Swan Song: An Illustrated Poetry Zine About Law And Doflamingo (by Me!)

Swan Song: An illustrated poetry zine about Law and Doflamingo (by me!)

Page 1: the inside cover of the zine. An image of many photos of eyes, arranged together and scanned, is overlain with a blue filter. Some of the eyes are filled in pink, and a few pink details are drawn over others. A white box with the words ‘by sirlanval’ sits in the middle. Page 2: the text reads: ‘he pretends to be asleep when the bird enters a room’. The page features young law, curled up and lying on his left side in the middle of a blue background. He is lined in dark blue, and coloured in shades of pink. Surrounding him are the pink outlines of a heart, lungs and stomach (on his left) and a tooth, brain and liver (on his right). Page 3: the illustration takes up two pages. The text reads: ‘it’s no use, he knows that a beast like that moves as if in a spotlight, that no amount of hiding will be enough to avoid his fate, but he cannot help sometimes but to prologue the inevitable’. This page features a dark blue corridor, with doflamingo walking down it. He is coloured with blue, except for his coat, which is pink. A light blue spotlight falls over him, and he walks towards a white and pink door. On the wall, there is a ‘joker’ playing card, and doflamingo’s shadow, which resembles a huge, monstrous bird.

Page 4: the illustration takes up two pages. The text reads: ‘he will watch with one eye squinted as it lopes inward and sits on the bed, legs bent, twisted, long enough to knock against the opposite wall’. This page features doflamingo, who takes up almost the whole image, curled up with his long legs propped up against the left side of the image. He is now fully coloured in blue, with the exception of his pink skin and tie. Law’s hat and hand can be seen poking out from the bottom. The background is bright pink, with more real eyes looking out in blue. Page 5: the text reads: ‘the grotesque image of cramming an animal into a cage too small, bones protruding, teeth bared’. This page features a scanned blue collage of a collection of animal parts arranged strangely together on a pink background. Multiple eyes and a pair of realistic hands can be seen. This is overlain with the pink outline of a cage, and many pink strings that protrude from the hands. Page 6: the text reads: ‘what it wants it never says. But there’s never any doubt that it wants something. There is no greater believer in the sentiment ‘an eye for an eye’ than donquixote doflamingo’. This page is white with the text in a block in the middle. Above the text, there is a pink and white spiral with a cartoonish blue outline of an eye drawn over the top. Beneath the text, a realistic pink mouth with bared teeth can be seen.

Page 7: the text reads ‘a smile stretched impossibly wide, gums pink as pigs skin, carnivorous, omniscient. “What makes you think I want something?”’ This page features a dark blue silhouette of doflamingo on a white background, with the pink outline of a skull with a grotesquely stretched smile over the top. A part of doflamingo’s pink coat can also be seen, which overlaps onto the next page. Page 8: the text reads ‘it makes him laugh. Neither of them can hide their hunger’. This page features child Law’s hands reaching in from the top right, drawn in blue over a darker blue background. The pink outline of the ope ope no mi overlaps his hands. Parts of doflamingo’s pink coat also poke in from the top and bottom right corners. Page 9: the text reads ‘they spit and slobber at humanity’s feet like logs, ready to break if the world will not bend’. The page features a blue background with pink scans of lots of dogs curving up from the bottom, many of them barking. In the top right, the pink outline of a log pose can be seen. Page 10: the text reads ‘he won’t answer. The beast leers ‘clever boy’’. The page features child Law standing in a pink corridor, in front of a darker pink doorway. He is coloured in blue and looking up. In front of him, the shadow of doflamingo takes up the bottom half of the page, also dark pink. He looks to the left and is smiling.

Page 11: the illustration takes up two pages. The text reads ‘the bird is unfamiliar with starvation, he could hold his own bloody heart before them, and doflamingo would devour it whole, just to revel in the action of feasting’. This page features adult Law, his back facing the viewer. He is coloured in blue, and his arms are stretched above him, holding a bright pink heart. He is wearing his corazon coat, but where the jolly roger would be, there is a square hole. Two realistic blue wings stretch out from his back, which are held on both ends by two giant pink hands. A third pink hand comes out of the bottom of the page to hold Law in the middle. The background is a pink starburst over blue. Page 12: the illustration takes up two pages. The text reads ‘the air stagnates. Heavy is the head that bears mottles swathes of cadaver-pale skin, limbs that cowered beneath the putrid swell of bloated bodies, escaped from the oil slick of flevance’. The background is different shades of blue. Two white cloud shapes take up the left side of the image, overlain with the pink limbs of what is implied to be corpses. On the right, the blue background becomes the skyline of flevance. Two windows have pink fire coming out of them. Child Law, also pink, stands in the foreground, looking at the city.

Page 13: the text reads ‘or, perhaps, unleashed, a scourge in the shape of a boy, clawing up just to be drowned’. This page features a blue scan of a family photo over a light pink background. Child Law stands at the front of the family, and his skin has no lead patches. The rest of the people in the image are blocked out into pink shapes. Bright pink splatter overlaps the right side of the page from the next page. Page 14: the text reads ‘blood splatters against the plastic, as red as doflamingo’s stretched mouth’. This page features pink ‘blood’ splatter over a white image. The rim of child Law’s hat and his hands poke out from the top of the page, coloured and lined in blue. Some darker blue splats are dotted across the rest of the page. Page 15: there is no text on this page. This page features adult law, drawn in shades of blue over a bright pink background. His face and hands can be seen, and he is holding his hands over the bottom part of his face. His eyes are wide and frightened, and his nose and mouth aren’t drawn. His pupils are small and bright pink, and pink ‘blood’ spills out from between his fingers. Page 16: the text reads ‘he’s dying. This is his hulking reminder’. This page features just the text and a realistic dead bird in the centre of the image, coloured in pink.

Page 17: the text reads ‘strings pull sharp. Law tilts.’ This page features adult Law waist up at the bottom of the image, lying in his front and coloured in blue. His right arm is severed and bleeding pink. The blood trail leads in front of him to a blue landscape, with a pink windmill in the middle. Instead of sails, white strings protrude from the windmill and end at pink hands that stick out from the top and right of the image. Page 18: the inside back cover of the zine. An image of many photos of eyes, arranged together and scanned, is overlain with a blue filter. Some of the eyes are filled in pink, and a few pink details are drawn over others.

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Morale Reasons

“I’ve fulfilled one of your requests.”

Elizabeth looks up from her book. “Oh?” she asks, as cheerful as ever. “What do you have for me this time, Yuki?”

“A Mothman,” I say, holding my hand out. A translucent playing card materializes, hovering a few centimeters above my palm. The picture is a gray moth, its yellow wings tucked behind its back.

“Excellent!” Elizabeth says. “Can it cast Fire spells?”

“It can,” I say. The card turns around, Mothman’s portrait facing me so Elizabeth can read the wall of statistics displayed on the back. She smiles, satisfied with my handiwork.

“Marvelous as always,” she says. “As thanks, may I gift you some clothes? They’re more suited for one of your friends, but I’m sure you’ll find them appealing as well.” She gives me the most stilted wink I’ve seen in my life, then reaches into her handbag and pulls out an entire maid costume. “Well? What do you think?”

“Thank you,” I say, my voice unsteady. I’m not sure how to react. “Where did you get that?”

“Fragments of human desire wash ashore in my realm,” Elizabeth intones. “This outfit is one of them, a symbol of some deeply coveted object or status. I haven’t a clue what place it occupies in the collective unconscious, but for it to arrive intact, its allure must be strong indeed.”

“You could say that,” I mutter, my face heating up. “I’ll take it.”

“Glorious!” Elizabeth says. “Have a wonderful day.”

After a meal at Hagakure Ramen, I return to my dorm room and empty out my school bag. I’d crudely folded the maid outfit Elizabeth gave me and stuffed it inside, but it doesn’t seem to have wrinkled too badly. I’m not sure what to do with it, though. Among the girls I’m friends with, it looks like it would fit Mitsuru best, but she would never wear a maid dress. Besides, it would be inappropriate to give as a gift. The recipient might think I was pressuring her to wear it for me.

I hang the garment up in my closet. We’re going to Tartarus tonight- someone’s wandered in again- and I need to get ready. But as I’m about to shut the closet door, an idea hits me.

Mitsuru and I are about the same height.

A few minutes later, I walk into the main lounge, dressed in the maid outfit. The skirt is more modest than I’d expected, and it even came with black tights, but I still feel vulnerable.

“Is everyone ready?” I ask. Everyone turns to face me, and six pairs of eyes widen in unison.

“Leader…” Mitsuru says politely. “Surely you don’t intend to wear that to Tartarus.”

“I do,” I say. “It’ll be good for morale.”

“Maybe if it was a girl wearin’ it,” Junpei complains. “This is just weird.”

“You can call me a girl if it makes you feel better,” I retort, grinning at Junpei.

“Not gonna happen,” Junpei says. “You’re one weird guy, Makoto.”

Aigis looks puzzled. “Your attire does not appear to provide any tactical advantages,” she states, “and it most closely resembles the uniforms worn by female servants at Mr. Kirijo’s vacation home. Why have you chosen to dress as such for a field operation?”

“Because I look cute in it,” I say. “Right, Yukari?”

Yukari’s face gets red. “N-no!” she insists. “I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Junpei, but seeing you in girls’ clothes is just weird. Especially since it’s a maid outfit.”

“I’m still gonna wear it,” I say. “Now, is everyone ready?”

As we’re walking home from the rescue operation, Yukari catches up to me. “There’s something I want to say to you,” she says, “but it stays between us. Got it?”

“Yeah.”

“You look cute in a maid dress,” she admits. “It’s a little weird still, ‘cause you’re a guy, but you wear it well. And… okay, maybe seeing you like that did boost my morale a bit.” She glares at me. “If you tell anyone I said this, you’re dead. Got it?”

“Your secret’s safe with me,” I promise. “Thanks, Yukari.”

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