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I decided on adding a new scene just because I felt as though there could’ve been more about the herbalist in the story. I personally believe that she played a crucial role in subconsciously influencing Jin and it was a pity that she was only seen again during Jin’s dream as he was experiencing his transformation into Danny.

The scene in which I have roughly drawn above was inspired by page 204 when Danny was dragging Chin-Kee away from school ready to fight. I had the idea of Danny passing by the herbalist again and being recognized as Jin but was unaware of the herbalist actually seeing him. It is a simple scene but I feel as though it personally adds a little more on the foreshadowing of being able to see through someone for who they really are despite wearing a facade. After the fight as Danny transforms back into Jin and Chin-Kee into the Monkey King, Jin has the shocking realization that he had passed by what he thought was the herbalists’ shop again. This triggers him into remembering what the herbalist had told him all those years ago and it’s taken him the entire back and forth transformation to realize that he had actually forfeited his soul and was lucky enough to get it back.

Although I was not satisfied with the ending of the graphic novel, I chose to add a trivial part into the story instead of creating a new ending because I was unsure of my storytelling ability to create a new ending.