Author's Note:
I just want to say now, my grammar is not the best, so just stick to the point of the story, and don't get caught up in all the grammar mistakes. I am writing because God gave me the gift, desire, and ideas to even begin writing. I find ways to praise Him through this. "God wants you to use the gifts, talents, desires, hobbies, and likes He gave you to praise him." – Pastor Mike Murray. I figured some people might want to know who I thought would voice all the characters, and this will also have an Author's Commentary on each chapter. Only read the commentary after you have read the story, because there are spoiler reveals. The cast list is probably not complete.
WRITER:
PizzaSteve3902
COVER DESIGN:
PizzaSteve3902
CAST:
Nick Wilde: Jason Bateman
Judy Hopps: Ginnifer Goodwin
Chief Bogo: Idris Elba
Ben Clawhauser: Nate Torrence
Bonnie Hopps: Bonnie Hunt
Stuart Hopps: Don Lake
Jeff Wilde: Harrison Ford
Marie Wilde: Carrie Fisher
Viki Wilde-Worth: Christie Ellis
James Jefferson: Oscar Isaac
Oscar Felix: Adam Driver
Gideon Grey: Phil Johnston
Flash Slothmore: Raymond Persi
Mister Manches: Jesse Corti
Finnick: Tommy Lister
Gazelle: Shakira
Nancy Thump: Daisy Ridley
Officer McHorn: Mark Smith
Will Wolfard: Hayden Christensen
Gang Boss: Samuel Jackson
The Nurse: Natalie Portman
Walter Jag: John Boyega
Jack Frost: Liam Neeson
AUTHOR'S COMMENTARY:
Chapter 1:
Originally, having the YouTube video in there as the prologue was there to be funny, but in chapter 5, I saw where I could use that for the benefit of Nick.
The names for the two undercover officers came from that Jag was a jaguar, and Frost's name came from my cat, Jack 'Frosty' Frost. Although Frost is not white like my cat, I figured I could put a reference to my cat in there somewhere.
Chapter 2:
Living and working on a Dairy Farm in eastern Oklahoma has its injuries. Especially now, in September 2016, when it seems after one rain storm goes through, another comes. Yesterday, while I was sorting cows and heifers, I was climbing a fence, and fell down about five feet onto some uneven concrete. I landed on my back, but my right foot felt similar to how Nick must have felt.
The restaurant's name is actually French for, "Delicious Poultry and Vegetables." The reason for this name was because in Zootopia, predators must eat some form of meat, but since they can't eat another mammal, why not poultry? According to the 1976 World Book Encyclopedia, (Yes, I have a full set of a 1976 Encyclopedia.) "Red Foxes' diet consists of mainly small mammals such as rabbit, squirrel, skunk, as well as wild berries, especially blueberries, and they will eat poultry when they can catch them."
In this chapter, Oscar Felix is introduced.
Chapter 3:
The price for the grilled cheese sandwich is based off of a restaurant that my grandpa went to for a Milk Co-op meeting. He said the prices were outrageous, and a small steak was almost $150.
Mozzarella sticks are one of my favorite foods. I wanted to put them in somewhere.
Nick and Finnick were twelve when the picture was taken, and that was the beginning of Nick and Finnick's hustling career.
Archie was an arctic fox who Nick was high school friends with. The full story of Archie's death, with all the little details, will be told in the prequel.
Chapter 4:
Viper X012. This car is a cross between a 1969 Chevy Corvette, and a 2017 Dodge Challenger. It has the hood of the Corvette, with the cab and trunk of the Challenger, with the taillights of a Corvette. That would be an awesome car if it existed!
Just a side note, but I think I have a song for every occasion, mood, and even songs that describe something about a character. Dead Man by We As Human is a great song, and it describes Nick quite well. He was battling himself as a hustler, but Judy came and 'pulled the dead man out' of Nick. Now Nick has a new life. The song is being sung by the band as praise to God for giving life to them.
The fact that the gang was beating Nick up so he could join is based off of a scene in the movie, "Courageous." In it, this young man tried to join a gang, but they beat him up. After they beat him up, they hugged him and the leader said he was their brother now.
Chapter 5:
Here is where the video comes into play.
Judy's thoughts while she was listening to Nick at the gang is misplaced. It somehow got there, when it should have been later in the chapter, when I copied/pasted the story. It shouldn't cause any confusion, but it is misplaced nonetheless.
I wrote the story all the way to chapter twenty before I began publishing it.
Chapter 6:
The Candyman (Oscar Felix) is slick. He knew the ZPD was onto him, so he staged his arrest, or murder, whichever way they took it, so they could leave him alone. He would then lay low, work at the museum for a while until his stock went back up. He would then go back into business.
The original working title for the story was, "The Gang Strikes at Midnight." But after the gang part was over, I wanted to continue writing it, so that title was scrapped and the title was changed to, "Unfinished Story." When it was finished, I needed a title. I was sitting there, looking at the publish screen. Then the title, "The Rough Life of Nick Wilde" just came to me.
There was a "deleted scene" in taking the gang out. At first, Nick would go out of the building, and get in the truck with Judy, until Bogo told him to get into the ambulance. I changed it to where Nick helped take the gang down in this part.
Chapter 7:
Here we meet Nick's parents, and Nick's sister, Viki is mentioned. I wanted to have the readers meet his parents, so they would be even more heartbroken when they died.
There was another "deleted scene" in this chapter, too. At first, they were going to go to the museum and talk with Oscar, so I could try to make Oscar be established as a friend to Nick and Judy. But why would four adults who are not history fanatics go to a museum?
These are some of my opinions of Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens. Name a few things in IV, and I'll name the same thing in VII. I am working on my own version of The Force Awakens for any readers who agree with me that it should be different.
Chapter 8:
I wanted to show the readers that Nick sometimes has anger outbursts, like I do. I'm not perfect, and neither is anyone on earth.
This scene where Nick was letting his anger out in the woods was just a random thought I had one day. "What if Nick had a spot where he would go to let his anger out, without people watching him?" I thought to myself.
Chapter 9:
The fact that Nick had nightmares of losing people he loved soon before he did lose them is based off Anakin Skywalker in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. He had nightmares of losing his mother, then he lost her. He had nightmares of losing Padme, then he lost her.
The part where Nick and Judy were sitting on the porch in rocking chairs, with the little bunnies watching was based off a Zootopia FanFic I read, but I forgot the title. Sorry.
First kiss almost ruined by a passerby who knew you! I always thought it funny in movies where the main male and main female fall in love, and they have a kiss where they think it's private, and they get interrupted by someone who knows them. (The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo and Leia Organa share a kiss in the Millennium Falcon, and C-3PO interrupts them is one example.)
Chapter 10:
The call that Marie made to Nick was how the gang boss found Nick's parents. He tracked the call and waited until Nick left to attack. This was why Bogo had said to not call them.
"I create feelings in others that they themselves don't understand," Is a quote by Lightning McQueen in Cars after he met Sally. When I was five, and that movie was brand new, it was the one thing I could think about. I saw the movie in the theater like ten times. No joke. When the DVD came out, we saw the movie again like over a thousand times. I can quote the movie word for word if I wanted to.
Okla-dens-a. That sound familiar? Okla-hom-a. Fox dens, human homes.
Marine Corps are the best. Semper Fidelis and OOHRAH!
Notice where the uncle and aunt's names came from? They come from the fact that at the end of Disney's Robin Hood, Robin Hood married Maid Marian.
When Nick said he had Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, I got that from the Disney Wiki. The trivia for Nick Wilde says, "Nick seems to suffer from PTSD [that is] triggered by muzzles." I decided that he could suffer from PTSD because of Archie's death too. Another side note, my dad has PTSD from being deployed in the Marines during Operation: Iraqi Freedom.
Judy's dream she had with her getting kidnapped, is a hint at what happens in the sequel, but Nick won't be the one to save her.
Chapter 11:
Webbers Dens, Okladensa is where Nick's parents live, and I live in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. Now you see the references making much more sense.
The trucks the Razorbacks used to get to the house would be like the 1966 Chevrolet C60 grain truck my grandpa used to own. It had a brake line and fuel line leak, so the inside of the truck smelled like brake fluid, oil, and gasoline.
According to Disney, Nick's middle name, Piberius, is a reference to Captain Kirk from Star Trek. Captain James Tiberius Kirk and Nicolas Piberius Wilde.
Nick's losing two fingers is a reference to Javs27's FanFic, but this goes a different direction from there.
Chapter 12:
Chapter 12 marks the halfway point in the FanFic.
The story behind what happened to the Wildes and James is, when James had radioed for backup, he went inside the house to help Nick, but the guard at the door knocked him out. They brought all of the family and James to the basement, and tied them up. Nick was in a different part of the basement while he was "interrogated." Viki and James woke up and broke out. The guard found them and beat Viki up, puncturing her lung. James tried to stop him, but the gangster had a machete and stabbed James' right leg all the way through, and broke his leg off. (Bloody and violent, right?) After Jeff and Marie were poisoned, they left them all and ran off, because they knew the ZPD was coming. I hope that explains some of the story.
Milk. My second favorite drink. Nick loves it like I do. Water is my favorite, and A&W Root Beer is third.
When Nick said, "There are always going to be scars," I had "Get Back Up" by TobyMac on my mind. In the song, there is a line, "There's always scars when you fall that far." That is so true. It fits this scene pretty well in my opinion. (Personally, I like the remix of the song better than the original.)
Chapter 13:
This will reveal a bit about Nick's early life, and why he didn't have a father much growing up. The prequel will take this entire eulogy into higher detail.
Chapter 14:
Wilbur Cardigan is a reference to Charlotte's Web 2. Wilbur the pig became good friends with Cardigan, the only black sheep in the flock.
In case you wondered why Nick could talk with the muzzle on, there is a scene in Zootopia, where an officer is taking a wolf with a muzzle and handcuffs on to jail, and the wolf is talking as he is being taken away. "Oh come on! He barred his teeth first!"
If you watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, (Before Disney canceled it. *grumble grumble*) you might remember the character General Pong Krell. He was Anakin Skywalker's temporary replacement to lead the 501st Legion. He turned out to be a Jedi traitor, and he tried to have the Battle Droids kill all the clone troopers. He was killed by a clone traitor, believe it or not. When Anakin returned, Captain Rex tried to explain what happened. I think this was one reason Rex ended up deserting before the Clone War ended.
Chapter 15:
The prosthetic idea came from a documentary made back in 2009 about Star Wars technology. In it, they said Star Wars type complexity prosthetics can become a reality within the next few decades. I thought, what if the mammals got prosthetic technology advances sooner?
Originally the sheep who gave Nick his prosthetic was named Woolter, but that was the same as one of the evil rams in the movie. I changed it to Squire. I got that name from looming around my room, and noticing my electric guitar. The brand was Squire by Fender, and I figured that was a good name.
Chapter 16:
The engagement chapter was the fastest chapter I wrote. It took like thirty minutes, and I was done with it.
Chapter 17:
June 6 is a special day for me, too. (And it's not D-Day.)
This chapter is based off of an episode of the show, The Inspectors. All people with tv can watch this show. It comes on at eight in the morning (Central Time) on Sundays on CBS. Everyone gets CBS. (Unless you live outside of the US, of course.)
Lair of Grevious is one of my favorite episodes of The Clone Wars, and Kit Fisto is one of my favorite characters from the show.
Chapter 18:
This chapter was redone like three times before I finished it.
Chapter 19:
I actually had some "sparkly fizzy egg nog" before. It was not very good…
The mystery of the Candyman is brought back up in this chapter.
The name of "Ken" is from the main character in my Star Wars FanFic. (But it should be canon…)
Nicole's name came from one of the feminine versions of Nick.
Chapter 20:
The whole Gazelle concert was put here for the sole purpose to fill up space. I was running out of things to make the story longer, so I had to put something.
Not related to the story, but I can play Try Everything on acoustic guitar pretty well, if I don't say so myself.
The robot scene in the store was another random thing I put in to take up space.
Chapter 21:
The time it took to drive back to Zootopia of three hours is what I guessed. Since I live approximately 150 miles from Oklahoma City, and it takes about two and a half hours to get there, it would take about three hours to drive the 211 miles from Bunnyburrow to Zootopia.
Like I said in the Author's Note at the end of this chapter, I don't know how adoption goes, so I just did what seemed logical. (Am I turning into Spock? That can't be. It's not logical. Ah! I am turning into Spock!)
Chapter 22:
This is where my friend has a cameo appearance that continues into the sequel, but not as big a roll there. She is a red wolf with blue highlights, according to the friend.
It's a little funny that South American Grey Foxes are much smaller that North American Red Foxes, but Nick is supposed to be one.
Chapter 23:
Chuck Norris. Everyone knows that name. Fun Fact, Chuck Norris is from Oklahoma. That makes me "proud to be an Okie from Muskogee" county. After a while of searching, I found the episode title of the Walker Texas Ranger this chapter and the next are based off of. It is "Undercover." (I think.) I only saw like the last thirty minutes of the episode.
The USS Nimitz is a super aircraft carrier of the US Navy, and the first ship of the Nimitz class supercarriers.
Chapter 24:
Smashing the windshield of a moving car? Classic Chuck Norris move there.
Originally, the epilogue was much shorter. (Accidentally, the epilogue in the story is called the prologue.) It was lengthened when I discovered a discrepancy in the chapter numbers.
Final, Final Big Author's Note:
I hope everyone who reads my stories will see past the grammar mistakes and keep their eyes on the point of the whole thing. Please PM me if you have an interest in being a proofreader for the sequel, prequel, or the "tv show one-shots," or if you have any questions about anything. (I mean ANYTHING.) The sequel will pick up about fifteen years after this story takes place. If you would please review, favorite, and follow, that would be much appreciated. Thank you for all of the reads. See you readers next time! Ciao!