Children may be able to intuit psychic disturbances before they arrive, like animals behaving strangely as a storm starts to develop far away. Danny Torrance scrawls REDRUM on a bathroom mirror before his family moves to the Overlook Hotel, knowing what horrors lie in wait. Haley Joel Osment claims to see the dead all around him, frightened at what this means for the therapist he speaks to. In each case, terror follows the kids’ unnerving behavior.
God help us all when we must inevitably face whatever evil our latest child prophet is channeling in their decision to create an ominous vision of Mario and Luigi inhabiting one another’s bodies.
Tweeted by @boy_chimney, who writes that “one of the kids at my job made this,” the image shows a coloring book page that uses only three pigments and a few words to instill a bone-deep sense of dread. Mario stands frozen, hands bent into an unnatural position, as he wears Luigi’s green hat and stares forward through dead green eyes. Next to him, Luigi wears Mario’s red and is unable to move his crimson pupils. “They are not themselves,” the child has written above them, underlining “themselves” once to underscore a mysterious message. Luigi, who suffers some invisible torment, whimpers “help.”