Don't Eat The Neighbour PROPAGANDA

I imagine this to be like a fairytale happily ever after for the Arrangement Series I'm writing, so all of the lore from there applies. Specifically Rabbit and Fox shading their hobby of textiles together. It's also set during a point when both Rabbit and Fox have sort of just, slowly stopped chasing each other and, Fox has since put 'trying to eat Rabbit' in the back burner (his way of saying he gives up without saying he gives up).

Rabbit, at some point, is prompted to consider actually taking his sewing hobby a step further, and making it his job. Since like, he's unemployed, it doesn't hurt to try (and get some extra pocket money). He's also not as fit as he used to be, and can't really go around stealing people's cabbages as much as he used to.

And then in comes Fox, who is like- "Actually though, I could buy you a building in town and you can run a tailors shop." Rabbit (ignoring how Fox is literally just offered to fund a potential business and create power imbalance) in a shocking moment of modesty, would reply that he's genuinely not experienced enough to do that, and then of course Fox chips in, "Well you'll have me, won't you?"

Bada bing bada boom- the local tailors Fox and Rabbit (uncreative name) opens for business. The two of them absolutely fought over whose name came first, but Fox ultimately won because he reasoned 1. Alphabetical order. 2. He's literally buying the store and paying for everything to get the business up and running. And unfortunately for Rabbit, his only argument had been "okay but me want name first". Regardless, whenever Rabbit talks about the business though or answers the shop landline, he puts his name first out of spite.

I can imagne the only reason Fox offered to do this and work with Rabbit is because :

Bro wants to spend more time with Rabbit now that they no longer have their hunting thing going on (causal death threats and sometimes trying to follow through on it remains a thing- except both suffer the physical repressions through relentless back pain and muscle strains).

He is bored out of his mind in retirement, which he had been in for at least a decade (or even two) by this point.

They're both ammatures despite their years of combined experience. But both of them have egos so high they've convinced everyone that they're legit.

Rabbit needs reading glasses. He hates wearing them though because still the idea of getting old pains him more than his joint pain.

It takes a while, but the two of them do eventually pay off the cost it took to buy the space and resources needed to make the store. Once that happens, Rabbit ends up taking most of the profits (maybe a 70/30 split). Fox, if you had promoted him to start this business with Rabbit years ago, would have tricked Rabbit into taking those profits for himself. But bro probably went through some character development to realise "actually you know what, it might be a good idea if I actually just let Rabbit spend and use the money, and not just hoard it in my bank account to collect interest". Insane rocket science and mental acrobatics is what it took to get here.

Anyways- both of them have stereotypical tailors habits, like the pins in the mouth and tape around the shoulders. The pin thing actually peeves Fox so much he's tried countless methods to try and get Rabbit to stop lmao. Putting pin cushions or magnets everywhere so Rabbit can just put the pins down, making him strap pin cushions to his wrist but he keeps losing it somehow- none of it works. So he has strangled Rabbit with his tape measure in frustration but that didn't yield results either. He walks into the store everyday hoping Rabbit just swallows the pins one day and faces the consequences (unbeknownst to him, it actually HAS already happened, and Rabbit had coughed it out with minor injuries in the backroom without him knowing literally because Rabbit knew Fox wouldn't even help him and just yap about how he should take that incident as a lesson).

This au is literally just "In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."

Canadian children of divorce with adhd

self-sufficient children✨ (yes, even Peter & Emily - have you seen what those two are capable of?!)

The two parental figures of the young motherless girl (Bear is more a voice of reason but deserves to be included 💕)