Hi everyone, today I decided to share with you another story I created and another art I recently received. On January 6th of this year, my brother and I watched the movie Zootopia 2. We loved it! I loved the plot, the new characters, the animation, the action and adventure scenes, the plot twists... Everything is perfect!

Nick and Judy's relationship was quite broken at first, but throughout the movie they finally started to understand each other better and learned how to work as a team, after all, they are a dynamic duo fighting crime. What I liked most was precisely the new characters.

Gary is a very kind, gentle and loving guy who is willing to protect his new friends. Nibbles is a very funny and entertaining character, yet fearless and intelligent and Pawbert is a very cool, charismatic and likeable guy, but I was extremely disappointed when it's revealed that he's one of the villains of the plot...

Seriously, I thought he was a good person. Unfortunately, they wasted a character who had everything to be one of Judy and Nick's new friends, but what can you do, right? But the chemistry between these three new characters and Nick and Judy is very good. I loved this movie and it's easily one of the best animated films, and it certainly surpassed its predecessor. Yeah, I think this movie is a thousand times better than the first.

After watching this movie in the theater, I had a very cool idea: what if I tried to create my own Zootopia?

I realized that until now I had never created a story set in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, since all my stories take place in our world (the human world), regardless of whether or not there are furry characters. In fact, everyone I know always asked me: "Why do you insist on putting furry characters in your stories that have human characters?". Yep, they always asked the same question every time they read one of my stories that has human characters and some anthropomorphic animal characters.

So I saw that this would be my big opportunity, I mean, a book I'm still going to write with my best friend, NOTG, is also my big chance to create a story set in a furry world, but this furry world wasn't created by me, but by my friend. After a long time, I finally managed to create my story and my own world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. It's a spy story in the genres of suspense, action, drama, comedy and romance. Here's a basic summary of this story:

Set in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, where humans never existed, the story revolves around Jack Savage, a 25-year-old Canadian lynx who is an analyst for the AMS (Agency of Monitoring and Security), a global espionage agency. His job is to provide intelligence support, strategic information and mission updates to field agents while they are in action.

However, he dreams of becoming a secret agent for the AMS because he has always wanted to fight crime and terrorism, but unfortunately he cannot be an AMS agent because he's a predator and until then there had never been a secret agent who was a predator. Basically, most of the employees are prey, the entire prey population is very prejudiced against the predator population and everyone supports a global law that requires all predators to wear tame collars.

To make matters worse, everyone who works at the agency doubts his abilities since he has a prosthetic leg due to osteosarcoma, even though he managed to cure his cancer after a long battle with the disease. During a mission, Claire Warren, a 27-year-old white rabbit, suffers a rhinitis attack and accidentally kills a terrorist and mad scientist named Dr. Richard Wolfstein without first finding the nuclear weapons, whose location is known only to Dr. Wolfstein.

This scene would be quite funny since the rabbit simply sneezes and simultaneously shoots the man, leaving the lynx extremely shocked. Despite this, the agency discovers that Wolfstein's daughter, Scarlett, may know the location of her father's nuclear weapons. The AMS then sends one of its best agents to infiltrate the Wolfstein family mansion, but he is killed by Scarlett while Jack watches everything helplessly. To make matters worse, Scarlett knows the identities of all the agency's main agents, including Claire.

However, Jack, who is unknown to Scarlett, volunteers to become a field agent, and his boss reluctantly agrees on the condition that Claire be his partner and mentor, since the lynx is inexperienced and will need help, especially because he has a prosthetic leg. Upon learning this, the rabbit is displeased that the analyst was chosen for the assignment and dislikes the fact that she's his babysitter.

Initially, Jack and Claire don't get along at all, because the rabbit, besides doubting his abilities, has a certain prejudice against predators due to a tragic event in her past and she supports the global law that requires all predators to wear tame collars, while the lynx tries to prove otherwise, saying that he can indeed be an incredible agent just like her and that predators are not the villains she thinks they are.

Jack's plot, wanting to prove his worth to the agency, is similar to Judy's in Zootopia, as she also wants to prove she can be a competent police officer. Throughout the story, they become good friends and learn to work as a team. But they don't know that they will soon fall in love! Yes, the lynx and the rabbit will fall in love, but neither wants to admit it because they are from completely different species with different perspectives.

But their romance grows throughout the story and only at the end do they confess their feelings for each other and get together. In the plot, after much investigation, espionage, comical and absurd action scenes and lots of fighting and shooting, the duo manages to defeat the "villain" and discover the location of the nuclear weapons. However, what they find is a prototype of a simple device, a chip to be more precise.

The two protagonists are very confused at first and that's when the supposed villain reveals that her father was a genius inventor who was one of the telecommunications engineers who worked on the initial design of the tame collar monitoring towers, but was fired for trying to create a safety mechanism for the predators.

In the 1980s, Dr. Wolfstein was the chief engineer at Biotech-Life, the company contracted by the government to solve the "aggression crisis". He believed he was creating a medical device to help with predator anxiety and that it was a voluntary process. However, he discovered that President Sterling Cobalt (at the time a young, rising politician) was secretly altering the chemical formula of the cartridges to include long-term sedatives that caused apathy and memory loss.

He tried to denounce him, but the politician already controlled the media even before becoming president of the country. Realizing she can no longer reveal anything about the corrupt government, Scarlett, before dying abruptly, gives the pair technical notes explaining how the chip was created and how it deceives the collar's heart rate sensor.

At that moment, a team of AMS agents appear and demand that the two protagonists hand over the chip and the notes. They refuse and try to convince them that the government is hiding some very dirty secret from the world's population. After hearing their explanations, the agents believe them and decide to help them. However, a large explosion occurs at the site, killing all the AMS agents except the lynx and the rabbit, who survived.

This tarnishes the reputation of the pair, who are seen as highly dangerous terrorists. Determined to uncover this conspiracy, Jack and Claire will have to prove their innocence and show the world the truth behind the collars. But to do that, they will have to face the AMS, which received orders from the government to arrest them and has begun its hunt for the two protagonists.

To create this story, I was inspired by two discarded versions of the Zootopia movie: Savage Seas and Wild Times. When I went looking for inspiration, I discovered something very interesting. Before Zootopia became the movie we all know, there were several alternative versions that were discarded.

The version most Zootopia fans are familiar with is Wild Times. In this version, Nick Wilde is the main protagonist, where he and all the world's predators are forced to wear emotional control collars. These tame collars were created to prevent them from acting aggressively and potentially harming their prey, applying electric shocks if they became enraged or overly emotional.

Yeah, these collars electrocuted them to prevent them from becoming too agitated, which would make the film incredibly heavy and sad... To make matters worse, the tame collars only exist in Zootopia to keep the citizens, who are paranoid prey, satisfied with a sense of security and control over their potentially wild neighbors.

At one point, after being hospitalized, Nick's collar had to be temporarily removed to allow the doctor to examine his neck. Without the collar for the first time in his memory, he is overcome by a feeling of joy and freedom, until his collar is put back on seconds later. Nick asks the doctor for more time without it, to which the doctor replies: "If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me that...". And Nick responds: "Then you'd be the richest mammal in Zootopia."

This was the first time Nick had his tame collar removed since childhood, and the feeling of freedom gave him an epiphany: the dream of opening an amusement park called Wild Times, where predators from all over Zootopia would have a chance at freedom. It wouldn't just be an act of goodwill, but also an extremely lucrative venture, since tame collars were universally hated by their users.

After assembling a team made up of his best friends (Finnick, Clawhauser and Honey), Nick approached several banks hoping to get a loan to open the park. Since these banks belonged to citizens who were prey, a predator like Nick couldn't get any help. In an act of desperation, he made a deal with a polar bear loan shark named Koslov and bought a factory on the ground floor, with direct access to a parking lot.

To keep Wild Times hidden from prey, a fake medical clinic was built in the center of the parking lot. Inside the clinic, there was a secret entrance leading to Wild Times, where dozens of attractions specifically designed for predators operated. After entering the clinic and the secret passage, the predators visited Clawhauser and Finnick at the "Collar Check." The latter removed the tame collars with a tag reader and the predators were free to roam from there.

However, a rabbit police officer named Judy Hopps, who already had many suspicions about Nick's clinic, discovered the existence of the amusement park, where she called in all the police to arrest the owner and his employees, shutting down the park. But for some reason I don't know, Nick manages to escape from prison still handcuffed to Judy, and they are both forced to work together to unravel a conspiracy involving the tame collars.

This discarded version of Zootopia was developed over a long period of story creation, in which Nick was the protagonist, while Judy was a kind of antagonist, a character who opposed the protagonist's goals and was an obstacle in his life. Just like in the final version of the film, Nick was a con man and Wild Times represented his greatest ambition up to that point.

However, the original purpose of Wild Times was to allow predators to roam freely, without the restrictions of their collars. But the collars were discarded from the story at a later stage of development due to the dark atmosphere of the concept, which made the city of Zootopia too unsympathetic for the audience. Consequently, the amusement park was also discarded. Even so, one of the film's directors and creators, Byron Howard, expressed interest in reviving the park in future Zootopia projects.

Although Wild Times was cut from the film, it was used as an alternate backdrop in the book that followed the movie, The Stinky Cheese Caper. It was also featured in the Official Zootopia Guide, advertised as a family amusement park located in the center of Zootopia, on the pier. I really liked this discarded version, I found the idea of ​​the tame collars super interesting, but before that I really didn't know if I could actually use a discarded idea.

I asked Google's AI (Gemini) and discovered that yes, I can use a discarded idea or even be inspired by a discarded version/script of a film as long as my story is 100% original. The AI ​​explained that copyright doesn't protect ideas, it protects how those ideas are executed (the "expression").

Anthropomorphic animals using tame collars to control instincts is an idea/concept. No one can own that idea absolutely. But the specific design of Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps, the name "Zootopia," the exact dialogue from the discarded script and the city map are Disney's expression. And I know this is very obvious, but if I create my own characters, a city with a different name and different social rules, I will be creating an original work.

The tame collar becomes a narrative tool for my story, just as magic wands are used in various fantasy books, not just Harry Potter. This isn't the first time I've created a story inspired by a discarded version/script of a film. It's been about 7 months since I started writing my third book, Primal Crisis, where the plot is inspired by the first discarded script of Jurassic Park 4 written by William Monahan.

Set in 2004, the story is about dinosaurs migrating to the mainland and the efforts of a team of specialists trying to contain the spread of dinosaurs around the world before an ecological disaster occurs. However, an extremely lethal disease is being transmitted by these creatures, killing thousands of people worldwide.

Of course, the difference is that unfortunately we will never know anything about Monahan's script and what we have so far is confirmation that the story would no longer take place on an island or in a jungle, confirming that the fourth film would indeed be about dinosaurs scattered throughout the world thanks to the ending of Jurassic Park 3 which showed a group of Pteranodons leaving Isla Sorna in search of new nesting sites.

Therefore, I ended up being inspired by a supposed leaked synopsis of this script and by various insider rumors about the film at the time the script was written, such as the implementation of a virus in the plot, for example. Yeah, in theory I'm doing the right thing, because since Monahan's script was never fully released to the public, I ended up basing myself on rumors and a supposed leaked synopsis, in other words, what I wrote is actually my interpretation of the movie Jurassic Park 4 according to an internet urban legend.

Anyway, many famous works were born this way. 50 Shades of Grey started as a Twilight fanfic, Star Wars was heavily inspired by Akira Kurosawa's samurai films and the Flash Gordon serials. The most curious is The Boys, which is inspired by an original story proposal that creator Garth Ennis presented to DC Comics and which ended up being discarded by the publisher for being considered too controversial and violent. In other words, The Boys is inspired by a discarded and dark version of the Justice League.

In my case, I'm not plagiarizing, I'm practicing intertextuality, meaning I'm taking a trope (the tame collar) and giving it a new voice. As long as I don't use the registered names, I'm within my creative rights. I was very happy to learn that I can use a discarded idea for my story, but my intention was never to create an extremely sad and depressing story like Wild Times...

Seriously, the story wouldn't be happy at all and I don't want to create another story like that because I already wrote a very sad story where the two main protagonists suffer so much that they die at the end. It wasn't a pleasant experience at all and after writing my second book, I swore to myself that I would never again create a very depressing story with a bad ending (the kind where the protagonists die at the end or everything just goes wrong at the end). Nowadays, I prefer to write a book that has a happy ending, you know.

It's okay if one of the protagonists or some very important character who stole the audience's hearts dies to give the story dramatic weight/impact, but nobody wants to see a bad ending. Besides, Primal Crisis will be my last book written for adults because I don't want to write stories like that anymore, with heavy themes, with swear words, with a lot of violence or gore... I don't want to create that kind of story anymore, I just want to create a story for all audiences, a story that everyone can read comfortably.

And since I want to create a story for all ages, I didn't want to create something extremely complex, just a simple but very well-made story that is not only dramatic because it has very sad moments, but also very fun with a certain dose of comedy, lots of action and romance, because everyone loves couples.

That's why I now perfectly understand why the Disney bosses asked the creators of Zootopia to discard the last alternate version of that film (Wild Times), because it was a 100% sad and depressing story, there was nothing fun about it. That's when I had an interesting idea: instead of creating a story about ordinary citizens discovering a sinister conspiracy, why not create a story about spies/secret agents discovering said conspiracy?

It's a very cool idea and maybe it could be the ideal story I really want to create. To come up with this idea, I reused some ideas from a story of mine that was discarded, which was about four teenage spies, where the story was inspired by the cartoon Totally Spies. Besides reusing some elements from this discarded story, I also drew some inspiration from the first alternate version of Zootopia called Savage Seas. Yes, that was the initial version of the film, where the protagonist would be a grey rabbit named Jack Savage and he would be a spy inspired by James Bond.

Not much is known about this version of Zootopia, but according to the film's creators, Jack would leave the city of Zootopia to visit an island in the "South Seas", under the command of his boss, a female rat resembling actress Judi Dench. Jack would explore oceans full of "wild" creatures, which eventually led to the idea of ​​a series of films about the spy rabbit.

Furthermore, it's likely that Skye would be his partner. Skye was supposed to be the female protagonist in this version, where she would be an arctic fox working as a mechanic. When this idea was presented to the studio, they loved the idea of ​​the city entirely inhabited by anthropomorphic animals in the first act. It is presumed that this was the inspiration for the entire film to be set in the city.

However, the film's concept was scrapped and Jack was recast, evolving throughout the process to become the fox we all love, Nick Wilde. Yeah, Jack was completely discarded and his role as the protagonist was eventually given to another rabbit, Judy Hopps. Despite the character's complete removal, Jack Savage managed to maintain a kind of cult following online, with countless fanarts created in his honor.

Funny how Zootopia fans loves making millions of fanarts of discarded characters or discarded versions/scripts of some movie, but meanwhile, Jurassic Park franchise fans, being incredibly annoying and never satisfied with anything, refuse to make fanarts imagining any discarded version/script of a franchise film, such as Jurassic Park 4 before it became Jurassic World...

Anyway, I realized it would be a great idea to create a spy story, but it won't be entirely serious because there will be some romantic moments and some funny moments, like the comedy scenes in action movies such as Red (2010) or even Spy (2015). Of course, the story will have many action scenes and many sad moments since one of the focuses will be on the prejudice of prey against predators and the fact that tame collars are a pain in the predators' lives. Besides that, I managed to think of some more details for my story, which are quite interesting.

As you may have noticed, all the characters will be furries/anthropomorphic animals, since the story will take place in a world inhabited by canids, felines, ursids, mustelids (otters, weasels, badgers, ferrets and giant otters), dromaeosaurids (Utahraptor, Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Dromaeosaurus, Microraptor, Achillobator, Austroraptor, Pyroraptor and Saurornitholestes), procyonids (raccoons, coatis, kinkajous and kinkajous), lagomorphs (rabbits and hares), rodents, equines, cervids, antelopes (gazelles, wildebeest, impala, oryx, duiker, hartebeest, topis, bonteboks, duikers and others), and ovines (sheep).

Yes, there is a family of dinosaurs in this world, which makes my story very different from Zootopia. I even developed their origin and the reason these animals exist in this furry world. Dromaeosaurids are known as the "First Family". Millennia before the rise of mammals, they were the only lineage of reptiles to develop consciousness and bipedalism, becoming the architects of early civilization. While other dinosaur species became extinct due to natural climate change, dromaeosaurids survived thanks to their intelligence and social cooperation.

Yeah, I used the theory of the character Dr. Alan Grant regarding the intelligence of Velociraptors, presented in the film Jurassic Park 3, where this theory states that if it weren't for the extinction of the dinosaurs and the emergence of humanity, Velociraptors would certainly have evolved. In short, dromaeosaurids are the 12th dominant family and the only reptile family in the world. They are respected as the "Ancients of History", although today they live in smaller numbers than mammals.

Their existence is not seen as an anomaly, but as a living reminder that evolution does not follow a straight line. One of the protagonists of the story, Dash, carries this legacy because he's the heir to an ancient lineage that now needs to learn to run alongside younger species. In addition, the other animals that exist are cattle, pigs, birds, fish and seafood. Yep, the other animals that exist in the story are literally the food sources for the predators, lol.

But they are also pets, just like in real life. Besides them, there are also other reptiles and amphibians. Most of them, like crocodiles, snakes and frogs, are wild animals, but some of them serve more as pets than as food sources, because I can't imagine a furry character in my story eating an iguana for lunch 🤣🤣🤣🤣 And obviously, there are also insects and other small creatures like arachnids, for example.

Oh yeah, there are also all kinds of bats in the universe of my story, where they are all wild animals. And before I forget, several birds like eagles, owls, hawks and penguins are not food sources, they are just wild animals, but in some cases they are also pets. Otherwise, there are no other animals like hippos, giraffes, monkeys, rhinos, etc. Only the ones I mentioned exist.

My friend Heitor even loved the world in which my new story takes place, he thought it was very well-rounded and very cool. He even commented that this world isn't like Zootopia, but it's totally original, something completely different. It's that same concept of simplicity that, when done well, becomes something delicious and simple. In fact, it's a very simple and basic universe, but it works.

He also commented that the fact that there are few families of normal animals and only 12 families of animals that are anthropomorphic because they are the dominant species will help me a lot to centralize things, especially if the story isn't meant to be too long because it's not necessary to explain so much. This way I can focus more on the characters.

And about the world I created for my book, it really is a simple world because it's similar to real life, since it has the same countries as our world, like Brazil and the United States, for example. It's an alternate version of our world, but having only 12 families of animals as the dominant species and few normal animals in this world is really something unique and totally different from what we've seen many times in cartoons and movies like Zootopia.

It's something totally unique and different from Zootopia and the universe created by my best friend, NOTG. I already have a really good fictional cast. Furthermore, all the cities that exist in this world will be completely fictional and adapted for anthropomorphic animals, just like in Zootopia. That is, cities like São Paulo, New York, Tokyo, Moscow, London, Madrid and other real-life cities don't exist in this world, haha.

Another really cool detail that's also in Zootopia and the comic Rock & Roar is the fact that there are furry versions of celebrities. But since they are furry versions, obviously the name of each celebrity has something to do with animals.

Another really cool detail that's also present in Zootopia and the comic Rock & Roar is the existence of furry versions of celebrities. But since they're furry versions, obviously each celebrity's name has something to do with animals.

For example, I imagined bands and singers like U2, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Foo Fighters, Guns N' Roses, The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mick Jagger, Selena Gomez, Avril Lavigne, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber, Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, Ed Sheeran, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Bon Jovi, Skid Row, Metallica, Linkin Park, Cyndi Lauper and Richard Marx being called Ewe2, The Beagles, Black Sable, Fur Fighters, Guns N' Rabbits, The Roaring Stones, Furvana, Red Hot Chili Puppies, Mick Jaguar, Velociena Gomez, Avril Lavulpine, Catty Purry, Otter Mars, Justin Beaver, Jaguar Depp, Alice Cougar, Ed Sheepan, Michael Jackalson, Whitney Hamster, Madonnamouse, Bon Coati, Skid Roe, Metalilica, Linkin Bark, Cyndi Lynx and Raptor Marx.

Of course, there are bands and singers who will have the same names as in real life, like Pink Floyd, Duran Duran, System of a Down, Slipknot, Evanescence, Nightwish, Heart, Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, David Bowie, Rihanna, Elton John, Bryan Adams, Shakira and Lady Gaga, especially since there are some hard-to-invent names that have something to do with animals, hahaha. Since my future book will have a lot of espionage and conspiracy, the story will have places that convey that feeling of metropolis and mystery. The cities that will be in the story are:

Metropawlis (The capital or major center): It's the New York and Washington of this world. That's where the AMS headquarters is located. Full of skyscrapers, neon lights, and, unfortunately, the place where the tame collars law is strictest.

Warren's Creek (Claire's hometown): It's a quiet little town inspired by various small towns, with the feel of an American suburb from the 90s and 2000s. It has many white picket fences, gardens and is where Claire's father's old cabin is located. It sounds like a refuge, but it hides secrets.

Iron Alley (The industrial district): Inspired by Detroit and Chicago, Iron Alley is a gray city, full of factories and ports. It's probably where two of the 7 protagonists, Rusty and Jade, have their podcast basement, but that's a topic for another post. It's a "dirty" place where the government can't monitor everything very well.

Whitepine Falls (Jack's hometown): Inspired by Seattle and Colorado, this is a mountainous city, surrounded by pine forests and snow. It's the perfect environment for a lynx. It conveys that feeling of isolation and melancholy that matches Jack's past.

Cobalt Bay (The Tech City): This is the "Silicon Valley" of this world, inspired by San Francisco. It's where Biotech-Life's headquarters and the signal transmission towers for the collars are located. It's an extremely clean, modern and heavily guarded city.

And since I mentioned my country, Brazil, it's very likely that Jack and Claire will travel to Brazil to investigate Scarlett Wolfstein in an attempt to discover the location of the alleged nuclear weapons. You know, it's nice to have names that sound tropical and familiar:

Porto Fauna: It's a vibrant port city, inspired by Rio de Janeiro and Santos. It mixes beautiful beaches with a dense urban area.

Nova Selva: A gigantic and chaotic metropolis, inspired by São Paulo. It's the financial center, where predators and prey from all over the continent mingle (and where social conflicts are intense).

Sertão-Pata: An inland city inspired by Bahia, with a hot, dry climate, focused on agriculture (where the sheep and antelope families probably live).

Why do these names work?

Warren's Creek: "Warren" means rabbit hole, so it sounds natural for Claire.

Metropawlis: It's the classic pun on "Paw," but it sounds authoritative.

Iron-Alley: It conveys the idea of ​​resilience and something "tough," matching Rusty and Jade.

Now let's talk about the tame collars. Mandatory for all predators, these emotional control collars were created to prevent them from acting aggressively and potentially harming their prey, applying chemicals when they become enraged or overly emotional. In other words, collars exist worldwide to keep citizens, who in this case are paranoid prey, satisfied with a sense of security and control over their potentially wild neighbors.

Yes, instead of a punitive shock, the collar detects increased adrenaline or heart rate (indicating aggression) and injects a small dose of sedative or hormonal inhibitor. Because of this, predators feel "clouded" or drugged, losing their personality in order to be accepted in society.

Furthermore, the tame collar has a light that changes color according to the user's emotional state: green to indicate calm and/or relaxation, yellow (the alert color) for strong emotions, and red (the color that initiates the dose of sedatives) for very intense emotions. If the tame collar turns red, the predator is prevented from entering stores, public transport or is avoided by everyone.

It's a visual and technological prejudice, a constant "public shame." The problem is that the tame collar simply monitors elevated physiological changes in the predator wearing it, but it cannot distinguish whether these changes are caused by anger/aggression, joy/excitement, or fear/panic, and administers sedatives regardless.

In addition, the collar is designed so that, once placed on the predator, it can only be unlocked by a special key held by medical professionals and the police. Yeah, I borrowed that part from the discarded version of Zootopia because I found it very interesting that the tame collars don't distinguish the causes of the predators' physiological changes, making their lives even more difficult. I hope that's not a problem, if you know what I mean? hahaha

There's a technical reason why these collars are practically impossible to remove without official help. Since the story takes place in the 2000s, I can use a mix of crude mechanical engineering with the "emerging" digital technology of that time. Here are three layers of security that make the tame collar a perfect prison:

1- The "Fiber Optic Circle," also known as Integrity Monitoring: Inside the collar material (whether metal or polymer), runs a very thin fiber optic cable. The device sends a constant pulse of light through this cable. If someone tries to cut, saw, or even bend the tame collar with excessive force, the cable breaks or the light becomes distorted. The moment the light stops circulating, the collar enters "Maximum Containment Mode" and injects the entire sedative supply at once to "knock out" the user before they can escape.

2- The "Single Frequency" Lock: In the 2000s, cryptography was evolving. The tame collar doesn't have a common keyhole that opens with a paperclip. It has a magnetic lock that only responds to a specific, encrypted radio frequency. It's like those old car alarm remotes, but much more complex. The problem is that the official key used by the police sends a code that changes every 30 seconds. Without the government's "Code Generator", any attempt to use a magnet or a common master key permanently locks the system.

3- The "Biometric Pulse" Sensor: The tame collar is designed to recognize the heat and heartbeat of the specific user. Why is this bad? If a predator tries to pass the collar to another or if someone tries to use a heat tool to melt the metal, the sensor detects the sudden change in temperature or the lack of the owner's "pulse". This triggers a radio signal to the nearest monitoring center, a kind of primitive GPS from the 2000s, using cell towers. The police will know exactly where the predator is trying to remove the device. This solves the biggest problem in stories of this type: "Why don't they just cut the collar?"

I believe readers will now understand that the tame collar is a living technological organism. The idea of ​​the fiber optic cable injecting all the sedative if cut creates a "constant danger" that keeps the tension high. And yeah, Dr. Wolfstein and his daughter, Scarlett, are the false villains who appear at the beginning of the story. The real villain will be the country's president and father of Aeron (one of the 7 protagonists of the story), Sterling Cobalt. Sterling was responsible for the decree that obliges all predators to wear tame collars around their necks under the guise of ensuring the safety of their prey. His motivation is to use fear as a political tool.

Sterling doesn't hate predators out of pure malice. He discovered that keeping prey afraid makes them easy to control. If the prey are afraid, they vote for him to "protect" them. The collars aren't for protection, they're actually for labeling who the "monster" is. There's a possibility he's planning a "Final Upgrade": a tame collar that not only sedates but also allows him to control the predator's movements remotely, transforming them into an obedient, mindless workforce.

Furthermore, the protagonists will discover the rest of the story of the scientist who created the prototype hardware. Sterling had twisted the story: he accused Dr. Wolfstein of selling "aggression chips" to underground predator fighting cartels.

He even sabotaged a public test. He caused a test predator to lose control precisely because the scientist's prototype "failed." The scientist wasn't just fired, he suffered what we call civil death. He lost his engineering license, was prosecuted for "treason against national security," and had all his assets confiscated except for the family mansion, which was protected by an old inheritance clause.

He spent the rest of his life developing the chip as his sole form of revenge, attempting to transform those old schematics into modern chips. He knew the system would be used for oppression and kept the "key to freedom" hidden to one day be used against the government. With the prototype chip in hand, Jack uses the chip in his collar to stay off the radar of the authorities. This chip is a small circuit board designed to sit beneath the collar's casing. This board intercepts signals from the heart sensor.

When the lynx's heart races (from joy, fear, anger or love), the chip sends a false message to the tame collar saying: "The heartbeat is normal, 60 bpm". However, the chemical reservoir is still there. If the chip fails or if there is a physical impact on the tame collar, the drug could be accidentally injected. This creates constant tension: he can feel emotions now, but he needs to "pretend" the chip is working. But don't worry, the lynx will only use this chip for a short time, he'll only use it until the other protagonists show up to help.

Back in January of this year, I had the great pleasure of meeting Kestriil, a very kind and lovely artist who creates beautiful and wonderful arts on Tumblr. She was accepting art requests there, so I didn't waste any time and asked her to draw the two main characters of my upcoming book, Jack and Claire. That same day, she managed to draw the lynx and the rabbit for me and I was very surprised by how quickly she worked, lol.

And about the art, oh my God, what a beautiful art! Seriously, the art is wonderful, I loved it so much aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 🤩🥰❤️ This is one of the best arts I've ever received in my whole life! I absolutely loved the way you drew Jack and Claire, they look so cute and adorable 😍 You managed to capture the essence of this couple!

Look at this lynx! He really seems like a very shy and somewhat naive guy, but he's actually a very kind and loving boy, quite awkward with social difficulties, especially with girls like the rabbit 💝 As for the rabbit, she really seems like an incredibly skilled spy, and the complete opposite of her boyfriend: organized, methodical, cold and highly focused on efficiency 😎

Besides that, I loved the painting, the shading, the lighting, all the details... Everything is so perfect! Thank you so much for making this beautiful and wonderful art for me, you don't know how much it brightened my day 💖 If you'd like to see more cute arts by Kestriil, click here: https://www.tumblr.com/kestriil

Well, I hope you enjoyed this artwork, the story I created for my upcoming book and the ideas that will be presented in it. I'll be sharing more arts and important details about this book with you soon, so stay tuned 👀