Okay! I've had this ready to go for a while, but blehhhh editing screenshots. Anyway! Let's do this.
This time, I had a Bioluminescent theme! Things that glow! I love things that glow, as it happens, so this was pretty fun!
First up, let's talk about sporebats. I ran with a blue sporebat for a long time in Wrath, mostly to be contrary to some of my guildmates who thought they were silly. But over time we grew apart, and I ran into the number one problem I have with sporebats:
How are their faces arranged?
Now, I'm certain there's the chance that neither of these are correct, and it really only matters to me, but I could never decide. Anyway! I've had sporebats off and on since then, but we could never click. But this time I tried again. I picked the second setup with the tiny little eyeballs just so I could try to get over that particular mental block and try to enjoy my new pet.
I remembered the tale of the loneliest sporebat out in Zangarmarsh, so that was the one I wanted to try. I flew out there, and sure enough, there he was.
As soon as the tame was completed, I realized there might be some affection here, as she (not a he, I realized) floated right above my head. Thus I met Illianah.
I don't have any more pictures with her right now, because I kind of forgot to, but man this time was grand. It all clicked this time, I dunno. She fell into the spot Solana the blue sporebat left behind, a silent squishy mother figure in my stables. I'm looking forward to trying to see if I can't make her a tank come MoP, just for funsies.
She's a keeper, even if she looks like a squirming rug when she chases me.
Next up, let's go with the shale spider! I had an orange shale spider this time around.
Pumpkin was an east find. A trip to deepholm, poke my head into the crumbling depths, and voila!
An interesting thing I noticed is that from behind, his little eye gems are greenish, rather than orange. Is it possible Jadefang's model is the base from which all shale spiders are colored? O:
Anyway, I named him Pumpkin, for his coloring.
Pumpkin is apparently a rare spawn magnet. While we were doing our dailies, we saw Terrorpene, Ban'thalos, Solix, Kirix, and all four of those guys you kill for the achievement out on the ledge. I may need him around just for that!
Of course, he's no slouch on the battlefield, either.
It's been a while since I've been so taken with a shale spider. Pumpkin has ousted Jadefang's slot, so I'll be keeping him, too.
Last, we have the black wasp! He has but one entry, and I knew just where to find him.
Blackfang (named Rex for this exercise) is a pretty model, easily my favorite of this style of wasp. His greys and red are striking.
the glowing is pretty neat too, as seen here.
Fighting wise... it's a ferocity pet. He'll do you fine. His special is a little more pvp than I need, but eh.
Unfortunately, Rex was up against Peeve for my wasp slot. As much as I like him, I have little need for two wasps (actually I don't even really need one, but Peeve is a remnant of a time when I wasn't stranded alone on the server, so she's god for memories). so in the end Rex was returned to his home.
I was actually impressed with this go round. I was expecting no one to be a contender for a keeper, much less keeping two of the three. (postsecret: I had to do this assignment twice because I hated every single one of them, and was going to post such when I realized no wait I was hating EVERYTHING at all ever in the world, so I tried again a day or two later. Funny how that works!)
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I had to go digging around for my list of themes. xD
