So, last night a handful of us on Nesingwary congregated in Sholazar Basin to help Kaleos hunt for Loque. There were enough of us so that every spawn point was covered, and I chose the spot in the west by the bones.
I found a little rock to stand on, and thus started the camping. A short while into this a Dreadsaber that was patrolling nearby aggroes on to me, but since I'm on the rock he can't hit me. Hilariously every time he lost aggro he'd just snap right back to me due to his proximity, so I had a permanently affixed kitty. I started joking about him in Guild Chat since it was pretty amusing at the time (Hey, it was late and I'd been into the energy drinks. Everything was funny. xD). As time went by this Dreadsaber still stood there, trying in vain to get to the annoying little blood elf just out of his reach.
Almost an hour passed with him glued to me, and I couldn't help but feel a bit sorry at how frustrated he must have been trying to get at me. He was one determined cat!
That's when it started happening. I began entertaining the notion of taming the poor beast. Since letting go of my previously held Soriid the Devourer, I once again had the luxury of the 'revolving stable door'; I had been taming things on a whim. Now, I have never been a cat person in WoW. I just never cared for most of their models, and for some reason they didn't click with me. Even more so, I'm not an orangey/yellow person at all. The colours aren't my taste, so I definitely never wanted to try out a cheetah spotted model.
Nonetheless, after taking pity on this poor frustrated, determined saber I hopped down from the rock and started taming him.
I figured "Sure, why not. He can be my Sholazar buddy for this Loque camp. Lol it's not like I'll keep him!"
Then random silliness ensued, as usual for our Guild camping events. I dawned a 'jungle outfit' that was really just my boots and underwear, later adding a hat.
At some point I decided I'd better give a name to my new kitty, so I did a quick browse online and came across 'Azzam', meaning 'determined' in Arabic. It really seemed to fit, so that's exactly what I called him. Little did I know how attached I was starting to get to my camping companion...
Over the course of the night Azzam's personality became very clear. His actions along with his Pet Emotes were just bizarrely well timed, and there were so many instances that left us stunned or in stitches at how uncanny it was. Gah it was so late and I was so wired on my energy drink that I can't even recall all of them, but maybe someone else remembers. xD
Anyways, in absolute bewilderment I realized how much I'd come to love this sporadically tamed cat. It wasn't just a 'Oh cool, I like this pet more than I thought.', it was completely out of the blue bonding unlike anything I've had since Skorn, to be honest. I'm still stunned at how much this cat means to me. I've heard of tames where people don't think they'll like a pet but it becomes a permanent member of their stable, and this is the first time something so unexpected has happened to me. Of all the WoW creatures that I could click with immediately, a spotted Dreadsaber never ever would have come up in the list of candidates. It really, truly, felt like a fated match. *shakes head in wonder*
Much later in the night I determined to seek out an outfit to suit Azzam, and found out about a rare drop robe from a mob in Redridge Mountains. Kalliope joined me for a fun adventure to the Tower of Ilgalar where we spent hours killing and camping him. I actually was awake until 5am doing this, lol, but I've yet to get the robe. xD I'll keep trying though!
and that was my silithid 
Just needed an excuse to take him on a photo shoot. ^^
