...not a huge demon fan (slightly overplayed imo) but he was my fav. other than him, I liked the lil clockwork fella.
thanx for the post Far 
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Mutant - ?
Natural - ?
Magic - Red Cap, Demon
Technology - Clockwork, Robot
Science - Rikti Monkey (I guess, but it could also go under Technology)
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Maybe spoiler, but a low level one.
Clockwork are not really robot, they are pile of junk metal looking like robot that are extension of the clockwork king mind. So it technically doesn't make more sense than a redcap. the list of pet per origin(and not archetype) would look like that :
Magic : Demon
Mutant : Clockwork(since they are animated by the psychic power of their mutant king.)
Natural : Gnome(Just call them normal gnome and consider that they are a natural hidden race of earth.)
Science : Rikti Monkey
Technologie : Mekman
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There's something fundamentaly wrong with having a homicidal, hunchbacked, bearded, ape-like, evil gnome for a pet.
It's not cute, and it cannot be explained flavor-wise.
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I agree. It's totally weird.
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Clockwork and robot are constructs, no problem. They totally work as pets. Demon and Rikti Monkey are at least moderately cute, and they don't quite possesss human-level intelligence or looks, so it's fitting for them to be pets.
A little Tuatha De Dannan? Fir Bolg? Hydra? Anything from Devouring Earth? All FANTASTIC choices for a pet.
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I disagree on all counts.
Spoilers follow.
The Clockwork are not actual robots; they are hunks of metal animated by the mental power of the Clockwork King. Having a Clock hang out with you would require the King's complicity. Or I guess building a working robot yourself that just looked like a Clock. But why would a hero do that?
The Column Mek is worse. The Column doesn't make actual combat robots that size, so capturing one and reprogramming it is out of the question. So once again, we have a hero building a robot - and let's face it, the Column are Nazis. Making the effort to build one of these things - complete with Column symbol on the chest - is pretty much the same as crocheting swastikas onto your cape.
A demon? Are you kidding me? Um, that's about as pure a symbol of evil as you can get. I don't care whether it's unintelligent. You can't "domesticate" demons to be cuddly and nice. They are supernatural manifestations of evil, period.
Rikti Monkeys I can't comment on for sure since I don't really know what they are. I always thought of them as an indirect weapon against our world. Like plague rats. Infect a few rats with the plague and smuggle them into an enemy city to breed and spread their disease. Only instead of the plague, these cute little guys kill people with mental blasts. I guess I could see having a lobotomized monkey as a pet, the same way I'd want a plague rat with a muzzle. Sure, domesticated rats can actually make fine pets IRL. But nonetheless they are generally considered vermin. Rikti Monkeys are also vermin.
As for your other suggestions -
The Tuatha or Fir Bolg would be pretty weird, but I guess I can see it. They are basically people - from freaky magic civilizations, but people. So I guess it would be similar to a pumpkin man having a human child as a "pet". I'm not very comfortable with that image.
Not very familiar with the Hydra, but at best they strike me as dangerous animals. So maybe that would be like having a baby alligator. Babies grow up. I'd like to think that the average hero wouldn't be that irresponsible.
And Devouring Earth? Aren't they inextricably tuned in to a hive-mind bent on destroying human civilization? Nice pet.
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It might be fitting for a villain, but definitely not for a hero.
I don't know... It could've been done with a bit more care.
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Very much agreed. None of the pets in game are heroic at all. Where are the falcons? Where are the faithful canine companions? Heck, even a plain old house cat would make more sense. Or a normal monkey even.
I know the pets are just meant to be a cute, funny thing, not meant to be taken seriously. And I know that quadraped or bird animations would have to be done from scratch. It's just a lamentable immersion breaker for me that the Veteran Reward pets are pretty much all evil evil evil.
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I have only one problem with pets. Or rather, I have a problem with one of them.
Red Cap.
There's something fundamentaly wrong with having a homicidal, hunchbacked, bearded, ape-like, evil gnome for a pet.
It's not cute, and it cannot be explained flavor-wise.
Let me elaborate. Clockwork and robot are constructs, no problem. They totally work as pets. Demon and Rikti Monkey are at least moderately cute, and they don't quite possesss human-level intelligence or looks, so it's fitting for them to be pets.
But a Red Cap?
I don't know, it just doesn't fit in. It feels wrong. It's not pet material. It can work as a follower at best, or as a slave at worst. But not as a pet. It might be fitting for a villain, but definitely not for a hero.
A little Tuatha De Dannan? Fir Bolg? Hydra? Anything from Devouring Earth? All FANTASTIC choices for a pet. Red Cap is a whole different level of creature. It's like having a little witch following you around, or a tsoo sorcerer. It's wrong on many levels and I think it sends a different message than originally intended by devs.
Besides, shouldn't we have pets that correspond with five different archetypes? What happened to that idea?
Mutant - ?
Natural - ?
Magic - Red Cap, Demon
Technology - Clockwork, Robot
Science - Rikti Monkey (I guess, but it could also go under Technology)
I don't know... It could've been done with a bit more care.
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You could explain it as being cursed, or maybe even having your own little crazy gnomish stalker.
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The Column Mek is worse. The Column doesn't make actual combat robots that size, so capturing one and reprogramming it is out of the question. So once again, we have a hero building a robot - and let's face it, the Column are Nazis. Making the effort to build one of these things - complete with Column symbol on the chest - is pretty much the same as crocheting swastikas onto your cape.
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Enh. I look at it as parody.
Having a poster of <insert your most loathed politician here> wearing a diaper, sucking on a pacifier, and making a "I'm about to cry or fill this diaper" face isn't an endorsement of the politician.
I view the widduhwest Mek Men in the same way.
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The Column Mek is worse.
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Enh. I look at it as parody.
Having a poster of <insert your most loathed politician here> wearing a diaper, sucking on a pacifier, and making a "I'm about to cry or fill this diaper" face isn't an endorsement of the politician.
I view the widduhwest Mek Men in the same way.
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That is freakin hilarious. Sold.
Few more Clockwork spoilers:
It's mentioned at least one time that the Clockwork in Cap Au Diable shouldn't be there, as the Rogue Isles are too far away from the Clockwork King for them to exist. So something else must be animating them and making them attack the PTS(i.e., Bat'zul). Makes you wonder if the CK took a Rogue Isle vacation and left some bots behind for Battie to animate.
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"Life writes the best scripts."
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There's something fundamentaly wrong with having a homicidal, hunchbacked, bearded, ape-like, evil gnome for a pet.
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Does this help at all? Here is the exact long help description of the Red Cap Pet:
"You can use this power to create a solidified hologram of a Redcap Rascal. It will follow you around wherever you go. Great for parties!"
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Spoilers follow.
The Clockwork are not actual robots; they are hunks of metal animated by the mental power of the Clockwork King. Having a Clock hang out with you would require the King's complicity. Or I guess building a working robot yourself that just looked like a Clock. But why would a hero do that?
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Re: Why would the Clockwork King allow you to have a pet "Sprog" (It looks like a Cog and a Sprocket combined)? If you've been to "New Faultline" on test, you'll notice the Clockwork aren't necessarily the "bad guys" in all cases. Obviously the CWK may let you have a pet Sprog for a reason known only to him.
Or, you know, it could just be a fun little reward for your characters which has absolutely no impact on gameplay.
Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat. - Jay Leno
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"You can use this power to create a solidified hologram of a Redcap Rascal. It will follow you around wherever you go. Great for parties!"
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Then he needs an H on his forehead!
(sorry, nerd reference)
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Does this help at all? Here is the exact long help description of the Red Cap Pet:
"You can use this power to create a solidified hologram of a Redcap Rascal. It will follow you around wherever you go. Great for parties!"
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Great for parties?
o.O
Do they mix drinks or something?
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A demon? Are you kidding me? Um, that's about as pure a symbol of evil as you can get. I don't care whether it's unintelligent. You can't "domesticate" demons to be cuddly and nice. They are supernatural manifestations of evil, period.
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You never saw Hellboy did you?
@CrimsonOriole
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"You can use this power to create a solidified hologram of a Redcap Rascal. It will follow you around wherever you go. Great for parties!"
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Then he needs an H on his forehead!
(sorry, nerd reference)
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Smeghead!
Sorry, just wanted to see if that got throught he filter. 
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"You can use this power to create a solidified hologram of a Redcap Rascal. It will follow you around wherever you go. Great for parties!"
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Then he needs an H on his forehead!
(sorry, nerd reference)
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Smeghead!
Sorry, just wanted to see if that got throught he filter.
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red dwarf ftw!
i remember the interview session, where some fan asked the group "what does smeg mean?" good stuff.
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i remember the interview session, where some fan asked the group "what does smeg mean?" good stuff.
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They make fridges!
So, what is smeg?
*ducks*
@CrimsonOriole
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Spoilers follow.
The Clockwork are not actual robots; they are hunks of metal animated by the mental power of the Clockwork King. Having a Clock hang out with you would require the King's complicity. Or I guess building a working robot yourself that just looked like a Clock. But why would a hero do that?
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Re: Why would the Clockwork King allow you to have a pet "Sprog" (It looks like a Cog and a Sprocket combined)? If you've been to "New Faultline" on test, you'll notice the Clockwork aren't necessarily the "bad guys" in all cases. Obviously the CWK may let you have a pet Sprog for a reason known only to him.
Or, you know, it could just be a fun little reward for your characters which has absolutely no impact on gameplay.
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Well, the Clockwork King IS insane, after all. And as CoV shows, not all Clockwork are actually under controll of the Clockwork King.
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Does this help at all? Here is the exact long help description of the Red Cap Pet:
"You can use this power to create a solidified hologram of a Redcap Rascal. It will follow you around wherever you go. Great for parties!"
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Ooh, I hope the text is similar for the Rikti Monkey. My defender basically soloed his way to the Zookeeper badge back when you needed 10,000 of the little blighters. This way he can say it's a holographic picture of the last one. ("Look, look...you can see the fear in his beady little eyes.") 
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Or, you know, it could just be a fun little reward for your characters which has absolutely no impact on gameplay.
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Go back and read the last paragraph of the post you quoted. Thanks.
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There's something fundamentaly wrong with having a homicidal, hunchbacked, bearded, ape-like, evil gnome for a pet.
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Does this help at all? Here is the exact long help description of the Red Cap Pet:
"You can use this power to create a solidified hologram of a Redcap Rascal. It will follow you around wherever you go. Great for parties!"
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Speaking for myself, that helps a lot! I'd actually love to see the text descriptions for all of them. Just a tiny nod to immersion like this is all I ask. Thanks Castle.
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"You can use this power to create a solidified hologram of a Redcap Rascal. It will follow you around wherever you go. Great for parties!"
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Then he needs an H on his forehead!
(sorry, nerd reference)
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Smeghead!
Sorry, just wanted to see if that got throught he filter.
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red dwarf ftw!
i remember the interview session, where some fan asked the group "what does smeg mean?" good stuff.
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Vindaloo monster needs adding to some zone or other (rikti mother ship if they open that up). Modified beer firing extinguisher ftw.
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Rubble, rubble, rubble! Why is there no Rubble pet? Unfair!
/c'mon, the model already exists!
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Can the VR pets perform emotes?
If not, can that functionality be added?
I'm holding out for a CoT Spectral Daemon pet for my dark/dark defender.
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Ok, so assume for a second this bug did NOT occur. How did they plan to test these pets? Suddenly they get activated and then people are like "OMG they are so slow, they can't keep up with me because I have swift" just as the people are now?
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perhaps with issue 9/10?
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