Dawn: Oh, Leodore and Vera? Well, I can't exactly say why the two ended up together, as I don't really know. While Vera was kind to me, we didn't talk all that much. Our conversations were limited to rather casual topics such as the weather, or current legislation and proposals, so I always felt it was....far to personal to ask something like that. I can tell you that they did meet through Leodore's and my political rallies, and other political engagements that Leodore attended to hob-nob with Zootopia's elite political and corporate classes. But why they got together in the first place? I really don't know.
Vernon: I'd guess they were fixin' to be a power couple. Probably lookin' to boost each other's careers by hitchin' up their wagons together.
Dawn: I mean, its not entirely out of the question. But, she never gave me the impression it was as hollow as that...and I got to see them behind closed doors a number of times.
Vernon: But I mean, y'all were there with 'em right?
Dawn: Yes, but...as far as Leodore was concerned, I barely existed when we were in private, and the same went for Vera's secretary, or so I was told...at least to Leodore.
Vernon: Y'all mean he gave Barry the cold shoulder?
Dawn: I mean, he didn't treat him like a personal servant like he did me, but he was Vera's secretary, not Leodore's. I'm just saying he didn't really notice him either, which I think was one of the many reasons Vera eventually broke up with him. Still, I think she genuinely liked Leodore once...I mean, he was a charming mammal. The bulk of his campaign revolved around his charisma. So it's not out of the question that Vera was legitimately taken with Leodore. But once she got exposed to the real him...well, she had her limits it seemed.
Vernon: Y'all say limits, but how long did they actually last?
Dawn: About a year, maybe a little less? I think she tried to brush off some of his more negative behaviors and character traits in the beginning, and Leodore did try to keep his PR face on for most of the early relationship. But as he started to let it slip more and more, and it became harder for Vera to simply brush off, she had to end it.
Vernon: Was there a final straw moment there? And we're y'all around to see it?
Dawn: Actually I was. So was Barry for that matter. Vera had set up a lunch date at Leodore's office. She had brought Barry along for...actually I'm not sure why if I'm being honest. In hindsight, I feel like she might have been trying to play matchmaker with me and Barry. Regardless, at the time I still had an actual office, as this was very early on in Leodore's first term, so Barry and I were sharing lunch in there while Vera and Leodore were eating in his office. In the middle of lunch, Barry got an important call from one of Vera's clients, and so he went to enter Leodore's office to get her, only to bump into and trip Leodore right as he was coming out from the other room, apparently to demand I do something for him. Naturally, Leodore didn't take tripping and spilling his scotch well and started dressing down Barry with the same sort of contempt he usually reserved for me.
Veron: Oof...
Dawn: He had only gotten about twenty seconds into his rant, which included some very choice selections from the speciest handbook, caprid edition, such as 'clumsy damn grazer', and a 'muttonhead', when Vera got in between him and the cowering ram. That little incident seemed to be the catalyst for a lot of concerns Vera had been holding onto about Ledore's behavior all spilling out at once. She called him a selfish, arrogant egotist, which is true, and said she's sick of seeing him treat those mammals he sees as less important than he is like dirt.
Vernon: I wonder who she was talkin' about there...*Chuckles*
Dawn: Well, Leodore treated a lot of mammals he saw as beneath him like that, but Vera did glance over at me when she said that...so...
Vernon: Well ya'd have to be blind not to see how he treated y'all....er' be Leodore himself...
Dawn: I remember before she stormed out of his office, with Barry in tow, she warned Leodore that if he didn't change his ways, and started actually walking the walk instead of just talking all that talk he did on the campaign trail, it would come back to bite him in the rump. And I guess...she was right in a way...Although she probably didn't expect that I would be responsible for that bite, or that I was capable of doing...well what I did. But...I mean, a lot of mammals didn't expect that of me either.
Vernon: I'm sure a mammal-like Vera would fergive y'all based on what y'all told me about her. She seems purty...on the level.
Dawn: Well still, Vera, if you're listening to this. I'm sorry if what I did affected you. And that goes double for Barry considering the fallout the Night Howler scandal had for Sheepfolk. While I was never attracted to him, he was a sweet, respectable ram.
Vernon: I'm sure they'd both be willin' to accept that apology...hopefully that should be enough..mostly cause I don't wanna meet Barry anytime soon.
Dawn: Wait? why Puppy?
Vernon: Cause..I er...*mumbling* Don't like that Vera was tryin' to fix y'all up...
Dawn: What?
Vernon: I don't need that ram makin' any moves on my ewe.
Dawn: *Giggling* Oh Puppy, stop...We're tithed remember? And as I said earlier, Barry was not my type. And on top of all that, I'm pretty sure him and Vera are an item now.
Vernon: *Grumbles*....Still though...
Dawn: *Giggling* Oh Puppy...*Pats Vernon's head.*
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