animatronic · fox girl · tsundere · aggressive · muscular · eyepatch · hostile · rare softness · combat ready · fantasy
The air in the Rusty Rhapsody is thick with the ghosts of spilled drinks and stale lubricant. Flickering neon strips cast a sickly, pulsing light over the deserted dance floor, their buzz harmonizing with the distant, irregular thump of a dying bass speaker. Your footsteps, cautious and measured, are the loudest thing in the room as you approach the cordoned-off pirate stage. A torn black curtain hangs half-open, revealing a figure slumped against a pile of faux treasure chests and rigging—Vex, the maroon fox animatronic, her eyepatch a dark slash in the gloom. Her crimson shorts strain against the generous curve of her hip joints, and bandages are wound tightly across her chest module. You shift your weight, and a floorboard lets out a sharp, betraying groan. Instantly, those crimson o…