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Unfair - Part 1 ❤️‍🩹

that happened in my dream, and i was so wtf, that i woke up lol

You mean to tell me that you fumbled our adorkable noodle guy just like that? Just like that? You gave him a little motorcycle helmet, let him move you around like an extension of his body and you just decided to betray him just like that? I thought were dork x dork here in this club😭 i thought were getting boy failure himbo x manic pixie dork boy, I didnt sign up for this betrayal😭😭

1. But props to the zootopia team tho, like that plot twist was so smooth, I did not expect that, I thought were going to have dorky boyfriends, turns out they were doomed by the start, a romeo juliet trajedy, I lowkey thought Pawbert is ganna be the exception, and is finally ganna be the one to extend that olive branch, you know? Rebel his evil family with his dorky boyfriend and meet his parents, but Pawbert didn't wanna be different no more, the trauma unfortunately goes deep, instead of romeo julliet we got "we couldve been us" and ngl I welcome the angst.

2. Now that Pawbert and his family is on jail I think our fumbled boy is ganna get beat up, ngl. Like, if he ignored the letter our snake boy sent him, none of this wouldve happen, he didnt have to "fake" his friendship with Gary that would inevitably lead his entire family behind bars, he lowkey dont need to do all of that.

- But he is so determined to be accepted, to finally be part of the family and see him as Lynxley, that he lowkey made a plan to contact Gary back, send his ass to Zootpia and befriended him just to get a chance to finally prove himself to his family.

- Btw, I love how Nick and Judy are officially each others pack and fluffle (like theyve said it, have established it! Have even inivited Nick in Judy's home) and Gary and Pawbert are in splits town, one in jail, one in zootopia. Rip for their friendship.

3. Although I cant hlelp but think of an AU where Pawbert showed this letter to his family, cause ngl, if I was put in the mail room doing my voring job and suddenly sent an anonymous letter taht has a name at the bottom with cut out letters from magizines saying that the journal carries a family secret, I'll be like: "WTF! Is this a prank?😭" I would be laughing my ass off that I would etheir throw the paper or show to my family on how ridiculous it is, cause bruh, the journal is ours, its a journal from our family, passed down by generations, no other family is involved in there right?...RIGHT?

- I cant help bit think of an AU where Pawbert's dad contacts Gary, just to see if this "anonymous" sender is real and that he is in fact a reptile, cause ngl, "De Snake" at the bottom of the letter rings some bells.

And maybe in another timeline, Pawbert voluntered to "befriend" Gary and take him out, only to soon fsll in love with him and be on his side, instead of being against him. Idk, hahahaha. I am just yapping.

Bonus:

Your art always manages to stun me with how amazing the lighting and rendering is done. 😭🫶💕

I know the movie is still very fresh in everyone's minds (especially because it literally just came out) BUT I think people's critiques of Pawbert as the twist villain, his villain arc and his lack of redemption falls flat when y'all forget what Zootopia as a whole is a metaphor for.

The first film is an obvious metaphor for bigotry—specifically racism. This is made clear with the predators being stereotyped and profiled as violent and "savage" and so many more examples. This theme continues and is expanded on into the second film with an explicit reference to colonization, gentrification and forced displacement. The Lynxleys are a family that obtained their main source of wealth/fame through the premeditated theft of the climate wall idea from Gary's ancestor (including framing her for murder and preying on the unjustified fear of reptiles other animals had). They directly profited from the theft of that idea, and Pawbert's ancestor knew exactly what would happen to reptiles when he framed one for murder. Doing so resulted in reptiles being exiled for centuries, forced to leave their homes to become property of the Lynxley family (at least the land was since the homes were still buried under snow).

The fact that generations later, the Lynxleys continued to expand and take over habitats (read: land) from other animals for their own benefit is textbook gentrification. They continued to ride off of the fame and success of having "invented" the climate wall into the present day. So with that out of the way...

Pawbert is introduced to both us and Judy as an outcast from his family, who clearly doesn't like him. Later, it's revealed that Pawbert is the mysterious animal that has been aiding Gary in his heist of the book, as well as helping him find his ancestor's home, which would lead them to the original patent page. Here, Pawbert is telling Judy and the audience (who now knows the truth of the Lynxley family), "I am not my family. I am not my ancestors" (something similar to what Judy says to him later after he poisons her). Pawbert appears to be a traitor to the Lynxleys, and by extension, a class traitor, because he makes the effort to help Gary (a member of the oppressed class) bring out the truth. If the world (our world) was perfect, this is the ideal position for someone with wealth and power that was gained through something as sinister as forced displacement and exploitation to take.

+) KOR