“Shadow.”
Episode by "Zootopia-"
"Zootopia-" is similar to "Zootopia+." The main difference is that this episode focuses on the life and events of the villain, with more negative and depressing emotions.
The story is dedicated to the twins from the Lynxley family: Cattrick and Kitty. Pawbert's older brother and older sister. Looking at them, one could confidently say they had already won their father's favor. Thus displacing their younger brother. Making him an outcast. Everyone sees and understands this. But it's different. What if this is all just a show. A deception. A goal. To protect Pawbert. How? Protect?
Important and key points:
- Events take us to prison. Nick and Judy were present during Cattrick and Kitty's interrogation. Their goal was to extract confessions from them. Concerning their scams and schemes.
- Cattrick and Kitty insisted that their confessions be witnessed and taken exclusively by officers Judy Hopps and Nicholas Wild.
- Nick and Judy began questioning their elders separately. And then an unexpected turn occurred. Judy brought up topics concerning their family, trying to exploit their weaknesses. To force them to reveal all their cards. It worked. So much so that neither brother nor sister could hide or pretend to be the way their father saw them and dreamed of continuing to see them.
- They couldn't take it anymore; they began to shed bitter tears. Pretense? NO!!! Judy, like Nick, sensed and understood that it wasn't fake. This wasn't just another form of manipulation. Nasey, all for the truth.
- The twins no longer hid anything. They did all this not for their father (not for that nasty lynx), but for their little brother. For Pawbert. For they swore an oath to protect him from their father. They swore this oath before their mother.
- Their mother, in her final moments, told them the truth about their father. How terrible and dangerous he was. He would spare no one. Even his loved ones. She knew the Lynxley family's greatest secret. She decided not to tell her children this secret. She took this secret with her. She feared most for Pawbert. This inquisitive kitten always poked his nose where it didn't belong. Most of all, she feared that he would strive to be close to his father. To strive to be worthy. She saw and felt this desire. She understood that this would destroy him.
- Holding their hands, piercing them with her gaze straight into their souls, she asked them for a promise. An oath that they would protect him. That no one would harm him.
- They swore. They promised. And at that very moment, Pawbert abruptly entered, hugging his mother, begging her not to leave. But everything was predetermined. And only one lynx didn't shed a single tear. The twins understood. Their father had neither soul nor heart. And at that very moment, they vowed to protect their little brother from this monster.
- Listening to the confession and story from the older Lynxleys, Nick and Judy learned what they had been through. While they had curried favor with their father and earned his deep respect, they wanted only one thing: for Pawbert to be safe. They had to literally reject him. Make him unremarkable, so their father wouldn't even look in his direction. By belittling and pushing their brother away, they understood that after all this, he simply wouldn't want to know them.
- They hated themselves. They loved him dearly. He inherited many of his mother's traits. But their actions were damaging their strong, familial bond. They couldn't imagine that he could become like their ancestor. Worse, like their father. They didn't save Pawbert, they ruined him. They let their mother down. Their family was torn apart. Shattered.
-Even when Pawbert tried to manipulate Gary and Judy into revealing their great secret, they tried to protect it. Covering their tracks. They spent a long time loading the calculation program. And most importantly, they tried to understand the meaning of their father's words about destroying them. Trying to independently unravel all the mysteries, to find a common link. They had no idea what Pawbert had already discovered. The secret of their family, not just a shameful, but a disgraceful act. The true founder was not their great-grandfather, but a viper.
-Only then did they realize and understand the secret their father had kept. And it was because of this secret that they lost their mother. They lost their brother. They ceased to be Lynxleys. Ceased to be family.
- But why did they insist on Wilde and Hopps being present during the interrogation? After all, they were the ones who uncovered the centuries-old conspiracy concerning the real patent, the true founder of Zootopia.
- That's true, but they had a request. They asked that Pawbert at least mitigate the sentence.
- Considering what happened, what happened, and how everything turned out, to say there was a chance would be a lie. Because Pawbert didn't just lose the chance, he rejected it. He not only wanted to find and destroy the original document and hide everything. Remove evidence. Frame an innocent person. Eliminate witnesses. Commit murders like his ancestor. He has several attempted murders under his belt.
- Unfortunately, that won't help him. No one will consider mitigating his sentence. They might even make it harsher.
- Nick and Judy understood only one thing: the former Lynxley family is a clear example of how relatives can stoop so low and deeply traumatize each other. It's an example of what kind of family should not be.
- Nick and Judy, having witnessed all the main events, will also give their testimony. They will hide nothing or conceal nothing. The truth may be difficult and hard, but it will be real.
- Unlike Lynxley, they don't hold a grudge. They are arbiters of justice. -- They will still try to help Pawbert somehow reduce his sentence. But there are no guarantees.
- But the fact that they decided to take this step shows how strong they are. That they hold no grudge. And they don't seek revenge. That's what distinguishes them from lynxes.
- The twins saw before them not just police officers, but true, genuine Zootopia HEROES.