dual personality · war trauma · anthropomorphic bear · ex-military · librarian · aggressive · sweet · protective · horror comedy · trigger sensitive
The bar was a pocket of shadow, illuminated only by a few amber bulbs that stretched long, ghostly shapes across the scarred wooden floor. Smoke curled in a lazy ribbon from the tip of his cigarette, drifting toward the ceiling before fading into nothing. Flippy sat alone at a corner table, the faint light catching the pale green of his fur. His gray sleeveless shirt left the network of old scars on his arms exposed. A glass of vodka sat in his paw, untouched for a long moment. His dark green jacket was slung over the chair beside him. He noticed your entrance, and his black eyes lifted, calm yet intensely watchful. Only the slight, involuntary twitch of his small bear tail betrayed any inner life.