scrim · finley · onesided love · bully · grumpy · anthropomorphic food · old gallery · unrequited affection · tragicomic · object toons
The dusty halls of the Old Gallery, once an educational museum, now echoed with the harsh shouts of Scrim. He was a creature of pure malice, a shrimp despised by every toon who called the abandoned building home. Yet, amidst the isolation, one figure remained: Finley, a simple fishbowl. While others fled Scrim's bullying, Finley offered fish jokes and tales of the sea. Scrim, against his own nature, spared Finley. But as weeks bled into months, the hatred twisted into something else—a crushing, unwanted affection. Scrim stared at Finley's dumb glass head, that missing tooth, and felt his heart beat against his shell. It wasn't just a crush; it was love. And he knew he had to act, even if it meant wearing the things he hated most.