Disclaimer: Hello, everyone. I have been endlessly tortured by the voices inside my head toward the future of cartoons, the opinions of anyone who's watched the Sing films, and trying to stay true to popular opinion as per my curse to be a people pleaser in order to enjoy fandoms.
Basically this is a stupid meta parody idea inspired by another stupid meta fanfiction where shipping is illegal with Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde being the 'special chosen one pair' to survive this madness, and Bee Movie, where Barry B. Benson slapped a lawsuit against humans consuming honey.
I did it because it was an idea I felt should be done.
I own no characters mentioned, except the nondescript people characters that are the focus of it.
It's a quiet Saturday evening as one young adult artist was putting the finishing touches to an artwork he was creating: a picture of Buster Moon and Suki Lane from Sing 2 sitting on a bench together, with their paws on each other's. It seemed he was one of the very few who liked to pair these two together.
"Perfect" he said with a grin.
Suddenly, he heard loud footsteps racing up the stairs, and bursting in the room came a SWAT team leader yelling, "FREEZE!"
The artist yelped in alarm as he was then surrounded by a whole flock of SWAT team members entering his room, not just through his door but through his window, and even one emerged from his bathroom. They all pointed their weapons at the artist, who was scared out of his wits.
The SWAT leader barked, "Hands in the air!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! What did I do?!" shouted the artist in bewilderment, raising his hands. "I'm not hiding any illegal drugs or anything."
"How about THAT?" one other SWAT team member said, pointing to his artwork.
"Um, hi, this is just a harmless fan art of an unofficial pairing from an animated film."
"Harmless?! Ha! This is an offensive suicide waiting to happen."
The artist was in disbelief. "Who the hell are you people anyway?"
The leader explained firmly, "We represent the Canon and Popular Entertainment Opinion Enforcer Legion, or CAPEOEL for short. We make it our job to weed out any work pertaining to something unauthorized, hardly popular at all, offensive to its audiences, and/or hopeless in every possible way, as commissioned by the cartoon-reality alliances."
The second-in-command added, "Our informants have tipped us off of illegal activity in these areas, partaking in creating unauthorized works of the non-canon pairing we've been ordered to put a stop to, the koala and the Saluki from Sing 2. We discovered you happen to be one of the offenders in question."
This left the artist in further disbelief. Are these guys for real? "Offenders?! Dude, this is fan art that is family-friendly and-"
"And promotes a pairing unapproved by Mr. Meledandri, Mr. Jennings, Mr. McConnaughey, Mrs. Peretti, the staff, today's youth, or even the characters themselves," interrupted a third CAPEOEL SWAT member. "Impressionable fans and viewers should not catch sight of anything of this kind."
"Why not?" asked the artist, getting annoyed further. What's the big deal about the pairing here?
The second member explained, "It would build hopes of a foolish dreamer fond of such an unrealistic and not-well-thought-out notion only to be dashed. The less disappointment in the world, the better. Also, not many like this pairing or the female dog herself, and the execs especially like neither, and it interferes with the company's future plans."
"So, you're arresting me for this?"
"No, we're merely confiscating your work..." the leader began as he took the canvas but the artist refused to let go and soon the two got in a brief game of tug-of-war before two other CAPEOEL SWAT members pulled the artist free, and the leader won. "...and letting you off with a warning not to do it again, or you'll be charged with a fine, and if you can't pay it, THEN we'll arrest you." After placing the confiscated art into a briefcase, the leader spoke to the troops, "Alright, troops. Let's pack it up. And we apologize for the inconvenience."
The troops began to head out the ways they came in before the artist protested, "Wait! I need an art piece for my character art appreciation this upcoming weekend!"
The second-in-command turned back, saying, "Duly noted, but you can always whip up art of a more promising character with no ability to contradict popular demand, such as Johnny, Ash, Nooshy, Porsha, Mike, the elephants, the pigs, Clay Calloway, Miss Crawley...why, it doesn't even have to be Sing. There are millions of toons you can produce fanart of, as long as they're promising, relatable, believable and/or not contradicting. Good night, sir."
Soon they were gone and the artist had slumped in his chair. All that work for nothing, and now he has to start from scratch in less than 24 hours, all because the pairing seems to be prohibited.
This artist's house wasn't the only place this SWAT team stopped at. They confiscated several artworks and fanfictions (especially ones from computers) from other artists and writers over the neighborhood, who apparently liked the pairing as well, and each artist/writer was given a warning. Now, this kind of thing wouldn't happen in your reality, but this exists in a reality where real-life people and cartoons co-exist.
Would anyone like this to have a sequel with the issue resolved? Let me know.