Okay but fr, I had the thought that Bob would be a cat guy a couple weeks ago. And then I thought about how Jake would probably swear up & down that he doesn't like cats. But then Jake meets Bob's cat. She's a sweet, fluffy thing. She's immediately on Jake's lap & Jake just freezes for a moment not sure what to do. Then he gently pats her and she just starts purring & Jake is IMMEDIATELY smitten. 🥺
KIND OF LIKE HE IS W/ BOB. i have this headcanon forming where bob basically imprints on people. And it’s totally unpredictable, because he’s never unfriendly—but the people he chooses to love, he really commits to. And so everyone’s surprised when it’s Jake, but Phoenix can kind of see it, she saw this coming, and she knew that if anyone was gonna hold Jake down and not take his crap, it would be bob. She also knew that if anyone was gonna give bobs life a jolt of excitement and liven him up, it would be Jake.
AND ITS THE SAME THING WITH THE CAT. the cat is like super unfriendly with people or at least distant, wary, and everyone (ROOSTER) is like ooooh, she’s gonnna HATE Jake, and then she drops on jakes lap the first day and just. Like. Doesn’t leave. (Same as Bob.)
But I also love the notion of cat people and dog people. Because the general implication is usually that you have to work for a cats trust and love, whereas dogs just give it freely. And there genuinely ARE dog people and cat people—not to stereotype, but I’ve seen it. And the notion that Jake would walk thru life thinking “oh I’m a dog person ha ha of course” and then he meets Bob, and he’s thrown through a loop because he loves Bob, and he has to really work for bobs trust and affection. And he likes working for it. It literally makes him a better person.
Idk man. I just get excited about this stuff. 💛
















