Zumin

Zumin is the slash ship between Jumin Han and Hyun Ryu from the Mystic Messenger fandom.

Canon
Zen and Jumin met after Rika gave Zen a bouquet of flowers after a musical performance. Their first meeting ended with Zen turning down a job offer from Jumin. Jumin extended modelling and sponsorships offers towards Zen several times, recognizing his looks and talents, but Zen rejected them all because of Jumin's resemblance to Zen's brother. At one of the RFA parties, Jumin brought Elizabeth the 3rd, which caused Zen's allergies to act up. In the prologue, Zen and Jumin are found arguing about the difference between nepotism and recruitment before realizing MC is in the chatroom. After Zen introduces himself as a musical actor, Jumin comments that he just wanted to show off, to which Zen replies to with a selfie of himself.

The two often disagree with each other. Jumin talks about his cat, Elizabeth the 3rd, on many occasions. This annoys Zen as he is allergic to cats, to the point where just seeing a photo of a cat makes his nose itch. Zen thinks that Jumin is a trust fund kid that was born with a silver spoon in his mouth while Jumin thinks that struggles have nothing to do with wealth or social status. Zen thinks that employees should be treated with respect while Jumin think that everything can be fixed with money.

Zen's Route
Jumin considered having Zen be the face of his cat food line. Jumin thought he shouldn't have to care about Zen's cat allergy and that he was supporting Zen too. Zen said that he would never model for Jumin's company, especially not for a cat commercial. Zen thought that Jumin is trying to attain his own fantasy with his company's money. Even with everyone around Zen telling him to accept the offer, Zen expressed he could never model for the cat food commercial no matter how much he gets paid.

Zen told Jumin that he had a trauma with cats, so he couldn't do the cat food commercial. Jumin tried to convince Zen to consider it and forget that he doesn't get along with cats, claiming that it was business. Even after Zen states again how he is allergic, Jumin claims it can be overcome by love. The two continued to bicker about the subject. After Zen said again that he doesn't want to model for cats, Jumin noted that Zen had been thinking about him all that time. Jumin questions if Zen has feelings for him, and Zen starts typing in all caps and says Jumin has gone crazy. Jumin says that overreacting tells a lot about someone and admits that he can't help but smile.

Jumin arranged Zen and MC's meeting and was the one that sent bodyguards to Zen. After Zen rejected Echo Girl, she visited both Zen and Jumin separately and threatened to ruin their reputations. As a result, Zen is accused of sexually assaulting Echo Girl on television and gossip about Jumin being gay starts to spread. Jumin is not put off by the gossip and recruits Saeyoung to look for information to prove Zen's innocence.

Eventually, Zen recognizes Jumin's help and offer of friendship and apologizes for directing his anger for his brother towards Jumin.

Jaehee's Route
After Jumin said his unrealistic expectations for Jaehee, Zen expressed that he felt bad for Jaehee and that Jumin was a jerk for treating Jaehee the way he did. Zen stated he would never work for Jumin and that Jumin was the problem, not Jaehee. Zen thought that Jumin was the worst boss ever.

Quotes
"He may be a rock, but he's still a dude."

- Zen about Jumin, Just the two of them at this dark night?

"Jumin Han that jerk! Satan would love him! ****!"

- The spaceship reveals, Jaehee's Route

"Hey Jumin!!!!! You jerk ******!!! I'm glad the ladies can't hear my thoughts."

- The spaceship reveals, 707's Route

Fanon
Zumin is a popular ship for both Zen and Jumin since quite a lot of Jumin and Zen's conversations have homoromantic/homoerotic subtext. It can be shipped along with Jaehee x MC and SaeYoosung (Saeyoung x Yoosung). Zumin rivals the Zenhee and JuV ships, although Zumin does overshadow both of those ships. Fans believe that Jumin is gay and ship him with Zen since Jumin did not react to the rumor about him being gay in Zen's route. Fanart and fan fiction often show the two on dates and sometimes depict the hurt/comfort trope.

Zumin "Holidays"
JuminZen Week is a fan-hosted event with no official ties. During that week, prompts related to the boys are released and fans participate by creating fanworks of them. JuminZen Week takes place from May 21-27. Although, this event seems to have been abandoned as the JuminZen Week Tumblr account last posted in 2018.

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Trivia

 * It is revealed in the April Fools DLC that Jumin once gave Zen a hairball of Elizabeth the 3rd as a gift.
 * The ship name Allergic Love refers to Zen's allergy to cats.
 * The spaceship reveals that it pisses Zen off when Jumin says 'damn it' for some reason.
 * Jumin is 6'0 and 171.9 pounds and Zen is 5'11 and 165.3 pounds.