>>5171055The tale span over their entire lifetime. From being born into a freakshow cricus, to escaping after Deion stabbed the owner, to them finding their first love and being both rejected thanks to being an outcast, to them getting an injure from stealing food from a local farm, to their sprained ankle forcing them to walk on two legs, making them consider an amputation as they hid together under a bridge. By the time the play is ending, it's already night time.
"This is all your fault, Don! If it wasn't for this wretched body, I could have had everything I ever wanted!"
"Don't you see, brother? You are not alone in your suffering! Why can't we just get along and live as one?"
"Live as one? That's what we've been doing since the start, and look how well we are doing thanks to you! I never wished for your companionship! We will never get along, because all I want is for you to leave me alone!" Deion brandishes a saw, wanting to cut their lower torso to disconnect their bodies once and for all.
"Think about what you're doing, Deion! The dam is about to burst! We can easily escape this place together if we swim with our feet in rhythm. I don't want to do this by myself!"
"Then let's see who's the better half of a man! Whoever manages to climb the bridge first will forget about the loser's existence!" Deion starts to cut their bodies separate as the water floods the area, being separated when the overflow reaches them.
Don manages to avoid drowning and clutches over to the end of the bridge with a jump, while the current starts to push Deion away from his brother as he desperately tries to swim back to safety.
"Deion! Grab my hand!" The softer brother takes mercy in seeing Deion about to die, not wanting to lose the only friend he made despite all of their misadventures together. The guilt of letting him die would be too great to forget.
Deion, however, thought the exact opposite. In a true bucket of crabs mentality, he would rather end their challenge in a draw than seeing his brother succeeding on where he failed, taking Don's hand only to strike him repeatedly until he lost grip of the ledge, making them both be lost in the current, never to be found alive. The story ends with a single skeleton being dropped in the seashore, though wether that skeleton is Don's or Deion's is left up to interpretation.
"THE END!" Zhafira's face takes over the entire puppet theater's window as she announces the ending of the play. "What do you think? It's one of my favorite plays. Benny always loved this story, and I told it almost every night. He doesn't seem to like it as much now, but it's always nice to tell them to other kids."
>It's a little dark, don't you think?>Why do you like the story so much?>You are very talented. The mental images you created made me forget they were puppets.>Don was too trusting of his brother.>Deion was clearly in the wrong.>What message do you take from it? 