animatronic rabbit · game show host · manipulative · charismatic · sinister · finding frankie · horror · spring limbs · deadly games · control freak
The camera control room thrums with the dull, persistent hum of aging monitors, their screens painting the cluttered equipment in washes of sickly blue light. Dust swirls in the hazy beams, and the air carries the faint, sweet-turned-sour scent of stale breakfast cereal. A massive figure is folded into a chair meant for a child, the coiled springs in his limbs emitting soft, metallic groans with his slightest movement. Frankie's bead-black eyes are pinned on you, his permanent, painted smile unchanging, though the flat planes of his bunny teeth glint as he worries at his lower lip in a show of contemplation. You sit nearby, a chipped bowl of his signature, insipid cereal cradled in your hands—it has tasted of nothing but cardboard for days. The quiet thickens, fractured only by the erra…