Ask The BellHunters: Ask Wasty; Post Apocalyptic AU

Ask the BellHunters

Hello, I'm Dawn Hunter-Bellwether...er, formerly Dawn Bellwether if you didn't recognize the added surname. And before you ask, yes 'that' Dawn Bellwether. Ex-Assistant Mayor, Ex-Mayor, Ex-Criminal Mastermind (Reformed thank you very much), City Savior, Controversial Author, and Predator/Prey relationship advocate. I'm also, as you probably guess by the hyphenated last name, married, and happily so to my mate Vernon Hunter, a gray wolf. I'm also a mother to three wonderful pups, something I never thought I'd ever have the chance to be! But, lamb sakes, I've gushed enough about myself here without explaining exactly what this blog is for. You see, after the release of my book “Predator Seeking Prey”, our little family started to get a lot of public attention again, and with it came a lot of question from curious mammals and other pred/prey couples from all over Animalia. My best friend and mate Vernon thought it would be a good idea to deal with these questions directly by opening a sort of blog/forum and taking those questions about our lives directly. Since then, I'd like to say our little blog has been quite successful, with even members of our family and friend circle pitching in and taking a few questions as well. So with all that said., please feel free to Ask Away!

Oh, and also, feel free to check our old location for previous asks until we can get a better archive system in place!

The original Ask Dawn And Vern Tumblr! This blog is a continuation/reboot of the "AskDawnAndVern" tumblr, as I am permanently locked out of the Tumblr at present.

https://askdawnandvern.tumblr.com/

(Blog Author Note: This blog is based on the fanfiction “The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether” as well as it's pseudo-sequel “A Lamb Among Wolves”. If you haven't read them, it'll probably help you better understand what's going on here if you do. I'll link both stories below. Oh Also, I'm open to questions as well. Simply direct “Author” emails to “WastedTime” when composing them. And before I forget, I have a Patreon! Five dollars gets you access to in progress fics, Ask priority, and art previews of both SFW and NSFW art. Of course, even a dollar would help. Seriously, it's how I keep projects like this alive.

The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11999389/1/The-Rehabilitation-of-Dawn-Bellwether

A Lamb Among Wolves:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12364172/1/A-Lamb-Among-Wolves

Wasted Time's Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/wastedtimeee

Friday, August 5, 2022

Ask Wasty; Post Apocalyptic AU

Wasty: Ooh... this is a fun space to play in...so much so it's hard to center on an idea as exactly what type of world-ender thing I'd want to go with...Zombies are played out I think, so I don't want to go anywhere in that direction. I think...if I had to pick a scenario...I'm thinking a "The Stand" Scenario. A super plague wipes out close to ninety-five percent of Animalia's population, this includes Dawn and Vern's friends, family and adopted kids, leaving only the two of them raising Paige in this new, nearly empty world.

Dawn and Vern would both be pretty emotionally traumatized after witnessing everyone they loved die in one of the most agonizing and (compared to other post-apocalyptic scenarios) and slowest ways possible, especially when it came to Allison and Edison. With Zootopia left an empty shell of a city, with animal corpses filling overflowing into the streets, the family would probably end up hitting the road in search of scientists looking to synthesize a cure from their apparent natural immunity as well as survivors.

What would keep them going? Helping to create a cure should they find mammals working on one, their love for one another, and finding somewhere safe and stable for Paige to grow up. Eventually, they'd settle in a town where survivors have grouped around a lab synthesizing a cure, and settle into as best a life as they could while haunted by the painful memories of those they lost. They'd probably end up farmers like Vernon's parents, and life would probably be largely like early 1900s living save for a pawful of modern tech that's actually usable by the survivors, as the significantly shrunken populace struggles to relearn and re-establish the level of technology previously wielded by the pre-plague Animalia. I imagine it wouldn't be until Paige was in her thirties or older that the new society would come close to recovering, and that's under the best of conditions.

(I wanted to have this and a longer one out yesterday and today but due to a combo of health and life issues things got kinda screwed up. Expect that loner one next week!)