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Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

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

Ok I’ll take «pet» not as «animal» but as «darling»
(pour les francophones: pas la traduction «animal familier» mais «chouchou»)

Something I was thinking of in the last weeks;
for all intents & purposes at the moment the character I’m most focused on is Dr Julian Bashir of DS9,
and yet everytime time I see posts or polls on Tumblr about "your blorbo"
(do I have to explain the concept for DW dwellers not familiar with it?)
I keep thinking of Howard McKenzie of LastMan instead.
So I’m torn: who is my Blorbo?

The fandom fizzled out a couple of years ago. LastMan Heroes was a disappointment, Vivès caused everything to get «covered in the fucking ooze», but somehow I’m still stuck in a place around when time stopped in 2020. I’m still lowkey hoping there would be more Paxtown/LastMan stories that would not suck as bad as Soir de Match
(maybe a focus on Mendoza, on Tracy, on Dave; exploring the bit that didn’t make it into season 1 about him knowing Valenti Anappy before),
dream of a Roitelet prequel while knowing very well it’s never going to happen! Périn and Sarfati moved on (go watch Mars Express!), Balak moved on (pray we do get Jim Queen?), I don’t want to know what That Asshole is up to, I moved on, not creating fanwork anymore.
And yet
and yet…
Howard might not be my absolute favourite anymore but I still think of him and want to see him Put In Situations, even though Bashir is more fun for all this?? maybe just because he was my first "blorbo" when I first encounter the term so I still associate him with him and never refocused semantics..?

(Even more years ago, my fandom pet wad Cain Fury from FMA. Maybe I should go back to him too.)