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Zootopia! A gleaming city, where predators and prey live in harmony!
Except...no, they don't all live in harmony.
When the Zootopia Police Department's (ZPD) own rabbit officer, Judith Laverne Hopps, and her red fox partner, Nicholas Piberius Wilde, solved a political case involving a toxic flower that reverted animals to primal, dangerously aggressive temperaments, called midnicampum holicithias, or "Nighthowlers," all seemed well for Zootopia's predators; their name had been cleared...or so it seemed.
The sheep mastermind behind the Nighthowler case, Dawn Bellwether, though arrested, had succeeded with her main goal; the traditional prey animals of the city had been terrified, and could never trust predators in the same way ever again. Thusly, scientists began working on a technology that could secure predators and put prey at ease...
...the tame collar.
When it was invented and announced, Hopps - though her political partner, officer Wilde, seemed uncomfortable about the new technology - agreed with the lead scientist and new mayor, a deer called Buck Hoover, that they could try it out and use it as a final containment method if it was satisfactory. The first test subject, Buck stated in a meeting excluding her, would be Nicholas Wilde.
Without consulting the ZPD or officer Hopps, he had his assistants kidnap Wilde in order to put him under physiological stress to test out his invention. When he lashed out, he was electrocuted; it worked wonders, Buck said, and Nick was then dropped off at his home, after being knocked unconscious. Nicholas attempted to tell others about what happened, but he had little to no evidence, and at the time, he hadn't even known it was Hoover who had sent his assistants after him.
The following day, Buck Hoover told Judy Hopps about the invention's success, without mentioning Nicholas Wilde, of course, and neglecting to mention the discomfort the invention caused - just that it had indeed contained the predator that had "willfully" been tested. So, Hopps agreed, and the invention was then released to the public, and it became a requirement that every traditionally predatory animal must wear one.
But the collar was not a symbolism of acceptance as Zootopian herbivores claimed...it was a cruel restriction.
Wilde sought to tell Hopps about the collar's negativity and the unfairness of the situation, but Judy replied that it was bringing the predators and prey together once more, and that they had nothing to fear from carnivores while the collars were in affect.
Officer Wilde, months later, was able to witness a "taming party," in which a polar bear cub turned five years old, therefor old enough to receive his taming collar and "be accepted into society." He was ecstatic about his birthday party...but was then ruthlessly shocked by the collar after getting too excited. That was when Nick put his paw down. He began to rebel and started an organization, known as the "Predator Freedom & Rights Institution" (PFRI) that fought against the concept of tame collars and against predator prejudices. He urged Hopps to join the Institution, but she argued that her loyalty had to fall with the prey, admitting that she thought the predators were overreacting. Hurt, he distanced himself from her and signed off as her partner, becoming a solitary officer.
There are now two distinct sides in Zootopia...
And neither can escape the battle.
Credit to Rogue Runner for the plot, this was originally their roleplay, but they gave me permission to remake it.
