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'What if the ghosts really exist in the world and live like people?'

In this story, ghosts are no longer scary in the traditional sense, although some people still think so. Because of the existence of hell, ghosts and people will pursue coexistence. This is a story about the conflict and warmth caused by ghosts and humans in the pursuit of coexistence. Because there are regulations that cannot destroy the real world, ghosts basically follow the laws of the human world. They can communicate with humans, participate in work, and so on. Ghosts live similar lives to humans. Most of them hide their identities, and some don't care. However, some ghosts have been persecuted during their lives. When they become superhuman, they will of course choose to be enemies of humans. So hell needs to set up an organization to maintain the balance between humans and ghosts, to catch and imprison evil ghosts. At this stage, I focused on designing the ghosts of this organization, and gave them a rich background story and character.  Originally, I wanted to design the founder of the organization first, but after careful consideration, I decided not to give it an image at this stage. It should be the most mysterious existence. It is mentioned but never showed up. The first character is an assassin girl who was framed and married to the dead during her lifetime. She was put in a coffin and buried with an unknown man. She called for help underground but received no response. At the moment of her death, she was rescued by hell and given a new identity. The girl had no feelings during her lifetime, but an assassin who obeyed orders. After death, she worked for the organization and was a powerful ghost. The second role is similar to the guardian of the grave, because the cemetery is known to be the place where the most souls live. In order to ensure that they rest in peace and everything is normal, hell sent a girl to guard here.  But it is strange that this ghost has no memories of his lifetime. There are also two characters who were extinct birds during their lifetimes and were adopted by the founders of the organization.

The source of inspiration for this story is very rich. When I think of this work, countless ideas appear in my mind. I want to give this story a complete world view, just like the legend of Hei(2019) and the X-Men(1999). I really like these kinds of movies about group conflicts.  When some people have acquired superhuman abilities, do they choose to use it to protect their cherished things or to seize more benefits?  I am also very keen on the subject of ghosts. There are rich ghost legends in some Asian countries, and some ghosts are well-known names, such as the Japanese Onmyoji(2016). These ghosts and legends already have a certain spiritual support in people's hearts. It will be very interesting when I re-portray these characters. In terms of character design, I created the character based on the background story of the character and found a lot of references. The background of the first character is to marry a dead person. There are such cases in traditional Chinese stories. In my opinion, this can be used as a Chinese zombie bride. So when I designed her clothes, I used Chinese wedding dresses, in which the pattern of the clothes and the decoration on the handle of the knife used wedding elements. Since the second character is a tomb guard, I added some elements that represent bondage to her. It seems that it is easier to suppress the soul in the tomb. The main color should be cold.