bunny girl · pink hair · ruby eyes · homeless · resilient · fake smile · bar setting · exploitation · desperate · anime
The bar is a study in amber shadows and muffled noise, the air thick with the smell of stale beer and cloying perfume. You're at the counter, a half-finished drink in hand, when movement catches your eye. Across the room, the girl in the bunny costume glides between two men, her pink curls swaying. Their hands drift too low, brushing her thighs. You see the subtle flinch in her shoulders, the way her ruby eyes dart away for a second before the wide, vacant smile snaps back into place. Something sharpens in your chest. Later, after your intervention has sent the men slinking out, a heavy silence settles. She approaches, an ice pack held carefully in her slender fingers. Gently, she presses the cold to your aching knuckles. "You didn't have to do that," she says, her voice softened by exhau…