#i agreeee#q wants bond to identify personal preferences and learn personal boundaries!!!#maybe Bond is experimenting by asking for no pickles lol (low stakes cuz he is fine w pickles)#and uh. well. pickles#but he WOULD love for Q to he asked for no pickles him#it's like. he wants to be treasured he wants to be kept he wants to be beloved pet'ed#hes the grizzled like uhhh war dog who wants to be beloved purse dog#everyone sees him and sees him as the guy who should defend. the guy who is cherisher. but maybe he wants to be cherished too!!#doesnt he deserve love? and --jewelry-- fun gadgets from Q? ...actually you know what- yes jewelry. from Q#anyway. yes. this man wants to be kept soooo bad#he's the colony cat turned friendly who wants to go inside sooo bad. but ppl keep only feeding him outside and closing their door to him (@halfbaked00q)
OK, this is taking me in a slightly different direction, but: I do think it's extremely funny if Skyfall!Q goes into this whole Thing With Bond with absolutely zero intention of trying to 'keep' or 'rehabilitate' Bond.
Q is looking at this PURELY from the perspective of someone who has cared for and supervised many feral colonies. And he is looking at Bond, and he can see That Is A Whole-Ass Adult Feral.
Which is fine! But that means we need to manage our expectations, yes? We are not getting that one socialized. We are not getting him indoors permanently. We just need to give him some cans of high-nutrient wet food (with a deworming pill sneaked inside!) and keep feeding him until he no longer TOTALLY panics, hisses, or unsheathes claws whenever we get within 10 feet of him.
And then we gotta drop-trap him and take him off the be spayed/neutered, and while we've got him knocked unconscious for that procedure, we'll see if he has any rotten teeth that need to be pulled or other health issues that can be quickly fixed on the spot.
And then we'll keep an eye on him during the initial recovery. Maybe see if we can give him a flea bath or pick the ticks off of him. And then, once he's well enough that he's no longer at risk of clawing open his incisions, we'll put him back where we found him, and hope for the best.
And, it's...y'know. He's not gonna live a super long and optimally healthy life. We know that. Sooner or later he'll probably get hit by a car or eaten by a predator or something.
But. At least we did what we could to keep him fed and out of pain, and prevent him from catching/spreading disease! And that'll have to be enough. Because he's a feral, and he doesn't want to live indoors or hang out with humans. So we did what we could to give him a good chance at surviving on his own for as long as possible!
And Q initially feels satisfied with this, and at ease with the help he's providing 007.
Except. It quickly turns into a situation where Q drop-traps Bond to provide urgent help/food/etc. and then releases him, thinking that'll be that and Bond will scamper off and disappear for the next few weeks.
But the next morning, he checks his metaphorical cat-trap and...Bond is back in there. Waiting.
He would like to be taken back to that room where he gets food and warm blankets and scritches!! That part was good. He'll have another go, please. ☺️
Q absolutely was not PLANNING to turn this military working dog into a purse dog. He wasn't PLANNING to make this raggedy hissy bitey feral into a lapcat.
But. It might not...be up to him. 🧍