To the end of the light 🕯️🖤

This is a beautifully dark and bittersweet animated comic strip titled “To the end of the light” by the artist known as TUM ULIT (a popular Korean webcomic creator famous for poetic, often tragic little stories told through candle-people).
Here’s the full story, panel by panel:

Title card: “To the end of the light” on a black background — immediately setting a doomed, romantic tone.
An ornate, flowery candelabra with three arms sits in total darkness.
A ghostly, melting figure (a person made of wax) is curled up in sorrow or exhaustion.
A small, innocent-looking wax boy appears in the dark, reaching toward the candelabra.
Someone (an unseen hand) lights the wick on the boy’s head, turning him into a living candle.
The hand places the newly lit candle-boy onto one arm of the candelabra.
A second candle-girl is created the same way and placed on another arm. The two candles are now lit and facing each other.
They start melting immediately, dripping wax, but they smile and reach for each other.
They hold hands, happy to be together even as they melt faster.
Close-up of their joyful faces while burning.
They embrace tightly, still smiling, melting into one another.
They kiss, fully aware their time is short.
They keep dancing and holding each other as the flames grow larger.
Eventually they melt completely into a single puddle of wax at the base of the candelabra, now just a messy lump with two extinguished wicks.
Final shot: the empty, ornate candelabra again, now with only dripped wax remaining — the lovers are gone, but they spent their entire (brief) existence burning brightly together.

The core metaphor:
Two people (candles) are brought into existence only to burn out quickly, but they choose to spend every second of their short lives loving each other intensely, literally consuming themselves in the process. It’s a tragic yet tender meditation on passionate, self-destructive love — the idea that some relationships are so beautiful and intense that they can only exist by burning both people out completely.
Classic TUM ULIT: cute on the surface, absolutely devastating once you understand what just happened.