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in my head canon the polar bears working for the shrews go back with the big family for generations. when igor (my OC) is born deaf and mute, mr big says he will hire him as an adult if he learns to read shrew lips. so the family members teach igor to read shrews even though the mouths are really tiny so it's a challenge. but as a kid fru fru isn't really happy with this one-sided communication so she asks igor to teach her sign language. she eventually becomes completely fluid. the other shrews don't know any because they don't really care to communicate with the "help"
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That is a sweet bit of canon fro Fru Fru, showing she's more than an entitled, if well meaning, princess. It actually shows a large amount for Mr. Big as well, as he was willing to hire a disabled predator. Considering the immense anti-predator sentiment in Zootopia, and that he continued employing multiple predators even into the height of the tension, it says a lot about him even in the movie.
You know, Mr. Big, is an interesting part to the dynamic in Zootopia. He's a shrew, and shrews are predators. They are even venomous. However, they're tiny, so the do obviously end up being prey too! In terms of the Zootopia dynamic, that would put Mr. Big on both sides of the predator/prey dichotomy.
I'm thinking it was no accident on the part of the filmmakers that they chose a shrew, rather than a mouse, as Zootopia's scariest mob boss. They still get the situational irony of a teeny animal being feared and called "Mr. Big", but he's also a truly vicious species.
There's also the issue of Little Rodentia over all. They only really went into the whole predator/prey thing in Zootopia, but there was really the bigger issue of, well...size. If, as Bellweather said, Zootopia was really only 10% predator it means that the ZPD was very over-represented in predator species statistically. Megafauna, be they predator or prey, seemed be the truly most dominant group. From what we saw Judy was not only the only bunny-cop, but the smallest cop on the force, and even she could have squished several inhabitants with one wrong step! So how would ZPD be effective in Little Rodentia when basically all their officers can't even fit inside the gate? I have a head canon that Little Rodentia being grossly under served by the ZPD is what lead to the rise of organized crime, and figures like Mr. Big, because the only choice for those who live and own businesses there would be to pay the mob for protection, or have none.
I'm thinking it was no accident on the part of the filmmakers that they chose a shrew, rather than a mouse, as Zootopia's scariest mob boss. They still get the situational irony of a teeny animal being feared and called "Mr. Big", but he's also a truly vicious species.
There's also the issue of Little Rodentia over all. They only really went into the whole predator/prey thing in Zootopia, but there was really the bigger issue of, well...size. If, as Bellweather said, Zootopia was really only 10% predator it means that the ZPD was very over-represented in predator species statistically. Megafauna, be they predator or prey, seemed be the truly most dominant group. From what we saw Judy was not only the only bunny-cop, but the smallest cop on the force, and even she could have squished several inhabitants with one wrong step! So how would ZPD be effective in Little Rodentia when basically all their officers can't even fit inside the gate? I have a head canon that Little Rodentia being grossly under served by the ZPD is what lead to the rise of organized crime, and figures like Mr. Big, because the only choice for those who live and own businesses there would be to pay the mob for protection, or have none.
Follow-up, people are right that (adult artwork aside) your stuff would be so much fun to use in a sequel. In fact, these two would be great in a kids' book, y'know, to teach kids about deafness and sign language. I can totally imagine the theme of the book being Fru Fru asking how you sign different things and Igor demonstrating. Then at the end, she asks how you sign, "You're my best friend." He shows her, and she signs it back to him. Aww.
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