video | un: springtime

[hopticulture]

[video is of a small white rabbit and the background is that of a café. she gives friendly wave with her free hand.]

Yoohoo, it's Haru. Your local white rabbit who isn't from here and who is, yes, an actual rabbit! I know that confuses a lot of you human and other different animal types who've never met a talking rabbit before.

Kinda wanted to get that out of the way...

Anyway, I want a job to keep me busy while I'm stuck here and feeling useless while everyone else is going through changes and eating octopuses which is a bit creepy. Anyone here run a flower shop or a local garden? I ran the gardening club at my school.

I know this is pretty boring and you guys get a lot of these kinds of questions, but I'm also pretty bored so we're even.

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text, un: noir

[gracile]

Hello Haru!

My name is also Haru! Though, I'm only a rabbit some of the time, and even then it's mostly just the ears? But it's lovely to meet you!

It's not a shop, but I've got a little garden that I tend to here. I suppose it must be something in our names!

[hopticulture]

Someone told me they knew another Haru; it's good to finally run into you! And a sometimes-rabbit too...if you like, I could give you tips.

Where's your garden? It might just be a weird coincidence, or a destiny of names. Don't know, I've never been that superstitious that's more of a feline thing than a rabbit thing...even if our foots are supposedly lucky.

[gracile]

What kind of tips would you have? I only really have the ears a few days a week, though I do like vegetables... I hope that's not a stereotype!

I garden on level 2! It's nothing special, just a little place where I can tend to some nice veggies and other plants. I've always found it very relaxing.

Which of my friends did you speak with?

[hopticulture]

I mean...I guess thinking about it, any tips about being a rabbit I could offer don't actually apply when there's little risk of predation here if you're a walking and talking animal. Back home things are a bit different.
Maybe, uh...don't get your ears super wet? If you aren't used to having them you can probably mess up and get a nasty ear infection.

Is it a public garden space or do you have to pay? I think it was a human girl named Reimi who mentioned you!

[gracile]

Oh, that's a good idea about the ears.
Mine are a little... floppy? So there's not much chance for anything to get inside them. And I'm not sure if they can even get infected since they go away after a few days.

Actually, what happens to you during the moons if I can ask? You don't become even more rabbitlike, do you?

It's something I pay for! Just a bit. I'm sure anyone can rent their own plot of land, though. I grew up in Tokyo, so I'm used to not having much room!

And oh, Reimi-chan! She's delightful, isn't she?

[hopticulture]

Flop ears, huh? I've seen a few rabbits with those kind of ears. My mom told me it was rude to ask them if they could still hear well with all that skin covering them like that.

But I don't know what I'll turn into during the moons! I've been feeling pretty normal so far, so we'll see what happens! And I guess with a job I could afford to pay for a little spot to garden...

I do like Reimi! She's really nice. You've known her long?

[gracile]

That's a good question! I still have my human ears, so I've never run into any problems, but I can see how it might hurt your hearing. But some dogs have floppy ears and they're fine, so maybe not as much as you'd think?

Reimi-chan was one of the first people I met after I came here! We've been friends for a few months now. We've been speaking about making our Valentine's Day chocolate together!

Do you have Valentine's Day where you're from, too?