This story took way longer than it should have, but nonetheless i its finished. The story was written as a response to @jberg360 's Fluffy Runner, and primarily features a different take on his characters of Blueball, Bosco and Zander, as well as a different take on the fan-favourite Quesada.
Some notes:
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“Be the One” by Pandora is the opening theme song for Kamen Rider Build.
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The names of Krolyk and Alessia were chosen as кролик, or Krolyk means rabbit and Alessia means defending woman. Both names were meant to reference Sento Kiryu, the protagonist of said series.
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the scene of the fluffies being photographed in the back of the van was based off the real life evacuation of a group of kangaroos from the Kharkiv Zoo
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likewise, dogs have been actively used by the Ukrainian army to sniff out mines. One famous example is Patron, a Jack Russell who was involved in this effort.
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the rescue of Blueball from the rubble was based off a similar and recent rescue of a pup from blast rubble
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Alessia’s background of researching the fluffies of Chernobyl is based off the real life Clean Futures Fund which tends to the dogs of Chernobyl, rehabilitates them, and as of last year started preparing them for sale to overseas forever homes. Their activities were affected by the recent capture of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, but the subsequent withdrawal and reclamation of the Plant by Ukrainian forces has seen CFF resume their activities.
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there was a number of scenes that I have omitted from the story, including more exposition on Blueball sticking up for Zander, as well as the trio of Quesada, Blueball and Zander killing the griffin. I skimped on those as there was not enough time.
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credit has to go to @Booperino for the creation of Cheese, depicted as the son of Quesada and Bubbles.
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A Hetman is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders. While the character was based in design off the Colonel from Fluffy Runner, I decided to reinvent him as a military leader who developed an affintiy to fluffies, in contrast to the official. I might use this character again in future.
SPOILER:
Summary
- this story does take place within the canon of the Fluffspeak Nation series, as Alessia was a colleague of Iskandar, who was introduced in “Wan Pway” Though the Russian invasion of Ukraine does take place in the setting, a liberty I took was postulating a postponed invasion of the country
- the decision to use Taras Sevchenko as the closing quote was a little deliberate.
I may or may not update this story, pending feedback. We’ll see.