I had listened to a fiction podcast that had a bear, tasked with the defending of its child from the horrors that only a child can see. (Sundae). I was struck by this, and was thinking of a bear with the magic button sewn into its ear, when
started to draw cute macro stuff. I simply had to commission a bear at that point. The mice came about as I always loved red wall, or The littles - stuff where there was a secret world of animals that hide from humans normally.
Here, the two mice give the bear his own magic button.