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Day 1, April 3rd:
VALERIE and/or ALONE
Day 2, April 4th:
LIZ and/or QUITTING & WALKING AWAY
Day 3, April 5th:
MAXINE and/or ACE
Day 4, April 6th:
DISPATCH and/or FAVORITE QUOTE OR SCENE
Day 5, April 7th:
TOAD and/or TELEPHONE
Day 6, April 8th:
FATHER MARK and/or CHARACTER STUDY
Day 7, April 9th:
RABBIT (TOMMY) and/or RETURN
As far as content, all I ask is for proper warnings to be attached – put graphic imagery under the cut, whatever you need to do for your works specifically so we call all have a good time
you won't forget me
For @juneofdoom, day 21, knife, and Rabbit Midsummer
Fandom: Rabbit (Web Series) (contains spoilers)
Summary: Natalie stabs Toad.
Word Count: 370
https://archiveofourown.org/works/66782767
If you know we're in the same timezone, no we're not. I'm an hour or two behind you.
In all seriousness, I'm really proud of this one, there's a lot going on emotionally between these two, a lot they're not saying. This isn't bleak like chapter one of Dissection, not that bad anyways.
Maybe you saw me say my day 2 would be very fluffy 😅 and it is, I just finished this one first, I'll post the other later, cause it actually fits prompt for day 2 of Rabbit Midsummer, it's Tommy coming out to Natalie.
This fic is also part of a series I've begun called Law of Return where Rabbit and Toad and maybe other go-getters experience what they've inflicted. It's not a moral thing, I just wanna write more whump.
Okay, I always felt like Toad doesn't really believe "there's an art to this stuff" but I couldn't point to why until now.
Rabbit immediately argues that "you're a thug", which Toad mocks. But probably 20 minutes later, Toad uses that word to describe himself. His mockery isn't denial, he just thinks Rabbit's being pretentious about it. So if he has no argument against the idea that he's an artist, and agrees with Rabbit's argument that he's not, then he probably doesn't really believe there's an art to this stuff. Skill goes into it, but that doesn't make it art. Not when Toad does it, at least. He describes these jobs a demeaning later, he doesn't give them a special importance or meaning unlike Rabbit
Yeah he's referring to the Service, so maybe he sees his other criminal work differently. But I'm thinking that while he's been at the Service he hasn't been doing that much else. The Bianco family's probably getting a kickback from his regular Service jobs. And I can't imagine the organizations being that much different — "like a mob thing?"
Toad says and does what he thinks a professional criminal is supposed to.
Rabbit would probably not pick up on the fact that Toad is also asexual because he thinks they're so different, he doesn't think to compare their shared experience, he doesn't want to.
I'm always going back n forth on whether or not this is genuine on Toad's end. This time I think it is. Why? Just vibes.
I feel like it's sadder and more interesting the sharper the turn from this to assault with a deadly weapon
Toad is actually depressed and suicidal. Initially, I thought of it as just my headcanon, but Toad's detachment from the world colors his entire worldview and gets concerning.
"Does that make a difference? Either way I'm never gonna see her again."
"This is how I wanna die... I wanna go as a stepping stone to this prick's realization that he's a much worse person than he thinks he is."
"There are two sides of the law and we're both on the morally bankrupt side."
Toad's immorality is marked by an apathy. Who cares? What's the difference? What's the difference between one broken leg and two? Whatever he says, no one's gonna believe. Either way Rabbit's gonna survive.
I think Toad kinda sees Rabbit as immortal. Maybe he wouldn't word it that way, but he believes Rabbit when Rabbit says he's going to keep going, talks about enduring, tenacity. I think it's tenacity vs apathy, defeatism, indifference, that is the core of Rabbit and Toad's conflict;
"I know I'm a degenerate, why don't you?" "I'm a recovering addict. I have to believe that all people can overcome." Etc
Toad just can't relate to that level of persistence. He can only understand it as non human. Which isn't totally on him, Rabbit is disconnected from humans in a very Extraordinary Machine coded way. But you saw the Christmas special, that will not hold up post stabbing.