#watership down strawberry

[cinder-starlight]

Watership down fandom, settle something for me

I’ve been trying to watch the Netflix adaptation for a while—I’ve only really made it to episode 2 but even then I’ve seen a bit of discussion here and there about strawberry.

Before I continue—really quick: I’m not very word savvy so I just wanna give an FYI that I’d like for this to be a genuine discussion, I’d like to hear other peoples’ takes on the matter especially since there will always be different ways to see things.

Continuing: I don’t have any solid thoughts on Strawberry yet, design wise she is very cute but what absolutely grinds my gears is the fact she is only really there to be a romantic interest between hawkbit, dandelion and bigwig.

I usually don’t have a big problem with love triangles (or squares in this case) and think they can be pretty entertaining but after learning strawberry was male through other variants such as the graphic novel (if I’m correct), book and TV series—which is the majority. It kinda has me confused, why change Strawberry into a doe for the sake of romance?

I’ve seen people argue that strawberry works better as a doe or that strawberry isn’t a male name—which I’m well aware the series doesn’t exactly do female characters much justice since the majority of the story is about bucks. But also Strawberry totally works as a male name! It’s a fruit, by that logic, blackberry should also be a doe.

I still have yet to finish the Netflix miniseries and look into one of the books but Personally: I think it would’ve been nice to see male strawberry in the miniseries, especially to be there to prove the group wrong on their “bucks don’t dig” statements. It would’ve been nice to see a chipper and eager strawberry look to help out with the warren and sort of just be a fresh perspective to them all from his time in cowslip’s warren.

Again this is just my take, but I’m also curious as to what others think or wish could’ve happened.

[augment-techs]

Watership Down graphic novel reaction/icon images: PART I

[hyzenslay]

Strawberry, Nildro-hain, Clover, and Haystack

Clover and Haystack are biblically accurate while Strawberry and Nildro-hain I made them up ("strawberry blonde" lol and a harlequin pattern for NH because of the colors of a blackbird). I had in mind the genderbent but Strawberry can be a buck like in the og if you want, and Haystack can be Boxwood because they are both Himalayans.

[saturncoyote]

Started missing drawing rabbits so here’s a bunch of em

[blueylovesssanimating]

THE PLAGUE DOGS!! + some Watership Down doodles!

[shinelikedew]

book!Strawberry is so underrated...he's such an interesting character...

He's the first to condemn his old warren for killing Pimpernel and injuring Holly and Bluebell: "I think it was a damned shame." It shows how much he's changed since he lived there--he's no longer willing to turn a blind eye to the violence there.

He's excited to go on the first embassy to Efrafa so he can prove himself to his new friends.

He's the first to call out Woundwort for his tyranny, and he does it to his face: "Animals don't behave like men." And I love this part so much because Strawberry is the perfect rabbit to recognize how men behave and how Woundwort's actions echo that, because Strawberry lived his life in a warren ruled by men. I've compared Efrafa and the Shining Wire before; they're honestly very similar and I love how Strawberry picks up on this.

There's also a scene where he's helping Boxwood adjust to life in the wild, which I thought was really sweet.

[dandyreads]

Watership Down memes. As a coping mechanism for what this book did to me

[blimbo-buddy]

Wanted to try drawing some Watership Down characters just to get used to drawing rabbits differently

[cyberphuck]

Holly had finally finished speaking, and the other rabbits stared at one another in shocked and horrified silence. "I can't imagine," Hazel began to say. "You can't," Blueberry said gruffly. "I can," said the little mouse. "Like the Station Nightclub Fire." Bigwig peered at him. "The wot?" "Station Nightclub Fire," the mouse said again. "A lot of Men were in a nightclub, and then a fire broke out and they all tried to get away at once, but there weren't enough exits, see, so they all sort of clogged up in the entryway and they was screamin' and screamin' to get out but there weren't no shiftin' em, and they died." "Well. Good riddance," Bigwig said after a pause. "Erm," Hazel said, "what's a nayit-kloob?" The mouse shrugged. "Search me, I got the story off me cousin." Strawberry raised one of his front paws, slowly and a little awkwardly; Hazel recognized it as one of the strange little dances he did, this being the one asking permission to speak. "I know what a nightclub is," said Strawberry. "Of course you fucking do," snarled Bigwig.

[spinnysocks]

wanted to make a (probably final) addition to my reblog

considering the quiz is about to reach 100 TAKERS!

this honestly means so much to me. if you've taken the quiz, thank you! <3

anyways, the results!

as i said before, looks like everyone is hazel lmao

and also strawberry

and a concerning amount of people got hyzenthlay...

i made a watership down personality quiz based on the 2018 miniseries!!

this is one of my favourite shows ever, and it gets so little love and attention compared to the book, tv series and the original movie. i saw there were very little personality quizzes for wd on uquiz, so i decided to analyze some of the characters from the miniseries and create one myself!

all feedback is appreciated and i'd love more people to talk to about watership down and especially the miniseries!!

[hazel-jane]

Strawberry

[lavscavv]

interest check !!!!

[ big text: interest check !!!! ]

further info :

strawberry and bigwig will both be presented as trans, please gtfo if u dont like trans people <3

there will be other characters presented as LGBT+ as well !! again gtfo if u dont like

while inspired by the 2018 adaptation, it will be focused on either the book or 1999 series.

dont care how good u r at animating u r welcome to join either way !!!

[augment-techs]

Watership Down graphic novel reaction/icon images: PART II

[hyzenslay]

Snare

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Berries Bracket !

Round 2 Poll 1

[shinelikedew]

Watership Down 1999 + makeupaguy

bonus: