Jeez.. what to say?
I always tried to bond with scorpions; always, always, always, but the old skins and their obviously vanilla models didn't allow me to bond with them. I love them a lot in terms of design and animation but the quality is just awkward to me. In all honesty, when the beta was around - I think I was most excited about Madexx. Even moreso than the silithid colossi and that says quite a lot.
That was until Cataclysm when Madexx was datamined. Yeah, that model was a hit and a homerun.
From that moment on, I pledged to myself that I would get Madexx but I wasn't motivated to level my hunter.
Now we skip forward to ~2 months before Mists of Pandaria's release and I have a fully leveled hunter and a mission.
Because Argent Dawn(EU) is such a messy and popular server I have had no luck with Madexx during fly-overs so I picked up a placeholder from the Firelands:
Jeir and Meskhenet staring off into the distance
Meskhenet seemed her usual chirpy and cheery self; it still captured Jeir's attention (and affection) however..
Her name is Meskhenet: I found that name when I was searching for egyptian names for my new, loved scorpion. It means 'Destiny'.
Once I get my blue Madexx, my Meskhenet is getting a paint-job but I'm never-ever getting rid of her. I've had her for only a day now, but I already think she's going to be a second Horakk in terms of capturing my affection.
I believe this because I already bonded with her even before taming and just seeing a picture of her model. (blue Madexx)
The only time that happened was with Horakk, my tank/mount model tan silithid.
Yep, I doubt I'll ever let go of her.