"Mama, how come we ain't allowed to go play outside like all the boys do?"
The young Nidoran asked her mother.

"Because we're females, sugar.
Females just ain't allowed to go up to the surface without a males' permission...it's always been like that."

Her mother replied to her as she shifted herself around slightly trying to get comfortable.
she was once again heavily pregnant with a batch of this years' 3rd litter.

"We ain't supposed to do a whole lot, 'cept eat, sleep and have a bunch'a kitts is all."
She added.

"But that ain't fair, mama! look at us, we ain't even allowed to have names!
I'm tired of everyone just callin' me 'Female'. Especially since that's pretty much everyone else's name too."

"That's nice, sweetie, now could you be a dear and go find mama some more dry grass or hay or somethin'?
If we're gonna have a successful batch of healthy kitts this year they need to be kept nice, warm and cozy. we don't need any more dyin' on us again, the lead bucks will rip my ears off for sure if that happens."

"Mama, did you even hear a word I said?"

"'Bout what, sugar?"

"sigh...Never mind, Mama. I'll go look and see about the grass."

As she watches her daughter walk toward the burrow's exit with her head hanging low, the pregnant female couldn't help but feel sorry for her little girl. she's quick to call her back.

"...Baby, wait up a second.
Look, I know why you're upset, but...there's just nothin' we can do about it.
I know you wanna go play with the boys, I know you wanna be able to go and explore places beyond the warren and I also know that you'd like to have a name of your own, I would too...All of us would. But we just can't. Males make all the rules, and anyone who doesn't follow them either gets kicked out of the warren or winds up in a hole somewhere with their necks torn open and that especially goes for us females...I just want you safe. You get what I'm sayin', honey?"

"Yeah...I guess so."

The mother struggles for a second, but shifts her fat body around so that she's now facing her girl.
she lifts up one of her chunky arms and wraps it around her daughter, snuggling with her.

"I'm sorry that things can't be a bit better for you sweetie...Mama loves you."

"I love you too, mama...."

Pretty much just a look into Fastener's childhood, before she became the badass that she is today.
I really like this sort of thing a lot, and I plan on doing more pictures like these with other TLS characters. just another thing to add onto my already long list of ideas for this one project. And for the record, for little Fastener's voice, for anyone who has ever watched My Little Pony: FIM, try thinking of Applebloom because holy shit is it hard trying to write a character with a southern accent. Like seriously, what the hell.

The funny part about making this whole scene was that I seriously had parts of Watership Down in mind, as I think the early stages of the Nido line would be very much similar to our world's rabbits. Either way, life sure is tough for wild Pokemon, don't you agree?