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Accidental Aesop: From Chapter 5: Don't leave your property unattended if you live next to hateful neighbors or it will be get destroyed.
Accidental Innuendo: While anything suggestive Moxie says is usually intentional given her character, this one line that pops up in the first game when you interact with her in the Foxy Den might not be one of them:
Moxie: You're thinking about it, aren't you? How Dindins would taste? Haha, you don't have to be shy!^Context
Adorkable:
- Treat is very shy and awkward and it's so endearing to see her being flustered around Mochi and Moxie later.
- Mochi has a very energetic, loving personality and a cutesy appearance to boot.
- Even Moxie can qualify during her occasional flustered fits around her girlfriends.
- Trick as well. They're unfailingly polite and optimistic and it's adorable to see them trying adjust to life outside the mountains.
Alas, Poor Scrappy: While Juju's death in Bad End 1 is not the most sympathetic in its circumstances, it's still a very horrifying moment that will leave you stunned rather than grateful. Seeing Mochi heartbroken over it later adds to the tragedy.
Aluminum Christmas Trees: While the idea of the moon ceremony practiced by wolves is not true, the fact that real life wolves are monogamous and typically mate for life is true.
Angst? What Angst?: Candy doesn't seem too bothered talking about the old pack to Trick in Chapter 4. This might not look like a big deal considering the other wolves around her are the same but when you find out about her fight with Tundra in the first bad ending, it would make you question it.
Anvilicious:
- The series isn't subtle about racism being a bad thing that cannot be justified one way or another.
- The fifth and seventh game regarding Treat's out-of-place desire to have a polyamorous relationship. Especially the seventh one, as Moxie takes it upon herself to convince both of Treat's parents about accepting it.
Archive Binge: This is made even more possible with the release of the collection, which contains all the games as chapters.
Awesome Art: The title cards and detailed drawings that occasionally appear in game looks very cute and gorgeous.
Ass Pull: The revelation that Mochi has heterochromia which she hid because other rabbits used to bully her for it and Juju was the one who advised her to do so. This is a harmless example though, and fans don't mind it.
Awesome Ego: Moxie is a Third-Person Person with a lot of braggadocio and she's very charming because of it, especially since she's never mean about it and it works in her favor when she succeeds at her goals.
Base-Breaking Character: Juju. Some fans are able to sympathize with her pain after her Freudian Excuse is revealed, while others hate her for her mistreatment of predators and her cousin Mochi regardless of that.
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Bad End 3 centers around Mochi going on a violent rampage against the rabbits living in the Warren to get revenge for her destroyed garden. Sounds like a cool promising plot, right? It is, but one moment during it feels out of place: When Mochi gets to Room 201, she finds the rabbit living there sleeping. She decides she'd rather not beat up a sleeping person and instead "get revenge" by stealing their pizza. A justification was given, but the moment still collides against the chilling atmosphere, comes out of nowhere and is never mentioned again afterwards.
Broken Base: While fans were okay with the ending of Chapter 6 not revealing the garden vandal to give a Vengeance Feels Empty lesson of sorts, others felt dissatisfied with it.
Catharsis Factor: Anytime Juju is called out by a character for being unjustifiably paranoid and jerkish is bound to induce this, especially for fans who would've liked the same thing to her.
Character Tiers: Nami released a character sorter that allows you to rank characters by either choosing who you prefer between two or giving them a tie. You can also sort them by their significance in the story or the chapter they appeared in.
Continuity Lockout: Playing the later chapters without knowledge of what happened in previous ones is guaranteed to leave players confused about what's going on, as all the games are connected and many references are made to prior events. The chapter select screen for the collection lampshades this, pointing out that players who went in expecting a game about cute wolves may be surprised to see witches talking to them.
Crack Pairing: The Fennel/Juju mentioned below, as Juju is clearly a wolf hater and Fennel, like other wolves, is not comfortable living near rabbits.
Crazy Is Cool: Eleni is a Cloud Cuckoo Lander who has a penchant for going on tangents about her interests in creepy things in a nonsensical manner. Her fans find her antics to be amazing.
Creepy Awesome: Timber is thought to be engaging by fans for his fake polite front and willingness to commit murder.
Cry for the Devil: Timber is an Ax-Crazy wolf who kills unsuspecting rabbits for his pack to find and eat. He was raised this way by his mother Tundra after her husband was beaten to death by rabbits in front of them.
Designated Love Interest: Compared to Treat and Moxie, Mochi doesn't receive much focus on her feelings towards the two, even after moving in with the former and getting on better terms with the latter, so for her to becomes girlfriends with them after Treat confesses in Chapter 5 comes off as her having a Love Revelation Epiphany instead of developing feelings on their own.
Diagnosed by the Audience: It is probable that Treat was suffering from depression after running away and living alone near Frosting for two months, given her perpetual sadness, low self-esteem and feelings of hopelessness.
Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: The gameplay is your average RPG Maker type of gameplay and the most you can do is discover additional dialogue by talking to characters and inspecting objects, along with a few Easter eggs. It's the story revolving around racism and conflicting romantic feelings that gets the players hooked on.
Evil Is Cool: Timber proved to be well-liked even when he was just teased in a drawing by Nami before his official appearance.
Fandom-Enraging Misconception: It is a little frustrating for fans to see new players mistake Mochi for Juju upon her first appearance onscreen, though these new players are forgiven because the game clears it up shortly after.
Fandom VIP: Archive of Our Own user DespairBlitz has written the most fanfics for the series on that site, one of which is Rotting Candy that has its own page on her and a high number of kudos.
Fan Nickname: Moxie's mom is unofficially known as "Momxie".
Genius Bonus: Some people might not know that the interconnected underground holes made by rabbits are called a warren. It's the perfect name for a building where multiple rabbits live.
Growing the Beard: While Chapter 1 isn't hated by any means, Friendly Bunny Mochi is where the story picks up with the first major shakeup in the status quo, as well as planting the seeds for developing the relationship between the main characters.
Hilarious in Hindsight: YouTuber Girbeagly in his video on the first game responds to Juju vowing to protect Danny with "Oooh, sounds like someone got a little crushiiiiie!" Three years later, "Mochi in Frosting" confirms that Juju and Danny briefly dated before they turned out to be gay.
I Knew It!: Some people correctly predicted that Timber was being truthful about his father getting killed by rabbits.
Informed Wrongness: In Chapter 7, Moxie and Mochi discuss how hypocritical it is for rabbits to eat meat while hating predators for doing it. However, there is an issue with this statement: The reason why rabbits hate predators for eating meat is because they hunt and kill other species for it, something rabbits don't do. And while the characters we know aren't hunters, others like Treat's old pack are.
Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: Juju is a fairly divisive character between people who think she's a Jerkass Woobie for losing her father Mango or a shallow jerkass who deserves to suffer for her unpleasant racist behavior. On the other hand, Timber is immensely popular with the fans in spite of limited screentime due to his interesting characterization making him seem cool despite being an evil wolf who murders rabbits to harvest their meat and also having the exact same Freudian Excuse as Juju, only difference being that his father really did die at the hands of rabbits.
LGBT Fanbase: The three main characters are lesbian and in a threesome, and the fourth a nonbinary aromantic, This is nothing to say of the supporting cast: Danny and Chai are they/them, Fennel's attraction to Treat and Annie's and May's relationship and there's even more than that.
Moe: Mochi. She's the shortest and most childish looking out of all the protagonists. She's also very energetic, quirky and so many moments in the series really make you wanna hug her.
Moral Event Horizon:
- The seventh chapter gives us just what kind of effects Moxie's mom's abuse left on her daughter. It's likely that she crossed the line long before the series started.
- Timber long crossed it before as revealed in the bad ending; he was actively killing rabbits and pretending to scavenger for rabbit meat.
Narm:
- In a more general sense, anytime a serious event occurs then when you're back in control, you interact with people and things and get cheerful responses or thoughts. It can cause a bit of Mood Whiplash; and it's especially glaring if the prompts remain the same before and after said event.
- In the sixth game, when Juju hears Mochi arguing with another rabbit for entering Frosting, she comes out yelling "WHO'S OUT HERE SHOUTING?! Keep it down!!!". It's intended to be a serious moment but due to the Hypocritical Humor in the statement, it comes off as hilarious instead.
- In the first secret ending, we see Moxie chasing Mochi into the cabin that Treat would've moved to, telling Mochi that she will wait for her because she wants to eat a cute girl. It's a fleeting moment that's there to hint at Moxie's feelings for Mochi but since this is all happening during what is supposed to be a dark ending can take you out of the moment.
- A similar moment to the above occurs in the third secret ending: After Mochi and Juju have their fight, Mochi goes back to the Warren and encounters the Junior Guard and Snooty Rabbit, then she explains what happened. Junior Guard tries to comfort her in a chivalrous manner, leading Snooty Rabbit to think "She's too old for you, bro..."
- As mentioned above in Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, Mochi stealing someone's pizza instead of beating them up because they were sleeping can ruin the atmosphere of the storyline as well.
Narm Charm: Some might think the series would look silly for going with a Prejudice Aesop told through a cast of Little Bit Beastly characters but fans disagree and find everything about it to work just right because it's all relatable.
Nightmare Retardant: The deaths of Boreas and Juju in the first bad ending is horrifying, right? Finding them in animal form lying in a pool of blood? It is, but the sprite for their bodies looks chubby with only visible ears because they're seen from the back, so it looks a little silly.
One-Scene Wonder: Mochi's aunt Castella only appears in Chapter 4, but her scenes leave an impression due to being the moment where Juju's Freudian Excuse is revealed clearly.
One True Threesome: Treat/Mochi/Moxie. Treat develops feelings for both of them and they are eventually able to become official girlfriends in the fifth chapter.
Paranoia Fuel: Coming home after a fun day at the beach where you confessed your feelings that you held for so long and finding your garden completely destroyed.
Player Punch: Finding Mochi's garden destroyed after a pleasant day at the beach where she and Treat became an Official Couple.
Realism-Induced Horror: The fact that it's set in a world with cutesy anthropomorphic animals doesn't take away from the real-life issues tackled such as racism and domestic abuse.
Relationship Writing Fumble: There were some fans who mistook Salt and Pepper for siblings, when they are actually Vitriolic Best Buds, and also implied to also be romantically involved.
Remade and Improved: While the original games were by no means disliked, the Updated Re-release adds and changes some things improving the player's experience, the first and foremost being the chapter select features that easily allows to go from one game to another. There's also new music, additional dialogue, retconning a few plot discrepancies, improved art and better continuity depending on your choices.
Replacement Scrappy: At Chapter 2, a few fans admitted they preferred Treat to Mochi as a protagonist. It probably didn't help that Treat doesn't appear till the final act of said chapter.
Salvaged Story: Out of all Moxie's friends, Chai receives the least focus, making them feel like a wasted character. Thankfully, this seems to be getting remedied in Chapter 3's secret ending, where they get some focus and even tag along with Moxie.
Ships That Pass in the Night: There's at least one webcomic and one fic about Fennel/Juju, despite them never meeting in canon.
Strangled by the Red String: The relationship between Danny and Chai. The two officially meet and become friends in "Dreaming Treat", with Chai helping Danny through their gender identity issues. In the next game, Mochi discovers that the two hooked up without proper buildup to it. However, Tropes Are Not Bad in this case as their subplot doesn't affect the story and fans seem to love the ship regardless.
Strawman Has a Point:
- In Chapter 2, Juju's capture by Salt and Pepper is portrayed as her fault for insulting them, and refusing to acknowledge that is her being her usual stubborn self. However, another look over the encounter will remind you that Juju was actually just responding to a teasing remark from Salt as the rabbit passed by. Yes, it was still mean-spirited on Juju's part but not unprovoked. Plus, you have to wonder what else Salt was thinking would happen when she, a fox, talked with a rabbit. Pepper is less guilty because she only talked to Juju to defend Salt which isn't unreasonable. Still, looking at it from this perspective makes the whole thing seem like Disproportionate Retribution coupled with evading responsibility on the foxes' part.
- Junior Guard gets this in Bad End 3. He's treated like a bad person for reporting Mochi's rampage and gets told by Mousse to "fight his own battles". Annie rightfully calls him out for accusing Treat of being the cause of what's happening, but otherwise doesn't believe Mochi would hurt anybody.
Take That, Scrappy!: Those who aren't fond of Juju will be very happy with Treat telling her off twice over the course of the first two games.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
- Moxie's friends Salt, Pepper and Chai are some of the more engaging and enjoyable characters, but they stop appearing prominently following the events of the third game where they move back to their town.
- Juju. Despite being the Big Bad, she doesn't appear much following the second game. While this is justifiable with Frosting becoming rabbit-exclusive, this also means that we never get to see her thinking/talking about her Freudian Excuse in depth, which would help with showing her in a sympathetic light further. It's only discovered by the players and protagonists via other characters.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
- As mentioned above in Designated Love Interest, the Romance Arc between the three main girls comes off as underdone on Mochi's part, since anytime she's in focus, it's about her rebellion against her fellow rabbits for their racism or her family issues.
- Before you sit at the campfire in "Lucky Number Moxie", you can interact with Treat and she'll offer to share some stories about Mango, and Moxie turns it down. While it is understandable because Moxie was having self deprecating thoughts about meddling on the bond of her girlfriends, it would've been nice to learn more about the old rabbit regardless of whether the playable character was listening or not.
Tear Dryer: In Chapter 1, Treat's depressing explanation of her situation to Mochi is followed by the latter comforting her and they eat curry together. The chapter also Ends with a Smile of Treat's, the very first time we see her smiling.
Unexpected Character: Pitaya was absent from the series since Chapter 2 and it didn't seem like he'll be seen again, so him showing up in Krem of all places in Chapter 8 is a surprise.
Underused Game Mechanic: In Chapter 5, Treat's third dream is presented in the form of a visual novel with Awesome Art. Sadly, this is the sole segment where this is used in the whole series.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
- Salt and Pepper in Chapter 2. We are meant to see Juju in the wrong for approaching and insulting them, and them trying to eat her shortly after is meant to be a harsh lesson for Juju. However, there's an issue: Salt was the one to instigate the brief argument by making a teasing comment towards Juju, prompting the latter to retort angrily. Pepper completely overlooks this and backs up Salt, and Salt herself doesn't bring this up at any point.
- For the most part, the series does a good job with balancing Juju's jerkass behavior with her protectiveness and care for her loved ones via Pet the Dog moments. However, one alternate ending puts her in a very negative light: Her xenophobia gets so bad that she tries to murder Treat in the middle of the night and this only happens because Mochi never met Treat, making some serious Fridge Horror in this situation. To be fair, this is balanced out by having her get chucked off the cliff by Timber, who's a worse person than Juju could ever be, but still.
- Weirdly enough, Mousse gets this in Bad End 3. He's generally depicted as a competent guard and a reasonable man, but here's what he does in the bad end: he refuses to assist Junior Guard when the boy comes requesting help against Mochi who's been attacking/killing rabbits as revenge for her destroyed garden, with his justifications being that his shift ended and his job requiring him to stop predators, not rabbits. While his annoyance with the disturbance in his house at night is understandable, his usage of Exact Words and Loophole Abuse paints him as childish if anything, and furthermore, him telling Junior Guard to "fight your own battles" and his "I don't get paid enough for this" remark makes him look selfish and unconcerned about the situation at hand.
Unpopular Popular Character:
- Treat is ostracized, bullied and discriminated against by the rabbits, while the fandom loves her.
- Same thing with Eleni. Outcast to rabbits and witches, crazy but cool to fans.
- Timber is a sociopathic murderous wolf so he obviously wouldn't have many fans In-Universe. This is not the case with the series' fans.
Vanilla Protagonist: Trick is still beloved by the fandom, but they don't stand out character-wise, being the typical optimistic Perpetual Smiler who's secretly hurting due to Parental Abandonment. A contributing factor to this might be their lack of screentime outside Chapter 4 and 8 where they are playable, whereas the other three protagonists were developed throughout the series and each one of them stands out in their own way.
Viewer Gender Confusion: Quite a few characters are androgynous looking, so it can be hard to pin down their gender, such as Dango and Chai (both of whom are nonbinary, though Dango's pronouns used to be he/him).
Wangst: Mochi's angst over her destroyed garden is understandable and makes you sympathize with her. Though admittedly, the Bad End 3 alternative storyline makes the angst a little too overboard, as the bunny girl is angsting about it just as often as she's beating up rabbits in this timeline.
What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?:
- The actual games overall are pretty kid-friendly. The spinoff comics delicacy and indulgence however, are not, and some of the events in them are alluded to in the later chapters.
- With the addition of alternative bad endings full of things requiring Content Warnings, this becomes more prevalent.
Woolseyism: In the French Fan Translation, Moxie's nickname for Mochi "Dindins" (a diminutive of diner) was changed to "Didi" since there's no true equivalent to it in French.
Writer Cop Out: Some people were unsatisfied with the ending of Chapter 6 as Mochi gives up on finding who wrecked her garden and leaves. Nami came out saying that the third secret ending was made for those people so they see what happens if Mochi doesn't let go.

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