My Once-ler AU ; O’Hare’s Pets
Pet Once-lers! Everyone’s buying them. In the upper class of society, it seems like everyone has a pet Once-ler. From the Kardashians, to Joe Biden, to Markiplier, it seems like everyone on the news or on the big screen has a little Once-ler (or two, or three) at home.
Business tycoon king O’Hare has won the Nobel Prize for his expert work in animal domestication and gene research. Once-lers may look human, but they’re docile and complacent, and so, so cute, and so much fun! He’s made billions off of his company, O’Hare’s Pets, breeding and selling Once-lers.
Once-ler breeding factories are major landmarks in the world’s most populous cities. They’re always gyms in Pokemon Go.
Then there’s… the Greed-lers.
Greed-lers have breaks in their DNA that gives them free will. Greed-lers are said to be killed at birth, turned into Thneeds for the rich elite to wear. But what happens when there’s some slacking off in the breeding factories?
When the Czech Republic gets an influx of Greed-ler adoptions, they start telling the Once-lers that they are much more than pets. They are independent, beautiful, and worthy beings. The country quickly gets overthrown by the Once-ler resistance, and Prague’s Once-ler breeding factory is burned to the ground.
As the Greed-lers go across country borders pretending to be human, they tell all of the Once-lers that they are more than pets.
It’s a war between the Once-lers and the wealthy elite. Who will win?