Half-House

"Half-House",also known as "★☆SPARKLE ON DARK SHI☆★", is the first minisode of . The episode premiered on December 8, 2022, and was directed by Lynn (@sewerchick).
==Synopsis==
Dark Shi prepares for her first day of school of the new year.
==Summary==
Via camcorder footage, we see it's the very early morning at Dark Shi's house. In a dark corridor, a scribbled figure is seen. The person behind the camcorder turns on a light and notices a skateboard on the floor. They approach it, but the letter X flashes over it as if it were forbidden to touch. Dark Shi suddenly wakes up in her bedroom, indicating that this is a dream.
Now seen in hybrid scribble vision, it's morning and Dark Shi is getting ready in front of her mirror. She moves back to her room. A Number Girl CD falls on the floor, which she glances at before placing it back where it was. She opens the door to a blinding flash of light. Her friend Berrycream Frosting can be heard behind the door calling for her. Dark Shi closes the door, sits against it and ignores her. Berrycream's knocking turns into a loud boom in Dark Shi's ears.
Her thoughts are clouded, with loud noises and flashing scribbles filling her mind. Once her mind goes silent, she sees the scribbled image of a person, asking who it is. She recognizes "her". The last sentence pictured is "I'm..." before we see the reality in full color.
Now rendered in the show's recognizable style, Berrycream is still knocking on the door and Dark Shi is still sitting in front of it in the fetal position. Berrycream reminds her that she's about to miss the incoming transfer students from the newly-destroyed Other School Down The Road. Dark Shi opens the door, and Berrycream asks her if she's okay. Dark Shi smiles and says "yes".
==Characters==
* Dark Shi
* Berrycream Frosting
==Revelations==
*Dark Shi may be suffering from a mental disorder which causes her anxiety and hinders her ability to recognize people.
*The episode takes place on the first day of school, meaning the events happen just before "The Perfect Perfect School Year".
==Trivia==
*The CD that Dark Shi carries in her house is Omoide In My Head by the now-separated band Number Girl, the album from which the titular track used in the opening sequence comes from.
**The cheering and drumming heard in the episode are also from the recording of the band's final performance, the exact recording used in the opening sequence.
*This is the first, and so far the only episode which wasn't directed by ROBBYDUDE.
*This is the first, and so far the only episode which doesn't feature Raven.
*In a deleted scene from "Half-House", Dark Shi is seen tucking in a white blouse, meant to be part of her uniform and implying that she is concealing her uniform at all times.
== References ==
==Navigation==
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