Hey, if your fanfic requests are open, could you write baby!Dadspeed? Our fandom is dying and we are happy to find anything that could revive the fandom!
Ooooh fresh material! I've never written Final Space fic before so here we go!
At the beginning, Gary considered himself well prepped for all this. After all, Ventrexians were just cat-people (although he never said this out loud) which meant their offspring were just cat-babies. Not baby cats, those were kittens. But a cat-baby. Which basically meant sometimes it would act like a human infant, other times a kitten.
Very quickly Gary remembered he had pretty much zero experience with babies and kittens. The little ball of orange fur in his arms seemed so tiny and vulnerable. One day, Gary thought he was dying. Lil Cato had been coughing and heaving and his face was scrunched up in discomfort. It turned out to just be a hairball.
He thought that when babies, finally, finally fell asleep, they'd be down for the count for at least a few hours. But nope. Lil Cato could get fully rested in about fifteen minutes and then be wide awake to poop and cry and attempt to claw at his face.
Speaking of...
Gary was watching Lil Cato in his crib, the tiny kit reaching up with his paws while Gary wiggled his fingers above his head. His movements were uncoordinated, eyes still new and working on his control. But in a single moment of lucidity, Lil Cato's claws came out and pierced Gary's hand as he grabbed him.
To his credit, Gary only let out a tiny squeak. "You know...", he started, voice strained. "I was doing some research and they make these tiny mittens for babies so that they don't scratch themselves."
"We're not putting mittens on our baby", Avocato said, sitting nearby and drinking an ice cold something that Gary couldn't see because it was in a mug.
"So we're investing in bandaid stock? Because how else am I supposed to survive this?", Gary lifted his hand, that Lil Cato was still attached to.
"We shouldn't discourage his warrior spirit. One day, he'll be a great fighter."
"He's a baby", Gary said, looking at said baby who was trying to bite into him now. Fun fact about Ventrexians - born with claws but teeth didn't come out until they were about six months old. So right now, Lil Cato had his claws sunk into Gary while his gums attacked his skin.
"Oh you are just the most adowable, cwutest hunter in the world!", Gary cooed with Avocato got the gauze.
"Who has a taste for fwesh? You do? Who wants to mwaul me to shweds? You do!"
"Keep talking like that and you're wrapping your own hand", Avocato threatened.
"And that concludes the baby talk session. Lil Cato, return to your psychology dissertation and I expect you to solve world hunger by tomorrow." Gary placed him back in his crib, among a few of his toys with which to create his 'dissertation' and turned to get his hand wrapped up.
He may not know much about babies or about cats. But he could be a pretty good dad to this cat baby.
I like to imagine that big polycules and or found families like the Final Space gang and the Bad Guys all sleep in a cuddle puddle like Team Rocket, whether they're in a situation where there's a bed in the room or not
// Can't believe it. In just under a month, you won't be able to watch Final Space. Well, legally at least.
Gonna be real and honest here, Final Space was such a formative part of my teen years, and whilst looking back, I cringe at some of the stuff, I fuck with it still.
Made a fun lil' friend group, and despite there being like 5 other final space roleplayers on this site, one of which was also little cato, I did my own thing, and we made it work.
It's horrible to me that Final Space had it's wings clipped just before it left the ground, it was doomed from the start, and yet people still loved it to death. Just watching the video where Olan talked about it made me emotional. Final Space is such a big part of his life, and people won't get the chance to watch it again. That's truly fucked.
Who knows, I might come back to this account one day, finish this guy's story. Whether that be through roleplay or some other format, I don't know. But in any case, thank you Final Space.
If you're reading this and we used to roleplay with each other- reach out to me on Discord, under the user staticalmite
I found out about Final Space maybe a year or so after it came out and I immediately fell in love. It had everything I could have ever wanted in a show; space, found family, a main character who uses humor to cope, bright colors, good, fast pacing, wonderful characters, and hilarious jokes.
It's an emotional rollercoaster and was truly onto something amazing before it was so wrongfully written off as a tax write off. What I would give to see this show for the 1st time again or go see it continue...man.
But for the time that it was a thing, it was absolutely wonderful and I'm so grateful to have had it.
I can't believe they did so dirty to one of the shows i love the most. I will always remember this show so fondly as it really helped me in a dark stage of my life. Even though we never got the see the end, I like to imagine everything turn out favorable for our guys <3
Starting up with long needed updates here! Here are my fur babies! ❤️
Leo is nearly 15 now and he lost a lot of muscle mass and unfortunately was diagnosed with Stage 2 Chronic Kidney Disease💔 We have been doing fluids and trying supplements to help him. We know time is limited with him but we enjoy every day with this king of the house!
Nux (light tabby) and Lil’ Cato (tux) are still doing good! They are 3 now and it feels like we have had them longer! Nux loves my fiancé and Cato just screams at you when she wants attention!
Karma (black) and Chase (long boi tabby) were our newest additions in 2020 and 2021! I was working one night in August of 2020 and check the back of the pet store to find two dumped kittens which began a chaotic night of catching them. They were brought to our partnered rescue and a few months later we adopted Karma. Chase was brought back to us as a foster in 2021 when his family went through nasty personal problems and we realized he had issues from this and became an adopt. The two actually hate each other and had to work through a lot of behavioral problems but they have been doing better since the move!