Pets!

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OOC: Crossposted from theatrical_muse, today.
Prompt 272: Do you have any pets? Would you like some (more)? Why / why not?

Why, yes, as a matter of fact I do have some pets. Would you like to see pictures of my adorable pets? Trust me, they're cute.

	Captain Jean-Luc Picard My favorite. He's human, male, from the region of Earth called "France", and despite having grown up with family who expected he'd spend his life squashing grapes and letting them rot into a mood-altering chemical, he was absolutely *driven* to go out and explore space. He also has a magnificent voice. I could listen to him reading the phone book. In fact, since he dictates some occasionally mind-numbingly dull reports to Starfleet, I think I have.
	Captain Kathryn Janeway I picked up Kathy after she accidentally let one of my fellow Q, a philosopher who wanted to kill himself out of the comet we'd imprisoned him in for his own safety. When I tried to recapture him, and he fought back, she suggested that she could actually rule on a matter of such grave importance to the Continuum. Isn't she cute? I'm entirely too indulgent with her... I actually let her make the ruling, and agreed to let it stand, so we ended up fighting a war over it. Which I won, but that's another story. Kathy's not really my favorite pet, but I do like to turn to her for advice... she's much less likely to try to give me a lecture than Picard.
	Aun, space pirate and revolutionary Aun is the biological daughter of a person I really don't like. Technically, you see, I was forbidden to give any aid to members of her species... but the Borg were annihilating them, and I had come to the world to watch (and eat popcorn), and Aun... barely a baby at the time, only 10 years old, which is rather like a 4 year old human... could *see* me. (Her name was Raina at the time, but her people change names more often than they change hats. And believe me do they ever change hats.) So I asked her if she wanted me to rescue her from the Borg, and told her that in order to do so she had to renounce her species and declare that she was not her parents' child. She didn't want to die, so she did it, and on that technicality I was able to rescue her and transport her to the Gamma Quadrant, where I had her raised by a pair of anti-Dominion dissidents (who were a tad surprised that it took her 50 years to grow up, unlike the 16 they expected, but hey, that's aliens for you.) Nowadays she's a pirate who fights the Dominion. Every so often I pop in on her to give her some advice... she thinks of me as sort of an uncle.

So those are my pets. Or at least my three favorite ones. Adorable, aren't they?
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG and VOY
ETA: Aun is an OC created by Q's mun. She is represented here by the actress Sanaa Lathan.