Your Shadow Plays My Affinity
(On the walls is the shadow of the old father who is making the leather puppet in the dim light. Lights up! His son came back home.
Son: On my way home, I was smoked by the fire of celebrating ghost month. Father: As smoke by fire, we pay homage to the spirits.
Son: The puppets you made are out-of-date. Most of them are not seen on the stage nowadays. It’s not like a computer game. With a computer, you can play any character in a virtual world and make them level up to a hero.(The son sits in front of the computer.)
Father: Instead of virtual world, I play puppets with sticks in reality. Rather than decoding (translating) my emotion by the computer, I play the puppet directly by my hands, voice, and my mind.(Father smiles satisfyingly.)
Father: Which game character, you make now? Son: Hmm. He is like a new born Paladin belonging to multi class. Father: What is multi class? Son: He fights like a Warrior, has the power of a Mage (Wizard), and cures himself like a Priest. Father: Sounds like a digital “Sun Wukong.” Son: Haha. kind of…his mission is to drive out the evil spirits.
Father: But we learn to get along with spirits every ghost month. Son: Yes…that’s why spirits still bother you to make puppets entertain them…I have to go to bed…good night dad.
(After the son and the father went to bed, a ghost went into their house and the son started sleep-walking.)
Son: I am the Paladin warrior. Tonight I will wipe you out, the evil spirit.
(The ghost was shocked and stretched out his long hand to grab the son’s neck. Suddenly, the leather puppet woke up and tried to control the son’s body by the game remote controller but the controller did not work.)
(Then the puppet picked up the traditional sticks to control the son’s body by manipulating the sticks and imitating the son’s speaking of Jhong Kuei.)(The puppet also manipulated his body to pretend a fake ghost and imitated the fake ghost's voice and played the fighting process of “Jhong Kue catches the ghost” behind the shield. )
Puppet as Jhong Kuei: How dare you, the mischievous ghost. Do you know who I am? I am Jhong Kuei, the master of catching ghosts. Let me bring you back to the hell!Puppet as Jhong Kuei: I will ask the guards of the hell not to give you any vacation in next ten-years of ghost month.Puppet as the fake ghost: Don’t do that, master. I will not hurt people anymore.Puppet as Jhong Kuei: But, I felt there was another ghost in the room...
(The mischievous ghost was frightened and ran away from the house.)
(The son went to bed again and the puppet slept as well.)
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