Return of a Broken Hero

UPDATE: The game is complete and available for free on itch.io: https://ultra-shenanigans.itch.io/dream-mechanic

People see what they want to see and ignore the rest, this is just how we work. Sometimes this tendency can manifest in extreme ways. If a hero, beloved by all, returns from a dangerous journey, the defeat of whom would seem impossible and would never even be considered, than just for a brief moment people might ignore the terrible truth and celebrate instead. For any onlooker it would be obvious that the hero had died long ago and stayed frozen on his horse only by some miracle or coincidence, but children might be blinded by self deceit together with the rest and run to congratulate and play with the hero, not noticing anything unusual. That is, this might happen for just a brief moment, until reality would become impossible to ignore even with the help of the impressive power of the human mind, and everyone would start realizing the horrid truth.

This is a piece of artwork I made for a personal game project.