The Tame Collar Salvation

by J Shute Norway

A Tame Collar/ Dark AU/ Zoodystopian story set primarily from the viewpoint of Judy. Heavily inspired by 'NicholasWildes' 'Zistopia' so major feels included. Judy Hopps gets a chance of a break in the ZPD after spotting odd behaviour. 6 months later and she must enlist help from someone who has every reason to hate her to finish the job. (Uploading all chapters on 21/04)

1. Foreword

Forenote:

I decided to do this story as a mix between the original dystopian version (as opposed to the alternate history of the fantastic Zistopia comic which I have shamelessly borrowed many fantastic, original ideas from (I finished this just after part 45 was released (although I got to my blueberry pie scene before he did))) and the final implementation with Judy as the main character (albeit with some flashbacks from Nicks POV). It's my take on what the film could have been although by no means an attempt to guess the exact plot.

I chose to implement a certain feature suggested in some concept art that hasn't been seen before while following a plot structure borrowing a bit from Zistopia rather than the other dystopian novels present.

I would like to thank the creators of the original film, as well as those who made Zoodystopia, Zoo(dys)topia and Zistopia for the inspiration.

I would also like to suggest some music that might fit in with some of the chapters (with many albums making this writing very enjoyable.)

The song midway through Chapter 2: House of the rising sun (the animals)*.

The very start of chapter 10: Comfortably numb (Pink Floyd)

The song at the end of Chapter 15: Shake your tail feather (Blues brothers)*.

· * (Sets the tune to the song being sung more than anything.)

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Also: as of 24/10, deviant art user Escranius has allowed me to use some art he made, inspired by this fic, as its cover.

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NOTE: Looking back on this Fic after writing a lot more, I've come to realise that the actual writing quality is pretty remedial and no-where near the standard I can achieve. While it is very low priority, I may go back and re-write this is the future. In the meantime, I've completed another Fic: Whatever's Comfortable, which is set after the film and is, in my view, much better written. Even better written is 'Zootopia: the original plot' (an attempted full go through at the original plot), my latest in progress fan-fic. Updates are every 3 days, and in my view the writing quality has reached close to my full potential.