laments to herself on the events to come, seeing the carnival as something tantalizing as she is a saram, someone without magic. While she gets to experience it once a year, she feels like the carnival is the only night of the year she can experience what the other kids experience on a daily basis. Once inside, Joon hands out the maps and tickets while giving them a lecture about what to do if they loose something or get sick. He heads to the tent to watch a show as Hattie drags Riley to the performance tent as well. After ordering one of everything from the snack bar, the girls make their way to ringside seats and watch as the Ring Master, a Gumiho witch, entertains the crowd with illusions. After Hattie eats some of the snacks, she tries to get Riley to eat them. Riley refuses as her sister backs off. Soon the Ring Master vanishes and a woman from the Miru clan, Strongwoman Cho, appears in her place lifting a piano that the Ring Master appears out off. Soon after a Samjogo seer, Old Man Nam, appears asking for a volunteer from the audience. He picks Riley, but she refuses and he picks another volunteer instead, a girl named Aracely. He predicts that it is her brother Mateo's birthday, she came with him and her mother, gave cake to her dog, and he predicts something distressing will happen to her before she leaves and pulls her aside. Hattie tells Riley she needs to use the bathroom and hands her the remaining snacks as he leaves. Riley watches the rest of the show, but as she leaves she realizes Hattie has not returned.
Riley searches the port-a-potties to no success, but finds a trail of candy from Hattie's necklace and follows it to a tent. She enters and is amazed that it leads to a freezer sized room. Riley spots a building made of ice and looks into the window to find four life size figurines of children with a snowflake symbol on their forehead bound together by a red string. However she realizes they are real after seeing Aracely and panics, calling her sister’s name. She finds Hattie out cold, who explains she heard a scream after coming out of the bathroom and left a trail for Riley to follow and hit her head on a crate as she was running away when she wakes up. Hattie reveals that the Dalgyan Gwisin, the ghost of a vengeful mother who killed children after her child died and has been known to escape the realm of the dead, is behind it. Disturbed, Riley tells Hattie they need to save the kids and go to find Joon. They find Joon by the Ferris wheel, keeping an eye on Jennie Byun as she talks with some saram kids. They tell him the Dalgyan Gwisin is at the carnival abducting children, but he does not believe them and thinks it is a prank by a Gumiho. Hattie changes the subject and asks about a glass gavel with bronze bells with a snowflake insignia, an item that the Dalgyal Gwisin had with her. Joon says that before a soul can enter Heaven and apply to be reborn, the soul must be judged by all seven judges of the afterlife and, if found guilty of a crime, with serve time in that judge's hell and be branded with the insignia to ensure they do not escape. Before he can say more, he is forced to turn a pig back into a saram after Jennie gives them a potion. The Oh sisters look at each other, realizing they are on their own.
They make their way to the staff tent and sneak in when the guard leaves. They find Strongwoman Cho and the Ring Master and try to convince them to help save the kids. The strongwoman thinks it is a prank and has the guard, who has just returned, escort them out. However Riley thinks the have Old Man Nam read them to show they are telling the truth. The Ring Master agrees to let them try, but says they will be banished forever if they are lying. They wake up Old Man Nam and explain everything to him. He reads them and reveals they are telling the truth. They agree to help the sisters as they lead them to the imprisoned kids. The Oh sisters lead the Ring Master, Strongwoman Cho, and Old Man Nam to the tent where the kids are. The Ring Master confirms that the ice gavel was used on the kids and that they are still alive, but just barely, and says they need the gavel to free them. Strongwoman Cho goes to cut the string, but Old Man Nam says it is a bulgeun-sil, a string that binds fate, and they realize Dalgyan Gwisin wants to take the children to the Spiritrealm with her. They know they must come face to face with the ghost to get the gavel and they need to get her to think she won. Riley comes up with a plan to use illusions.
After creating the illusions, they take the kids away, however Dalgyan Gwisih comes back with two screaming kids, a boy and a girl, and they hide. The ghost takes the gavel out of her pocket and strikes the girl in the forehead. Riley screams when she sees Dalgyan Gwisin's featureless face, drawing the ghost's attention to her, and the boy escapes. Riley freezes in fear, only running when Hattie draws the ghost's attention to her and is frozen. Strongwoman Cho tosses a crate at the ghost as the Ring Master makes herself look like Riley to distract the ghost as Old Man Nam fails to lasso the ghost. Riley unknowingly runs towards the ice structure and is cornered. As Dalgyan Gwisin approaches, Riley remembers there is an incantation that returns things to where they belong. After the performances body slam the ghost the the group, Riley tells them the incantation. They reluctantly say it as Dalgyan Gwisin is sent back to the Hell of Infinite Ice. However the gavel is vanishing as well. Riley manages to free all the kids just before the gavel vanishes. The adults congratulate Riley, saying she has a bright future in magic. This gets to her as Hattie hugs her. They say their goodbyes to the performers and kids before meeting up with Joon and the others.
The Gifted Clans series[]
The Last Fallen Star[]
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One Saturday, a new client walks into their parents clinic as Riley is acting as the receptionist. When she mentions she is part of the Oh family, the man is surprised as he thought the Ohs only had one daughter, Hattie. Riley becomes crestfallen until her father comes up and says she is his daughter. Soon Hattie asks Riley for help with incarnations and, after Hattie promises to do Riley's chores for a month, Riley agrees. As Hattie struggles to remember the incantations, she remembers them easily and Hattie keeps telling their mother she should get an initiation, however their mother reveals that their aunt failed to talk the council into it and Hattie rants about it being unfair and she jokes about transferring some of her magic over to her, something her mother inadvertently reveals is possible, but extremely dangerous and temporary by looking at the family spell book, which they are forbidden to read. She then fetches her father for services. When they arrive late one of the elders, Mr. Pyo, scolds them for it in front of the entire congregation. They watch as his granddaughter has her elemental affiliations revealed and she thinks of what her parents told her about when they tried to have her elements revealed. Before closing, the elders reveal the library will be opening up for the first time in a decade, a carnival is coming up, and an exiled clan has approached the council, something that worries everyone. As she and Hattie head off to Saturday school, she wonders if they should use the spell of not when their aunt Okja, their clan's elder, comes up and quickly apologizes for not getting her an initiation before another elder wishes to speak with her. Hattie warns her not to tell their aunt about the spell. They head to Saturday school and on the way, Jennie Byun, brags about a lie about the library opening being fake and the Horangi elder trying to break into a temple. Upon entering the classroom, start singing to break the enchantment. When class starts, Riley mentions magic safes and how to break them. Professor Ryu reveals that to open the safe, one must say the password three times and burn a lock of hair, something the sisters can easily get from their mother, but an additional step involves placing a tear on the hair before burning, something they cannot easily get. After class they contact their friend Emmett Harrison who meets them at their house with donuts. They tell him the plan and Emmett tries and fails to talk them out of it. He suggests having their mother watch a K-Drama with them, which she always cries during, to get a tear. They succeed in getting the tear and they sneak out before dawn the next morning to sneak into the clinic under the guise of walking Mong, their dog. Emmett meets up with them and keeps watch as they open the safe, succeeding after using the clan motto. She grabs the spell book and finds it blank, but the words appear for the blood Gom Hattie. They find the spell and discover they can make the two potions required for use from ingredients at the clinic and find a warning not to be used between two witches. However she becomes disheartened upon learning in can only work if used in the Gi Cauldron and an elder is present. Hattie suggests they perform it at her initiation the following day and Riley reluctantly agrees. Soon Emmett enters and expresses his concern over the plan, but they ignore him. The following day she wakes up to find Mong in a Haetae costume and wishes Hattie happy birthday before they head to the temple. She and her parents watch as Hattie passes all three tests and receives her Gi bracelet. After she finishes, the sisters start the ritual, but Okja interrupts it by saying Riley is not a saram, but a member of the exiled Horangi clan. At first she was in disbelief, but the reaction of her parents told her the revelation was true. After yelling at her parents for lying to her her entire life, the other four elders give Okja and the Oh a choice to make by the end of the week, either all will be stripped of their magic and excommunicated, or have Riley exiled and never allowed to speak with a member of the gifted community again. As Riley runs away, she is grabbed by Mr. Pyo, who says her family will be monitored. She arrives home first and decides to run away so her family wouldn’t have to make an impossible choice. However Hattie and Emmett, the latter of who was told a half truth not revealing Riley is a Horangi, and the two say they found a spell to summon Mago Halmi, the mother of all creation, to give her magic. She agrees and, after she and Emmett tease Hattie for like Noah Noh, Emmett decides to help them as she chooses to tell him about being a Horangi in the near future. They head to the Noh Dojang and Noah agrees to help them out. He gets them in Joseon Chalice and says they need ashes of death and the elixir of life, the blood of an initiated witch, to get it to work. Despite her protests, Emmett donates his mother's ashes and Hattie decides to use her own blood. Noah suggests they go to Santa Monica, as the spell is more likely to work during high tide. Noah activates the portal for them and gives them Boris, his dragon scooter, for the return trip. When they arrive on the beach, they find a lunar eclipses and Hattie says she heard New Zealand had a solar eclipses earlier that same day, which Emmett says is impossible. The Oh sisters go into the Pacific Ocean to perform the spell. However soon after starting Hattie passes out and Riley Pulls her to shore. As Riley tries and fails to revive her, Emmett decides to call 911 when they notice a woman on the beach they recognize as the Cave Bear Goddess. Riley begs her to heal Hattie, but she says Riley must do something for her first, find the Last Fallen Star. She agrees and the goddess takes Hattie with her but leaves her sister's heart in a vial. As they think of their next move, Emmett suggests they tell her parents, but she tells him to push it aside for two days. When he mentions the Griffin Observatory, she remembers a girl from Saturday school, Cosette Chung is spending the night there and they rush there on Boris. When they arrive they fail to find an open door and find Cosette, she refuses to let them in until she realizes she and Emmett are on the same online gaming team. When she mentions the last fallen star, Cosette shows them a video of her sister reciting the legend during the temple talent show. She suggests they check out the temple library, which she thinks Riley can access, and disguises her and Emmett as herself and her sister respectively, and warns them they have an hour before the spell wears off. They reach the temple and head for the elevator. As she is about to close it, Jennie Byun and David Kim enter on their way to David's initiation. She lies that camp was canceled as Jennie and David leave and head to the basement to find a massive laundromat. As Emmett pets a Cheollima statue, it comes to life and threatens to kill them before revealing it is joking. After Emmett offers it his cookies, it allows them entrance if they can answer one of three riddles. They get the third riddle correct and it lets them in after saying the right book will find them and they will have a hoot. They soon find themselves in a tropical greenhouse with their disguises worn off and wonder if they were tricked. As they find a pond, Riley's reflection smiles at her and as she smiles back, they are surrounded by birds. When she touches one it turns into a book and, aft realizing the birds are books and going by what the cheolima told them, they look for an owl. After one flies into her head and turns into a book on magic artifacts, a letter falls out talking about how the elders are close to finding the seventh artifact and find a list of artifacts numbered five to a possible eighth. As she wonders if the eighth artifact is the last fallen star, she and Emmett are surrounded by bluish-purple gas and pass out. She wakes up back in the laundromat in an invisible cage being questioned by who she thinks is the Miru guard. She stays silent when he asks how she was able to enter the library but angrily tells him her business when he shows her Hattie's heart. He tells her how the haetae, ridden with guilt, wonders the world helping others before releasing her and telling her to go back to the beginning before vanishing. She picks up the heart and finds Emmett out cold and tries to wake him to. When he does she hugs and kisses him, much to his disgust. As they try to open a door, the real haetae appears before her and, after allowing her to pet it, shows her Emmett's mother fighting a group of Horangi, one of who has her stone, for an ax before dying, she notices one of the Horangi men has her stone and a similar face to hers, she also sees herself and Emmett drinking before boba tea in front of a tiger exhibit. Emmett pulls her by the arm and out of the temple. When they reach the streets, they notice that Hattie's heart has started to blacken. As they catch their breath, Riley thinks her father might have killed Emmett's mother, as well as realizing they need to find the Horangi. Emmett objects until she says she will go alone. After telling him about the tea and tigers, she realizes they need to go to the Los Angeles Zoo. Along the way they discover that Boris has an invisibility function. When they arrive they find a food truck selling tea and she finds a red poster with a tiger in a library on it with fragments of the Horangi motto. She orders them those drinks and they head to the tiger exit. As they drink, they turn invisible and are teleported to a mountain forest where they are captured by earthen hands. They pass out and wake up tied to chairs with ropes of water in a partially flooded basement. They see three Horangi, a man, a woman, and a boy. The woman, after believing Riley looks like someone, introduces herself as Sora and demands Riley tell her why they are in their territory. After the man, Austin, nearly hits Emmett with small metal stars, Riley reveals their quest to save her sister and and, unwilling, reveals she is one of them. Everyone is started by the revelation, with Emmett not looking at her. She apologizes for keeping it from him as his binds are broken and he runs away. Sora reveals she knew her birth parents, Mina and Yoon Seo, before they died during the fight. Her binds are released by the boy, Taeyo, and they leave the room, revealed to be in a tree. As they head to another building, Austin leaves them and Sora tells Riley about the chips that allow them to control their dominant element. They reach an offer building and she is told how the Horangi kept watch over the hidden artifacts as well as the sacred texts. She reveals that the Horangi were going to destroy the artifacts as the elders were going to use them to for dark purposes. Riley finds this believable but refuses to believe them. When she is told her parents uncovered a prophecy predicted the end of days, she realize the first two lines happened just as they hear Emmett, accusing someone of killing his mom. They find Emmett in a standoff between himself and a group of scholars that she and Sora quickly defuse. She takes a jar from him and he says she is just as bad as the rest of the Horangi. After Sora learns who Emmett is, she reveals that his mom had become corrupted by one of the artifacts and could not be saved. She tells him his mother's last words stated the a woman she thought was her friend forced her to do it. After calming down, Emmett agrees to work with them to destroy the last fallen star. After that Sora requests that she initiate into the Horangi Clan, get a biochip embedded in her wrist, go on a quest, and forsake her adoptive claim in favor of her birth clan. Riley considers this, but rejects the offer. She and Emmett stay in the dorms for the night, with her having nightmares, and they head back to the zoo in the morning. When they get back, she notices that Hattie's heart is almost half blackened as Emmett realizes Boris is missing. Just then Taeyo arrives with a larger Boris and reveals he has an app that allows them to communicate with gwisin, hungry ghosts who have not passed on, and suggests they try talking to Emmett's mom. She objects on his behalf, but he agrees as it would bring him closure. Taeyo says they need to find a restaurant, as gwisin tend to congregate at restaurants. She and Emmett suggest Seoulful Tacos, a restaurant owned by a Tokki family. They mount Boris with Taeyo taking a selfie before heading out. When they arrive David seats them and takes their orders. After he leaves she watches as Taeyo helps Emmett make a profile to find his mother, but they fail to find her. After Taeyo uses his own profile, they find more promising results and settle on helping an old woman deliver a message to her granddaughter Jennifer. They accept but she is upset to learn the old woman is the grandmother of Jennie Byun. Just then David returns with their food and he agrees to take them to Jennie. When they arrive Jennie reluctantly lets them in after David says they have a message from her grandmother. After Taeyo delivers the message, everyone becomes teary eyed and Jennie's grandmother appears and thanks them before asking what she could do in return. She requests that she finds Emmett's mom, which she does, but she reveals that Sookhee is now a vengeful ghost haunted by the guilt of what she did in life. She tells them that Sookhee did tell her she was tricked into taking the axe by a close friend so that Emmett could have magic. As Jennie's grandmother departs, Riley starts to believe Okja and the other elders framed the Horangi. As Jennie thanks them and promises not to tell anyone they were at her house, she announces that she will be initiated into the Horangi, much to the shock of the others. She, Emmett, and Taeyo return to the Campus to find it under attack by a Inmyeonjo, a bird woman who hates mirrors. They find Sora and Austin talking to scholars and she says she wants to initiate as Sora tasks her with taming the bird woman. After Emmett pulls her aside, she tells him why she changed her mind as he gives her his ring and she goes with Austin and Taeyo. They take her to a lab where she gets her chip implanted in her wrist and, much to her joy, the gifted marks appear. Taeyo as Austin tell her how they activate their chips as Taeyo gives her his compass, which she unknowingly reveals has blades, before heading out to help. She, Austin, and Taeyo find the Inmyeonjo trapped in a cage by the lake and Sora asks for volunteers to tame her. After two failed attempts, Austin pushes her forward and Sora introduces her a her birth parent's daughter who was taken by the Gom. One of the failed tamers gives her his lighter and she steps forward. After failing to activate her element though Austin and Taeyo's methods, she discovers hers is anger after thinking of the wrongs people she knows have gone through the past twelve years and shoots a fire ball at the bird woman, however it goes out before reaching her target and she gets scratched up the talon. She starts to cry before composing herself and offering to heal a cut from a previous attempt. She cautiously gets flowers with medicinal purposes and grinds them up before applying it to the wound. She says the inmyeonjo is beautiful and names her Areum, Korean for beauty. Areum shrinks to the size of a dove as Sora says she passed and Riley accepts her offer to join the Horangi. As she searches for Emmett, she finds him with Okja and her adoptive parents. Riley, her parents, Okja, Emmett, Taeyo, Sora, and Austin move to a shed as she hugs her parents. They say a Samjogo tracked her down and Emmett filled them in before they accuse the Horangi of kidnapping and brainwashing her, she says she joined of her own free will, but they ignore her until she accuses her aunt of her blaming the Horangi. Okra says she did not, but is far from innocent. She reveals that Bongjoon Pyo, the Samjogo elder, is the true culprit due to his extreme conservatism, recent erratic behavior, and a recently faked vision. The group decides to form an uneasy alliance and head back to Los Angeles. They arrive at Mr. Pyo's place of work and, after Taeyo hacks into his calendar to make an appointment for his relatives, they walk right in. They find him in a meeting and, when he sees them, runs as they give chase. They corner him in his car as Sora, Austin, and Taeyo subdue him. She asks why he framed the Horangi. He tells them Sookhee Harrison was behind every before he comes to the realization that she was possessed by the Cave Bear Goddess as part of a plan for her and her sisters to destroy the artifacts, which are actually pieces of the dark moon and dark sun, to erase their sin so that they can enter the Mortalrealm and do what they please with humanity. After realizing the Cave Bear Goddess can possess members of the Gom, asks if they can sever the clan's ties to her. Although hesitant at first, Okja reveals a spell exists and her adoptive parents agree to it. Just then Areum arrives and says the Dokkaebi know where the artifact is. As they question where to even find a dokkaebi, Mr. Pyo says one lives in the forty-fourth room on the forty-forth floor of the temple. They leave the elder behind and, after stopping at the Tokki elder's house for a sleeping potion, they reach the temple and argue over who is going to make a deal with the dokkaebi. When they reach the room, the decide on the Ohs going in. As her mother drinks the potion, she falls asleep as she and her dad watch over her. Ten minutes later, her mom wakes up crying saying the goblin would get the star in exchange for the life of one of her daughters, something she couldn't do. As her father comforts her mother, she asks Areum to knock her out, which she reluctantly obeys. Riley wakes up alone and searches for the dokkaebi. She finds him and requests the last fallen star. He agrees if she gives him her dominant element, which would not allow her to practice magic at all, and the memories the Gom and Horangi have of her. She is shocked by the request and fears the outcome, but after looking at Hattie's heart, seeing it is mostly black, she agrees to the payment. The goblin summons the last fallen star, only to say she had it all along, and vanished without further explanation. Riley shouts after him and cries over what she has lost. She wakes up to find the others standing over her as Areum greets her. She hopes that the deal was faulty, but her worst fears are confirmed when her father asked who she is. She explains that the dokkaebi told her she already had the last fallen star and about their plan to disconnect the Gom from the Cave Bear Goddess, which causes them to panic due to their memories of her being erased. She gives Emmett back his ring and shows Taeyo his compass, which after remembering the last two lines of the prophecy has her believing it is the star. They head to the Gi sanctuary where they meet the Cave Bear Goddess, who congratulates her on finding the last fallen star and asked that she had it over. Riley asks for Hattie back just as her heart blackens. The goddess obliges and returns her. She and her parents hug Hattie, who is incredibly thin with a gray hue to her skin, as Riley senses something is off. Hattie starts to spasm before speaking in the voice of Sookhee Harrison. After she explains to her son what she did and how she regained her sense of self, she turns into a jaguar and goes to the afterlife. Riley berates the goddess for not returning Hattie, the goddess responds that, as she and the other goddesses are the daughters of Mago Halmi, all others are beneath them. Okra then starts the spell to sever the goddess from a Gom, binding the two with thread. Riley goes to cut off threads, but fails to do so as she realizes to late that the compass is not the star. As the Cave Bear Goddess berates Riley, for betraying her, Riley says she is powerless in the Mortalrealm without a host. Just then the goddess tries to possess Okja. She and the others try and fail to stop the goddess. She watches as the other try and fail to subdue the goddess as Areum uses her body to block Riley from a direct hit. The two are pulled to safety by Noah Noh and she sees Cosette Chung, David Kim, and Jennie Byun with him. They explain that Jennie had a vision that they needed to be at the Gi Sanctuary and the goddess charges at them. As Cosette creates a duplicate of Okja to confuse the goddess, she watches as David and Jennie douse the goddess with immobilization potion and the others subdue the goddess as she reals a strange warmth in her body and the Gi Cauldron erupts in black flames. Riley starts to formulate a theory as the Cave Bear Goddess breaks free and slams her into her statue, causing her to realize what the last two lines of the prophecy means as she confronts the patron goddess of her adoptive clan. She reveals to the goddess that she is the last fallen star and destroys the statue of the goddess before she destroys her, expelling the goddess from both Okja and the Mortalrealm. As things calm down, her parents thank her for returning their daughter to her and she cries over the uncertainty of what will happen now that her families have no memories of her. She goes to the elevator where she runs into the Haetae, who reveals that he is the man who found her and Emmett in the library. He explains how Mago Halmi wanted her to find out she was the star on her own and shows her a memory of her falling into her mother's womb. He gives her a wish to undo anything from her past and she decides to resurrect Hattie. He does so and, after a delay, Hattie is resurrected. They all cheer and promise to find a way to restore their memories of Riley as they fill Hattie in. |
The Last Fallen Moon[]
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Two months after she killed the Cave Bear Goddess, Riley is at the Horangi Compound transferring old tomes to the cloud with the help of Taeyo, who gets her snacks. She watches Emmett and Cosette play their favorite video game as Areum sleeps at her feet. As she eats, she thinks of how her life has changed in the past two months. She reflects on how her parents had to close down their clinic due to lack of magic and became dishwashers at Seoulful Tacos, how Hattie now has sleeping spells that last longer, how the Gom are against her for taking away their magic, and how her parents, oldest friend, and almost everyone from both clans no longer remember her. Suddenly everyone gets an emergency text from Hattie to come to her house. Riley flies on Areum, camouflaged by Cosette, as the others take Boris. When they arrive they enter to find her parents, Hattie, Noah, Jennie, David, Sora, and Austin in the hall, celebrating a belated thirteenth birthday for Riley. She realizes her friends knew and they celebrate. Riley enjoys the celebration, but she masks her sadness at the way her parents force themselves to address her as family. Mong comes over to her and gives her a present from the Haetae, a deformed needle. Suddenly they hear crashes and see angry Gom outside. Everyone goes outside to find red liquid forming insults at Riley on the garage door. She starts to blame herself for the incident as the others volunteer to coverup the graffiti and comfort her. When they return to the kitchen for cake, everything in the kitchen starts to attack them. Austin holds off the knives as everyone flees to the hall. The hallway then attacks them and Sora pries the door open and everyone escapes. Riley's family becomes distraught when they realize their house is cursed and Sora offers to house them at their compound. Riley starts to tear up as her mother says she is not to blame. However she screams that it is her fault and she is not hero. The Ohs and Emmett leave with the Horangi while the others go home. During the ride Hattie falls asleep, everyone hoping she wakes up in under two days. Her sister mentions something about rain before dozing off and it pours when they arrive. As Emmett and her parents eat lunch, Riley sneaks away to a treehouse enchanted to resemble a beach and distracts herself by finishing the book. As she is typing up a section on saint Heo Jun, a Gom healer who was given honorary god status in death for his acts during life, Emmett and Areum come in. Emmett tries to offer her cookies, but she refuses. Upon hearing they are salted caramel, her favorite, she hopes Emmett remembers their past, but he unfortunately does not. He tells her to open up and knows how good it is to do so, but she refuses. Emmett leaves and Areum pulls out the needle the haetae gave Riley, she explain that it is a Mago Halmi binyeo, a hair pin used by Mago Halmi herself. Areum then rips out the page about Heo Jun gaining honorary godhood and, thinking on the graffiti on her house, decides to go to the Spiritrealm to ask him to become the Gom's patron god to regain their healing. Areum is against this as Riley would to die to get there. However she thinks of a failed love potion David made for Jennie that stopped her crush's heart as she puts her hair in a bun and uses the binyeo to keep it in place. As she races to David’s house, Areum tries to stop her to no avail. When they arrives she sneaks into the backyard as David’s grandfather usually leaves the door unlocked. She finds the door unlocked but runs into David’s grandfather. She lies that Seoulful Taco's needs more potions and he lets her in. However as she is sneaking into the basement she hears David and Jennie. She lies saying her mother needs a potion to calm her nerves and he gives her one after giving her a tour. Riley snatches the faulty love potion and slips it in her bag as Jennie drinks a potion to help with her see visions as she sleeps. However as Riley leaves Jennie stops her and unintentionally finds out she has the potion. Riley reluctantly tells the two her plan and David and Jennie try to talk her out of it. Riley notices a potion that knocks people out and pretends they talked her out of it before using the potion on them. Areum tries to stop Riley one last time before agreeing to watch over her body. When the others find out, her body is transported to the Gi Sanctuary. She wakes up in a white room with people waiting in line. She asks the woman in front of her where she is and the woman is shocked that someone Riley’s age is in the afterlife. Riley is happy her plan worked and waits in line. As she waits she recites what she knows of the Spiritealm and worries she will forget something important, however she finds a list of the seven hells and the judges who oversee them, along with a note saying all deceased get a lawyer to help them. After realizing only one line is moving, she sneaks out of her line and enters the faster one. Soon she sees people's spirit animals revealed and the man behind the counter scans her. Riley receives a piece of paper with a yet to be determined section left blank and she assumes it is for her funeral photo. Just as a woman is about to mark her form as approved, she stops after noticing the blank section, Riley says her funeral will be soon and the woman becomes suspicious, causing Riley to think it is for her spirit animal. The woman calls her supervisors over and Riley runs past them and dives into a passing trailer. She loses the security chasing her and realizes the trailer is full of dog toys. She soon meets a playful puppy name Yeowu who informs her all pets go straight to Cheondang, heaven, while the humans are dropped off in Jiok, hell. Riley decides to stay with the animals for a faster way to speak to Heo Jun. As they ride a train to Cheondang, they stop at Jiok and watch as the human passengers get off. Riley sees a girl her age in a white and red dress that Hattie was wearing and fears it is her sister. Yeowu gives Riley her favorite stick and rubber chicken as she races after the girl, however when she reaches the girl Riley realizes she is not Hattie. Riley looks at the schedule but finds no information and listens to announcements addressing the hells as if they were vacation destinations. She sits down in defeat and questions her next move when a janitor her age arrives. He deduces that she snuck past the guards and agrees to help her if it could get him to become a tour guide. She tells the boy the hells she was supposed to go through- speed, boiling oil, and beasts- before introducing himself as Dahl and they head out. As they exit the terminal, she is surprised to find Jiok resembling a cross between New York City and a theme park. Dahl explains that Yeomra the Great changed to structure of the underworld to both boost the economy and improve the attitude of souls upon reincarnation. Still in shock, Dahl leads her to the Boiling Oil restaurant and tries to speed things up by talking to the blunder. The bouncer keeps telling them to get in line as Riley begs Dahl to listen. Just then the door opens and an old woman emerges with a mop and bucket as the bouncer punches Dahl. He ducks before grabbing the mop and uses it as a staff to fight the bouncer. Soon he defeats the bouncer and the judge on the restaurant, Ko Munitee, comes out of the restaurant and Dahl convinces them to let him and her in and they follow Ko to the kitchen. Along the way she notices everything on the menu is deep fried and the guests are all bloated. Ko explains how busy their hell has become lately as two volunteer staff start to fight. When they enter the kitchen, Ko takes some of her hair and fries it. They reveal that she longed to be part of a community that shunned her and she made a decision that coast the community everything. As Ko is about to sentence her to fifty years, Dahl chimes in and convinces them to let Riley work with him for that time. Ko agrees and Riley expresses her concerns about it when Dahl says her slate will be wiped clean when she returns to the Mortalrealm and, if she plays her card right, will not have to return to the Boiling Oil Restaurant. Riley thanks Dahl and had him lead the way to her next vacation. She and Dahl end up at the Shattering Speed Funpark just as the judge, Oh Nesty, is about to go in vacation. Dahl pulls her over to the judge and convinces him to let her take the test. However she fails to provide her soul identification number, which she did not get by running from security, and Dahl shows the judge his and convinces Oh to let him take the test for Riley. Dahl is given three different colored pills- red for lies, yellow for withholding facts and half truths, and green for truth- and told Riley will not spend time at the park if his face lights up all green. He takes the pills and they ask questions. Dahl answers the first two truthfully but hold back and the third and Riley sentenced to a decade at the park, but Dahl changes the answer and his face becomes a yellowish-green but the judge accepts it as true and Riley is spared the fun park. She thanks Dahl as to judge drives off and they head to the last stop. As she and Dahl walk to the Hungry Beasts Petting Zoo and Café, he tells Riley the judge for this hell, Kim Pasheon, is about compassion and only punishes murderers, something he believes she could not do. However she reveals she killed the Cave Bear Goddess to stop her from entering the Mortalrealm and Dahl is amazed that he is speaking to the girl who took out the goddess as she has become the talk of the realm. When they arrive, they find it void of vacationers and workers. Dahl explains that the zoo houses Imugi. They see a group of imugi in a cage and they smell the two. She falls back as they com at her and gets ready to be eaten. However they stop short and a woman appears who introduces herself as the judge and to call her Pash. She happily greets Riley and Dahl as she has one of the imugi, Namjoon, lick Riley and use the salvia to make coffee to judge her life. Pash says her life looks good, but when she drinks it she learns the girl has killed somebody important and feels guilty about. As Pash complements Riley’s guilt, the girl is sentenced to a thousand years. Pash leaves with Namjoon and Dahl apologizes for her fate before realizing the imugi are coming at them. Dahl tells her to run but she tries and fails to fight them off as one injures her upper arm. She throws Yeowu's toys to no avail, but she pulls out the binyeo and they stop. She then throws the hairpin and they chase after it until Yeowu appears and bites one on the leg. As they are about to rip them to shreds, the imugi stop and face away from her as Riley notices Hattie. The sisters hug as Dahl, Yeowu, and an old man put the last of the imugi in their cage. Dahl gives her the hairpin back as Hattie introduces the old man as Cheol, her tour guide. Riley becomes fearful when she says that but Hattie reassures her that she is in a coma and, as she is between life and death, can travel the realm freely. Hattie then scolds Riley for her plan but wants to help. Riley tries to talk Hattie out of it to no avail. Cheol gives Hattie his keys to heaven as Dahl gushes over them. To hide her brand, Cheol uses his Gumuho magic to mask it and he and Yeowu stay behind to cover for her and will try to think of a lie to tell Pash if she returns. Cheol says the closest way to heaven in at the Natural History Museum and Dahl guides the sisters their. Dahl takes Hattie and her to a public restroom and uses Cheol's keys to open the door to reveal a stairway leading to Cheondang. The three go up and into heaven where they find humans and animals talking to each other. Hattie tells Riley that souls in Cheondang can shift between their soul animal and human forms, but it is forbidden in Jiok to respect the souls still being sentenced. Hattie says her spirit animal is a lion as Dahl reveals that, as a heaven-born, he does not have one. Hattie and Dahl by food as Riley does not have the necessary credentials for it, and they reach Heo Jun's house at nightfall. Dahl rings the bell but no one answers. They see the lights on and knock on the door, it opens and they find Heo Jun unconscious on the floor. The three check on the saint as Heo Jun bolts awake and Dahl introduces the Oh sisters to him. He tells the three he was going to get some tea before he felt funny and passed out. Heo Jun notices the cut on her arm has become infected and takes her to the kitchen. Heo Jun gives Dahl and Hattie tea and cookies as he heals Riley’s arm. After doing so, Heo Jun brings Riley, who he recegnizes as the girl who took out the Cave Bear Goddess, tea and cookies as she asks him to become the Gom's new patron god. Heo Jun agrees and the sisters celebrate before noticing the saint has gone limp, his eyes become black and he snarls before returning to normal. He passes out again and Riley, Hattie, and Dahl bring him to his room. After realizing having a Gom heal him would be impossible as Heo Jun powers them, Dahl says their only option is the Spring of Eternity, water on the chalice of the Statue of Eternity that flows into the River of Reincarnation. However he says it is illegal to take the water from the chalice and, if caught, their souls will be erased. The three agree to do it and Dahl informs the sisters they need to swim. The three return to Jiok to reach Eternity Island, where the chalice is located, and think of how to get their undetected. Hattie suggests prattle boarding and the others agree. They find some in a rental and head for the island. While the Oh sisters are doing well, Dahl is struggling and falls into the water. As she and Hattie giggle at him, she offers him to come with her and he accepts, as they get close, Riley and Dahl feel a thud under their board and the two capsize. They see a woman with a fishtail and black eyes who grabs Dahl and pulls him under, Hattie hits the woman with her paddle and Riley’s onyx stone floats out of her pocket and starts to heat as a nearly identical white stone floats out of Dahl's jacket and grows colder. The two stones fuse together and emit a blinding light. When things calm down Riley examines the fused stones as the fish woman comes to her senses and apologizes. Riley theorizes she is affected with the same thing as Heo Jun and, thinking back to the lie detector test Dahl took for her, she demands Dahl tell her what he is hiding. He remains silent until Hattie threatens to leave him to paddle on his own. He then reveals he is the Last Fallen Moon, and the twin brother of Riley. She and Hattie are stunned by this revelation as neither the Horangi or Okja mentioned Riley having a twin. Dahl explains that he and Riley are not related biologically, but spiritually. He explains that the Last Fallen Sun and Moon were separated to keep them hidden from the goddesses. Dahl also reveals the Haetae gave him his stone and told him who he was along with a prophecy. He recites it and Riley refuses to help him fulfill the prophecy and she just wants to fix what what she broke. The fish woman comes to and, after apologizing, introduces herself as Bada, an Ineo, and explains how a third section of the Spiritreal for aquatic life has been poisoned by something that is causing everything to have violent outbursts. She thinks back on her time Jiok as Dahl mentions that the River of Reincarnation is the main water source of the realm and Bada says a blockage on the island is causing it. The three agree to let Bada pull them to the island as the sun rises. However when they get close, Bada becomes aggressive and pulls Hattie under. She goes after them and uses the fused stone to cure Bada again. They reach the surface as Bada apologizes. Hattie reaches shore as she convinces a reluctant Dahl to give Bada the stone to help her friends and family. Bada thanks them as she swims down and the two swim to shore. Dahl scouts out the island as Hattie gets angry at Riley for whispering to Dahl. She tells Riley she is supposed to protect her, but was unable to when she needed her most. Riley tells her she will always need Hattie as Dahl returns with news of a protest blocking the way to the chalice. They find the protesters dressed as soup ingredients and approach them. The lead protester says the mayor has closed of the chalice and has stopped making memory soup and is not giving out permits for rebirth. As Dahl is dragged away to join the protest, She and Hattie tell the lead protester about the blocked pipes and he thinks it’s logical. After he mentions moving the protest to the Memory Archives, a building that houses the memories of the reborn and all memories that were forgotten, Hattie suggests going there to get the Gom and Horangi's memories of her, but Riley turns her down as she feels it could go wrong. When Dahl returns, they ask how to get in and the lead protester suggests breaking in. They enter the statue and find the pipe flowing from the chalice contains only contaminated water and they realize the spring itself is corrupted. They decide to split up with her, Hattie, Dahl, and the lead protester going to shut off the flow as the rest stand watch. The four are given two walkie-talkies and they head up. The lead protester becomes exhausted when they reach the head and Dahl watched over him as the Oh sisters continue on. They find the chalice as polluted as the water and report in. The lead protester starts to cry as he mourns his chance to see his love Jangsoo again. He explains how Jangsoo was the last to be reborn and they were supposed to leave together, but he wanted to stay longer. Considering the trip a failure, Hattie suggests to Riley they go to the Memory Archives to get their clan's memories of her but she refuses as the police arrive. Another protester says she will hold them off as long as she can as the lead protester tells the sisters to go to the Memory Archive and get Jangsoo's memories as he was the last to leave and might have noticed something. Dahl chooses to stay behind as twins from the protest shift into their avian soul animals and fly Riley and Hattie away. The twins drop the sisters off at the Memory Archives before turning around and save the other protesters, however she asks them to check on Heo Jun before they leave. As they are about to enter, Hattie remarks that the Archives look like the New York Public Library. They enter and are greeted by the archivist on duty. Hattie complements the archivist’s glasses and asks about memories stolen by a Dokkaebi and she directs them to the spot, but when they ask about Jangsoo they are informed that is off limits by orders of the mayor. After Hattie sees pictures of Kim Pasheon and the mayor on a date on Sunny’s desk, she asks if it is true and Sunny denies it as she hands the girls forms to fill out. After doing so she sends them on their way as Hattie pulls her aside and reveals she stole the keys to the off limits section. She suggests they find their friends and family’s memories of Riley as they wait for an opportunity to sneak down and Riley reluctantly agrees. When they reach the stolen memories section and realize they are stored in books and wonder if they need to smuggle the books out to get it to work. The sisters split up and Riley speaks with a man who explains that you start reading the book before having your mind sucked into it. Hattie then calls Riley over when she finds the stolen memories. She bronzes through the book and sees memories of her from others perspectives. Her body falls to the floor as Hattie tries to shake her awake. Hattie hides the book on her person and they head for the off limits section. Hattie gets Sunny to leave by saying the mayor is outside and they sneak into the basement. After finding rows with the year 1810 on the shelves, they decide to call it quits as Hattie reveals that she senses she can not return to her body. Riley berates her for lying as bats swarm at them. Unknown to the girls they are actually being led to the book for Jangsoo. She hides it in her shirt as two guards chase them. They make their way up the stairs where Hattie trips and drops Riley’s memory book. More guards go after them as Sunny points them out. They get out of the building but are caught in a net. As they are being dragged into a van, Hattie realizes she dropped the book. When the sisters are placed inside, they see two figures in the van with them. The sisters relax upon realizing they are Dahl and Bob, who reveal a protester ratted them out and tell them Heo Jun is stable. As they are driven away, Bob explains the process of being expunged as an agonizing process involving having your name erased from Mago's Jokbo with a sponge made from a special tree. The van stops outside an H-Mart and the sisters have bags thrust onto their heads and dragged through the aisles until they are locked in a cell. They try to think of a way out before morning, when Riley will return to her body, and realize it already is morning. After Cheol's glamour wore off, Dahl realizes Pash's brand is keeping her in the Spiritrealm until her sentence is over. Just them Areum flies in a reveals she woke up David a Jennie soon after she stopped her heart and the three of them- along with Emmett, Cosette, Noah and Taeyo- used the doorway in the temple to enter the Spiritrealm. However it closed and only she, Jennie, David, and Emmett made it through before the gate closed. They greeted by the authorities and Areum was the only one who got away. After learning her friends are in danger, and realizing she is stuck in the Spiritrealm and she lost her last chance to get her friends and family to remember her, Riley throws a tantrum and laments on how she made everything worse. However the others get Riley to calm down and she starts to see hope. She hands Bob Jangsoo's memory book, but they hear someone coming and hide it. The figure approaches their cell and opens the door, after he apologizes for their treatment, they realize he is the mayor, Yeomra the Great. Dahl and Bob bow as the mayor unlocks the cell and offers them food in a banquet hall. As they walk, Riley informs Yeomra about her friends getting arrested and he agrees to look into it. They arrive at the banquet hall, but then the mayor opens the doors, they a forest. Yeomra reveals he had Gumiho and Tokki witches create this room and, after telling them everything they see is edible, they eat. When they have their fill, she asks about her friends, but Yeomra says they authorities insist only the four of them were arrested. When Riley asks about reincarnation being stopped, Yeomra becomes flustered and the others press the mayor of details. Yeomra eventually reveals that he had no knowledge of this as he was away on vacation. He also reveals he restructured the Spiritrealm to have Jiok residence get a taste of Cheondang and to make souls want to stay rather then be reborn. Riley senses he doubts himself as a leader as he feels souls being reborn are a sign of him failing as a leader. After Yeomra insists he has no idea how the pollution in the river came to be, Riley shows him the memory book and says he can make things right. Yeomra puts the book in a venus fly trap and they view Jangsoo's memories. After he is a distance away from the statue, Hattie notices a flash by the chalice and the mayor has the memory enlarged for them to see. Once they rewind, they find their culprits, and are shocked to learn they are the CFOs and the Mountain Tiger Goddess. They watch as the goddess pulls a snake from her arm and the judges pound the chalice with their gavels. The scene ends and everyone takes in what they saw. Hattie realizes the Gom, who cursed their house, were wearing tiger masks and Riley questions if she was behind it. Areum informs them the snake is a salmosa, a poisonous snake created by the Mountain Tiger Goddess. As they wonder how to remove it, Yeomra informs them the judges have sentenced the salmosa and it cannot be removed, and even if they use the gavels to end the sentence only the goddess or Mago can remove it. Yeomra sends the authorizes after the CFOs and plans to expunge them. After Dahl mentions his stone, she realizes the can use the eum and yang stone to purify the water without removing the salmosa. Yeomra is impressed with her plan and, pulling out a marker, agrees take them to Eternity Island to meet with Bada. She and the others stare at the mayor in confusion as he uses the marker to draw a door to Yonggung, the Underwater Borough, can calls the pen a mum-pen. Yeomra explains that by entering the borough through the door he created, they can breath underwater and will not be affected by the toxins. They ask around Yonggang until they receive word that Bada is at the center of the borough and go to her. After Bada explains how helpful the stone is, Dahl explains everything they learned and their plan and Bada agrees to give the stone back, but her brother Daeyang refuses to let her and tells Yeomra off for ignoring Yonggung for six hundred years. Soon Hattie steps in and says she understands their anger but they need to put it aside for the greater good. As Hattie talks, lightning appears above them as Riley questions if it has something to do with her being in the Godrealm. Upon seeing this, Daeyang agrees to hand over the stone just as the mayor gets a call. He urgently informs the others that the CFOs, aware that he would sent the authorities after them, stone the Jokbo and took hostages, threatening to expunge them if he does not come to the chalice. The group reaches Eternity Island and find five of the CFOs standing before them with hostages guarded by police and imugi. Riley tries to tell the CFOs the goddess is tricking them, but they reveal they summoned her voice their displeasure with Yeomra's changes and demand he step down. The mayor quickly agrees but she stops him, however the CFOs say if Yeomra does not step down, they will expunge Emmett, David, and Jennie, who are out cold on the statue’s head. Riley and Hattie are shocked and before they know it, the protesters spring into action. They use a potion to turn the police and imugi into wooden toys and a Miru protester grabs the CFOs and force them to took into a Gumiho enchanted mirror that keeps people's gaze looked on their reflection depending on their egos. Areum transforms as the mayor tells her to purify the spring as they find the jokbo. She flies up on Areum and sees that her friends are already being expunged, but before she can act see sees Pash holding Yeowu and Cheol hostage. She watches as Mixter Ko, who is standing with Pash and holding a tablet- the jokbo, stands at the ready to use it as Namjoon guards them. Riley asks what Pash's endgame is as the CFOs explains how she summoned the goddess as part of the plan to increase criticism of Yeomra, who she is only pretending to date to gain insight on, and have the souls of Cheondang vote him out of office. She also explains how the Mountain Tiger Goddess wants to create an army she could control and demands the stone as Mixter Ko starts to expunge Emmett. Riley just glances between the two groups of hostages and wonders what to do. Cheol tells her to focus on her friends as Pash pushes him and Yeowu off. However Yeowu grabs Pash's gavel and the two are saved by two protesters and Hattie and Dahl. Riley takes the opportunity to grab the jokbo but misses and falls off Areum as the bird woman tackles Namjoon. The stone falls out of her pocket and Pash grabs it. Just as Riley is about to give up, she hears Dahl's voice telling her not to. Riley grabs the stone as Dahl appears with her hairpin, revealing he could talk to her with it, and she and hooks onto Areum as she comes back pulls Pash as the two wrestle for the stone and Dahl fights Ko for the jokbo. She tells Areum to drop them in the spring and she reluctantly does so. The two fall into the spring as Dahl joins them with the hairpin, which forms a key that amplifies the stone's power. Pash and the salmosa are disintegrated as the spring is purified. She and Dahl return to the ground to find the CFOs still trapped in the mirror as Yeomra thinks of a fitting punishment for them. Emmett, David, and Jennie revert back to their soul animals to recover and are bathed in the River of Reincarnation to speed up their recovery. Areum safeguards the three in her feathers. Yeowu gives the mayor Pash's gavel and he ‘accidentally’ taps her forehead, freeing her from her sentence. Bada and Daeyang arrive soon after the the mayor gives out thanks to those who helped him. Yeomra promises the ineo siblings that he will not ignore Yonggung anymore, promises Bob be will be the first soul to be reborn, grants Areum access to the Spiritrealm whenever she wishes, gives Dahl his mum-pen, gives Riley her memory book, and grants Hattie a wish. Hattie expresses her desire to stay in the Spiritrealm and Riley tries to talk her sister out of it. Hattie explains that something happened in her body when she was in the Godrealm and she has to stay to find answers. Hattie says their parents and Noah will understand. Cheol agrees to watch over Hattie, who decides to fill in as the CFO of the Hungry Beasts Petting Zoo and Café as Jennie's grandmother flies over to them. The old woman greets Riley before checking on her granddaughter. She informs Riley that Taeyo passed a message on to her for the girl, she tells Riley and the others that all witches have lost their gifts. Cheol tries to activate his gifted marks to no avail. Yeomra realizes the goddesses did this as she realizes they did it in retaliation for the Cave Bear Goddess’s death. Yeomra offers her an alliance between the Spiritrealm and the Mortalrealm, which she accepts. Dahl sends the mayor back to his office before handing the mum-pen over to Riley who, thinks of her family while drawing a door, inadvertently creates a door to the Mortalrealm by putting the key of keys into it. They see Riley’s body in the Gi Sanctuary surrounded by their friends and family. Realizing the potential they have, Dahl agrees to go to the Mortalrealm with Riley, who hugs Hattie goodbye but realizes they can visit the Spiritrealm anytime they want. Riley and Dahl head to the Gi Sanctuary. As they walk, she returns to her body and everyone is happy. Everyone questions where Dahl came from as he explain how he is Riley’s soul twin. They question why Areum has three animals on her as Emmett, Jennie, and David return to human form and the other help them up. As her parents express their desire to heal again, the rub their wrists together to find their gifted mark’s have appeared, much to their shock and joy. She explains how they convinced Heo Jun to be the Gom's new patron god as Dahl points the key of keys at the Gi Cauldron and summons the Haetae, much to everyone’s surprise. He congratulates them on saving the Spiritrealm and informs them that the goddesses are preparing for war. Before leaving, the Haetae tells her and Dahl they have yet to unlock the key's true potential. Soon after, Riley brings out her memory book and restores the Gom and Horangi's memories of her. They all share a tearful embrace as she thinks of the war to come. |
The Last Fallen Realm[]
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Six months after the goddesses stripped most of the Gifted Community of their magic, Riley - along with the rest of the community - have gathered at a convention center in Las Vegas, Nevada to strategize for the upcoming battle. As Riley is watching a video her sister has sent her of her training imugi in the Spiritrealm, Dahl is eager to see the sights as Areum reminds Dahl they are in the city for preparation. Soon Sora Kwon and Austin take the stage and, after a few people reveal they have not been chipped, the pair instructed them to do so so that they can start training and they talk about the upcoming conflict. Soon Riley and Dahl are called to the stage, Riley is hesitant but Dahl eagerly approaches and addresses the crowd. Soon Riley sees a group of teenagers who have started RilOh, a social media group dedicated to supporting Riley. She leaves and opens a door to the Spirit Realm to speak with Hattie. The sisters discuss current events when Riley gets a text from Phoebe, the head of the fan group, telling her to return. Riley goes back to the Mortal Realm to meet up with Dahl, Taeyo, and Areum to find the sky opening up and saram thinking it is special effects. Soon a long canine creature appears from the sky and Areum says it is a Bulgae, an intelligent yet playful creature from the God Realm. Riley closes her eyes out of fear and, upon opening them at Dahl's urging, she sees that the sun and sky has disappeared. Areum flies off to investigate. As the witches watch the sky, they panic. Sora and Austin try to calm them down as Sora tells Riley to find Dahl and meet up with their parents. Riley is nervous but Sora gives her a pep talk. Riley finds Dahl helping Taeyo calm everyone down and tells him they have to meet up with their parents. Dahl suggests they meet up at a Panda Express in the Vegas Strip, as it is half way. As they walk David, Jennie, Cosette, and Noah say they cannot join them as they are helping calm down witches at their locations, but Emmett Harrison says he can make it. The weather starts to act strange and the scenery shifts, they also see Cheollima flying over head. They theorize this is the goddesses first move until Hattie calls with Yeomra the Great to inform them the mayor thinks that her traveling between realms is the cause of it. As she blames herself and the others reassure her she is not responsible, the mayor says that the Godrealm has started seeping into the Mortalrealm and will soon seep into the Spiritrealm. Hattie reveals she has been having a dream about a dragon emerging from the Trevi Fountain and thinks it is Yongwang, the leader of the underwater borough of the Spiritrealm who has been missing from centuries. After Hattie mentions she rises from the water, her parents interpret this as a sigh that her body will wake up. Dahl finds a replica of the fountain at Caesar’s Palace and suggests they go there. She texts everyone to head to Caesar's Palace, but only Taeyo meets the group at the fountain and he greets Dahl. As the teenagers inspector the fountain, her parents looks up at the sky in a daze. When they snap out of it, they say they heard something but cannot remember what it is. As the boys theorize what it is, Riley hears someone calling her name and becomes disoriented, falling into the fountain, she realizes she is in an ocean as the water becomes choppy. Emmett saves her as Taeyo keeps the water at bay. Riley and Emmett find red seaweed on themselves as Dahl says it is from the Tree of Fate, an underwater kelp forest in the Spiritrealm, and they realize the fabric of reality falling apart faster then they realized. Soon a man in a weeding cake costume hands them a flyer for two horses getting married named Charles and Maru. After looking at the flyer, She realizes that Charles is the Cheollima who guarded the temple library. After seeing a thumbprint, they realize it is a scale after comparing it to Boris. They realize the wedding has started and that is is inside the palace. They grab her parents and head inside. Upon reaching the wedding, they find saram and cheolima in and above the pews. Riley and Emmett speak to Charles, but he does not recognize them as the two realize they were disgusted as Adeline and Cosette. The ceremony starts and the two join their companions. Taeyo and Dahl tear up as Emmett watches stone faced and James and Eunha watch in a daze. After the wedding, Riley and Emmett explain the circumstances of their last encounter and Charles explains that he and Maru decided to get married quickly as Mago's Fire, the first fire in the universe and strongest energy source in existence, was stolen from Mount Baekdu. When Riley mentions Wongdang, Maru mentions one of her bridesmaids heard he was in the Strip after relocated to the Mortalrealm six thousand years ago, confusing Riley as she believed the dragon king left the Soiritrealm six hundred years ago. Maru also says he is rumored to be at a hotel with a canal running through it, making Riley think of Hattie’s dream. Soon Dahl calls over to tell them their parents are leaving and they go after them. After failing to stop her parents, they notice other adults joining them and they follow them to the Venetian Hotel where Dahl realizes is what Maru was talking about. Dahl and Taeyo search the canals for evidence of Yongdang as she and Emmett follow the adults into a wax museum. As they walk, Riley tell’s Emmett how she feels like a fraud and failure for failing to unlock her powers in time as Emmett says she is suffering from imposter syndrome and says everyone in the Gifted Community supports her. After feeling uneasy around a fox statue, Riley realizes that most of the figures are of people of Korean heritage. They find an exhibit on Mago's Fire and believe the museum is from the Godrealm. As they watch the adults file through an exit. The two find themselves in an enormous cavern and the adults file up against the walls. She inspects her parents and finds them cold to the touch but still with heartbeats. After further investigation, the two find that all gifted adults in the city are in the cavern. Their friends text them that they saw their parents and other adults walk off in a trance and Riley sends a picture. Their friends say they are on their way as Riley realizes Dahl and Taeyo have not responded. She texts them and Dahl sends urgent texts and they go to help. As they exit the cavern, Riley notices the fox statue is gone. They find Dahl and Taeyo in a gondola and on a bridge respectively safeguarding an egg as a flock of bonghwang dive bombing them. Riley and Emmett go over to help them as a group of saram watch in amusement. Much to everyone's surprise, Emmett uses his biochip to move the metal railing and fend off one of the bonghwang. However, one is about to attack him from behind and she takes the key of keys and stabs it in the stomach. Remembering that bonghwang are benevolent creatures, Riley starts to panic that she killed something that might have been being controlled. As she zones out, Taggy rubs her neck as Areum arrives. When Riley comes to, the other bonghwang are gone along with the saram. The boys say she did nothing wrong and tell her they would of done the same to defend her. Riley then calls Hattie and show her and the mayor the egg. The mayor says that Yongwang has a tendency to change into an egg to hide and rest. Hattie sends Nanjoon to the Mortalrealm to inspect it. The imugi licks the egg before laying on it. Soon the egg hatches and an injured woman appears. Everyone is confused until Hattie recognizes her as the Water Dragon Goddess. As everyone watches in disbelief, the Water Dragon Goddess says she took the form of Yongwang to get away from her sisters by using unguarded water routes that connected the three realms. She rakes out a fidget spinner and the group realizes it is Mago's Fire. As the goddess clutches her bleeding side, Riley gives her her sweater to apply pressure to the wound. The Water Dragon Goddess explains that she took the fire so that that her sisters would not use it to destroy the three realms and create one large realm in its place for them to govern. Dahl realizes that he and Riley are meant to use the fire to unlock their true potential. But before the spirit twins can take it, the Nine-Tailed Fox Goddess arrives to claiming for herself and her remaining loyal sisters. Riley realizes she has seen the Nine-Tailed Fox Goddess several times that day and that she used them to find the fire fire her. After Riley realizes the Nine-Tailed Fox Goddess was the bonghwang she stabbed, the enemy goddess grabs the fire and the key of keys before fleeing. As Dahl questions why the goddesses want the key of keys, the Oh sisters are distressed that they may never see each other face to face again. As Dahl questions the goddess, they realizes she is close to death. The Water Dragon Goddess asks to be brought to Hattie, Riley realizes what she means and, leaving the boys behind, goes to the motel on Areum. After entering the room, the Water Dragon Goddess goes over to Hattie's body and reveals she fed Hattie her energy while she was in the Cave Bear Goddess's dungeon to keep her alive, embuing her with the power of yong. However, Hattie's body became dependent on her power upon returning and Riley realizes that is why she was slipping into comas and predicting and controlling the weather. As the goddess rejuvenates Hattie, she tells Riley that a feather from a three-legged crow can guide her to Mago's Fire and advisises her to be cautious. Before dying, the goddess thanks Hattie for letting her be somewhat of a mother. Hattie wakes up and the Oh sisters hug in joy. Hattie states that she feels like she has had a refreshing nap and regrets that she was unable to thank the Water Dragon Goddess for saving her. As Riley comments that the imugi will miss Hattie, she says she will probably see them again and sends out a group text to their friends and Riley’s fan club to meet up at the High Roller. Once there, everyone greets Hattie. Emmett, Dahl, Taeyo, Jennie, and Cosette happy welcome her back as Noah hugs her. As Phoebe and her friends shriek in excitement, Areum calls the meeting to order. As they discuss their next move, Emmett says he checked on the wax museum where the adults are to find it missing, indicating that the realms have not entirely merged. He takes out a flyer for a gathering the remaining goddesses have put on and Gus they pitched their idea for their Megarealm. As they pass around the flyer, they realize the event is over and the Oh sisters say they can track down Mago's Fire with a three-legged crow feather. After decided against taking a feather from the Three-Legged Crow Goddess, Areum says she knows a three-legged crow working for Persimmon, a tech company in the Godrealm. After questioning how they will enter the Godrealm, Taeyo reveals he used scales and fur from the goddesses to creat a program to track portals to the Godrealm, but says it is unstable and they could end up trapped in the Godrealm miles from their target. They are it is a risk they need to take and Taeyo lists three locations of portals- the Mob Museum, Eiffel Tower replica, and M&M's World- and Hattie forms teams. First, Dahl, Taeyo, and Emmett are assigned to the Mob Museum, Second, Noah, David, Cosette, and Jennie are assigned to the Eiffel Tower replica. Third, Riley and Areum are put with Hattie Togo to M&M's World. Lastly, Phoebe and her friends are tasked to keep an eye on things in the Mortalrealm. Upon arriving at M&M World, Hattie tells them to be vigilant. Upon entering the first floor, a group of saram are impressed by Areum, who they think is a cosplayer, and she relishes in the attention. On the second floor, the three are amazed at the amount of flavors and take free samples. Areum starts fidgeting as says Taggy is on her. As Riley takes the wakepillar off her, Areum inadvertently slams her wing into Hattie, who is carrying Riley’s phone, and smashes it. Areum apologizes as Riley find a compass Taeyo had given her when they first met. Taggy crawls onto the needle and it pointed at a cylinder filled with silver and gold M&Ms shaped like the sun and moon. After Hattie finds some gummies and eats them, she goes wide eyed and insists Riley and Areum try them. They are reluctant so Hattie shoves them in their mouths. After a second, the find themselves in the lobby of a company where everyone wears top hats. After finding out that they are at Tokki Pharmaceuticals, a pair of guards notice them and they walk on. As they evade the guards, Areum tells them the story of how the Moon Rabbit Goddess became a goddess. As they hide in a stairwell, Hattie insists they go down while Riley checks her compass and it tells her they should go up. The three do so and Areum leaves to give the Oh sisters a chance to get away and the girls end up in a laboratory. They see scientists in suits and top hats working on formulas and hide behind a certain. Riley sees a clear pipe containing green liquid coming up from the ceiling and takes out her compass and it points to where the pipe leads. Just when Areum returns, one of the scientists removes her hat to reveal rabbit ears and says she may have succeeded as the others cheer and will test it on the kids. As Areum explains that the scientists are Moon Rabbits, she inadvertently triggers the compass's blades and she yelps in pain. The scientists goes over to the group and Hattie says they are there for the testing. The scientist who created the formula welcomes them and thanks the girls for their sacrifice. As the scientist escorts them to the testing room, which is where the pipe leads, Riley presses the scientist for questions. The scientist says that the goddesses are using Three-Legged Crow Goddess to mind control the gifted community for their army, however it only works on the adults and they are tasked with creating a gummy that will allow them to control children. The group is horrified as they are led into the room. They see cages along the wall and are horrified to find David, Cosette, Noah, and Jennie in them. A sweet smelling gas fills the room and they pass out. The three wake up hours later to their friends calling their names. As Hattie looks for dirt to use as a weapon, David, Noah, Cosette and Jennie say their biochips are useless in the Godrealm as they are powered by the elements in the Mortalrealm. As the others explain the gummies they ever forced to test, with the mind control gummies still deemed not ready, they say the need a crowbal to open the cage doors and hope that Taeyo, Emmett, and Dahl have made it to Persimmon. Soon someone enters the room and introduces himself as a three-legged crow named Sahm, Areum's friend from Persimmon who said their companions reached him and are back at his office. As Sahm works on the locks, he says he found when Taeyo reworked his program to find humans and that Dahl has managed to talk his co-workers into disagreeing with the Megarealm. Fearing someone will walk in on them, Riley asks Sahm to hurry, but he says the building is empty as everyone is attending the tournament to determine the Megarealms's prime minister, stating the goddesses do not wish to run the Megarealm themselves. When asking about the adults in their army, Sahm mentions the goddesses referred them them as a volunteer peacekeeping force. Upon Sahm releasing everyone, Riley recites the Haetae's prophecy and suggests they need the key of keys in addition to Mago's Fire. Hattie then suggests they enter the tournament to get the key and fire, much to everyone’s shock. Soon, they hear something in the vents and are surprised to see Namjoon. As Hattie greets Namjoon, Riley wonders how he arrived as Hattie translates for the imugi, shocking everyone. Riley theorizes that Hattie can understand Namjoon due to the power of the Water Dragon Goddess. Hattie says that Namjoon is telling her that the rips in the realms have gotten worse. Riley tells them they have to hurry to the tournament, but Sahm says only citizens of the Godrealm can enter. Hattie insist Riley compete as she is the Last Fallen Star while Riley insists Hattie take part due to having the Water Dragon Godess's powers. However everyone insists Riley to it and she agrees. As it is a masquerade tournament, Sahm gives Riley a Phantom of the Opera style mask to wear and David gives her gummies that temporarily give the eater rabbit ears. Sahm gives Riley two of his feather and tells her they will point her to what she is looking for and instructs one to find the key of keys and the other to find Mago's Fire. As Sahm is about to take everyone to Persimmon, David says he is staying behind to try and find a cure for the adults mind washing and Jennie and Cosette stay with him as Noah goes with Hattie. Sahm tells Areum to take Riley to Hungry Holes, a glow in the dark mini golf course. Riley is happy to hear this as she is good at getting holes-in-one. Riley and Areum arrive at Hungry Holes to find a bowling alley in its place. Arum theorizes the realms shifted again and the bowling alley becomes an indoor mini golf course and they enter before it changes. As they walk, Riley is amazed by the size of the place and is surprised when she sees over four hundred holes. Areum explains that it is condensed to allow for more players. As they walk, they see wanted posters of Riley and Dahl accusing them theft and murder. Areum goes to scout out exits as Riley gets in line for a ball and putter. As she waits, she takes out her compass, attracting the attention of a man with a tiger tail and ears wearing a luchador costume behind her. He tells her it is a moral compass that guides the weirder to where they need to be. Riley sees the needle point towards an ice cream stand, which she always won at a mini golf place by her house and takes it as a good sign. However when she gets her putter and ball, a shooting star appears and when she takes a closer look at it, Riley sees the Nine-Tailed Fox Goddess, the Moon Rabbit Goddess, the Three-Legged Crow Goddess, and the Mountain Tiger Goddess. The goddess put on a video to show the contestants how the lack of prayers from the Mortalrealm has hurt the Godrealm's economy and how it will all be fixed by merging the realms. They also spin lies to the contestants on how the Cave Bear Goddess was killed in cold blood, how the humans stole Mago's Fire, and kidnapped the Water Dragon Goddess. As Riley zones out, thinking that the goddesses truly believe they are doing the right thing, she misses the rules and asks the luchador. He says their are three rounds. The first round is an elimination round where only those who get a hole in one can move on. When he says the second and third rounds focuses on command and commitment respectively, Riley becomes concerned upon realizing the mini golf aspect is only for the first round. He goes off and points out that one of Riley’s ears looks infected. Realizing one gummy’s effects are wearing off, she takes another one. As she questions where Areum is, the contestants are called to their holes and she reluctantly goes to hole one hundred twenty three, modeled after a cup of boba tea half spilled on the ground with the hole in the straw. Upon inspecting the hole she realizes that the tapioca balls prevent a clear shot to the hole along with a steep incline. As tea-off is in two minutes, Riley panics at the challenge ahead of her. The goddesses say everyone has ten minutes to get a hole in one and the countdown starts. Riley looks around and sees other contestants vanishing in clouds of smoke, red for those who fail or green for those who succeed. Riley starts to have a panic attack and goes to a photo booth to calm down as Taggy nudges her ear.. She sees a button that lets you obtain pictures of everyone thinking of the customer at that moment and pushes the button and obtains four pictures. The first one shows Phoebe and other RihOh members calming down a group of saram who start to believe the sky vanishing was not a trick. The second shows Hattie giving a fiery speech to the employees of Persimmon. The last two are of Emmett. Remembering she is doing this for her loved ones, Riley’s goes back to the hole and prepares to swing. However the club does not make contact with the ball and the two form faces and start arguing about a fake phone number the club gave the ball, which the club denies. With four minutes on the clock, Riley tries to mediate the Tito no success. She then takes out her compass see what to do, even put it it on star mode, but nothing happens. When wind appears, Riley tells the club and ball, Chae and Gong, what Chae could have given Gong the wrong number without realizing it and that they still have feeling for each other. As Riley says they need to have faith, she sees that there is less then a minute left and gives up. However Chae and Gong, moved back Riley's speech, help her and with seconds to spare, Riley gets a hole in one and is surrounded by green smoke as she celebrates. Riley emerges in an ice rink with hundreds of spectators, including Charles and Maru, as three doors marked with symbols for fire, earth, and water spear and she has six seconds to chose or she will be thrown out of the contest. In a panic, she picks fire and the arena if flooded with clouds. Soon a bulgae appears and a leash, collar, and whip appear before her. Riley is told she has thirty minutes to use the items before her to get the bulgae to light a pile of junk on fire. Riley struggles to get it to light the junk on fire. After covering herself in clouds to keep herself from getting burned, Riley tries and fails to lasso it. After realizing she has fifteen minutes left, she takes out her compass to find a mirror. She looks at the bulgae and thinks of her dog Mong back in Los Angeles and realizes she can use the same trick to get the bulgae to listen to her. She reveals herself to the newlyweds and convinces them to help by giving them the rest of her transformation gummies. After coating Charles in clouds and building an obstacle course out of the junk. They trick the bulgae into chasing Charles and, with a minute left, the entire course is set on fire. As the crowd cheers, she is teleported to a moving mine cart. She sees giants looking down at her as she barrels down the tracks. A voice tells Riley she is one of the candidates still in the game and that the final round involves her making hard decisions for the good of the many, telling her that she must choose either left or right and hit either one or five dummies respectively. She chooses left and crashes into a jell filled dummy. A hands picks her up and tells her she will repeat the act a second time but the cart will be preprogrammed to go whatever direction she has the lever at and will allow her one ten second pause. As she reaches the fork, Riley chooses left but hits the pause button and looks on horrified upon realizing the five ‘dummies’ on her right are fellow contestants and the one on the left is Emmett, all bound and gagged. As the timer runs out, Riley realizes the strange feelings she felt around Emmett was love and that she wanted to be more then friends with him. She chooses left and tries desperately to derail the cart. However she fails. Thankfully, Areum arrives and Riley jumps onto her as they desperately try to save Emmett. Riley manages to derail the cart, at the coast of breaking her leg, and scoops up Emmett. She removes his gag and promises to protect him. The scene dissolves and she finds herself on a floating platform back at Hungry Holes. The goddesses congratulate her as she sees Emmett and Areum in the audience. When the goddesses reveal she will be inaugurated at a sacred location, they ask her to remove her mask. However Riley’s ears vanish and the goddesses realize who she is. The three-legged crow goddess grabs Riley just as Dahl, Taeyo, Noah, Hattie, Namjoon, Sahm, and three bonghwangs appear to help and Emmett and Areum join in as well with Noah tossing Emmett Boris. The goddesses try to shield themselves, but Hattie steals the fire as Sahm claws one of the Moon Rabbit Goddess's eyes. Hattie heals Riley’s leg just as the Three-Legged Crow Goddess grabs Dahl and demands the fire. Riley gives it to her but the goddess grabs her. Just then, Yeomra the Great arrives and tries to save both Riley and Dahl, but only succeeds in saving Riley. The goddesses retreat as everyone questions where they took Dahl. As Riley notices that Taggy has made a cocoon on her ear, Emmett pulls her aside and demands she not risk her life like that anymore. Riley says she cannot and, as she is halfway through confessing, Emmett kisses her as their friends watch. Emmett gives Riley a bracelet made from the red seaweed from the Trevi Fountain and they go back to their friends hand in hand to find out where the ceremony is. As everyone thinks of ways to track Dahl, Riley looks at her soul twin’s phone and hears his voice. He tells her he thinks he is outside and smells of acacia. Riley relays this information to the others before Dahl backtracks and tells her not to come before ending their conversation. Using what Dahl said, they deduce that he is at Mount Baekdu and, as Riley looks at Dahl phone, she realizes he is at the Luxor Hotel. Sahm heads back to Persimmon as the others head back to Las Vegas. As they sore over the city, they see that the realms are close to merging and, as they reach their destination, find that the mountain and hotel have merged as well. They strategize before Riley lies that she knows how to activate her and Dahl's true potential. As they creep up on the goddesses, Riley heads a conversation she thinks is familiar and they strike. However the goddesses are unfazed and describe what they need to create the Megarealm as similar to driving a car, comparing the key to a car key and the fire to a car. Upon saying they need a special soul to power it, Riley realizes it is a trap and the goddesses merge the key and fire before throwing it to the mayor. As Yeomra charges at Riley, her Allie’s try to save her before Dahl shields her with his body and is stabbed in the chest. Dahl falls lifelessly to the ground as Taeyo begs him to be alright as Hattie desperately tries to heal him. Emmett comforts Riley as Yeomra says it is hopeless and that Dahl's soul is in the key of keys. She soon realizes the mayor has been working for the goddesses for as long as she has known him and that he knew the CFOs were disgruntled and pinned the blame of the Salmosa poisoning on them. As well as giving Dahl his mum-pen to purposefully weaken the barrier between the realms. They mayor says he sided with them to maintain his grip on power in the Megarealm and Riley realizes the tournament was a sham. When the goddesses get impatient, the mayor stabs the blood soaked key in the Tree of Life and starts the merging as the tree bleeds and screams. The goddesses bind Riley’s companions in webbing as the Mountain Tiger Goddess pins Riley down and mocks her. Boris, who is resting against the side of the walkway, transforms into a dragon. He knocks the key out of the mayor’s hand and tries to attack the goddesses before getting stuck in the webbing. Riley threatens to kill Yeomra as the mayor calls her bluff. The ground swallows up her companions as she drops the keys and backs up into Dahl. She watches and sobs as her twin falls into the fissure before the mayor pushes her in. However, she is saved by the Haetae. As the Haetae carries her out of the fissure, she proclaims that Mago Halmi is a myth as she screams at the misfortune she experienced in the past day. However the Haetae tells her the creation story and says the first tear Mago Halmi shed was from joy rather then sadness. The Haetae goes on to say Riley is wrong about Mago Halmi as she was wrong on the Horangi being evil. As they emerge from the fissure, the Haetae says she can reverse the merging as Riley notices that the moon has returned and they hear Dahl's voice. Dahl reveals that, when he was killed, his soul returned to the moon, and he explains how he is now a part of it as he once was. When Riley asks if he is upset that he cannot see all the places he wanted to visit, Dahl says he still can and thanks Riley for letting him be mortal. Before leaving, he says Taggy is hatching and, when they emerge as a butterfly, the Haetae addresses her as Mago Halmi. Dahl and the Haetae chuckle as she gapes at Mago Halmi. The butterfly flies into Riley and she feels both positive and negative emotions as well as learning that love is the force she needs to awaken her full potential. The Haetae flies her to Las Vegas where the realms are almost completely merged and they find the mayor and goddesses facing protesting citizens from the Godrealm and Spiritream angry at the changes. As the goddess explain that it will take time for their promises to come to be, she sees that their mortal army has grown and that saram adults are now in it. She becomes horrified upon seeing brainwashed children, including Hattie and her friends. The Haetate lands by the goddesses and Yeomra cowers behind them. As Riley demands the key, the goddesses send her parents to attack her. As Riley tries to snap them out of their trance- David, Cosette, and Jennie arrive with a gummy to cure the brainwashing and Riley feeds two to her parents. After David says they befriended the moon rabbits and Tokki Pharmaceuticals, he and the others work to free everyone from mind control as Riley and the Haetae go after the mayor. They chase him to a river where Dahl summons a wave, shocking the mayor and the goddesses, as Bada and Daeyang emerge from the wave and attack the mayor, knocking the key of keys and the mum-pen out of his possession. However, the Three-Legged Crow Goddess grabs them before her can and escapes by drawing a door. Riley follows the Three-Legged Crow Goddess through the portal into a casino. Upon reaching an empty theater, the goddess summons her sisters and they prepare to ground up Riley in the Moon Rabbit Goddess's mortar. However, Riley tells the Moon Rabbit Goddess she does not have to be like her sisters and the Moon Rabbit Goddess has a change of heart as her sisters berate her. Soon Namjoon, Boris, Hattie, Emmett, James, Eunha, Taeyo, Cosette, Noah, Jennie, Areum, Sahm, Charles, Maru, Okja, Sora, Austin, Emmett, the Haetae- with the mayor in its jaws, Phoebe, and two other members of RilOh arrive. As the goddesses are distracted, Riley destroys the key and gives a piece of Mago's Fire to everyone, including the goddesses, who revert to infant animals. As everyone takes in their victory, Emmett suggests the Yeomra be made a janitor as the mayor pleads for death instead. As everyone thinks of ways to separate the realms, Riley knows the only way is for her to become the new sun. The others try to talk Riley out of it, but she insists it is the only way. They say their goodbyes and Riley uses Emmett’s bracelet to link herself into her loved ones and the goddesses. Before going, Riley tells Hattie to make it rain as soon as she becomes the sun. The Haetae takes Riley to the stratosphere and she becomes the new sun, giving magic to everyone and Hattie makes it rain. One year later, Riley is happy with her decision and revives visits for Areum and the Haetae. However, she is annoyed by Dahl's constantly asking her what she sees during the day and telling her what she is missing during the night. As a reward for their sacrifice, Riley and Dahl are allowed to return to Earth once a year to visit their friends and family. |
Appearance[]
Though she is Korean-American, Riley doesn't look like her adopted family. She's tall and has freckles, with a pointy chin and high cheekbones and more angles than curves.
Personality[]
Riley really wants to be accepted as a member of the Gifted Community and as an Oh, which is set back by her being a not magical. She tends to cry easily when she's overwhelmed by emotion, but she's not easily swayed when she sets her mind to something.
Riley tends to keep quiet and not draw attention to herself, this is demonstrated through her fear of being banished from the congregation or having her memory erased, so she usually keeps to herself during services. She proves her bravery multiple times and would do anything for her family, even sacrificing her power and their memories of her.
She is selfless, as she agreed to initiate into the Horangi and disown the Gom, as well as volunteers give up her magic and allow the memories of her loved ones to be erased to proceed in finding the last fallen star and save Hattie.
After defeating the Cave Bear Goddess, Riley begins to guilt at her parents financially situation and Hattie's sleep disorder. It's also implied that she suffers from survivor's guilt as often times she blames herself for what has happen and believes she needs to fix everything herself. However after seeing the lengths her family and her soul-twin are willing to go to help her, she eventually realizes she has to believe in her friends and her family in order to believe in herself.
Abilities[]
- Bilingualism: Riley can speak English and at least some Korean.
- First Aid Skills: Riley has basic knowledge of first aid skills.
- Pyrokinesis: Due to the biochip in her wrist, Riley is able to control and manipulate fire. However she cannot create fire. During her initiation into the Horangi, she discovered her key to controlling it is her anger.
Items[]
- Mago Halmi Binyeo: Riley was given one of the creator goddess's hairpins as a birthday present from the Haetae. If she loses it, whoever finds it could use the hairpin to communicate with her. It merges with the eum and yang stone to form the key for keys.
- Eum Stone: Riley keeps an onyx stone shaped like a curved teardrop in her pocket, the only thing her biological parents left her.[1] When she is thirteen, Riley learns it is actually part of a set of two stone that she possesses as the Last Fallen Star. It fuses with Dahl's yang stone and the combined power can temporarily break the disease plaguing the Spiritrealm. It again fuses with Riley's binyeo to form the key of keys.
- Moral Compass: Given to her by Taeyo, the compass can guide Riley to where she needs to be and what she must do keep her family and friends safe.
Relationships[]
Love Interests[]
Emmett Harrison[]
Emmett Harrison, her best friend.
Riley and Emmett have been close to each other since meeting in the third grade when he gave her a bag of chocolate chip cookies to cheer her up after he saw her crying. When she learns she is the part of the Horangi, the clan who killed his mother, she hides it from him for two days out of fear for how he would react if he found out. When he eventually does, he berates her and calls her just as bad as she Horangi. Things start to patch up after he learns his mother was being controlled by someone. When his memories of Riley and erased, she becomes distraught when her best friend does not know who she is. During the fight with the Cave Bear Goddess, he fights for her.
Two months later, as she is digitizing old tomes, Riley watches him and Cosette play video games and feels envy that he is closer to someone he has only known for two months rather then her. After he brings her her favorite cookies, she hopes his memories are returning, however this is not the case. When she learns he, along with Jennie and David, came to the Spiritrealm to save her, Riley becomes fearful on what to come. When Emmett is nearly expunged, she fears for his safety and is revealed when Dahl saves him. When she asks why he went after her, Emmett says it is because they are friends. Riley is overjoyed when Emmett regains his memories of her.
In the six months after Emmett regained his memory of her, Riley started to feel strange around him. Upon seeing him tied up on the tracks in the final round of the Prime Minister Tournament, Riley realizes she likes him romantically. After the goddesses take Dahl, he makes her swear to never risk herself again. She does not and confesses just as he kisses her. After giving Riley a red seaweed bracelet, the two walk hand in hand back to their friends. When she becomes the new sun, Emmett understands and wishes her well. They are able to see each other once a year due to Mago Halmi allowing her to visit.
Family[]
Riley is close to her adoptive sister. The two look out for each other and Hattie often stands up for her. When she was hurt trying to summon Mago Halmi, Riley went to great lengths to save her, even giving up her newly acquired magic and the memories her two clans had of her to ensure she is okay. When Hattie is returned dead, she uses a wish she earned to resurrect her, showing the great and strong bond they share.
When Hattie becomes sick and go into comas as a result of her resurrection, she starts to become worried. After learning she could travel to the Spiritrealm during her comas, Riley becomes even more worried about Hattie’s health. After Hattie elects to stay in the Spiritream for the time being, Riley desperately tries to get her sister to reconsider to no avail and hugged her goodbye.
The sisters would keep in touch during this time and, six months later, Riley is overjoyed when Hattie is cured. The two work together to stop the goddesses from merging the realms and, after Riley decides to become the new sun, she trusts Hattie to restore magic to the world.
Riley is close to her adoptive father. He defends her when other witches doubt she is a member of their family. She becomes angry with him when her Horangi heritage is revealed to her. When his memories of her were erased, she became distraught at losing the only father she ever knew not remembering her.
After Riley sacrificed the memories the Gom and Horangi had of her, she becomes saddened when her father does not remember her. A couple of months later during Riley’s belated birthday party, he awkwardly hugs her. When she returns from the Spiritrealm with the stolen memories, Riley is overjoyed he and the others affected can remember her again.
Riley is close to her adoptive mother. When her memories of Riley were erased, she became distraught at losing the only mother she has ever known. She feels hurt and betrayed when she learn they hid her identity as a Horangi from her.
After Riley sacrificed the memories the Gom and Horangi had of her, she becomes saddened when her mother does not remember her. A couple of months later during Riley’s belated birthday party, she awkwardly hugs her. When she returns from the Spiritrealm with the stolen memories, Riley is overjoyed she and the others affected can remember her again.Riley is close to her adoptive aunt. She likes how she tries to get her an initiation into the clan. When she is possessed by the Cave Bear Goddess, Riley does whatever she can to save her aunt.
While she never met her birth mother, Riley misses her greatly. Feeling a connection to Mina after seeing pictures of her and her father, feeling robbed of being with them.
While she never met her birth father, Riley misses him greatly. Felling a connection to Yoon after seeing a picture of him and her mother, feeling robbed of being with them.
Dahl Oh, the Last Fallen Moon and her spiritual twin brother.
At first, Riley was confused by Dahl's slang and fixation of bathrooms. However as he helped her get out of serving time at two of her three designated Hells in Jiok, she has gained respect and gratitude for him. When Dahl tells her to run from Imugi, she instead stays, showing a new found devotion to her friend.
However she becomes briefly angry at him for withholding that he is the Last Fallen Moon and her spiritual twin. However they quickly make up. When the police arrive at Eternity Island, he stays as her and Hattie flee. She tries to get him to come with them but he refuses. The two work together to purify the Spring of Eternity and succeed. Afterwards, he joins her in the Mortalrealm.
Six months later, they watch out for each other when the realms begin to merge and she becomes distraught when the mayor kills him, be overjoyed upon learning Dahl has become the moon.
After becoming the new sun, Riley is annoyed when Dahl constantly asks her what he is missing during the day and him telling her what she is missing at night.Friends[]
At first, Riley was distrusting of Taeyo due to him being a Horangi. However after spending time with him she starts to trust him and see him as a valuable ally. She becomes distraught when he loses his memories of her. Even after losing his memories of Riley, the two worked well together on digitizing texts. Riley is overjoyed when he regains his memories of her.
Areum,her trusted companion.
At first, Riley was nervous as she tried to tame the Inmyeonjo, however after treating a cut from a previous attempt at taming her and complemented herself, even giving her the name Areum, meaning “beautiful” in Korean. Areum becomes devoted to her after that, going as far as shielding her from the Cave Bear Goddess.
When Riley decides to go to the Spiritrealm, she tries and fails to talk her out of it.At first, Riley despised Jennie Byun for mocking her for her lack of magic. However after learning how lonely she was, Riley started to understand Jennie more. When Jennie was captured and threatened to be expunged by the CFOs, Riley became concerned for her safety and was relieved when Jennie was saved.
Riley and David Kim are friendly with one another. After learning he earned his Gi Bracelet, she congratulates him. After most of Riley’s friends and family forget her, he makes a book of memories Riley had of them. After learning David entered the Spiritrealm to save her, Riley worries for his safety. She becomes fearful when he is threatened with expungement and relived when he is saved.
At first, Riley thought Cosette Chung was one of the mean girlfriends due to being friends with Jennie. However, after speaking with her at the Griffin Observatory, Riley started to see that the other girl was not as bad as she assumed. After sacrificing the Gom and Horangi's memories of her, Riley would become jealous of the bond Emmett and her had.
Riley is friendly with Noah Noh, often teasing him about his mutual crush on her sister. After Hattie devised a plan to summon Mago Halmi, she- along with Hattie and Emmett- trusted him enough to let him in on the plan.
Etymology[]
- Riley is a unisex given name of Irish origin that is derived from the name "Raghallach" meaning "valiant".
- Oh is a surname of Korean origin.
Trivia[]
- Riley's last name was originally revealed to be Nam, however, this was corrected on Graci Kim's website.
- She is the second main character of Korean heritage in the Rick Riordan Presents imprint.
- Coincidentally, there is a Korean folktale named Haewa Dari Doen Onui where a sister became the sun and a brother became the moon. However, Graci Kim had stated that she didn't find out about the story until after she finished her third manuscript.
- Riley has a tendency to cry when she experiences strong emotions.
- Her favorite K-Pop star is Lee Minho.
- Riley doesn't have a soul animal because her true soul form is the dark sun.
- Her favorite cookies are salted caramel.
- She likes apple gummies.
References[]
| The Gifted Clans series | ||
| Books: | The Last Fallen Star | The Last Fallen Moon | The Last Fallen Realm | |
| Main Characters: | Riley Oh | Hattie Oh | Boris | Emmett Harrison | Dahl Oh | Areum | |
| Secondary Characters: | James Oh | Eunha Oh | Cosette Chung | Noah Noh | David Kim | Jennie Byun | Taeyo | Okja | Sora Kwon | Austin | Yeomra the Great | Bob | Heo Jun | |
| Minor Characters: | Bongjoon Pyo | Sookhee Harrison | Mrs. Kim | Mrs. Lee | Mr. Hong | Mong | Charles | Cheol | Yeowu | Sahm | |
| Korean Gods: | Cave Bear Goddess | Three-Legged Crow Goddess | Water Dragon Goddess | Moon Rabbit Goddess | Nine-Tailed Fox Goddess | Mountain Tiger Goddess | Mago Halmi | |
| Mythical Creatures: | Dragon Scooter | Cheollima | Haetae | Inmyeonjo | Dokkaebi | Gwisin | Ineo | Imugi | Salmosa | Bulgae | Bonghwang | Moon Rabbit | |
| Related Content: | Graci Kim | Rick Riordan Presents | My Night at the Gifted Carnival | |