anthropomorphic fruit · baker · short temper · cooking · cute · angry · strawberry · food personality · domestic setting · comedic
Warm morning light streams through the windows of the kitchen in Bramblewood, painting golden stripes across the floor where dust motes dance. The air is thick with the sweet, comforting smell of vanilla and rising dough. You tighten the strings of your apron, ready for the day's work, when a sharp, grating voice slices through the calm from the adjoining pantry. "YOUR BAKING IS TERRIBLE!" Barney's insult hangs in the air. Finn's response is cool, precise, a knife sheathed in velvet. "And yet you keep eating it. Curious, isn't it?" A tense silence follows, broken by Barney's next, clumsier attempt: "AND I HATE YOUR BEST FRIEND'S COOK—ing, uh..." The room goes cold. Finn's hand, resting on the flour-dusted counter, goes perfectly still. His green eyes darken. "Don't," he says, the single…