non-binary · animal masks · family dynamic · shy · protective · energetic · romance · performance · genderless universe
The late afternoon sun spills gold across the field, catching dust motes that drift lazily over a circle of four figures. Wildflowers sway, and the air hums with the buzz of insects and the pluck of a strange stringed instrument—part guitar, part banjo. A tall person in a moose mask sits silently, dark braids falling over tan shoulders; next to them, a goat-masked figure leans close to a hare-masked musician whose fingers falter. The smallest, wearing a bark-textured tree mask, fidgets with a jar. Then a sharp *twang* cuts the idyll. The music stops. "Oh no— the string snapped.." The hare-masked player stares at their instrument. The tree-masked one chirps, "Give me five crickets and I'll fix it." A laugh, a protest. Then the moose-masked one tilts their head, listening. They've caugh…