I absolutely *love* my bear. He earned his name, IIRC, back in beta while I was fighting goblins in the Midgewater Marshes. That fool ran around and aggro’d all the goblins he could find and then left me to fight them on my own as he had a more pressing mission. There was a frog nearby that he had to kill. That scenario played itself out a LOT. Frogs, snakes, … didn’t matter. He’d happily abandon me in a heartbeat to go kill some poor innocent creature but usually, only at the worst of times.

Since then he’s gone to extreme efforts to keep up his ‘Diva Status’. At one time he was fairly well known on Windfola for his lore breaking antics and temper tantrums. Here are some pictures to prove it. (May need to click them to view them larger.)

During the fight in Book 15 chapter 12, he saw early on that it was going to be a wipe and tried to dig his way to safety.

Here we are in the Forgotten Treasury. In this instance, he’s my lookout. Apparently.

He took extra lessons from Radagast the Brown to perfect his Swami act.

Mad that I wouldn’t give him a bio break, he took matters into his own paws, right there in BG.

He said he wasn’t coming down until I promised that we’d never go free Dori again.

One of his favorite cubhood games was hide and seek. He hides better than those little hobbits in Michel Delving!

He’s my favorite pet to play with, despite his antics. Thankfully he’s gotten over his obsession with goblins and spiders and hasn’t wiped any groups lately. The biggest group wipe that I can remember happened while a group of kinmates and I were killing giants in the Trollshaws (think it was there). I’d gone AFK as my daughter was running down the stairs, puking the whole way. When I came back my fellow was dead thanks to Frogbiter. In my absence, he’d suddenly run around and grabbed a ton of giants and brought them back to my fellow. I swear, he was on passive!!! When I keyed the mic and asked, “WHAT HAPPENED???” the first thing I heard was, “You won’t believe what that #$@! bear of yours did THIS TIME!”. Heh.

Oddly enough, the biggest diva I have is my eagle. He’s pure evil I tell you. He’s only ever rezzed me twice and both times were on suicide runs. I think he’s trying to tell me something …..