It's strange to say but I love how unmistakably about rabbits it is. Characters are anthropomorphised but clearly are not human, they're always confused and scared, they immediately forget anything they don't quite understand, it's normal for them to get so frightened they can't move.
The rabbits' mythologies and Lapine language help a lot with this, like how they can't count past 4, or have specific words for bits of rabbit culture that humans lack.
"Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed"
Okay for context the other rabbit is nanabozho! (Also called Wenabozho, Nanaboozhoo, Nanabush and Manabozho, they have a lotta names--) and he's a prolific and prominent character in many of my people, the anishinaabe (Ojibwe), stories!
I drew him interacting with el-ahrairah because he reminds me so much of nanabush-- they both have a connection to a higher power, their gods, both are tricksters, both are part of their respective creation myths, and both care deeply about their people!
Nanabozho is a shape shifter, while he takes many forms their most common is a hare! So that just made me think of them even more fjdndndn
(I posted this on insta a while back and the artist for the Watership Down graphic novel liked it and I still haven't recovered mentally from that--/pos)
Oh btw, nanabush is genderfluid, no I am not joking--
"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning.
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."
--Richard Adams, Watership Down
Prince of a Thousand Enemies
Mixed water media
8.5x6"