Every day he watches the Eric-scarecrow transform into a quartered mutilated body. As the scarecrow begins to lose its limbs to some unknown force, Larry’s guilt builds. The broken, frail doll causes bully Larry Rubio to feel guilt and shame for his violent actions against Eric. When a bullied boy, Eric Mutis, goes missing his bullies find an Eric-like scarecrow hanging from a tree in the park. “The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis” is a tale of guilt and conscience. While Kitsune’s moth transformation represents freedom, hope, and strength. Kitsune’s silkworm transformation symbolizes regret, exile, shame, and guilt. The story’s themes are portrayed by the two separate non-human forms of Kitsune. She accepts her fate, but this time instead of a monster she is ashamed of, the silkworm, she becomes the creature that frees her, the moth. Her death causes Kitsune to wholly accept her transformation. At first, Kitsune meekly acknowledges her fate until another girl sacrifices herself as a symbol of self-determination. She feels regret and guilt as she shapeshifts into a strange girl-silkworm creature. All the girls are depressed and weary, but Kitsune especially as she is the only one who signed her own contract and willingly drank the potion. Kitsune and other captive girls drank a potion which transformed them into human silkworms. “Reeling for the Empire” tells the story of Kitsune, a young woman in Japan during the Mejii Empire, who is held captive in a silk factory.
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