The Red Oni & The Blue Oni

by on 3 October 2023 at 
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Speech bubble from right side of page says, "do you wanna read a scary story today?" Speech bubble from the left side of the page says, "uh-huh." Text bubble continues from the right saying, "okay." Page goes from white to black in a gradient. Text that says, "Once upon a time there was a red oni who was sad because he couldn't make friends with the humans." Panel 1: Oni with two horns and spotted wrappings as clothes smiling walking towards a group of people the height of his waist, waving. He appears smiling, but the people are running away.Panel 2: Text that says, "His friend the blue oni saw and came up with a plan to make them think he was a good oni." The red oni looks down with a sad face, the blue oni is smiling with a hand on his shoulder. He has a waistcloth, one horn, a beard, a hairy chest, and spiked club he rests against the ground and supports with one hand. Panel 3: text that says, "He went to attack the human's village, and the red oni came to rescue them." The blue oni threatening a group of humans with his club raised over his head.Panel 4: close-up of a hand grabbing onto the blue oni's wrist and him letting go of the club. Panel 5: The red oni chases off the blue oni with the club, the humans watching on. Panel 6: The red oni stands smiling as the humans cheer. The club is on the ground and the blue oni is gone.Panel 7: Text that says, "When the red oni went home to tell the blue oni the good news," The red oni walking and smiling with the club in his hand. Panel 8: text that says, "He was gone." The red oni with a sad face coming through the shoji still holding the club. There is a sunken floor fireplace in the room but nobody to be seen.Panel 9: Text that says, "He wept, knowing the blue oni was such a good friend he left so that the red oni could get along with the humans without worrying they would discover their trick." The red oni kneels on the ground with his face in his hands. The club lays beside him. Page fades from black to white again. Two kids sit on the ground facing each other. The kid on the left sits with their knees folded into their chest. The kid on the right sits with folded legs and a book in their lap. The kid on the left says, "That wasn't very scary."Panel 10: The kid on the left looks back down at the book, they say, "oh." Panel 11: The two sit in silence without moving. Panel 12: The kid on the right keeps holding the book, they look up and say, "But what if you woke up one day and your friend was gone?"Panel 13: Kid on the left says, "I'd look for them." Panel 14: Kid on the right says, "But what if you couldn't find them?" Panel 15: Kid on the left says without changing their expression, "I'd keep looking until I found them." Panel 16: The two kids look at each other without moving.The kids hug, the kid on the left's eyes can be seen over the kid on the right's shoulder. The book lays on the ground face-down and still open.Panel 17: Close-up on the two kids still hugging. The kid on the right says, "you're right." Panel 18: They don't move except the kid on the left tucks his face in the kid on the right's shoulder, closing their eyes. Speech bubble that says, "it's not scary at all." Watermark that says "@yeehawpim" on the bottom center of the page.

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