Less Than Sweet

Skye is kind of a fairly self-actualized character (she's largely content with her job as a blogger/social activist, and her relationship with Sunny), so I decided to throw a wrench in her gears in the form of one character foil....Honey Meadowsweet.

Honey is sweet. Outwardly. She's polite and pleasant and organizes community bake sales. She is also, in her own words, a paragon of right-wing sensibility in a sea of bleeding heart liberalism. 

Dogs are friendly and accepting- notoriously so. But they are also pack animals. While many canines in FB are perfectly welcoming, some dogs start developing notions about who does and does not constitute "pack"-ie. people who do and do not belong to their desired in-group. This social exclusivity has a curious correlation with wealth, with quite a few wealthy dogs quite focused on dictating who is permitted in their social circles, who are permitted to marry their children, and who are permitted to get their filthy paws anywhere close to their money. 

Honey hails from a conservative, old-money pack that emphasized both ruthless pursuit of capital and insistence on rigid social hierarchies (eg. don't interact with the poors). Honey is a political science student currently focusing on earning her Master's degree so that she might push her values on the world. She's also acquired some repute as a social media presence...though the right word may be "grifter". It's unclear how much of Honey's political rhetoric she actually believes...she seems to simply say whatever will earn her the most online outrage. Honey, you see, is a contrarian and seems to enjoy stirring the pot for her own amusement- so she gets quite a thrill from meeting Skye, who talks about political concepts like they actually, y'know, matter. How cute!

Honey is quietly amused by Biscuit and Buddy's hopes she will someday marry Sunny and mother his children, because she's very much gay. This is something that she must unfortunately keep on the down-low within her community, lest she be shunned or ousted. Honey seems to have no trouble compromising her identity to win approval from people she seems important- she will, for example, network with older traditionalist dogs that openly sneer at queer identities. I'm sure this isn't at all slowly eating away at her soul.....nor a reason for her to be so fixated on teasing/antagonizing Skye, a dog who is unapologetically herself.