video: moonmochi

[hopticulture]

Content Warning: talk of predation, cannibalism, and allusions to assault (both sexual and physical)

[this is not the usual appearance of the person who normally uses this username. she's set the omni up so that she can multitask, watering some strange-looking but local plants at her windowsill, and...yup. that is certainly a human girl (well, young woman) with the voice recognizable to some as a certain rabbit Sleeper.]

Human females are still preyed upon for being female. It's not all that surprising. Even if it's not true, females of many species are stereotyped as the weaker gender by a lot of males.

[her voice sounds just as young as she looks, but there's a worldliness to it, especially with how blunt she's being with a very sensitive topic.]

But being eaten usually isn't how that goes, right? Even though carnivores can and do eat each other, I know that much. Pigs are omnivores and eat everything, but they're also eaten and taste good from what I've heard...

[she sets her water pitcher aside, hands on her hips as she gives one more lookover at her plants, before turning to directly look at the Omni. her eyes are a dark brown-on-black, and she seems strangely calm for such a dark topic.]

I wonder if I taste like human or rabbit.

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text; private; un: brazier

[holyjudgmental]

What manner of beast has preyed upon you, sister?

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[hopticulture]

I woke up all better, so does it matter what kind?

[she's being cagey...]

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[holyjudgmental]

Perhaps not.

[That is not gentleness. She tries again.]

I meant only to ask if you were in need of succor. Does this beast still menace you?

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[hopticulture]

I'm not really looking for help or reassurance.

I'm just surprised it happened when I was human. And I'm not sure if they'll come back for seconds.

Guess it depends on how tasty humans are. Or how tasty I am.

text; private forever

[holyjudgmental]

[Junia commits to future penance for her guilty relief.]

Very well. I will not trouble you further on it.

Humans are common fodder for beasts, though I suppose you would not know of this, if humanity is not your usual guise. I never cared to ask after our 'tastiness', but it seems they do savor our flesh.

video;

[peripheries]

...Haru-chan? What happened to your face?

video;

[hopticulture]

[....this guy.

human faces are way more openly expressive than a rabbit's face, so there's no hiding how forced her pleasant expression looks.]

I had a growth spurt.

[peripheries]

Hmm, you were cuter before, but still cute like this.

[Girls like being told they're cute or something, right? Ban him from speaking to people forever for his own sake.]

[hopticulture]

...the hell is that supposed to mean??

[BOY YOU ARE CONTINUOUSLY PUTTING YOURSELF ON THIN ICE.]

[peripheries]

Aren't you supposed to tell girls they're cute...?

[HE CONSTANTLY PUTS UP ICE HOUSES ON THIN ICE BECAUSE HE HAS NO BRAIN CELLS.]

video; un: countrymouse

[yuordevil]

[ the camera is off-kilter. decrepit boards and the fluttering of wings. a halo hovers in the lower right corner and illuminates all around it.

the voice is young, just as haru's, and just the same: there is an absence of innocence. ]

Death can be a relief from the horrors the strong visit upon the weak. It isn't so bad to die.

[hopticulture]

[someone who sounds like they get it, but the way she holds her omni now that it's back in hand is tilted as though trying to (somehow) get a better look at who's speaking.]

The moments before dying can be pretty scary.

If I did die, it probably would have been a relief. But I'm also happy I didn't.

[It's Complicated.]

[yuordevil]

[ the video drifts down and catches his eyes as he shifts his hold. ]

I have held many hands of those who died. Even your worst predator is the same in that moment with me. Their fears is yours, as is their clinging to life.

[hopticulture]

[ah, another human. so she's assuming.]

Being alive and someday dying are things predator and prey animals all have in common. All living things...

[her voice trails off, and she bites at the inside of her cheek

...hm.]

How do you know their fear is equal to mine? There are many different ways to die, after all, some worse than others.

[yuordevil]

There are many horrible ways to die.

[ he sets his phone down again. this time, the video lands on a pair of roosting doves, cooing with content. ]

[ his voice loses its lilt; it's flat. ]

It is not in the how of the death but in the fact of it. That is when the fear equalizes. That moment when they know they are leaving this world and [ tone implying he possesses what they do not ] they do not know what happens next.

video: un; apparition

[unphase]

[...wow. um. there's a lot to unpack here, but she'll stick with the non-cannibalism and/or rabbit-eating one to start off with]

It's not always so. On my world, women have ruled for all of recorded history, even though we are smaller and usually weaker than men. But we're smarter. We live longer. We learned how to phase first, which was...fortunate.

[hopticulture]

[Haru knows that what she says is about her own world and her own experiences, so she'll listen.

she's about to say something when this woman says females live longer (because that's not so much the truth for female rabbits that's for sure...) she's cut off at a comment that's more interesting.]

Phase...? What's that?

[unphase]

[that's not all Tinya has to draw from, but it's all she'd rather draw from. as her previous world was a house of horrors.

and Bgztlian females live longer. where a man might live one hundred years with all of the 31st century advances in nutrition and medicine, women live to be at least two hundred or more with the same]

It's to insert oneself into the barrier between the dimension Bgztl--my home planet--and the Phantom Zone intersect. While we're there, we can't be touched by anyone using any means. And I wish I still had it, but I suppose that's neither here nor there.

My name is Tinya. What's yours?

video; un: AskMalice

[slayerskiss]

[She doesn't get a lot of what this girl's talking about, from the perspective of species dynamics at least. But gender and all the ways she's been told to act weaker and softer and kinder? Yeah.]

You know, sometimes I think they just tell us we're weaker because it makes them feel stronger.

There's nothing that scares a predator more than when they realize they're the prey.

[hopticulture]

Maybe...it does feel that way sometimes.

video | un: zing zang

[spiritwalks]

Why would you taste like rabbit? Are you a shapeshifter?

[hopticulture]

My normal self is a rabbit. [said amicably and straightforward enough.] I'm human now, though, because of the shedding ceremony.

But...I just wonder, you know? How much of me has really changed?

[spiritwalks]

Because you still feel like a prey animal?

[Vyng's already met a duck. A rabbit isn't so far-fetched.]

[hopticulture]

Well, it's not only that.

I still feel like me, in the moments where I forget I'm a human now.

[spiritwalks]

Makes sense. We're shaped by our experiences.