PAGE 1 – DARKNESS BLEEDS PURPOSE
[Panel 1 – Black page with a single line of narration]
"Before they followed Rei… they were followed by something else."
[Panel 2 – Three black vertical frames, side by side]
Each frame shows a Void or Seraph descending. No full detail — just the silhouette or light emerging.
The Void whispers. The Seraph weeps.
And some are broken enough to listen.
PAGE 2 – CHARACTER 1: RUKEL (The Banshee)
[Panel 1 – A small boy hides in a dark house, hands over his mouth, crying silently]
Screams echo from another room.
"I should've called for help. I should've screamed."
[Panel 2 – The boy's family is seen dead. Blood trails under the door. He stays silent, broken.]
"But fear is louder than love."
[Panel 3 – The room grows cold. A Void stands behind him, robed in nothingness. Its hands stitched with mouths.]
"Then… I gave up my voice. Forever."
[Panel 4 – Adult Rukel, mouth sewn shut, lets out a violent scream that shatters glass in a wide arc.]
"Now my silence is your suffering."
[Panel 5 – Rei appears behind him, extending a hand.]
"Speak through pain. I'll hear you."
Rukel takes it.
PAGE 3 – CHARACTER 2: NYX (The Dreamwalker)
[Panel 1 – A young boy lies awake, eyes bloodshot. His room is full of scribbled nightmares.]
"I can't sleep. Every time I do… someone dies."
[Panel 2 – He dreams briefly: a bloody vision of his mother's fall, and wakes to find it's happened.]
"Sleep became a curse. So I let it go."
[Panel 3 – A Void with hollow, glowing eyes crawls from beneath his bed. It reaches for him.]
"Let me keep your sleep. Let me keep your mind."
[Panel 4 – Nyx floats above a bed, tethered by shadows. Eyes glowing. His body unstable.]
"Now I walk inside dreams… and pull the monsters into the real.
[Panel 5 – Rei speaks to him inside a dream. They're both children.]
"If the world won't let you rest, let's make it scream."
PAGE 4 – CHARACTER 3: ELIAN (The Visionary)
[Panel 1 – A genius child in a classroom full of bullies. He tries to explain something. They laugh and throw things.
"Too smart. Too weird. Too much."
[Panel 2 – Alone in a dark library, Elian sketches strange creatures on the floor. His eyes red from crying.]
"I imagined friends who couldn't leave. A world where they couldn't hurt me."
[Panel 3 – A Seraph descends, its wings golden but bleeding, its eyes mourning. It places a hand on his head.]
"What you endured… becomes your creation."
[Panel 4 – Now older, Elian creates a monstrous beast from glowing symbols in the air.]
"They laughed at my mind. Now my mind devours theirs."
[Panel 5 – Rei smiles, watching him from a distance.]
"Build the new world with me. One only the broken can imagine."
PAGE 5 – FORMING OF THE STITCHED
[Full-page spread]
Rei stands beneath a blood-red moon. Behind him: Rukel (arms crossed, mouth covered), Nyx (floating upside-down, trailing black mist), Elian (writing symbols into the air, forming claws and wings). The background is a warped forest.
The world abandoned them. But I never did.
I stitched their pain into something divine.
PAGE 6 – KAI'S TEAM
[Panel 1 – Campfire glowing warmly in a forest clearing. Kai, Noa, Vee, and Jet sit around it in silence.]
• Kai: Looking at the flames, contemplative.
• Noa: Fiddling with light in her hands.
• Vee: Eyes on Kai.
• Jet: Leaning back with arms behind his head, half asleep.
"Something's coming…"
"And it's not alone anymore."
[Final Panel – A close-up of Kai's eyes reflecting the red moon.]
They're building a family too.