"You can call me Kitty." Defender of Toons, Creator of Mayhem, Lover of the Unloved.
Kitty Hawkins🖌Independant OC Roleplay🖌Multiverse🖌Semi-Selective🖌Mun and Muse 21+🖌5 years of experience🖌 Mostly 1980s-set🖌Faceclaim: Jennifer Beals/Alex Owens from "Flashdance"🖌mun: thatnerdgirl7
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I know that Kitty can very easily defend herself, but Shiny would absolutely be like a protective, cool big sister to her. And during her you get years, would let Kitty think that she really scared some jerk off.
Kitty: Did you see that guy when I came back?? He looked like he saw a ghost! Good to know I got through to him.
Shiny: You sure did, kid
*before Kitty's return*
Shiny, tapping her claws menacingly on the table while glaring the jerk down: If you don't apologize to my friend, I'm gonna turn your booth into a ballroom blitz.
(Thought of this at work today and wanted to share XD)
Kitty walks away feeling like a million bucks while Shiny's like "Humans don't know how lucky they are to have a friends like toons sometimes." 😂
I have an actual idea for a possible story for Shiny and the weasels! I mean like something that could be a multi chapter fanfic?? I'll never get around to it, I know. But I still wanted to tell you about it since I think you might like it ^^
Somehow, the weasels are brought back to life, sans Smartass since he needs to be drawn again (I'm still figuring this out, though). But it's the 70's-80's, now. Toontown is so different, and the boys stick out like sore thumbs. They all run into Shiny while she's on the run from the police. I'm debating whether or not the five of them all manage to run away, or they all get brought to the station. I'm leaning more towards the latter, though, since Shiny actually recognizes them all and can see they are struggling with adjusting to modern Toontown, and offers her assistance in exchange for theirs (with what, I'm not sure. By now, Shiny has mostly moved on from the burlesque life and is mainly a home brewer who dabbles in various crimes. Maybe she tells them she needs help covering her tracks, or she wants to get out of Toontown. I'm debating it 😅).
I'm kind of imagining the exchange happening similarly to Chel and Miguel and Tulio from The Road to El Dorado (which is kind of fitting, since I recently rewatched the movie and it was what inspired me this plot XD)
Greasy, absolutely not checking Shiny out while regarding her with suspicion: And why should we help you, eh?
Stupid: But why not? She's trying to help us!
Wheezy: Not for free, though...
Shiny: Ah, you're right. Why should you? I mean, after all. You all definitely know what's been happening in Toontown, all the three decades you all have been dead.
Greasy: =_=
Shiny: You are all very much aware of all the secrets these toons, old and new, have. You already know the new laws that have been laid out...
Weasels: *glancing to each other*
Shiny: Oh! And we can't forget your designs!! You don't at all need to know how to adjust them to fit in with the times? Of course not. Especially not from me, who's been at this since the 30's-
Greasy: !?!? There is nothing wrong with my style!-
Shiny: So you don't need my help? To keep the pigs off your tails while you figure out how to bring your boss back? I'm certain they'll be so understanding with you boys trying to dip the whole town-
Greasy, waving his hands to get her to shut up before the guards overhear: Alright! Alright, we can negotiate, hermosa...
Yeah, this idea is still half baked. But I'm thinking that for a sequal fic with Griny, this is how they get together. I also have a scene in my head where, after they start to get closer, Shiny and Greasy sit down together with a box of photos she has from her whole life. Some of them just places Shiny wanted to remember, some of them with her coworkers who have all gone on to do their own thing. Some of the photos just Shiny all on her own... And in the middle of this, while looking at some photos of Shiny in her club days, Greasy wonders aloud how he never heard of such a beauty when he was alive. And Shiny just shrugs, saying how they probably did see each other. He's a hound, and she worked in the profession that Greasy would have dumped his money in the most; he most like was one of her clients at some point, "But neither of us cared enough to actually see each other. Not like how we do now." Just a very deep moment between them both that shows each other how they think and how far they've come.
//This is adorable! I'm seeing Shiny meet up with the boys in like, a jail cell and her reaching through the bars juuust slightly to persuade Greasy and grind him down. And them being in the 1980s is a yes from me as you know 😆 40 years on, how things have changed, how they will continue to change etc.
As for Smartass being brought back to life I did read a fic once where the weasels got his old model sheets and found a photo copier that worked like a reanimator and brought him back that way and he's conpletely disorientated but soon his memory starts to jog. I'd be curious to see just how much he remembers from their old job and fighting Eddie Valiant. And of course, Greasy finally getting a woman who can keep him under her thumb understand him! 😂
Wish man,,,,just makes me sad bc it FEELS like a lot of creative and talented people wanted to tell a unique story, but at every turn The Big Man kept twisting and turning their material to be as safe and sanitized as possible for focus groups,,,,
the team originally wanted it to be 2D animation to celebrate Disney's 100 years of filmmaking, but were told it'd be too limiting (thanks for firing a bunch of the 2D animators back in 2013, Disney) and to change it to the standard CGI
every concept idea that was changed made the film worse/more generic
ex. potential shapeshifting star boy character became head empty blobby mascot that would probably sell well as a toy
ex. ROYAL VILLAINOUS COUPLE (THE FUCKING SLAY THIS COULD'VE BEEN??? THE "FUCK EVERYONE BUT MY WONDERFUL S/O" DYNAMIC???) changed to evil man with holier than thou good wife (that is immediately ok with kicking him to the dungeon for being evil with no hesitation at the end lol)
hiring pop song writers for an animated musical picture
Like
You can just SMELL the interference from the higher ups???
Another song that Singer!Poppy could sing on stage! La Seine from A Monster in Paris. Imagine her singing this beautiful song the night she and Smartass met ^^
//Ooooooooh I love this song!!!!!! I loved the movie too, saw it when it first came out!
So I got an idea yesterday; Shiny and Poppy, but they swap careers.
Shiny I can imagine becoming somewhat like Edna Mode XD she starts off as a regular seamstress, but she starts designing and making her own clothes to sell, which slowly but surely gained her a following and clients. Eventually, she buys her own store and starts her own business. She's sassy and doesn't take anyone's shit while still designing you the best outfit in your wardrobe (imagine Greasy and Shiny in that "No capes!" Scene. I know Greasy's coat isn't a cape, but I'm certain that thing has gotten stuck in plenty of doors XD)
Poppy, I can see her becoming a singer in a dive bar instead of a full-blown burlesque club like Shiny. She's dressed like the other singers in the more revealing (for her at least) dresses, but she shies away from the spotlight and sings different tunes. Songs more about love and tragedy (like this song you introduced me to, or La Vie En Rose). Sometimes even singing in the French language. If the bar has it, she could even play on the piano during her number. (Imagine Smartass meeting Poppy this way! Maybe he's on his own taking a break from his Patrol, or they all went out to drink, and Poppy happens to be performing that night too).
//Okay I love this AU, Shiny as a sassy fashion designer, holding a very long cigarette lighter and giving deadpan instructions "Love it...sell it...burn it..."
Also AWWWW I am a sucker for "Character hears another character sing for the first time and then they fall in love" trope. I can see them all going in to take a break from their long day of crime and they order drinks and get a fancy booth and as Greasy is tongue-lolling at all the dancers/singers onstage, Smartass has his attention turned on the French-speaking bunny singing in a cute little number on stage. Almost as if she's singing just for him...