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Wesley Smidge

 

In the heart of Anthroxville, where madness reigns supreme and logic takes a permanent vacation, stands Wesley Smidge – an anthro bear cursed with a rational mind in a world gone utterly insane. Each day, as the town's absurdities pile up like a teetering tower of nonsense, Wesley feels his grip on reason slipping, replaced by a simmering indignation threatening to boil over into full-blown lunacy.

 

Anthroxville, a crucible of crackpottery and a Petri dish of perverse logic, seems designed to drive any sane being sideways. From the Department of Transportation replacing road signs with abstract art to Kingsley Throttle's vehicular "performance art" that invariably involves Wesley's car, the town defies all logic and reason.

 

Wesley navigates a daily gauntlet of madness: crossing the bridge-less River Ting-Fam under the tyrannical watch of Roy Bibbowski, playing an endless game of "Keep the Wallet" with the preternatural pickpocket Binky Pettifogger, and braving the nightmare that is Mario Miff’s Miff Inconvenience Stores.

 

But it's on a typical Tuesday in the town square that Wesley finally reaches his breaking point. As he watches Bertie Plimsoll, the town's self-proclaimed "pud-puller extraordinaire", engage in a public display of self-gratification to the utter indifference of the crowd, something inside Wesley snaps.

 

"That's it!" he bellows, his voice echoing through the square. "I'm done! I can't handle it anymore!"

 

As he surveys the scene, hoping his outburst might shatter the illusion of madness, Wesley realizes that in Anthroxville, sanity might just be the craziest thing of all. Just as... 

 

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