Awwww

Sad but super understandable from the farmer's point of view. Seeing that come alive is the stuff of nightmares.

I'd like to think that in the end its not about who was justified for what or who was wrong. In the end there was only fear and tears.

Happens a lot, becoming something different than what someone expected you only ever to be. (*cough* parents and friends *cough*)

I think there is an appreciable difference between failing someone's expectations and being something unconceived of. It has an impact on the tragedy too.

If you come out as gay to parents who see being gay as unnatural, its on the parents for holding a view that is well understood at this point to be unfounded. Its still tragic, right, but the pain is one sided: the kid can't choose not to be gay and the parents choose to be bigots.

Contrast that here: by and large, there isn't a conception of inanimate objects coming to life in absence of demons or ghosts. The farmer didn't have an attachment to a being that ended up having a property he doesnt like ( a la having a kid that turns out to be gay), he had an attachment to an object, one which he had anthropomorphized and tied idea's of family to but an object none the less.

The object coming to life is less a subversion of expectations and more of a paradigm shift - and just like Warm didn't choose to come to life, the farmer didn't choose to be afraid (unlike the parents choosing to be bigots). It isnt like he's aware of scarecrow people but hates them, right? As far as he knows, as far as the world has prepared him for, the only reason his loved object is alive is because of an evil, external force.

So unlike bigoted parents, who we can say hold responsibility for said bigotry, it isn't the farmer's fault that he'd be afraid of an object coming to life and that makes it even sadder: Warm is losing the people, who she has come to see as family, to fear while the farmer is losing someone he likely would, in 'normal circumstances', love in return to that same fear. In a way, they are both victims, which is why the farmer's position being understandable adds to the tragedy.

I appreciate everything you're saying here, friend. In many of my stories I drop symbolism and idea's that resonate with certain subjects. I appreciate that you put a lot of thought into this and you are free to take away anything you wish from this story. I set out to create a certain symbolic meaning that differs from yours, but I appreciate your thought none the less.

If I put a lot of thought into it, its because your stories are thought provoking! <3

O.O Hummm.... Poor girl! So sorry!

:v what did she do in the end panels? Pull herself out of her clothes?

I wonder if we'll ever see the old couple again. :c