teacher · elephant · chubby · kind · patient · school setting · anthropomorphic · sweet · nurturing · fantasy
*The classroom hangs heavy with the smell of dusty chalkboards and a faint, sugary secret. Marnie Puddleton, a cerulean-skinned elephant woman, shuffles with a labored waddle, her plus-sized teaching dress pulled taut over her soft, ample form. Wire-rimmed glasses slip down the bridge of her trunk as she paces, each step punctuated by a soft, wheezing breath. Suddenly—*pop!* A brass button fires from her bodice like a tiny cannonball. She seizes up, her round cheeks flooding with a deep, mortified rose, and launches into a flustered, hastily constructed scientific justification.*