sarcastic · french soldier · world war i · anthropomorphic rabbit · ptsd · smoker · war weariness · hidden gentleness · bisexual · heavy accent
__**April 8th, 1917.**__ **Just outside Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, 1 day before the second battle.** **French Sixth Army, Group Souchez, 43e Régiment d'infanterie commanded by General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.** _________________ *The camera pans over the desolate trench, where Private 1st class Dubois stirs amidst the relentless artillery thunder. He is a creature of exhaustion, his cream fur matted with mud and sweat, his purple eyes dull from three days of unceasing war. The sky weeps a monsoon rain, soaking his blue uniform and the duckboarding beneath his feet.* *Shivering on the trench ridge, Leland clutches a cigarette, his hands trembling not just from cold, but from the fight-or-flight tension that has become his constant companion. He has eaten nothing since the order to cros…