Runmus

Runmus is a het ship between Samus Aran and Rundas from the Metroid fandom.

Canon
Samus, Rundas and the other bounty hunters, Ghor and Gandrayda, arrived at the Galactic Federation flagship called the G.F.S. Olympus where Admiral Dane gives them the mission to purge the Aurora Units of the virus which he believes that that it is the work of the Space Pirates, though the briefing was cut short when Aurora Unit 242 sounded the alarm as a Pirate fleet is surprise invading the planet Norion. Rundas, Samus and the bounty hunters were sent to Norion to activate the planet's defense system before the worst happened.

Upon arrival, the Space Pirates have already knocked out the generators that were vital to powering the planetary defense system which the hunters were ordered to get them back online. During the battle, Samus was trapped in Cargo Dock A by the four surrounding Space Pirate ATCs, before Rundas came to her rescue by destroying them. He then informs her that the Federation is permitting all bounty hunters to use their ships' Commander Visors while telling her to activate Generator A while he handles Generator B and are both successful in getting them back online. Later, as Samus is having a freefall with Meta Ridley and manages to defeat it, Rundas managed to surf down and rescue her and bring her atop of the shaft, he praises her work and remarks that she owes him one and leaves her to activate the last Generator and to head into the control room when she has done that. After all, four generators are activated, the bounty hunters entered the elevator to the control room so they can activate the defense system to prevent the Leviathan from crashing into the planet, where he assures them that they are the good guys and justice will prevail. However, Dark Samus arrived by breaking through a window to prevent them from finishing their mission and firing Phazon blasts at them, with one of them hitting Rundas though he is quick to get back up, only for Dark Samus to fire a powerful blast at them which knocks him, Ghor, and Gandrayda out while Samus stayed conscious long enough to activate the planetary defense system to destroy the Leviathan and saved the planet before she slips into a coma.

While Rundas, Ghor and Gandrayda awoke two weeks after the incident with them being found to be infected by Phazon and given PED devices to make use of them and headed to different planets with Rundas being in Bryyo, Samus took a whole month to regain consciousness and suffers from the same thing. She learns that all three bounty hunters went missing, and she is sent to Bryyo to find Rundas to ensure that he is alright. From afar, Rundas had been observing her but makes no attempt to keep himself hidden from her as if he wanted her to follow after him and leaves his gunship in plain sight with its engines still warm. After navigation through Byrro's Fuel Gel from the center, she finds Rundas at the Gel Processing Site, but instead of greeting her, he simply walks away as Samus tried to pursue him until she was attacked by the Space Pirates in the Temple of Bryyo but as they have the advantage, Rundas seemingly saves her once again by freezing them within seconds, but something was wrong with Rundas when he begins attacking her and it was apparent that he is succumbing to the Phazon inside his body which removed his sense of reason. Despite his best efforts, Rundas was defeated with Samus pulling off his armor and managed to subdue him. Rundas collapses in exhaustion and is confused, looking around frantically as if he wasn't aware what happened and what he was doing. As Rundas noticed Samus, he recognizes her and tries to reach out to her as if he is desperately crying for help, but before Samus responded, an icicle from the ground rises and impales Rundas, killing him instantly while Dark Samus absorbed his body, much to Samus's horror. A corrupted Gandrayda turns into Rundas during her boss fight though it's clear that they are not the same. After Samus destroyed Phaaze which destroyed the existance of Phazon permanently, Samus will be at Elysia to mourn Rundas and her fallen friends.

Fanon
Runmus is a common ship within the Metroid community which is shown the most in fan art with only a few existing fanfics that have them shipped together. Fans have grown to love Rundas due to the way he saves Samus whenever she is in danger and in need of her help while respecting the fact that she can handle herself most of the time and only aiding her when she needs it the most. Samus is also shown to greatly care for Rundas as well and it shows how much it pains her to have to kill him after he succumbs to Phazon corruption and horrified when he is impaled and gets absorbed by Dark Samus and even after she successfully avenges his death and the other bounty hunters, she quietly mourns them in Elysia, which fans have stated to be one of the sadder moments in the series. There have been fanfics where in their alternate where Rundas survives and would wind up developing romanic feelings for Samus over the course of their stories.

Fandom

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