Gus: I mean, I think in terms of Dismurnea stuff, it's kind of reflective of the time.
Melly: Or I mean, the story being told. Obviously the Lion King is always going to feature Simba and Nala as lions...Although they did explore that whole Kion and Jasira couple thing in the more recent 'Lions of the guard' miniseries.
Gus: What I mean is that the more recent stuff is going to more...experimental? In terms of pairings. Case and point "Lions of the guard."
Melly: Snow woolt for instance, is a ewe, and the Prince is a ram.
Gus: Well with a name like that, it's also a given. But I mean, Tarzand and Jane didn't stray so far in terms of species, with Tarzand being an antelope, and Jane Porthoof being a doe.
Melly: Herculion strays a bit further with Mewgara being a Leopard and Herculion being well...a lion.
Gus: I'd say hooves down, the most dramatic interspecies pairing is Cetacia; the Lost Empire. I mean a Fox and a Dolphin creature....that's pretty out there.
Melly: They did make Delphida look pretty for something so...alien-looking I guess. I mean, her and Milo did look cute together. I'm cool with that canon ship.
Dawn: Yeah....but since Dolphins don't...really exist anymore, can you count that as Dismurinae taking some sort of risk in portraying cross-species romance?
Gus: At the end of the day, it's all fictional isn't it? I'd say it counts. Dolphins used to exist, therefore they aren't like...completely made up aliens.
Melly: Also Ariel was technically half-cetacean right? That's how mermaids are classified? So it wasn't like Dolphida was the first.
Dawn: True..., but by the end of the film she was all cougar. And so was the prince. I don't think you can count them, because by the end of the movie they were the same species.
Melly: I suppose that means Beauty and the Beast is out too.
Dawn: Yes, as much as that's one of my all-time favorites, Beast turned into a buck at the end instead of a lion. And Belle was already a doe...so...
Gus: Mam' a lot of the oldies feature Bucks and Does....or Lions and Lionesses...When are we going to get a goat Prince and a goat princess already. *Laughs*
Melly: I think the best we'll have to settle for is Esmeralda's friend Djali from the Hunchpack of Coltredam. At least for now.
WT: Yes, Cetacia is Zootopia's "Lost City of Atlantis" Equivilant. Brayto's descriptions, as well as information gleaned from various cultures around Animalia all, seem to have some myth about a species of smooth-skinned, extremely intelligent aquatic mammal having existed up until a great calamity either sealed them away from the surface world, or that they elected to seal themselves away until the deemed the surface mammals worthy to be further enlightened by them. "mermaid" stories have also further muddied this ancient tall tale, despite most mermaid sightings now being choked up to ancient sailors seeing manatees while delirious. Some legends have these ancient dolphins coming to the land in strange costumes similar to what we'd now compare to a swimsuit, although having the opposite function, to enlighten burgeoning mammalian tribes. While other legends tell of mammals who were taken back to the fabulous underwater domed city the Cetaceans called their home, and shown fantastic wonders eons beyond the technology available to the surface mammals at the time before being returned to the surface.
However, in truth Dolphins were one of the few species of mammals spared by whatever caused mammals as a whole to take what historians call 'the great leap'. Nearly all sea mammals didn't make that leap before the ice age, and sadly in the case of Dolphins, they quickly went extinct before the ice age even started. To date they have yet to find a single set of Dolphin remains from after that period in the fossil record, and following that logic, there would be no way this supposed evolution of the Dolphin family could exist in modern Animalia. However, many conspiracy theorists still cling to the existence of the Cetacean race, and their secret domed city. And many believe that one day the Cetaceans will reconnect with the mammals on the surface, when the time is right.
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