Dawn: Lamb Sakes! I completely forgot about the Nocturnal District.
Honey: Yeah, you and everyone else...we're always Zootopia's after thought.
Dawn: Sorry Honey.
Honey: *Chuckles* Just be thankful I'm not Ulric, I would have accused you of taking part in some sort of conspiracy to de-legitimize the existence of Nocturnal Mammals.
Dawn: *Giggles* Right....Well, the Nocturnal District for those who don't know, is a large underground District made up of a series of massive caverns that were largely carved out by Zootopia's aquifer.
Honey: And expanded on by the inhabitants over the last fifty or sixty years...
Dawn; According to the previous census, it has less than five-hundred-thousand mammals living there. As for actually living there...well, I think Honey would have a better grasp of what it's like than someone like me.
Honey: Living there is, sort of cozy if your a burrower mammal like me. There's a lot of natural beauty carved into the district, lots of waterfalls and pools lit up by natural bio-luminescence. Most of the 'buildings' are built into the cave walls, but the 'heart' of the District is styled to look like a cluster of Stalagmites and Stalactites wrapped up in a blanket of sleazy neon, and that's where most of the 'fun' stuff goes on. All night casinos, bars, dance halls, you name it, we've got it. Of course, the laxer laws in the district have helped give it it's rather....seedy image int terms of the way most Zootopian's see it. Drinking, Drugs and Gambling are all way more loosely regulated, that the ZPD in the district has a really hard time keeping organized crime down. Of course, I have my own theories about that. Ones that involve corruption and scandal that go all the way up to the Chief of the Nocturnal District's ZPD.
Dawn: Yes, I remember I had a very hard time getting Lionheart to do anything about the District's issues. He preferred turning a blind eye to it like his predecessors...
Honey: *Chuckles* It would take an effort from every District in Zootopia, clamping down all at once to really clean the district up, but that would go against a lot of Zootopia's whole 'let the mammal's of a district help shape it' attitude and make them look like hypocrites. The place has been a bit of a crime nest since prohibition. It's the primary reasons Zootopia prefers 'memory holing' the whole district all together. But issues aside, there's a lot of upsides to living there, the primary being the fact that the entire schedule of the district is built around mammals with my circadian rhythm. And despite how accommodating Zootopia at large tries to be, Nocturnal mammals still have it difficult living anywhere but in the Nocturnal District. There's all no shortages of places to sight-see, or places to just have a generally good time without the....seedier aspects of the district seeping in. For better or worse, I still would want to live in the Nocturnal District over any of the others...
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