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Challenge 2
Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

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Actual pets
I'm more of a cat person than a dog person.
I do have a cat. Her name is Cass, and shortly after I moved into this house (sometime during COVID) she was hanging around as the previous owners might have abandoned her. Therefore the mutual adoption occurred.

Fandom pets
Not an exhaustive list.

Daria
No canon pets in Daria, but I did write a ficlet about Daria having an unexpected pet.

An unexpected friend; of the Aquatic Variety
Jane followed Daria into her room. It was exactly as she had described it, with padding on the walls and bars in the windows. "Wow," she said. She took it in. A poster of a half-unearthed skeleton, a plain bed, a television on a trolly, models of a heart and a slice of cheese, another televison on a ceiling mount and a bookshelf with a computer set-up. Not to mention a Kafka poster. However, between the computer and the books was a small aquarium.
Jane went over to the aquarium and looked in it. It was unlike any other pet fish that she had seen before. "What sort of fish is this?" she asked.

"Talon, he's a Siamese fighting fish," Daria replied.

"Fighting Fish, huh? That's different."

"Definitely different to Quinn's goldfish, that's for sure," Daria said as she opened a box of food.

Jane chuckled.


Doctor Who
Does K9 count?

How to Train Your Dragon
Toothless (and the other trained dragons); enough said. Hiccup's interactions with him are the core of the movies (both the animated series and the remake)
I have started to write Dragons fic.

Kim Possible
Rufus being an equal part of the team with Kim and Ron.

Pokemon
Mostly various parts of the anime. But some of the games to.
(Especially Ash and his Pikachu)

Scooby Doo
Scooby and his support for Shaggy.
(Also have started to write Scooby Doo fic, not just the crossover with Daria.)

Star Trek: The Animated Series
The scene in Yesteryear with young Spock and I-Chaya.

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Data has his pet cat Spot, which makes for interesting storylines.

Star Trek: Enterprise
Porthos, Captain Archer's beagle

Superman
Krypto in the most recent movie was depicted very well.

9.03/10.

Rewatch. 8.87/10.

Pokemon – Ash talks to Dialga and Palkia
It worked. The two Electric types were able to start the mechanism. The Space-Time Towers moved into action, the tunes of Oracion following. “It’s working!” Dawn exclaimed. The tune was certainly calming, the way the towers played it. More effective than on Alice’s leaf whistle, Ash considered. Pikachu and then Pachirisu tired out, but the Space-Time Towers continued and a golden energy began to emerge…


Palkia calmed upon hearing more of the music come out of the towers, but Dialga didn’t. He was still enraged at the sight of the other Legendary.

Ash was still annoyed at this, as more of Alamos Town dissolved into nothingness. Oracion didn’t calm his indignation at the legendary that was considered a deity. He thought. Maybe that was it. That Diagla considered himself a deity. He ran out of the music room towards the Time Tower.

“Ash!” Dawn called out.

“Dialga!” he called out, ignoring Dawn.

The legendary paused. Ash looked down at the garden before looking back up at him. “Can you see them? Hear them? The people of Alamos Town, who are cowering in terror because of you! Can you hear the Towers that someone designed to play that song? Oh, you like to think you’re a deity? But you’re not a deity! You’re just a very powerful Pokemon!” He paused. He wasn’t sure what else to say. He saw Dawn follow him out.
“You have no right to destroy the lives of people and other Pokemon; including Darkrai, who sacrificed himself despite being misunderstood by others, including myself.”

Diaga paused and looked at Ash.

“Yes! I’m talking to you. Let me tell you a story. I have seen many things on my journey! Many powerful Pokemon, and criminals who are after them. When good people get together, they can achieve anything. Like Tonio’s great grandfather, who had these Towers built for this moment!”

Dialga grolwed and began to move away.

“It didn’t work,” Dawn said.

“I tried,” Ash said.


“My turn,” Dawn said. “You hear this song? One can say it’s the most important song in history. Saving Alamos Town and its inhabitants is important. Think of all that they have yet to accomplish. Both Humans and Pokemon! The stories they would have to tell. Can you imagine? What will be or could have been? It can be overwhelming.”

Dialga paused.

“Consider that!” Ash said.

Dialga appeared to be in thought.

Ash and Dawn looked at each other. They hoped that they were able to talk him down.

Dialaga appeared to bow and then left, leaving Palkia alongside the Space-Time Towers.

“Palkia, can’t you see what you’ve done?” Ash asked. “You’ve destroyed the whole town. All the Pokemon, you’ve gotta do it!”

“Palkia, please!” Dawn added.

Palkia bowed and there was a shift as Alamos Town was restored and turned to the Sinnoh Region. Ash and Dawn took in the afternoon sky and looked at the east cliffs where the shadows of the Space-Time Towers were prominent. They were back, but Darkrai wasn’t.

"Damn Pachirisus! Nothing but Rattatas with fluffy tails!"

Pokemon – Setting Out
It was a new day. But it was different to most days. Daniela Karoshi had awoken early, to meditate upon the situation. Her son, Micah had turned 10 the day before. That meant he was old enough to set out to become a Pokemon Master. She was afraid, anything could happen to him.

Pokemon – Rhyme City Consquences
Lucy Stevens entered her apartment and sat down. Being trapped in her Psyduck wasn’t pleasant to say the least. But at least Clifford’s scheme had been defeated.