I didn't have my shit together yesterday, so you all are getting an anomalous Friday post. It features: man-made horrors beyond comprehension, and an extremely deep lore callback. Readers of this comic often ask the characters about their favorite animals, likely because they are Creature Enthusiasts, but Idrisah is the only one of the main cast who is a fellow Creature Enthusiast.
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Paroxysmall asked: Idrisah, Gillie, have either of you had pets before?
Gillie: (ASL) My daddy is a ball python breeder, if that counts? I've never really been a pet person. Snakes and reptiles are neat though.
Idrisah: Oh, I had SO many pets as a kid. It makes me cringe now, but I was constantly begging my mom to buy me these trendy GMO pets that barely live a year. The companies producing them never bother to give them better longevity, because they just want people to buy replacements. It's ghoulish. I remember having glowfrogs, neoraptors, minidragons, toppies, domestic bats, castle ants, weekers... The worst was pocket dogs. Those things had a deathwish. One escaped the cage and strangled itself in my bug net, the other somehow chewed its way into the top of its water bottle and drowned. My mom never got me anything as large as a typ cat, buuut... there was one exception... On one of our family trips to Earth, my uncle trapped this feral catfish dragon. They're really invasive in South Asia, so it's illegal to release them. I named her Dibi, befriended her with bits of fried fish, and begged for days for my parents to let me keep it. She lived with us in Nexus Jovia for 11 years. I still miss her...
