Ask 722: Assistant Mayor Vernon
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WT: Whoo…that’s a hard one to think about, especially if we keep the whole ‘Night Howler’ angle. After all, Dawn using night howler had a pretty clear purpose, to make predators look like they had gone feral. Doing the same to prey might not have the same impact unless you did it to megafauna or something. But let’s make a drastic switch, let’s change it up and see how we could make this feasible.
Changing Vernon’s family from one that was very averse to 'Native Wolf’ culture, and pred supremacy, to one that embraced it would be the first step. Now you have a corrupt Dorian and Audrey instilling in their children how prey are beneath them, and sub-mammals. The part of Vernon that is in his nature resists as a kid for a while, which leads to him and young Dawn still striking up a friendship. However, unlike before, it is Vernon’s parents who break it up when it is discovered.
Meanwhile, in Dawn’s family. Aster, instead of letting his father’s last words essentially rot him from the inside outward, decides to live the life he wants for his daughter and wife. No drinking, and he goes to therapy to deal with the emotional baggage. Now we have a supportive father in the household, who sees his only daughter as a miracle and wants her to shine in whatever career she chooses.
By the time high school rolls around, Vernon is troubled. He never becomes friends with Gus, and Dawn takes his place in that friend group. Dawn becomes Gus’ dungeon designer and finds that she likes creating the visuals for the world.
Vernon continues to spend his life being told by his family about how prey mammals look down their snout at predators, how they keep them under their hooves at all times, and even pointing to Dawn’s grandfather as proof that it is only ever going to get worse for predators if something isn’t done. And after hearing it again and again, and seeing that reluctance in prey to befriend him, Vernon begins to side with his family. More so, he latches on to the idea that if anything is going to change for predators, it was going to be up to those who knew what was truly going on to do it. So Vernon begins to take an interest in politics with the eventual plan to place preds in the prominence they deserve.
Going to Meadowland’s University in place of Dawn, Vernon crosses paths with and is forced to subdue a pred hopped up on Doug’s first pass at a night howler drug, and with his families skill in detective work and law, is able to track it back to Doug. After working the ram over to get the details on exactly just what the ram had done, and learning the secret of night howler, Vernon begins blackmailing the ram in order to get access to the drug. As I mentioned in the story, my take on night howler is that it simply blocks higher brain functions, while flushing the body with Adrenalin, triggering a feral flight or fight response. So building on this idea, Vernon has the ram start designing a version of the drug that cuts out the rush of adrenalin, instead making the subjects docile and complacent.
Playing his cards close to his chest, coupled with the fact that prey seem keen to elect preds to position of power despite their prejudice, Vernon couples his ticket with Lionheart to earn the rather large wolf vote in Alpine Glade.
With his place as assistant Mayor, and with Doug still under his thumb, the wolf begins the process of running large scale tests on this new 'prey pacification’ drug. The goal eventually being something similar to Aster’s plan, however, instead of making the city rip itself apart, the massive night howler attack would turn the city’s prey populace into a bunch of docile slaves, placing them back where Vernon believed they belonged.
Lionheart of course, wouldn’t be too concerned with stories of missing prey, or ones turning up shambling and mindless at the hospital. After all, it didn’t exactly stand to threaten his position unless it started happening in mass and the prey populace demanded him to find the cause. However, Doug would be the weak link here. The ram would be looking to escape from working under Vernon, twisted with guilt and an even deeper hatred for preds. But his hints and leaks to the ZPD aren’t being picked up on correctly…that is until Judy Hopps joins the ZPD and takes an interest in the case.
How Nick and her adventures go from there is anyone’s guess. But it ends with Vernon being foiled and locked up much like Dawn was.
Dawn on the other hoof, graduates ZU and quickly gets hired as an intern at a local architecture firm. While not a mammal usually associated with construction, she’d still have better odds compared to Vernon of getting hired outright.
As for Rehab, and LAW in the scheme of things from there…I suppose they could still happen in a modified format. But I can only imagine a reformed Vernon would never, ever bring Dawn back to that universes’ version of the Hunter Ranch. Whether it be due to Dorian being the leader of the second plot instead of Aster, or simply because they would all still be staunch anti-prey mammals.
Of course, that’s just a first pass at the idea…
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Looking for an explanation? Why is Dawn Bellwether out of jail? Why is she with a wolf? Welp, check out my fics "The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether" and "A Lamb Among Wolves" on my sister account WastedtimeEE.
"The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether"
https://www.sofurry.com/view/1027532
"A Lamb Among Wolves"
https://www.sofurry.com/view/1143173
WT: Whoo…that’s a hard one to think about, especially if we keep the whole ‘Night Howler’ angle. After all, Dawn using night howler had a pretty clear purpose, to make predators look like they had gone feral. Doing the same to prey might not have the same impact unless you did it to megafauna or something. But let’s make a drastic switch, let’s change it up and see how we could make this feasible.
Changing Vernon’s family from one that was very averse to 'Native Wolf’ culture, and pred supremacy, to one that embraced it would be the first step. Now you have a corrupt Dorian and Audrey instilling in their children how prey are beneath them, and sub-mammals. The part of Vernon that is in his nature resists as a kid for a while, which leads to him and young Dawn still striking up a friendship. However, unlike before, it is Vernon’s parents who break it up when it is discovered.
Meanwhile, in Dawn’s family. Aster, instead of letting his father’s last words essentially rot him from the inside outward, decides to live the life he wants for his daughter and wife. No drinking, and he goes to therapy to deal with the emotional baggage. Now we have a supportive father in the household, who sees his only daughter as a miracle and wants her to shine in whatever career she chooses.
By the time high school rolls around, Vernon is troubled. He never becomes friends with Gus, and Dawn takes his place in that friend group. Dawn becomes Gus’ dungeon designer and finds that she likes creating the visuals for the world.
Vernon continues to spend his life being told by his family about how prey mammals look down their snout at predators, how they keep them under their hooves at all times, and even pointing to Dawn’s grandfather as proof that it is only ever going to get worse for predators if something isn’t done. And after hearing it again and again, and seeing that reluctance in prey to befriend him, Vernon begins to side with his family. More so, he latches on to the idea that if anything is going to change for predators, it was going to be up to those who knew what was truly going on to do it. So Vernon begins to take an interest in politics with the eventual plan to place preds in the prominence they deserve.
Going to Meadowland’s University in place of Dawn, Vernon crosses paths with and is forced to subdue a pred hopped up on Doug’s first pass at a night howler drug, and with his families skill in detective work and law, is able to track it back to Doug. After working the ram over to get the details on exactly just what the ram had done, and learning the secret of night howler, Vernon begins blackmailing the ram in order to get access to the drug. As I mentioned in the story, my take on night howler is that it simply blocks higher brain functions, while flushing the body with Adrenalin, triggering a feral flight or fight response. So building on this idea, Vernon has the ram start designing a version of the drug that cuts out the rush of adrenalin, instead making the subjects docile and complacent.
Playing his cards close to his chest, coupled with the fact that prey seem keen to elect preds to position of power despite their prejudice, Vernon couples his ticket with Lionheart to earn the rather large wolf vote in Alpine Glade.
With his place as assistant Mayor, and with Doug still under his thumb, the wolf begins the process of running large scale tests on this new 'prey pacification’ drug. The goal eventually being something similar to Aster’s plan, however, instead of making the city rip itself apart, the massive night howler attack would turn the city’s prey populace into a bunch of docile slaves, placing them back where Vernon believed they belonged.
Lionheart of course, wouldn’t be too concerned with stories of missing prey, or ones turning up shambling and mindless at the hospital. After all, it didn’t exactly stand to threaten his position unless it started happening in mass and the prey populace demanded him to find the cause. However, Doug would be the weak link here. The ram would be looking to escape from working under Vernon, twisted with guilt and an even deeper hatred for preds. But his hints and leaks to the ZPD aren’t being picked up on correctly…that is until Judy Hopps joins the ZPD and takes an interest in the case.
How Nick and her adventures go from there is anyone’s guess. But it ends with Vernon being foiled and locked up much like Dawn was.
Dawn on the other hoof, graduates ZU and quickly gets hired as an intern at a local architecture firm. While not a mammal usually associated with construction, she’d still have better odds compared to Vernon of getting hired outright.
As for Rehab, and LAW in the scheme of things from there…I suppose they could still happen in a modified format. But I can only imagine a reformed Vernon would never, ever bring Dawn back to that universes’ version of the Hunter Ranch. Whether it be due to Dorian being the leader of the second plot instead of Aster, or simply because they would all still be staunch anti-prey mammals.
Of course, that’s just a first pass at the idea…
----------------
Looking for an explanation? Why is Dawn Bellwether out of jail? Why is she with a wolf? Welp, check out my fics "The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether" and "A Lamb Among Wolves" on my sister account WastedtimeEE.
"The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether"
https://www.sofurry.com/view/1027532
"A Lamb Among Wolves"
https://www.sofurry.com/view/1143173
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