Anton Petrov

Anton Borisovich Petrov (Bunny) is the main character of the story, the protagonist of the visual novel «Tiny Bunny». He is a sixth grader who recently moved to the village where his mother used to live. He is the first to investigate what is happening in the village and in the forest. He lives with his family on the outskirts of the village, in an old house near the forest.
==Appearance==
A twelve-year-old teenager of short stature, with shaggy snow-white hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. He also has green eyes. He wears round-rimmed glasses, without which he sees very poorly. Of the clothes, he most often wears a white school shirt, a black vest and trousers of the same color, and puts on dark winter sneakers. He wears a warm blue hooded jacket Episode IV: «Kicking the Ground», choice: Accept., black gloves and a striped hat with circular inscriptions «Sport» on the street. In certain elections, an amulet donated by Polina will be worn under the collar of the shirt.
==Character and personality==
A quiet and shy child, which he probably became after his father and mother began to constantly quarrel and swear. Before moving, apparently, he was more sociable and relaxed, because he had friends, although at the same time, he did not seem to be treated very well at his former school. He is very timid, but at critical moments, such as in the arrow with Semyon, he can be decisive and humiliate the offender.
Of those around him, he is most attached to his younger sister, Olya, for whom he does everything to please and not upset the girl. He also loves his parents, and his father is even a role model for him, but at the same time the boy is very saddened by the fact that at the time of the events of the knife game with each other, and believes that he is partly to blame for this, because for the first time they quarreled when Anton did not get what he wanted. what I wanted for my birthday, and I was very upset about it. At a new school, he falls in love for the first time — his classmate Polina becomes the object of his sympathy, for whom he can overcome his fears and try to protect her in desperate situations.
Anton draws well and has a rich, even too rich, imagination. He is smart and well-read, which is why he expresses himself very eloquently for his age. He reads mainly various encyclopedias, children's detective stories and adventure books. He is interested in various cartoons about robots, listens to Russian rock and pop music. He dreams of visiting Disneyland. He loves the New Year and everything related to it, even the smells.
However, deep inside the boy there is a strong disappointment in others and certain depressive and misanthropic tendencies. With a long series of failures (Depends), all this will break out, as a result of which Anton will become more and more embittered and cynical towards all the people around him. Even Polina, who is friendly to the boy, in this case is seen by the hero as a two-faced and unpleasant person who treats him like a cripple, and all the others (except, perhaps, Olya) in his eyes become soulless or evil people who, at best, just don't care about him and his condition. In this scenario, the boy will eventually become embittered by the whole world, and Anton's personality will be completely absorbed by his bestial essence, becoming inhuman and at the same time cowardly and insignificant.
Besides, Anton, although at first glance you can't tell, suffers from some kind of mental disorder. In seizures, he can see things that an ordinary person does not see: for example, the blood on Vova's mitten he found, although at the moment it is unknown whether this is a hallucination or reality. In order to weaken the seizure and dull Anton's consciousness, his parents give him special pills, from which he becomes sleepy and loses his last strength.
==History==
Before the events of the novel, Anton lived in the city and studied at school. It is hinted that the boy was not treated very well by his peers and was probably humiliated, although he had friends. It is known that for a long time he dreamed of going to Disneyland, that even his parents promised to buy tickets for the whole family there. However, on one of his birthdays, when Anton was most looking forward to these tickets, his father and mother bought him an ordinary tetris, which greatly upset the boy. It was on this day that the parents quarreled for the first time, from that moment they gradually began to divorce. When Anton turned twelve, his parents, hiding from their detractors, moved with him and his sister Olya to an unnamed village, where they settled in the house of their late grandmother.
===Episode I: «Come, Owl»===
One winter day, when Anton is having breakfast with his sister, after her story about a huge and creepy Owl that she saw outside her room window, he thinks that Olya is scared for a reason, because he also saw strange animals dancing outside his window that night, as it seemed to him, in a dream. Anton is distracted from these thoughts by the policemen who have entered their new house. As it turned out, they were looking for the recently missing boy Vova Matyukhin, so they asked Anton if he had seen him, to which he replied in the negative. After the incident, the main character had a desire to help find Vova in order to receive a reward and make his family happy. Despite his mother's prohibition, Anton secretly ran outside and began his investigation, during which he found the missing boy's mitten at the edge of the forest. It is at this very moment that he begins to suspect the power of the forest and its inhabitants.
After drinking the pills that his mother regularly gives him, Anton decided to watch cartoons with Olya so as not to upset her. Suddenly, when he tries to find a suitable cassette for the TV, something strange happens: amid the white noise, an image of a gloomy dark winter forest appeared on the screen, just like in Anton's window. After setting up the TV (Depends) a report about the girl's disappearance in the taiga forest will appear on the screen. An interesting and at the same time creepy reportage made Anton grab the first tape he came across and manage to record the remains of the program on it.
===Episode II: «Time to play»===
The next day, on his way to school, Anton meets a strange figure, outwardly resembling a fox, who feeds a dog to a Zhulka. The stranger, after talking to him, behaves quite carefree and strange, but he still decides that she is the most ordinary girl in a mask and a fur coat. When Anton asked about the missing Vova, the fox girl suggested that he most likely ran away to the forest for sweets, as she once did. As proof, she hands Anton a handful of various candies, which the boy can either accept by taking one of the gum, or politely refuse them.
The fox suggests Anton to go in search of Vova, adding that as long as he is with her, no one will touch him in the forest. And until dawn, the girl agreed to accompany Anton to school. When he asked for her name, the fox girl replied that she did not need a name, so she suggested that he come up with it himself. Remembering the fairy tale «The Golden Key or the Adventures of Pinocchio», Anton gives her the name Alice in honor of the character of the same name. His companion says she doesn't mind it.
At school, Alice made it clear to Anton that after lessons he would go to the backyard and wait for her near the «hanged man», after which she mysteriously disappears. Entering the building, Anton enters his new classroom, where he almost immediately begins to suffer insults from Semyon's classmate. The bully messes with the main character throughout the school day, until it turns into bullying. During recess, Semyon purposely pushes Anton directly at Katya, the daughter of their homeroom teacher, which she regards as harassment. Deciding to humiliate the newcomer even more, Semyon knocks Anton down, and then begins to poke his finger into his forehead. At this point, the main character can either hit Semyon or endure humiliation, which in any case will entail a negative.
After lessons, Anton meets his classmate Polina, who, depending on the player's choice, either praises or feels sorry for Anton because of what happened to Semyon. The children start talking to each other, during which he learns about her love of music. After that, Polina goes to musical violin lessons, finally offering Anton to accompany her home after school so that she would not be afraid to go home through the forest.<tabber>
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===Alisa's branch===
Choosing Alice, Anton found a cheat in the backyard, where they would play snowballs. During this game, the couple ran towards the forest, and Alice tricks Anton into running even further after her and taking off all his outerwear, although at the last second he came to his senses and returned for his things thrown into the snow. Semyon and his friends met the boy there. There is a further escalation of the conflict between Anton and Semyon, who is already ready to avenge the blow at the school. Anton is trying to find Alice, but there is no trace of her. An early blow stops Roma, asking about the mongrel Rogue, who ran after the heroes, they say, isn't this his Alice? Seeing an easy prey, he calls the dog over to kick it. Suddenly, Anton begins to feel that someone is hiding in the bushes behind him.
A natural blow to the main character's face caused Anton to fall to the ground, after which he lies about his father who fought, who will avenge his son for them all. However, the leader of the gang, Roma, reveals the lie and picks up Anton from behind. Threatening with a butterfly knife, the bully eviscerates Anton's backpack until a rabbit mask falls out of nowhere. The boys force Anton to put it on, but he, refusing to portray abnormality in front of the offenders, angers Semyon to such an extent that he is preparing to hit him again. The main character stops him, telling his guesses that the fat man was bullied in the old school, which is why Semyon transferred to another one, where he began to take revenge on the weak for old grudges. Taking advantage of the enemy's confusion, Anton slaps him on the cheek. Crying with resentment, Semyon tried to attack Anton, but he was unlucky enough to fall right on fresh dog feces. He gets hit by the boy again, but still manages to take away his glasses. This became his main mistake, as Roma and Byasha reacted very negatively to his act, beat Semyon and demanded that Anton return his glasses. Not succumbing to threats, the boy managed to escape and run into the forest.
Roma and Byasha changed their attitude towards Anton and apologized, explaining what happened by checking for «lice". Looking at the mask again, Anton imagined maggots right inside it, after which he immediately threw it away. The boys see that Anton will not be able to find his way home on his own due to poor eyesight, so they volunteer to help him, after which they take his hands and begin to lead him through the forest. During a walk to the village, the children started talking to each other, and Roma reveals to Anton that once Byasha stumbled upon the so-called Black Garage, but managed to escape (mentioning that children in their village have been missing for years), which brings Byasha to tears. Suddenly, the trio notices something strange in the forest, after which Roma and Byasha simply disappear into Anton's clouded mind, and Alice appears in their place, to which he reacts very suspiciously. She explained this as a continuation of Vova's search and immediately led the helpless Anton through the forest.
The couple's walk ends when they stop near a huge garage hidden by a thicket. Anton decides to go to the garage and knock on the door when Alice disappeared behind the trees. Suddenly, the doors open, and an inner voice tells the main character to run as far as possible. The boy obeys and runs away to the taiga wilderness, where he heard the call of the one looking for him father. Anton called him back, hoping for help, but instead of his father, he was immediately found by The Owner of the forest and his companions (including Alice). The giant goat, which was the Owner, on the advice of the jubilant Alice, tastes Anton, licking his face, and then throws sweets and toys in front of him. This ritual ends with putting a hare mask on the main character's face by the Owner of the forest himself, until the animals disappear under the beam of a lantern, and Anton finds himself in the middle of a snow-covered clearing next to his father. The father scolds his son at first, but when he hears some sound, he takes the boy away and they go home. Anton hears Alice's voice again, which reminds the hero that no one will touch the boy with her in the forest.
At home, my mother scolds Anton for the missing glasses, although, despite this, he fulfills the promise made to his father and does not tell her the reason for their loss. Olga, who ran into the hallway, enthusiastically tells her brother that she saw «a fox in a dress standing on its hind legs" at the fence of the house. Upon hearing this, Anton warned his sister not to approach this fox for anything, after which he went to his room to do his homework.
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===Polina's branch===
Choosing Polina, Anton decided to wait for her until the end of music lessons. Together with Polina, he went for a walk around the village, telling her about his ability to draw and about his dreams, while simultaneously listening to her stories about life and the legend of the strange Count, which Anton accidentally heard when he passed by a group of children. He learns that Polina lives with her disabled grandfather, who was maimed by rabid dogs, and although she cannot leave the village, she knows about big cities and dreams of visiting them someday. Stopping for a break on the way through the forest, the children decide to make a snowman. After finishing the foundation, Anton goes into the windfall to collect branches for his hands, but during their search the boy encounters a gang of hooligans, led, as it seemed to Anton at first, by Semyon.
During the harassment, the boys surround Anton and Semyon is preparing to hit him when a Rogue who ran to the children distracts attention. Deciding that the dog belongs to Anton, Roma kicks it, to the sadistic joy of Polina. Anton is scared by the thought that the girl hates stray dogs so much because of what happened to her grandfather. Polina quickly realizes the inadequacy of her actions and looks sadly at Anton when he begins to be beaten. The main character tries to scare them with lies that his father allegedly fought in Afghanistan, but the hooligans quickly reveal the lie. Semyon gets back into the attacking position when Polina, continuing to stand up for Anton, begs one of the hooligans, Roma, to let them leave, to which he replies that he "needs to clean up the trash." He grabs Anton from behind and, threatening him with a butterfly knife, takes away his backpack and disembowels him. At this moment, a rabbit mask falls out of the bag, which came from nowhere, which only amused the hooligans more, after which Semyon forces Anton to put it on. Not wanting to humiliate himself in front of his girlfriend, he sends a bully, for which he punches him in the face. When Polina tried to stand up for her friend, the boys grabbed her by the arms and took her away from the forest with them, while Roma beat Anton unconscious.
In a dream, Anton woke up in his room and almost immediately noticed that the bruises and abrasions on his face had disappeared. He went down to the first floor, where he heard his family's laughter coming from the kitchen. Anton's parents and Olya greet him cheerfully, and then invite him to the table, offering to have breakfast with food from a saucepan on the table. However, before this happened, Anton's mother asked him to remove the mask from his face. After checking his face, Anton confirmed that he was not wearing any mask, but everyone took it as a joke, after which his father asked him to take off the non-existent mask. Confirming once again that there was no mask on his face, Anton saw how the faces of his angry parents began to distort greatly, until after a while his entire family turned into animals with empty eye sockets. The fox that Mom became took the lid off the pan, showing Anton his own bloody head at the bottom. Feeling his face, Anton realized that he had turned into a hare, which caused him to scream and wake up, this time in the real world.
Anton noticed that he was lying in the snow wearing a rabbit mask. Shaking himself off and coming to his senses, he gets to his feet. Soon the boy is found by his father, who is looking for him, who takes his son to the car. There he notices Anton's battered, broken face, to which he responds with the truth. The father praises the main character for fighting for the girl, and, passing him napkins from the glove compartment, accidentally shows Anton a gun hidden in the trash.
At home mom chastises Anton for the missing glasses, although he, despite this, fulfills the promise made to his father and does not tell her the reason for their loss. Olga, who ran into the hallway, enthusiastically tells her brother that she saw "a fox in a dress standing on its hind legs" at the fence of the house. Upon hearing this, Anton warned his sister not to approach this fox for anything, after which he went to his room to do his homework.
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===Branch of loneliness"'===
Unable to fight back against Semyon, Anton endures punches and insults for a whole week, until one day a bully with his friends caught him in the woods when he was returning home. As in other elections, Semyon mocks Anton, and then Roma takes away his backpack and finds a rabbit mask there. Having decided to humiliate the victim properly, the teenagers force Anton to put it on and amuse them. Having no other choice, Anton does everything he was told, making the hooligans laugh very much, after which Semyon takes away his glasses and kicks him away. Walking through the forest, Petrov threw the mask aside out of resentment, and then safely found his way home.
At home, Anton is scolded for losing his glasses, and Olya, who ran into the hallway, enthusiastically tells her brother that she saw "a fox in a dress standing on its hind legs" at the fence of the house. Upon hearing this, Anton warned his sister not to approach this fox for anything, after which he went to his room to do his homework. During the drawing class, he, without knowing how, drew a creepy drawing of a fox. The father who came to Anton's room distracts the boy, as he is looking for Olya, who hid under the bed of the main character. The whole family gathers in Anton's room to solve the problem — Olya does not want to sleep alone, as the Owl continues to look into her room at night. The girl becomes hysterical, and her parents reluctantly agree to let her sleep with them.
</tabber>In all versions of the plot, Anton falls into a dream, where he sees a nightmare about Katya telling the secrets of the Petrov family in front of the whole class and ridiculing Anton. Polina, unable to accept these facts, begins to cry hysterically. After that, the children around Anton began to distort and turn into trees when he himself became a hare, to which Katya reacts with glee and with a crazy expression on her face. The dream ends when Anton, who has turned into an animal, is grabbed by a dark figure and carried away into the void.
Anton wakes up when he hears his sister crying, hiding in his room behind a curtain. He tries to calm her down and is about to approach her, when suddenly the real Olga appears behind the door behind him. The one who posed as a girl began to transform and take on the shape of a creepy bird with a glowing eye. The owl, no longer hiding, scares the children at first, and then calls Anton to himself, but as soon as the parents woke up because of Olya's screams in the next room, she flies away, leaving the neatly folded glasses of the main character, owl feathers and paw prints on the snow on the windowsill.
The next day, Anton goes back to school, where the first thing he does is go to the information stand, where another missing child announcement appeared. The photo of the ad shows Semyon Baburin.
===Episode III: «Wolf hair on end»===
Upon learning about the disappearance of his abuser, Anton asks himself whether Semyon deserved such a fate, despite the fact that he had previously humiliated him. The classmates of the main character begin to shun him because of Katya's rumors that he was the one who killed Semyon, since many of them witnessed their fight on the first day of school. Even Lieutenant Tikhonov, who visited the school, first of all interrogates Anton, since his notebook, which Roma shook out of Petrov's backpack, was found near the place where the missing boy was last seen. The lieutenant gives a lecture on security, during which he leaves a folder with a missing children's case on the main character's desk. Anton can either look at its contents or not touch it, and when Tikhonov completes the lecture, he can tell and draw a portrait of a potential criminal.<tabber>
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===Friendship branch with bullies===
After the lecture, Lieutenant Tikhonov Roma and Byasha stop Anton in the corridor and thank him for not telling the policeman about their fight with By Semen. After making sure that none of them is guilty of what happened, the boys decide to become one team in order to stick together and not become the next victims of the maniac/Black Garage.
A week has passed since that moment, and during all this time, Anton's life is gradually getting better: although his parents continue to quarrel, his classmates now respect and are afraid of him and his new friends. Anton is also supported by Polina, who at one of the breaks admits that she associates people with different sounds, and secretly entrusts him with her questionnaire so that the boy writes answers to personal questions in it. In the lesson, Anton fills out a questionnaire, writing in the answer to the question "Best friend?"" ""You"".
Leaving school after lessons, Anton stumbles upon Byasha, who takes him around the corner of the school, where they are met by Roma, who immediately staged a strange performance with the gift of a bouquet of flowers to Anton, addressing him as a girl. At first, he cannot understand what is happening, but then the hooligans tell him that Roma is in love with a girl and wants to approach her, and Byasha must play the role of a maniac who will "attack" her, so they wanted to see Anton's reaction to their prank. Realizing how unconvincing they look, the boys give the role of the maniac to Petrov. According to the plan, he will have to "molest" the girl, and Roma will "protect" her from the "maniac", after which he will offer to escort her home. Everything would be fine, but during the next rehearsal, Anton unsuccessfully hit Roma, which caused him to fall and injure his arm. In order not to embarrass himself, Pyatifan offered to rehearse again in the evening, inadvertently informing that the object of the performance was the "first violin of the school". The latter shocked Anton, as he recognized Polina from such a description, but he does not show it, so as not to run into problems.
At home, Anton, still thinking about Polina and their plan for her, only pretends to listen to his sister's chatter, but Olya quickly notices this and begins to get angry at her brother. To calm her down, Anton invited her to play a game with him on the console, which she readily agrees to. Before the start of the game, Olya, noticeably changing her face, says that their mother had a terrible seizure while she was cutting live fish, and her father, before helping her, began to laugh and then cry. Anton, in turn, says that he found two friends at school, which Olya is surprised and happy about.
After playing the console, Anton receives a phone call from Polina, with whom they talk about this and that. Listening to her, Anton makes various sketches, drawing curlicues in the form of hearts, a portrait of Polina and, to his dissatisfaction, a knife of Roma. At this point, Anton wonders if it was worth telling the girl about their plan with Roma or keeping their secret. He is given a choice between Polina and Roma, after which the friends' conversation ends.
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===A branch of enmity with bullies"'===
After the lecture Lieutenant Tikhonov Roma and Byasha stop Anton in the hallway. Hooligans accuse Anton of allegedly wanting to hand them over to the police, and warn him that even after the disappearance Seeds he will not have good days at school, after which they give the boy a slap on the head and attach a piece of paper with the inscription "" to his backKick me."
A week has passed since that moment, but this time Anton has only bad events: his parents continue to quarrel, classmates continue to bully and shun, and the missing children have not returned home. However, Anton continues to be supported by Polina, who, during a private conversation with him, apologizes for causing him to be beaten in the forest, adding that she acted very badly that day when she was glad to be abused by a Crook. It seems to the girl that apologies are not enough, so she removes the amulet from her neck, saving from the possessed and possessed, and hands it to Anton so that he receives additional protection. The boy can either accept the gift or ask the girl to keep it, but in any case he will accept her apology. After that, Polina gives her friend her questionnaire, waiting for him to answer the questions written in it. During the lesson, Anton fills out this questionnaire, writing in the answer to the last question, "Best friend?"" ""You"".
After lessons on the street, Anton runs into Byasha, who takes him around the corner of the school. There they are met by Roma and Katya, who, as it turned out, told the hooligans about a recent conversation between Anton and Polina. After asking if he had injured Petrov badly at the last meeting in the forest, Roma pulls out a knife and is already preparing to wound Anton. If Anton took the amulet from Polina, then he will miraculously be able to dodge the knife, since Roma, seeing the amulet, will hesitate, and then Lilia Pavlovna, who looked out of the window, will distract him. Anton, taking advantage of the moment, runs away, hearing threats from Roma behind his back. If the boy does not have an amulet, then Roma will wound him in the shoulder, and when Anton returns home, he will hide the fact of the fight, explaining the injury with a sharp twig, which he clung to while walking home.
After returning home, Anton and Olya decide to play a game console together. Before that, Olya, changing her face, tells him that their mother had a terrible seizure while she was cutting live fish, and her father, before helping her, laughed and then cried. The boy, in turn, says that he became friends at school with a girl named Polina. Olya starts asking if she is beautiful, which makes Anton blush. The little sister quickly realizes that he has fallen in love, but he denies it, and then says that he will stop playing with her if Olya does not stop pestering him. It works, and Olya lags behind with her questions.
After playing the console, Anton heard Polina calling him and ran to the phone, starting a conversation with her. The children talk peacefully and sweetly with each other, saying that they are both sad in this place and they want to leave here. Anton draws several drawings during the conversation, including a portrait of Polina, but soon their conversation ends, as everyone has things to do.
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===Branch of loneliness"'===
Since Anton did not rebuff Semyon, the bullies continue to bully him, but Polina is still friends with him and gives him a questionnaire to fill out. In this case, the boy indicates Olya as his best friend. After lessons, Anton runs out into the street, where Byasha meets him. Trying to scare him off, Anton says that his father is waiting for him, but the bully ignores him and takes him around the corner of the school. As in Polina's branch, Roma met the main character and began threatening him with a knife, while a satisfied Katya Smirnova watches what is happening. After making sure that Anton will no longer talk to Polina, the bully chases him away.
After returning home, Anton agrees to play a game console with Olya so that she does not get mad at him because he inadvertently listened to her story. However, during the game, the boy, succumbing to his inner demons, ceases to rejoice and tells the girl about the loss of Semyon, describing this event as something good, and then extremely cruelly says that other people do not deserve to live with such as Anton and Olya. The girl is horrified by such words and asks Tosha to stop talking like that, but when her brother started to get angry, she sees a completely unfamiliar personality in him and asks who he is. Only then does Toshi realize what he said, and he calms down, apologizing to Olya for his behavior and promising not to speak ill of others anymore.
Soon, Polina calls the Petrovs' phone. Anton hopes that his classmate will invite him for a walk, but she only feels sorry for Anton, reassuring him that he will be fine if he can fight back against his abusers, and then he will be able to find a girlfriend someday. While the boy is painting a portrait of Polina, the girl reports that someone is walking under her windows with flowers, arguing out loud whether to drive him away or still give him a chance. These arguments angered Anton, and he disfigures the newly painted portrait of Polina. When their conversation ended, Anton mentally calls Polina a "slut" and goes to Olga's room to read her a book about princesses.
</tabber>In the friendship branch with hooligans, hooligans ring Anton's doorbell. In the case of enmity with them, Anton, having gone upstairs, does not find Olga, and then sees in the window how his sister goes with Alice towards the forest. He goes outside and approaches the hooligans/Alice and Olya, when she suddenly learns with horror that Owl was actually pretending to be Byasha/sister. In a panic, Anton runs away towards the forest, but Alice stops him there and calms him down, reminding him that he is safe with her. After that, the fox introduces Anton to his friends — Owl, Wolf and Bear.
===Manga «Love, death & strawberries»===
It turns out that Katya sometimes dreamed of falling in love with Anton, but never tried to show it, only hiding her thoughts with a harmful character. During the events of the third episode of the novel, Katya notices Anton together with Polina in a dead end, after which she hurries to leave, believing that they are mocking her. Katya decides to slander Anton in order to stop thinking about him. She meets him in the hallway, after which she tells him with fake emotions that she has been in love with him all this time, and gossiped about him only to attract his attention. Anton is embarrassed and does not immediately realize that in this way Katya is going to embarrass him in front of adults. As soon as Lilia Pavlovna passes by them, Katya pretends that Anton is trying to take the class magazine away from her by force, while she is the one who grabs his hands and holds him until the class teacher grabs the boy and takes him to the director.
In the principal's office, Katya convinces him that Anton tried to take away her class magazine in order to hide the fact that he allegedly painted only positive marks on top of his grades. This angers Anton so much that he leaves the office without permission and slams the door loudly.
At a physical education lesson, when Katya and Anton find themselves on the same basketball team, the latter, to spite the heroine, allows the opponents to score the last goal with the ball, and then defiantly walks away. This puts Katya in a stupor, but does not prevent her from continuing to mock Anton, after lessons, telling her friends that «such a klutz like him» is unlikely to please anyone. Anton himself hears this, and this time he goes up to Katya and says loudly that everyone thinks the same about her before leaving the classroom.
Only after Katya is kidnapped by a strange forest creature, she begins to cry bitterly because of the realization that she could not really admit her feelings to Anton.
===Episode IV: «Kicking the Ground»===
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===Alica's branch===
After learning about Katya's disappearance, Anton, Roma and Byasha agree that from now on they will always stick together. When the hooligans leave for the dining room, Anton begins to draw a forest landscape, thinking that now Polina is not interesting to him, and only Alice occupies all his thoughts. This process is interrupted by Polina, who came up to the desk, who, asking what the boy was doing, shares her opinion about Katya's disappearance, and then informs that Polina herself has lost her questionnaire, and that now someone can find out everything that is written there. Morozova notices that her friend seems to have changed, becoming a different melody, and invites Anton to take a walk with her after school. Anton agrees, and Polina, having designated the meeting place, leaves. Immediately after that, Roma approaches the desk again and begins to discuss their performance with Anton. Anton lies that Polina will allegedly wait for Roma in the backyard after lessons, and he, delighted with these words, informs that it's time to prepare for action.
After lessons, Anton comes to the backyard of the school, where he is met by Roma, who brought the props for the "performance". Realizing all the losers of this venture, Anton still decides to go to the end and puts on a rabbit mask found in his backpack, which gives him confidence and strength. Soon Polina comes out from behind the school, and the guys begin to play a play in front of her. However, if Anton gets into the role pretty well and even begins to feel a sense of impunity, then Romka's acting leaves much to be desired. Moreover, Polina, instantly realizing what was happening, hits Anton, who grabbed her, in the face with a violin case. The performance completely breaks down, and Morozova, recognizing Anton the hare behind the mask, loses her temper and leaves the scene.
Seeing how Roma is depressed by this failure, Anton catches up with the girl, trying to explain everything that happened to her. An angry Polina during this conversation confesses in her heart that she liked Anton, to which the latter informs that everyone likes her, but most of all it is Roma. Anton asks the girl to try to get to know Roma better and give him a chance to walk her home. Relenting, Polina agrees, and Anton, realizing that now he has no one left but Alice, returns to Roma. Having reported everything previously said, he enthuses Pyatifanov, and he promises to help Anton in any case. After a little thought, Petrov asks Roma for help in finding a maniac, and the bully reluctantly agrees, suggesting that Anton meet near Polina's house after a while to start looking for Katya.
Left alone, Anton returns to the school entrance and meets a disgruntled Byasha, upset that Roma has exchanged his best friend for a girl. Wondering whether to take Byasha with him in search of a maniac or not, he can invite him with him, giving him a drawing as an apology, or drive him away. In any case, Anton meets Roma, who is satisfied with the last "date" and goes with him to windbreak in search of Katya. If Byasha went into the forest with them, he finds a purse belonging to Katya, but immediately after that Anton and Roma, turning around, see how Byasha turned gray with horror, after which he, bleating something inarticulate, runs away. Immediately after that, the remaining guys notice a burnt-out edge of the forest, in the middle of which stands a Black Garage. Approaching him, Roma opens the gate and invites Anton to explore the place.
====Choice: To the police====
Anton refuses to enter the Black Garage, suggesting that it is a trap, and suggests that Roma contact the police. Although Roma does not like this idea, he agrees to go with him to the police station. Alternatively, if Byasha does not go into the woods with the boys, they are met by Lieutenant Tikhonov, who is nervous because they thwarted his ambush.
Lieutenant Tikhonov is not happy about the appearance of children in the police station, mainly because of the Rum, which is registered with him. When Anton notices an information stand with announcements of missing children, Tikhonov says that he dreams of catching a maniac, but the investigation always finds itself at a dead end due to the lack of leads and failures in the search for children. Moreover, Anton and Roma find out that thirty years ago children also disappeared in the village, but then they managed to save two children, one of whom was Konstantin Tikhonov himself, who never remembered what happened to him then. Anton asked about the second rescued child (it turned out that it was a girl), but their conversation is interrupted by Lilia Pavlovna, who has not yet found her missing daughter. The boys are kicked out of the department, and Roma, before going home, tells Anton that the "garbage" will not help them, so all hope remains on themselves.
====Choice: To the garage====
Anton agrees with Roma, and the two of them go inside, exploring the contents of the garage. As they are about to leave, they suddenly hear a strangled scream coming from a car-like object covered with a tarpaulin. This object turns out to be an industrial meat grinder, in the tray of which Katya lies tied up, but still alive. Trying to pull her out, Roma inadvertently activates the mechanism, and, despite all the efforts of the guys, the meat grinder grinds Katya alive. Terrified, the children crawl out of the garage, and Pyatifanov, not wanting to end up in prison, forces Anton to keep this secret, silently threatening that otherwise he will do something terrible to him. If Anton was able to win the Polaroid in the third episode, he will take a picture of the girl's bloody braid as proof.
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===Polina's branch===
After learning about Katya's disappearance, Anton talks to Polina. The girl reproaches herself for the fact that it is difficult for her to regret the loss of a girl like Katya, when the loss of the questionnaire upset her more than that. Polina notices that her friend seems to have changed, becoming a different melody, and Anton himself notices how Byasha is watching them. Recalling his last meeting with Roma, he informs Polina that Pyatifanov has fallen in love with her. In response, Morozova says that she knows this, but she doesn't care about Roma, and she is glad that she has Anton. Suddenly, the girl invites Anton to take a walk after school, and the boy, even though he understands the danger of this situation, gladly agrees, after which, having designated the meeting place, Polina leaves. Anton looks at Byasha again, who hints with a gesture that Petrov will end for such insolence.
After the end of the lessons, Anton leaves the school, meeting his companion on the porch. The girl, dreaming of the noise of the big city again, mentions her grandfather and tells Anton that she will be happy to introduce them, inviting the boy to visit. Surprised but delighted by this, Anton wanted to agree, but suddenly, without giving him anything to say, a whistle sounded from the side. Roma and Byasha approached the guys, who began to accuse Anton of Katya's disappearance and informed Polina that they were saving her from being led by a "maniac" into the forest, but an angry Polina stood up for her friend and revealed that the hooligans could have killed Katya, because she spread rumors about them. She morally destroys first Byasha, and then Roma, saying that Anton is better at everything than him, and the couple leaves, holding hands.
Chatting sweetly about various things, the children soon reach Polina's house. While Polina goes to clean up her room, her grandfather Khariton drives up to Anton, who is examining the hallway, in a wheelchair. After greeting a new acquaintance, Khariton began to tell Anton about the meaning of both his name and the name of Anton, Polina, and suddenly, the animals. Suddenly, the old man turns to the topic the dark tale of the greedy hunter, who fancied himself the Master of the forest, for which he drank the cup of torment from the true Master. Polina suddenly called out to the frightened Anton, and Khariton, hearing this, let the boy pass towards her room.
In Polina's bedroom, Anton meets her cat named Joanna, who, as it turned out, is extremely unfriendly towards the boy. The children are thinking about what to do for them, and Anton offers Polina to play the violin for him. Having agreed and joked a little about Anton, the girl performs "F Sharp Minor" for him, bringing him to indescribable delight. Starting to applaud, he accidentally steps on the tail of Joanna standing under his feet, and the enraged animal in retaliation bites and scratches his right leg until it bleeds. An unhappy Polina, having chased the cat away, examines the wound and, to the horror of the boy, orders him to take off his pants in order to treat the wound with iodine. Anton refuses, and Morozova takes the initiative in her own hands, trying to pull off her friend's pants. Anton tries to resist, which causes the children to fall on the sofa, and Polina finds herself on a half-naked Anton. Rather embarrassed, they confess their love to each other, and then gently kiss.
While Polina is kissing Anton, he suddenly notices Khariton's reflection in the mirror peeping at them. Anton pulls away from the girl and tells her that he is expected at home. The girl asks him not to leave, and then suddenly starts to get hysterical, begging Anton to take her away from the cursed village. Unable to see this, Anton quickly goes out into the hallway and is about to leave the house when Khariton drives out of the kitchen to Polina's screams. Asking what happened to her, he also wonders why Anton leaves so quickly, asking him to stay. The boy refuses and runs out into the street while Khariton shouts after him.
On the way home, Anton suddenly bumps into Roma. He, completely distraught, pulls out a knife, intending to kill his enemy, but at the last moment begins to writhe, takes the knife in his teeth and falls on all fours. Guessing that the reason for this was the amulet presented by Polina earlier ("Depends"), Anton runs away from Roma, who chased him through the entire village. At some point, breaking away from his pursuer, he hears an inhuman scream, and then sees a Wolf on the edge of the forest. He approaches the boy, shows him a butterfly knife that once belonged to Roma, and tells Anton that nothing threatens him now, after which he hides somewhere in the night.
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===Branch of loneliness===
After learning about Katya's disappearance, Anton and Polina discuss this event. The girl reproaches herself for the fact that it is difficult for her to regret the loss of someone like Katya, and also reports that she herself has lost her profile, and that now someone can find out everything that is written there. Anton noted to himself that he was not angry at Polina for an unpleasant phone conversation earlier.
The conversation is interrupted by Byasha, as well as Roma, who came up to the desk. They ridicule Anton for allegedly trying to approach Polina, to which the latter replies that she and Anton are just friends. Laughing at the weakness of their victim, the bullies leave, and Polina asks her friend to be strong, after which she leaves him alone. Frustrated, Anton notes in his mind what a jerk he is. When he leaves school after school, one of the seniors on the porch pushes him, which makes the others laugh. On the way home, Anton hears the screams of adults calling for the missing Katya, and thinks that the girl is most likely already dead. Returning home, Anton, listening to a message on the radio about an impending blizzard, goes upstairs, from where screams can be heard. Approaching his parents' room, he watches through the crack as they quarrel again, in the process mentioning that Anton's father was tracked down by someone sent by his former friends. Olya, standing in the hallway, is ready to become hysterical from what is happening, and Anton begins to comfort his sister. Unable to bear such a life any longer, she declares that she wants to leave here for Non-Land, after which Anton takes his sister to his room. Suddenly, someone outside throws snowballs at the window, and Anton, opening the curtains, sees all the animals he knows in the yard, who invite him and Olga to play with them. After getting dressed, the children slip out of the house into the street, where they meet the forest inhabitants. Having met Olya, the animals suggest that the children follow the trail of sweets to find Santa Claus in the forest.
Following their new friends, Anton and Olya come across a huge snow castle standing in the depths of the forest. Inside the castle, they all meet Santa Claus sitting on the throne, whose face is hidden behind a papier-mache mask. After greeting the guests, Santa Claus says that he has something special for Anton and Olya, but to get it, you need to guess his riddles. When the children were able to do this, Santa Claus pours out a mountain of delicious sweets from the bag and invites everyone to try the treat and enjoy the holiday.</tabber>
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|-|Choice: Refuse=
The animals immediately pounce on the sweets, but Anton, suspecting something is wrong, politely refuses and, taking his sister by the arm, heads for the exit. Surprised and somewhat annoyed by this, the animals are trying their best to persuade the boy to try the treat, and Olya herself is tearfully capricious that Anton turns out to be no better than her parents, since she forbids everything. Alice brings a plate of marmalade snakes to the boy, offering to try the treat anyway, but Anton stands his ground and informs him that he and Olya are leaving.
Suddenly, the gloom subsides, and the animals, no longer hiding, take on their true, terrifying appearance, turning into monsters. Santa Claus, who tore off his clothes and mask, turns out to be the Master of the forest, and the snow-white halls of the castle turn into the metal insides of a Black Garage. Mountains of sweets turn out to be human remains, and the throne is an industrial meat grinder. The animals are already ready to tear the children to pieces, but there is a skirmish between them, which only their leader can calm down. Approaching Anton, the Owner of the forest throws a piece of human flesh in front of him, ordering him to eat it and threatening to devour it in case of refusal. Unable to stand this sight, Olya faints, and Anton himself refuses to eat the «treat» for the third time. The owner, in a rage, orders his servants to kill the children and is already approaching the boy, but suddenly Alice stands between the predators and their prey, who informs them that they need to leave the «Bunny» alive for now, because this way he will be more useful. Deciding to cheat, she assumes her childish appearance and stupefies Anton, offering to save his sister. As soon as Anton said that he wanted to save Olya, Alice shoves a piece of meat into his mouth, and the Owl, standing in front of the defenseless Olya, asks permission to take a bite out of her. Angered by this, the Bunny inside Anton screams at the Owl, and it retreats, after which the boy spits out the meat. The goat, agreeing with the Fox, points his finger at Anton and orders him to bring «treats» the next night, threatening to devour his entire family.
Terrified, Anton runs out into the street, seeing that instead of a castle, a Black Garage stands at the edge of the forest, rapidly disappearing into thin air. Suddenly he realizes that he left his sister in the garage when he notices a girl's hand in a snowdrift in his place. Running up and starting to dig up a snowdrift, he digs up Olga, who is blue from the cold, but suddenly discovers that only the upper half of her body remains. Seeing this, Olya screams in horror.
|-|Choice: Accept=
The animals immediately pounce on the sweets, and Anton and Olya joyfully join them. The holiday begins, the animals dance around a giant fir tree that appeared out of nowhere, and Anton and Olya eat sweets and have fun. Seeing a mountain of gifts under the tree, Anton suggests that Olya share it with someone, and notices several children staring at the holiday from the edge of the edge. Anton jumps up to them and takes them to the party, where they also start having fun. With fanfare, fireworks and charming music, Anton reflects that he has finally found his home and is now truly happy.
Waking up in his bed in a great mood, Anton hears his sister laughing and a dog barking. Olya comes into the room, holding a mongrel dog in her arms, and joyfully exclaims that now they will have a dog at home. Olya gives her the name Princess, after which her parents come into the room, reconciled after a quarrel. The joyful father informs that he has now been promoted, and the mother says that it is time to fulfill the long-awaited promise. The adults announce that next week they are going to Disneyland with the whole family, much to the children's happiness.
Anton, after sleeping a little more, goes to school and meets a joyful Polina on the way. She hugged Anton and tells how her grandfather suddenly learned to walk again, as before, and to Anton's embarrassment that Roma could see them, she replies that both Roma and Byasha suddenly disappeared from the village. Taking the boy by the hand, Polina rushes towards the school, and even when she enters the classroom, despite Anton's embarrassment, she does not let him go. The guys sit down at the same desk, after which Anton begins to sketch the perfect portrait of his girlfriend. The clearer her contours appear on a piece of paper, the more excited the girl becomes, and Anton, seeing this, offers her to become the heroine of his comic book, which leads Polina into a state of ecstasy.
But suddenly, from excessive effort, the pencil breaks, and Anton suddenly sees that instead of a portrait of Polina, he drew a terrible mess of many dashes. The people in the classroom disappear, everything goes dark, and a few words from the erased count are shown on the blackboard. After leaving the classroom in search of people, Anton discovers that the school has been abandoned for a long time, the walls are covered with cobwebs and rot, and there are many announcements of missing villagers on the stand in the corridor. Running out of school, the boy is horrified to see that the village is completely extinct, many of his houses are left without glass, and all fences are covered with missing persons notices. Looking for at least someone, he stumbles upon Polina's house, but when Anton tries to open the door, an empty wheelchair flies out at him, followed by a huge clawed paw and the muzzle of a ravenous wolf-like beast. Anton tries to escape, but a giant owl appears in front of him, taller than a man, a certain shrew-like monster crawls out from under the snow on the right, and then Anton sees in front of him something that once was Alice. The beasts surround him, and their infernal voices accuse Anton of not being able to keep up with them. In response, instead of Anton, the Bunny speaks, blaming the animals for betraying him, not allowing him to feast properly himself. In response, Alice says that the Bunny himself did not want to eat his family, while other animals begin to humiliate him. Suddenly, the fox monster remembers that now it's Anton's turn to carry treats for tomorrow night, because otherwise he and the family will become food.
The animals lead a round dance around Anton, screaming in horror, singing a little song, and the boy, unable to withstand this dance, shouts that he will bring treats to the animals. He runs through the entire village while chthonic images haunt Anton's mind, tearing him apart and driving him crazy. Eventually, Anton discovers that he has met the dawn in the depths of the forest.</tabber>
==Relationships==
===Olya===
For Anton, his younger sister is the closest person. For her, he is ready to do even what he does not want to do, and if his actions somehow upset his sister, he then reproaches himself for it. Although in the third episode, he may not give in to the girl, playing with her on the console, which will bring her to tears, and in the same episode he may scare her with his cynical attitude towards the loss of other children (Depends). At the same time, he always thinks about how to make Ole pleasant, and therefore draws beautiful drawings for her, shares sweets with her or tells her extraordinary stories. He sees his sister as a little sun, which in this wilderness risks fading and dying, and in order to prevent this from happening, Anton will do anything. In the fourth episode, when the Owl wants to take a bite out of Olya «just a little bit» (Depends), Anton will feel seething anger and say in the voice of a Bunny that he will tear out the tongue of a sinister bird if it touches Olya.
===Polina===
Anton, seeing the beautiful and kind Polina for the first time in the second episode, almost immediately realizes that for the first time in his life he has fallen in love. To win her over, he lies to her, saying that he is not at all afraid to go home through the forest. If Anton agrees to wait for her after class, they will walk through the village together, telling each other about their dreams and fears. The girl herself openly calls him a creative person, says that he is very eloquent, and that they both have a great future ahead of them, which Anton is incredibly happy about. But when he meets with hooligans, he will see an unpleasant smile on Polina's face when Roma kicks a Zhulka next to them. Because of this, as well as because of the phrase «Romochka» uttered by Polina to the bully, he asked himself if the one he feels sympathy for is really kind to him. Nevertheless, if he is not afraid to fight back again, Polina will go to his house after the fight and on the way she will meet Anton's father, to whom she will tell what happened in the forest.
In the third episode, Anton still feels sympathy for Morozova, regardless of how their relationship was built before. If earlier he accompanied her through the forest, then Polina will apologize to him for the fact that Anton was beaten because of her fault, and will give him the most precious thing for her — an amulet in the form of an animal claw, which belonged to her grandfather, which protects from troubles. Regardless of whether he took the gift or not, Anton will accept her apology, which Polina will be very happy about. Anton also happily agrees to fill out the questionnaire offered to him, in which he can specify Polina as his best friend (Depends), which indicates that she is really very dear to him and, along with his sister, is the closest person to him. He feels carefree with her, forgetting about all the problems, and shares her dreams and interests, although he does not fully understand. In the fourth episode, the boy's feelings for her will grow stronger — he will see in Polina the most beautiful girl he has met, will openly admire her, and being at her house, confesses his love to Polina, to which she will reciprocate, after which the guys will kiss gently.
However, if instead of Polina, Anton decided to get closer to Alice and be friends with bullies, his love for a classmate will gradually fade. In this case, for him, Polina will be only in «second place» after Alice, and the boy will try in every possible way to establish relations between Polina and Roma. Anton understands perfectly well that by helping Roma, he completely destroys his chances of being with Polina, but believes that a friend needs help, and does not see in Polina an object of sympathy, although he continues to treat her warmly.
Anton's relationship with the girl is not too favorable even if he failed to fight back against the bullies — Anton does not see Polina as his best friend and indicates Olya in the questionnaire instead of her, and when Polina says during a conversation with him on the phone that she is very sorry for him because of undeserved bullying at school and that someone wants to ask her out on a date, Anton gets angry, so much so that after that he will start thinking that Polina is little better than hooligans or Katya, since she allows herself to say such a thing, and very terribly disfigures the portrait of a girl he painted, while calling her a «slut». However, in the fourth episode it is clear that Anton is no longer angry at Polina and comes to terms with the fact that he is just a friend to her. Also, in case of accepting «treats» from animals (Depends) Anton will see his «ideal life», in which Polina becomes his girlfriend, and begins to literally lust after the main character. This «ideal life» may indicate that Anton's interest in Polina is becoming frankly unhealthy, developing into manic tendencies and desires towards her.
===Mother===
Despite his mother's strictness and partial indifference to him, Anton loves her and is therefore very upset that she is now at odds with his father. However, in the event that Anton becomes a victim of bullying from classmates, having failed to fight back against Semyon, he breaks down and tells himself that, like his father, Karina is angry at him and therefore will never be the one to help him. In the fourth episode, during the quarrel between mother and father, the boy will mentally despise them both.
===Father===
The main character loves his father very much and considers him a role model, as evidenced by the fact that he almost indicated him in Polina's questionnaire as his hero. When he grows up, he wants to be, like his father, bearded and strong. At the same time, Anton is tormented by some doubts about the ideal image of a parent — so, seeing a gun in the glove compartment of a car, he involuntarily compares his father to a bandit.
If Anton could not fight back against Semyon, he breaks down and tells himself that, as in the case of his mother, his father is angry at him and therefore will never be the one to help him. In the fourth episode, during the quarrel between father and mother, the boy will mentally despise them both.
===Alisa===
At their first meeting, Alice scares Anton, but after a little dialogue, he convinces himself that she is just an eccentric girl in a suit and mask. Even despite her strange behavior, jokes and ridicule, Anton begins to be attracted to Lisa, and he has a desire to make friends with her, which turns out to be mutual. Anton begins to like the presence of the Fox, he likes the idea of their friendship, and he does not hesitate to give his new friend the name «Alice». Anton can get closer to Alice if he meets her in the backyard of the school after the first day of school. He no longer behaves with her like a stranger and even starts playing snowballs with her, like a small child.
Some time after Alice's sudden disappearance, he meets her again when he returns home with Roma and Byasha. Although he is surprised by the sudden appearance of his girlfriend, Anton does not resist when she takes him into the thicket. Further events related to the meeting of the forest monsters make it clear to Anton that it was only thanks to Alice that they did not touch him at that moment. At some point, this makes him wonder if Alice could be his best friend, given that she «saved» him earlier.
Towards the end of the third episode, Anton encounters a group of children dressed in costumes and masks, and they scare him so much that he tries to hide from them in the woods. It is Alice, who has found him, who calms Anton down, and he stops being afraid of other animals when she introduces him to them. That night, Anton begins to feel that Alice and her friends are the ones who can be trusted, and that they do not look like angry people from the village. Anton does not even resist Alice when she puts candy in his mouth, and willingly jumps and has fun with her at the edge of the forest.
In the fourth episode, the boy already openly feels sympathy for Alice and for him she may seem like the best girl he has ever met (Depends). Because of this, as well as the hardships that have fallen on the boy, he does not mind that his new friends get to know Olya and take them to play. It will be very insulting for Anton to hear taunts from Alice when he doubts the truth of the «holiday», and even when he realizes who his girlfriend really was, he will succumb to her charms, and she will trick the boy into tasting human flesh.
At the same time, in the absence of Alice, Anton feels that she poses a threat to Olya, which is seen when he reacts very nervously to the news about his sister's acquaintance with the «fox in a dress» and asks her to run away from her next time, and when he sees «her» leaving with Alice into the forest (Depends), Tosha gets scared and runs outside to stop them. However, in the fourth episode, at some point he stops worrying about his sister, allowing her to meet his new friends.
===Katya Smirnova===
Anton treats her very negatively, which is not surprising, because Katya herself sees the boy as just another object for bullying. On the first day of school, Anton tries to be polite to Katya and apologizes to her, although he did not do anything wrong to her, but soon it became clear to him how bad Katya is.
Their relationship deteriorates when Katya, after Semyon's disappearance, tries to mess with Anton, hinting at his involvement with Lieutenant Tikhonov and classmates, which makes Anton want to hurt Katya, although he does not show it in front of others. Even if she tries to make friends with him, when Anton drew a portrait of a Harelip to help find missing children (Depends), the boy will not hesitate to refuse her, knowing full well that the gossip girl is trying to suck up to him because of the attention.
Despite his hatred of Katya, Anton seems to be primarily scared rather than satisfied by her sudden disappearance. Having found the girl in the Black Garage (Depends), he can try to save her, even though it will end in failure.
===Semyon Baburin===
Having met for the first time, Semyon openly demonstrates that Anton is another target for his bullying, and will begin to bully him on the very first day of school. Anton can both endure all the humiliation and fight back, and if he successfully does it twice, then the hooligans will doubt their comrade. If Anton went home with Alice (Depends), he will be able to humiliate and teach the offender a lesson so that his former friends turn away from him. In an alternative version of events, Anton is afraid, but at the same time hates Semyon to such an extent that at some point he rejoices at his loss and thanks fate for what happened, noticing the fright of his classmates. However, regardless of the player's choice, when Semyon disappears, Anton asks himself if Baburin really deserved such a punishment.
===Igor «Byasha»===
When Anton meets Byasha in the forest, he realizes that he is an ordinary backup singer, and since Igor is in Pyatifan's gang, they immediately begin to feud. Their future relationship depends on the choice of the player, but if Anton teaches Semyon a lesson, he begins to be friends with both Roma and Byasha. In the third episode of the novel, Anton even manages to briefly talk to Byasha about drawing (Depends), until they are interrupted by Roma. However, despite this, Byasha has always disgusted Anton, and therefore he can drive him away when he decides to go in search of a maniac with Roma.
In an alternative version of events, Anton continues to hate Byasha and sees him as another scoffer who should disappear along with other offenders. However, Anton does not have the courage to drive Byasha away when, before Katya goes missing, he demands that the main character follow him to Roma.
===Roma Pyatifan===
If Anton rebuffed Semyon by ridiculing him in front of hooligans, he becomes a comrade of Roma and Byasha. However, even after that, Anton treats Roma with suspicion, fearing that Pyatifan, if anything, could betray him as easily as Semyon. In many ways, Anton continues their friendship out of fear and desire for benefits, rather than out of genuine friendly feelings for the guys, although he believes that theoretically he can make friends with them for real, especially with Roma. Gradually, he begins to adopt the character of bullies. So, having got himself a Polaroid taken from some fifth-grader (Depends), he does not return it to the owner, but only rejoices at such luxury. In addition, he agrees to help Roma win over Polina and play a «performance» in front of her, although he understands that he is doomed to failure.
If Anton goes with Polina and / or does not fight back against Semyon, Roma will not be friendly with him, but on the contrary, very aggressive. Anton is afraid and hates Roma, at some point even asking himself if he doesn't deserve to disappear too, like Semyon (Depends). Also, in this case, he will feel dislike and fear for Roma because he is in love with Polina and is afraid that Roma will turn out to be the best guy for the girl.
==Appearances==
===In the visual novel «Tiny Bunny»===
*Episode I: «Come, Owl»
*Episode II: «Time to play»
*Episode III: «Wolf hair on end»
*Episode IV: «Kicking the Ground»
*Episode V
===In other media===
*Manga «Love, death & strawberries»
*Browser game «Tiny Bunny: Bite the moon»
*Fan-game «Tiny Bunny: Other Story»
*Fan-game «Tiny Bunny: I'm not an outcast!»
==Interesting facts==
*Anton's voice-over lines can be listened to here.
*In the first ending of the novel, which may become available if Anton does not take the amulet from Polina or chooses her rather than Roma during a telephone conversation with her, it is indicated that he was born in 1987. This is a mistake by the developers. Link for picture-file.
*In the demo version of the game, Anton may die uncanonically. This happens if he takes Vova's mitten, because after that he is attacked by a Wolf. At the end of this scene, we are also shown a newspaper sheet on which an article about the missing protagonist is printed.
*Anton's phone number — 3-03-95.
*Along with Katya, Anton is the first character whose death can be directly shown on the screen.
*Anton's backpack was copied from a backpack that was once worn by Saikono. The bunny scissors and the «Sport» hat were also taken from Saikono's life. 8:10 - Interview with the main developer of Tiny Bunny! Answers to questions from Saikono Joker and Kristina Sherman (That Penguin)
==Sources==
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