Sometimes life likes to throw unexpected curveballs, and oftentimes it becomes hard to find solace when it seems as if everyone else has their own series of problems. Opening up becomes especially difficult when your own imagination turns on you; it is paralyzing—terrifying, even—to find support, or even realize that you need support in the first place. Self-imposed isolation is a topic not many people seem to approach, much less incorporate without it sounding too melodramatic; of course, anything can sound dramatic when you're a teenager with a traumatic past and scars too deep to share.
Your name is Hwan, and you find yourself standing at the precipice of childhood and growing up. The world you live in is far from normal. People become figurative and literal monsters, emotions are literal parasites living in your body, and just around the corner is a strange building with an eye-shaped doorknob that takes you to an antique store where the owner has four eyes. You learned at a young age that the world is capricious and cruel, but will you overcome your hardships, or will you let it consume you?
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Created for my Senior Research project
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