Friend-Shaped

It wasn't until his dad put his sword back in his scabbard that he actually believed that he had convinced his dad to at least not kill his pumpkin eating friend. Once he did that Solaire relaxed a bit, his sad puppy eyes becoming a bit more hopeful. Then, once his dad began giving him the ground rules for how he had to take care of it and how he'd get the punishment if his new friend ate any plants he wasn't supposed to, Solaire realized he had actually won and his dad was letting him keep his new friend around for good. His face immediately lit up and he gasped with excitement, glancing down at the capybara that had sat next to him with a huge grin. The rodent seemed just about as enthusiastic as he had been for anything else through this whole interaction, but that didn't phase Solaire in the slightest. If anything it just made him that much more adorable.

"I'll take really good care of him, dad! I promise!" he swore as he looked back up at his dad with a grin. He was already starting to think of where he could start his friend's own pumpkin patch and how he could train him to carry his herbs for him when they went scavenging and how he needed to get a smaller bed for him to sleep in for his room! He had grown up seeing his parents with their foxes and ravens and how they were friends with them so now he had a friend of his own! Oh, but if they were going to be friends then that meant he needed a name... Solaire looked down at the capybara with a thoughtful hum, tipping his head slightly as he considered what could be a good name for his new buddy. All he really knew about him so far is that he had a pretty neutral stare at pretty much everything and he really liked pumpkins. Stare didn't seem like a good name and neither did Pumpkin, but maybe... "Dad, how do you say 'pumpkin' in Carpathian?"

"Solaire Carpathius"