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A Sonic Frontiers mini-comic I wrote up a while ago~
I've been posting the pages individually on tumbles, but they'll be up in parts here and as one big post on insta soon :)
I bought an umbrella from a convenience store. ¥500.
Next day: Lost it on the train.
Bought another one. ¥500.
Day 3: Left it at a restaurant.
Bought another. ¥500.
Week 2: Lost 6 umbrellas.
Cashier: You again?
Me: I keep losing them!
Cashier: Maybe you're cursed?
Me: BY UMBRELLAS?!
Month 2: Lost 20 umbrellas.
¥10,000 spent.
Friend: Just stop buying them?
Me: But it RAINS!
Month 3: Bought an EXPENSIVE umbrella. ¥8,000.
Figured I'd be more careful.
Lost it THE SAME DAY.
Me: screaming into the void
Month 4: Started a SPREADSHEET.
Tracked every umbrella. Where I bought it. Where I lost it.
Found a pattern: I lose them on TUESDAYS.
Month 5: Avoided buying umbrellas on Tuesdays.
Lost one on a Wednesday.
The pattern was FALSE.
Month 6: Someone returned one of my umbrellas.
Stranger: Found this on the train. Your name is on it.
Me: I WROTE MY NAME?!
Checked. I did. Drunk. In permanent marker.
Stranger: You lose umbrellas often?
Me: How did you know?!
Stranger: This is the 4th one I've found with your name.
Me: YOU'VE FOUND FOUR?!
Stranger: I think you have a problem.
Month 8: She started COLLECTING my umbrellas.
Her: I have 9 now.
Me: Why do you keep finding them?!
Her: I think the universe wants us to meet.
Me: Through UMBRELLAS?!
Her: It's romantic.
Me: It's WEIRD.
Month 10: We started dating.
She gives me back one umbrella per date.
Her: Here's #6.
Me: This is the strangest relationship I've ever had.
Her: But you haven't lost an umbrella in 2 months.
Me: Because you keep finding them!
Present:
We live together now.
She has a COLLECTION of 31 of my umbrellas.
Displayed on the wall.
Her: Our origin story.
Me: Our embarrassing origin story.
Last week I lost another one.
She found it the next day.
Her: You'll never escape me.
Me: I've stopped trying.
Love is weird.