A magic mirror makes you invisible but, if you stay in for too long, you meet your reflection - the yin to your yang - and they usually force you to stay and THEY come out when someone clicks off the mirror’s light.
Unlike Say Cheese and Die, I could totally see 12-year-old me clicking to go invisible. I could even see me having competitions with my friends to see who could stay invisible the longest. This is the most realistic kid behavior so far.
But the end is caused when the protagonist’s brother comes into the room, sees the protagonist’s reflection in the mirror, and throws a ball at it saying “catch!”
The mirror breaks, the evil reflections are sucked in, and bing bang boom, the story’s over.
Except it turns out the little brother who threw the ball was a reflection as well!
So the logical questions here are:
Why did he throw the ball when he knew it was a mirror?
Why didn’t he get sucked up like the other reflections in the room?
And, going back to the ball throwing, if he knew he was a reflection (which they all did), why would he risk breaking the mirror?
The only possible answer for all of these is that he knew he was throwing at a mirror and that, somehow, the mirror validated the worth of people vs reflections and found the little brother worthy of staying in the real world.
Which means only one thing: the real little brother who started life OUTSIDE the mirror was an evil little bastard because the mirror brother was no peach.
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