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Spruce has a minion!

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Spruce

The

Blacklight Chelon
Owner:

Bandercamp

Age: 11 months, 2 weeks, 5 days

Born: June 12th, 2023

Adopted: 11 months, 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Adopted: June 12th, 2023

Statistics

Level: 101
Strength: 99
Defense: 86
Speed: 85
Health: 98
HP: 97/98
Intelligence: 327
Books Read: 308
Food Eaten: 1083
Job: Head Harvester

Note: Usually Spruce is my active pet, but I changed to Harmony in celebration of Masquerade.

Spruce's treasures are all items I associate with Detective Llewellyn Watts, from Murdoch Mysteries. I think it is easy to see how I would be considering most of the items, if one watches the show, especially the pretzel.

Spruce is my main pet because I love turtles. I changed him to blacklight to represent me and Llewellyn being LGBTQIA+, and I like the dark on the top.

Spruce is not a direct reference to Llewellyn, but is a reference to an episode with Llewellyn, season 15, episode 5 - Love or Money.

In it, there is a ruse to catch a suspect, where the team knows a man wants to get a necklace owned by George's Aunt, Zinnia. As such, she is waiting at a bar to "accidentally" leave the necklace on the counter and then walk away, while George and William wait at a table farther away. While waiting, George asks William what he would like to drink, so as to seem less suspicious. William says to the waiter, "Two spruce beers, please." To which George replies, "Spruce beer, it's an acquired taste, I suppose." The team goes to wait for the suspect at the bank because they believe he will put the necklace in a safety deposit box, and it will be easier to catch him there. In this part, Llewellyn poses as the bank teller. This is all presented in a very amusing way, and of course the suspect is caught.

I'm going to name my minion something to do with Llewellyn from another episode because I don't want to focus too much on one since Spruce's treasure has associations from several different episodes (and things having to do with Llewellyn, in general), but I am going to come back, as I gotta consider what I want to name them.