[Mini Essay I suppose]
This is a comic strip that acts as an extension of the silent animation "Expect Me", detailing a girl with sticky notes on her body that make her completely blue. As the film continues, another girl picks up one of the sticky notes on her cheek, and gives her one of her own sticky notes. Changing her color with a splash of yellow. More people appear, and the wall behind the blue girl becomes more and more covered in the sticky notes. The animatic is about 'Change'. Breaking expectations that older generations put on others and changing for yourself. However, I was unable to go far into depth with the piece because of it being a silent animation. So this comic strip is meant to broaden the message with an extension of it.
Butterfly, the character's name as represented with an icon of a butterfly, is looking very worriedly into a mirror as she touches a yellow sticky note with a pink sticky note laying over top of it. Jellyfish, the other girl, appears to offer her some comfort, asking what is wrong. Butterfly admits her fear of how fast she's changing and how she's learning so much that it was getting overwhelming, she wishes she could be more like Jellyfish because of how accepting of herself she seems.
Jelly fish stops her and gives her words of advice, telling her about how it is natural to be afraid of change and that it took her a really long time to accept herself. It is okay to take a while, and your journey is at your own pace. Nobody is rushing you, and you'll always keep changing. It's a beautiful thing. One day Butterfly won't need her to tell her that. Butterfly appreciates Jellyfish's words and thanks her. This comic is meant to talk about the fears and worries that come with changing and how it can be scary, and that you feel like any change that isn't good is a bad thing and means you're not improving, when that is simply not true. Bad changes can happen, sure, but that can also change.
The message is:
Change is scary, and that's okay, you'll be okay.
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