Once upon a time in a castle in the deep forest, there lived three people who had their real faces stolen by the Shadow Witch. The boy wore a mask with an awkward smile. Then there was the princess who was loud but all empty inside, and there was also a man who was trapped inside a box. They couldnât make any facial expressions because their faces were stolen from them. They had no way of understanding each otherâs feelings, so they always misunderstood one another and fought.
The Box Man spoke. âIf we want to stop fighting and find happiness, we must retrieve our stolen faces.â So they hopped in their camping car and began their journey to find their faces.Â
One day, they ran into a mother fox who was bawling, curled up on the snow.
The masked boy asked the mother fox, âMaâam, why do you keep crying?â Â
âOh, I came out here to find some food but dropped my baby whom I was carrying on my back somewhere in the snow.â The mother foxâs tears had run dry. She wailed while beating her chest. When the masked boy saw that, warm tears started gushing from his eyes. The snow began to melt quickly, and the baby fox, who was frozen under the snow, soon appeared.
The three of them resumed their journey. Soon, they ran into a clown who was dancing naked in a field of thorny flowers. The emotionless princess asked, âWhy are you dancing with all your might, knowing youâll be pricked by the thorns?â âI feel that this is the only way to make people look at me. But it hurts, and no oneâs looking at me,â he answered. The emotionless princess walked into the field of thorny flowers and started dancing with the clown. âIâm an empty can, so I wonât be hurt even if I get pricked by the thorns.â When she began hopping and dancing, loud clanking noises echoed from her empty torso. Upon hearing those sounds, people began to flock to where they were. The crowd watched their dance and applauded them.
They began a new journey to find their stolen faces, and the evil Shadow Witch appeared in front of them once again. She kidnapped the Masked Boy, who shed tears on behalf of the mother fox, as well as the Emotionless Princess who danced with the clown.Â
âThe two of you will never be able to find your happy faces.â After putting such a curse on them, she locked them in a deep, dark mole tunnel. The Box Man found the mole tunnel a few days later, but the entrance was so narrow that he couldnât go in. âWhat do I do? I need to take this box off my head in order to go into the tunnel.â That moment, the Masked Boyâs voice reached him from inside the tunnel. âMister, donât worry about us. Just run far away. The Shadow Witch will return soon.â
However, the Box Man mustered up the courage to take the box off his head. He then went inside the tunnel and saved the Masked Boy and the Emotionless Princess. Upon getting out of the dark tunnel, the two of them saw the manâs face covered with dirt and grime instead of the box and burst out laughing. They laughed and giggled. While laughing uncontrollably, the Masked Boyâs mask suddenly fell off. The can surrounding the Emotionless Princessâ torso also fell off and made a clanking noise. The Box Man, now out of his box, said this when he saw the two of them finding their true faces while laughing.
âHappy. Heâs happy. Iâm happy.â
What the Shadow Witch had stolen from them was not their true faces but their courage to find happiness.Â
-Psycho But Itâs Okay |Â âFinding The Real Faceâ, Episode 16
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