(Welp, it's been a good while since I last made a character on here. Here's my next one!)

Nina is a yellow-furred rabbit with long ears, purple-rimmed glasses, and a comfortable orange-and-blue striped shirt. She has a skinny figure, which is completely juxtaposed by a noticeably large, round, bloated belly that she usually tries to hide beneath loose clothing.

Even the slightest movement often produces a chorus of audible rattles, clacks, clicks, and shifting sounds from inside her middle, usually accompanied by frequent gurgles and borborygmus. She has learned countless tricks for disguising the sounds around students, including strategically timed chair movements, clearing her throat, running classroom fans, and redirecting attention toward noisy art projects.

Nina is an elementary school arts and crafts teacher.

As a child in the Early 2000s, Nina loved friendship bracelet making and arts and crafts. During her youth, she was the co-founder of a friendship bracelet club with her best friend Mira Twines (a spiky blue haired orange tabby cat with a turquoise shirt), where she struggled with pica, which initially centered around accidentally swallowing beads, marbles, glitter, and other similar crafting materials.

Over the years, despite treatment and management strategies, her pica evolved into a chronic lifelong condition that she continues to actively manage with the help of specialists.

Today, Nina works as an elementary school arts and crafts teacher.

Her condition is no secret among trusted adults in her life, including coworkers, close friends, administrators, family members, and medical professionals.

However, she works very hard to keep details of it away from her students, believing children should be allowed to simply see her as "Miss Ponibeet the art teacher."

Nina's pica primarily involves small non-food objects commonly found in arts-and-crafts and classroom environments.

Examples may include:

Pony beads

Marbles

Glitter

The small vials the glitter was in

Sequins

Craft gems

Buttons

Marbles

Small erasers

Plastic counters

Colored counting bears

Tiny figurines

Pom-poms

Plastic alphabet pieces

Decorative charms

Other "relatively" safe and/or non-toxic classroom items

And More...

Because of years of accumulated incidents and ongoing management challenges, medical imaging of her digestive tract often reveals an astonishing assortment of colorful foreign objects.

Doctors have jokingly compared her endoscopies, and some of her X-rays, to an I Spy book.

Nina herself was mortified by the comparison at first, but now she just finds it amusing.

(By the way, while yes, this is technically a fetish character, she does canonically have Pica. I understand and do apologize to anyone who might be offended by that, but I actually do have an undiagnosed form of Pica that's very similar to hers, and making this character has been a really good therapeutic cope for me. Please, just let me have this.)