>>5411975>>5412420‘Fated’ seems interesting.
Traditionally, shadow plays only occur at night, with the audience sitting in front of a large white cloth being brightly lit from behind. Originally native to the southern parts of the country, but the recent influences of foreign countries prompted people to expand the industry. Instead of wandering troupes, they settle in towns and rent out buildings to serve as theaters.
The theater Pine and Jess stays at is a wide room with several mats and pillows on the floor, a nod to their early days, while having some semblance of comfort.
The north of the room holds a wooden stage, where a wall of thin white cloth stands, alongside boxes of paper drawings attached with sticks.
Aside from the stage, everything else is completely dark.
A few dozen people eventually fills the room. It is time.
While the performers say that ‘Fated’ is a collection of true stories, the names and certain details such as the time the events took place are changed.
The first story is about 'Whan', a man born in the north eastern provinces of Sablestream. One day during his childhood, he spotted his father having sex with a mistress. While trying to sneak away, he was caught and beaten by his father. Afterwards, he fled the house and a group of bandits took him in as one of them.
Over the next few years, he became a merciless crook that cut down anyone that stood against him. Even killing one of the bandits that disagreed with his methods while passing it off as a casualty during a raid.
Some time before he went to Clawflash, he was in a sexual relationship with a single mother. When the woman became too sick to have sex with him from the toxicity of abortifacients, he raped the daughter for several days before leaving Clawflash with the mother’s money.
Whan continued his criminal ways in Clawflash for multiple years until he was eventually caught and sentenced to execution.
Despite living a short life, he never once shown any regret for his actions.
Was he born this way?
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