The adoption coordinator told Sunny's parents that little prospective pup Judith was a husky mix with "some light wolf ancestry". Whether the coordinator genuinely didn't grasp the truth or was deliberately distorting things is unknown.....What is known is that Sunny's parents were startled when Judy started growing....and growing......and growing. She quickly surpassed Sunny in size, sprouting massive claws and fangs and developing immense physical strength that far outclassed her brother, would eventually outclass both her parents combined. Judith is a dire wolf, one of the largest canines to ever live. Her general air of menace tends to spook most herbivores, and even her adoptive family is a bit nervous around their big bad wolf of a daughter.
.....That kinda hurts Jude's feelings, cuz underneath the roughhousing and snark and booming laugh, she's secretly, well.....a sweetheart. A softie. A big ol' pubby. She's a local mechanic that does many odd jobs, but also quite likes knitting, embroidery, and writing mushy love songs. Not that she'd ever have the guts to actually perform said songs, her girl band Maul Madness is hardcore punk rock/heavy metal only, because if the world is gonna fear Jude as a big scary monster, might as well lean into it for fun and profit.
In the world of Fuzzbutts, predators are often typecast as dominating, violent, and scary, and there's a curious trend of more predators being in positions of power (eg. politicians, office managers, etc) than prey animals. Prey animals are sometimes maligned as being weak, skittish, and easily misled. All citizens have likely been unfairly stereotyped at one point or another, and discrimination is a thing. Predators may resent prey animals for having an easier time acquiring food (herbivores and omnivores have a wide variety of food options, while obligate carnivores are stuck either eating protein-based fake meat or paying for expensive cuts of lab-grown meat). Prey animals may resent predators for the unfair power they wield, both socially and physically. Although society generally gets along and is fully integrated, there is often a note of mistrust and unease, and some pockets of extremist speciesism exist.
Additionally, there's a further social divide between "wildtype" and "domestic" meat-eaters. Domesticated dogs especially are afforded an instant trust by society that wildtype predators like Jude are typically denied. Who doesn't love a dog's adorable face and cute wagging tail? Jude, having been raised among domestic dogs, naturally grew to mirror many of their behaviors, but what's cute from Sunny (barking/howling when excited, running up to greet someone, smiling wide) comes off as terrifying when Jude does it. As a youth Jude tried very hard to be nice and palatable for the world, but it just ended up in disastrous failure most of the time. So, as an adult she fully embraces the "big bad wolf" thing, acting dominating and crass to cover up a good number of insecurities. Her relationship with Sunny is strained, while she does love her brother deep down, she can be a bit of a bully to him. Out of herself, Cass (Cloudy's expy, first shown here:
) and Sunny, it's very obvious who their parents' golden child is, so Jude sometimes takes out this resentment on her big bro.
if u wanna imagine Jude's voice and general vibe, basically think Miss Kitty from Fievel Goes West: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxVWqS…
if u wanna imagine the sibling dynamic between Sunny, Cass, and Jude, have this from one of my patrons:
Cass (to Sunny): I brought you frankincense
Sunny: thank you
Jude to Sunny: and I brought you myrrh
Sunny: Thank you
Jude: *bares teeth* myrrh-DER!
Sunny: JUDITH
2.) refined Jude's design and color palette. :> She BIG
When Jude isn't at band practice or work, she dresses like your standard middle-aged dad shopping at Lowe's. Sunny, comparatively, shops almost exclusively at thrift stores and always looks like he stumbled out of a bad 90's movie.
Canines form complex social hierarchies, and Sunny and Jude are no exception. Sunny is convinced he's the "pack leader" out of his siblings, and that they have to listen to him cuz he's the oldest and wisest. This is not remotely true- while Cass might often cave to Sunny's demands for shenanigans out of sheer apathy, Jude is more likely to pick him up by the scruff, place an overturned laundry bin over him, then stack a heavy dumbbell on top so he can't escape. She calls this Idiot Jail, and she and Cass will ignore Sunny's indignant yipping to be released and order pizza instead. Sibling love!
more notes:
-Jude sees how Sunny's girlfriend Skye babies him(petting, hugging, squishing his face and calling him a good boi til his tail is thumping) and secretly longs for something similar. She'd never express this however, wolves are meant to be stoic and noble and look down on dogs as undignified.
-Jude is a BIG ol lesbean. A solid 80% of her mental real estate is devoted to thinking about girls at any given moment
-Sunny likes to shop for both his little sibbies when he's out thrifting. He once got Jude a tank top that says Big Dilf Energy cuz he thought Dilf means dang i love frogs. Jude hates that she loves it
-Jude's been known to startle herbivores, so she often reflexively tries to look harmless with a big warm smile. Unfortunately this has been known to make some prey citizens faint. She works as a handywoman and is often called in for repairs at Penny's boarding house, Zoo Haven.
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Commissioned a piece of a Rainbow Dash and Maniac nextgen, but mainly wanted to see what the character would look like, and wasn't interested in using it. As such, they gave me permission to sell the character as an adoptable! I will be giving them copies of the file, but the character itself goes to whoever's interested in her. 
but now I've decided to rework her into something different entirely. Meet Judith. She is Sunny's "little" sister, adopted to be his companion when he was about three years old.
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