#roger x jessica

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jessica & roger are asexual (implied) & married (canon)

maude & todd are asexual (canon) & dating (canon)

haida & retsuko are asexual (hc) & married (canon)

natsuki & yuri are asexual (hc) & dating (implied)

cherry & goldie are asexual (hc) & girlfriends (hc)

mettaton & sans are asexual (hc mtt, implied sans) & boyfriends (hc)

soos & melody are asexual (hc) & dating (canon)

rochelle & garrott are asexual (hc) & dating (canon)

[fluttytheflutt]

they’re goals like actually

[chrysalis-the-butterfly]

When people talk about Roger and Jessica Rabbit's relationship, it's quite common to hear these two views:

"Betty Boop says, 'What a lucky girl,' implying that Jessica's the lucky one for ending up with Roger, not the other way around. And the original novels suggest that toons use humour to judge attractiveness, not appearances. In toons' eyes, Roger is way out of Jessica's league because he's funnier."

"Jessica says she loves Roger because 'He makes me laugh.' Isn't that sweet? She's not a superficial gold-digger, it's true love!"

Those two ideas do not go well together.

If funnier toons are believed to be more attractive, then Jessica loving Roger because he makes her laugh would be the equivalent of a human woman loving a human man because he's handsome. It would be shallow.

But it's clearly not meant to be shallow, because we've seen how devoted Jessica is to Roger and we know she'll do anything for him.

So I have another idea.

Betty Boop used to have a love interest called Bimbo. He was a dog.

And both Roger and Jessica speak well of Goofy, who is also a dog.

My theory is that the most attractive toons are the anthropomorphic animals.

In other words, toons are furries!

But Jessica doesn't love Roger just because he's a furry. It's because he makes her happy. It's because he treats her like a person, not a pretty object. It's because he's taken the time to get to know her better than anyone else.

That's the real depth to their love.

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Conversation with @imhumanguysiswear

[why-am-i-always-hungruy]

there isn't enough art of Roger Rabbit and Jessica Rabbit being madly in love. the world is a dark, dark place

[strawberryxfieldz]

Summary: When everything is all said and done, Jessica realizes she needs to dye her hair. Roger offers to help her as she suffers an internal war with herself on how to explain to her husband the pictures of her and Acme together, afraid of how he might react.

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Breakfast

Crack! The shell of the egg gave way against the hard counter.

Roger carefully moved it over the frying pan and split the eggshell open, allowing the gooey yolk to fall onto the hot pan with a sizzle. He was sure that Jessica preferred her eggs sunny side up.

He would have considered asking her to be absolutely certain, but that would have meant waking her up. He didn't think she'd want that, given the night that she apparently had.

Roger wasn't entirely sure what had happened at the Ink and Paint Club the night before, but he had long learned the signs that Jessica's performance hadn't ended well for her. He knew it wasn't because she had missed a note or anything like that. He had once overheard her say that she didn't think that any of her audience would even notice if she did make a mistake on her song because they weren't really paying attention to what she was singing anyway.

Roger thought that they were missing out if they weren't paying attention to her singing. Her voice when she sang was one of the most beautiful sounds he had ever heard, second only to her laugh.

He loved hearing that laugh. He hated seeing her upset.

He quietly grabbed the bread to make some toast. Hopefully, this breakfast would cheer her up. He’d plan a special day afterward.

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This is something I had published to my fanfiction.net and Archive of our Own accounts last year. I may publish some of my older Roger Rabbit fanfics here as well.

[fanficwolf105]

Artfight attack for @upsidedownqq

[joethetoonfanandoutcast]

Favorite Shipping Bingo Sheet 1

I came up with this after seeing MorgantheMovieNerd's take on a bingo sheet of favorite shippings. 1st row: Furrball x Fifi La Fume (Tiny Toon Adventures) Sylvester x Penelope Pussycat (Looney Tunes) Puss in Boots x Kitty Softpaws (Puss in Boots) Nature Cat x Nature Dog (Nature Cat) Fievel Mousekewitz x Cholena (An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island)

2nd row: Suki Lane (Sing 2; until Illumination makes her asexual or a lesbian just to please the LGBTQ community) x whichever male character shorter than her I feel like pairing her up with (my choices were Buster, Eddie, Sylvester or an OC of mine) Stuart Little x Margalo (Stuart Little 2) Stanley x Alicia (my OCs) Tyler 'Blu' Gundersen x Jewel (Rio; two Anne Hathaway-involved animal couples in a row) Scratte (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs; my evolved version) x Hammy (Over the Hedge)

3rd row: Fox (Skunk Fu) x William D. Ploohe (my OC doppelganger of Winnie the Pooh) Waffles x Chainsaw (Goof Troop) Tom x Sabrina (Tom & Jerry) Rita x an adult Oliver (Oliver & Company; taking place in a different universe)

4th row: Sylvie x Star (Balto) Crane x Mei Ling (Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five) Homer x Marge Simpson (The Simpsons) Spike x Applejack (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) Roger x Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)

5th row: Rudolph x Clarice (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)) Bambi x Faline (Bambi) Skunk x Fox (Skunk Fu; with the condition of Skunk being older than he is in canon) Simba x Nala (The Lion King) Aladdin x Jasmine (Aladdin)

[chrysalis-the-butterfly]

This! Just because your love doesn't feel poetic or grand or earth-shattering, it doesn't mean it isn't real love.

Also, I found this reblogged on a Roger Rabbit RP blog, and I've been thinking about it quite a bit in relation to Roger and Jessica's relationship.

There's a lot of fanart of the rabbit and the redhead posing next to each other and gazing into each other's eyes and stuff like that. And there's a lot of good fanart out there! But ... Roger and Jessica aren't really doing anything in those pictures.

What if there was fanart of them just hanging out like a regular couple? Baking, and doing chores, and going to the beach, and stuff like that?

If such fanart exists, I'd love to see it!

I think relationships in general are over romanticized like at the end of the day I’m pretty sure a good relationship is just two people who know how to hang out and talk to each other not whether or not they can right all your wrongs or paint a picture of a thousand suns with the breath from your lungs or some shit

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they're are all canon couples (i lobv them :>)

[chrysalis-the-butterfly]

If the Hazbin Hotel characters were put in a Who Framed Roger Rabbit-style universe, I like to think Angel Dust would be Roger and Jessica's son.

After all, who is Jessica Rabbit? She's a sex symbol who's always assumed to be up to no good, but is actually not that bad.

And who is Roger Rabbit? He's a fluffy white joker who's been going through a tough time.

So, who is Angel Dust? He's both of those people combined. Fluffy, white, jokey, sexy, going through trauma, and battling against negative expectations. He could believably be related to Roger and Jessica.

Yes, he's a spider, not a rabbit, but hey, they're toons! Anything is possible!

(Oh, and I like to think his real name is Anthony Rabbit.)

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amity (hc trans) & luz (hc enby) are dating (canon)

mettaton (implied trans) & sans (hc enby) are dating (hc)

susie (hc trans) & kris (canon enby) are mutual crushing (hc, implied for kris)

bubblegum (hc trans) & marceline (hc enby) are dating (canon)

finn (hc trans) & hw (hc enby) are dating (canon)

tina (hc trans) & daffy (hc enby) are dating (canon)

ivy (hc trans) & harley (hc enby) are dating (canon)

brain (hc trans) & pinky (hc enby) are dating (implied)

eddie (hc trans) & frank (canon enby) are in love (canon)

jessica (hc trans) & roger (hc enby) are married (canon)

[chrysalis-the-butterfly]

This is what @aparticularbandit and her RP blog of Jessica Rabbit has done to me. (Except I didn't discover it at 3am, I discovered it at a normal time.)

Seriously, Timeline Canon is an amazing story. You've got the first half, which covers Jessica's origin story as a toon with a less-than-family-friendly Purpose, and how she meets Roger and leaves the people who hurt her and marries her honey bunny. So far, so positive.

But then you're hit with the second half. Goodness gravy, the second half.

See, Jessica always wanted to be human, because humans have more rights and more freedom than toons. And one day, she gets what she'd wanted, when a genie turns her into a human. But the genie also turns Roger into a rabbit - a real, fluffy, mindless white rabbit. And Jessica will do whatever it takes to get her husband back.

You can check out Toon Jessica's story here on @thecreaminhiscoffee and Human Jessica's story here on @nearlostcauses. Most of the threads and drabbles are on @thecreaminhiscoffee-archive. For more of Bandit's headcanons and explanations of how this world works, there's a helpful starter pack here.

Bandit has a truly captivating writing style. It's atmospheric. It's full of inventive imagery. It sucks you into Jessica's unique way of seeing the world. And the world itself takes Who Framed Roger Rabbit and expands it, delving into the darker implications of toons being discriminated against, while keeping the wonder and fun of imagining cartoons in the real world.

Reading Timeline Canon was an experience unlike anything I've ever read before. It made me smile, and sometimes chuckle. It made me sit back and ponder deep philosophical questions about life, death, love, happiness, and second chances. And it made my eyes water on more than one occasion, especially towards the end. It moved me more than many published novels have managed to do.

(I should pause the effusive praise to note that Timeline Canon wasn't just Bandit's fanfiction - a lot of other roleplayers contributed to making it what it is. I particularly enjoyed the writing style of Willow, a.k.a. @ican-giveyoustars, who played Roger.)

Basically, if you like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit, and having your heart ripped out your chest and torn to pieces (metaphorically speaking), then you'll probably like Timeline Canon!

There’s fanfiction…. And then there’s FANFICTION. The kind of shit you happen upon at like 3am or some other ungodly time because you were trying to find a fix for ur fixation at the time and you are just SUCKED IN and every sentence feels like a line of cocaine and it has quotes and imagery that permeate your brain and it’s the shit that sticks around in your consciousness forever and it never goes away and it’s always going to be one of Those Fics.

[chrysalis-the-butterfly]

My Thoughts on the Roger Rabbit Novels

Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

The Plot: It's the 1980s, and human beings and comic strip characters ("toons") live side-by-side, albeit not on an equal social standing. Roger Rabbit approaches private detective Eddie Valiant and asks him to investigate a dispute he has with Rocco and Dominick DeGreasy, the brothers who own his comic strip. Roger claims his life is in danger, but Eddie, who's somewhat racist towards toons, doesn't take him seriously - which comes back to bite him when he finds Roger's dead body. Now Eddie has to work out who killed Roger, as well as who killed Rocco DeGreasy on the same night.

What I Liked: This is a very well-paced story. It sets up the mystery straightaway, it cracks along at a good speed, and you don't have the full truth of whodunnit until the very end. The chapters are short and punchy, and even the time spent on plot points that turned out to be red herrings never felt wasted. I was always eager to pick the book up again and read just one more chapter!

Also, in any other novel, the twist regarding Roger's killer would be a massive "What the heck?" moment, but here, it's set up far enough in advance that it doesn't feel unnatural when it comes.

And as a fun minor detail, Eddie casually mentions being one of four children, and then the next novel, Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?, gives him two brothers and a sister! It was probably a coincidence, but I was glad to spot it!

What I Disliked: I really wasn't a fan of the way Jessica Rabbit was portrayed. Who Framed Roger Rabbit subverts her femme fatale image, but Who Censored Roger Rabbit? plays it straight, which didn't appeal to me as much. I prefer the "looks like she could kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll" trope over the "looks like she could kill you, could actually kill you" trope.

At one point in the story, Jessica claims she was forced to pose for a racy comic, but when Eddie speaks to the owner of said comic, the man claims Jessica posed for those pictures willingly and was actually eager to make more. At the time the story was published (1981), one might just about have got away with such a portrayal, but in a post-#MeToo world, it's discomforting that Jessica's allegations of coercion and sexual abuse aren't taken seriously. (Also, the man who owns the racy comic is a creepy crossdresser, which ... what? Why was that in there? That didn't need to be in there.)

As a consequence of Jessica's portrayal, her relationship with Roger is nowhere near as sweet as in the film. Their entire marriage is basically a sham. No, thank you. Give me "honey bunny" and "love cup" instead, please.

Verdict: I saw the film first, and I prefer it to the novel. Who Framed Roger Rabbit will always be my favourite piece of Roger Rabbit media. But I can appreciate Who Censored Roger Rabbit? as its own thing - a product of its time, to be sure, but also a well-structured and fast-paced read.

Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?

The Plot: It's 1947 (more or less), sometime after the events of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Roger Rabbit, Baby Herman, and Kirk Enigma are three toons in line for the lead role in David Selznick's upcoming adaptation of Gone With the Wind. A box belonging to Selznick, a box of great importance, has gone missing, and Eddie Valiant has been hired to find it.

What I Liked: Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? has my favourite portrayal of Roger (after the film and the comics). We spend a bit more time with him than in the previous book, so we get to hear more about his worldviews and his backstory. We also get to see what a sweetie pie he is. He's an emotional bunny who loves his wife, just like in the film, and I frequently wanted to hug him.

A key highlight for me was the moment when Roger was singing like a Disney Princess and summoning a chorus of birds to wake Eddie one morning, which Eddie did not appreciate. Can someone animate that? I'd love to see it!

The second half of this novel also introduces Jessica's twin sister Joellyn (the six-inch-tall woman on Eddie's shoulder on the cover), and I enjoyed getting to know her. And, without giving away too many spoilers, I greatly preferred this rendition of Jessica over the one in Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

What I Disliked: Unlike the first novel, this one was pretty slow to get going. Eddie isn't actually hired by Selznick until Chapter 7, and most of the time before then is spent establishing Eddie as a down-on-his-luck private eye, using people and locations that show up once and then are barely used again. Some of that fat could have been trimmed, I feel. It made reaching the end of the book a bit more of a slog.

Something else that bothered me was the high volume of old-timey slang, brand names and Americanisms that I, as a twentysomething Brit, did not recognise. I could read an entire paragraph and think, "Well, he's either drinking alcohol, smoking cigar or eating a foodstuff, but I'll be darned if I can tell you which is the right interpretation." I think the noir detective vernacular was slightly overdone, to the point of incomprehension.

Verdict: I thought this would be my favourite of the novels because it seemed the most similar in tone to the film, so I was disappointed by my lukewarm reception to it. Maybe I was disappointed because I'd hyped it up too much in my mind? That's not to say I didn't enjoy it - I greatly preferred the second half to the first, once Eddie found out what was actually in this mysterious box - but I think it could have done with a few more edits before publication.

Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?

The Plot: It's the 1940s or 1950s, sometime after the events of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and director Barney Sands is shooting a movie set in Toontown starring Gary Cooper and Roger Rabbit. He's been receiving threatening letters warning him to stay away from Toontown and stop making this film, but he can't afford to let down his investors. So he hires Eddie Valiant to be Cooper's bodyguard while filming takes place. But Eddie soon finds himself wrapped up in another mystery, involving a porcine crime lord called Willy Prosciutto and the corpse of Clabber Clown.

What I Liked: The majority of this novel takes place in Toontown, so we get some really cool worldbuilding details. We find out how the school system works, which churches are based in Toontown, and how crooked toons launder their money. I was particularly intrigued by the calm and serious toons in the Sanatorium - apparently, if you're not loud and goofy and bouncing off the walls, you're considered insane, which is the opposite of how humans think about mental health.

The blonde humanoid toon on the cover is Caitlyn "Honey" Graham, Willy's girlfriend. I really like Honey. In fact, she might be my favourite of the novel-exclusive characters. Throughout the book, you're trying to work out if she's a good bad girl or a bad good girl, or if she's really just a bad bad girl. If Who Framed Roger Rabbit ever gets a sequel or prequel or spin-off cartoon series, I'd love to see Honey on screen.

What I Disliked: The Roger we meet in this novel is a bit too stupid for my liking. In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Roger made seemingly nonsensical choices, but he had his own (cartoon) logic to explain his actions, and he was even proved right in his assumptions a few times. So I much prefer to think of Roger as the kind of toon where you're never quite sure if he's truly dumb or merely playing dumb for the sake of a gag. Here, he's just straight-up dumb, and that's not as fun to read about.

Verdict: This was the book I knew the least about before I read it, so I was more cautious going in - but it ended up being my second favourite of the Roger Rabbit novels. I enjoyed learning more about Toontown and its residents. My favourite parts of the film had been the toony parts - Roger, and Jessica, and Roger and Jessica together - so I guess it makes sense that I'd enjoy the novel that takes place almost entirely in Toontown.

Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business

The Plot: It's the 2020s, sometime post-pandemic, and Jessica Krupnik is a human in a toon-less world. She's working a dead-end job in a crime-ridden part of town, her stepmother bosses her around and belittles her, her stepsisters treat her like a servant, and her stepbrothers sexually harass her. She's basically a modern-day Cinderella. But instead of a fairy godmother, Jessica is rescued from her life of drudgery by an opportunity to apply for a role at XERIOUS, a crime-fighting organisation of secret agents. She gets the job, and is later put on a mission with Robbe, one of XERIOUS's most experienced agents, to catch a criminal mastermind called the Klown.

(And this is somehow a prequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Despite being set decades after that film. And starring a human Jessica instead of a toon Jessica. Cartoon timelines be weird, y'all.)

What I Liked: This was the most fun novel to read! I think that's because it was a spy novel spoof, rather than a gritty noir detective story. The other three novels could be quite dour in tone - yes, cases would get solved, but people would get hurt in the process, and relationships would be irrevocably altered, so there was always this undercurrent of sadness in the seemingly happy endings. After three novels in a row of that, a story spoofing spy novels was always going to feel like a breath of fresh air. Gary K. Wolf has stated that he wrote this book in lockdown and had a lot of fun doing so, and I feel that coming across in his writing.

Robbe was another great novel-exclusive character. I can't say too much about him, because that would massively spoil things, but I can say that I enjoyed witnessing his development over the course of the novel. To give the most spoiler-free explanation I can, Robbe starts out as a suave and competent spy, but also a misogynist - until something happens to him in the line of duty that shakes his confidence. Watching him grow and try to be a better person, especially towards Jessica, while also dealing with the aftermath of his accident, was truly engaging. It even got me thinking about the portrayal of disability in fiction, which I did not expect a Roger Rabbit novel to do.

What I Disliked: For a novel called Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business, Jessica herself was disappointingly under-developed. The first three chapters follow her miserable life and her desire for adventure, for respect, for something more. And then there's a two-year time skip and whoop, she's suddenly a confident and glamorous secret agent! And she's ditched her glasses and dyed her hair, so she's beautiful now! And she achieved her impossible hourglass figure with nothing but diet and exercise, despite being a human and not a toon! Sigh.

There was a real missed opportunity here. Robbe already has a plot where he starts off skilled and arrogant, but then has his worldview challenged and needs to learn to embrace vulnerability. So we could have had Jessica experiencing her own story of growth alongside him, but in reverse! We could have watched as, over the course of the novel, she transforms from the beaten-down self-conscious little girl into the sensational woman she was always meant to be. Robbe would start on top and fall down; Jessica would start at the bottom and claw her way up. The parallels could have been awesome!

Gary K. Wolf has admitted that, as a man, he would struggle to write a novel about women, and it shows. The sexism Jessica experiences doesn't have any nuance; the story just says, "Harassment is bad" over and over again. There's one moment where the Klown is sharing his nefarious plan to change the world, and Jessica responds, "I like the current world." And ... huh? You like the sexual harassment you receive on an almost daily basis? You like the system that trapped you in a dead-end job? You like all the poverty and crime and misery the world has right now? The story could have really benefitted from a feminist and/or intersectional analysis.

Also, in an effort to make Jessica seem smart, the men around her are extremely stupid, unable to see through the Klown's flimsy disguises. That is ... not the best way to make your female characters appear intelligent.

Verdict: My favourite of the Roger Rabbit novels! It's not perfect, but my criticisms are born out of love and a desire to see this concept reach its full potential. But even as it is, I still found this book a lot of fun to read, and I can excuse a few flaws if I'm having fun.

Final Ranking (Compared to Other Roger Rabbit Media)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Roger Rabbit and Roger Rabbit's Toontown comics

The three shorts

Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business

Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?

Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?

[fanficwolf105]

Happy Birthday Bebe