For anyone who isn't aware, March 26, 2000 is Mr. Peabody's birthday, according to an image on Tumblr. I can't remember exactly where it was from, but I'm pretty sure it was official. We are also to assume the events of the movie happen in real time, as in, near when the movie came out. Evidenced by us getting the literal "Present day" subtitle, and the fact that the newspaper clipping of Peabody adopting Sherman shows July 20, 2006 as the date. The same post with Peabody's birthday on Tumblr also reveals that Sherman's birthday is April 15, but no year. Since the events of the movie happen in present day September, which is roughly 6 months after April, (technically October 15 is 6 months after April 15, so you weren't QUITE yet 7 ½ Sherman) and 7 years after 2006 is 2013, this means Sherman's birthday is April 15, 2006, and the events of the movie take place in September 2013, likely the 3rd, because that would've been the first day of school for most districts. MEANING, Peabs is a whopping 13 years old when the movie happens, thus throwing any question of whether he has the lifespan of a dog out the window. SO, I wanted to write this story for his birthday, on or near these present days, March 23-26, 2018, which means he is 17 years old, soon to be 18 in a few days, and Sherman is 11, soon to be 12 in a few weeks. This also made me realize that I wrote about the future in Home and Time is a Matter of Perspective, pretty cool. I also have one for Sherman's birthday-ish that's been in rough draft form for a couple years now already, but I have a different use for it in a new project I am working on…
My writing style also seems to have gone through some major changes recently. If you haven't already gathered from any of my previous fics, my writing style is more 'dialog oriented' Meaning dialog takes up the majority of what I write, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I read fics all the time where there are just paragraphs and paragraphs of described detail, and there isn't anything wrong with that either, I love it. I want to write that way too, but when I just write naturally I don't really do that. But recently I've noticed that I'm describing more, details of scenes around characters, what they're thinking, etc. and I think that's contributing to my chapter/fic lengths and I think that started with Time is a Matter of Perspective. I didn't plan at all to make this long and was originally going to put it in Drabble Collection, but it quickly ballooned into this 5k word story and definitely wouldn't be considered a drabble anymore.
Warning: I am a major Marvel fanboy, and I can imagine Sherman would be too, so there's some rather in-depth Marvel conversation in this.
Also, my first time writing Leonardo, yay! Hopefully I keep him in character and don't butcher his accent.