#judy hopps x child reader

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Masterlist: Archived Fandoms

All my writing for Hamilton, Sherlock, Harry Potter, Newsies, A Series of Unfortunate Events, 101 Dalmatian Street, Zootopia, Wall-E, Ratatouille, The Maze Runner, Descendants, Once Upon A Time, Hook, She-Ra, The Incredibles, My Little Pony: A New Generation, Wizards of Waverly Place and Captain Marvel will be linked here!

*I do NOT wish to receive further requests for these fandoms. They're archived for a reason, I'd like to leave these up for people in those fandoms to enjoy but I reserve the right to delete anything on here without warning

Imagines full on one shots with your favourite characters

HAMILTON THE MUSICAL

Thomas Jefferson Permission to Court? (Gender Neutral Reader)

King George I Missed You (Female Reader) Don't Need Riches (Gender Neutral Reader)

BBC SHERLOCK

John Watson Can't Sleep (Gender Neutral Reader)

Sherlock Holmes He's a Jerk (Gender Neutral Reader)

HARRY POTTER

Newt Scamander Awkward (Gender Neutral Reader)

Sirius Black Muggle (Gender Neutral Reader) Deal (Female Reader) Intimate (Female Reader) Try Again (Gender Neutral Reader) Reunion (FtM Reader)

Remus Lupin Girlfriend? (Female Reader)

Queenie Goldstein Lovely Thoughts (Female Reader)

Harry Potter Hogsmeade (Gender Neutral Reader)

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

Klaus Baudelaire Happy Birthday (Gender Neutral Reader) Alone (Gender Neutral Reader) Letters (Gender Neutral Reader) Jack London (Gender Neutral Reader) Yours (Gender Neutral Reader) Substitute (Gender Neutral Reader) Valentine (Gender Neutral Reader) Moving On (Female Reader) Not That Easy (Gender Neutral Reader) Bad Day (Gender Neutral Reader) Anniversary (Gender Neutral Reader)

Duncan Quagmire Christmas Party (Female Reader) Jealous (Female Reader)

Isadora Quagmire Special (Female Reader) The Ersatz Elevator (Female Reader)

Violet Baudelaire Falling for You (Female Reader)

Baudelaires Island Days (Gender Neutral Reader)

NEWSIES

Davey Jacobs First Kiss (Gender Neutral Reader)

101 DALMATIAN STREET

Doug Father's Day! (Gender Neutral Reader)

Delilah Sick Day (Gender Neutral Reader)

ZOOTOPIA

Judy Hopps What Parents Do (Gender Neutral Reader) Halloween's Scary (Gender Neutral Reader)

WALL-E

Wall-E Holidays (Gender Neutral Reader) Fourth of July (Gender Neutral Reader)

EVE Thunderstorms (Gender Neutral Reader)

Wall-E & EVE Robot Child (Gender Neutral Reader) Earth Day (Gender Neutral Reader)

THE MAZE RUNNER

Newt One Chance (Female Reader)

Minho Hopeless (Male Reader) Wherever, Whenever (Male Reader)

ONCE UPON A TIME

Jefferson Scar (Gender Neutral Reader)

Killian Jones Hooked On a Feeling (Gender Neutral Reader) Flower Shop (Male Reader)

HOOK

Rufio I Wish Pt. 1 (Female Reader) I Wish Pt. 2 (Female Reader)

SHE-RA AND THE PRINCESSES OF POWER

Scorpia Leaving (Gender Neutral Reader) Is This What Love Is? (Gender Neutral Reader)

WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE

Justin Russo Third Chance (Gender Neutral Reader)

CAPTAIN MARVEL

Carol Danvers Don't Give Up (Gender Neutral Reader)

RATATOUILLE

Remy Halloween Dish (Gender Neutral Reader) Fancy Feast (Gender Neutral Reader)

Headcanons Headcanons related to these characters

Being Friends with Duncan Quagmire (Gender Neutral) Baudelaires and Quagmires React to you Saying you Love Them (Gender Neutral) Klaus Baudelaire with Secretly Soft Reader (Gender Neutral) Baudelaires & Quagmires React to Metalhead Reader (Gender Neutral) Playing Overcooked with Linguini and Colette (Female Reader) Dating Remy the Rat Would Include (Gender Neutral) Warning Linguini and Colette About a Leak (Female Reader) Linguini and Colette with Child! Reader (Gender Neutral) Being the Oldest Incredikid With No Powers (Gender Neutral) Reuniting with Twin Sister Catra (Gender Neutral) Being BFFs and Roommates with Adora (Gender Neutral) Dating Alphabittle Would Include (Gender Neutral) Harry Hook x LaBouff!Sparrow!Reader (Gender Neutral) Dunklaus Headcanons

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Internal Conflict:  Five Conflicting Traits of a Likable Hero.

1.  Flaws and Virtues 

I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but characters without flaws are boring.  This does not, as many unfortunate souls take it to mean, imply that good, kind, or benevolent characters are boring:  it just means that without any weaknesses for you to poke at, they tend to be bland-faced wish fulfillment on the part of the author, with a tendency to just sit there without contributing much to the plot.

For any character to be successful, they need to have a proportionate amount of flaws and virtues.

Let’s take a look at Stranger Things, for example, which is practically a smorgasbord of flawed, lovable sweethearts.

We have Joyce Byers, who is strung out and unstable, yet tirelessly works to save her son, even when all conventional logic says he’s dead;  We have Officer Hopper, who is drunken and occasionally callous, yet ultimately is responsible for saving the boy’s life;  We have Jonathan, who is introspective and loving, but occasionally a bit of a creeper, and Nancy, who is outwardly shallow but proves herself to be a strong and determined character.  Even Steve, who would conventionally be the popular jerk who gets his comeuppance, isn’t beyond redemption.

And of course, we have my beloved Eleven, who’s possibly the closest thing Stranger Things has to a “quintessential” heroine.  She’s the show’s most powerful character, as well as one of the most courageous.  However, she is also the show’s largest source of conflict, as it was her powers that released the Demogorgon to begin with.  

Would Eleven be a better character if this had never happened?  Would Stranger Things be a better show?  No, because if this had never happened, Stranger Things wouldn’t even be a show.  Or if it was, it would just be about a bunch of cute kids sitting around and playing Dungeons and Dragons in a relatively peaceful town.

A character’s flaws and mistakes are intended to drive the plotline, and if they didn’t have them, there probably wouldn’t even be a plot.

So don’t be a mouth-breather:  give your good, kind characters some difficult qualities, and give your villains a few sympathetic ones.  Your work will thank you for it.

2.  Charisma and Vulnerability

Supernatural has its flaws, but likable leads are not one of them.  Fans will go to the grave defending their favorite character, consuming and producing more character-driven, fan-created content than most other TV shows’ followings put together.

So how do we inspire this kind of devotion with our own characters?  Well, for starters, let’s take a look at one of Supernatural’s most quintessentially well-liked characters:  Dean Winchester.

From the get-go, we see that Dean has charisma:  he’s confident, cocky, attractive, and skilled at what he does.  But these qualities could just as easily make him annoying and obnoxious if they weren’t counterbalanced with an equal dose of emotional vulnerability. 

As the show progresses, we see that Dean cares deeply about the people around him, particularly his younger brother, to the point of sacrificing himself so that he can live.  He goes through long periods of physical and psychological anguish for his benefit (though by all means, don’t feel obligated to send your main character to Hell for forty years), and the aftermath is depicted in painful detail.

Moreover, in spite of his outward bravado, we learn he doesn’t particularly like himself, doesn’t consider himself worthy of happiness or a fulfilling life, and of course, we have the Single Man Tear(TM).

So yeah, make your characters beautiful, cocky, sex gods.  Give them swagger.  Just, y’know.  Hurt them in equal measure.  Torture them.  Give them insecurities.  Make them cry.  

Just whatever you do, let them be openly bisexual.  Subtext is so last season.

3.  Goals For the Future and Regrets From the Past

Let’s take a look at Shadow Moon from American Gods.  (For now, I’ll have to be relegate myself to examples from the book, because I haven’t had the chance to watch the amazing looking TV show.) 

Right off the bat, we learn that Shadow has done three years in prison for a crime he may or may not have actually committed.  (We learn later that he actually did commit the crime, but that it was only in response to being wronged by the true perpetrators.)  

He’s still suffering the consequences of his actions when we meet him, and arguably, for the most of the book:  because he’s in prison, his wife has an affair (I still maintain that Laura could have resisted the temptation to be adulterous if she felt like it, but that’s not the issue here) and is killed while mid-coital with his best friend.

Shadow is haunted by this for the rest of the book, to the point at which it bothers him more than the supernatural happenings surrounding him.  

Even before that, the more we learn about Shadow’s past, the more we learn about the challenges he faced:  he was bullied as a child, considered to be “just a big, dumb guy” as an adult, and is still wrongfully pursued for crimes he was only circumstantially involved in.

But these difficulties make the reader empathize with Shadow, and care about what happens to him.  We root for Shadow as he tags along with the mysterious and alternatively peckish and charismatic Wednesday, and as he continuously pursues a means to permanently bring Laura back to life.

He has past traumas, present challenges, and at least one goal that propels him towards the future.  It also helps that he’s three-dimensional, well-written, and as of now, portrayed by an incredibly attractive actor.

Of course (SPOILER ALERT), Shadow never does succeed in fully resurrecting Laura, ultimately allowing her to rest instead, but that doesn’t make the resolution any less satisfying.  

Which leads to my next example...       

4.  Failure and Success 

You remember in Zootopia, when Judy Hopps decides she wants to be cop and her family and town immediately and unanimously endorse her efforts?  Or hey, do you remember Harry Potter’s idyllic childhood with his kindhearted, adoptive family?  Oh!  Or in the X-Files, when Agent Mulder presents overwhelming evidence of extraterrestrial life in the first episode and is immediately given a promotion?  No?

Yeah, me neither.  And there’s a reason for this:  ff your hero gets what they want the entire time, it will be a boring, two-dimensional fantasy that no one will want to read.  

A good story is not about the character getting what they want.  A good story is about the character’s efforts and their journey.  The destination they reach could be something far removed from what they originally thought they wanted, and could be no less (if not more so) satisfying because of it.

Let’s look at Toy Story 3, for example:  throughout the entire movie, Woody’s goal is to get his friends back to their longtime owner, Andy, so that they can accompany him to college.  He fails miserably.  None of his friends believe that Andy was trying to put them in the attic, insisting that his intent was to throw them away.  He is briefly separated from them as he is usurped by a cute little girl and his friends are left at a tyrannical daycare center, but with time and effort, they’re reunited, Woody is proven right, and things seem to be back on track.

Do his efforts pay off?  Yes -- just not in the way he expected them to.  At the end of the movie, a college-bound Andy gives the toys away to a new owner who will play with them more than he will, and they say goodbye.  Is the payoff bittersweet?  Undoubtedly.  It made me cry like a little bitch in front of my young siblings.  But it’s also undoubtedly satisfying.      

So let your characters struggle.  Let them fail.  And let them not always get what they want, so long as they get what they need.  

5.  Loving and Being Loved by Others

Take a look back at this list, and all the characters on it:  a gaggle of small town kids and flawed adults, demon-busting underwear models, an ex-con and his dead wife, and a bunch of sentient toys.  What do they have in common?  Aside from the fact that they’re all well-loved heroes of their own stories, not much.

But one common element they all share is they all have people they care about, and in turn, have people who care about them.  

This allows readers and viewers to empathize with them possibly more than any of the other qualities I’ve listed thus far, as none of it means anything without the simple demonstration of human connection.

Let’s take a look at everyone’s favorite caped crusader, for example:  Batman in the cartoons and the comics is an easy to love character, whereas in the most recent movies (excluding the splendid Lego Batman Movie), not so much. 

Why is this?  In all adaptions, he’s the same mentally unstable, traumatized genius in a bat suit.  In all adaptions, he demonstrates all the qualities I listed before this:  he has flaws and virtues, charisma and vulnerability, regrets from the past and goals for the future, and usually proportionate amounts of failure and success.  

What makes the animated and comic book version so much more attractive than his big screen counterpart is the fact that he does one thing right that all live action adaptions is that he has connections and emotional dependencies on other people.  

He’s unabashed in caring for Alfred, Batgirl, and all the Robins, and yes, he extends compassion and sympathy to the villains as well, helping Harley Quinn to ultimately escape a toxic and abusive relationship, consoling Baby Doll, and staying with a child psychic with godlike powers until she died.

Cartoon Batman is not afraid to care about others.  He has a support network of people who care about him, and that’s his greatest strength.  The DC CU’s ever darker, grittier, and more isolated borderline sociopath is failing because he lacks these things.  

 And it’s also one of the reasons that the Lego Batman Movie remains so awesome.

God willing, I will be publishing fresh writing tips every week, so be sure to follow my blog and stay tuned for future advice and observations! 

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Halloween's Scary (Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps x Child! Reader)

Request: Can you do Nick x Judy and Child!Reader where they celebrate Halloween together, and they go Trick or Treating

Nick Wilde loved Halloween. Growing up, it had been the one time of year where he'd been able to be someone other than himself. As a fox who was barely trusted by anyone, being someone else, even for one day was heavenly.

Judy Hopps also loved Halloween. When she was little, it was a chance to show the world what she wanted to be. Who she wanted to be. Every year, she would get dressed up in her fake police uniform. Every year she would listen to people coo over how cute the idea of a bunny cop was. She remembered telling herself that she was going to show them.

Little (Y/n), however, hated Halloween. It was their least favourite day of the year. All the scary costumes weren't worth the amount of candy they got. At their old house, it had been an excuse for all the bigger kids to scare the younger ones. (Y/n) usually got the brunt because of how scared they would get.

Now though, they lived in the Hopps-WIlde household with their new adopted parents and they were determined not to be sent back to their foster home in any way possible, even if it meant dressing up in a costume and going trick or treating.

Besides, they wouldn’t have to worry about big kids this year… They hoped.

“Hey! You look good!” Nick stepped into the room, he and Judy had decided to match this year; a cowboy and a cowgirl. HIs hat was tilted awkwardly on his head, he’d probably forgotten it was even there.

The costume he was referring to, however, wasn’t his own. This was their first Halloween with their child and they had the best costume by far.

“I feel stupid. I should’ve just been a horse like Judy suggested,” (Y/n)’s face heated up as they stared at themselves in the mirror. Nick placed his paw on their shoulder, smiling slightly.

He waved his paw. “Nah, horses are overrated. I like your dinosaur costume! It suits you. You’re going to be the coolest trick or treater out there!”

They highly doubted that but they didn’t want to argue with Nick. He could be very persuasive when he wanted to be. The two of them made some last minute adjustments to their costumes and walked out to meet Judy in the main room, she eagerly swung her arm when she saw them.

“Yeehaw! There’s my favourite people!” Her faux cowgirl voice was awful and (Y/n) was suddenly reconsidering this whole night.

Most of the night was spent trick or treating, the small family of three went to a lot of houses. Nick even drove them a little ways out of Zootopia to go to some of the bigger houses. Bigger houses meant bigger candy, (Y/n) learned. By the end of the night, they were actually pleasantly enjoying themselves.

Maybe Halloween wasn’t all that bad…

“Oh, look who it is!” Just when things were starting to go right, (Y/n) felt their insides sink. Nick and Judy had already moved onto the next house, they were keeping up a steady pace ahead, glancing back every now and then to make sure their kid was alright. They were having a blast looking at all the decorations.

“Leave me alone,” (Y/n) snapped, moving to stomp out of the way.

Before they could though, the wind was knocked out of them as one of the older kids kicked them and grabbed their candy.

The whole situation was nauseating. Having their entire night ripped out from under them was too much, especially since they were pleasantly surprised that Halloween with Nick and Judy was fun.

Before they could do anything though, they were scooped up into somebody’s arms.

“I believe that candy is (Y/n)’s, I suggest you hand it over…” Judy’s voice faded as Nick carried the small child back to the car.

“You okay, bug?” The fox hugged you tightly. “Maybe we better spend the rest of the night in. Movies and candy sounds good, doesn’t it?”

It was almost as if he read their mind, (Y/n) nodded excitedly as Judy came back triumphantly holding the candy. They climbed into the car and headed off.

So yeah, maybe they still didn’t prefer Halloween but maybe it wasn’t as bad as they’d initially thought. There’d be many more with their new family to warm up to it anyway.

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What Parents Do (Judy Hopps X Child! Reader)

Request: I was watching Zootopia again, and I was wondering if you could do a Judy x Child!Reader where Judy discovers a lost child/toddler on one of the missions, and Judy takes them in?

A/N: Full disclosure this probably sucks don't be too hard on me I'm getting back into the swing of writing, haven't written any longform in a minute. I thought this was a cute concept though if I messed it up I'm sorry. Also do I smell Uncle Nick content???

“They just ran out in front of the car! Nick nearly hit them!”

Judy Hopps was slightly frazzled. She’d been a police officer for the ZPD for almost two and a half years now, very little got on her nerves nowadays. She liked to pride herself on her ability to stay calm in a crisis, but this was a whole new level of upsetting for her.

While on her usual nightly patrols with her partner, Nick Wilde, the pair almost ran over a small child who had run into the road. Nick had swerved and just missed the poor baby. Thankfully, there was no traffic going the opposite way because it wasn’t a main street and it was eleven at night.

The two had climbed out of the vehicle and hurried to check if they were going to need to call medical services or someone else, but the child was barely phased. They did seem hesitant to let Nick or Judy help but after a little convincing, they rode the entire way back to the police station with them.

In that time, the two officers had learned their name was (Y/n) and they didn’t have any parents to go home to.

Now, Judy was recounting the tale to Clawhauser and Chief Bogo, so they could find somewhere proper for young (Y/n) to stay. Normally she hated working overtime, but she was really worried for the kid.

Nick had taken up babysitting duties and the two seemed to be getting along fairly well, if the laughter from the other room was any indication.

“We’ll have to get them a social worker and put them in the foster care system, but those things take time. We won’t be able to set something up until tomorrow,” the Chief rubbed his forehead, it was clear he wished he were at home right now, doing whatever it was he did on his off time and not dealing with this mess that they had accidentally stumbled into.

“Where will they stay until then?” Judy crossed her arms, she wanted to make sure everything would be alright before she headed home for the night. She still felt a little bad that her and her partner had almost run the poor child over.

Clawhauser and the chief exchanged looks, they clearly both had something in mind. Something that Judy probably wouldn’t like.

She placed her hands on her hips. “If they don’t have anywhere to stay tonight, I’ll take them home with me. That way we know they’re safe.”

There were no arguments and everyone just wanted to get home to their beds, so paperwork was pushed off until the next morning.

Judy walked out to meet Nick. (Y/n) had made themselves comfy on the fox’s lap, clearly quite content to just stay there forever. When she walked out, both of them looked up at her expectantly.

She knew she had an obligation to tell (Y/n) about the foster care and their social worker, but something in her just couldn’t do it. Instead, she lifted the kid off of Nick and smiled forcefully. The only one in the room who would be able to tell something was wrong was her partner, and she trusted him to keep his mouth shut.

Sometime on the trip home, (Y/n) fell asleep. The two adults remained in silence, partly not wanting to wake the young one up and partially just too exhausted to talk.

They went their separate ways and Judy carried the child into her new apartment. She was grateful she’d moved a few weeks prior and now had an extra bedroom for the kiddo, careful not to wake them up, she brought them through the apartment resting them gently on the bed.

“Don’t go.”

She had turned around to leave but a small paw on her wrist stopped her. She turned back around, had the kid been awake this whole time or had she accidentally woken her up on the way home.

“I’m not going anywhere, I’m just down the hall,” she smiled, gently. She was exhausted and needed rest but she didn’t want to leave the kid all alone if they were afraid of the dark or something.

“Can I stay with you tonight?”

“How about I stay with you?” Judy sat on the bed and made herself comfortable, allowing (Y/n) to also settle down beside her.

She watched them settle, peacefully falling back into sleep and she ran her paws along the top of their head. There was so much unknown about this child, where they came from, who they really were, even what they were because Judy had never seen an animal so small and meek looking. They had to be some sort of prey.

It was in that moment that Judy decided to heck with it. She’d take care of this child. If nobody else in the world wanted to care for them, then she would. It would be worth all the teasing she’d endure from Nick, the panicked phone calls from her parents, the judgement from anyone who didn’t really understand what was going on.

Who better to love someone who had suffered a great deal than someone who had also suffered a great deal and gotten past it?

She’d do whatever it took to keep (Y/n) safe, because that’s what parents do… right?