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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 11:49 pm
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Finn hopped ahead of Aleksy, focus sweeping the path ahead of him. The prey-mind was hyper-vigilant, seizing on every shift in the underbrush, every suspect shadow. Even Aleksy's scent, coppery hunger, sent red flags right down to the base of his spine.
There was logic to this, though. A solid determination to master this form and see what advantages it might convey. He was closer to the ground. He could see the texture of the dirt and the leaves and the roots. But everything was so low and so loud and he couldn't filter all of the information he was being fed. How did real hares do this? How did any animal make it to adulthood?
He paused in the path and looked back towards Aleksy, long ears twitching in the rain. Finn wrinkled his nose, debated what to do next - and then shifted, animal-shape giving way to human-form.
"Ugh," he said, climbing to his feet. "That's a trip."
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 1:52 pm
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Finn's jaw tightened as he fought the urge to say the first thing that came into his head. Aleksy was trying to be supportive, he knew, and not trying to make light of his new situation at all, but--
Aleksy didn't have to live with the overwhelming consciousness of the prey-mind. The grinding of bone on bone each time he changed his form. It didn't... it didn't hurt, but it was certainly discomforting. Finn's hope was that the more times he did it, the more accustomed to it he'd become, but it hadn't happened yet.
"I don't know," he replied, looking off into the underbrush as he settled his arm around Aleksy's shoulders. "The switching back and forth comes more easily, but it certainly doesn't feel any better."
"The prey-mind thinks you're going to eat it," he added after a moment, cheeks going pink. "Despite all evidence to the contrary. It reads you as a predator."
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 6:37 am
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Aleksy thought he'd been very good about taking all of this in stride. His boyfriend had been replaced with an alternate-universe body double at some point; Aleksy hadn't broken up with him and kicked him out, which he felt he would have likely been completely justified in doing. His boyfriend had turned into a were-rabbit, and aside from one mistake he thought he'd probably been incredibly supportive. He was going out of his way to make things right and make sure Finn knew exactly how much Aleksy loved and valued him, and then Finn had to come out with things like that?
Who the ******** did he think Aleksy was?
It took effort to swallow back the diatribe, but swallow it Aleksy did. "No," he said, sour but not angry, even though he was really actually irritated. "I like you best when you are like this, and able to talk to me, and say stupid comments about my tits." God, he didn't even like rabbits! He didn't like most animals, with the exception of like, his dog. And maybe Lady's cat. "I like you best when we watch stupid television or when we are ******** or when you are letting me put my head on your chest! Why would I like you better when everything that makes me want to kiss you is unavailable to me because you are bunny?"
He took a deep breath. Maybe he hadn't swallowed that upset so well after all. "I like to feel I can protect you. I do not get to feel like that when you are being a buff Greek god of forest, or whatever it is--" he gestured to Finn's all of him, stupid statuesque model boyfriend "--and if I seem pleased, it was nice to hold you and know you were safe! That is all it was."
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