The New Little Guys: Jubilee and Peter...

[fajrdrako]

If you were reading my LJ last December, you know the story of the budgies. I had three. Two of them died of Teflon poisoning. Teflon fumes are poisonous to budgies. I had no idea. Only Logan survived - a suitable hardiness for a bird named after the X-Men's Wolverine.¹

Right before Christmas the wonderful people in the Ottawa Science Fiction Society pooled their cash and bought me two new beautiful budgies. Sadly, those budgies also died within a week. I was upset. Even though I didn't want Logan to be a single and solo budgie, I didn't have the heart to replace them.

This week I did. I now have two new budgies to keep Logan company:



The one on the left is Jubilee.

The one on the right is Peter. In my habit of naming budgies after my favourite X-Men, you could say he was named after Piotr Rasputin, though Colossus was never a favourite.² You could say he was named after Pete Wisdom², the Warren Ellis masterpiece, Kitty Pryde's other boyfriend, who was never actually a member of the X-Men. Or you could say it's because I am currently enchanted by Peter Petrelli of Heroes, a meta-level X-Man by one remove. Or you could point to not one but two John Barrowman characters, from Titans and Central Park West. See, I couldn't think of anyone who was ever in the X-Men with the name of Jack.

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¹ He's also named after Logan Echolls from Veronica Mars, but Logan Echolls doesn't have any remarkable healing powers. He does mostly land on his feet, though.

² One of my first budgies - and probably my favourite - was named Wisdom.

³ Though I did love the scene in Ultimate X-Men when Northstar was flirting with him in the hospital.