Shadow Game Characters with Pets
(These are all post-Queen of Volts unless otherwise stated)
Marcy, obviously, has thirteen cats named after legendary street lords (but all the Spirits help out).
While Lola is writing her book and still trying to fix her relationships with Justin and Enne, she gets pretty lonely sitting in front of a typewriter all day. Tock suggests getting a pet to cheer her up, but Lola doesn’t want anything noisy or time-consuming, so she gets a little fish for on her desk while she’s working. Tock doesn’t get the point of having a fish for a pet at first, but then she sees that Lola sometimes will take a break and watch it swim around, and she looks really calm. So they get a few more and have a lovely fish tank that helps Lola feel less isolated at her desk and that Tock likes to fill with those colorful pebbles.
Narinder hires some more people to work in the Catacombs so he can have a more reasonable schedule. Once he starts spending less time frantically moving back and forth behind the bar and more time in the back of the club doing paperwork, he gets a black Labrador named Delilah. Most afternoons he ends up sitting on the floor to go through the ledger because she likes to curl up next to him and rest her head in his lap while he works. She is an absolute sweetheart and Harvey will stop by to “help Narinder with work” and end up barely paying attention to a word because he’s playing with Delilah.
(pre-series for obvious reasons) Reymond has a ball python that he found god-knows-where and that he carries around his neck to terrify people if they’re giving him or the Scarhands a hard time. He never mentions the snake’s name in public, leading most people to think he doesn’t have one and that he’s just Eight Fingers’s nameless python. Little do they know that some young Scarhand thought they were being clever and started calling him “No Fingers” after the Scar Lord. Reymond was not amused, but behind closed doors the name stuck.
Poppy really wants a few parakeets, because her father got her one when she was younger and she has a lot of good memories associated with it. Birds are way too loud and chaotic for Delaney to handle, and Poppy realizes that parakeets might complicate her busy dance schedules. She ends up getting a tiny Maltese dog named Snowflake that she can easily take with her wherever she goes. Thankfully, Snowflake is very friendly and loves meeting people at her recitals. Delaney swears up and down that he’s Poppy’s dog and she has nothing to do with it, but she not-so-secretly adores him and melts any time he looks in her direction.
One morning when Sophia goes over to Harrison’s apartment for brunch, a gray cat follows her into the building and won’t go away no matter what she tries. The poor thing is very battered like she got into a fight, so Harrison sees what’s going on and cleans her up before giving her some food and a makeshift place to sleep. The next morning, the cat won’t leave. Harrison and Sophia have to have a serious talk because he’s a busy man and she isn’t ready for 100% responsibility for a pet yet, but they work out a system where the cat (which they name Jade, as a tip of the hat to the eye color that unites their awkward family) mostly lives at Harrison’s apartment but spends time with both of them. They’re still figuring out how to be a family, but their arrangement with Jade helps.
Feel free to add on if you have any other thoughts! This is fun to think about, I love pet headcanons :D