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Thank you all so much for your feedback on my last discussion post. You've given me so many ideas, I can't wait to start drawing! In the meantime, have some concept art. I've decided to focus on building characters up from a single unique shape, and I'm having pretty good results so far! 

Not every character will make the jump from the Pandoraverse to Fuzzbutts, but many will. Here are a couple idiots y'all might recognize. ;)

Virgil (Male, Spotted Hyena). A mysterious figure from Sunny's past....who, unfortunately, quite likes reappearing in Sunny's present. He is maybe the only creature alive that can get happy-go-lucky Sunny instantly bristling and snarling. Virge is pretty flattered of that fact~

Frankie (Female, Rottweiler). Sunny's sister. Sunny's parents are quite wealthy, so when their tiny son started begging them for a sibling, they went right down to the orphanage and picked out a puppy for him. Dubbing her Francine, they figured she'd make a fine companion to keep their son pacified.....but little Franny proved to be a bit more rough-and-tumble than the labradors were used to, bossing and biting little Sunny and wrestling him into submission. They almost returned her, but instead opted to pick out another pup, who Sunny did end up actually enjoying (yet unnamed doggie Cloudburst). Frankie grew up the black sheep among dogs, often unjustly punished and written off as a problem child. But the more her family tried to mold her into a proper young lady, the more rebellious Frankie became, until she eventually moved out and never looked back. Frankie works as a mechanic and is deeply protective of the ones she loves, which includes her adoptive little sister and (somehow) Sunny. She is a big ol butch lesbian and pretty much a straight-up export of Phoenix.

Priscilla (Female, Sphinx Cat) Owner of a beauty salon and a connoisseur of fancy wigs. Lives in one of the nicer lofts of Bruce's apartment complex. Prissy, fashionable, vain, demure, in a deep love affair with string. A bite-sized package of sass and gossip. Extremely nosy and catty, privy to all local gossip. A tiny transbian. Her friendship with Bruce began the day they were both in the apartment laundry room. The washing machine was designed for larger animals and Prissy leaped on top to drop in her clothes, but slipped and fell in. This prompted a rescue from Bruce, who maybe didn't have the most sensitive remark upon tugging out what looked less like a cat and more like a shivering, wrinkly, half-drowned ballsack. Priscilla then attempted to claw his eyes out. After the scuffle, the pair shared their gripes about navigating a world not built for smaller animals, and ended up clicking. 

Cupcake: (Female, Grizzly Bear) Cupcake, but she's a bear. Pony Cupcake is already glorious and perfect and cannot be improved by changing her name. Cupcake was adopted at a young age by a family of tiny circus animals.(Adoption is quite common in the world of Fuzzbutts, especially as so many animals can bear so many young at once, many end up in the foster system). While Cupcake looks like a grumpy bear, she loves her family dearly and has learned to restrain her immense strength to handle them all with care. This is fortunate because her partner/boss (and town idiot) is also on the smaller side, and frequently spotted all up in Cupcake's personal space.

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Colbyr

Does Sunny eventually click with Frankie after she moves out and they both have some room, or is he still wary of her even as she considers him part of the 'pack' or whatever?

Bigsmile

Indeed, Cupcake can't be improved further, it simply can't be done, I approve of this direct transition.

Moth

I've been imagining pandora as a ferret, mink, stout, or weasle. Something noodley and chaotic

lopoddity

Frankie kiiiiiinda resents Sunny for getting the lion's share of their parents' love, while Sunny sees her as a bully that threw tantrums over not getting enough attention. Their relationship is analogous to Stormy and Phoenix. Tense. Sunny tries to be friendly but can't quite ever relax around her, while Frankie can't break free of her gruff shell long enough to be gentle or vulnerable with Sunny. Even without trying to be mean, Frankie's teasing can be insensitive and her affection can be too rough. Sunny might actually be a little afraid of her, and feel immensely guilty over that. Their sister is stuck awkwardly playing the bridge between them.

PrincessMuffinArt

I LOVE FUZZ!CUPCAKE SO MUCH! I remember a detail in the Makoverse that her fave animal was a brown bear so of course, she’d be a bear in this universe! :D

KaeWolfe

I'm loving this so much! Really love the variety of animals you got going on :D Really curious how Pandora, Vogue, Moondancer, and the twins would look like if they somehow managed to appear in this world 👀

lopoddity

Holy shit y’all have impressive memories

lopoddity

Thank you! You’re in luck, cuz all those characters will be in Fuzzbutts. Though I’m still deciding on their species. :)

Melody Williamson

Love them all. I like the idea that Priscilla has a wig collection. Also will pandora be a mythical creature? I think a peryton would really work for her in both looks and being a hybrid between herbivore/carnivore thing. I've heard people mention ferret for her which works really well too.

blackjack .

Loving this all so far! I especially like the divorce from MLP because I'm excited to see you stretch your writing wings with all these guys, and I'm super impressed with all the animals you've chosen thus far, they're really well suited to the characters.

Melody Williamson

Oh hey I just thought of this because you mentioned Cupcake. Have you ever given thought to what horse breeds the mlp characters are? Cupcake kinda reminds me of a Clydesdale. Huge strong horse but gentle.

PrincessMuffinArt

Haha! Oops! I guess I really liked the story of the Makoverse! BruceCake is my second fave Bruce ship!

cactus bastrop

madly in love with phoenix in every possible permutation and universe.... frankie your hand in marriage please. audibly said "oof" when i read that her parents considered returning her to the adoption agency--sounds like the trio won't have the sometimes-misstepping-but-ultimately-well-meaning parents like they do in pandoraverse. i'd love to see you elaborate on that sometime, the dash kids (or in this world, the dog kids lol) are some of my favorite characters of yours--all of their relationships/family dynamics are super interesting to me!

lopoddity

I'm really glad to hear that you enjoyed it. :) It was one of my all time favorite ships for a long time

lopoddity

Thank you. :) I thought about making Pandora a fantasy creature, but I felt it conflicted with the setting too much, as magic doesn't exist in Fuzzbutts. I picked her species and will probably post concept art soon, her design's gonna be tricky to nail.

lopoddity

Thank you! I tell you, I pretty excited myself. I love MLP, but I was always kinda limited in the kinda tone I could take with my stories. Equestria is a cutesy fluffy setting, and if you try to tell TOO dark of a story in it, you run the risk of things just feeling silly and pointlessly edgy. There were so many topics I wanted to explore but never could properly. You know how hard it is to write a story about secret extramarital affairs when you have characters with names as silly as "Fancy Pants"? Of course I don't like needlessly edgy or nihilistic stories, but I am an adult, and I want to tell stories that reflect my own experiences. That's difficult to do in the kiddie sandbox that is MLP. Not that I plan on stopping pony art, but it is nice to be able to really stretch my legs with my own story.

blackjack .

For sure, MLP is a fantastic world, but I totally see how limiting it is. In this post specifically I was prompted to comment because I'm very excited to see you fully utilize the fact that you're no longer bound to the canon parents of your cast — my personal gripe with nextgens has always been how challenging it is to reconcile canon characterization and how they would raise their kids with the store you want to tell and where the characters need to be. Just that little bit about Frankie and Sunny's mother really struck a note with me, and I'm absolutely enthused to see what you choose to keep and what to move away from in this iteration.

lopoddity

I don't think they're any specific breed. I gave them traits of various breeds as I saw fit. :)

Calypso

omg PLEASE tell me Pandora is going to be a ferret 😂 I can see it now. A tiny, frantic mischievous noodle floof

Doglover502

I love Frankie. I wanna protect her (even though it would probably be more her protecting me XD) I'm really curious now on which Pandoraverse characters aren't going to make the Fuzzbutts cut.......the Fuzzcut

Angsty Ram

For some reason I imagined Cupcake’s adoptive parents being circus mice and it gave me a little chuckle

Bigsmile

Pandora gives off big peacock energy to me, I know it's the male peacock with the flashy feathers but would that really stop her?

Lex

Ohhh they're PERFECT!!! I can't wait to see Fuzzbutts Panny :)

Robo87

So I'm just always gonna be gay for Phoenix, huh? Frankie is new best gurl and help me because I've never shipped Nix and pony Cupcake but DAMN if I suddenly don't want BUFF/BUFF dog/bear girlfriends but I have a type so sue me Also yes Cupcake is perfect in whichever earthly form she decides to bless us with. Listen thou....like bear Cuppy is giving me FEELS I LOVE HER. Maggie as a bald wrinkle cat IM DEAD but I love her too she is PERFECT please tell me shes a spoiled adopted child of two FABULOUSLY fluffy lesbians of some kind. Virgil is my new trash son and I can't wait to break him to pieces for character development

lopoddity

I always kinda chickened out from having Chakra hurt Stormy as much as I would've liked. Virgil, tho? He's Chakra undistilled, manipulative and monstrous and 100% unapologetic. He's gonna hurt Sunny. A lot. A cute little domestic dog like Sunny had no idea what would come from tangling with a REAL animal.

Luke

I like frankie a lot. Maybe cloudburst could be a husky with growth problems but she still wants to race.