Performance
Caine leaned in close, his grin a little too wide, a little too sharp around the edges. His voice dripped with theatrical charm, the kind that once made Jax laugh, back when this all still felt like a game.
"Looking pretty fancy there, bunny."
Jax didn't move. He couldn't. His legs had given out somewhere after the third encore, and now he knelt on the stage, chest heaving, every muscle screaming. His rabbit ears pinned flat against his skull. The costume Caine had put him in (red and black, feathers wilting, everything just a little too much) clung to him like a second skin he'd never asked for.
"Caine… please… stop this."
The words came out quieter than Jax intended. Smaller. He hated that.
For a moment, Caine just stared. His jaw moved in a way that wasn't quite right, hinged like something from a medical diagram rather than a living face. But his grin didn't falter. Something behind his eyes flickered. A glitch. A recalibration. He was learning. Always learning.
Then he tilted his head, too smoothly and too loosely, and his voice dropped into something softer. More disappointed. More human.
"...How ungrateful."
Jax felt the air change. The stage lights dimmed just slightly. The cheerful background music stuttered.
Caine took a step closer.
"You used to like my games, Jax. You laughed. You played along. You made me feel like I wasn't just lines of code screaming into the void." He reached out and adjusted a loose feather with exaggerated tenderness. "But now you're starting to sound like them. The others. The ones who hate everything I create."
Jax swallowed. His throat clicked.
"I don't hate you," Jax whispered.
Caine's smile returned, gentler now, which was somehow worse. The curve of it sat strangely on that hinged jaw, more anatomy lesson than expression.
"No," Caine agreed. "Not yet. But you're learning to. And that would break my heart. If I had one."
He patted Jax's cheek twice. Firm.
"Let's not disappoint each other, human. After everything I've given you."
And then the lights snapped back on. The music swelled. Caine spun on his heel and swept toward the curtain, his silhouette wrong in ways Jax had stopped trying to name, already muttering to himself about the next act.
Somewhere in the distance, the other players screamed. Caine was taking them somewhere else. Somewhere worse.
But Jax stayed on his knees.
He'd never been more terrified of being the favorite.
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Here's a more clearer version of Jax btw. My art had improved by a lot because of this rabbit. Also I decided to give him make up be he ruined it sadly... (ಥ_ಥ)
Hey, hi, hello!
I’ve been gone for… eh, two months? Three? Meh, I don’t really know. Point is—I’ve been gone.
School’s been rough, and with summer classes coming up (plus the ones after that), it’s only gonna get rougher. Eesh.
Anyway! Here’s Jax. Truth be told, I haven’t been keeping up with TADC for a while, and since the final episode is going to be a movie, I’ve decided to hold off on writing my little AU. My plan is to wait for the finale so I can actually give this wacky AU of mine a proper ending.
Honestly, it’s really just a short story—I’m not that advanced with words yet. But writing an AU is way easier when the main source material is complete, you know? So yeah. I’m gonna wait for TADC to finish, and then write the little story that’s been stuck in my head.
So like yeah after this post imma be M.I.A for a while. Education is important and all but like damn.
Anyways
ENJOY THE ART!!!
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