Wasty: Yeah, that was pretty grim. So I'm up for taking another shot. That said, I probably wouldn't go full OOo, or however you say it. I do prefer these sort of scenarios to be just...a teensy bit more grounded. Whereas the world of Adventure Time is all over the place in terms of rules and what one can stumble across. I prefer to keep my wild and broken nonsensical worlds to realms one step above single solar systems. (Aka Multiverse and Beyond)
That said, I could definitely jive with an Animalia that was preceded by humans. And humans being, well humans, destroy themselves in atomic hellfire, or maybe it was something entirely beyond their control...perhaps something from space that wiped out humanity and stimulated the cells across the remaining mammals to evolve to a human-like state over time. It depends on how much I'd want to go with a 'Don't make the mistakes we did" angle with Animalia's former civilization.
That said, despite the options provided, there's just something so alluring about the idea of Dawn and Vern being ancient dungeon delvers. Digging deep within the submerged and buried cities once inhabited by humans to find valuable treasure to sell off to the highest bidder. Is it sketchy? Probably. Morally grey for sure. But I can see them regularly getting wrapped into the mystery of the ultimate fate that befell the humans, and eventually becoming more transfixed with what became of them over the treasures themselves. There would also be all sorts of little micronations around Animalia, from simple one-mammal despots who lord over a commune holed up in an old human casino, to actually established kingdoms. I could easily see the aforementioned despot contracting Dawn and Vern to retrieve a treasure for him, only for the misadventure to end with his dictatorship toppled and the treasure scattered to the winds.
It would definitely have a bebop feel, with Dawn and Vernon being more heavy on the snark when it comes to chatting back and forth, but still just as in love. That said, I don't think they'd have kids for quite some time, as that would require settling down for a while, which is something neither of them would be ready to do. After all, Adventure Awaits!
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