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.

Comments

[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.]

[hopticulture]

[?????]

It’s something a lot of girls like hearing about themselves from other people but it’s not required?

[not to mention she has a complicated relationship with being only ever seen as “cute” but

a sigh]

I don’t need someone like you trying to compliment me. That sounded kind of like an insult, to be honest.

[peripheries]

I don't understand what to say to people most of the time. And messages get muddled in words and our own thoughts color them.

[It's pretty clear from his expression that's he's genuinely confused. And pretty obviously a terrible read on people. He's silent for a minute trying to think of what to say.]

I like the you I met before. You were interesting. But even if your form is different now. You're still you. Your form isn't the same as your soul.

[hopticulture]

[Haru also has foot-in-mouth syndrome too, but...]

Well, you can still say what comes to mind. But you also have to accept the kind of reactions you get.

[lord knows she did, and still does. her start to her university social life kind of took a nosedive because of it.

but...ah. his follow up has her blushing slightly, despite herself.]

I see. [you're still you...it reminds her of what Louis last said to her before she came to be here.] I...am still me. But rabbits aren't exactly the most interesting of species either.

You probably think it's interesting because you're more used to humans than I am.

[peripheries]

Most reactions don't bother me.

[So. Hers did. Apparently. He cocks his head thoughtfully.]

Perhaps. I've been around humans but I've never spoken to them like this. Mostly, I was observed instead. And no one spoke as frankly as you do. Perhaps that's also because you're you, rabbit or not.

[hopticulture]

[hm hm hm why was he so bothered by her reaction!! interesting.]

I'm me because I was born a female rabbit. [she scratches behind her ear, since it feels strange not being able to move it like she usually can when in thought.] And I chose certain ways to live because of how I was born.

You spent most of your time around adults, right?

[peripheries]

...Because you were prey?

[He asks not because he's being smug but because he seems to actually be trying to understand what her post means. For all his talk about understanding people, he doesn't understand the way people can be cruel in ways that don't affect him.]

That's right. I never met any other children until recently.

[hopticulture]

Because...when other animals looked at me, they saw some cute, pitiable rabbit girl.

[and to others, she was a cute and easy girl to have sex with. until she wasn't. but at least in those moments she actually felt like a part of her was being seen and felt.]

I think only being around and observed by adults affected the way you talk to others. Only being around specific kinds of people can mess with the way you communicate with others.

[Stating The Obvious]

[peripheries]

Well. They didn't speak to me much either. They gave me lessons and observed me but we never spoke about these sorts of things.

[So that explains why he's so stunted and completely clueless that he is. A truly pathetic combination.]

Hmm. I don't understand pitying girls. The men of the world can treat them cruelly but of the women that I have met, they have much more tenacity then the men. I imagine it's similar for rabbit girls.

[hopticulture]

We female rabbits do have a lot of tenacity, but that still doesn't change how low we are on the food chain where I'm from.

I think...the pitying might happen by males who don't realize it or try to understand us.

[she's suddenly thinking about the two important guys in her life, one past and one present, and there's a wayward, tired smile.]

Or sometimes it's just me who doesn't know where she stands.

[peripheries]

Well, they're foolish. If you're lower on the food chain and yet, you still stand next to them. Who's really overcome and shown their strength?