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->''Judy and Nick are given a task that seems more like a fun getaway: providing a little security for the annual Bunnyburrow Fall Harvest Festival. But things aren't as peaceful as they may now be in Zootopia, and the two cops are thrust into a brand new caper - solved with the help of a certain pastry-baking fox from Judy's past.''
-->--Summary from Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and Website/FanFictionDotNet
'''''The Redemption of Gideon Grey''''' is a ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' FanFic written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/YFWE YFWE]], found on both [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6427822 Archive of Our Own]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11865453 FanFiction.net]].
[[ContinuationFic Continuing]] about a year after the Night Howler Incident, ZPD Officers Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde are outsourced to Judy's hometown when plans for inclusivity in an annual festival causes controversy among Bunnyburrow's conservative population. As the Tri-Burrow County's predators struggle for their involvement (or uninvolvement), the ReformedBully Gideon Grey does what he can to make amends for the trouble he caused the town as a child.
The FanFic is an early FanWork for the ''Zootopia'' fandom, debuting less than a month after the film's release; it is divided into a little over 100,000 words across sixteen chapters posted from March 28th[[superscript:(FF)]]/April 1st[[superscript:([=AO3=])]] to September 9th[[superscript:([=AO3=])]]/12th[[superscript:(FF)]], 2016.
It has a {{Sequel}} in the form of ''Fanfic/TheDeadWaltz''. While the original is a CompletedFic, the sequel has been LeftHanging on the penultimate chapter since June 2023, which was after a SeriesHiatus since 2019.
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!! ''The Redemption of Gideon Grey'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:When Belle Thumper's father found out she had a schoolyard crush on Mike Robins, he hit her over the head for it and removed her from school after she showed up with a welt the next day.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy
** In ''Zootopia'', an unnamed rabbit was a BitCharacter bullied by young Gideon. In ''Redemption'', [[NamedByTheAdaptation Belle Thumper]] has [[TaughtToHate grown into a bigoted adult]] with a hatred of foxes unable to believe Gideon has become a ReformedBully.
** Travis the ferret was just TheBully's CowardlySidekick from elementary school in the movie. In this story, he's a SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp; one [[spoiler:willing to enact terrorism to uphold UrbanSegregation.]]
* AddledAddict: [[spoiler:Travis' parents are implied to be these by Constable Clover's comment that they're "scrapping some of that junk out there in their backyard for stuff other than cash."]]
* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: Not a bar but a café. The Icy Koala is the only coffee shop in Bunnyburrow (and run by a koala of course).
* AlliterativeFamily
** Belle Thumper and her siblings, Blake, Bernice, and Billy. This naming is intergenerational, as their mother and father are named Benny and Beatrice, and their paternal uncle on the festival board is also named Barney.
** [[AlliterativeName Gideon Grey]]'s father and grandfather are similarly named George and Gabriel Grey. There is also a separate alliteration between his mother and brother, Clara and Colton.
** Judy's paternal grandparents are named Roy and Ruth Hopps.
* AlliterativeName
** Gideon Grey's name is alliterative like his father and grandfather.
** A {{Delinquent}} jaguar named Jarrod is from the Serengeti Springs neighborhood.
* AndThisIsFor: Belle Thumper dedicates a throw in her litter's ProducePelting of Gideon to Judy Hopps, arguing that she would've done it herself had she not gone off and became a [[CityMouse City Rabbit]]. This is a WrongAssumption however, as Judy has forgiven Gideon and is grateful for him giving her her EurekaMoment on the night howlers.
* AnimalDisguise: [[spoiler:Travis' GangOfBullies disguise themselves with fox masks InTheHood to terrorize the prey festivalgoers.]]
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: {{Averted}} for [[spoiler:Mike Robins, as he [[{{Sadist}} found pleasure]] in punching Gideon unconscious and hitting Nick with his truck.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:Mike]]:''' [[spoiler:Took out two foxes that night – [[CategoryTraitor two mangy, prey-lovin' foxes.]] Best I've felt in a while.]]
* AprilFoolsDay: {{Averted}}. The first chapter was posted on April 1st, 2016, but not even the ProducePelting and PieInTheFace made it CrackFic material.
* ArmedWithPepperSpray: [[spoiler:Travis' gang disperses a bunch of Fox Away spray on a crowd of prey at the festival.]]
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Nick starts to open up to Judy on his feelings by asking what she thinks her parents think their relationship is, to which Judy nearly [[StoppedDeadInTheirTracks stops dead]] in traffic at his seriousness. She breaks from a StunnedSilence only to say "I don't know", with an incoming call from her dad being able to ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject.
* ArmsDealer: [[spoilers:Mentioned in an example from Constable Clover when he explains the {{Blackmail}} he has on parents of Travis' gang members. [[CruelCoyotes Amy Growlett]]'s parents have been running illegal firearms in and out of Zootopia for years.]]
* TheAtoner: Gideon is deeply regretful of the harm he caused his peers as a child and how he perpetuated the FoulFox stereotype due to his identity issues, which he attempts to remedy by improving the prey's opinions of predators and contribute to society.
* AttentionWhore: Skip Clover turns into a LargeHam when he gets to serve as Bunnyburrow's master of ceremonies. [[spoiler:Clover enjoys his position so much, he's more than willing to frame the upstart ReformedCriminal Carl Pumaski when he suspects the panther wants to take his position.]]
* BasementDweller: {{Downplayed}}. Gideon moved out of his parents' house at 21, but he lives in a cottage still within the property of the family farm which he still tends to.
* BatterUp: When Travis and his GangOfBullies arrive to burn the rule sheets given to the predators at the festival, Mike Robins (a FoulFox) and Jarrod Catstantino (a {{Delinquent}} jaguar) are equipped with ones for intimidation. The narration [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how they're probably not for MailboxBaseball, but young Jarrod is quick to explain they were [[ExploitedTrope just for show]] when Officer Wilde [[DistractAndDisarm sneaks up and takes them]].
* BearHug
--> [[LemonyNarrator Then came the much-anticipated meeting of Bonnie Hopps and her daughter's co-worker. A hug was in order, and so it came. Nick felt as though his ribs would never be the same.]]
* BerserkButton: Nick has a talk with Gideon on theirs after the latter guilts himself over a MomentOfWeakness.
** To Gideon; [[AndYourLittleDogToo threatening his friends]]. When Travis suggests giving Judy another scar with the glass from his broken windows, Gideon loudly growls at him in public, leaving both of them feeling that Travis [[BreakThemByTalking won their "friendly chat"]].
** To Nick; [[YourMom insulting his mother]]. He tells Gideon of an incident five years back when he went drinking with Finnick, wherein he was BlindedByRage and clawed a [[SinisterSwine speciest pig]] for disparaging her with FoulFox stereotypes.
* BigNo
--> ''He barely had the time to utter a [[DownplayedTrope quick, staccato]] "No!" before Judy pumped a [[TranquilizingDart dart]] into his arm.''
* BigotWithABadge
** Belle Thumper favorably envisions Judy Hopps to be one, believing the RighteousRabbit readily targets foxes in Zootopia as revenge for what Gideon did to them as children. Belle finds out she's WrongGenreSavvy when Judy returns to Bunnyburrow, bringing her fox coworker with her.
** [[spoiler:Constable Clover is the trope PlayedStraight, as he conspires to keep the predators segregated from the Bunnyburrow Fall Harvest Festival, conspiring with similarly xenophobic predators to drive the wedge between the town's folk.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Constable Clover]] has several predators from across the county under his thumb because of the evidence he has on their parents' illegal activity. When confronting the constable, Judy [[CorrectionBait intentionally guesses wrong]] that Clover was blackmailing them with their records to get him to smugly admit he was using their parents.]]
* {{Bookends}}: The story starts and ends with Gideon Grey making a delivery to 133 Whitehare Lane, the address of the Thumpers.
* BrickJoke: When Stu welcomes Nick to the Hopps home, Nick deadpans that he'll use the opportunity to {{Plunder}} the place before clarifying it's a joke. One day and two chapters later, Nick's openness to Judy on his enjoyment of Bunnyburrow has her consider if he actually has stolen something.
--> '''Stu:''' Stu Hopps. It's a please to finally let the great Nick Wilde into our home.
--> '''Nick:''' Just wait 'til I steal all your silver. ({{beat}}) Kidding! Kidding. Pleasure, sir.
--> '''Stu:''' This guy!
--> ''[...]''
--> '''Nick:''' Y'know, Carrots, I'm... [[SincerityMode really happy I'm here, actually.]]
--> '''Judy:''' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Wait]], [[EntertaininglyWrong did you really steal my parents' silver?]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:When Judy Hopps was twelve, she look up to her hometown's constable and tried to get an apprenticeship under him. Now an adult in her mid-twenties, she uncovers Skip Clover as a DirtyCop and arrests him for an UrbanSegregation conspiracy.]]
* BrokenWindowWarning: Gideon comes home to find that all six windows on his house have been smashed in, a note tied to a rock each. Reading the note confirms it wasn't by the Thumpers that attacked him earlier, but [[CategoryTraitor grievanced predators]].
* CantHoldHerLiquor: Judy got a bit nauseous when she, Nick, and Gideon were sharing some of his grandfather's moonshine. The foxes consider whether rabbits are lightweights or if it's a testament to Gabriel Grey's brew. Gideon helps her to the bathroom, but [[DownplayedTrope she manages to keep it down.]]
--> '''Nick:''' Did the [[UnusualEuphemism porcelain god get involved?]]
* CalmingTea: Gideon drinks tea to calm himself, something influenced on him by his tea-loving mother. While he [[DoesNotLikeSpam hated it]] when he was younger, his efforts in becoming a ReformedBully grew him accustomed to the taste, to the point where he drinks a cup at least once every morning.
* CarFu: [[spoiler:Nick is [[OutSick bedridden]] when a truck hits him on a country road after dark. It turns out to have been a targeted attack that could easily be labeled an accident.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Largely {{Averted}}. Taking Judy for example, she uses hers to communicate with her coworkers and family, report to Chief Bogo on the case, and use its flashlights during investigations.
** {{Exploited}} when [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Constable Clover]] barricades the county police in a room in the schoolhouse's basement where there's no cell phone or radio reception.]]
* TheChase: Judy runs into the forest after [[spoiler:Constable Clover when he becomes a LiarRevealed.]]
* ChekhovsGunman
** Judy's cousin Avery picks up her and Nick when they first arrive in Bunnyburrow. Eight chapters later, [[spoiler:he's also the one to rescue Nick when he finds him as the victim of a hit-and-run.]]
** Edmond, a rabbit volunteer who [[ComicalOverreacting fetches a fire extinguisher]] for a tiny trash fire Constable Clover simply TrampledUnderfoot. [[spoiler:He ends up overhearing Clover scheming with Travis and reports TheReveal to Judy.]]
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler:Belle Thumper stopped trying to pursue {{Interspecies Relationship}}s with foxes years before the story, after her father Benny hit her over the head and pulled her out of school.]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}
** Chapter 6 ends on two; one each for Judy and Gideon's point of views. Judy is informed that Carl Pumaski has been arrested for the theft of festival vendors' stock, while Gideon runs into [[WickedWeasel Travis]] at the coffee shop.
** Chapter 7 ends with Travis, who has arrived in front of city hall and his gang in pickup trucks, [[FireMeansChaos starting a trash fire out of protest.]]
** Chapter 9 ends with Judy beginning to question Pumaski on what he knows about Travis.
** Chapter 11 ends with Nick talking a walk down a country road, [[spoiler:at night, oblivious to a truck veering from the opposite lane to [[CarFu run him down]].]]
** Chapter 14 ends with [[spoiler:Belle Thumper confronting Judy and Gideon, assuring them "[they're] gonna have a little chat, y'hear?"]]
** Chapter 15 ends with [[spoiler:a festival assistant telling Judy he found Constable Clover harboring Travis and his missing gang on his property, along with cans of unknown substances.]]
* CompletedFic: The final chapter was uploaded to Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn on September 9th, 2016 (September 12th on Website/FanFictionDotNet).
* ContinuationFic: This story takes place after the three-months-long events of the movie. By Judy and Nick's respective recollections, it has been over a year since they first met, but less than one since Bellweather's arrest.
* CookingDuel: {{Discussed}} by Gideon when he tells Judy how cooking {{Reality Show}}s inspire yet confuse him.
--> "Yeah, [[RuleOfFunny they can get silly]], and sometimes there's [[RuleOfDrama drama for no reason]], but boy, I'll tell ya, the stuff they can accomplish, it's mindblowin'."
* ContrivedCoincidence
** At the festival, Nick recognizes a cheetah selling vitamin water as a regular from his days as a pawpsicle salesman. His and Judy's conversation with Scott and his wife reveals that a [[FascistsBedTime different curfew]] had been issued to the predator vendors than the prey.
--> "Ayyyy, it's the pawpsicle fox! Honey, honey, Amy, ''this'' guy!"
* CorrectionBait: [[spoiler:Judy guesses that Travis' gang was working with Constable Clover because he had {{blackmail}} on them, prompting Clover to smugly correct her, correcting that he was lauding evidence against their parents. Judy smirks and admits she knew that already, as she found the blackmail in the county jail's archives.]]
* CruelCoyotes: Amy Growlett, the TokenFemale of Travis' gang. A SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp, she's more than willing to lash out whether by intimidating festivalgoers with trash fires, or gleefully ambushing Gideon with a TapOnTheHead, or [[spoiler:participating in gassing a crowd of prey with [[ArmedWithPepperSpray pepper spray]].]]
** {{Implied}} with her parents as well, as [[spoiler:there's damning evidence that they're [[OutlawCouple both]] {{Arm Dealer}}s that have been smuggling firearms in and out of Zootopia for years.]]
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:TheSheriff of Bunnyburrow, Constable Skip Clover. He's more than willing to {{Blackmail}} minorities to get them all banned from the city festivities he curates, and is confident [[VillainWithGoodPublicity his reputation]] will make anyone saying otherwise TheCassandra.]]
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Chapter 4's title, "A Stone's Throw". It refers to how Gideon's cottage is [[TitleDrop a stone's throw]] away from his parents, as well as the [[BrokenWindowWarning stones thrown through its windows]].
* DramaticShattering: When Gideon growls at Travis in the coffee shop, the latter is startled into dropping his mug on the floor. This helps draw everyone's attention in the shop to them, guilting Gideon for his very public MomentOfWeakness.
* DramaticUnmask
** {{Defied}} when [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Constable Clover]] catches one of the masked predators attacking the festivalgoers, an attempt at distancing him from his minions that Judy has seen through. She bluffs him to unmask the predator to prove Travis and his gang weren't smuggled into town, but Clover refuses with the [[VillainHasAPoint valid]] justification that doing so would "[loosen his] grip on [the] wrongdoer" and risk their escape.]]
** PlayedStraight when [[spoiler:Judy sees that the mammal that helped her take down Clover wasn't one of the county police but one of the masked predators. The figure removes the fox mask, revealing himself to be Travis.]]
* EasingIntoTheAdventure: The story starts with Gideon making a delivery to a customer.
* EnemyMine: In a mix of this and {{Blackmail}}, [[spoiler:Constable Clover recruits Travis and his gang to sabotage the Fall Harvest Festival and get predators banned from attendance as all of them believe they shouldn't fraternize with the prey.]]
** [[spoiler:The instability of this leads one between Judy and Travis, as the ferret ends up giving her the opening to subdue and arrest Clover once [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal he has enough of the constable's machinations]].]]
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Judy's specialty. She uses her trusted carrot pen yet again to [[CaughtOnTape record]] [[spoiler:Constable Clover's [[JustBetweenYouAndMe Just Between Her and Him]], prodding him into confirming or correcting her suspicions.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[spoiler:Half the reason Travis and his gang work with [[BigotWithABadge Constable Clover]] is because he's {{Blackmail}}ing them over their parents' various crimes to get their compliance.]]
* EverythingIsRacist: Bunnyburrow had to retire their [[MechanicalAnimals mechanical bulls]] from the Fall Harvest Festival a few years back because some bulls complained.
* EvilGloating
** Travis taunts Gideon by insinuating he and his GangOfBullies were the ones who broke all of his house's windows the day prior, mentioning how the glass could be a good tool to cut Judy Hopps' face up with.
** [[spoiler:When Judy details how she found him out, Constable Clover gloats how easy it was for him to blackmail Travis' gang and manipulate the town, and how his authority will have all of Bunnyburrow [[CassandraTruth believe him over her]]. The fact his gloating was CaughtOnTape and an eavesdropping ferret turns on him says different.]]
** [[spoiler:Mike relishes in telling Gideon that not only did he punch him unconscious, he was the one that ran Nick over, and how he's confident Clover will clear him of culpability.]]
* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: When the ban on predators attending the Bunnyburrow Fall Harvest Festival is lifted, the town is anticipating their one hundred and fiftieth such celebration.
--> '''Nick:''' Ah, [[LampshadeHanging they sure picked a banner year to let us undesirables in.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Chapter 3, titled "The Reunion of One Gideon Grey, Fox, with One Judy Hopps, Rabbit". Same with Chapter 1, "Prologue", being the prologue.
* FightingBackIsWrong: The [[BullyHunter Thumper siblings]] are a case of this when they accost Gideon. They [[DirtyCoward never stood up to him]] like Judy did as children, only confronting Gideon over a decade after the fact when they're all adults and Gideon a ReformedBully. Their ProducePelting is especially cruel as [[TheAtoner Gideon]] was LuredIntoATrap when [[YankTheDogsChain he thought they were giving him a chance.]]
* FiveSecondForeshadowing
** Gideon walks past fields of tomato plants as he delivers two cherry pies to Mrs. Thumper. It's those very crops that the Thumper siblings begin ProducePelting him with a moment later.
** Nick recalls Finnick's advice that a lamppost burning out overhead is a PortentOfDoom. [[spoiler:He gets hit by a truck a few steps after.]]
* {{Flashback}}
** Chapter 7 "Red" starts with a [[PseudocanonicalFic Pseudo-Canonical]] flashback to young Gideon and Travis after the former's fight with Judy.
** Chapter 12 "On Settling Down" has in the middle of it a flashback of Nick visiting his mother sometime after becoming a police officer, wherein she talks with her son on his lack of a significant other.
** Chapter 14 "County Line Road" starts with a flashback to Judy to back when she was a few weeks shy of turning seventeen, visiting Constable Clover to try and convince him into giving her an internship for the summer break.
* FlatScare: Nick exploits the bigotry of the protesters blocking the city hall by playing up how much of a FoulFox he must be, ergo it wouldn't be OutOfCharacter for him to go "BOO!"... scaring the crowd into parting and letting him and Judy through, which she [[ActuallyPrettyFunny half-scolds]] him for.
--> "Psh. I gave 'em the [[DeadHorseTrope international sign]] of a [[SillySpook spooky ghost]]," he scoffed. "No harm in that."
* FlintstoneTheming: The author {{Lampshades}} doing this in a note at the end of Chapter 2, also citing a point in said chapter where they found it wasn't necessary.
--> Side note: OK, so I totally have been trying to change the names of different things as they come up in order to seem fitting to an animal-run world rather than a human one, but come on, Yelp would totally be called the same thing in Zootopia. Wonder if Nick's old pawpsicle biz was on there.
* {{Foil}}
** Judy Hopps serves as a {{Foil}} to two characters...
*** ...to Belle Thumper. Both were bullied as children by Gideon Grey and held animosity for it years after the Carrot Day Festival. Over the events of the movie, Judy [[HeelRealization became aware]] of and [[CharacterDevelopment overcame]] her biases and has forgiven Gideon by the time of the story's start. Belle, however, never saw any reason to change her opinion of Gideon or other predators, becoming one of the anti-pred protesters that got Judy and Nick outsourced to Tri-Burrow County to help with festival security. [[spoiler:They're not too different after all, as both rabbits have some hidden romantic feelings for foxes, and Belle has a HeelRealization of her own when Constable Clover becomes a LiarRevealed and Gideon TakesTheBullet for her.]]
*** ...to Skip Clover. While Judy is a RighteousRabbit who is LivingOutAChildhoodDream to be a police officer, Skip Clover was appointed constable out of necessity, and is blatantly more interested in curating Bunnyburrow's festivities than policing the law. [[spoiler:Especially since he's a DirtyCop [[VillainWithGoodPublicity with Good Publicity]] using the position to keep himself in the spotlight and the predators out.]]
** Gideon Grey and Travis Ferris. Initially TheBully and his CowardlySidekick, the two's falling out spurned differing ideologies.
*** Due to his mother's intervention and psychiatric help, Gideon is a ReformedBully who regrets the harm he caused as a child and has become a SweetBaker with hopes of adding something constructive to Bunnyburrow's culinary scene and interspecies relations. His self-doubt problems still lingering despite the help he has, he is adamant he MustMakeAmends and that every RejectedApology is [[ItsAllMyFault all his fault]].
*** Left to lead their childhood GangOfBullies, Travis is a SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp with little regret for anything aside from losing Gideon as a friend. Making living wages with his parent's scrapyard and the occasional side job, he sees no reason for him or any predators to try and appeal to the world's predominantly prey population; he considers Gideon a CategoryTraitor for trying to [[DefiedTrope defy]] the FoulFox trope, and [[spoiler:he is willing to work with a rabbit to keep their species out of each other's way (but he [[HeelFaceTurn draws the line somewhere]]).]]
** Compared to the original film, [[spoiler:Leodore Lionheart and Carl Pumaski. Both are large pantherine predators of fair reputation in their respective cities only to get PutOnAPrisonBus in the middle of the plot because of a diminutive rival's scheming, however they differ from there.]]
*** [[spoiler:Mayor Lionheart is a lion who was in a notable political position; one in which (as a self-professed WellIntentionedExtremist) he hid a burgeoning crisis to keep himself in office, and is still imprisoned at the end for the abuses committed in his position.]]
*** [[spoiler:Carl Pumaski is a puma who is a repeat offender that has turned his life around, started a family, and inherited a car dealership. He's only just getting into the political scene by trying to get on Bunnyburrow's festival board, which he is only doing to give the city's predator population a voice. For this he is framed and jailed, but is freed once his innocence is proven.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Lengthier examples than the FiveSecondForeshadowing listed above.
** Gideon notices a dent in Mike Robins' truck. [[spoiler:A monologue with Mike reveals that he was the one to run Nick Wilde over two days prior.]]
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* FoulFox
** {{Exploited}} by Nick Wilde, as per canon. Not even minutes after setting foot in Bunnyburrow, Nick confronts some protestors outside the city hall on their preconceptions of predators, hammily playing upon their belief in the trope before scaring them out of his and Judy's way with a FlatScare.
** Also per canon, Gideon Grey was one [[SubvertedTrope before]] becoming a ReformedBully. Some people continue to see him as one, especially his past victims, their families, or the café patrons that witnessed his [[MomentOfWeakness outburst at Travis]].
** PlayedStraight with Mike Robins, as [[spoiler:he is a prey-hating {{Sadist}} that is amused that a rabbit ever had a crush on him and got [[AbusiveParents beat by her father]] for it, tried to [[CopKiller kill a police officer]] of [[ApeShallNotKillApe his own species]] using [[CarFu his truck]], and engaged in terrorism with [[ArmedWithPepperSpray chemical weapons]] to further predator-prey segregation.]]
* FurnitureBlockade: Tri-Burrow County Police gets barred in the schoolhouse's basement by a chair at the handle.
* TheGhost: Nick recalls a few relevant times he had Finnick the fennec, but he never directly appears at any point in the story; the closest is a quote to Nick of how it's a PortentOfDoom if a streetlight burns out above you.
* GangOfBullies: Travis wasn't Gideon's only SatelliteCharacter as a child, as a few other delinquent predators hung out with them. Despite Gideon's mother forcing him to cut ties with them, the gang is still together [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp All Grown Up]] now under Travis.
* GunNut: One of the Hopps' neighbors are trap shooting hobbyists, so much so that they have a gaudy mailbox made to look like a handgun.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:It is by his own arrogance that Constable Skip Clover is found out to be conspiring with Travis and his GangOfBullies to sabotage the festival, by carelessly leading the county police into a trap with instructions that could be traced back to him, as well as harboring his co-conspirators on his property. He [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digs himself deeper]] when he boasts in a JustBetweenYouAndMe with Judy how it was easy to manipulate Travis' gang and that he has the influence to get away with it. He is unaware that his EngineerPublicConfession is CaughtOnTape and being eavesdropped on by his [[TheDragon Dragon]].]]
* HopelessSuitor: [[spoiler:As teenagers, rabbit Belle Thumper had a crush on fox Mike Robins. While she never confessed, she was obvious enough for Mike and her father to find out; for which her father Benny [[AbusiveParents struck her over]] and Mike mocks her behind her back for ever harboring feelings for a fox.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:A rabbit who beat his teenage daughter for [[DatingWhatDaddyHates having a crush on a fox]] admonishes a fox, saying criminals never change their ways.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: When Judy's [[TheBabyOfTheBunch youngest sister]] asks Nick why he isn't [[YouAreFat as big as Gideon]], he explains to the toddler that it's because of differing lifestyle... in a way Judy has to comment on.
--> '''Nick:''' Ahhh, the [[SweetBaker Pie Guy]]. Well, look, when you're eating pastries all day, I suppose you'll gain a few more pounds than [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex someone as in-shape as I.]]
--> '''Judy:''' Nick, [[NonActionGuy you still can't run a mile without throwing up.]]
--> '''Nick:''' [[NonAnswer ...diet is everything, sweetheart.]]
* InMemoriam: Chapter 5's author note serves as one to Music/{{Prince}}, who died the day the chapter was uploaded.
* InsecureLoveInterest: When Nick sees Gideon help Judy when she CantHoldHerLiquor, he feels inadequacy to the [[CountryMouse country fox]]. He considers that if Judy would be interested in a fox, the [[BigFun larger]], [[DumbMuscle stronger]], and [[NiceGuy softer]] Gideon would probably be [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy the best option for Judy]] ''and'' [[EarnYourHappyEnding for Gideon.]]
* InstantSedation: The BigBag conks out pretty fast when hit by a TranquillizerDart.
* IronicEcho: Benny Thumper is of the opinion that criminals -- the unspoken implication being "predator" -- are BeyondRedemption. [[spoiler:Constable Clover reveals to Judy that he shares the same sentiment.]]
* {{Irony}}: Benny Thumper insists that criminals never [[BeyondRedemption change their ways]]... saying this to [[ReformedCriminal Nick]] and [[ReformedBully Gideon]]. [[spoiler:[[IronicEcho Skip Clover agrees.]]]]
* JokeAndReceive: When Gideon mentions that he [[{{Understatement}} didn't have a good experience]] with Belle and her siblings when he had them as customers, Nick jokingly asks if they [[TheHeckler booed him off stage]] while ProducePelting; Gideon admits that he was right with the latter half.
* JurisdictionFriction: {{Defied}}. The ZPD outsources Judy and Nick to Bunnyburrow's sheriff department to assist in festival security.
* LemonyNarrator: The story has moments of this when Nick and Judy aren't [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]] with each other.
* LiteralMetaphor: Bunnyburrow's Mayor Cotton keeps all the doors and windows to the Bunnyburrow City Hall open as a literal representation of her open-door policy. Her secretary isn't fond of the noise it lets in though.
* ALizardNamedLiz
** The Catstantinos, a jaguar family from northern Bunnyburrow.
** Skip Clover, the rabbit constable that's more interested in managing Bunnyburrow's harvest festivals.
** Travis [[NamedByTheAdaptation Ferris]], a ferret.
** Trevor Hornsby, the goat receptionist at Bunnyburrow City Hall.
** Violet Lamberson, the sheep in charge of drafting the festival's rules and regulations.
** Larry Goatsby and Carrie Woolington, a goat and sheep pair from Bleatonton that are acquaintances of Stu's.
** Carl Pumaski, a panther car dealer from Bunnyburrow's gated feline community.
** The Thumpers, another rabbit family down the road from the Hoppses.
* LuredIntoATrap: The story starts with Gideon making a pie delivery to the Thumpers only for it to be one. He didn't have time to discern whether the note telling him to {{Duck}} meant [[LampshadeHanging the bird or the action]] before he gets [[ProducePelting pelted with a tomato]].
* MailboxBaseball: {{Discussed}} by the narration when two of Travis' lackeys menace with a pair of [[BatterUp baseball bats]], noting the absence of any mailboxes in the scene to show an [[AvertedTrope Aversion]] of the trope.
* MayorPain: {{Averted}}. Mayor Cotton is a kindly, welcoming doe that cares for Bunnyburrow's residents, both predator and prey. She's been optimistic for Gideon's HeelFaceTurn since her days as the [[CoolTeacher school superintendent]], and keeps town hall's doors open as a LiteralMetaphor of her open-door policy.
* MeaningfulName: At one point, Judy recalls a honey badger named Melissa that worked records at the precinct; her name literally meaning "honeybee" in Ancient Greek (μέλισσα).
* MinorityPoliceOfficer: Like Judy Hopps, Constable Skip Clover is one of the few (if any) rabbits in the Tri-Burrow County Police. Since Judy was young, a majority of the department has been canines, with a prominence of coyotes in the present.
* MistakenForRacist: When Judy and Nick arrive at Bunnyburrow's town hall for their meeting with Mayor Cotton. The goat receptionist pleads for them to go thinking that the TorchesAndPitchforks outside protesting predators from the Fall Harvest Festival are trying to come inside again, only to recognize them as the extra security.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:After eavesdropping on Officer Hopps' and Constable Clover's JustBetweenYouAndMe moment, Travis jumps Clover for his EvilGloating over his power over his and his gang, giving Judy the opportunity to TranquillizerDart the DirtyCop and arrest him.]]
* MomentKiller
** {{Downplayed}} when Stu gives a call to Judy, who is just starting to contemplate her and Nick's RelationshipLabelingProblems when the latter bring it up.
** Bonnie is one too, startling Nick and Gideon just before the former was going to [[LoveConfessor admit his feelings for Judy.]]
* NamedAfterFirstInstallment: The series on Archive On Our Own, containing ''The Redemption of Gideon Grey'' and its {{Sequel}} ''The Dead Waltz'', is titled ''The Redemption Series''.
* NamedByTheAdaptation
** The unnamed rabbit girl from ''Zootopia'''s Gideon Grey scene is named Belle Thumper.
** Gideon's former [[WickedWeasel ferret lackey]], Travis, is provided the surname Ferris (a case of a ALizardNamedLiz and RhymingNames).
* NeverLearnedToRead: {{Discussed}} by [[GrumpyOldMan Gabriel Grey]], as he makes a few comments whether rabbits can read or not. When his son and grandson scold him for his comments, he argues that [[MoralMyopia they say the same for foxes.]]
* NeverTheObviousSuspect: Judy is doubtful of Carl Pumaski's guilt when he is arrested, as a ReformedCriminal who isn't content with the Bunnyburrow Fall Harvest Festival suddenly being found with a supply of merchandise stolen from it seems like too simple of a conclusion.
* NonAppearingTitle: The work's title ''The Redemption of Gideon Grey'' is said or written at any point in the story itself. The same applies to these chapter titles, as they do not appear in their respective chapters:
** Chapter 1 "Prologue"
** Chapter 2 "The Chief's Office"
** Chapter 3 "The Reunion of One Gideon Grey, Fox, with One Judy Hopps, Rabbit"
** Chapter 6 "The Rules"
** Chapter 12 "On Settling Down"
** Chapter 13 "This Must Be the Place"
* OCStandIn: Belle Thumper is implied to be the unnamed rabbit girl Gideon bullied alongside Shiela and Gareth in the movie.
* OfficialKiss: DoubleSubverted. When Nick returns on the topic of his and Judy's RelationshipLabelingProblems to tell her to forget he asked, Judy gives him an impulsive ShutUpKiss... after which they awkwardly part ways to talk with the mayor and the county police, continuing to avoid the conversation for a while later. It isn't until after everything else is settled (at the second to last scene) that the two decide to start a relationship, marked by Nick giving Judy a kiss on the forehead.
* OffscreenKarma: [[spoiler:While both Skip Clover and Mike Robins' defeats and arrests are shown, Travis and the rest of his gang are mentioned to haven been apprehended as well by the time Mr. Pumaski is released.]]
* OneSteveLimit:
** {{Averted}} in some cases...
*** One of Stuart and Bonnie's [[MassiveNumberedSiblings many children]] is Stuart Jr.
%%*** The koala that owns Bunnyburrow's only coffee shop is named Sheila, the same as Judy's childhood sheep friend (who admittedly doesn't appear in the story).
*** Two {{Bit Character}}s are named Amy. One is a cheetah whose husband is an acquaintance of Nick, and the other is a [[CruelCoyotes Cruel Coyote]] in Travis' gang.
** ...PlayedStraight with others.
*** Two {{Original Character}}s -- Mayor Cotton the rabbit and Sharla the koala barista -- were created by YFWE for the story, but two canon characters of the same name -- Judy's niece Cotton and childhood sheep friend Sharla -- make no appearance.
* OneWordTitle: Chapter 1 "Prologue" and Chapter 7 "Red".
* OriginalCharacter: There are quite a few to populate Bunnyburrow, whether they be {{Bit Character}}s or not.
** Gideon's family are minor characters. His parents are named George and Clara, and he has a younger brother named Colton, with their paternal grandfather Gabriel also living with them.
** Bunnyburrow's law enforcement is shown in the form of Constable Skip Clover and his {{Posse}}, with the police of the Tri-Burrow County being a pack of coyotes led by Officer Perkins.
** Travis wasn't Gideon's only lackey as TheBully, as he still runs the old gang; the named members of which include the fox Mike Robins, weasel Roland Weiss, coyote Amy Growlett, and jaguar Jarrod Catstantino.
* OriginalFlavor: ''The Redemption of Gideon Grey'' is largely true to the original work, both in terms of its setting of a [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] WorldOfFunnyAnimals (albeit focused on Bunnyburrow and not Zootopia), and the plot following [[FemaleFlatfootAndSnarkyGuy Judy and Nick]] in a FairPlayWhoDunnit. [[spoiler:Specifically of an anti-predator conspiracy by a small prey mammal who turns out to be a WolfInSheepsClothing that abuses their position as a public servant.]] The biggest differences are the UnresolvedSexualTension between Judy and Nick, [[TwoLinesNoWaiting another plot thread]] giving Gideon Grey a DayInTheLimelight, and three utterances of "damn" that make it marginally RuderAndCruder.
* OutSick: [[spoiler:Nick is put out of commission when he gets [[CarFu hit by a truck]] in the {{Cliffhanger}} to Chapter 11. [[PlotArmor Fortunately, he was not injured critically]], and was starting to get back on his feet within a couple of days.]]
* PassingTheTorch
** Bunnyburrow's previous grand marshal of ceremonies held their role for forty long years before naming Skip Clover as their successor.
** How Carl Pumaski acquired his car dealership three years prior; after rising to the rank of manager, he inherited the place when the owner retired.
* PieInTheFace: As Gideon is being run off the Thumpers' farm, Blake and Belle take the cherry pies he delivered (stolen, as Gideon wasn't left the promised payment but a note telling him to {{Duck}}) and throw them into his delivery truck's windshield as a "parting gift". Gideon is grateful his mom convinced him to install wipers a few days prior. Ironically, the chapter that had this traditionally light-hearted trope was posted to [=AO3=] on AprilFoolsDay.
* PlotArmor: Foxes, man.
** [[spoiler:Nick survives being [[CarFu hit by truck]] on an unlit country road, and is able to get out of bed to use the bathroom by himself within two days.]]
** In a lower stakes case, [[spoiler:Gideon [[TakingTheBullet Takes the]] TranquilizerDart for Belle Thumper. He doesn't even get sedated, as the needle merely snagged on his shirt sleeve.]]
* PortentOfDoom: Finnick is AgentScully for everything except one thing; if a streetlamp goes out over you, it's a bad sign. Whether it be your cousin gets mugged by two polar bears or your stepdad crashes the family car. Nick remembers his friend's advice when one burns out above him before [[spoiler:he gets hit by a truck.]]
--> "Bad omen, Nicky. Don't you forget it."
* ProducePelting: When Gideon makes his first delivery to someone outside of the Hopps, their neighbor Mrs. Thumper, some of her children that he bullied in elementary begin throwing the tomatoes from their field at him. To dig the knife, they throw the unpaid-for pies he brought into his windshield as they chase him off their property.
** Later on, when Gideon vaguely mentions the NoodleIncident around Judy and Nick, Nick [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the trope [[JokeAndRecieve jokingly asking]] if the Thumpers [[TheHeckler booed him off stage]] and threw tomatoes. Gideon admits he's not far off, and assures that [[ItsAllMyFault he deserved it.]]
* RedemptionQuest: Gideon is set out to apologize to the peers he bullied as a child, and to an extent, prey mammals for their fear of predators.
* ReformedButNotTamed: Despite becoming a ReformedBully, Gideon has lingering anger issues, only now flaring up due to his protectiveness of his friends.
* ReformedButRejected: Some of Bunnyburrow doesn't trust Gideon despite his HeelFaceTurn, Belle Thumper and her siblings being prime examples of the {{Xenophobic Herbivore}}s, while Travis and the old gang resent him as a [[LesCollaborateurs Collaborateur]] to prey.
* RelationshipLabelingProblems
** Nick and Judy have a few before confessing their feelings.
*** Nick gives Judy an ArmorPiercingQuestion on what her parents think of them, and what Judy thinks their relationship is. Judy is only able to respond with an "I don't know", leaving the two of them in silence before [[MomentKiller her father calls her]].
*** A few hours later, Nick apologizes for putting Judy on the spot earlier, taking her uncertainty as her finding them BetterAsFriends. When he tries to part with a [[StepfordSnarker joke]] about meeting her high school boyfriend, Judy [[ShutUpKiss shuts him up with a kiss]].
** In the {{Flashback}} to Gideon and Travis after the former's fight with Judy at the Carrot Day Festival, Travis asks if he and Gideon are friends or not; Gideon shrugs in affirmation but [[{{Tsundere}} threatens to claw him like he did Judy]] [[HiddenHeartOfGold if he "get[s] mushy or tell[s] anyone".]]
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: When Travis strikes a nerve with Gideon by bringing up the clawing incident with Judy, he finds that Gideon's opinion of her has turned around and can be used against him.
--> "Would be a shame if she got another scar somewhere else on her pretty little face. Maybe some of that glass from yer [[BrokenWindowWarning broken windows]]'ll do the trick..."
* {{Sleepyhead}}: Nick seems to have a bit of a habit finding time to nap regardless of work hours.
--> '''Nick:''' Good, because I need some shut-eye. We're just blowing through naptime today, aren't we?
--> '''Judy:''' You mean the nap you take in the squad car when we're doing our rounds each afternoon that I don't tell the chief about?
--> '''Nick:''' Those aren't documented in the daily paperwork, Carrots, so I challenge you to find some evidence.
* TheSheriff: Bunnyburrow's constable, Skip Clover. Everyone in town knows that he does it out of necessity and prefers his role as an event organizer.
* ShoutOut: Once Judy and Nick get past the TorchesAndPitchforks outside the town hall, Nick gives a parting OneLiner paraphrasing ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
--> "Though I doth think they protest too much!" He elbowed Judy once he was inside, snickering. "[[LampshadeHanging Get it?]] You got the joke, right, Carrots? Because they're protesting and... [[ButIDigress oh, hello!]]"
* SpeakOfTheDevil
** When Gideon makes a delivery to the Thumper family farm, he wonders whatever happened to the Thumper kids he bullied as a child, as they haven't seen each other in years. Just seconds later, he finds out he's been LuredIntoATrap by the same quartet.
** Stu quotes the trope when he hears Judy talking about Gideon with her siblings, saying he was just on a phone call with him.
* SpeciesTitle: Chapter 15 "The Big Bad Fox".
* SpottingTheThread
** [[spoiler:When Constable Clover gives Travis his cause for arresting Carl Pumaski for theft, Judy notes the ferret exasperated wording of "Him, ''though''?!". This was because despite knowing Clover would frame someone, Travis wasn't told it would be one of the most respectable predators in town.]]
** [[spoiler:The Tri-Burrow County police get barricaded in the schoolhouse's cellar with no cellphone reception. Judy notes that someone -- such as the constable that sent them to check there -- could have known about that property of the room.]]
* TheSummation: Judy has the LiarRevealed by explaining where the evidence leads, later elaborated JustBetweenYouAndMe.
%%* SuspiciouslyIdleOfficers
%%* TaughtToHate
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:When Belle refuses to stand down to the [[LiarRevealed newly-revealed liar]] Clover's threats, the constable fires a TranquilizerDart at her to provide an escape. Gideon lunges to shield her, the both of them [[NearMisses nearly avoiding the dart]] as the needle just barely snags on the fox's shirt sleeve.]]
* TitleDrop: While this doesn't apply to the story's title, ten of the sixteen chapters are titled off of a line within them.
** Chapter 4 "A Stone's Throw".
--> [...] ''with minor help from his father and grandfather, plus a few of the cousins, Gideon would have his own home '''a stone's throw''' from where the rest of his family stayed.'' [...]
** Chapter 5 "Nothing to Something".
--> '''Gideon:''' "When I look at what I got, I think about all the possibilities in this world, and how even I could make stuff, build from '''nothing to something''', make my own way."
** Chapter 7 "Red".
--> '''''[[RedIsViolent Red.]]'''''
** Chapter 8 "Down to the Wire".
--> ''"'''Down to the wire,'''" muttered Nick.''
** Chapter 9 "A Fox Thing".
--> ''"I'm with you there," agreed Gideon with an enthusiastic nod. "Maybe it's '''a fox thing'''."''
** Chapter 10 "House Call".
--> '''Nick:''' "Your ol' friend Nick's got a '''house call''' to make."
** Chapter 11 "A Different Animal".
--> ''But Nick was, well, '''a different animal'''.''
** Chapter 14 "County Line Road". [[RuleOfThree Thrice]], actually.
--> '''''County Line Road''', followed by Travis, and then trees.''
--> '''''County Line Road''' did just as its name suggested, and the county itself stretched a good while.''
--> ''They just needed to make it through to his delivery van, thrust the key into the ignition, maybe speed a bit down '''County Line Road''', but Gideon did not expect the county cops to be patrolling raucous speedsters at that time of the weekend.''
** Chapter 15 "The Big Bad Fox"
--> ''"All right," he growled, unsheathing his claws on both paws. "Come and get the '''big bad fox'''."''
** Chapter 16 "The Flowers Among the Weeds"
--> '''Gideon:''' "I guess that's what we do, you know? We find the folks who are worth it through all the other stuff, ''the flowers among the weeds''. You got someone like that, Hopps? Well, I don't know if you do or you don't, but if and when you do, don't lose sight of 'em, you got that?"
* TookALevelInJerkass: In his sole scene in the film, Travis is the [[ShorterMeansSmarter shorter yet smarter]] sycophant of the town bully. In here, he is a SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp who has seized control of the old GangOfBullies, [[spoiler:became TheDragon to a DirtyCop, and engages in terrorism ArmedWithPepperSpray.]]
* TorchesAndPitchforks
** Several of Bunnyburrow's residents protest the mayor's decision to allow predators to the Fall Harvest Festival, something that hasn't been done once in the [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo one hundred and fifty years]] since the festival's founding.
** Later, on the first day of the festival, Travis and his gang arrive to intimidate the city council over the restrictions placed on the predator vendors. After Judy talks Travis into discussing his problems with Mayor Cotton, Nick [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] the trope and how it doesn't always have literal pitchforks.
--> '''Nick:''' ''[...]'' Then two mangy pickup trucks holding a couple highly pissed-off predators come rolling in wielding pitchforks – OK, no, [[BatterUp not pitchforks]], but they might as well have, you guys have those around here in bulk, right? [[SeverelySpecializedStore Pitchfork store]]? [[ButIDigress Anyway]], ''[...]''
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gideon's mother has a fondness of CalmingTea, a partaking she has ingrained into her elder son. Mrs. Grey has an affinity to the Earl Grey blend, [[{{Pun}} jesting that perhaps they're related.]]
* TwirlOfLove: Stu gives one to Judy to welcome her home... only to almost drop his daughter when he [[CrackOhMyBack stops to clutch his back.]]
--> [[DiscussedTrope "Oof, can't do that anymore, can I?"]]
* UrbanSegregation: As its name would imply, Bunnyburrow started off mostly with bunnies and a few other prey such as sheep and goats. The first foxes (such as Gideon's great-grandfather) settled in enclaves outside the border, and even in the present, most of the felid population is confined to residential communities in the town's north. While Bunnyburrow's has the only schoolhouse in Tri-Burrow County that accepts both predators and prey, the Fall Harvest Festival was one of a few things that never allowed predators despite the several passing decades; but after a charge spearheaded by the Hopps, [[YearX that year]]'s festival [[DefiedTrope opened up]] to all species. [[spoiler:This spurns an interspecies conspiracy to sabotage the festival so the two demographics will be divided again by next year.]]
* VillainRespect: [[spoiler:When Constable Clover gets arrested by Judy Hopps, he praises her for finding him out and admits he missed an opportunity when he denied taking her on as a volunteer when she was twelve.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Most of the spoilers here conceal [[spoiler:how Constable Skip Clover is the BigBad with Travis as TheDragon]].
* WhamLine
** When Gideon goes through the {{Broken Window Warning}}s around his house, the last one's message makes it clear that prey aren't the only mammals against him: "[[CategoryTraitor Traitor]]".
** When Judy gets a call from her dad ([[MomentKiller before she can articulate what her and Nick's relationship is]]) to inform her that someone has been arrest for the stolen commerce.
--> "They found out who stole everything the other night. He's in custody. It's Carl Pumaski."
** When [[spoiler:Edmond tells Judy what he saw Travis doing with another one of the festival's staff.]]
--> [[spoiler:"He's got all these [[ArmedWithPepperSpray cans of something]], I don't know what. And he's... ''[[DirtyCop Clover]]'' was there, Judy, they were just ''talking.'' It was them. I know it."]]
** When [[spoiler:Mike Robins gloats to Gideon about assaulting him ''and'' Nick.]]
--> [[spoiler:"Took out two foxes that night – two mangy, prey-lovin' foxes."]]
* WhenHeSmiles: Nick is aware of how little he smiles rather than smirks, which is PlayedForLaughs when he looks at the [[SelfieFiend selfie]] Judy took of them on the train to Bunnyburrow.
--> He lingered on the photo a while longer, for there was something about it that was out of the ordinary.
--> Nick was smiling.
--> [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto He would have to get]] [[DestroyTheEvidence Judy to delete that later.]]
* WhisperedThreat: Blake Thumper gives one to Gideon while the latter chauffeurs Nick to question some residents. He tells the civilian fox that if he sets [[HoldYourHippogriffs paw]] on his family's farm again, his home's windows wouldn't be the only thing busted.
* WickedWeasel: Travis seems to have TookALevelInJerkass since he was a young ferret, as had Roland, a weasel in his gang.
* WorkInfoTitle
** The {{Fanfic}}'s title indicates that Gideon Grey is a main character and his attempts to better himself are a plot point.
** The title of Chapter 3, "The Reunion of One Gideon Grey, Fox, with One Judy Hopps, Rabbit", sure enough informs how the fox Gideon and the rabbit Judy will meet up with one another.
** [[CaptainObvious The title of Chapter 1, "Prologue", alludes to there being a prologue.]]
* WrongAssumption: Belle expects Judy to be impacted by Gideon's bullying like how she had been, readily treating foxes as the criminals she was TaughtToHate, and would join in protest against allowing predators in the festival. It isn't until she reunites with Judy that she realizes they don't see the same.
* TheXOfY: The title of the {{Fanfic}} is ''The Redemption of Gideon Grey''. Same with Chapter 3's title, "The Reunion of One Gideon Grey, Fox, with One Judy Hopps, Rabbit".
* XenophobicHerbivore: Both PlayedStraight and {{Inverted}}. Some of Bunnyburrow's prey mammals are against accepting the predators from the county, just as some predators refuse to give any prey the chance to reject them as a [[YankTheDogsChain Yank of the Dog's Chain]].
-->--Summary from Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and Website/FanFictionDotNet
'''''The Redemption of Gideon Grey''''' is a ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' FanFic written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/YFWE YFWE]], found on both [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6427822 Archive of Our Own]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11865453 FanFiction.net]].
[[ContinuationFic Continuing]] about a year after the Night Howler Incident, ZPD Officers Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde are outsourced to Judy's hometown when plans for inclusivity in an annual festival causes controversy among Bunnyburrow's conservative population. As the Tri-Burrow County's predators struggle for their involvement (or uninvolvement), the ReformedBully Gideon Grey does what he can to make amends for the trouble he caused the town as a child.
The FanFic is an early FanWork for the ''Zootopia'' fandom, debuting less than a month after the film's release; it is divided into a little over 100,000 words across sixteen chapters posted from March 28th[[superscript:(FF)]]/April 1st[[superscript:([=AO3=])]] to September 9th[[superscript:([=AO3=])]]/12th[[superscript:(FF)]], 2016.
It has a {{Sequel}} in the form of ''Fanfic/TheDeadWaltz''. While the original is a CompletedFic, the sequel has been LeftHanging on the penultimate chapter since June 2023, which was after a SeriesHiatus since 2019.
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!! ''The Redemption of Gideon Grey'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:When Belle Thumper's father found out she had a schoolyard crush on Mike Robins, he hit her over the head for it and removed her from school after she showed up with a welt the next day.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy
** In ''Zootopia'', an unnamed rabbit was a BitCharacter bullied by young Gideon. In ''Redemption'', [[NamedByTheAdaptation Belle Thumper]] has [[TaughtToHate grown into a bigoted adult]] with a hatred of foxes unable to believe Gideon has become a ReformedBully.
** Travis the ferret was just TheBully's CowardlySidekick from elementary school in the movie. In this story, he's a SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp; one [[spoiler:willing to enact terrorism to uphold UrbanSegregation.]]
* AddledAddict: [[spoiler:Travis' parents are implied to be these by Constable Clover's comment that they're "scrapping some of that junk out there in their backyard for stuff other than cash."]]
* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: Not a bar but a café. The Icy Koala is the only coffee shop in Bunnyburrow (and run by a koala of course).
* AlliterativeFamily
** Belle Thumper and her siblings, Blake, Bernice, and Billy. This naming is intergenerational, as their mother and father are named Benny and Beatrice, and their paternal uncle on the festival board is also named Barney.
** [[AlliterativeName Gideon Grey]]'s father and grandfather are similarly named George and Gabriel Grey. There is also a separate alliteration between his mother and brother, Clara and Colton.
** Judy's paternal grandparents are named Roy and Ruth Hopps.
* AlliterativeName
** Gideon Grey's name is alliterative like his father and grandfather.
** A {{Delinquent}} jaguar named Jarrod is from the Serengeti Springs neighborhood.
* AndThisIsFor: Belle Thumper dedicates a throw in her litter's ProducePelting of Gideon to Judy Hopps, arguing that she would've done it herself had she not gone off and became a [[CityMouse City Rabbit]]. This is a WrongAssumption however, as Judy has forgiven Gideon and is grateful for him giving her her EurekaMoment on the night howlers.
* AnimalDisguise: [[spoiler:Travis' GangOfBullies disguise themselves with fox masks InTheHood to terrorize the prey festivalgoers.]]
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: {{Averted}} for [[spoiler:Mike Robins, as he [[{{Sadist}} found pleasure]] in punching Gideon unconscious and hitting Nick with his truck.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:Mike]]:''' [[spoiler:Took out two foxes that night – [[CategoryTraitor two mangy, prey-lovin' foxes.]] Best I've felt in a while.]]
* AprilFoolsDay: {{Averted}}. The first chapter was posted on April 1st, 2016, but not even the ProducePelting and PieInTheFace made it CrackFic material.
* ArmedWithPepperSpray: [[spoiler:Travis' gang disperses a bunch of Fox Away spray on a crowd of prey at the festival.]]
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Nick starts to open up to Judy on his feelings by asking what she thinks her parents think their relationship is, to which Judy nearly [[StoppedDeadInTheirTracks stops dead]] in traffic at his seriousness. She breaks from a StunnedSilence only to say "I don't know", with an incoming call from her dad being able to ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject.
* ArmsDealer: [[spoilers:Mentioned in an example from Constable Clover when he explains the {{Blackmail}} he has on parents of Travis' gang members. [[CruelCoyotes Amy Growlett]]'s parents have been running illegal firearms in and out of Zootopia for years.]]
* TheAtoner: Gideon is deeply regretful of the harm he caused his peers as a child and how he perpetuated the FoulFox stereotype due to his identity issues, which he attempts to remedy by improving the prey's opinions of predators and contribute to society.
* AttentionWhore: Skip Clover turns into a LargeHam when he gets to serve as Bunnyburrow's master of ceremonies. [[spoiler:Clover enjoys his position so much, he's more than willing to frame the upstart ReformedCriminal Carl Pumaski when he suspects the panther wants to take his position.]]
* BasementDweller: {{Downplayed}}. Gideon moved out of his parents' house at 21, but he lives in a cottage still within the property of the family farm which he still tends to.
* BatterUp: When Travis and his GangOfBullies arrive to burn the rule sheets given to the predators at the festival, Mike Robins (a FoulFox) and Jarrod Catstantino (a {{Delinquent}} jaguar) are equipped with ones for intimidation. The narration [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how they're probably not for MailboxBaseball, but young Jarrod is quick to explain they were [[ExploitedTrope just for show]] when Officer Wilde [[DistractAndDisarm sneaks up and takes them]].
* BearHug
--> [[LemonyNarrator Then came the much-anticipated meeting of Bonnie Hopps and her daughter's co-worker. A hug was in order, and so it came. Nick felt as though his ribs would never be the same.]]
* BerserkButton: Nick has a talk with Gideon on theirs after the latter guilts himself over a MomentOfWeakness.
** To Gideon; [[AndYourLittleDogToo threatening his friends]]. When Travis suggests giving Judy another scar with the glass from his broken windows, Gideon loudly growls at him in public, leaving both of them feeling that Travis [[BreakThemByTalking won their "friendly chat"]].
** To Nick; [[YourMom insulting his mother]]. He tells Gideon of an incident five years back when he went drinking with Finnick, wherein he was BlindedByRage and clawed a [[SinisterSwine speciest pig]] for disparaging her with FoulFox stereotypes.
* BigNo
--> ''He barely had the time to utter a [[DownplayedTrope quick, staccato]] "No!" before Judy pumped a [[TranquilizingDart dart]] into his arm.''
* BigotWithABadge
** Belle Thumper favorably envisions Judy Hopps to be one, believing the RighteousRabbit readily targets foxes in Zootopia as revenge for what Gideon did to them as children. Belle finds out she's WrongGenreSavvy when Judy returns to Bunnyburrow, bringing her fox coworker with her.
** [[spoiler:Constable Clover is the trope PlayedStraight, as he conspires to keep the predators segregated from the Bunnyburrow Fall Harvest Festival, conspiring with similarly xenophobic predators to drive the wedge between the town's folk.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Constable Clover]] has several predators from across the county under his thumb because of the evidence he has on their parents' illegal activity. When confronting the constable, Judy [[CorrectionBait intentionally guesses wrong]] that Clover was blackmailing them with their records to get him to smugly admit he was using their parents.]]
* {{Bookends}}: The story starts and ends with Gideon Grey making a delivery to 133 Whitehare Lane, the address of the Thumpers.
* BrickJoke: When Stu welcomes Nick to the Hopps home, Nick deadpans that he'll use the opportunity to {{Plunder}} the place before clarifying it's a joke. One day and two chapters later, Nick's openness to Judy on his enjoyment of Bunnyburrow has her consider if he actually has stolen something.
--> '''Stu:''' Stu Hopps. It's a please to finally let the great Nick Wilde into our home.
--> '''Nick:''' Just wait 'til I steal all your silver. ({{beat}}) Kidding! Kidding. Pleasure, sir.
--> '''Stu:''' This guy!
--> ''[...]''
--> '''Nick:''' Y'know, Carrots, I'm... [[SincerityMode really happy I'm here, actually.]]
--> '''Judy:''' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Wait]], [[EntertaininglyWrong did you really steal my parents' silver?]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:When Judy Hopps was twelve, she look up to her hometown's constable and tried to get an apprenticeship under him. Now an adult in her mid-twenties, she uncovers Skip Clover as a DirtyCop and arrests him for an UrbanSegregation conspiracy.]]
* BrokenWindowWarning: Gideon comes home to find that all six windows on his house have been smashed in, a note tied to a rock each. Reading the note confirms it wasn't by the Thumpers that attacked him earlier, but [[CategoryTraitor grievanced predators]].
* CantHoldHerLiquor: Judy got a bit nauseous when she, Nick, and Gideon were sharing some of his grandfather's moonshine. The foxes consider whether rabbits are lightweights or if it's a testament to Gabriel Grey's brew. Gideon helps her to the bathroom, but [[DownplayedTrope she manages to keep it down.]]
--> '''Nick:''' Did the [[UnusualEuphemism porcelain god get involved?]]
* CalmingTea: Gideon drinks tea to calm himself, something influenced on him by his tea-loving mother. While he [[DoesNotLikeSpam hated it]] when he was younger, his efforts in becoming a ReformedBully grew him accustomed to the taste, to the point where he drinks a cup at least once every morning.
* CarFu: [[spoiler:Nick is [[OutSick bedridden]] when a truck hits him on a country road after dark. It turns out to have been a targeted attack that could easily be labeled an accident.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Largely {{Averted}}. Taking Judy for example, she uses hers to communicate with her coworkers and family, report to Chief Bogo on the case, and use its flashlights during investigations.
** {{Exploited}} when [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Constable Clover]] barricades the county police in a room in the schoolhouse's basement where there's no cell phone or radio reception.]]
* TheChase: Judy runs into the forest after [[spoiler:Constable Clover when he becomes a LiarRevealed.]]
* ChekhovsGunman
** Judy's cousin Avery picks up her and Nick when they first arrive in Bunnyburrow. Eight chapters later, [[spoiler:he's also the one to rescue Nick when he finds him as the victim of a hit-and-run.]]
** Edmond, a rabbit volunteer who [[ComicalOverreacting fetches a fire extinguisher]] for a tiny trash fire Constable Clover simply TrampledUnderfoot. [[spoiler:He ends up overhearing Clover scheming with Travis and reports TheReveal to Judy.]]
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler:Belle Thumper stopped trying to pursue {{Interspecies Relationship}}s with foxes years before the story, after her father Benny hit her over the head and pulled her out of school.]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}
** Chapter 6 ends on two; one each for Judy and Gideon's point of views. Judy is informed that Carl Pumaski has been arrested for the theft of festival vendors' stock, while Gideon runs into [[WickedWeasel Travis]] at the coffee shop.
** Chapter 7 ends with Travis, who has arrived in front of city hall and his gang in pickup trucks, [[FireMeansChaos starting a trash fire out of protest.]]
** Chapter 9 ends with Judy beginning to question Pumaski on what he knows about Travis.
** Chapter 11 ends with Nick talking a walk down a country road, [[spoiler:at night, oblivious to a truck veering from the opposite lane to [[CarFu run him down]].]]
** Chapter 14 ends with [[spoiler:Belle Thumper confronting Judy and Gideon, assuring them "[they're] gonna have a little chat, y'hear?"]]
** Chapter 15 ends with [[spoiler:a festival assistant telling Judy he found Constable Clover harboring Travis and his missing gang on his property, along with cans of unknown substances.]]
* CompletedFic: The final chapter was uploaded to Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn on September 9th, 2016 (September 12th on Website/FanFictionDotNet).
* ContinuationFic: This story takes place after the three-months-long events of the movie. By Judy and Nick's respective recollections, it has been over a year since they first met, but less than one since Bellweather's arrest.
* CookingDuel: {{Discussed}} by Gideon when he tells Judy how cooking {{Reality Show}}s inspire yet confuse him.
--> "Yeah, [[RuleOfFunny they can get silly]], and sometimes there's [[RuleOfDrama drama for no reason]], but boy, I'll tell ya, the stuff they can accomplish, it's mindblowin'."
* ContrivedCoincidence
** At the festival, Nick recognizes a cheetah selling vitamin water as a regular from his days as a pawpsicle salesman. His and Judy's conversation with Scott and his wife reveals that a [[FascistsBedTime different curfew]] had been issued to the predator vendors than the prey.
--> "Ayyyy, it's the pawpsicle fox! Honey, honey, Amy, ''this'' guy!"
* CorrectionBait: [[spoiler:Judy guesses that Travis' gang was working with Constable Clover because he had {{blackmail}} on them, prompting Clover to smugly correct her, correcting that he was lauding evidence against their parents. Judy smirks and admits she knew that already, as she found the blackmail in the county jail's archives.]]
* CruelCoyotes: Amy Growlett, the TokenFemale of Travis' gang. A SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp, she's more than willing to lash out whether by intimidating festivalgoers with trash fires, or gleefully ambushing Gideon with a TapOnTheHead, or [[spoiler:participating in gassing a crowd of prey with [[ArmedWithPepperSpray pepper spray]].]]
** {{Implied}} with her parents as well, as [[spoiler:there's damning evidence that they're [[OutlawCouple both]] {{Arm Dealer}}s that have been smuggling firearms in and out of Zootopia for years.]]
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:TheSheriff of Bunnyburrow, Constable Skip Clover. He's more than willing to {{Blackmail}} minorities to get them all banned from the city festivities he curates, and is confident [[VillainWithGoodPublicity his reputation]] will make anyone saying otherwise TheCassandra.]]
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Chapter 4's title, "A Stone's Throw". It refers to how Gideon's cottage is [[TitleDrop a stone's throw]] away from his parents, as well as the [[BrokenWindowWarning stones thrown through its windows]].
* DramaticShattering: When Gideon growls at Travis in the coffee shop, the latter is startled into dropping his mug on the floor. This helps draw everyone's attention in the shop to them, guilting Gideon for his very public MomentOfWeakness.
* DramaticUnmask
** {{Defied}} when [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Constable Clover]] catches one of the masked predators attacking the festivalgoers, an attempt at distancing him from his minions that Judy has seen through. She bluffs him to unmask the predator to prove Travis and his gang weren't smuggled into town, but Clover refuses with the [[VillainHasAPoint valid]] justification that doing so would "[loosen his] grip on [the] wrongdoer" and risk their escape.]]
** PlayedStraight when [[spoiler:Judy sees that the mammal that helped her take down Clover wasn't one of the county police but one of the masked predators. The figure removes the fox mask, revealing himself to be Travis.]]
* EasingIntoTheAdventure: The story starts with Gideon making a delivery to a customer.
* EnemyMine: In a mix of this and {{Blackmail}}, [[spoiler:Constable Clover recruits Travis and his gang to sabotage the Fall Harvest Festival and get predators banned from attendance as all of them believe they shouldn't fraternize with the prey.]]
** [[spoiler:The instability of this leads one between Judy and Travis, as the ferret ends up giving her the opening to subdue and arrest Clover once [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal he has enough of the constable's machinations]].]]
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Judy's specialty. She uses her trusted carrot pen yet again to [[CaughtOnTape record]] [[spoiler:Constable Clover's [[JustBetweenYouAndMe Just Between Her and Him]], prodding him into confirming or correcting her suspicions.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[spoiler:Half the reason Travis and his gang work with [[BigotWithABadge Constable Clover]] is because he's {{Blackmail}}ing them over their parents' various crimes to get their compliance.]]
* EverythingIsRacist: Bunnyburrow had to retire their [[MechanicalAnimals mechanical bulls]] from the Fall Harvest Festival a few years back because some bulls complained.
* EvilGloating
** Travis taunts Gideon by insinuating he and his GangOfBullies were the ones who broke all of his house's windows the day prior, mentioning how the glass could be a good tool to cut Judy Hopps' face up with.
** [[spoiler:When Judy details how she found him out, Constable Clover gloats how easy it was for him to blackmail Travis' gang and manipulate the town, and how his authority will have all of Bunnyburrow [[CassandraTruth believe him over her]]. The fact his gloating was CaughtOnTape and an eavesdropping ferret turns on him says different.]]
** [[spoiler:Mike relishes in telling Gideon that not only did he punch him unconscious, he was the one that ran Nick over, and how he's confident Clover will clear him of culpability.]]
* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: When the ban on predators attending the Bunnyburrow Fall Harvest Festival is lifted, the town is anticipating their one hundred and fiftieth such celebration.
--> '''Nick:''' Ah, [[LampshadeHanging they sure picked a banner year to let us undesirables in.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Chapter 3, titled "The Reunion of One Gideon Grey, Fox, with One Judy Hopps, Rabbit". Same with Chapter 1, "Prologue", being the prologue.
* FightingBackIsWrong: The [[BullyHunter Thumper siblings]] are a case of this when they accost Gideon. They [[DirtyCoward never stood up to him]] like Judy did as children, only confronting Gideon over a decade after the fact when they're all adults and Gideon a ReformedBully. Their ProducePelting is especially cruel as [[TheAtoner Gideon]] was LuredIntoATrap when [[YankTheDogsChain he thought they were giving him a chance.]]
* FiveSecondForeshadowing
** Gideon walks past fields of tomato plants as he delivers two cherry pies to Mrs. Thumper. It's those very crops that the Thumper siblings begin ProducePelting him with a moment later.
** Nick recalls Finnick's advice that a lamppost burning out overhead is a PortentOfDoom. [[spoiler:He gets hit by a truck a few steps after.]]
* {{Flashback}}
** Chapter 7 "Red" starts with a [[PseudocanonicalFic Pseudo-Canonical]] flashback to young Gideon and Travis after the former's fight with Judy.
** Chapter 12 "On Settling Down" has in the middle of it a flashback of Nick visiting his mother sometime after becoming a police officer, wherein she talks with her son on his lack of a significant other.
** Chapter 14 "County Line Road" starts with a flashback to Judy to back when she was a few weeks shy of turning seventeen, visiting Constable Clover to try and convince him into giving her an internship for the summer break.
* FlatScare: Nick exploits the bigotry of the protesters blocking the city hall by playing up how much of a FoulFox he must be, ergo it wouldn't be OutOfCharacter for him to go "BOO!"... scaring the crowd into parting and letting him and Judy through, which she [[ActuallyPrettyFunny half-scolds]] him for.
--> "Psh. I gave 'em the [[DeadHorseTrope international sign]] of a [[SillySpook spooky ghost]]," he scoffed. "No harm in that."
* FlintstoneTheming: The author {{Lampshades}} doing this in a note at the end of Chapter 2, also citing a point in said chapter where they found it wasn't necessary.
--> Side note: OK, so I totally have been trying to change the names of different things as they come up in order to seem fitting to an animal-run world rather than a human one, but come on, Yelp would totally be called the same thing in Zootopia. Wonder if Nick's old pawpsicle biz was on there.
* {{Foil}}
** Judy Hopps serves as a {{Foil}} to two characters...
*** ...to Belle Thumper. Both were bullied as children by Gideon Grey and held animosity for it years after the Carrot Day Festival. Over the events of the movie, Judy [[HeelRealization became aware]] of and [[CharacterDevelopment overcame]] her biases and has forgiven Gideon by the time of the story's start. Belle, however, never saw any reason to change her opinion of Gideon or other predators, becoming one of the anti-pred protesters that got Judy and Nick outsourced to Tri-Burrow County to help with festival security. [[spoiler:They're not too different after all, as both rabbits have some hidden romantic feelings for foxes, and Belle has a HeelRealization of her own when Constable Clover becomes a LiarRevealed and Gideon TakesTheBullet for her.]]
*** ...to Skip Clover. While Judy is a RighteousRabbit who is LivingOutAChildhoodDream to be a police officer, Skip Clover was appointed constable out of necessity, and is blatantly more interested in curating Bunnyburrow's festivities than policing the law. [[spoiler:Especially since he's a DirtyCop [[VillainWithGoodPublicity with Good Publicity]] using the position to keep himself in the spotlight and the predators out.]]
** Gideon Grey and Travis Ferris. Initially TheBully and his CowardlySidekick, the two's falling out spurned differing ideologies.
*** Due to his mother's intervention and psychiatric help, Gideon is a ReformedBully who regrets the harm he caused as a child and has become a SweetBaker with hopes of adding something constructive to Bunnyburrow's culinary scene and interspecies relations. His self-doubt problems still lingering despite the help he has, he is adamant he MustMakeAmends and that every RejectedApology is [[ItsAllMyFault all his fault]].
*** Left to lead their childhood GangOfBullies, Travis is a SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp with little regret for anything aside from losing Gideon as a friend. Making living wages with his parent's scrapyard and the occasional side job, he sees no reason for him or any predators to try and appeal to the world's predominantly prey population; he considers Gideon a CategoryTraitor for trying to [[DefiedTrope defy]] the FoulFox trope, and [[spoiler:he is willing to work with a rabbit to keep their species out of each other's way (but he [[HeelFaceTurn draws the line somewhere]]).]]
** Compared to the original film, [[spoiler:Leodore Lionheart and Carl Pumaski. Both are large pantherine predators of fair reputation in their respective cities only to get PutOnAPrisonBus in the middle of the plot because of a diminutive rival's scheming, however they differ from there.]]
*** [[spoiler:Mayor Lionheart is a lion who was in a notable political position; one in which (as a self-professed WellIntentionedExtremist) he hid a burgeoning crisis to keep himself in office, and is still imprisoned at the end for the abuses committed in his position.]]
*** [[spoiler:Carl Pumaski is a puma who is a repeat offender that has turned his life around, started a family, and inherited a car dealership. He's only just getting into the political scene by trying to get on Bunnyburrow's festival board, which he is only doing to give the city's predator population a voice. For this he is framed and jailed, but is freed once his innocence is proven.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Lengthier examples than the FiveSecondForeshadowing listed above.
** Gideon notices a dent in Mike Robins' truck. [[spoiler:A monologue with Mike reveals that he was the one to run Nick Wilde over two days prior.]]
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* FoulFox
** {{Exploited}} by Nick Wilde, as per canon. Not even minutes after setting foot in Bunnyburrow, Nick confronts some protestors outside the city hall on their preconceptions of predators, hammily playing upon their belief in the trope before scaring them out of his and Judy's way with a FlatScare.
** Also per canon, Gideon Grey was one [[SubvertedTrope before]] becoming a ReformedBully. Some people continue to see him as one, especially his past victims, their families, or the café patrons that witnessed his [[MomentOfWeakness outburst at Travis]].
** PlayedStraight with Mike Robins, as [[spoiler:he is a prey-hating {{Sadist}} that is amused that a rabbit ever had a crush on him and got [[AbusiveParents beat by her father]] for it, tried to [[CopKiller kill a police officer]] of [[ApeShallNotKillApe his own species]] using [[CarFu his truck]], and engaged in terrorism with [[ArmedWithPepperSpray chemical weapons]] to further predator-prey segregation.]]
* FurnitureBlockade: Tri-Burrow County Police gets barred in the schoolhouse's basement by a chair at the handle.
* TheGhost: Nick recalls a few relevant times he had Finnick the fennec, but he never directly appears at any point in the story; the closest is a quote to Nick of how it's a PortentOfDoom if a streetlight burns out above you.
* GangOfBullies: Travis wasn't Gideon's only SatelliteCharacter as a child, as a few other delinquent predators hung out with them. Despite Gideon's mother forcing him to cut ties with them, the gang is still together [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp All Grown Up]] now under Travis.
* GunNut: One of the Hopps' neighbors are trap shooting hobbyists, so much so that they have a gaudy mailbox made to look like a handgun.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:It is by his own arrogance that Constable Skip Clover is found out to be conspiring with Travis and his GangOfBullies to sabotage the festival, by carelessly leading the county police into a trap with instructions that could be traced back to him, as well as harboring his co-conspirators on his property. He [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digs himself deeper]] when he boasts in a JustBetweenYouAndMe with Judy how it was easy to manipulate Travis' gang and that he has the influence to get away with it. He is unaware that his EngineerPublicConfession is CaughtOnTape and being eavesdropped on by his [[TheDragon Dragon]].]]
* HopelessSuitor: [[spoiler:As teenagers, rabbit Belle Thumper had a crush on fox Mike Robins. While she never confessed, she was obvious enough for Mike and her father to find out; for which her father Benny [[AbusiveParents struck her over]] and Mike mocks her behind her back for ever harboring feelings for a fox.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:A rabbit who beat his teenage daughter for [[DatingWhatDaddyHates having a crush on a fox]] admonishes a fox, saying criminals never change their ways.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: When Judy's [[TheBabyOfTheBunch youngest sister]] asks Nick why he isn't [[YouAreFat as big as Gideon]], he explains to the toddler that it's because of differing lifestyle... in a way Judy has to comment on.
--> '''Nick:''' Ahhh, the [[SweetBaker Pie Guy]]. Well, look, when you're eating pastries all day, I suppose you'll gain a few more pounds than [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex someone as in-shape as I.]]
--> '''Judy:''' Nick, [[NonActionGuy you still can't run a mile without throwing up.]]
--> '''Nick:''' [[NonAnswer ...diet is everything, sweetheart.]]
* InMemoriam: Chapter 5's author note serves as one to Music/{{Prince}}, who died the day the chapter was uploaded.
* InsecureLoveInterest: When Nick sees Gideon help Judy when she CantHoldHerLiquor, he feels inadequacy to the [[CountryMouse country fox]]. He considers that if Judy would be interested in a fox, the [[BigFun larger]], [[DumbMuscle stronger]], and [[NiceGuy softer]] Gideon would probably be [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy the best option for Judy]] ''and'' [[EarnYourHappyEnding for Gideon.]]
* InstantSedation: The BigBag conks out pretty fast when hit by a TranquillizerDart.
* IronicEcho: Benny Thumper is of the opinion that criminals -- the unspoken implication being "predator" -- are BeyondRedemption. [[spoiler:Constable Clover reveals to Judy that he shares the same sentiment.]]
* {{Irony}}: Benny Thumper insists that criminals never [[BeyondRedemption change their ways]]... saying this to [[ReformedCriminal Nick]] and [[ReformedBully Gideon]]. [[spoiler:[[IronicEcho Skip Clover agrees.]]]]
* JokeAndReceive: When Gideon mentions that he [[{{Understatement}} didn't have a good experience]] with Belle and her siblings when he had them as customers, Nick jokingly asks if they [[TheHeckler booed him off stage]] while ProducePelting; Gideon admits that he was right with the latter half.
* JurisdictionFriction: {{Defied}}. The ZPD outsources Judy and Nick to Bunnyburrow's sheriff department to assist in festival security.
* LemonyNarrator: The story has moments of this when Nick and Judy aren't [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]] with each other.
* LiteralMetaphor: Bunnyburrow's Mayor Cotton keeps all the doors and windows to the Bunnyburrow City Hall open as a literal representation of her open-door policy. Her secretary isn't fond of the noise it lets in though.
* ALizardNamedLiz
** The Catstantinos, a jaguar family from northern Bunnyburrow.
** Skip Clover, the rabbit constable that's more interested in managing Bunnyburrow's harvest festivals.
** Travis [[NamedByTheAdaptation Ferris]], a ferret.
** Trevor Hornsby, the goat receptionist at Bunnyburrow City Hall.
** Violet Lamberson, the sheep in charge of drafting the festival's rules and regulations.
** Larry Goatsby and Carrie Woolington, a goat and sheep pair from Bleatonton that are acquaintances of Stu's.
** Carl Pumaski, a panther car dealer from Bunnyburrow's gated feline community.
** The Thumpers, another rabbit family down the road from the Hoppses.
* LuredIntoATrap: The story starts with Gideon making a pie delivery to the Thumpers only for it to be one. He didn't have time to discern whether the note telling him to {{Duck}} meant [[LampshadeHanging the bird or the action]] before he gets [[ProducePelting pelted with a tomato]].
* MailboxBaseball: {{Discussed}} by the narration when two of Travis' lackeys menace with a pair of [[BatterUp baseball bats]], noting the absence of any mailboxes in the scene to show an [[AvertedTrope Aversion]] of the trope.
* MayorPain: {{Averted}}. Mayor Cotton is a kindly, welcoming doe that cares for Bunnyburrow's residents, both predator and prey. She's been optimistic for Gideon's HeelFaceTurn since her days as the [[CoolTeacher school superintendent]], and keeps town hall's doors open as a LiteralMetaphor of her open-door policy.
* MeaningfulName: At one point, Judy recalls a honey badger named Melissa that worked records at the precinct; her name literally meaning "honeybee" in Ancient Greek (μέλισσα).
* MinorityPoliceOfficer: Like Judy Hopps, Constable Skip Clover is one of the few (if any) rabbits in the Tri-Burrow County Police. Since Judy was young, a majority of the department has been canines, with a prominence of coyotes in the present.
* MistakenForRacist: When Judy and Nick arrive at Bunnyburrow's town hall for their meeting with Mayor Cotton. The goat receptionist pleads for them to go thinking that the TorchesAndPitchforks outside protesting predators from the Fall Harvest Festival are trying to come inside again, only to recognize them as the extra security.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:After eavesdropping on Officer Hopps' and Constable Clover's JustBetweenYouAndMe moment, Travis jumps Clover for his EvilGloating over his power over his and his gang, giving Judy the opportunity to TranquillizerDart the DirtyCop and arrest him.]]
* MomentKiller
** {{Downplayed}} when Stu gives a call to Judy, who is just starting to contemplate her and Nick's RelationshipLabelingProblems when the latter bring it up.
** Bonnie is one too, startling Nick and Gideon just before the former was going to [[LoveConfessor admit his feelings for Judy.]]
* NamedAfterFirstInstallment: The series on Archive On Our Own, containing ''The Redemption of Gideon Grey'' and its {{Sequel}} ''The Dead Waltz'', is titled ''The Redemption Series''.
* NamedByTheAdaptation
** The unnamed rabbit girl from ''Zootopia'''s Gideon Grey scene is named Belle Thumper.
** Gideon's former [[WickedWeasel ferret lackey]], Travis, is provided the surname Ferris (a case of a ALizardNamedLiz and RhymingNames).
* NeverLearnedToRead: {{Discussed}} by [[GrumpyOldMan Gabriel Grey]], as he makes a few comments whether rabbits can read or not. When his son and grandson scold him for his comments, he argues that [[MoralMyopia they say the same for foxes.]]
* NeverTheObviousSuspect: Judy is doubtful of Carl Pumaski's guilt when he is arrested, as a ReformedCriminal who isn't content with the Bunnyburrow Fall Harvest Festival suddenly being found with a supply of merchandise stolen from it seems like too simple of a conclusion.
* NonAppearingTitle: The work's title ''The Redemption of Gideon Grey'' is said or written at any point in the story itself. The same applies to these chapter titles, as they do not appear in their respective chapters:
** Chapter 1 "Prologue"
** Chapter 2 "The Chief's Office"
** Chapter 3 "The Reunion of One Gideon Grey, Fox, with One Judy Hopps, Rabbit"
** Chapter 6 "The Rules"
** Chapter 12 "On Settling Down"
** Chapter 13 "This Must Be the Place"
* OCStandIn: Belle Thumper is implied to be the unnamed rabbit girl Gideon bullied alongside Shiela and Gareth in the movie.
* OfficialKiss: DoubleSubverted. When Nick returns on the topic of his and Judy's RelationshipLabelingProblems to tell her to forget he asked, Judy gives him an impulsive ShutUpKiss... after which they awkwardly part ways to talk with the mayor and the county police, continuing to avoid the conversation for a while later. It isn't until after everything else is settled (at the second to last scene) that the two decide to start a relationship, marked by Nick giving Judy a kiss on the forehead.
* OffscreenKarma: [[spoiler:While both Skip Clover and Mike Robins' defeats and arrests are shown, Travis and the rest of his gang are mentioned to haven been apprehended as well by the time Mr. Pumaski is released.]]
* OneSteveLimit:
** {{Averted}} in some cases...
*** One of Stuart and Bonnie's [[MassiveNumberedSiblings many children]] is Stuart Jr.
%%*** The koala that owns Bunnyburrow's only coffee shop is named Sheila, the same as Judy's childhood sheep friend (who admittedly doesn't appear in the story).
*** Two {{Bit Character}}s are named Amy. One is a cheetah whose husband is an acquaintance of Nick, and the other is a [[CruelCoyotes Cruel Coyote]] in Travis' gang.
** ...PlayedStraight with others.
*** Two {{Original Character}}s -- Mayor Cotton the rabbit and Sharla the koala barista -- were created by YFWE for the story, but two canon characters of the same name -- Judy's niece Cotton and childhood sheep friend Sharla -- make no appearance.
* OneWordTitle: Chapter 1 "Prologue" and Chapter 7 "Red".
* OriginalCharacter: There are quite a few to populate Bunnyburrow, whether they be {{Bit Character}}s or not.
** Gideon's family are minor characters. His parents are named George and Clara, and he has a younger brother named Colton, with their paternal grandfather Gabriel also living with them.
** Bunnyburrow's law enforcement is shown in the form of Constable Skip Clover and his {{Posse}}, with the police of the Tri-Burrow County being a pack of coyotes led by Officer Perkins.
** Travis wasn't Gideon's only lackey as TheBully, as he still runs the old gang; the named members of which include the fox Mike Robins, weasel Roland Weiss, coyote Amy Growlett, and jaguar Jarrod Catstantino.
* OriginalFlavor: ''The Redemption of Gideon Grey'' is largely true to the original work, both in terms of its setting of a [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] WorldOfFunnyAnimals (albeit focused on Bunnyburrow and not Zootopia), and the plot following [[FemaleFlatfootAndSnarkyGuy Judy and Nick]] in a FairPlayWhoDunnit. [[spoiler:Specifically of an anti-predator conspiracy by a small prey mammal who turns out to be a WolfInSheepsClothing that abuses their position as a public servant.]] The biggest differences are the UnresolvedSexualTension between Judy and Nick, [[TwoLinesNoWaiting another plot thread]] giving Gideon Grey a DayInTheLimelight, and three utterances of "damn" that make it marginally RuderAndCruder.
* OutSick: [[spoiler:Nick is put out of commission when he gets [[CarFu hit by a truck]] in the {{Cliffhanger}} to Chapter 11. [[PlotArmor Fortunately, he was not injured critically]], and was starting to get back on his feet within a couple of days.]]
* PassingTheTorch
** Bunnyburrow's previous grand marshal of ceremonies held their role for forty long years before naming Skip Clover as their successor.
** How Carl Pumaski acquired his car dealership three years prior; after rising to the rank of manager, he inherited the place when the owner retired.
* PieInTheFace: As Gideon is being run off the Thumpers' farm, Blake and Belle take the cherry pies he delivered (stolen, as Gideon wasn't left the promised payment but a note telling him to {{Duck}}) and throw them into his delivery truck's windshield as a "parting gift". Gideon is grateful his mom convinced him to install wipers a few days prior. Ironically, the chapter that had this traditionally light-hearted trope was posted to [=AO3=] on AprilFoolsDay.
* PlotArmor: Foxes, man.
** [[spoiler:Nick survives being [[CarFu hit by truck]] on an unlit country road, and is able to get out of bed to use the bathroom by himself within two days.]]
** In a lower stakes case, [[spoiler:Gideon [[TakingTheBullet Takes the]] TranquilizerDart for Belle Thumper. He doesn't even get sedated, as the needle merely snagged on his shirt sleeve.]]
* PortentOfDoom: Finnick is AgentScully for everything except one thing; if a streetlamp goes out over you, it's a bad sign. Whether it be your cousin gets mugged by two polar bears or your stepdad crashes the family car. Nick remembers his friend's advice when one burns out above him before [[spoiler:he gets hit by a truck.]]
--> "Bad omen, Nicky. Don't you forget it."
* ProducePelting: When Gideon makes his first delivery to someone outside of the Hopps, their neighbor Mrs. Thumper, some of her children that he bullied in elementary begin throwing the tomatoes from their field at him. To dig the knife, they throw the unpaid-for pies he brought into his windshield as they chase him off their property.
** Later on, when Gideon vaguely mentions the NoodleIncident around Judy and Nick, Nick [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the trope [[JokeAndRecieve jokingly asking]] if the Thumpers [[TheHeckler booed him off stage]] and threw tomatoes. Gideon admits he's not far off, and assures that [[ItsAllMyFault he deserved it.]]
* RedemptionQuest: Gideon is set out to apologize to the peers he bullied as a child, and to an extent, prey mammals for their fear of predators.
* ReformedButNotTamed: Despite becoming a ReformedBully, Gideon has lingering anger issues, only now flaring up due to his protectiveness of his friends.
* ReformedButRejected: Some of Bunnyburrow doesn't trust Gideon despite his HeelFaceTurn, Belle Thumper and her siblings being prime examples of the {{Xenophobic Herbivore}}s, while Travis and the old gang resent him as a [[LesCollaborateurs Collaborateur]] to prey.
* RelationshipLabelingProblems
** Nick and Judy have a few before confessing their feelings.
*** Nick gives Judy an ArmorPiercingQuestion on what her parents think of them, and what Judy thinks their relationship is. Judy is only able to respond with an "I don't know", leaving the two of them in silence before [[MomentKiller her father calls her]].
*** A few hours later, Nick apologizes for putting Judy on the spot earlier, taking her uncertainty as her finding them BetterAsFriends. When he tries to part with a [[StepfordSnarker joke]] about meeting her high school boyfriend, Judy [[ShutUpKiss shuts him up with a kiss]].
** In the {{Flashback}} to Gideon and Travis after the former's fight with Judy at the Carrot Day Festival, Travis asks if he and Gideon are friends or not; Gideon shrugs in affirmation but [[{{Tsundere}} threatens to claw him like he did Judy]] [[HiddenHeartOfGold if he "get[s] mushy or tell[s] anyone".]]
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: When Travis strikes a nerve with Gideon by bringing up the clawing incident with Judy, he finds that Gideon's opinion of her has turned around and can be used against him.
--> "Would be a shame if she got another scar somewhere else on her pretty little face. Maybe some of that glass from yer [[BrokenWindowWarning broken windows]]'ll do the trick..."
* {{Sleepyhead}}: Nick seems to have a bit of a habit finding time to nap regardless of work hours.
--> '''Nick:''' Good, because I need some shut-eye. We're just blowing through naptime today, aren't we?
--> '''Judy:''' You mean the nap you take in the squad car when we're doing our rounds each afternoon that I don't tell the chief about?
--> '''Nick:''' Those aren't documented in the daily paperwork, Carrots, so I challenge you to find some evidence.
* TheSheriff: Bunnyburrow's constable, Skip Clover. Everyone in town knows that he does it out of necessity and prefers his role as an event organizer.
* ShoutOut: Once Judy and Nick get past the TorchesAndPitchforks outside the town hall, Nick gives a parting OneLiner paraphrasing ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
--> "Though I doth think they protest too much!" He elbowed Judy once he was inside, snickering. "[[LampshadeHanging Get it?]] You got the joke, right, Carrots? Because they're protesting and... [[ButIDigress oh, hello!]]"
* SpeakOfTheDevil
** When Gideon makes a delivery to the Thumper family farm, he wonders whatever happened to the Thumper kids he bullied as a child, as they haven't seen each other in years. Just seconds later, he finds out he's been LuredIntoATrap by the same quartet.
** Stu quotes the trope when he hears Judy talking about Gideon with her siblings, saying he was just on a phone call with him.
* SpeciesTitle: Chapter 15 "The Big Bad Fox".
* SpottingTheThread
** [[spoiler:When Constable Clover gives Travis his cause for arresting Carl Pumaski for theft, Judy notes the ferret exasperated wording of "Him, ''though''?!". This was because despite knowing Clover would frame someone, Travis wasn't told it would be one of the most respectable predators in town.]]
** [[spoiler:The Tri-Burrow County police get barricaded in the schoolhouse's cellar with no cellphone reception. Judy notes that someone -- such as the constable that sent them to check there -- could have known about that property of the room.]]
* TheSummation: Judy has the LiarRevealed by explaining where the evidence leads, later elaborated JustBetweenYouAndMe.
%%* SuspiciouslyIdleOfficers
%%* TaughtToHate
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:When Belle refuses to stand down to the [[LiarRevealed newly-revealed liar]] Clover's threats, the constable fires a TranquilizerDart at her to provide an escape. Gideon lunges to shield her, the both of them [[NearMisses nearly avoiding the dart]] as the needle just barely snags on the fox's shirt sleeve.]]
* TitleDrop: While this doesn't apply to the story's title, ten of the sixteen chapters are titled off of a line within them.
** Chapter 4 "A Stone's Throw".
--> [...] ''with minor help from his father and grandfather, plus a few of the cousins, Gideon would have his own home '''a stone's throw''' from where the rest of his family stayed.'' [...]
** Chapter 5 "Nothing to Something".
--> '''Gideon:''' "When I look at what I got, I think about all the possibilities in this world, and how even I could make stuff, build from '''nothing to something''', make my own way."
** Chapter 7 "Red".
--> '''''[[RedIsViolent Red.]]'''''
** Chapter 8 "Down to the Wire".
--> ''"'''Down to the wire,'''" muttered Nick.''
** Chapter 9 "A Fox Thing".
--> ''"I'm with you there," agreed Gideon with an enthusiastic nod. "Maybe it's '''a fox thing'''."''
** Chapter 10 "House Call".
--> '''Nick:''' "Your ol' friend Nick's got a '''house call''' to make."
** Chapter 11 "A Different Animal".
--> ''But Nick was, well, '''a different animal'''.''
** Chapter 14 "County Line Road". [[RuleOfThree Thrice]], actually.
--> '''''County Line Road''', followed by Travis, and then trees.''
--> '''''County Line Road''' did just as its name suggested, and the county itself stretched a good while.''
--> ''They just needed to make it through to his delivery van, thrust the key into the ignition, maybe speed a bit down '''County Line Road''', but Gideon did not expect the county cops to be patrolling raucous speedsters at that time of the weekend.''
** Chapter 15 "The Big Bad Fox"
--> ''"All right," he growled, unsheathing his claws on both paws. "Come and get the '''big bad fox'''."''
** Chapter 16 "The Flowers Among the Weeds"
--> '''Gideon:''' "I guess that's what we do, you know? We find the folks who are worth it through all the other stuff, ''the flowers among the weeds''. You got someone like that, Hopps? Well, I don't know if you do or you don't, but if and when you do, don't lose sight of 'em, you got that?"
* TookALevelInJerkass: In his sole scene in the film, Travis is the [[ShorterMeansSmarter shorter yet smarter]] sycophant of the town bully. In here, he is a SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp who has seized control of the old GangOfBullies, [[spoiler:became TheDragon to a DirtyCop, and engages in terrorism ArmedWithPepperSpray.]]
* TorchesAndPitchforks
** Several of Bunnyburrow's residents protest the mayor's decision to allow predators to the Fall Harvest Festival, something that hasn't been done once in the [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo one hundred and fifty years]] since the festival's founding.
** Later, on the first day of the festival, Travis and his gang arrive to intimidate the city council over the restrictions placed on the predator vendors. After Judy talks Travis into discussing his problems with Mayor Cotton, Nick [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] the trope and how it doesn't always have literal pitchforks.
--> '''Nick:''' ''[...]'' Then two mangy pickup trucks holding a couple highly pissed-off predators come rolling in wielding pitchforks – OK, no, [[BatterUp not pitchforks]], but they might as well have, you guys have those around here in bulk, right? [[SeverelySpecializedStore Pitchfork store]]? [[ButIDigress Anyway]], ''[...]''
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Gideon's mother has a fondness of CalmingTea, a partaking she has ingrained into her elder son. Mrs. Grey has an affinity to the Earl Grey blend, [[{{Pun}} jesting that perhaps they're related.]]
* TwirlOfLove: Stu gives one to Judy to welcome her home... only to almost drop his daughter when he [[CrackOhMyBack stops to clutch his back.]]
--> [[DiscussedTrope "Oof, can't do that anymore, can I?"]]
* UrbanSegregation: As its name would imply, Bunnyburrow started off mostly with bunnies and a few other prey such as sheep and goats. The first foxes (such as Gideon's great-grandfather) settled in enclaves outside the border, and even in the present, most of the felid population is confined to residential communities in the town's north. While Bunnyburrow's has the only schoolhouse in Tri-Burrow County that accepts both predators and prey, the Fall Harvest Festival was one of a few things that never allowed predators despite the several passing decades; but after a charge spearheaded by the Hopps, [[YearX that year]]'s festival [[DefiedTrope opened up]] to all species. [[spoiler:This spurns an interspecies conspiracy to sabotage the festival so the two demographics will be divided again by next year.]]
* VillainRespect: [[spoiler:When Constable Clover gets arrested by Judy Hopps, he praises her for finding him out and admits he missed an opportunity when he denied taking her on as a volunteer when she was twelve.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Most of the spoilers here conceal [[spoiler:how Constable Skip Clover is the BigBad with Travis as TheDragon]].
* WhamLine
** When Gideon goes through the {{Broken Window Warning}}s around his house, the last one's message makes it clear that prey aren't the only mammals against him: "[[CategoryTraitor Traitor]]".
** When Judy gets a call from her dad ([[MomentKiller before she can articulate what her and Nick's relationship is]]) to inform her that someone has been arrest for the stolen commerce.
--> "They found out who stole everything the other night. He's in custody. It's Carl Pumaski."
** When [[spoiler:Edmond tells Judy what he saw Travis doing with another one of the festival's staff.]]
--> [[spoiler:"He's got all these [[ArmedWithPepperSpray cans of something]], I don't know what. And he's... ''[[DirtyCop Clover]]'' was there, Judy, they were just ''talking.'' It was them. I know it."]]
** When [[spoiler:Mike Robins gloats to Gideon about assaulting him ''and'' Nick.]]
--> [[spoiler:"Took out two foxes that night – two mangy, prey-lovin' foxes."]]
* WhenHeSmiles: Nick is aware of how little he smiles rather than smirks, which is PlayedForLaughs when he looks at the [[SelfieFiend selfie]] Judy took of them on the train to Bunnyburrow.
--> He lingered on the photo a while longer, for there was something about it that was out of the ordinary.
--> Nick was smiling.
--> [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto He would have to get]] [[DestroyTheEvidence Judy to delete that later.]]
* WhisperedThreat: Blake Thumper gives one to Gideon while the latter chauffeurs Nick to question some residents. He tells the civilian fox that if he sets [[HoldYourHippogriffs paw]] on his family's farm again, his home's windows wouldn't be the only thing busted.
* WickedWeasel: Travis seems to have TookALevelInJerkass since he was a young ferret, as had Roland, a weasel in his gang.
* WorkInfoTitle
** The {{Fanfic}}'s title indicates that Gideon Grey is a main character and his attempts to better himself are a plot point.
** The title of Chapter 3, "The Reunion of One Gideon Grey, Fox, with One Judy Hopps, Rabbit", sure enough informs how the fox Gideon and the rabbit Judy will meet up with one another.
** [[CaptainObvious The title of Chapter 1, "Prologue", alludes to there being a prologue.]]
* WrongAssumption: Belle expects Judy to be impacted by Gideon's bullying like how she had been, readily treating foxes as the criminals she was TaughtToHate, and would join in protest against allowing predators in the festival. It isn't until she reunites with Judy that she realizes they don't see the same.
* TheXOfY: The title of the {{Fanfic}} is ''The Redemption of Gideon Grey''. Same with Chapter 3's title, "The Reunion of One Gideon Grey, Fox, with One Judy Hopps, Rabbit".
* XenophobicHerbivore: Both PlayedStraight and {{Inverted}}. Some of Bunnyburrow's prey mammals are against accepting the predators from the county, just as some predators refuse to give any prey the chance to reject them as a [[YankTheDogsChain Yank of the Dog's Chain]].
